Phoniex Requiem
Chapter 50: Lin Yuemei's Death
Chapter 50: Lin Yuemei's Death
“Of course you are, Sister Ruoyan!” Lin Qingxue called out from behind them. “I wish it was me! And to think Qingchen called me crazy, Sister Ruoyan is clearly infatuated with her own beauty!"
Yun Ruoyan looked at her face in the mirror, familiar and not. In his mind came the image of the woman who appeared in his dream, the splitting image of his new face.
No, there's a difference of a few minutes. The woman's eyebrows were smoother, and her face was softer. Yun Ruoyan's brows were thicker, her face was firmer.
So, this is his original appearance. When Yun Ruoyan realized that she was actually beautiful, for some reason, she was not as happy as she expected.
Mind calm. He knew that this would be, his original appearance. But she also knew that, although her vices might have ruined her past life, her current beauty would not be enough to succeed in this life.
What he needed, more than anything else, was an incredible power!
A weak but beautiful woman is nothing more than a flower in the garden that can be picked at will. He preferred to be a phoenix orchid, struggling in the middle of the highest cliff, emerging from under the thorns and thorns.
Lin Qingchen combed Yun Ruoyan's hair and took out a pink dress that perfectly matched her body, and Yun Ruoyan's elegant appearance as she wore it once again left her sisters mesmerized.
After taking a bath, Yun Ruoyan brought a small bowl of porridge that Lin Qingchen had brought. She also told him that Lin Zainan would be waiting for him in his study, so he walked there alone.
When Lin Zainan saw Yun Ruoyan, she also became dazed, as if mired in her memories. “You look like Yuemei ..”
Lin Yuemei was the dream woman of Yun Ruoyan, who died from a strange illness when she was one year old. Yun Ruoyan's nightmare had begun ever since.
"Grandfather, how's your body?" Yun Ruoyan's worried tone dragged Lin Zainan back from her mind.
"Grandfather is fine." He waved his hand. “Grandfather has dropped from fifth rank to third rank, so grandfather can only make low-level pills in the future, but luckily Grandpa has secluded himself and refused to make pills for others, instead, so don't worry too much people will find out.”
Yun Ruoyan could not express her sincere gratitude with words, and she could only tightly grasp her grandfather's hand.
"it's okay." Lin Zainan clapped her hands. “Looking at you like this, I am happier than if I broke through the sixth rank, and I am sure Yuemei will also be happy for you.”
Lin Zainan's expression became sad. "Yuemei was born under a sick star ... Son, you must show yourself well, and I will do my best to help you."
“Grandfather, when my mother died, I was one year old, and I don't remember what happened.” Yun Ruoyan began to prove, "But, as I got older, I began to notice the servants talking behind me, pointing towards me and saying that I had cursed my mother to death."
"Bunch of lies!" Lin Zainan slammed her palm on the table. “Everyone from the Yun family likes to talk nonsense. Ruoyan, ignore them.”
Yun Ruoyan nodded, indicating that she did not mind too much. After seeing Lin Zainan no longer angry, he continued, "But those servants were not wrong in one aspect: the strange condition of my mother's death."
He looked at Lin Zainan once more and frowned. “Grandfather, can you tell me how my mother really died? Did he really die from a sudden strange illness?”
Lin Zainan looked to grow old in an instant. He clasped his hands and looked down, and only after a long pause did he continue, "I think you're too young to tell the truth, but you actually found it yourself."
Yun Ruoyan's heart was pounding. It seemed like he guessed correctly, his mother, that beautiful beauty, had actually been killed by someone else!
Lin Zainan told Yun Ruoyan that, when she was one year old, Lin Yuemei brought her to the Lin manor to stay temporarily.
The cherry blossoms bloomed so beautifully that year, and Lin Yuemei would often play around in the forest with Ruoyan.
One day, as the two were playing, Lin Yuemei suddenly started vomiting blood. After that, his body began to weaken day by day, and it wasn't until a month later, that he died.
Lin Zainan had participated in the pillmaster competition in the Yue kingdom, and by the time she returned, Lin Yuemei had long since been buried. This matter had long troubled him.
“Although I was a little suspicious about the timing of the incident, Yuemei fell ill while she was at Lin, and I had no reason to try to identify what was really going on. Furthermore, at that moment, your first and second uncles also left without saying anything. Your first aunt went looking for them, and I haven't heard from her since. Your second aunt died in an accident, and then your grandmother, devastated by the loss of her son and daughter, died of a severe illness and died shortly afterwards. In those few years, so much happened to the Lin family that I never had a chance to investigate it.”
