Chapter 85 - 87: Deceiving Heaven and Changing Fate (5)
Feng Youyun? Old Feng?
Bai Zhi slightly raised his eyebrows as he rested his hand on the hilt of his sword, squinting his eyes and pondering hard. He felt that he had just caught a glimpse of a thread of the mystery but couldn’t pierce through the layer of paper to view all the truths.
"Mr. Ant, what are you talking about?" Young Feng’s voice trembled a bit. "Isn’t my dad still alive?"
"Be patient, don’t worry."
Li Cheng smiled, "In the process of exploring the mansion, based on the clues and information I gathered, I’ve come up with several hypotheses. The first and most obvious one is that the person he spoke to at the time was Feng Youyun."
"In Old Feng’s own account, he was cursed with the death of his entire family by Zhao Xinglang’s father before his demise due to business conflicts. Soon after, his wife and son fell seriously ill and were hospitalized. To ward off the curse, he adopted Zhao Xinglang on the advice of the wandering alchemist, hoping to neutralize the curse."
"Old Feng at the time didn’t know that ’without a high-level Extraordinary Power before the arrival of the killing field,’ and he truly believed the alchemist’s deception, especially that so-called ’Supreme Cave Destiny Changing Scripture.’"
"So, what did he do with this book? The answer is, he swapped fates."
Li Cheng snapped his fingers, "This brings us to the first hypothesis. He swapped Zhao Xinglang’s life chart with that of his own son, Young Feng, in order to deceive the curse. From Old Feng’s perspective, everything made sense — his son recovered from the fever, but his personality drastically changed from being cheerful and lively to being shy and reserved. This piece of information was also known to Old Feng’s wife, which is why in the last two years of her life, she treated Zhao Xinglang just like her own son."
Young Feng looked bewildered. As a materialist who had received higher education, he did not believe in life charts and found it hard to imagine his father, who, in his eyes, was a shrewd and wise business magnate, could believe in such things.
"The cognitive abilities, knowledge boundaries, and social experiences of people are limited. In the right conditions, even highly ranked individuals like university professors, barristers, entrepreneurs, and senior bureaucrats can be deceived and manipulated by crude lies. This has been all too common throughout history.