I went to rescue my soul mate and her brother by cutting their bonds with Bichen, then sheathed it. Jiang Cheng and Wei Ying stood up and approached Jin GuangYao. My love disarmed him and took the Qin ropes he was holding. His gaze was as cold as mine. It was rare for him to have this kind of expression, he who was the personification of joy in life!

"Chief of the Jin Clan, give it to me, it is useless to you.

Then we saw the Yin Hufu slipping out of his sleeve. Jin GuangYao held it out to him.... And he let it fall to the ground! All our eyes were drawn to the amulet.

No one dared to touch it. You, however, didn't seem to care about it any more than that now that it was no longer in the possession of our opponent. You asked him how he had forged it because the half of Iron Yin of Xue Yang was not enough. He confessed to you that he found one by chance...

By chance ... I could not believe it and my love too! According to me, he and his father must have hidden one of the pieces of the Iron Yin after the battle of "the fall of the sun". And Jin GuangYao got it back after killing his father!

Wei Ying thought that Jin GuangYao and Xue Yang had been together for a long time! Since the time when we delivered Xue Yang to the Nie Clan.

"Xue Yang had a piece of Iron Yin and he wanted to save Xiao Xingcheng. So we joined together to try to forge the amulet. Even between the two of us, we only managed to make half of it.... Master Wei, one thing still surprises me, so I wanted to ask you a question ... I thought at that time that you took the piece of Xue Yang to forge the amulet. But that was not the case."

"Are you wondering how I got the Iron Yin?"

I was wondering that too! But I had never dared to ask him. Come to think of it, we had never discussed the subject of the origin of Yin Hufu since its rebirth. Nor of his beginnings in the demonic culture during the 3 months he had been missing!

"I heard from Xue Yang, everyone thought that there were only 4 pieces. It was not true, there was a fifth piece. I found it in the cave of Xuan wu, without knowing what it was. It was only at the Burial Ground that I discovered the secret.

"I see, the energy of the four pieces belongs to Xuan wu. That's what the poem meant.

Brother still had his sword out towards his "third brother". The more explanations were revealed, the more I saw him closing in on himself. Everything he had always thought he knew was falling apart like a straw building in the wind.

"You have done so many things, spread evil just for this amulet?

"Not only that, you don't ask me why," said Jin GuangYao, turning to my brother. He lowered his gun and put it back.

"You lied so much that I can't believe you anymore.

Jin GuangYao fell to the ground. Even my brother, who had tried to believe him to the end, gave up on him. I understood the pain that both of them must be feeling. There was a time when I had been in their shoes. I too, for a moment, had believed that my soul mate had betrayed us. But I knew my love and deep inside I had always known that he was a good and just man. So I came back to him, too late, but I had been with him until the end, until he fell into the abyss of Qishan!

Jin GuangYao tried to pity us, especially my brother, reminding him that they had known each other for many years, that he had always looked after him and treated him well. He promised to give up his title of chief of the clans. Hadn't he given us the amulet as a sign of goodwill? All he asked was for a second chance in the name of their friendship. But Brother no longer seemed to tolerate his familiarity. He rebuked him when Jin GuangYao called him "Second Brother". He insisted that he had no choice.

"What do you mean by that?" Brother asked. I warned him.

"Brother, don't play his game" Wei Ying came to support me.

"That's right, ZeWu Jun, isn't that what you told the Jiang Clan Chief? Let's not waste our breath.

Jin GuangYao insisted, grabbing the bottom of Brother's robe. He remained unmoved. But I could see from the trembling of his lips that he was struggling. His heart and his mind were fighting a hard battle inside him.

"I received a letter ....

"What letter?

No Brother, don't let his words get you down! Don't listen to him! Follow the advice you gave to Jiang Cheng!

"A threatening letter. It said that everything I had done would be made public in a week. I could make a public apology and kill myself or wait to be executed.

"Is that why you gathered all the clans and tried to lay siege to the Burial Ground? Seven days later, even if everything was revealed, the clans would still be too exhausted from the battle to hold you responsible.

"Even if it turns out to be true, you should never have resorted to murder! This way of solving problems .... Jin GuangYao grabbed the other side of Brother's robe and begged...

