The White Tiger Clan’s Baby Cotton Ball - Chapter 155

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Chapter 155

Meanwhile, Lili woke up in the morning and screamed when she discovered her hideous appearance.

As a result of having her remaining life force drained by Evil, the left half of her body was withered and twisted.

However, unfortunately, Lili had no memory of what happened after Evil took over her body.

The point where her last memory was cut off was when Taotie had come to find her.

It would have been better if she had never opened her eyes again and died just like that.

Now only a miserable end awaited her.

Her crimes were compounded by the additional charge of attempting to assassinate the Emperor during last night’s demon transformation incident.

Lili felt wronged.

She had never attempted to assassinate the Emperor.

She had used evil magic, but that was to heal the injured people.

That malicious beast must have used her to do something terrible.

“Visitor. Come out.”

At that moment, a guard called for Lili.

Lili’s eyes widened at the mention of a visitor.

Could it be Father?

Or Elder Brother?

Hwayu appeared with shuffling footsteps.

“Elder Brother!”

Lili jumped up from her seat.

“I knew Elder Brother would come to find Lili.”

The moment she saw his face, Lili burst into tears of grief and let out a voice mixed with resentment.

“Why did you come so late? It’s really too much. Lili waited so long.”

“…”

“You came to get Lili out of here, right? Lili is wronged. What happened was…”

“Is it true that you tried to harm that child?”

At that moment, Hwayu interrupted her words with a rough voice.

“Elder Brother…?”

“Did you really… try to kill her?”

At Hwayu’s unexpected reaction, Lili gulped.

Her body instinctively tried to shrink back from the bleak aura emanating from Hwayu.

“That child was trying to take Father and Elder Brother away again, so that’s why I did it.”

Suppressing the urge to hesitate and run away, Lili answered in a clear voice.

“Elder Brother saw it too. How strangely Father changed after meeting that child again… Not only that, but that child even took the position of the Imperial Dragon’s Bride…”

“Not this time. Five years ago.”

What Sanyu had told him just yesterday swirled chaotically in his mind.

[She already tried to harm Soya long ago. Unfortunately, there’s no physical evidence, only circumstantial.]

Sanyu had confronted the Three-Legged Crow captain and found circumstantial evidence.

These pieces overlapped with Lili’s words and actions regarding Soya over the past few days, adding credibility to Sanyu’s claims.

“Is it true that you used the Three-Legged Crow to try to kill that child?”

“…!”

At those words, Lili flinched and stiffened.

However, she soon clenched her fists and raised her voice.

“So, so what if I did? Elder Brother also said you would get rid of that child!”

“What…?”

“I was just trying to get rid of her more thoroughly! What’s wrong with that!”

Hwayu’s eyes wavered at Lili’s retort.

“I… I wasn’t trying to kill that child! I was just…!”

Suddenly his mouth clamped shut.

I was just…

I was going to remove that child from in front of you…

Because he couldn’t bring himself to say those words.

‘I… I abandoned that child outside the estate with my own hands…’

[How could it be amusing to see you and your father abandon me the way that child was abandoned?]

[You might be able to say such a thing is amusing, but I can’t. It wasn’t amusing at all.]

Soya’s piercing voice echoed in his ears as she looked straight at him and said those words.

That child wouldn’t listen to any more of his pathetic excuses about how it wasn’t abandonment.

It was rather fortunate. That Soya didn’t hear that wretched and unsightly excuse to the end.

Not abandonment, what nonsense.

On the last day of that summer festival, he had personally abandoned her with these hands and returned.

That child who had smiled brightly and rejoiced over a single bead bracelet he had carelessly given her, he had abandoned her like that and returned.

And what must Soya, left alone like that, have thought as she fled from the Three-Legged Crow trying to kill her…

“Ugh…”

Hwayu covered his mouth with one hand as nausea suddenly washed over him.

