The two of them stared at each other with friendly eyes. Neither the tilted teacups nor the tea flowing all over the table attracted their attention at all.

Chu Yin slowly put away her smile.

One hand reached back and quickly pulled out an ordinary file bag from the lower back.

Elder Xia's breathing stagnated, and he also put away his smile, and took it carefully with both hands.

She gently opened the file, and as she flipped through it, Elder Xia's breathing became noticeably faster.

"It seems that my guess was correct."

Chu Yin's soft words woke Elder Xia from the heavy atmosphere.

"Ahem...Miss Chu Yin, thank you."

Chu Yin waved her hand.

"Don't thank me. I have a condition. You know, I want to know your story."

Elder Xia smiled helplessly.

"The story begins a long time ago."

With such an opening, Chu Yin's face became serious, and Elder Xia also put away his smile, looking as if he was lost in some heavy memories.

Chu Yin didn't remind her out loud, because she knew that the other party definitely didn't want to be disturbed at this time.

"The Xia family was once one of the most powerful families in Qilan Continent. Before the climate change in the continent, it once ranked first among the noble families."

"When I was a kid, a group of strangers came to our family. I remember that time, the members of the family were very panicked, but not long after, everyone was as if nothing had happened, and the Xia family still stood firm."

"From that time on, every young person in the family would receive a mysterious liquid medicine every year. It was said that it was secretly developed by the family and could improve various physical qualities. After everyone took it, it was just as they said. Whether it was height or strength, there was a significant increase. My brother, a sickly person since childhood, suddenly became a normal person."

Chu Yin looked surprised.

"With such a significant effect, the annual distribution of the liquid medicine became the focus of competition among the middle-aged strongmen in the family. Even adults secretly participated in it. In the end, the family compromised and held a martial arts competition every year. Only the top 100 winners had a chance to obtain it."

"During that period, the people in the family were more hardworking than ever before, and the competition was very fierce. However, I heard from my father that this was the family's intention to make everyone compete."

Elder Xia said with a look that said you know what I am talking about: "At that time, I was young and gullible, so I believed it. I thought everything was the family's idea."

"Later, things started to get out of control. Suddenly, a rumor spread outside that the Xia family had obtained a kind of alien technology that could greatly improve a person's physical condition. Because the family members were dissatisfied with the distribution system, someone leaked the secret to the outside world and exaggerated it."

"People who challenged the Xia family kept coming, and each one was repelled by the young people in the family. Such rumors became more and more intense, and no one in the Xia family's elders was alert."

Elder Xia sighed.

"At that time, I was already sixteen years old. Because I had been taking medicine since I was a child and I was the clan leader's daughter, I enjoyed a lot of resources and my abilities were among the best among the younger generation."

"Unfortunately, even so, my suggestion that the family keep a low profile was rejected by the clan members, and no one took it seriously."

Chu Yin saw Elder Xia’s bitter smile and knew that what came next was the key part that she wanted to know.

"The consequence of letting it go is that rumors will go uncontrolled, and the upper class people all over the world will know that the Xia family has become an outlier."

"Who spread it?" Chu Yin had a feeling that this rumor didn't come out of thin air.

Elder Xia: "It was a long time later that I learned the truth, but it was too late."

Chu Yin felt that Elder Xia was a little choked up, and it was not an illusion.

Elder Xia stood up as if to cover up something, turned around and found a videotape on the bookshelf.

After a busy moment, she pressed the remote control button.

A video started playing on the only TV in the room.

"This is?"

Chu Yin asked curiously.

Elder Xia did not answer.

At this time, Chu Yin had already understood, because the people in the video on TV, the clothes they wore, etc., were all in the style of a hundred years ago.

Chu Yin saw a familiar person in the crowd, it was the young Elder Xia.

Her clear eyes looked anxiously at the tied-up tribesmen, but the people around her kept a close eye on her.

"The Xia family's incident became more and more serious, and finally the noble families united together. One sudden day, they rushed into our home and killed many people. My father, mother and I were imprisoned in solitary confinement."

The video on TV had no sound, only a chaotic and anxious crowd. With Elder Xia's narration, Chu Yin could clearly see what happened at that time.

"Don't you have the support of an organization? Why is it so easy for them to kill so many people?"

"Have you seen this man?"

Elder Xia pointed with her slender finger, and Chu Yin saw the person she was talking about on TV. She suddenly realized something and exclaimed.

"What? Is that so?"

"Hehe~" Elder Xia smiled bitterly and turned his head slightly to glance at Chu Yin.

"You have good eyesight and saw it at once. I watched it again and again afterwards before I found his."

In the video, there was a man in gray clothes, standing in the corner of the crowd, watching the chaos in the Xia family. At first, Chu Yin thought he was just joining in the fun.

Elder Xia's reminder made her look carefully, and she immediately discovered the "six-petal lotus" tattoo that the other person had exposed when he avoided the crowd.

With this kind of mark, we can now tell at a glance that the other party is from that organization, but what about back then?

As if he knew what Chu Yin was thinking.

Elder Xia did not hide anything and told her directly about his situation.

"The Xia family's opponents made up a very absurd lie at the time and made my father confess his guilt."

“I remember that day clearly.”

"They stared at my mother and me with such lewd eyes. Later, my mother was taken away by them. I heard those people say that it was my father who gave my mother to the leader at that time so that they would let my family go."

Chu Yin suddenly thought of the Yuan Opera she watched at that time, which seemed to have a similar plot.

"I didn't believe it at all. My father committed suicide that night. Before he died, he told me to keep my real name secret. He said the other party would let me live."

As Elder Xia spoke, tears unconsciously flowed down her face. She was still a little girl at the time, and these things have been kept in her heart until now.

Chu Yin was the first person to listen to her story.

Chu Yin reached out and pulled out two tissues and handed them over. She was a little embarrassed. What should she do at a time like this? She didn't know how to comfort others at all!

Fortunately, Elder Xia calmed down very quickly and continued to talk about what happened later.

"The Xia family disappeared, and the Aristocratic Family Alliance divided up the Xia family's property. No one cares about me."

"One sunny day, I was released."

"At that time, I thought I was going to be a wanderer and die, but what happened later forced me to continue to live."

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