護花近衛 - 第3067章 覆水難收 - 翰墨軒

"Dongfang Xiaocui, I know you've always wanted to kill Xu Shilan, but she's innocent! She's my daughter, when all's said and done—she doesn't even know about any of this. Can you really not bear to let her live? She's no threat to your position, and no threat to Feng Shihua's either. Why must you hound her so relentlessly? And those things Tianhu did before—I'm afraid you had a hand in those too, didn't you?" Feng Tianqi was no fool. When Xu Shilan had been assassinated before, he had vaguely suspected Feng Tianhu was behind it, but it was impossible that Dongfang Xiaocui had not been involved as well.

"I... I'm sorry, Tianlin..." Though Dongfang Xiaocui hated Xu Shilan, she had no wish to ruin her marriage over it. And Feng Tianqi's words made her realize that whether Xu Shilan lived or died truly could not affect anything. A mere daughter could never compete with Feng Shihua for the position of family head, and she was not Feng Tianqi's lover either—only the daughter of that lover. It really was of no consequence!

Yet what Dongfang Xiaocui feared was for Feng Shihua's safety, so she had no choice but to lay everything bare—why she wanted Xu Shilan dead—and confess it all to Feng Tianqi: "Tianlin, listen to me. Everything I did, I did for Shipian's sake!"

"For Shipian?" Feng Tianqi frowned and asked coldly, "What do you mean by that? What does this have to do with Shipian? Let's see what excuse you can dream up!"

"It's like this—Tianhu said that our Shipian killed Ni Tian, and he said he wanted a life for a life, that he would kill one of your children before he could rest easy. He said that as long as Xu Shilan died, he wouldn't pursue the matter of Shipian's crime..." Dongfang Xiaocui did not dare conceal anything and told him exactly what Feng Tianhu meant.

"The thinking of a foolish woman!" Feng Tianqi was torn between laughing and crying at her words, but more than anything he was furious. "You actually believed him! Do you have a brain at all? Feng Nitian was not killed by Feng Shihua! There was never any great matter to begin with. And even if he had killed him, Father could never do anything to him—he is the last bloodline of the ancient Feng family. If he died, our ancient Feng family would have no heirs left. Do you think that's possible?"

"I..." Dongfang Xiaocui stammered, at a loss for what to say.

"Call your brother right now and cancel this plan!" Feng Tianqi roared.

"Oh, oh... all right..." Dongfang Xiaocui hurriedly picked up her phone and dialed her eldest brother Dongfang Jinxing's number.

"Little sister, you got the message I sent, right? I spoke to the old master about this, and he agreed. You know how it is—the old master dotes on Bujuo like nothing else, his one and only grandson. When he heard she was the woman Bujuo had set his heart on, he decided not even to send Earth-rank experts—he's sending a Heaven-rank early-stage expert directly. How about that? You can rest easy now, can't you? That little slut Xu Shilan is as good as dead!" The moment Dongfang Jinxing answered, before Dongfang Xiaocui could even speak, he rattled it all off to her excitedly.

"What?" Dongfang Xiaocui was stunned for a moment, but then she hurriedly said, "Brother, cancel this plan. Don't kill Xu Shilan. There's no need to send anyone!"

"Little sister, what do you mean by that? Cancel it? Why?" Dongfang Jinxing was taken aback and asked.

"Brother, Tianlin found out. I don't want to quarrel with him, so let's just cancel it..." Dongfang Xiaocui still cared deeply about Feng Tianqi.