Madam Jiang insisted flatly that Bai Feiyao and Jiang Chen had been carrying on together, leaving Bai Feiyao utterly unable to defend herself.

Gu Suying immediately seized the opportunity to viciously slander her further. “Bai Feiyao, did you kill Jiang Chen? Answer me!”

“Gu Suying, how dare you! If Jiang Chen was killed, you killed him! I haven’t left this gate since returning from Qinse Valley—all these guards can testify for me!” Bai Feiyao shouted furiously.

At this, Gu Suying immediately laughed. “Even if your entire Bai family testified for you, no one would believe it! Madam Jiang, tell us, exactly when did Jiang Chen get involved with her? How could Jiang Chen betray my sister like this!”

Madam Jiang no longer had any composure left to spare, and upon hearing that her son might have been murdered, she flew at Bai Feiyao like a woman possessed. “You wretch, you shameless wretch, it’s all your fault, you killed my son, give me back my son’s life! Give me back my son!”

The crowd of onlookers kept growing, packed thick and dense, buzzing with commotion—no one noticed that among the crowd, the shadow guards had already brought Jiang Chen forward!

Gu Suying’s voice rose louder and louder, as though she were the very representative of the Gu family, playing the role of thief-crying-thief to perfection.

“Bai Feiyao, the Gu and Jiang families have come to your door today demanding answers—the Jiang family wants their son, the Gu family wants our son-in-law! If you don’t give us an explanation today, we won’t be leaving!”

Just as Gu Suying was in the middle of her passionate tirade, someone was suddenly shoved hard out of the crowd, crashing right into her!

Gu Suying instinctively pushed the person away, about to shout in anger, but the moment she saw who she’d knocked to the ground, her heart skipped a beat—nearly stopped altogether.

This… this man on the ground, glaring at her with murderous fury in his eyes—

Him… him… him!

Jiang Chen!

Gu Suying came to her senses, her first instinct to step back, clearly badly shaken. How could this be possible!

Her subordinates had clearly told her that Jiang Chen was dead—his body dismembered and thrown into the sea to feed the fish!

How could he… how could he still be here!

Gu Suying’s face turned deathly pale instantly, her whole body freezing, even her heartbeat seeming to stop. She stood motionless, mouth agape.

Bai Feiyao too was stunned, never expecting Jiang Chen to appear at this exact moment. Not just the two women—everyone present was shocked.

Jiang Chen wasn’t dead!

Bai Feiyao hadn’t killed anyone!

What was the true story behind all this—now that Jiang Chen had arrived, the truth would finally come out!

The entire scene fell silent, everyone unconsciously holding their breath.

Suying and Jiang Chen locked eyes. Suddenly, Jiang Chen pressed his hands to the ground. Gu Suying flinched, immediately stepping back, instinctively wanting to flee—but in that split second, Jiang Chen suddenly sprang up like a crazed leopard, lunging straight at Gu Meiting—wait, at Gu Suying—grabbing her by the throat and slamming her to the ground, his other hand striking her hard across the face with a loud crack!

Only then did he roar with fury, “You wretch! You wanted to kill me, you wanted me dead, you wretch!”

Roaring furiously, he struck her again and again, slap after slap ringing out.

Madam Gu was the first to recover, rushing forward to pull him off, but she had none of Jiang Chen’s strength, none of his internal cultivation. A single swing of his arm sent her sprawling aside, and she wailed, “Stop it, stop it right now! Stop it, I said stop!”

At this point, the family head didn’t even spare his wife a glance—his gaze, grave and terrifying, remained fixed on Gu Suying’s face.

Jiang Chen’s words, his reaction—it had already told them everything they needed to know!

If he still didn’t understand, still needed to ask questions, he would truly be the biggest fool on all of Liuxian Island!

This was clearly a failed murder attempt. Everything Gu Suying had accused Jiang Chen of—aside from the affair itself—had all been her own doing from start to finish!

