Those who opposed her would describe her as a cunning fox or a cruel wolf.
But every time in front of her people, she always showed a cute side, and she didn’t pretend.
That kind of uneasiness came out inadvertently, which always made people want to pity and dote on her.
Therefore, no matter how terrible she was in the rumors, in Su Linlang’s eyes, from the moment she saw Lin Mengya for the first time, she could not help but have a good impression of her.
She took Lin Mengya’s little hands and couldn’t help asking about her daily trifles.
“My cousin, you worry too much. The prince… treats me very well.”
Finally, she felt relieved and glanced at Long Tianyu secretly, only to find that he looked helpless.
However, he did not dare to snatch her from Su Linlang’s hands.
Lin Mengya suppressed the urge to laugh and behaved obediently in front of her cousin.
“I know Wu’s love for you. Over the years, he should have had someone to take care of him. I am happier than anyone else to see you two together today. If Nankun knew about it, he would be happy for you too.”
Su Linlang seemed to be a little excited, but when she mentioned the name Nankun, there was a touch of sadness between her eyebrows, which could not be hidden from Lin Mengya’s eyes.
But she didn’t know much about the real situation, so she couldn’t say anything to comfort her.
She hoped that Long Tianyu could comfort her. But after hearing that name, Long Tianyu’s eyebrows also got tangled up together.
It seemed that she might know some more secrets today.
“Thank you, my cousin.”
Although she did not know the reason for Su Linlang’s emotional turmoil, the look in her eyes had betrayed her.
It was a kind of cold loneliness due to a dead heart.
It was as if the entire world had been cut off by her. In her world was everything hidden deeply beneath the surface.
Long Tianyu suddenly held her shoulders gently. She turned around and saw him shaking his head at her, and then he took her away from Su Linlang.
In the courtyard, although the sun was shining brightly, all the flowers were somber and desolate. There was no charm of the good summer.
Su Linlang was standing there with her eyes full of sorrow.
Lin Mengya couldn’t bear to see her being so depressed, but she didn’t know the inside story, so she couldn’t comfort her easily.
She had no choice but to be taken away by Long Tianyu with her head turning around again and again.
“Will our cousin be fine?”
From her appearance, Su Linlang must be a quiet and gentle person.
But people like this tended to be more determined than anyone else.
“Nothing serious will happen. Today is the death anniversary of my senior fellow disciple, Sheng Nankun. Five years have passed, but she will still be like this every year at this time. I am afraid that the knot in her heart is difficult to solve. You and I can’t help her with anything.”
Senior fellow disciple? Sheng Nankun?
Didn’t Long Tianyu just say that Su Linlang was also his sister-in-law? How could she…
Seeing the puzzled look in Lin Mengya’s eyes, Long Tianyu held her gently in his arms.
There should not be any secrets between him and her.
As long as it was something she wanted to know, he would definitely tell her.
“When my mother first entered the palace, although her family was very powerful, it was no more than the Shangguan Family, which had been well operated for many years. My mother was cautious. Even if she won the favor of my father, she still followed the rules and did not dare to go beyond them. However, the Empress was cruel and merciless. Many sons of the royal family were killed by her. So my mother found me a very powerful master for my safety.”
Lin Mengya nodded. In fact, she could guess this thing.
Qinghu once told her that Long Tianyu’s martial arts were far beyond those of ordinary people.
Although Qinghu could draw with him, he had lived for decades longer than Long Tianyu.
This was enough to show that apart from Long Tianyu’s extraordinary talent, his master was even more powerful.
It was impossible for such an expert to hide in the Imperial Palace.
Therefore, Long Tianyu must have met someone special to obtain such good martial arts.
Obviously, what he said now confirmed her original guess.
“Thinking of it, I can be considered to be of the same sect as your brother, Lin Nansheng. But he doesn’t know that because it is our masters who come from the same sect, which is a sect called ‘Tong Yuan’. No one knows when the sect is founded, but my master is the real last heir of that sect. Ling Ye, Sheng Nankun, your elder brother, and I, strictly speaking, could only be regarded as outer disciples. My master also repeatedly warned us not to mention this matter to anyone.”
Lin Mengya was a bit stunned. When her elder brother was framed, she did see her brother’s fellow disciples.
But she didn’t expect that there would be such a relationship between Long Tianyu and them.
“Sheng Nankun… why does this name sound so familiar to me? Oh, I remember now. Isn’t a Royal Noble from Dajin also surnamed Sheng? This Sheng Nankun must have come from this family.”
Ling Ye was Long Tianyu’s personal shadow guard, so it was not surprising that he would learn martial arts with him.
But if there was someone else, his background must not be simple.
