The Tycoon's Mysterious Darling Wife
Chapter 410 - 412. The Unexpected Truth (Second Update)

Chapter 410: 412. The Unexpected Truth (Second Update)

"Xiaoqi, do you want to know the story between Qin Yan and my father?" Allen asked gently.

Shen Qinglan looked at him, but Allen didn’t wait for Shen Qinglan’s reply and continued on his own, "Qin Yan was my father’s last wife. You should already know this, but do you know that she was raised by my father’s own hands and was treated like a daughter by my mother?" Allen once again dropped a bombshell on Shen Qinglan.

"My father had many lovers, all of which my mother was aware of and turned a blind eye to, until Qin Yan became my father’s woman, which hit her hard."

Shen Qinglan could actually understand the psychology of Allen’s mother; the person she had raised herself and loved like a daughter ended up with her own husband.

"My dear father, in the presence of my mother, didn’t shy away from being with Qin Yan at all. He angered my mother into illness. Once she recovered, my mother’s personality changed drastically. Before, she was very gentle. As a mother, she was good to both me and Qin Yan, but since then, her attitude towards me changed because I had facial features that resembled my father. She often beat or scolded me. But none of this mattered to me, who had been trained by my father from a young age."

Shen Qinglan listened quietly, hearing him speak of his own story as if it were that of another person.

"My mother was killed by my father’s own hands just because he caught her in an intimate moment with someone else. I personally witnessed my mother being tortured by several men, while my father just stood aside and watched coldly. I begged him to let my mother die quickly, but he ignored my pleas. I wanted to leave, but my father wouldn’t allow it, and his men held me down, forcing me to watch my mother’s torture until she died with her eyes still open."

"Was Qin Yan also present at that time?" Shen Qinglan asked in a hoarse voice.

"Yes, she was there. She beseeched my father to just kill my mother, and it was because of her words that my father personally ended my mother’s lingering life."

Allen laughed, but the smile that reached Shen Qinglan’s eyes carried a hint of bleakness and cruelty.

"Do you know how my father died? No one except me knows about it. Xiaoqi, should I tell you?" Allen suddenly looked at Shen Qinglan, his eyes shining with a bizarre light.

Shen Qinglan had an inkling and looked at Allen in shock.

"Hmm, my Xiaoqi is really smart. With just that sentence, you understood what I meant. That’s right, it was by my own hands that he was killed, and that foolish woman Qin Yan still believes he was murdered by your father and Yan Anbang. In fact, I was also at the scene during that operation, just that no one knew."

"My father was an extremely self-confident and also extremely cruel man; you should know that too. At that time, because my relationship with my father was not good, he didn’t leave the organization to me, and I hated him for what happened to my mother so much that I wished to kill him. Knowing he had an operation, I secretly followed after he set off. I witnessed your father and Yan Anbang shooting my father, but what they didn’t know was that he wasn’t completely dead at the time. His breathing had stopped, but his heartbeat continued, faint but still alive. I had one of my father’s men, who closely resembled him in stature, disguised as him. Qin Yan has always believed that it was my father, but the real Carl had already been taken by me."

"I found the best doctors to revive him, then slowly flayed him alive, haha, even now it feels so satisfying. Xiaoqi, do you know the look he gave me? Anger, fear, pleading. Hahaha. My once unbeatable father was actually afraid of death, actually begging me not to kill him. It’s laughable, thinking back on how I had desperately pleaded with him and he hadn’t allowed my mother to die quickly, and now he was pleading with me for relief. Where in this world do you find such good things."

Allen’s smile on the corner of his mouth was cruel and harsh.

"Seeing my father begging for mercy satisfied me immensely. I really wanted Qin Yan to see what my father looked like then."

"So you tortured your father to death?"

"Yes, that old man really couldn’t withstand torture, and gave up after just seven days. Such a pity indeed, I burned his body. And then I kept his ashes close to me." Allen caressed the ring on his finger.

Shen Qinglan’s gaze fell on his hand, looking at the very ordinary ring, she understood; it probably contained his father’s ashes. Indeed, they wouldn’t be safer anywhere else than on his own person.

But more than that, Allen probably wanted to take revenge on Carl.

Noticing Shen Qinglan’s gaze, Allen’s expression turned tender, "Xiaoqi, you guessed it right, this indeed is my damned father, but I still can’t give it to you now."

