Rebirth Counterattack with Space
Chapter 438 - 422: The Repercussions Behind

Chapter 438: Chapter 422: The Repercussions Behind

"I did not kill Boran, yet Boran died because of me." Hearing the news, Lu Yun fell silent for a long time. Even though she knew that without their intervention, Chen Qiuyu’s fate might not have been much better. But deep down, she couldn’t help but rise the thought, ’If she hadn’t met us, maybe she wouldn’t have had to die.’

Having such thoughts wasn’t due to her having a "Mother Teresa" complex. If she were truly so saintly, she would have stopped what Shitou was doing a long time ago--

Seeing Lu Yun’s spirit decline, Shitou couldn’t bear it and pushed another file, which he had yet to show her, across.

"We can cure a disease, but not fate. In fact, as early as when we set the trap, we were cautious that Ding Gaoqun might truly harm the person, so we had already taken precautions. The most lethal high-concentration poison on Chen Qiuyu and the butler and bodyguard had actually been swapped by our people beforehand. Unfortunately, you can see for yourself--"

"There’s another scandal involved?"

Lu Yun picked up the file in surprise and began to flip through it. After finishing, her face showed a myriad of expressions, and all her feelings of "guilt" vanished. In the end, apart from saying, "Heaven’s misdeeds may be forgivable, but one’s own misdeeds are inexcusable," she couldn’t say anything else.

It turned out the relationship between the butler and the bodyguard was unexpectedly deep.

They were father and son. Years ago, the butler left his family for another woman, causing the bodyguard’s mother to single-handedly raise her newborn son. The hardship of a woman raising a child alone goes without explanation. Therefore, when the bodyguard was in his teens, his mother succumbed to overwork.

Before she died, the bodyguard’s mother told her son the whereabouts of the butler, and even gave him a photograph, asking her son not to hold a grudge and to go to S City to recognize his father.

But due to a twist of fate, when the bodyguard arrived in S City after much hardship, the butler was away on a "business trip" in another city with Ding Gaoqun. He finally managed to find the butler’s home, only to be mocked and driven away by the butler’s woman at the time, leading the bodyguard to misunderstand that it was the butler’s intention to send him away.

Left alone on the streets at a young age, the bodyguard had no choice but to make a living through theft and deception. It goes without saying how much hatred he held for his father in his heart.

It was also his luck that he not only survived but also cobbled together some martial skills. Eventually, he slowly became one of Ding Gaoqun’s most valued men.

As for the butler, ever since he arrived in S City, he had been working with Ding Gaoqun. Because of his cunning strategies and undying loyalty, which had once saved Ding Gaoqun’s life, he had earned great trust.

Years after abandoning his original family for another woman, the butler regretted his actions. The reason for his remorse was that for all these years, he had not had any additional children. After getting a medical check-up, he found out he had endured an injury in the past and hence had lost the ability to father children.

Upon receiving this news, the butler hurried back to his hometown, ready to "compensate" his original child. If all went well, this would be the only child he would have in his lifetime. However, when he got there, he discovered that his wife had already died and his son was missing. He eventually learned of a birthmark on his son’s body from the locals.

In the vast sea of people, despite knowing it would be difficult, the butler never gave up his search for his son. Moreover, after learning that his son had once come to find him and had been driven away by his present woman, he was so furious that he tortured the woman to death.

The matters of this world are just so melodramatically tragic. After the bodyguard gained Ding Gaoqun’s trust, he had long known that the butler was his own father, but he had no desire whatsoever to acknowledge him as such. Instead, he opposed him at every turn, initially infuriating the butler. Having been by Ding Gaoqun’s side for many years, it would have been effortless for the butler to plot against a "new favorite" who had not been trusted by Ding Gaoqun for long.

What confounded the butler was that the bodyguard, who almost died at his hands, not only did not show any intention of reconciling and begging for mercy but, on the contrary, even displayed an expression of pleasure, as if he was about to be liberated and had his great vengeance fulfilled.

The bodyguard’s unexpected behavior eventually aroused the butler’s suspicions, and he finally confirmed that the man before him was indeed the son he had been searching for all these years.

The butler had been at Ding Gaoqun’s side for so long that he was well aware of Ding Gaoqun’s suspicious nature. He knew that if this truth was discovered by him, there would be no good end for the father and son. In the end, the father and son acknowledged each other in secret, but outwardly, they still pretended to be at odds.

Because the two had fought so realistically before, Ding Gaoqun had even personally intervened to mediate several times, so when the father and son subsequently acted out their feud, they reduced the intensity of their "battles" to minor skirmishes without arousing his suspicion.

He even began to think that his charm as the "Master" was great, having indeed intimidated the two of them, and he was quite proud of himself.

The fact that the butler and the bodyguard were father and son was known only to the two of them. Coincidentally, the bodyguard bore a closer resemblance to his mother, so he did not look like the butler and others did not suspect anything.

Although the father and son were reconciled, the bodyguard had not fully let go of his hatred. The shadows of his youth fostered a deep-seated aversion to women in him.

To outsiders, he appeared to be clean-living, never consorting with women, but the truth was that he simply did not want to be near them. He hated almost all women, especially the ones who appeared beside his father, to the point that it reached an abnormal hatred.

That’s why as soon as he learned that Chen Qiuyu was actually secretly involved with the butler, he saw her as a thorn in his eye.

That day, when the three of them were drugged by Ding Gaoqun and suffered from that kind of medication, he was the first to wake up. He could hardly accept it and raised his hand to strangle Chen Qiuyu...

How could Chen Qiuyu simply wait for death? Struggling, she called out to the butler for help. The butler, initially in disbelief, realized when he came to his senses that the three of them might have fallen into Ding Gaoqun’s trap. Even though he didn’t know why Ding Gaoqun would suddenly turn on them, he knew he couldn’t let his son truly strangle Chen Qiuyu. Under such circumstances, without proper preparation and arrangements, he would never escape legal punishment.

Unexpectedly, the bodyguard was blinded by rage; at that moment, he lost all reason. He was strong, and under normal circumstances, both Chen Qiuyu and the butler together were no match for him, let alone when he was in a state of madness.

Ultimately, Chen Qiuyu had no choice but to use her last resort. In the chaos, she used the poison needle she always carried, which she had obtained through the butler’s connections, and plunged it directly into the bodyguard.

The bodyguard died, and before Chen Qiuyu could catch her breath, to her surprise, the butler, who had seemed to be on her side, immediately turned on her with red-rimmed eyes and finished her off completely.

After Chen Qiuyu was dealt with, the butler’s heart turned to ashes. He didn’t even have the desire to run away, and he called the police himself. When the police arrived, he confessed all the crimes related to Ding Gaoqun that he knew and had been involved in over the years—without holding anything back.