ALL NOVEL Chapter 169.1
“Hong Man divorced Li Pei,” Cheng Yu looked at Li Tianyan and spoke.
“Huh?” Li Tianyan hadn’t expected Cheng Yu to say such a thing, and it took him a moment to react. “Ahem, so Hong Man left the Li Mansion?”
Cheng Yu shook his head. “No, she was the one who drove Li Pei and Duan Qin out of the Li Mansion.”
“Would the Li family agree to her doing this?” Li Tianyan raised his eyebrows, clearly surprised.
“After you left Jincheng and joined the Tianfan Immortal Sect, what Duan Qin did become public. She had arbitrarily exchanged the legitimate heir of the Li family with a concubine son and poisoned her legitimate grandchildren. For a time, she became the public enemy of the Li family and the Hong family. Even the people backing Duan Qin abandoned her,” Cheng Yu explained.
Li Tianyan listened with great interest and picked up the kettle to add hot water to their teacups.
Cheng Yu took a sip of tea before continuing, “Hong Man took this opportunity to label Li Pei as an accomplice and drove them out of the Li Mansion. Now, while Li Tianzhou is apparently the head of the Li family, Hong Man is actually controlling everything behind the scenes. The Li family has developed well under her and is on the verge of becoming the top family in Jincheng.”
Li Tianyan nodded. Hong Man had managed to hide the truth for years after learning it, showing she was also a person of good intentions, though in the past she had focused her attention on the backyard and the children.
After Cheng Yu finished speaking about the Li family, he glanced up at the calm man across from him. “You’re not Li Tianyan, are you?”
“Cough, cough, cough!” Li Tianyan, who had just taken a sip of tea, was caught off guard and choked.
He had prepared himself, knowing Cheng Yu had a keen mind, but he hadn’t expected him to say it so abruptly. Cheng Yu had probably done it on purpose. This man looked cold on the outside, but he had a rather sharp temperament.
Cheng Yu raised his lips slightly. “If it were Li Tianyan, if he found out that the person he married wasn’t who he wanted, he wouldn’t treat Cheng Qi kindly. Am I right?”
Cheng Yu had felt real anger hearing about these events, even thinking of taking Cheng Qi away from the Tianfan Immortal Sect. But after he calmed down, he realized several things didn’t add up.
“Besides, for Xiao Qi’s sake, you waited until he established his foundation before consummating the marriage. How could you be the fool who couldn’t help himself and just wanted to marry his sweetheart and dragged her into a firepit.” Cheng Yu couldn’t imagine, if Li Tianyan were still the same person, how Cheng Qi would live.
“You’re certainly perceptive,” Li Tianyan didn’t deny it.
“At first, I was just suspicious, but when I talked about the Li family just now, you seemed like an outsider. Whether it was the Li family’s couple or details about your own past, you showed no reaction at all,” Cheng Yu said.
Even if times had changed, anyone directly involved would be at least somewhat emotional hearing about it. Yet Li Tianyan had responded as if he were just another teahouse listener, which convinced Cheng Yu even more of his guess.
Li Tianyan laughed softly, realizing he’d been careless. But why were Cheng Yu and his little wife, though siblings, so different? Sure enough, Cheng Qi was cuter.
“When Xiao Qi forms his core, will you leave Hengwu Continent?” Cheng Yu suddenly asked him again.
Meeting Cheng Qi today, he saw that Cheng Qi was already at the stage of Foundation Establishment Perfection. With his qualifications and talent, it wouldn’t be long before he could form a core.
“Yes,” Li Tianyan looked at Cheng Yu and said, “You’re not bad; maybe we can meet again there in the future.”
Although he didn’t know which continent laid beyond, the opportunity to advance there had to be high. If Cheng Yu managed it, his future achievements would surely be impressive.
Cheng Yu only smiled. At that moment, Cheng Qi’s voice came, and the two of them stopped talking.
With Cheng Yu’s arrival, the atmosphere at the dining table in the Qingdan Palace had become lively. After the meal, Cheng Qi chatted with Cheng Yu in the room for most of the day and didn’t return to his room until nightfall.
“Young master, you haven’t slept yet.” When Cheng Qi returned to the house, he saw Li Tianyan leaning against the wall, reading a book just as he had in the afternoon, so he ran over and sat on him affectionately.
“I thought you wouldn’t come back tonight,” Li Tianyan remarked, shifting slightly to make him more comfortable.
“Brother needs rest too, so I didn’t want to disturb him.” Cheng Qi chuckled, unused to being without Li Tianyan.
Li Tianyan smiled, raising his hand to untie Cheng Qi’s hair tie and gently ran his fingers through his long hair.
Cheng Qi felt content, his eyes narrowing slightly with satisfaction, and his cheeks nuzzled unconsciously against Li Tianyan’s chest. Seeing his innocent, endearing expression, Li Tianyan couldn’t help but laugh, thinking he looked more and more like a gentle, fox spirit.
“What book is the young master reading?” Cheng Qi laid there for a moment, noticing Li Tianyan still holding a book in one hand, and curiously stretched his neck to see.
But when Cheng Qi saw what the two figures in the book were doing, his face instantly flushed. He was too shocked to say anything. “Young… Young Master, you… you…”
He couldn’t believe Li Tianyan would actually read such a book. Had he been reading it all day in the house?