novelraw Chapter 1375 - 270: Mad Scheme, Death God’s Scythe (Part 2)
Chapter 1375 - 270: Mad Scheme, Death God’s Scythe (Part 2)
The grudges of the past have long faded into the river of time, making it incredibly difficult to find evidence, and the witnesses from back then were all neatly dealt with by Lu Yuke. But paper can’t contain fire; it couldn’t be hidden from Yan Nanmo, nor from Yan Song.
Back then, Lu Yuke bribed the midwife who delivered Mu Ziling. At that time, medical facilities were not complete, giving birth was like crossing the Ghost Gate. Additionally, Mu Ziling was frightened, and the delivery was too sudden to make it to the hospital. Thus, the old lady enlisted the most experienced local midwife to deliver Mu Ziling’s baby. The baby was in a breech position, leading to a difficult labor. The child was born a stillbirth, and Mu Ziling experienced massive postpartum hemorrhage, dying on the bed. Everyone was engulfed in sorrow and no one scrutinized the details. With Yan Guomao losing his composure, by the time the few who were more observant realized, the midwife had already been silenced by Lu Yuke.
According to Yan Song’s investigation, the midwife drowned on the third day after returning, while washing clothes by the river. Many had drowned in that river, so it didn’t attract much attention. However, the midwife’s daughter-in-law, Huang’s, overheard the conversation between the midwife and Lu Yuke. Lu Yuke, distrusting others, disguised herself to meet the midwife.
Huang’s remembered Lu Yuke’s voice but didn’t know that this person was the grand lady of the Yan Family until one day she went to work at the Yan Family and heard Lu Yuke’s voice directing the servants. Remembering her mother-in-law’s mysterious cause of death from years ago, she stealthily investigated some matters of the Yan Family, increasingly sensing hidden truths of that year. At that time, her son was severely ill, urgently needing a large sum of money. She prepared to try extorting some money from Lu Yuke.
She was clever, not greedy, asking only enough for her son’s surgery fees, but she underestimated this woman’s ruthlessness. Lu Yuke feigned agreement to give money, but secretly targeted death’s sickle at Huang’s neck. Feeling uneasy, thinking of her mother-in-law’s fate, fearing her footsteps, Huang’s secretly wrote the truth on a piece of cloth and sewed it into her son’s underclothes. As expected, not long after, Huang’s died in a car accident, leaving behind a severely ill son. Lu Yuke tested the boy, finding he was oblivious. Maybe thinking of her own naturally sickly son, her conscience awakened, sparing the boy’s life, paying off all his medical bills, and even adopting him as a godson, gaining goodwill and reputation among the servants, thoroughly cleansing her name.
The boy lived to 32 years old and, while sorting through belongings near his death, finally discovered the secret hidden in his underclothes. He realized that his grandmother and mother’s deaths were all thanks to his benefactor—which he had inadvertently regarded as his mother. This boy had integrity, entrusted the items to a trustworthy friend for safekeeping, knowing that someone would come for them one day. After preparing everything, even before avenging himself by perishing with Lu Yuke, he was silently and mysteriously killed by Lu Yuke upon her sensing things amiss.
Lu Yuke wasn’t aware of the evidence circulating outside; she only knew that the boy might have learned the truth. She would rather wrongfully kill a thousand than let one go, saying, "A white wolf that can’t be tamed." That was her evaluation of the dead child.
Yan Nanmo followed the clues and personally obtained the testament, which was covered in Lu Yuke’s crimes. But for the Yan Family’s sake, he couldn’t do anything to Lu Yuke, and this couldn’t be used as direct evidence. In other words, although her crimes were crystal clear, without direct evidence, there was nothing he could do to her.
And now, what Yan Song needed to do was fabricate evidence even without it, for Lu Yuke had roamed freely for too long and needed to pay for her actions.
The next day, Yun Ya went to visit Su Yu and lingered there a while, exchanging a few words with Yin Suhua.
Upon leaving Su Yu’s place, Yun Ya saw Yan Hua running over with reddened eyes. Yun Ya frowned and walked over to ask, "What’s wrong?"
Yan Hua didn’t speak, just had reddened eyes.
Yun Ya glanced around and pulled her into his room. Yan Hua, always calm and quiet compared to Yan Xing, was much more mature and rarely seen in such a state.
When alone, Yan Hua clung to Yun Ya and cried, "His health is deteriorating. I’m so scared...." Her tone was so sorrowful and helpless.
Yun Ya paused, then realized she was talking about Yan Nanfeng, her uncle.
Yun Ya had always felt that Yan Hua’s feelings for her uncle were somewhat abnormal, but thought that Yan Hua was young and immature, perhaps empathy played a part. However, now, she increasingly felt something was off.