Yun Xiaoxiao paused her movents.
Silently, she retracted her knife and waited quietly for Li Feng to continue. At the sa ti, she glanced at Bai Hongting, who was completely stunned, and Bai Ruo, who was equally incredulous.
"What are you talking about?! My mother loved my father dearly. She was so heartbroken after learning of his death that she died of grief, wasn't she?" Bai Ruo retorted, struggling to maintain her composure.
Bai Hongting, although remaining silent, conveyed similar disbelief through his eyes. According to what he knew, Bai Ruo's version was indeed the truth.
Li Feng ignored Bai Ruo and turned his gaze to Bai Hongting.
"Back then, we went to Hai Chao's ho together to offer our condolences to his family.
At first, the information I had was the sa as yours.
We all believed that Hai Chao's wife had committed suicide out of grief, leaving behind a young orphan.
You, out of gratitude, took the orphan in to raise.
My mother-in-law's hotown is in the neighboring village of Hai Chao's family.
A month before the apocalypse, my wife and I went back to her hotown to relocate the ancestors' graves.
Rembering Hai Chao, I decided to visit his ho again, thinking of paying my respects.
It was during this visit that I learned the truth."
Li Feng took a mont to gather his thoughts before continuing.
"When I arrived at his ho, it was covered in thick dust, like a haunted house.
There was an indescribable feeling of sadness, as if the house had been abandoned. It was truly desolate.
So, I rolled up my sleeves and began cleaning.
I thought, no matter what, I had to restore so semblance of a ho to Hai Chao's house, even if just for a short while.
While cleaning, I stumbled upon a wooden cabinet under the bed.
Opening it, I found two letters inside.
I shouldn't have pried, but sohow, I opened one of them.
It was a letter from Hai Chao to his wife.
In the letter, he detailed how he had discovered his wife's affair with another man.
Initially, he was just suspicious.
To avoid wronging his wife, he once claid that the army had urgent business and left early.
In reality, he didn't leave; instead, he returned secretly.
That ti, he witnessed his wife in the arms of another man.
Heartbroken, he wrote that letter, stating that since their love was gone, they should get a divorce.
He said that the next ti he returned from the army, they would go and finalize the divorce.
After reading the contents of the letter, I was shocked and imdiately opened the other one."
As Li Feng spoke, his eyes filled with anger.
"That letter was also from Hai Chao.
It was written a month later.
From the letter, it seed that after Hai Chao sent the first letter, his wife had replied.
In her letter, she confessed that the other man had abandoned her, and she had nowhere to go.
She begged Hai Chao to forgive her for the sake of their child and promised to live a good life with him.
Hai Chao's response was firm: they must divorce!
He couldn't tolerate betrayal. The fact that he hadn't exposed her affair to everyone was already his greatest respect for her.
Moreover, he had no desire to raise soone else's child.
He had calculated the tiline and found that the birth of his child, even accounting for premature delivery, didn't add up.
In other words, his wife's pregnancy didn't align with the ti he had been ho, indicating that she was already pregnant two months before his return!
To avoid any misunderstandings, he even conducted a paternity test.
The results confird that the child wasn't his!
From Hai Chao's words, one could deeply feel his anger and despair."
After finishing, Li Feng glanced at Bai Hongting.
"Hongting, do you rember how Hai Chao's mood was off during the ti before our last mission?"
Bai Hongting's expression changed abruptly as the mories ca back to him.
At the ti, their usually cheerful comrade had beco unusually silent.
He would often sit alone, staring into space, as if burdened by so great trouble.
Bai Hongting had asked him about it, but Hai Chao had brushed it off with a few vague words.
Knowing that Hai Chao didn't want to talk, Bai Hongting hadn't pressed further.
"That period coincided with the ti when Hai Chao wrote the last letter, so I suspect that he sacrificed himself to save you.
On one hand, he truly wanted to save you.
On the other hand, he didn't want to live anymore. Knowing that saving you would cost him his life, he made that choice without hesitation.
It's not so much that he died as he sought release..."
Hearing Li Feng's analysis, Bai Hongting's face turned ghastly pale, and his breathing beca irregular.
In other words, the daughter he had raised for so many years wasn't actually his comrade's biological child.
But rather, the product of his wife's infidelity with another man.
Was this the trigger that indirectly led to his comrade's death?
Realizing this, Bai Hongting's eyes reddened.
If this was true, how could he ever face his comrade?
That child was a stain on his comrade's legacy, and he had raised it out of gratitude.
If his comrade knew this from the afterlife, how frustrated he must feel!
And because of this, he had almost killed his own biological daughter!
Although he hadn't undergone a paternity test, ever since learning that his biological daughter was still alive, he had instinctively felt that Yun Xiaoxiao was his daughter.
Previously, he had thought his biological daughter was dead and had never considered that possibility.
But now, with the truth laid bare, it all made sense.
"Hahahaha..."
Bai Ruo suddenly broke into a hysterical laugh.
"I'm a bastard child, hahahaha, I'm actually a bastard child, wuuu..."
She laughed until she cried.
After fighting for so long, she realized she didn't even have the right to fight.
How utterly laughable.
The heavens were so unfair. Why did her background have to be like this?
Seeing Bai Hongting imrsed in his own world, filled with remorse, she laughed until tears stread down her face.
In the end, she didn't even have a father.
Even this father was gone.
What was the point of her existence?
Glancing at Yun Xiaoxiao, who stood nearby, calmly watching her, she smiled bitterly.
Rather than being killed by soone else, it would be better to...
She focused all her energy in her dantian.
"Boom!"
With a loud explosion, Bai Ruo's body self-destructed.
Like ancient cultivators, an ability user's dantian was different from an ordinary person's.
If all the energy in the body was concentrated in that area, the dantian couldn't withstand the pressure and would explode.
Externally, the body wouldn't show any changes, but internally, the organs would be obliterated by the shockwave of the explosion.
This signified that the person was as good as dead.
Upon hearing the sound, everyone turned to look at Bai Ruo's direction.
Yun Xiaoxiao showed no emotion.
She had already deduced from Bai Ruo's thoughts that she intended to end her own life.
But she didn't stop her.
She had no reason to intervene.
It was better this way, sparing her the trouble of dirtying her own hands.
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