“Ugh, urgh…”

He was so disgusted with himself that he couldn’t bear it.

“E, Elder Brother? Are you alright?”

Alarmed, Lili reached out carefully to check on his condition.

Smack!

Hwayu slapped her hand away.

“You…”

He raised his head to glare at Lili, moisture gathering in his bloodshot eyes.

“You tried to kill my sister.”

“Elder Brother…?”

“You tried to kill my real sister!”

“Wh, what do you mean? Your real sister is Lili. But why…”

Lili spoke haltingly, forcing an awkward smile.

‘Could it be that the real one has returned? No. That can’t be. The real one must be dead…’

Hwayu’s sudden mention of the ‘real one’ filled her mind with confusion.

“Soya! My real sister that you tried to kill!”

However, Lili’s confusion was cut short the moment Soya’s name came from Hwayu’s mouth.

“…That child says so? That she’s the real one?”

Lili asked back as if incredulous.

“Look at this. That child coveted my position, and finally even seduced Elder Brother like this!”

“That child coveted your position? Don’t talk crazy! You’re the one who stole Soya’s position!”

Hwayu grabbed Lili by the collar and shouted roughly.

“Let go of this!”

“You, you stole Soya’s place and pretended to be my sister all this time!”

“I said let go!”

At Lili’s screams, the guards who had been standing outside came in.

“Y, Young Master. You can’t do this…”

“That child is fake!”

Lili burst out angrily.

“The real one must already be dead! Her Spirit Core cracked and shattered the day you accepted me into the estate, so she must have died!”

“Died…?”

At those words, Hwayu’s heart sank with dread.

“Those foolish Suzaku bastards. They don’t even know they’re being deceived by that child, falling for her tricks and doing this to me…”

As he stared blankly at Lili who was grumbling and spewing curses, something suddenly flashed through his mind.

“Come to think of it, you…”

That day, when it was revealed in front of the Shrine of the Golden Dragon that she was a cuckoo, Lili had also spoken as if she was certain that Soya was fake.

Suddenly, Hwayu had an intuition that there existed another terrible truth he didn’t know about.

Along with fear, the thought that he still needed to know what the hidden truth was made him open his mouth.

“What… what do you mean by that… That the real one would have died…”

“How do you think I was able to cross the threshold of your estate’s main gate? It was all because the Malicious Forces helped me.”

Lili, who had thrown off the mask of a loving younger sister and completely revealed her true nature, sneered as she spoke.

“The Malicious Forces who helped me said so. The moment Takran is activated, the real one’s Spirit Core would crack and she would die.”

“…”

Hiss.

All remaining color drained from Hwayu’s face.

“Then… the fact that her Spirit Core was so damaged…”

He remembered that Soya’s Spirit Core had been damaged.

In an instant, overwhelmed by surging emotions, Hwayu couldn’t hold back and lunged at Lili.

“You. You made her like that. Because of you, my real sister, Soya almost died!”

“Kyaah! Let go of me!”

“Oh my, Young Master. You can’t do this here!”

With Lili’s sharp screams and the guards trying to stop Hwayu, the prison cell instantly became chaos.

The guards barely managed to separate Hwayu and Lili, but the two continued glaring at each other without withdrawing their hostile gazes as they shouted.

“You deceived us and even harmed my real sister! Cuckoo, you…!”

“Real sister my ass! Even before I first set foot in your estate, that child had already been abandoned by you people and was hiding around in dirty beggar’s clothes!”

At Lili’s words as she shouted with bulging eyes, Hwayu unconsciously drew in a breath.

Thud…

He heard the sound of his heart sinking somewhere around his chest.

No. It was the sound of his heart breaking.

“And yet you’re making excuses blaming me! You dim-witted Suzaku bastards!”

Even as Lili was dragged away by the guards to be imprisoned again, she continued shouting at Hwayu until the very end.

Jeok Hwayu clutched his broken heart and stared blankly at the scene.

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