r18novel Chapter 80: The Great Hatred
Chapter 80: The Great Hatred
Qian Jin stood quietly beside Gongsun Lü'e, and neither of them spoke again.
After a long while, Qian Jincai said softly:
"Miss Gongsun, your father pushed you into the abyss, are you still heartbroken for him?"
Gongsun Lü'e was silent for a moment after hearing this, then said:
My mother passed away when I was six years old.
Over the years, no matter how my father treated me, he was still my father, and my only family in this world.
Upon hearing this, Qian Jin sighed. Gongsun Lü'e was a good girl, but unfortunately, fate had played too many tricks on her.
In this world of The Return of the Condor Heroes, her fate is the most tragic.
Seeing her heartbroken for Gongsun Zhi, Qian Jin couldn't help but feel pity for her.
So he said:
"Miss Gongsun, would you like to go down and take a look?"
"Go down?"
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Lü'e suddenly widened her eyes and looked at Qian Jin, saying:
"Brother Qian, this abyss is bottomless, can we go down?"
Qian Jin nodded upon hearing this and said:
"If you wish, I can take you down."
"Although this abyss is deep, as long as we find a long rope and make sufficient preparations, we can still reach the bottom."
Gongsun Lü'e thought for a while after hearing this, and then mustered up her courage to say:
"Brother Qian, let's go down and take a look!"
Even if he really is dead down there, at least I can bury him.
Upon hearing this, Qian Jin nodded, and then he and Gongsun Lü'e went to the warehouse manager to fetch a long rope, and then fixed one end to the alchemy room.
After everything was prepared, Qian Jin said to Gongsun Lü'e:
"Miss Gongsun, are you ready? I'm taking you downstairs now."
Gongsun Lü'e nodded upon hearing this and gave a soft "hmm".
Upon seeing this, Qian Jin immediately grabbed the rope with one hand, embraced Gongsun Lü'e with the other, and then used his lightness skill to descend the rope.
When Qian Jin rescued Gongsun Lü'e from the abyss, he had already hugged her once.
However, it was a life-or-death situation at that time, so everything happened naturally.
Now that Gongsun Lü'e was once again held in Qian Jin's arms, she felt a different kind of emotion.
However, Gongsun Lü'e herself couldn't quite describe what she felt.
As the two ventured deeper, the surroundings grew increasingly dark, and Gongsun Lü'e became somewhat frightened, unconsciously clinging to Qian Jin with both hands.
After a while, the two landed on a pool of water. Qian Jin led Gongsun Lü'e in a leap and they reached the shore.
"So there was a pool of water at the bottom of this abyss. Your father might not be dead after falling down there."
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Lü'e said:
"Brother Qian, it's so dark here, where are we going to find him?"
Qian Jin was about to reply when he suddenly heard a burst of maniacal laughter coming from afar. The laughter was strangely desolate and sorrowful.
Gongsun Lü'e was frightened and quickly hugged Qian Jin tightly again, saying:
"Brother Qian, what... what exactly was that sound?"
Upon hearing this, Qian Jin said:
"Could there be other people here? Let's go check it out."
Following the direction of the laughter, the two passed through a tunnel and arrived at a cave.
There was a bald old woman sitting cross-legged on the ground; the laughter had come from her mouth.
In front of her, a man lay in a pool of blood; it was Gongsun Zhi, who had just fallen from above.
Gongsun Lü'e was shocked to see this and rushed over to check on Gongsun Zhi, only to find that he had already died.
"Father!"
Gongsun Lü'e cried out sadly.
In this short period of time, she first thought her father was dead, then discovered that her father might not be dead, and finally saw with her own eyes that her father was indeed dead.
Overwhelmed with emotion, I couldn't help but shed tears.
Upon hearing Gongsun Lü'e's voice, the old woman's laughter abruptly stopped, and she stared intently at the other woman, saying:
"Is he your father?"
Gongsun Lü'e nodded upon hearing this and gave a soft "hmm".
Upon seeing this, the old woman immediately murmured:
"You are his daughter, so your name is Gongsun Lü'e, you are eighteen years old this year, and you were born on the third day of the second lunar month at the hour of Xu (7-9 PM). Am I right?"
Suddenly having her birth date revealed, Gongsun Lü'e exclaimed "Ah!" and looked at the person with a shocked expression, saying:
"Senior, how did you know?"
"Senior? You call me senior? Haha, hahahaha..."
The old woman suddenly threw her head back and laughed loudly, her voice filled with endless sorrow, and said:
"It's been over a decade, and you've grown so beautiful. There's a cinnabar mark on your left waist, isn't there?"
Gongsun Lü'e was even more surprised when she heard this. She thought to herself, even her father didn't know about the red mark on her left waist, so how did this old woman in the underground know about it?
She could even accurately state her birth date and time.
She looked up at the old woman, who was almost completely bald and had a face full of wrinkles. The woman was staring intently at her.
"Grandma, who exactly are you? Are you very familiar with my deceased parents?"
"Your dead parents!"
The old woman repeated the sentence, then suddenly said sharply:
"Show me the red mark on your waist. If there is even the slightest falsehood, I will make sure you suffer the same fate as your father."
Gongsun Lü'e blushed upon hearing this, then turned to look at Qian Jin. Qian Jin, seeing this, already knew what she meant and immediately turned away.
Upon seeing this, Gongsun Lü'e unbuttoned her clothes, pulled up her inner garment, revealing her snow-white, jade-like waist, on which there was indeed a thumb-sized crimson mark.
The old woman glanced at it once, and immediately trembled all over, tears streaming down her face, and said:
"My son, I've missed you so much! I never imagined I'd see you again before I die."
As the saying goes, blood is thicker than water. When Gongsun Lü'e heard the old woman say this, she immediately felt a connection, threw herself at her, and burst into tears.
"Mother, I miss you too!"
This old woman was none other than Qiu Qianchi, the biological mother of Gongsun Lü'e.
The mother and daughter cried for a while before Qiu Qianchi whispered:
"E'er, tell your mother quickly, how exactly did you get down here?"
Upon hearing this, Gongsun Lü'e immediately recounted the entire incident to Qiu Qianchi.
Upon hearing this, Qiu Qianchi immediately retorted angrily:
"This beast, he actually killed his own daughter."
"But this is for the best. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been dragged into this deep valley by you, allowing me to avenge a debt I've held for over a decade."
Gongsun Lü'e was greatly surprised upon hearing this and said:
"Mother, what are you talking about! What deep-seated hatred do you have for Father, and why do you want to kill him?"
Upon hearing this, Qiu Qianchi sighed and said:
"It's a long story. If that villain Gongsun Zhi hadn't severed my meridians and thrown me here, how could I have become this inhuman, ghost-like state?"