Chapter 434: This Is Your Dream

Chapter 434: This Is Your Dream

When Yun Mu heard Yunzhe's name, she began to zone out and naturally wasn't paying much attention.

But just at that moment, Yun Mu's phone rang.

Glancing at the caller ID, Yun Mu pulled the chattering Ji Shu aside and walked to the hallway to answer the call.

"Hello?"

As soon as the call connected, Yun Shumo on the other end spoke directly, "The matter you asked me to investigate in the capital has yielded results."

Yun Mu held her breath in anticipation.

Yun Shumo's voice was low, "There's no one in the capital skilled in hypnosis, but there is a doctor who is exceptionally skilled in psychiatry and has successfully controlled someone's consciousness before—Si Nanjue."

Si Nanjue!

Yun Mu felt as if something in her mind had suddenly exploded like a bomb. She barely heard what Yun Shumo said afterward and eventually hung up the phone.

It was indeed him.

The mysterious drug that Dr. Feng bought on the black market also came from him.

None of this was a coincidence.

Ji Ming had finished grilling Yun Mu's favorite skewers and, not seeing her return for a long time, began looking for her.

At that moment, Ji Shu's exclamation caught his attention, "Yun Mu, what's wrong?"

Ji Ming quickly turned toward the sound and saw Yun Mu's body staggering twice. If she hadn't caught herself against the wall, she would have fallen.

"Yun Mu!"

Ji Ming rushed over to support her, but Yun Mu gestured for him to stay back.

Ji Ming felt Yun Mu's hand, his expression changing drastically as he looked at her in shock, "What's wrong? Why are your hands so cold?"

Yun Mu pressed a hand to her chest, her eyelashes trembling slightly. But after taking a deep breath, the sharp, stabbing pain disappeared as suddenly as it appeared, as if the earlier pain had been just an illusion.

She composed herself, waved her hand, and then looked up at Ji Ming, said slowly, "We've found out who erased Yi Jue's memories."

Ji Ming frowned, and seeing Yun Mu's expression, he had already guessed.

"Him?" Ji Ming asked.

Yun Mu nodded, with a bitter smile, "I can't believe I fell into the same trap twice, fallen for his tricks again."

Ji Ming clenched his fists, "I'll take care of that bastard!"

Yun Mu stopped him, "Forget it. What would you confronting him accomplish? If anyone's going to settle the score, it should be me."

This wasn't the first time Yun Mu had been outsmarted by Yunzhe. When she was 15, the patriarch of the Yun family assigned a task to both Yun Mu and Yunzhe. At the time, the patriarch told Yun Mu that if the task was successful, he would hand over a photo of her mother.

It was the last photo of her mother remaining in existence.

Yun Mu was hell-bent on succeeding.

Back then, Yunzhe had proposed joining forces, saying that since the patriarch only required the task to be completed, there was no need for them to compete against each other. Yun Mu, yearning for her mother's photo, agreed.

As expected, Yunzhe betrayed her at the last moment, abandoning her and taking the spoils to report back.

In the end, Yunzhe was rewarded with the core biological research base in Nancheng, while the last photo of her mother left in this world was burned to ashes by the old family head in front of Yun Mu.

From then on, Yun Mu never got to see what her mother looked like.

Yunzhe!

Do you have to destroy every person and everything I cherish?

A cold, murderous glint flashed in Yun Mu's beautiful eyes.

...

The west courtyard of the Yun family estate.

After Yunzhe was adopted by the old family head into the Yun family as a child, he had always lived in the west courtyard, while Yun Mu lived in the main building of the Yun family, with a clear hierarchy.

Yun Mu had also visited the west courtyard many times in her memory, but almost every time it was to settle accounts with Yunzhe or to fight.

She had thought that as they grew up and went through life and death together, the tense relationship of mortal enemies no longer existed, and they could truly become a family.

But in the end, she still came to the west courtyard, her heart filled with murderous intent.

In the study, Yunzhe was managing the Yun family's affairs and was slightly startled when Yun Mu appeared.

The veiled girl entered from outside, bringing the chill of the night with her, her beautiful eyes showing no emotion, yet radiating coldness.

Yunzhe gestured for his subordinates to leave, then continued to browse through the files on his computer, his expression unchanged, his thin lips curling slightly, "The Yun family has lost several major orders to Frondebao in the past two months. If this continues, the Yun family's standing in the Southern Ming Continent will be at risk. Yun Mu, we need to keep developing new drugs that aren't on the market to regain our market share..."

"Is this the kind of drug?"

Yun Mu stepped forward and slammed a bottle of medicine onto Yunzhe's desk with a loud 'clang.'

Yunzhe glanced at it, his slender fingers trembling slightly, and remained silent for a long time.

"You should be familiar with this," Yun Mu said, her voice devoid of emotion.

Yunzhe raised his eyes, looking at her calmly, "I developed it."

Yun Mu gave a cold smile, "I thought you'd deny it, since I couldn't find any evidence to prove it was you. Yunzhe, you've always been so cunning all these years."

"Should I take that as a compliment?"

Yun Mu looked at him mockingly, "As you wish. Don't you have anything else to say to me?"

Yunzhe still looked at her calmly, and after a moment, a faint smirk appeared at the corner of his lips, "There's nothing more to say. The fact that you came to me with this bottle means you already know everything. I did it, and I admit it."

How brutally honest!

"It was you, taking advantage of Yi Jue's weakened consciousness after surgery, and using this drug to erase his memories of me?"

"Yes," he nodded.

Yun Mu took a deep breath and asked, "Why?"

"For you."

"For me?" Yun Mu found it laughable, "For what purpose?"

"You shouldn't be a little girl caught up in romance, Yun Mu. You have your responsibilities, and the Yun family is your responsibility," Yunzhe said, his gaze fixed on her.

Yun Mu gritted her teeth. "Screw responsibilities! Who gave you the right to meddle in my life, to make choices for me? You're just some orphan my dad took in—you're not even my real brother, so what gives you the right? What gives you the right to wipe Yi Jue's memories, to take away my love, and still have the nerve to say it's for my own good!"

It had been a long time since Yunzhe had seen Yun Mu so hysterical, yelling at him like this. The last time was when he had set her up to fail, making her lose the last photo she had of her mom.

"I wasn't trying to butt into your life," Yunzhe said, his voice calm but firm. "I just wanted to help you out as much as I could. Running the Yun family, taking it to the top—wasn't that what you always wanted since you were a kid?" His expression grew a bit obsessive as he got up slowly and moved closer to Yun Mu. "Yun Mu, you told me yourself—you wanted the Yun family! You wanted to take over from your dad!"

"But that was when I was just a kid!" Yun Mu shot back, her voice trembling. "Back then, I had no idea how amazing the world outside could be. I didn't know what real life was like. All I knew was experiments, killing, and battling for control! But now I can't stand living like that anymore, do you get that?"

Yunzhe's voice suddenly shot up. "I don't get it! Why did everything change all of a sudden?" His hands clenched at his sides, his frustration palpable as he stared at her, searching for answers she wasn’t willing to give.