Yun Ruoyan's first and second uncles, Lin Tianming and Lin Tianhai, were Lin Qingchen and Lin Qingxue's fathers respectively. The two had left the family when Lin's sister was very young, and their mother soon followed. Just like Yun Ruoyan, sister Lin lived an unfortunate life.
Lin Zainan continued, “Until two months ago, when you told me that you had been poisoned. Only when Grandpa started studying this poison did Grandpa discover something extraordinary.”
"extraordinary? In what sense?" Yun Ruoyan's hands clasped tightly, her body leaning forward, as if she was afraid of losing a single word of what Lin Zainan was going to say.
“Tali placenta—Grandfather, you mean...?!”
“Your mother was poisoned by the time she gave birth to you, but it was a poison that worked so slowly that there were no symptoms until about a year after your birth. During this process, toxins enter your body while you are still in the womb.”
Yun Ruoyan felt her hands and feet, her entire body, tremble.
Who'sis that? Who was so evil, so evil, that they hurt his mother so cruelly?! That they won't even forgive her son?!
"Grandfather!" Yun Ruoyan forcefully suppressed the anger in her heart. "Do you know who can poison him?"
“Your mother is a kind and gentle girl since her childhood, and I really can't think of anyone so cruel.” Lin Zainan sighed, and even her usual straight posture began to droop. “I plan to investigate this alone, but now that you are also aware of it, let's work together to find the culprit.”
Suddenly, Yun Ruoyan stood up. "I swear I will find this man, to bring back misery and pain to him tenfold, a hundredfold!" He said this to himself as to Lin Zainan.
Lin Zainan looked at her grandson and slowly nodded. He was about to speak when the sound of knocking from outside the door disturbed him. "Master, the servant of the Yun Family is here again to urge Miss Yun home," Lin Bo exclaimed.
"Tell them that Ruoyan has not recovered, and send them back."
"But," said Lin Bo somewhat embarrassedly, "They said that, on Master Yun's orders, if Miss Yun does not return today, never return."
Lin Zainan slammed her palm on the table once again, rumbling, “Yun Lan did not consider me as a father-in-law after Yurmei's death, did she?! Let them know that we are looking after Ruoyan!”
"Yes sir!"
"Lin Bo, wait!" Yun Ruoyan rushed to the front of the study room and said to Lin Bo, “Tell them to go back first. I'll be back by myself soon after that.”
Lin Bo left, and Yun Ruoyan turned around to calm her angry grandfather.
"How dare they." Lin Zainan had incredible self-control, and she would not let her emotions look lightly. Only Yun Lan could make Lin Zainan so angry.
“Ruoyan, I told you, your mother is very good at everything except man's taste, finding someone like that bastard. I was very against their marriage, but your mother insisted. Oh, how I regret not locking her up!”
He looked towards Yun Ruoyan. “Nak, make sure you open your eyes wide, so that you are not fooled by the appearance and flowery words of others.”
"Don't worry, Grandpa, I won't do it." Not in this life, not anymore. Yun Ruoyan gently massaged her grandfather's shoulder.
“But, fortunately, with your appearance, ordinary men may be too intimidated to approach you.” His tone was filled with pride and satisfaction.
Yun Ruoyan stopped what she was doing and went in front of her. “Grandfather, my mother is very beautiful, but she still can't avoid falling into someone else's scheme. I was worried that my beauty would be a hindrance rather than a favor, drawing unnecessary attention to myself. I don't want to appear like this in front of others before having the ability to protect myself. Grandpa, can you help me?”
Lin Zainan looked at her grandson once more. Although by appearance she seemed like a proper duplicate of her daughter, her willpower and determination reminded her of herself, no, it surpassed her during her prime!
He smiled with satisfaction.
At Yun Ruoyan's request, Lin Zainan gave her some ointment to reproduce her ugly appearance once again.
He gave Yun Ruoyan a few bottles of different colors, telling her which one would cause her skin to become red and swollen, which would reduce the swelling, which would create a fishy smell when mixed together, he said, but it does not harm his skin at all. .
When Yun Ruoyan once again appeared in front of sister Lin, they were both shocked and regretful, regretting that they did not see more of her transcendent appearance while they had the chance.
It was almost noon, but Yun Ruoyan did not stay in Lin to eat. Instead, he asked Lin Bo to send him home.
Perhaps because of that golden yellow pill, despite having slept for three days and three nights but only consuming a small bowl of porridge, Yun Ruoyan did not feel the slightest hunger.
The moment he reached the front door of the Yun plantation, the maids started running into the manor as soon as he got off the carriage.
Before Yun Ruoyan could even return to her residence to tidy up, she was summoned directly to the large hall.
There, almost all the family members gathered and went after him!