Chapter 48
"It seems that this prince's a.s.sumption about your family att.i.tude towards my wife is correct. You all care about her well being."
Yu w.a.n.g looked at the four visitors who suddenly came to his residence. The prince had suspected Minister Su's strange att.i.tude when he informed him of the attack on his wife on the old man. Minister Su tried to cover up his concern for his wife, but Yu w.a.n.g was accustomed to struggling on the battlefield, which required careful observation to go through every battle. It was easy for him to see the change in expression that Minister Su was trying to hold when they met.
"Of course my eldest brother cares about Qingyi, she's the eldest brother's only daughter."
Su Raole immediately confirmed Yu w.a.n.g's suspicion towards the att.i.tude of his eldest brother.. This woman who is Su Gaishan's youngest sister did not want eldest brother's son-in-law to be disappointed in her oldest brother. The relations.h.i.+p between his older brother and his son-in-law's should not be bad because Su Gaishan loved his daughter so far.
"Hmm, well then, this prince wants to know why you all have to do all this?! Why do you all have to look like you don't care about my wife all this time in the Su Family's residence, letting her to be bullied?"
The three half siblings of Su Gaishan glanced at their oldest brother. They are not sure they can tell the reason that caused all that.
Su Gaishan also looked at his son-in-law, he was also somewhat hesitant to tell Yu w.a.n.g. After all these reasons is the taboos inside the Su Family.
"Su Qingyi is the legitimate wife of this prince. You are somehow part of her family meaning you are also a family of this
Su Gaishan knew about it. All the reasons for his direct family to ignore his daughter are always related to the safety of his daughter inside the Su family residence. Since his daughter was small, Su Qingyi always faced attempted murder just because his daughter was born as his child. Fortunately, his wife had many shadow guards to protect her daughter's safety when he's still weak and give him time to grow strong as a cultivator. Marrying his wife gave Su Gaishan the chance to become a cultivator and this man took the opportunity he's wife fighting for him even though she needs to compete with others and tried as fast as possible to become stronger. All this encouragement made him quickly become a Nascent soul level cultivator.
"Yu w.a.n.g has met with Patriach Su, hasn't he?"
"Yes, this Prince has met him."
"What is Yu w.a.n.g's opinion about it?"
"An old man who looks good, but is actually sneaky and narrow-minded."
"Does Yu w.a.n.g know that Patriach Su is my father's brother; Minister Su Yanjie?"
"Oh, are they blood related siblings?"
"Yes, but Patriach Su does not want to admit that since the old man became the head of the Su family. Therefore, many people should not talk about their blood relations in the Su family."
"Why is that?"
Yu w.a.n.g, who had a good relations.h.i.+p with his blood related brother who is now the Emperor, did not understand why Patriach Su did not want to recognize Minister Su as his blood related brother.
"Since they were little, my father was the smartest son in his generation than anyone else including his older brother; Su Lingdao. Patriach Su was always a narrow-minded person. As the first child of the previous head of the family, he always considered himself the best of the others. My father's presence tarnished that matter."
"That old man's envy made you all forced to ignore Su Qingyi in her childhood?"
"Yes, Su Lingdao used a maid to made my father fall in love with the maid. The maid then bore me and made my father love her more. After a few years as my father's lover, the maid was told to kill him. Su Lingdao wanted my father to suffer greatly from being killed by a woman which he loved a lot, but the maid instead made the ancestors know about their love story and the conflict between my father and Su Lingdao, she hoped that the ancestors will protected my father and her son in exchange for her life. After that happen, that man can't kill me and my father because of the oath the maid forced the Su's ancestors to makes, in exchange for the completion of the oath, the ancestors let that man to be the Patriach. Since that man can't touch us both, Su Lingdao allowed the Su family members who were jealous of my father's position in the government to attack my daughter who was not protected in the oath."
"This prince undestand then."
"This father-in-law hopes that Yu w.a.n.g can protect Su Qingyi and make her happy. I haven't been able to do that all this while."
"Don't worry, father-in-law. This prince will try hard to make my wife happy."
Hearing his father-in-law's explanation, Yu w.a.n.g was forced to change his cynical view of Su Gaishan. This man had life experiences that made him compelled to ignore those he loved only to protect Su Qingyi's safety.
"Is my wife's mother's death also due to your family animosity with Patriach Su?"
"Ah, about that-"
Su Gaishan seemed hesitant to tell about his wife. This has been a long-kept secret. Yu w.a.n.g saw his father-in-law's doubts feeling suspicious and worried. Could it be that her mother-in-law was not killed because of Su Lingdao?!
"I think Yu w.a.n.g better not found out about this for now. It's late now, this father in law and my siblings better back or my old father would worry about us."