Chapter 98.2 : Shattering Perceptions (Part 2)
To everyone's utter astonishment, he brutally crippled a clan member who had often bullied him, smashing all four of the man's limbs.
On top of that, two servants who had shown disrespect toward Su Mo and hurled vile insults at him were beheaded on the spot!
Afterward, Su Mo went even further—standing before all the clan members, he openly rebuked his father, the current head of the Su family, for the many injustices he had suffered.
He even publicly exposed the fact that he had been poisoned, causing the matter to spread rapidly throughout the entire Wangjian City!
And the spearhead of Su Mo's accusations was aimed directly at the current lady of the household—the wife of the family head, who was also Su Yushang's mother!
This series of actions by Su Mo completely overturned everyone's understanding of him.
All the members of the Su family believed that such near-mad behavior would inevitably bring down the family head's severe punishment, and that the lady of the household would never let go of this long-standing thorn in her side.
Yet, once again, something unexpected happened.
The matter ended in a strangely anticlimactic fashion, as though it had simply fizzled out.
A group of people were pushed into the spotlight, charged with secretly harming a direct-line young master, and were immediately punished by the family's disciplinary law—thus providing Su Mo with an explanation.
Not only did Su Mo avoid harsh punishment or retaliation, but his standing within the family even showed faint signs of rising.
The cultivation resources that had long been withheld from him were distributed at the family head's command.
Su Mo emerged from it all—miraculously—completely unscathed!
In just three days, Su Mo had thoroughly reversed the impression he left on others.
The bullying of the past vanished.
The mocking gazes he once endured disappeared.
With an almost subversive posture, Su Mo reentered everyone's field of vision.
Compared to such a shocking transformation, the fact that Su Mo had suddenly gained a bit of cultivation no longer seemed particularly eye-catching.
After replaying everything in her mind, Su Yushang became increasingly convinced that the contents of the diary were likely true.
Su Mo really was someone who had been reborn!
"What should I do…?"
Su Yushang murmured softly, waves of unease surfacing on her clear and refined features.
As the Su family's young miss and the daughter of the family head, she naturally knew far more about the internal affairs of the Su family over these past few days than outsiders did.
Su Mo being poisoned and secretly harmed—the real culprit was certainly not the unlucky scapegoats pushed to the forefront, but someone else entirely.
And this person… Su Yushang actually had a faint suspicion.
Su Mo had long been targeted and oppressed, and this person's shadow had always been there.
That person was very likely her own mother!
This was also why, after Su Mo repaid her kindness with hostility, Su Yushang had merely chosen to distance herself rather than harbor resentment or hatred.
Because she understood that a large part of Su Mo's animosity toward her stemmed from her mother.
"Right—the diary!"
Feeling utterly at a loss about the current situation, Su Yushang instinctively thought of the diary copy.
She quickly flipped open the notebook in her hands, and what entered her eyes was new diary content.
[Aside from Su Mo, there is another name in the intelligence that is worth investigating.]
[Qian Qiuyue. It sounds like a woman, and Su Mo's rebirth may be closely connected to this person.]
[Thinking carefully, if Su Mo truly belongs to the type of fortune-favored protagonists I have in mind—]
[Then this Qian Qiuyue likely betrayed Su Mo in the future, delivering a fatal blow at a critical moment, causing his death and sending him back to his youth.]
[The only question is whether Qian Qiuyue became acquainted with Su Mo early on, or only later.]
[If it was later, then whether Qian Qiuyue has even emerged into the world yet is still uncertain. After all, this is the cultivation world, and Su Mo reached the Eleventh Heaven—]
[The time span involved would be at the very least several hundred, if not a thousand, years.]