After reading this letter, Ye Chen felt immense pain in his heart.
In that instant, he regretted it deeply, regretting that he should not have concealed his identity from Xiao Churan from the beginning, so that one lie required countless lies to cover it up.
Instead of confessing the truth, he kept using lies to hide the facts, just like a program with a huge bug, where the programmer does not fix the bug itself but uses a bunch of other code to avoid the bug and barely keep the program running.
The result is that what could have been a simple and efficient program suddenly accumulates more and more code, becoming increasingly bloated and unstable.
When there is too much unnecessary code in the program, the entire program could crash at any time, a complete collapse from the inside out.
Ye Chen’s mistake was exactly like this situation.
If he had confessed everything before marrying Xiao Churan, she might have thought what he said was absurd, but at least he would have a clear conscience, and he would not have to keep lying afterwards.
At the very least, he should have told Xiao Churan everything the moment Tang Sihai found him. Even if Xiao Churan did not believe it, he had his bank account balance and Tang Sihai, the Ye family’s chief steward, as proof. Perhaps Xiao Churan would have found it hard to accept at the time, but since he was honest with her, she probably would not have left him.
Thinking of this, Ye Chen could not help but wash his face with tears.
Then, he murmured to himself, “Tang Sihai… Steward Tang…”
As he said this, his whole body suddenly straightened up as if electrocuted, his mind utterly shocked.
A barrage of question marks flooded his mind one after another.
First, how could Xiao Churan know his identity?
Second, even if Xiao Churan knew he was the young master of the Ye family, how could she know that he still bore a deep blood feud?
Third, there must be someone who knew him very well who told Xiao Churan all this. Who was this person? Was it Tang Sihai?
And also.
Who exactly was secretly pushing Xiao Churan to plan and act on leaving him?
Why did Tang Sihai, after disappearing for so long, suddenly appear in Australia?
Why did the information about Tang Sihai being attacked in Australia coincidentally reach him through Xiao Churan?
Why did Xiao Churan leave just as he arrived in Australia?
These questions surged into his consciousness like floodwaters from an opened gate, disturbing his mind while also washing away the doubts in his heart.
The soil covering the core surface was fiercely washed away by this mental flood, immediately revealing the essence.
Ye Chen knew that all this must have been secretly orchestrated by Tang Sihai.
It must have been him who told Xiao Churan his identity.
It must have been him who told Xiao Churan about his deep blood feud.
It must have been him who persuaded Xiao Churan to leave him so that he could focus on dealing with the Po Qing Society without distractions.
It must have been him who deliberately put himself in danger, intentionally getting robbed by those teenagers in Australia, and having Xiao Churan cooperate to make it seem coincidental for him to see.
It must also have been him who, after he set off for Australia, immediately arranged for Xiao Churan and her parents to leave Jinling, even leave China.
Ye Chen did not understand. He could not help but roar lowly, “Tang Sihai, Steward Tang, why? Over these years, I have respected you like a father, and you have loved me like a son. Why did you leave without a word? Leaving without a word is one thing, but why make Churan leave me? Why!”
Through the video, Nanako watched Ye Chen with tears streaming down his face, his eyes bloodshot, looking extremely pained. Her heart ached terribly.
She was already clever, and at this moment, she had guessed the entire sequence of events. Seeing Ye Chen losing control of his emotions, she quickly spoke to comfort him, “Ye Chen-kun, please do not get angry. Steward Tang did this for your own good!”
“For my own good?” Ye Chen subconsciously questioned, “For my own good, he has to break up me and my wife? What kind of ‘for my own good’ is that?”
Nanako said softly, “But Ye Chen-kun, you are facing a colossal organisation with hundreds of years of history! Calmly analysing it, the Xiao family not only cannot help you but will become your weakness, giving your enemies an opportunity to exploit. Even a family as strong as your maternal grandparents has repeatedly been in danger from enemy attacks. If the enemies learn of the Xiao family’s existence in the future, how can you protect them without fail?”
At this point, Nanako said with some heartache, “Moreover… moreover, Ye Chen-kun, do you not feel that the existence of your family has long seriously affected your cultivation? You rarely have the chance to retreat and cultivate. When there are important matters, you can only find excuses like feng shui every few days. To be honest, at this pace, it will be hard for Ye Chen-kun to gain the ability to contend with the Po Qing Society in a short time…”
