Chapter 101.2 : Peculiarities (Part 2)
Including those who had come not long ago to investigate information related to Qianqiu Yue, their memories had also been imperceptibly influenced by Qianqiu Xue through her methods.
Yet all of this had been disrupted by the appearance of the Diary Replica.
Qianqiu Xue could easily guess that the person who had recently come to investigate was very likely acting under the instruction of someone who possessed a Diary Replica.
After another long stretch of silence.
Su Yu-shang seemed to finally come back to her senses, a glimmer of life returning to her eyes.
The earlier conversation had left her mind in turmoil, her emotions unable to settle for a long time.
She looked at Qianqiu Xue before her with a complicated expression.
At this moment, she no longer knew how she should face the other party.
Anyone who learned that the woman they had called mother for over a decade—nearly twenty years—was not their biological mother would inevitably feel shaken to the core.
And it wasn't just her.
Her two younger brothers, Su Qi and Su Lin, were the same.
Not one of them was the biological child of the beautiful woman before her.
Nor were they the biological children of Su Qing.
Even Su Mo was no exception.
The Su family's patriarch, Su Qing, had spent more than ten or twenty years raising children for someone else—
and not just one or two, but four of them.
Moreover, this was not something he had done in ignorance.
Even after learning the truth, Su Qing still chose to do so—and even took pleasure in it.
Searching her own conscience, Su Yu-shang felt that Su Qing had treated her, Su Qi, and Su Lin fairly well.
For the most part, he had granted whatever they asked for.
Only toward Su Mo did Su Qing behave as if he were dealing with a complete stranger.
Perhaps this could already be seen back when Su Mo had first been brought into the Su family, when Su Qing gave him the character "Mo" (陌) as his name.
[TN: Mo = (陌) /Strange / Unfamiliar]
And all of these matters—whether it was Su Qing raising other people's children, or his special treatment of Su Mo—
ultimately traced back to a single cause: cultivation.
In his youth, Su Qing had obtained the inheritance of a powerful expert, gaining an extremely special cultivation technique.
Su Mo, Su Yu-shang, Su Qi, and Su Lin—the four children who bore Su Qing's name—
were, in truth, nothing more than cultivation materials for him.
Among them, Su Mo was the most important, tied to the most critical stage of Su Qing's cultivation.
Whether it was Su Mo being bullied within the clan,
the so-called targeting from Qianqiu Xue,
or the poison that had been planted in Su Mo's body—
all of it ultimately originated from Su Qing.
The purpose was to guide Su Mo toward a path of extreme hatred—
hatred for Su Qing and hatred for the entire Su family.
The moment Su Mo made up his mind to raise his blade against Su Qing and the whole Su clan,
Su Qing's objective would be fulfilled.
Heaven knew how shocked and heartbroken Su Yu-shang had been when she learned of all this.
Her mother was not her biological mother.
Her father's upbringing of her had been driven by impure motives from the very beginning.
If not for Su Mo's later appearance, then the most crucial step in Su Qing's cultivation
might very well have fallen upon her.
After a short while, Su Yu-shang finally looked toward Qianqiu Xue with complicated eyes and spoke softly:
"Mo… Mother… is there more? About Qianqiu Yue… and about my own origins?"
Even though she already understood much, Su Yu-shang still carried countless unanswered questions in her heart.
"Sigh…"
With a quiet sigh from Qianqiu Xue,
the full sequence of events at last began to unfold before Su Yu-shang.