297: Chapter 297 Xiao Yuxin Disappears

"I can spare him, but you must answer a few questions for me. I have grown up, and I have the right to know what happened back then."

Hearing these words from Xiao Yuchen, Chen Tingting looked at her father. There were some things she had always wanted to ask him, such as the whereabouts of Xiao Yuchen's father, Xiao Tianhao.

"Sigh, come with me."

Knowing Xiao Yuchen's identity, Chen Tianhe already felt regret. For the sake of the Family's interests, he had forcibly separated his daughter, and for the sake of the Family's interests, he had pushed his granddaughter toward the Ma Family. But in the end, what had he gained?

Realizing his mistake, Chen Tianhe finally compromised and brought Xiao Yuchen and Chen Tingting to his study.

"What do you want to know? I will definitely tell you." Chen Tianhe took the initiative to ask.

"First question: Where is Xiao Yuxin?"

When Xiao Yuchen arrived at the Chen Family, he had used his Divine Sense to scan the entire Chen Family estate, but he had not found Xiao Yuxin. In other words, Xiao Yuxin was not in the Chen Family.

"I don't know." Chen Tianhe shook his head.

"You don't know? What do you mean?"

Hearing Chen Tianhe's reply, Xiao Yuchen realized that something must have happened to the Chen Family, because Xiao Yuxin was indeed not in the Chen Family.

"It is true that I sent people to bring Xiao Yuxin back from Earth, and she had been staying in the Chen Family ever since. However, three days ago, Xiao Yuxin suddenly went missing, and the Ma Family's eldest young master, Ma Teng, went missing along with her."

"Missing? Xiao Yuxin is just an ordinary person; how could she possibly disappear right under the nose of someone in the Tribulation Transcendence Stage? Do you take me for a three-year-old child?" Xiao Yuchen clearly did not believe Chen Tianhe's words.

"I am telling the truth. After the Ma Family agreed to the marriage alliance, Ma Teng often came to Mobei City to look for Xiao Yuxin, but she was completely unwilling to see him.

Three days ago, Ma Teng came again. Xiao Yuxin still refused to see him, so I used Tingting's life as a threat, and she finally compromised and went out with Ma Teng.

What I didn't expect was that both of them disappeared together. Patriarch Ma Juncai and I sent people to search for a long time, but we couldn't find their whereabouts. It was as if they had evaporated from the face of the earth.

I can tell that Patriarch Ma Juncai is truly worried about his son. It has been many days, and he has been searching constantly; this is also the reason why he is staying at the Chen Family."

When he was at Qunxian Tea House, the owner had told him that the Chen Family and the Ma Family were not preparing for a wedding, but were instead constantly searching for someone, which was enough to prove that Chen Tianhe was not lying.

"Second question: Ma Teng's cultivation should have reached the Void Tempering stage, right? And Xiao Yuxin is just an ordinary person. Why would Ma Teng agree to a marriage alliance with the Chen Family? Could it be that he was also considering the interests of the Ma Family?"

"I don't know the specific reason. However, at the very beginning, Ma Teng was unwilling, but ever since he saw Xiao Yuxin, he suddenly agreed. As for what he was actually thinking, I am not clear either."

While Chen Tianhe was speaking, Xiao Yuchen kept observing his eyes, and he could confirm that Chen Tianhe was not lying.

"Good. Third question: I want to ask Mother, what exactly is Xiao Yuxin's identity?" Xiao Yuchen looked at Chen Tingting.

"This…"

Chen Tingting hesitated, not knowing whether she should tell Xiao Yuchen the truth.

"Mother, I have long known that Xiao Yuxin is not my sister. Just now, when I saw you, I used the Qi Observation Method to probe our Qi. I can confirm that I am your son, so whose child is Xiao Yuxin?"

Chen Tingting did not expect that Xiao Yuchen actually knew Xiao Yuxin was not his biological sister. Since things had come to this, she could no longer hide it and could only truthfully say: "Xiao Yuxin is an orphan; she is a child we adopted from an orphanage when we were on Earth."

"So you have been lying to me all along. Xiao Yuxin is not my granddaughter; Yuchen is my grandson. Are you trying to protect your son by using this method?"

Although Chen Tianhe was angry, he did not dare to get angry at Chen Tingting at this moment; he was afraid that Xiao Yuchen would slap him to death with a single palm.

"Mother, were you and Father intending to protect me, which is why you adopted Xiao Yuxin, so that if the Chen Family found you, you would hand over Xiao Yuxin?" Xiao Yuchen asked in return.

"I… we did indeed think that way at the time. However, we also genuinely liked Xiao Yuxin, so later we changed our minds." Chen Tingting felt a bit awkward.

"But in the end, you still betrayed Xiao Yuxin, didn't you? We lived on Earth for over twenty years in peace, so why did the Chen Family suddenly find Xiao Yuxin and bring her to the Xuantian Continent?"

Although his mother had done it to protect him, Xiao Yuchen did not support her actions; this was completely pushing Xiao Yuxin into a pit of fire.

"Do not blame your mother. I forced her to do this. I told your mother that if she did not tell me who her child was, I would kill everyone in the Lower Plane. Your mother had no choice but to reveal Xiao Yuxin's information."

Chen Tianhe was not stupid; at this moment, he had to speak up for Chen Tingting, otherwise, if Xiao Yuchen became disappointed in his mother, he would definitely be the first to suffer. Besides, what he said was the truth.

"You… you are a dignified Cultivator at the Late Tribulation Transcendence Stage, yet you actually used this method to threaten your own daughter. Are you even human?" Xiao Yuchen said angrily.

"I had no choice. Xiao Tianhao has been slow to appear, and I have been uneasy. I wanted to use Xiao Yuxin to lure Xiao Tianhao out. In fact, the marriage alliance between Xiao Yuxin and the Ma Family was fake; my real target is Xiao Tianhao.

Therefore, I told the Ma Family to cooperate with me in acting to lure Xiao Tianhao out, but I did not expect that Ma Teng would actually agree to this marriage.

In this way, I could both lure out Xiao Tianhao and have a marriage alliance with the Ma Family. With such a good thing, what reason did I have to refuse?"

Hearing these words, Xiao Yuchen also fell into deep thought. He always felt that Ma Teng of the Ma Family had some issues, or rather, that there was some unknown secret about Xiao Yuxin.

"There is one more question: My parents lived on Earth for over twenty years in peace, so how did you find them?" This question had troubled Xiao Yuchen for a long time.

"I had no idea that your father and the others had gone to the Lower Plane. Originally, I had already given up searching, but one day, a note suddenly appeared in my room.

The note contained your parents' whereabouts, as well as a map, and the map marked the location of a Teleportation Array. I used that map to find the Earth where you were.

After finding your parents, they did not want to leave with me, but I used the people on Earth as a threat, and only then did your parents agree to leave with me.

At that time, I knew your mother had given birth to a child. I originally wanted to bring your mother's child back to the Xuantian Continent together, but your mother refused to tell me the child's whereabouts and even threatened me with her life. In the end, I gave up the idea of taking the child; my target was your parents anyway.

In order to make you give up and completely forget them, your parents, with my cooperation, pretended to have a car accident. Those two corpses were stolen from a hospital by your father and disguised to look like them.

After doing all this, your parents and I returned to the Xuantian Continent together."