When the prince is reborn, he will only hit me if he doesn't hit the wall!

Xu Minghui stared at the short hairpin for a while and couldn't help asking, "Xi'er, what is this?"

Xu Mingxi wiped away her tears and said in a hoarse voice: "I found this by my mother's side. I recognize this hairpin. It belongs to Xu Baiyu, and I am sure it is hers."

Xu Minghui didn't know much about girls' hairpins and jewelry, and in his eyes, they were no different: "If my sister just made up a story, I'm afraid the government wouldn't recognize it—"

Xu Mingxi shook his head, picked up the short hairpin through the scarf, faced the light, and guided Xu Minghui to look at the handle of the hairpin.

Xu Minghui narrowed his eyes slightly, and under Xu Mingxi's guidance, he suddenly saw the extremely fine words "Bai Yu" carved on it.

It is as thin as a cow hair, and if you don't pay special attention, it is almost unnoticeable.

"Xi'er! This, you said this was left by mother!?"

Xu Mingxi nodded and said, "That's right. As a man, brother may not know this, but in fact, the hairpins and rings of the Xu family's daughters will have their names engraved on them if they are specially customized."

"I have seen Xu Baiyu wearing this hairpin more than once. At first, I was a little hesitant to confirm it, but when I saw the inscription, I was sure that it belonged to Xu Baiyu."

"Where is Xu Baiyu? I want to find her and ask her clearly! Now the government has detained all the people from Puji Temple here, she won't be able to escape!"

Xu Mingxi slowly stood up and looked at the short hairpin in his hand: "Brother, Xu Baiyu didn't come with us, she should... not be in Puji Temple."

"Why? I know my grandmother's habit. Coming to Puji Temple to burn incense is something that all the masters of the Xu Mansion must participate in. Why is she..."

Xu Mingxi chose to be brief and gave a brief account of what Xu Baiyu had done recently at the Autumn Appreciation Banquet and the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet.

The more Xu Minghui listened, the worse his expression became. His fists clenched and made a clattering sound. "What a ruthless person! The Xu family has raised her for more than ten years in vain! She actually killed her siblings!"

Xu Mingxi agreed, "There must be a reason why this hairpin appeared here. And why is it so coincidental that it happened this time when Xu Baiyu was not around and my mother got into trouble. The only person missing from the Xu Mansion is Xu Baiyu. Don't you think it's strange, brother?"

"It's as if he deliberately distanced himself from this matter. It seems that Xu Baiyu has nothing to do with this matter at all, but——"

Xu Minghui added: "Thinking about it carefully, Xu Baiyu is indeed the most suspicious. The short hairpin cannot have appeared out of thin air. Xi'er, where did you find this thing? Was it in mother's hand or somewhere else?"

Speaking of Yang, Xu Mingxi choked up again: "It was found under my mother's skirt. I guess it was the evidence that my mother left for us at the risk of her life. The tables and chairs were in disarray at the scene, and there was a copper pestle beside my mother, which must have been a fight."

Xu Minghui held her in his arms and comforted her: "In that case, mother's death may be due to a struggle within the family, and may have nothing to do with the assassination of Prince Rong. It is just a coincidence."

Xu Mingxi was surprised and left his arms: "Prince Rong was assassinated? When?"

Although she had no connection with Qin Yuechuan anymore, she had never been assassinated in her previous life.

Qin Yuechuan was also a reborn person, so how could he encounter such a thing all of a sudden?

But he was also surprised, and then Xu Mingxi said self-deprecatingly: Xu Mingxi, you can't even take care of yourself now, and you still have the leisure to care about others.

So what if it didn’t happen in the previous life? Didn’t her mother never have this kind of thing in her previous life and leave her?

Xu Minghui didn't notice her expression and continued, "Prince Rong and Princess Rong were assassinated around the same time as my mother was killed. It is said that they are still missing and it is unknown whether they are alive or dead."

Xu Mingxi was somewhat absent-minded. Qin Yuechuan and Xu Xinyue were assassinated together, and their lives and deaths were unknown...

She couldn't describe how she felt when she heard these words. It wasn't regret, nor was it pain. Instead, she felt that this was the way fate had always been.

If she were the only one to suffer in this new life, then God would be too unfair.

"Xi'er, Xi'er? What are you thinking about?"

Xu Mingxi came back to his senses and looked up at Xu Minghui: "What did big brother say just now?"

Seeing that he was in a trance, Xu Minghui knew that Yang's death had dealt a heavy blow to her, so he said worriedly, "I'll try to get advice from the people in the Xu Mansion to have Xu Baiyu detained. When we return home, we'll have a good argument with her and have her sent to the authorities!"

"Well, just do as Big Brother says."

"Okay." Xu Minghui responded. He didn't know how much Xu Mingxi had heard about his argument with Xu Guanghai just now. But now that things had come to this, Xu Mingxi seemed to have deliberately avoided mentioning Xu Guanghai.

Presumably, he guessed, Xu Guanghai's ruthlessness and disloyalty really hurt Xu Mingxi, making her unable to accept the fact that her father was so cold-blooded.

He couldn't help but comfort her: "Xi'er, Daddy..."

Xu Mingxi lowered his head and sneered: "I should have known that he would treat my mother like this. This is very similar to the situation of the third branch of the Xu family at that time!"

Anyone who may hinder the future of the Xu family and Xu Guanghai's career development will have no other fate than being abandoned.

I really didn't expect that after so many twists and turns, the abandoned person would one day become Yang's turn!

Xu Mingxi covered her face, crying and laughing at the same time: "I didn't know whether mother's departure was a blessing or a curse. How could I have a good ending if I was with such a heartless and cold-hearted man! If mother was alive and knew that she was abandoned, how desperate she would be."

There are some things that never happened in the previous life, and Xu Mingxi didn't seem to see them clearly. Now that they happened again, he had a lot of doubts in his heart: Is this Xu Mansion really worth protecting?

Can this cold and heartless father really become the Xu family's support?

She raised her head and looked at her handsome and elegant elder brother, who was gentle and proud. If he knew that the final outcome of herself and the Xu family would be so tragic, she wondered if he would still be willing to repeat the same mistake?

She originally thought that her mother would stay with her until the end as she did in her previous life. As long as she made the right choice, her mother would be able to live with her peacefully until the end.

But now it seems that she thought too simply. Life is like a game of chess. One small change can affect the whole body. Even the slightest change can cause earth-shaking changes.

She felt a little regretful that she had not told Yang about her past life earlier.

Xu Mingxi stared at Xu Minghui in a daze, thinking over and over for a long time, and then spoke with difficulty:

"Brother, I once had a dream."