Chapter 3271 — Xu Shilan's Discovery
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"Xiaohan, listen to me—it's not what you think..." Cheng Yiyi was somewhat panicked. She had not expected Xu Shilan to wake up at this moment, or to be standing at the washroom door, taking in everything she had said.
"Not what I think? Could what I heard with my own ears be false?" Xu Shilan said coldly.
"Xiaohan, let me explain..." Cheng Yiyi did not come clean to Xu Shilan. She had made up her mind earlier, but as time went on, Cheng Yiyi had betrayed Feng Tianhu as well. She did not want to hurt the bond between herself and Xu Shilan, and so she said no more.
"How are you going to explain?" Xu Shilan shot back.
"Actually... it goes like this. It starts from that time, at the orphanage..." Cheng Yiyi knew she could not hide it from Xu Shilan today, so she resolved to tell the truth, beginning with the time she had shielded Xu Shilan from the Black Horse Society's Grand Elder's strike at the orphanage...
When she came to the time Cheng Yiyi had stepped forward to protect her, Xu Shilan's furious expression instantly softened! Yes—Cheng Yiyi had risked her life to protect her back then, and that could not have been faked. Xu Shilan had always been deeply grateful to Cheng Yiyi.
So it turned out Cheng Yiyi had known all along about the Black Horse Society Grand Elder's attempt to assassinate her mother, the old director of the orphanage! And she had known about the earlier assassination attempts as well! It was just that Cheng Yiyi had never been able to bring herself to kill her!
As Cheng Yiyi recounted her origins and her hardships in a gentle voice, Xu Shilan's heart softened too! Cheng Yiyi was a girl with a bitter fate, and what left Xu Shilan most helpless was that Cheng Yiyi's boss turned out to be her own third uncle!
This kind of infighting within a family left Xu Shilan with no temper to speak of—only a deep, deep helplessness!
"So that means Wei Zhao knew about all this beforehand, and these words are what Wei Zhao told you to say to Feng Tianhu?" Xu Shilan asked. She did not call Feng Tianhu third uncle either, because she felt he did not deserve to be her third uncle.
"Yes. Wei Zhao said this matter can't be concealed—sooner or later others will find out, so there's no point hiding it," Cheng Yiyi said with a nod.
"Then I've wronged you," Xu Shilan said with a sigh. "Yiyi, honestly, I really don't want to lose our friendship. Thank goodness you didn't disappoint me."
"Actually, I've already done many things to let you down, Xiaohan! I'm more than content that you can forgive me. As for going back to being as close as sisters—I wouldn't dare hope for that..." Cheng Yiyi said cautiously.
"Yiyi, you're overthinking it. The way things look now, you're not bad at heart. You were simply forced by circumstances for your brother's sake, and you never truly hurt me, so I don't blame you." Xu Shilan shook her head. "By the way, where's Wei Zhao?"