But the young master of the Sheng Family was only nine years old. How could he be Long Tianyu’s fellow disciple?
Long Tianyu nodded. Some things had been suppressed in his heart for a long time. He thought that those memories had been blurred, but in fact, they were extremely clear.
He frowned slightly. Every time Long Tianyu tried to restrain his emotions, he would frown.
Lin Mengya was already familiar with his habits.
Her small hands held his hands softly and firmly. No matter when it was, she was already prepared to bear everything with him.
“Sheng Nankun was the eldest son of Prince Sheng. He was half a year older than me. I have always had a good relationship with him, so my father chose them to accompany me to learn from my master. Every year, we three lived with my master with the excuse of avoiding the heat. These things were all secrets, and no one knew the details. Such days had lasted for 15 years. Five years ago, my master said that he had reached the end of his life. But he was afraid that there was no successor to ‘Tong Yuan’, so he wanted to choose one of us to inherit his mantle. The three of us didn’t want to fight for it. In the end, because of our master’s order, our senior fellow disciple had to come forward. But we didn’t expect that this was the beginning of trouble.”
Long Tianyu had never mentioned these things to her.
Although Lin Mengya knew that this guy had a lot of secrets, she never felt that she was deceived.
She was confident that as long as she asked straightly, Long Tianyu would definitely give her a reasonable and real explanation.
But if she tested him deliberately, she might not be able to find out all the truth.
Even so, she could understand his mind.
Speaking of what had happened before, Long Tianyu frowned and his expression became more and more serious.
But his big hands held by Lin Mengya gripped in a tighter way.
That was Long Tianyu’s subconscious behavior. Lin Mengya knew that, so she did not blame him.
What Long Tianyu told her next was the real secret.
The Tong Yuan Sect was a mysterious sect. There had never been any information about them in the green woods, but they were everywhere in the green woods.
According to what Long Tianyu had said, their master was the eldest senior fellow disciple in the Tong Yuan Sect, and he should also inherit the position of the head of the sect.
Her elder brother, Lin Nansheng’s teacher, was the second senior fellow disciple, but the two of them were divided into two schools, Yin and Yang.
Disciples from the Yang school could reveal their identity when necessary, and it was also the school that its disciples could inherit the position of the head.
As for the Yin school, it was a completely hidden one. Except for its disciples, no one knew who they were.
This was also the reason why Long Tianyu knew her elder brother, but her elder brother did not know him.
However, when it came to the generation of Long Tianyu, there was a big event happening in the Tong Yuan Sect.
Originally, they were all outer disciples. According to the rules, it was impossible for them to inherit everything from the Tong Yuan Sect.
But Long Tianyu’s master said that something very important had happened.
All the real disciples of the Tong Yuan Sect could not inherit his position.
Therefore, he picked the most suitable one out of his three outer disciples.
So Sheng Nankun followed his master and hurried back to the Tong Yuan Sect.
Unexpectedly, half a year later, they got the news of their master’s death brought back by Sheng Nankun.
As for what had happened indeed, Sheng Nankun said that he didn’t know either.
Long Tianyu and Ling Ye asked Sheng Nankun for the address of the Tong Yuan Sect in a fit of anger.
But Sheng Nankun said that he also couldn’t inherit the mantle. Only their third fellow disciple, Ling Ye, could do it. He asked Ling Ye to go with him again.
How could Long Tianyu be willing to do that? Not to mention the danger of the Tong Yuan Sect, even his most powerful master had died there. If Ling Ye and Sheng Nankun went there again, he might be the only one left alive among the three of them.
So he implored Sheng Nankun to let him go with them.
Sheng Nankun couldn’t stand his pestering, so he agreed.
But he asked Long Tianyu for one thing. No matter what happened, Long Tianyu and Ling Ye could not act rashly without Sheng Nankun’s permission.
After the three of them arrived at the Tong Yuan Sect, they only found that it had become a scorched land.
What was even more bizarre was that the large sect seemed to have disappeared overnight.
All the inner disciples disappeared.
All the fields, houses, and money had not been moved by anyone.
Not even a single drop of blood could be seen. The Tong Yuan Sect had disappeared just like this.
Their intuition told them that things here were not simple.
But when they returned to the place where they learned martial arts, they found that their master’s dead body was gone.
Over the years, they had been looking for the real murderer who killed the whole Tong Yuan Sect, but they found nothing.
After saying this, Long Tianyu frowned more tightly, and there was also a hint of violence in his eyes.
It was rare for Lin Mengya to see Long Tianyu’s expression like this ever since she was with him.
This man, who was used to covering up all his emotions with indifference, would only have such an uncontrollable expression when he was really angry.
But after Lin Mengya heard Long Tianyu’s words, her eyes suddenly lit up.