It was Gu Suying who had poisoned Beiyue, Gu Suying who had conspired with Bai Feiyao!

The good daughter he had raised had actually conspired with the Bai family to murder the heir of the Gu clan—what a fine job he’d done raising her!

Bai Feiyao, recovering, immediately burst out laughing loudly. “Gu Suying, look closely—did I kill anyone? Where’s the murder I committed! Who’s this sitting on top of you slapping you around—ha ha ha, Gu Suying, don’t tell me he’s a ghost!”

The Jiang couple were overjoyed beyond words, clasping hands together, nearly weeping with happiness.

“Our son isn’t dead! Wonderful, wonderful!”

“Bless the heavens, our son isn’t dead!”

…

No one moved to pull them apart. Jiang Chen sat astride Gu Suying, one hand choking her throat, the other striking her almost madly. Gu Suying didn’t even have the chance to cry out, her face swelling up like a bloated red pig’s head.

No telling how long it lasted, but amid Madam Gu’s frantic clawing and pulling, Jiang Chen finally let out a heavy breath and stopped.

The moment he stopped, Madam Gu, from who-knows-where, found the strength to shove him off violently.

Gu Suying’s cheeks were already a bloody mess, even her lips split open, barely clinging to consciousness.

“Suying, my Suying! My lord, if you don’t save her now, I won’t live either—I only have these two daughters in this life!”

“My lord, save Suying! Our daughter, the apple of our eye!”

“My—”

Suddenly, her weeping cut off. Everything went dark before Madam Gu’s eyes, and she collapsed unconscious right beside Gu Suying!

Jiang Chen stood off to the side, panting heavily, still not satisfied. On his way back from Qinse Valley, after parting ways with Gu Suying, he’d genuinely intended to flee and seek refuge with Bai Feiyao—but he never expected Gu Suying would send people to kill him, and moreover, that they’d be several of the Gu family’s own hall masters!

What formidable methods this woman had—when had she managed to buy off the Gu family’s hall masters without him even knowing!

She must have prepared this all in advance, ready to have him killed the moment it was convenient. Since she’d shown him no mercy, he wouldn’t hold back either!

He’d had enough of being the Gu family’s spineless son-in-law!

Madam Jiang and Old Master Jiang hurried over, looking their son up and down.

“Chen’er, are you all right! You scared your mother half to death!”

“As long as you’re fine, that’s what matters!”

After all, these were his own parents. However furious Jiang Chen was, he spoke to them gently, “I’m fine, Father, Mother, please step aside for now—I have accounts to settle with the Gu family!”

At this, Gu Jun, who had remained silent all this while, finally roared, “Jiang Chen, this old man has accounts to settle with you too!”

“Settle? Settle what?” Jiang Chen said coldly at once. “Family head Gu, I, your son-in-law, have had enough of your precious daughter, enough of the Gu family’s eldest young miss! Six years married and to this day she refuses to live with her husband’s family, insisting on staying at her own parents’ home. Is it because my family, the Jiang family, has no place for her to stay, no food to give her, or what exactly? And you and your ‘esteemed wife’ never objected, but instead indulged her! When I first married the eldest young miss, all of Liuxian Island praised you, family head Gu, for not looking down on the poor, for not caring about differences in social standing, for having the bearing of a truly great family! But look at the result! I ask everyone here to be the judge—I married her, did I not? I never agreed to marry into her family as a kept husband!”

As Jiang Chen spoke, he swept his gaze across the three-deep ring of onlookers surrounding them, demanding an answer from everyone present.

“The Gu family’s household matters are not yours to air before outsiders and demand judgment on,” the family head said, not even sparing Jiang Chen another glance, turning his furious gaze instead toward the Bai family’s gate, shouting, “Bai Xiongqi, get out here! This old man wants to ask you how exactly you raised your daughter as a son, raised her to be capable of seducing another man’s husband!”