The eldest sister was reborn and the younger sister traveled through time. I just want to survive.

Meeting Su's calm eyes, Yan Muxi's heart inexplicably calmed down.

"I had intended to comfort my mother, but now it seems that it is no longer possible. It's good that my mother can take everything lightly."

"It is indeed very good. The past half year has been the happiest time in my entire life. Before, I couldn't understand why great monks had to leave the mortal world to ascend to heaven, but now I understand a little." Su's tone was light and airy, and he really sounded like a master who had seen through the world.

"Mingxin is still alive and she is doing well."

After Yan Muxi finished speaking, she saw that Su Shi was unable to hide her surprise, and couldn't help but laugh, "It seems that mother has not yet cultivated to the level where she can escape from the mortal world and become an immortal."

The surprise on Su's face lasted only for a moment. Then he raised his eyes as if he wanted to say something. His lips moved a few times and he only uttered two words, "Thank you."

"For me to deserve my mother's thanks, someone has to give me a chance. Everything in the past is a cycle of cause and effect. I hope my mother can really understand and not make things difficult for herself." Yan Muxi wanted to tell Su that the downfall of the Su family had nothing to do with her, and hoped that she would feel less guilty.

Su lowered her eyes and sighed, "I know."

Seeing that she was not at all surprised by Yan Yongchen's actions, Yan Muxi couldn't help but be curious, "What does mother know? Could it be that father told mother the whole story?"

Su shook her head, "Your father didn't say anything, I just guessed it."

The night before the execution of the Su family, Su went to the prison to visit his family.

Her father told her not to bear a grudge, and that if Yan Yongchen was willing to spare her life, she could live a good life. The fate of the Su family was the debt owed by the Su family before, and the retribution now was what they deserved.

She asked her father what debt the Su family owed, and she could find a way to pay it back. As long as it was paid back, no one in the Su family would have to die.

The father smiled bitterly and shook his head, saying that it was too late and he could not pay it back at all. Even if he sacrificed the lives of the young and old in the Su family, the debt still could not be paid off.

She wanted to ask for clarification, but her father refused to say more, and only asked her to protect herself and not do anything useless.

Later, when Emperor Yuan Jing wrote an edict of repentance, she finally understood that the debt her father was talking about might be the lives of more than 60,000 people of the Wu Yue tribe.

Before she got married, she once slept in her mother's warm room and heard the conversation between her father and mother.

My father said that he regretted his actions very much. If he had not mentioned the Wushan Snow Lotus to Emperor Yuanjing, the Wu Yue people would not have suffered the disaster of extermination.

The mother sighed and said that everything was fate and that the father was just making excuses. Who could have thought that Emperor Yuanjing would really go and snatch the Wushan Snow Lotus.

From the intermittent conversation between his father and mother, Yan Muqing roughly understood the whole story.

When Yu Huai'en just returned from North Vietnam, he wanted to gain a foothold and compete for the qualification of crown prince of Dafeng, so he turned to his father for help.

It happened that his grandmother was suffering from a serious illness at that time and urgently needed the thousand-year-old snow lotus from Wushan as a medicine. His father was overwhelmed and did not want to deal with Yu Huai'en's entanglement, so he made a promise casually that if Yu Huai'en could get the Wushan snow lotus, he would be willing to assist him in competing for the position of crown prince.

At that time, the Wu Yue tribe was as mysterious as a legend. No one could enter the Wu Yue tribe's territory, let alone get the snow lotus which was revered as a sacred flower by the Wu Yue tribe.

My father just said it casually, but he didn't expect that half a year later, Yu Huai'en actually got the Wushan Snow Lotus. My father never broke his promise, so he had to fulfill his promise and agreed to help Yu Huai'en compete for the position of crown prince.

The entire Wu Yue tribe was massacred, and my father didn't find out about it until a long time later. But it was too late. My father had already boarded Yu Huai'en's pirate ship and had no choice but to go down that path until the end.

The saying “ignorance is not a crime” does not always apply. For the lives of more than 60,000 people, both my father and the Su family cannot shirk their responsibility.

Helping the former crown prince to force the palace to rebel, my father was just gambling on a glimmer of luck, hoping to save the lives of the Su family. Unfortunately, the law of nature will eventually turn around, and the Su family could not escape retribution.

Yan Muxi didn't expect the truth to be like this. Emperor Yuanjing brutally massacred more than 60,000 people just because of a snow lotus.

But to be precise, the demise of the Wu Yue clan was ultimately due to conflicts of interest within the imperial power.

If Master Su had not been a literary leader admired by everyone, and if he had not held power, he would not have been targeted, and the final disaster of genocide would not have occurred.

Looking at Su who was pretending to be calm and trembling uncontrollably, Yan Muxi advised: "Now that things have come to this, mother should think more positively."

Su smiled bitterly, "What can I do if I can't get over it? When it happens, I don't have the energy to hate anyone anymore without love."

Yan Yongchen killed everyone in the Su family, but spared the lives of the three of them, the grandfather and grandson. How could she hate him? Moreover, the destruction of the Wuyue clan was caused by the Su family, so she had no reason to hate him. But the old and young of the Su family, her closest relatives, died because of Yan Yongchen, so she couldn't help but hate him.

Various emotions were mixed together. She couldn't hate it, nor did she not hate it. She could only numb herself, pretending to be indifferent to everything and stay away from the mundane world.

Around the time when Yan Yongchen went on his mission, Yan Muxi came out of Su's courtyard.

After entering the study room in the front yard, Qian Manman saw her mother there. Qian Manman pulled her into the house with joy, "I have already told your father. Your father told you to stay in the mansion with peace of mind. Your father will help you solve the problems above."

Yan Yongchen raised his eyes and looked over. The father and daughter's eyes met for a moment. Yan Muxi quickly lowered her eyes and knelt down to salute, "Daughter greets father."

"Stand up. There's no need to be polite between father and daughter." Yan Yongchen's expression and tone were indifferent. Only the emotions hidden in his eyes proved that his mood at the moment was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.

Yan Muxi stood up as he was told and asked politely, "I haven't seen you for many years. Is father doing well?"

"I'm fine. How about you, Sister Xi? Are you okay too?"

"Thank you, Dad, for your concern. My daughter is doing well."

"Everything is fine, that's all."

……

Yan Manman looked at her daughter and then at her husband. Even though her brain was slow, she could tell that something was wrong.

The two people in front of him didn't look like a father and daughter who had met after a long separation. They were so awkward and polite that they were even worse than strangers.

As there was nothing to talk about, Yan Muxi only stayed in the front yard for half a quarter of an hour, then found an excuse to take Qian Manman back to the inner yard.

After returning to Manwei Garden, Qian Manman asked out loud the doubts she had been holding back, "Sister Xi, did something happen between you and your father that your mother didn't know about?"

"Why do you ask this, mother?"

"I just feel that there is something strange between you and your father."

Yan Muxi smiled and pretended to be joking, "If there is ever a conflict between my father and I, will mother choose me or my father?" Having never been chosen before, she actually wanted to be chosen by her mother once.

Qian Manman slapped her in anger, "You kid, you always play tricks on your mother. We are all family, why should I choose?"

Yan Muxi was not particularly disappointed with the answer as she had expected it, but she still felt a little lost.

Early the next morning, Yan Muwan sent someone to convey a message, agreeing to Qian Manman's request to enter the palace.