When Yun Miao said that, Yang Chen, Hui Lin, and Lin Zhiguo were all mindblown.
The mood in the tent immediately froze over, nobody spoke.
After some time passed, Yang Chen was the first to return to his senses. He rubbed his forehead, and questioned the authenticity of what was said,
Abbess, cold jokes aren’t pulled off like that, your joke wasn’t funny at all.
Yun Miao said with a straight face,
Do I look like I’m joking?
Yun-er, I’ve already told you that Yang Chen is married to Ruoxi!
Lin Zhiguo retorted.
Yun Miao had an insincere smile as she said,
So what if they’re married? It’s just a piece of paper. They are together only because that girl forced her way through following what her grandmother taught her, and followed the Lin Family’s rules. A marriage like theirs simply has no prior feelings or love in it.
Hui Lin was panicking to the point that her face was completely red. She stared at Yang Chen in embarrassment, then pleaded with Abbess Yun Miao,
Grandma, how can you be like this? He’s already married, how can I be married to him! Furthermore, this is the first time we’ve met! You say that there’s no love between Yang Chen and his wife, but what about me and him? I’m far inferior in comparison to his wife!
Hearing what Hui Lin said, Yun Miao surprisingly smiled happily. She said towards Yang Chen,
Did you hear that? Hui Lin said that this is the first time she’s meeting you, and there’s no love between the two of you.
Yang Chen didn’t understand what she was trying to say, but he nodded.
You don’t get it?
Yun Miao seemed displeased.
Yang Chen forced a smile,
What is there to understand about this?
Looks like you still aren’t well-versed in reading the thoughts of girls. Hui Lin didn’t say that she dislikes you, she only said that since this is the first time the two of you meet, feelings between the two of you haven’t been developed. This means that this girl wants to meet you more in the future, and develop feelings depending on the situation.
Abbess Yun Miao explained.
It wasn’t just Yang Chen who was shocked by this, even Hui Lin was! A perfectly reasonable rejection had transformed into a flirtatious and vague statement!
Grandma… it isn’t like that……
Hui Lin was about to cry.
Lin Zhiguo also seemed to be in a bad mood,
Why are you doing this, Yun-er? Although Ruoxi and Hui Lin has different parents, they are both my granddaughters! They are blood-related cousins, are you trying to make them be in conflict forever for the sake of a man!?
That’s right!
Abbess Yun Miao glared at Lin Zhiguo with anger,
Back then, I was blind and foolish, and allowed you to send my own son and daughter-in-law to die overseas without even their corpses remaining! If it wasn’t because Hui Lin has been kept by my side, who knows where you’d have sent her to! I mustn’t let Hui Lin follow the disastrous path her parents took. Now that Senior Brother Song has passed and sent Yang Chen to us, I will not let the happiness of my granddaughter be surrendered over to that woman’s granddaughter!
Lin Zhiguo depressingly sighed,
It’s my mistake, it’s the sins I’ve committed, is this retribution from the heavens?
Hearing Abbess Yun Miao and Lin Zhiguo’s words, Hui Lin was shocked. She immediately grabbed onto Abbess Yun Miao’s sleeve, and said in a sobbing tone,
Grandma, are… are you saying that my dad and mum… they… they were……
Yun Miao tenderly wiped the tears off Hui Lin’s smooth cheeks,
Hui Lin, Grandma never told you because I’ve been afraid that you wouldn’t be able to take it. However, I think I shouldn’t keep it from you any longer. You’ve grown up, and have the right to know your past and decide your future. I will tell you the whole story in front of you and Yang Chen, and let you see just how great your so-called ‘Grandpa’ is……
She said that, coldly glanced at Lin Zhiguo, then began to narrate the past……
Forty years ago, Yun Miao and Song Tianxing were two outstanding disciples of the famous Shushan Sect, while Lin Zhiguo was a rising star in the army. When he started serving, he was touted as the outstanding genius of the Lin Family.
After the three were recruited into the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade, they went through extensive tests, and Yun Miao gradually fell in love with Lin Zhiguo through those missions.
Song Tianxing who had always secretly loved Yun Miao began to suffer inside because of this. However, for the sake of his beloved junior sister and comrade, he gave his blessings.
As Yun Miao was from a prestigious sect, the Lin Family all supported her relationship with Lin Zhiguo. It was also needless to speak of Yun Miao’s beauty. They had went through many life and death situations together, and their relationship advanced rapidly.
It was at that time when Lin Zhiguo suffered an ambush while on a mission in France. He was seriously hurt, and hid in the apartment of a female student studying abroad.
That female student was from a completely different world compared to Yun Miao, but there was one trait they shared, they were both extremely pretty.
The female student sheltered Lin Zhiguo for a whole month, and Lin Zhiguo could no longer forget her. He even decided that when he returned home, he would tell the elders in his family that he wanted to marry this female student.
However, things never went the way he wanted them to. That female student’s family was just an ordinary merchant family, and there were rebels in her grandfather’s generation.
For the Lin Family who was one of the founding fathers of the country and considered their blood to be noble, a woman like that was simply wouldn’t be considered at all!
With the attraction of becoming the heir of the Lin Family and being chosen to be the leader of the Yellow Flame Iron Brigade, rather than choosing that woman and being kicked out of the Lin Family, Lin Zhiguo chose to marry Yun Miao instead.
-2: Great Grandmaster level
In the end, Lin Zhiguo married Yun Miao, but his heart remained with that female exchange student. In fact, he even went to Zhonghai many times after getting married to date her.