"I have a question for you." Shen Qinglan spoke indifferently, her expression still calm even after hearing Allen’s biggest secret, without a trace of fear when looking at Allen, which pleased him greatly.

"Ask away, whatever you want to know, I will tell you everything."

"If you hate Qin Yan so much, why not kill her? It should not be difficult for you, right?" This was a mystery in Shen Qinglan’s mind; she did not believe for a moment that Allen had suddenly become soft-hearted. This was the man who hadn’t spared his own biological father, let alone Qin Yan.

"Xiaoqi, you must have never seen a person in heartbreak, pain, despair, and even madness. If this person is your enemy, that spectacle is even more delightful to behold." Allen smiled gently, with dangerous undertones in his eyes.

Although the initial intention of keeping Qin Yan was indeed to watch her in pain and madness, it was also true that she later saved his life, so Allen kept her around. Otherwise, how boring it would be for him to be the only one remembering the agony of the past.

Shen Qinglan fell silent; she didn’t know what to say to such an Allen.

"Xiaoqi, are you trying to draw out Qin Yan?"

Shen Qinglan did not deny it, "Yes, will you help me?"

"Of course, I will give you anything you want, but Xiaoqi, I have one condition."

Shen Qinglan knew it wouldn’t be so easy, "What condition?"

"Come back with me, just seven days. After seven days, I’ll send you back, I can assure you I won’t do anything to you."

Shen Qinglan’s expression darkened slightly, "If I go with you, will I still be able to come back?"

Allen stared steadily at Shen Qinglan, then suddenly burst out laughing, "Haha, Xiaoqi, you really are quite difficult to fool, yes, I have no intention of letting you return. If it were really so, I suppose you would be at irreconcilable odds with me, right?"

Although he posed the question to Shen Qinglan, Allen already had the answer in his heart.

"Xiaoqi, you shouldn’t provoke Qin Yan right now." Since you have already left Hell, do not enter it again, Xiaoqi.

"What will make you willing to give it to me?" Shen Qinglan’s gaze fell on Allen’s hand, ignoring his words.

Allen shook his head, "It’s not that I don’t want to give it to you, but this thing is utterly useless in your hands, Xiaoqi. Qin Yan won’t believe you."

Shen Qinglan was slightly stunned. That’s right, she had completely overlooked this issue. Even if she got Carl’s ashes ring, Qin Yan would never believe her.

"Allen, you wouldn’t have come all this way just to refuse me, right?" Shen Qinglan spoke calmly.

"Uh, naturally not, I said I will give you everything you want. But the situation now is, Xiaoqi, no offense, but Qin Yan’s power is not something you can contend with." Even he wasn’t fully confident.

"So, you want to join forces with us?"

"No, not ’us,’ but ’them,’ excluding you. I can help you to get rid of Qin Yan, but you cannot be involved," Allen said. Jin Enxi and the others, even if they die, he wouldn’t care, but Shen Qinglan must not come to harm, as he feared he might lose control and destroy everything.

"That’s impossible; I must act together with them," Shen Qinglan said coldly. They had treated Allen like that in the past, Allen wouldn’t care about the lives of Jin Enxi and the others.

"Xiaoqi, you still don’t trust me," Allen chuckled lightly. "You should understand that those who betray me never end well. They are alive only because of you, and now dying for you would be an honor for them. They should be grateful."

Shen Qinglan’s face turned stern, "Allen, they are not my subordinates, they are my partners in life and death. If you dare to touch them..."

"And then you’ll be at irreconcilable odds with me, right? Xiaoqi, what about your son then? And the husband and family you so often say you love, what about them? Hehe, Xiaoqi, you have too many soft spots now, while the only thing you can threaten me with is your own life."

Shen Qinglan’s eyes turned cold, her eyelids half-closed, and her fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop. It was a prelude to her anger, "Allen, you seem to have forgotten one option, which is that I could just kill you right now. Then randomly find some ashes to claim as Carl’s and draw Qin Yan out. It would save time and effort."

Allen started laughing, "Hahaha, Xiaoqi, you’re ruthless, I like that, I love the look of determination in you. You don’t know how beautiful, how irresistible you are like that."

"Xiaoqi, do you know when you’re most enchanting? It’s when your hands are stained with fresh blood, that cold and undisturbed appearance, just like a poppy, deadly attractive."

Shen Qinglan leaned forward quickly, her hand gripping Allen’s throat, "You’re asking for death."