Lin Xi listened to the entire conversation between Purgatory Mountain Patriarch and this stern high ranking officer, hearing a story that was grim, not beautiful at all. His best friend instead became one of the skeletons on his way to the top. The current deemphasized conversation instead allowed Lin Xi who experienced Jadefall City understand just what kind of unforgettable thing this was.

He who gradually shouldered more and more things after leaving Jadefall City also already understood that Purgatory Mountain Patriarch was precisely Principal Zhang and Vice Principal Xia’s lifetime enemy.

He understood that the biggest reason why they were willing to pay any price to bring back Gu Xinyin was so that after Vice Principal Xia passed away, the academy would have enough power to intimidate and contend against Purgatory Mountain Patriarch.

However, any perfect plan had a chance of changing because of some people, because of some events that happened.

Gu Yunjing had to kill Tangcang’s Imperial Uncle Xiao Xiang, or else he wouldn’t be Gu Xinyin, or else after being locked up in the water prison for so many years, he would have long become an inhuman monster.

In the end, he returned to Yunqin. However, the price he paid for the sake...

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