This was also why Lin Ruoxi’s grandmother never married but had a son and daughter-in-law, and had Lin Ruoxi, her granddaughter.
When Lin Ruoxi’s grandmother was pregnant, Lin Zhiguo had no choice but to reveal that he was already married. It was also at that time that Yun Miao managed to gain information from complicated sources as to why Lin Zhiguo was no longer as affectionate to her as before.
After learning of Lin Zhiguo’s infidelity, Yun Miao was very hurt, and voiced out her pain towards Song Tianxing, but when Song Tianxing got angry and wanted to kill Lin Zhiguo, Yun Miao stopped him.
It was at this moment that Song Tianxing knew, no matter how much effort he put in, there was only Lin Zhiguo in her heart. Even though Lin Zhiguo had done such a despicable thing, Yun Miao considered him her husband, and Song Tianxing her brother.
From then on, Song Tianxing disappeared without a word, and although it made Yun Miao and Lin Zhiguo sad, they couldn’t do anything about it.
As time passed, Yun Miao realized that her attempts to pull Lin Zhiguo’s heart back to her was getting more and more unrealistic. Lin Zhiguo had been secretly protecting that woman’s family businesses and helping them grow, and also stopped the old fogeys in the Lin Family from dealing with them. During the same time, their hearts drifted further and further apart.
Twenty years later, their son had been married for a year and their granddaughter was born. It was also when Hui Lin wasn’t even three months old that Lin Zhiguo sent her son and daughter-in-law who were both in the Dragon Group to Kashmir for an assassination mission.
Lin Zhiguo was famous for being impartial, so Lin Family members were always assigned to the front lines.
But it was this mission that made this young couple from the Lin Family never return again……
After this, Yun Miao was completely heartbroken over the deaths of her children. The years of resentment she built up with Lin Zhiguo erupted due to the death of her son and daughter-in-law.
Lin Zhiguo knew that it was he who was in the wrong, so he could only accept the blame quietly.
Dispirited, Yun Miao resolutely brought her granddaughter, Lin Hui back to Shushan and gave her a taoist monastic name of Hui Lin. Henceforth, their relationship in public was always as master and disciple.
In the past twenty years, Lin Zhiguo occasionally went to the mountain to see them. Hui Lin knew that this man was her grandfather, while Yun Miao never met him again, and went into closed door cultivation every single time.
It was also those many years of keeping clean that Yun Miao gradually recalled how great Song Tianxing was, and how much she owed him.
It was a pity that during those long twenty years, she never got the chance to apologize.
As Abbess Yun Miao narrated her life story, Yang Chen and Hui Lin were in a daze from listening. Yang Chen finally understood why Lin Ruoxi hated Lin Zhiguo so much. From the perspective of the man, even Yang Chen looked down upon Lin Zhiguo. No matter how much he did for the country, he was indeed unfit to receive love from either of the two women who were devoted to him.
Even though he only provided help to their business secretly in consideration of his clan, he didn’t make any involvement during his granddaughter’s entire childhood. To Ruoxi, this was way too unfair.
To Hui Lin, the deaths of both her parents were caused by her very own grandfather. Although it was indirect, it was still too hurtful. Furthermore, this grandfather of hers had always liked some other woman. For her who had always been with her grandmother and considered her grandmother her closest relative, this was enough to make her hate Lin Zhiguo with a passion!
Hui Lin, Grandma wants you to become Yang Chen’s wife not just to ease the guilt I have towards Senior Brother Song. You’ve also seen today how intelligent and powerful Yang Chen is, there may not be another youngster who is better than him in the whole world. Moreover, he doesn’t give himself airs like other youngsters these days who act arrogant without knowing how to be reserved. Although he has an indecent mouth, it’s precisely someone like that who won’t treat the woman he loves unfairly.
Abbess Yun Miao spoke from the heart.
Hearing this, Yang Chen was overjoyed. Looks like this Abbess is an understanding person, she managed to voice out one percent of my strengths as a person!
Hui Lin blushed and stammered,
Grandma… I know that you care about me, but… but he’s already married, I can’t force him to have a divorce, right? Besides… besides, he may not like me.
Saying that, Hui Lin secretly glanced at Yang Chen.
Yun Miao laughed, then turned her head to ask Yang Chen,
Yang Chen, have you done your wedding ceremony with Lin Ruoxi?
Uh… no.
Yang Chen rubbed his nose and spoke honestly.
Hmph.
Yun Miao sneered,
I knew it, how could a marriage like this be known to the public? This means that your marriage is only known by a handful of people. Since this is the case, our Hui Lin can compete fairly. I don’t think you consider Hui Lin inferior to Lin Ruoxi, right?
Yang Chen glanced at Lin Zhiguo, seeing Lin Zhiguo so deep in thought and without the inclination to speak, he calmly said,
Of course not, Hui Lin is very kind, pure, and beautiful. I think any normal man would like her.
Yun Miao nodded with satisfaction, then said to Hui Lin who seemed to be shrinking away from shyness,
Hui Lin, did you hear that? He first said that you’re kind and pure before mentioning that you’re beautiful. This proves that he places your personality first, what’s there for you to worry about?
Huh!? You can spin it like this!?
This time, it was Yang Chen who wanted to cry. He didn’t know whether Abbess Yun Miao was a grandmaster at martial arts, but her ability as a matchmaker was definitely at the great grandmaster level!
