Author’s Note: A very long, but also very short chapter.

Xia Qingyue’s second request killed Yue Wuya’s laughter.

“Don’t… don’t tell her!”

Yue Wugou blurted out in panic before Yue Wuya could even say anything.

Yue Wuya shot the love of his life a consoling look before turning back to Xia Qingyue. “I can answer your question… but not now.”

“Why?” Xia Qingyue asked.

Yue Wuya countered with his own question, “I love Wugou more than I love myself. What do you think I would have done the instant I figured out the mastermind’s identity?”

Xia Qingyue: “...”

“I would have sought out that bitch and torn her to pieces with my own bare hands!” Yue Wuya’s voice remained calm, but the latter half of the sentence was said with a slight gnashing of teeth. “Or at least, I wish… in reality, I have NOT claimed vengeance for Wugou even though it has been so many years. Why do you think that is?”

A long, stifling silence later, Xia Qingyue finally answered, “Is it because… the mastermind was someone even you cannot defeat, senior?”

“That is correct.” Gravity entered both Yue Wuya’s eyes and voice. “The villain possesses an incredibly powerful background and backing. Her strength and status are among the best of the best, but she also possesses a cunning and ruthless mind. The words good, evil, right and wrong don’t exist in her dictionary, only interest does.”

“Not only did she hurt your mother, she misled me into thinking that the Star God Realm was the primary suspect. I was overcome by fury and didn’t investigate the matter as well as I should have, so I committed a grave mistake that worsened the deteriorating relationships between the Moon God Realm and Star God Realm even more… exactly as the mastermind wanted.”

Yue Wuya clenched his fists soundlessly as he said this.

The observer, Yun Che, knew exactly what he was talking about.

Yue Wuya had thought that Xing Juekong was behind the attack on Yue Wugou, so he retaliated by doing the same thing to the Star God Emperor.

He had kidnapped what he thought was Xing Juekong’s most cherished concubine, the mother of the Heavenly Wolf Star God Xisu and Jasmine…

And caused her to commit suicide.

Yue Wuya died at Jasmine’s hands later on, so one might say that Jasmine had gotten the...