Chapter 3374 — Yushu and Yuning
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"Wh... what?" Wei Zhao's eyes went wide as he stared at Yu Tianxing. "You mean Xiaoshu is your granddaughter?"
"Indeed. Her father is my son, Yu Xiaochen. And Yuning is her fraternal twin sister..." Yu Tianxing nodded and said solemnly.
"Yuning is Xiaoshu's sister?!" At that moment Wei Zhao was struck dumb, staring at Yu Tianxing, unable to speak...
Fraternal twins—no wonder the two of them did not resemble each other so closely. Wei Zhao had overlooked this circumstance all along, but now, thinking it over carefully, there were still points of resemblance between Xiaoning and Xiaoshu...
"Shen Yushu—her true name is in fact Yushu. The surname Chen was appended to disguise the truth..." Yu Tianxing continued slowly. "This matter was in fact known to the secular Chen family as well, but I warned the Chen family's Old Master Chen not to let word of it get out."
Yushu? Wei Zhao was suddenly enlightened. No wonder the "Yu" in Shen Yushu's name was not the same character as the "Yu" in Chen Yuxuan's name. At the time, Wei Zhao had assumed it was merely the slight difference between a male and a female name; now it seemed that was not the case at all. As for the identical pronunciation, that was nothing but coincidence.
"Then what of Xiaoshu's betrothal?" Wei Zhao pressed on.
"It was fabricated. The one betrothed to her is the young sect master of the Xuandan Sect, Tian Canbian, but it was arranged in secret by the Five Luminaries Sect. Only Old Master Chen knew of this matter." Yu Tianxing said, "The purpose, I would guess, was because an inheritor cannot lose her virginity. I did not wish Yushu to fall in love too early, to be too soon..."
"But what I do not understand is this: since Xiaoshu is a member of the Yu family, why did you place her in the secular world? And why force her?" Wei Zhao asked in return, somewhat puzzled. Though what Yu Tianxing said seemed quite reasonable, Wei Zhao still felt there were points of doubt in it.
"Yuning belongs to water; Yushu belongs to fire. Two inheritors of water and fire cannot be together before they have received their inheritance. If they often meet, the result is that water and fire cancel each other out, and the constitutions of both will undergo change." Yu Tianxing said, "You must have heard the saying that water and fire are incompatible. We did not tell Yushu the truth for fear she would secretly meet with Yuning. Once the two met face to face, all our arrangements would come to nothing."
"Water and fire incompatible? The mutual overcoming of the five elements?" Wei Zhao frowned. "So by that reasoning, an ice-element inheritor and a fire-element inheritor being together should also cause problems?"
"Not so. Because Yuning and Yushu are twin sisters, a special resonance arises between them, and only then does water overcome fire. Other inheritors do not have this situation." Yu Tianxing waved his hand and explained. RU