Urban Seduction: Housewives Club

Chapter 1376: Chapter 1376: The Exoneration of the Father-in-Law

Compared to the spineless Zuo Hao, Jia Wendu was much more resolute. Despite knowing Ye Fei’s formidable strength, he did not back down but instead said sternly, ”I know you’re powerful, but Li Canghai has an irreconcilable grudge with our Wen Chang Mansion. Even if you support him, we will never let him go!”

Ye Fei frowned slightly, sensing something fishy about the situation. Judging by Jia Wendu’s behavior, he didn’t seem like someone who would disregard family bonds. However, the priority now was to uncover the real culprit, so he said, ”You stay aside and keep quiet for now. I’ll give you an explanation later.”

After speaking, Ye Fei turned back to Zuo Hao and asked, ”Do you remember anything now?”

”Yes, yes. Li Canghai was a traitor of our Wujin Sect. He once assassinated the leader of our ally, the Wen Chang Mansion. But since he is your friend, senior, we will no longer pursue him,” Zuo Hao said cautiously.

”It seems you only regret when you see the coffin,” Ye Fei narrowed his eyes, his voice filled with a chilling intent to kill. ”Don’t think I don’t know the truth of that year. You better tell me honestly, or none of you will leave here alive today!”

Although Zuo Hao was the leader of the Wujin Sect, he only had the cultivation of the peak of Transformation of Spirit.

How could he withstand Ye Fei’s overwhelming killing intent?

He was immediately terrified, sweating coldly, and without any sense of loyalty, he turned and pointed to a person beside him, saying, ”It’s him. It was all his doing. His name is Shen Bai’an. He was the one who assassinated Jia Jieren and framed Li Canghai back then!”

Shen Bai’an was a confidant of Zuo Hao. He never dreamed that Zuo Hao would betray him. In a mix of shock and anger, he also jumped up and retorted, ”Yes, I did it, but it was all under Zuo Hao’s orders. He said Li Canghai had too much talent and was a close friend of the leader of the Wen Chang Mansion. He was afraid that Li Canghai would affect his status in the future, so he ordered me to kill and frame him!”

”You’re lying! I never ordered you to do it. It was all your doing! Senior, you have to believe me. We are allies with the Wen Chang Mansion. As the leader, how could I order someone to assassinate my allies?” Zuo Hao shouted in defense, but no one in the room believed him.

If it had nothing to do with him, how could he have pointed out Shen Bai’an so quickly?

It was clear that he had known about it all along.

It wasn’t that Zuo Hao was foolish.

After all, one had to be extraordinary to become the leader of a major force. However, the situation today had changed too rapidly, and he was almost scared out of his wits.

Ye Fei, the terrifyingly strong cultivator, suddenly brought up the events of the past, leaving him no time to fabricate any stories.

Moreover, he knew that the foolish Shen Bai’an had told everything to Li Canghai but failed to kill him.

Naturally, he was thrown into disarray and confessed everything under Ye Fei’s intimidation.

”Rest assured, I won’t kill you. But in the future, I will hand you over to Li Canghai and let him decide your fate,” Ye Fei said coldly.

He then sealed the cultivation of the two men and turned to Zhao Zichen, ”Your Majesty, could you have someone help me guard these two?”

Zhao Zichen, who seemed to have already accepted Ye Fei as her man, didn’t hesitate at all. She immediately ordered some people to come in and take Zuo Hao and the others away.

At this point, Jia Wendu, who had been left aside, finally came to his senses. He stepped forward, bowed to Ye Fei, and said, ”Brother Ye, I’m sorry. We were in the dark about the situation. If we see Canghai in the future, please convey our apologies from the Wen Chang Mansion.”

Ye Fei nodded and asked directly, ”I have another friend named Jia Jingwen. You must be her senior, right? What’s your relationship with her?”

”What?! Wenwen, she’s still alive?” Jia Wendu asked, both shocked and delighted.

”How could you think she was dead?” Ye Fei frowned and asked.

Jia Wendu nodded and said, ”Yes, when we discovered that tragedy, it had been more than half a month. Many of the bodies had been taken by wild animals. We thought Wenwen was one of them. It took us a lot of effort to suspect Canghai, but we didn’t expect he was framed.”

Only then did Ye Fei realize he had misunderstood Jia Wendu. He quickly apologized, ”I’m sorry, senior. I thought you didn’t care about her, which was why she ended up going to the spatial passage alone.”

”It’s nothing. Is Wenwen doing well now?” Jia Wendu didn’t mind being misunderstood and was more concerned about Jia Jingwen’s current situation.

Ye Fei was even more satisfied and said with a smile, ”Don’t worry. She’s living well with Brother Li now.”

”That’s good to hear,” Jia Wendu said with great relief.

With this, one of Ye Fei’s major concerns since arriving in the True Emptiness Realm was finally resolved. As long as he handed Zuo Hao and the others over to Li Canghai upon returning, it would be a proper explanation to his father-in-law.

Subsequently, except for the people from the General’s Mansion, everyone from the various forces stayed at the Nuwa Palace’s inn.

After all, they had all been poisoned. Traveling on foot at this time would not only be much slower than flying on a sword, taking three days to cover a distance that could be flown in a moment, but it would also be very unsafe.

This alone demonstrated Zhao Zichen’s regal demeanor. The various forces had previously been more or less opposed to the Nuwa Palace, if not openly hostile.

If it had been someone else, even if they didn’t take the opportunity to eliminate these people and dominate alone, they would surely have made things difficult for them.

However, she still treated these now-powerless people as distinguished guests, even the people from the General’s Mansion. Except for Zuo Hao and the others who were detained by Ye Fei, the rest were allowed to leave.

Ye Fei had originally planned to head straight to the spatial passage after the grand ceremony here, but now he had to stay temporarily. Although the spatial passage was not far from here, it was still several thousand miles away.

Traveling by carriage would take a long time, and by then, the women’s strength would have already recovered.

For this reason, Ye Fei had to ask Zhao Zichen to send someone to the spatial passage first. He had notified Zhao Wujie to meet him there before setting off. Since he couldn’t go there temporarily, he naturally had to inform them.

What made Ye Fei somewhat helpless was that after arranging the affairs of the Nuwa Palace and temporarily settling the female candidates who had come to participate in the selection, Zhao Zichen came to the inn and stayed in the West Courtyard of the Cuiyan Sect.

It seemed she was preparing to get closer to Ye Fei to ”try” to fall in love with him. However, Ye Fei couldn’t accept her with impure intentions for the time being.