"What were the other options? Wisely wait for the rumors to spread? Wait for everything to be revealed and I have to bow down and beg for forgiveness, have all my pride taken away and have to beg them to spare me? Second Brother, there was no third option. It was their death or mine.

Brother became even more angry. This was strange for me, who knew him to be calm and serene. The betrayal of his "Brother by Oath" was the worst thing he had had to endure in a long time! He told him that he had reaped what he had sown, but the Chief Patriarch was adamant that he had no choice but to act as he had! Brother's gaze turned icy. He crouched down beside the one he had once considered a brother.

"All right I'm going to ask you some questions, don't lie!" I tried to warn Brother.

"Wangji, I know what I am doing.

Brother looked Jin GuangYao in the eye. He asked him about his sister Qin Su whom he had married. He said that he had no choice but to refuse the marriage, even after he found out that Qin Su was his sister! He loved her, but he could not do anything, because by this marriage he had the recognition of his father and his right-hand man. He had no valid excuse to cancel their union. He could not reveal the truth. His most beautiful dream turned into a nightmare. To reveal that his father had raped his right-hand man's wife was to set them against each other. And given their status, the one who would be held responsible would not be the head of the Jin clan, but his bastard son!

I understood the dilemma that the Chief Patriarch was in, but was it a reason to kill? He could have asked Brother to help him! He would have advised him! But it was clear that he trusted no one but his two damned souls Xue Yang and SuShe!

Brother addressed a sensitive point, his father.

"After all that had happened, I didn't know who I should hate more. My father who behaved like a beast or the man I had become.

"So you killed him too? Your own father, in such a despicable way.

"Yes, I killed him."

Brother's anger exploded at once, he slapped Jin GuangYao with all his strength and screamed. Never in my life had I seen Brother raise his hand against anyone! He himself seemed to be surprised. He looked at his hand that had struck his brother by oath. The Chief Patriarch was thrown to the ground. Brother stood up.

"I have another question for you. What about Jin Zixuan? No lies. Tell me, did you arrange your brother's death?"

"Jin Zixuan, it wasn't just a coincidence" .

It was my love's turn to explode. He grabbed Jin GuangYao by the collar and shook him, asking him what he had done.

He said that he had intentionally let slip that Zixun was planning to ambush Wei Wuxian. Zixuan then decided to go and prevent his cousin from committing the irreparable act. With SuShe on the scene, they played together to take control of Wen Ning and ordered him to kill Zixuan.

Jin Ling rushed to his uncle and asked him why he had done this. He didn't understand.

I could see my love being horrified. This man in front of him had not only caused his loss, but had also taken his nephew's father, causing him terrible pain. His cruelty had no limits! How could he justify such acts! Just by saying he had no choice? This man was a monster!

Jin Ling continued to beg his uncle, crying. He collapsed into Wei Ying's arms.

"Why? Tell me A-Ling, why did I have to smile at everyone but was not given any form of respect in return? While your father, so arrogant and haughty, was rushed to? Can you tell me why, even though we have a father in common, your father could spend his day idle with the love of his life playing with their child, while I had to do all the dirty work without even a thank you? Why, when we were born on the same day, did Jin Guangshan hold a big banquet for one son while he watched his men push his other son down the stairs of Jinlintai? Why did this happen to me? I wanted to become a good man. I still had hope and believed in my father as long as he ordered something whether it was to prepare an ambush for Wei Wuxian or to protect Xue Yang; it didn't matter if people hated me. I obeyed without thinking. But what made me lose hope, it's just that one day when he was fooling around, he said something to the prostitute beside him. He who was so rich had not bought my mother's freedom. When she pointed out to him that she had given him a son, his answer was "no, no forget it"!

Jin GuangYao laughed hysterically and fell to his knees.

"That's what I was to him, those three words 'no forget it' !"

Once he calmed down, he slowly got up.

"There's nothing we can do about it. How can I ask for forgiveness after committing all this; this is who I am".

His gaze went to Jin Ling and before we could react, he threw himself on him and put a Qin rope around his neck.

"Don't move, A-Ling.

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