Chapter 521: Burning the Family Portrait for You

Chapter 521 I’ll Burn Your Family Portrait for You

Yun Mu never expected that while she was severely poisoned and running out of time, she would still have to waste precious moments putting up with a two-faced bitch.

However, when it came to handling such backstabbers, Yun Mu had plenty of experience. Moreover, finding Liu Ling was way too easy.

Or perhaps, Liu Ling had been waiting for Yi Jue to come to her.

Back when Yi Jue had cut ties with Liu Ling, he had gifted her a villa in the southern suburbs. Recently, she had been staying there.

Hearing the door open, Liu Ling turned her head. Her face fell when she saw Yun Mu standing at the entrance.

"He refused to see me?"

Yun Mu sneered. "He’s not used to your plastic-surgery face."

For this meeting, Yun Mu had deliberately removed her veil and applied light makeup to conceal her sickly pallor.

Sure enough, when Liu Ling caught sight of Yun Mu’s drop-dead gorgeous face, jealousy erupted in her eyes like volcanic fury.

"What’s there to gloat about? The only reason you found this place is because he told you, isn’t it? What does that mean? It means I still matter to him!"

Liu Ling gloated, but her face, still stiff from recent surgery, made the expression look unnatural.

Yun Mu could barely stomach the sight. "If disgust counts as care, then yes, you do occupy a place in his heart."

Liu Ling: "..."

With a swish of her robes, Yun Mu walked inside and took a seat on a stone bench in the courtyard.

"If I were you, after escaping and changing my appearance, I’d choose a new place to start over. But you just had to come back and cross me. Tell me, what secrets about me did you reveal to Shangguan Yu?"

Liu Ling gloated at her. "Yun Mu, you’re panicking, aren’t you?"

"Why would I panic?"

"Of course you would! Don’t think that just because you’re in the Southern Nether Continent, no one knows about your past in the Imperial Capital. You’re not the real head of the Yun family from the Southern Nether Continent—you’re Yun Mu from the Imperial Capital! A fraud! The real Yun Mu died long ago. You’re just a replacement Yunzhe found, a tool to help him take control of the Yun family!"

Yun Mu tilted her head slightly, avoiding the spittle flying as Liu Ling ranted.

"Nice fanfiction you’ve spun. So you’re saying Yunzhe faked his death and went to the Imperial Capital, spent five years in hiding, training me to become a stunt double for the Yun family head of the Southern Nether Continent. Then, a year later, he murdered the real Yun family head and brought me back, pretending to yield power to him, right?"

"Isn’t that the truth?" Liu Ling believed herself to be a genius. "I already told Yi Yanran this secret, but that fool didn’t even use it to blackmail you—instead, she joined your side! Yun Mu, the jig is up now. Soon, both you and Yunzhe will be done for! Not even Yi Jue can protect you!"

It seemed there had been a reason Bai Wei had asked her to remove her veil last night.

Bai Wei had probably got this story from Liu Ling and wanted to see Yun Mu’s real face to confirm whether she was truly the Yun Mu of the Yun family from the Southern Nether Continent.

Truthfully, ever since Yun Mu returned to the Southern Nether Continent, rumors like this had never let up. Yet she had never bothered to clarify them.

First, because she believed any attempt to explain would only make things worse—no one would believe her anyway.

Second, because she couldn’t give less of a damn about the identity of "Yun Mu" and saw no need to justify or prove herself.

But now, it seemed this misunderstanding had been taken seriously by many, and some had even started plotting over it.

Could it be that Shangguan Yu had believed she was an imposter and wanted to kill her?

No—his plan to kill her must have been formed years ago. Yi Hou Pharmaceuticals had been established five years prior, so that was likely when the plan had started brewing.

"Cat got your tongue? Scared?" Liu Ling looked at the dazed Yun Mu, certain she'd been caught, and crowed victoriously, "Haha, since I can't have Yi Jue, I'll make sure you don't either, Yun Mu. You're finished!"

Yun Mu snapped back to attention and stared at her. "If you can't have him, you won't let me have him either? That's not love - Yi Jue would never want that. I came today to deal with you. Besides this worthless trash talk, is there anything else you want to say?"

Liu Ling gritted her teeth. "Do it then! Kill me if you've got the guts! You're a dead woman walking anyway, and so is the child in your belly! Haha, Yi Yanran won’t have a peaceful life either! You miserable wenches—one ruined my love, the other my dignity. This is your karma!"

Yun Mu raised her hand and landed a stinging slap across Liu Ling's face.

Liu Ling cried out and fell to the ground. When she lifted her head again, her freshly botched nose job was already crooked.

Yun Mu couldn’t stomach the sight of her.

"You're just a backstabbing coward who plots in the shadows. What else are you capable of?"

"Darn right I am! I play dirty! But you still can’t defeat me, can you? Your clock's ticking, Yi Yanran’s child is gone, and soon she’ll lose her position as head of the family! Even if I die, I’ll drag you both to hell! Besides, do you dare kill me now? That illegitimate child of the Yi family, I’ve already—"

"Finding an illegitimate child isn’t that hard. He’s already in Yi Yanran’s third uncle’s hands—did you really think I needed you to tell me?" Yun Mu scoffed.

Liu Ling’s expression faltered. She hadn’t expected Yun Mu to uncover the child’s whereabouts so quickly.

"If you had actually hidden that child yourself, I might have hesitated to touch you. But you were too eager to pull Yi Yanran down from her position and handed over your most important bargaining chip."

Liu Ling sneered, putting on a brave face. "I'll spell it out for you—if you have the guts, kill me now!"

Yun Mu narrowed her eyes, then suddenly laughed coldly and shook her head. "No, I won’t do anything to you today."

Liu Ling was slightly taken aback.

Yun Mu looked at her and said, "After barely surviving last time, you rushed into plastic surgery before your body recovered. Your blood disease has worsened beyond control. I don’t even need to lift a finger—you reek of death itself."

At this moment, Liu Ling wasn’t just disfigured with a crooked nose—she reeked of death itself.

Yun Mu stood up and pointed at the villa’s fence. "I'm having this place locked down. Enjoy the last moments of your life in this villa Yi Jue gave you. But I imagine you'll be too busy hating me to sleep at night, dying screaming! Because..."

She leaned down, bringing her face close to Liu Ling’s, and smirked coldly. "I believe I’ve found the breakthrough for the antidote. With my medical skills, I’ll definitely develop it before my child is born."

What?

"Impossible!"

This time, Liu Ling panicked. She screamed hoarsely, "You’re lying! It can’t be!"

Yun Mu looked down at her with disdain. "What a shame—you’ll die before you can see Yi Jue, me, and our twin children living happily. But I'll send you a family photo in hell."

Liu Ling: "..."