I want to be innocent, but they don't allow me

Chapter 616: Only one can survive.

Staring into Shanyuan's eyes, Li Linger felt as if she was being drawn into an endless abyss.

I had strength but I didn't know where to use it. My body just kept falling, suffocating and feeling cold, as if I was stuck in a deep quagmire and couldn't get out.

"Whoosh, whoosh."

Li Ling'er was breathing heavily, and the sweat on her forehead wet her hair.

Shan Yuan looked at Li Ling'er with tenderness in his eyes, frowned and said with concern,

"Ling'er, what's wrong with you?"

Li Linger staggered and sat down limply on the stool in front of her.

The spear at the waist touched the ground, making a metallic collision sound.

She subconsciously picked up the teacup on the table, but when she put it to her mouth, she hesitated and did not drink it.

He put the teacup heavily back on the table and looked up at Shan Yuan.

Suddenly, she found that Shanyuan looked so kind, with concerned eyes and a smile as warm as the sun. Isn't it exactly what her second brother should be like in her mind?

Li Ling'er's eyelashes trembled slightly, and an indescribable emotion surged in her heart. She pursed her lips slightly and her tone became much more casual.

"What exactly do you want to say?"

Shan Yuan seemed relieved to see that Li Ling'er was fine. He hesitated for a while and asked,

"Why do you hate me? Do you wish I were dead?"

Hearing Shan Yuan's words, Li Ling'er suddenly clenched her fists under the table, and became a little excited. She asked back,

"Don't you think that's ridiculous?"

Shan Yuan shook his head, his tone revealing helplessness.

"I know that the nanny must have attributed my mother's death to me. I don't deny this, but I was only six years old at the time. If my senior brother hadn't picked me up, I would have been dead long ago."

"I know that my mother has been running around for me all those years and has developed a chronic illness, but you are my family, and you actually want me to die. What have I done wrong?"

"Snapped!"

Li Linger slammed the table and stood up, the round table in front of her immediately broke into pieces, pointing at Shan Yuan angrily,

"You know exactly what you did. Mammy saw it with her own eyes, and you still want to deny it!"

Shan Yuan's eyes were confused, and he seemed to shrink back slightly because of Li Ling'er's fierce reaction, and his tone was filled with anger.

"I just want to live. What did I do wrong to allow you to treat an outsider like that and want to kill me?"

Li Linger was stunned for a moment, trying to suppress her anger, and sat back on the stool, gritting her teeth and saying,

"You know what you have done. I have another question for you today!"

"Tell me what I have done!"

However, Shanyuan still refused to give in and stood up from the stool.

Li Ling'er subconsciously reached for the spear behind her, her eyes filled with anger.

"What have you done? Good!"

"Your mother took you up the mountain, and you were humiliated on the way. The fetus in your belly died and turned into a fourth fetus. Your sea of ​​qi dried up, your essence was completely lost, and your blood was forcibly drained."

"But you, the Medical Saint said you wouldn't live past the age of six, yet you've lived to this day."

Shan Yuan appeared in front of Li Ling'er in a flash, staring at her with his red eyes.

"So, you think it's me! A six-year-old child who can't move freely?"

Li Ling'er held the spear tightly, looked at Shan Yuan fearlessly, and sneered,

"Born with knowledge, behaving strangely and mysteriously, practicing secret techniques in secret, my second brother has never been an ordinary person since he was born."

"So you just convict me based on speculation!"

Shan Yuan gritted his teeth and spoke word by word.

"Guess?"

Li Linger took two steps back calmly, with a sarcastic look on her face.

"Father went up the mountain three times to look for you. Why did you avoid him?"

"Why don't you come forward to clarify the accusation made by Mammy?"

"My aunt almost died at Xuanjizi's hands when she broke into Qingfeng Temple. Where were you at that time? Besides mother, the one who loves you the most is my aunt!"

"Isn't it because you know you have no words to face them that you hide and dare not see anyone?"

As she spoke, Li Ling'er had already walked to the door of the room.

Shan Yuan showed a painful look on his face and staggered back two steps.

"I don't know, I really don't know."

"I didn't know that my father had come to see me, nor did I know that my aunt had come to the temple. I just thought that my mother died because of my illness. I really don't know these."

Tears flowed from Shanyuan's eyes and his body collapsed to the ground.

Li Linger frowned slightly, and when she saw Shanyuan like this, her heart was moved for a moment.

In fact, she didn't believe that Shanyuan had done this, a six-year-old child who was seriously ill.

She remembered that when she was six years old, she just caught a cold and could only lie in Lu Jianjia's arms and sob.

"Second brother..."

Li Linger took a step forward and wanted to support Shanyuan.

However, just as she raised her hand, the voice of "Second Brother" brought some clarity back to her mind.

The maid didn't just see Danmei lying on the ground in disheveled clothes.

But I saw the whole process of what happened.

She had no choice. Due to Shanmei's pleading and the guards who came over seeing everything, she had no choice but to conceal the truth and give such an ambiguous explanation.

But whether it was because of the pressure of hiding the truth or some other reason, the nun soon went crazy.

It was during her last moments that she madly told the truth.

"The second young master can stand up. He has grown up. He is a devil. The young lady is asking for help. I deserve to die. I dare not save the young lady."

Many people heard these words at the time, but no one took them seriously.

Only Zhang Hanrui kept these deeply in her heart.

Li Ling'er did not stop. She remembered the purpose of her invitation. A look of distress appeared in her eyes. She reached out to help Shanyuan.

"Second brother, you get up first."

However, when Shan Yuan saw Li Ling'er's outstretched hand, a flash of fear flashed across his eyes. He dodged quickly, then stood up and looked at Li Ling'er and asked,

"Ling'er, do you believe me?"

Li Linger let out a long breath, neither saying she believed nor she didn't believe. She looked at Shan Yuan with complicated eyes and said softly,

"Second brother, actually... I don't hate you that much. I don't know what happened. I'm stupid, not as good as my aunt, not as good as Youzhi, and even not as good as Xiaozhao."

"I don't know why my aunt can be so sure, but I am the smartest. If there is really a misunderstanding, you should explain it to me."

Li Linger took off the spear from her waist and put it on the cabinet at the door. Then she walked to the couch by the window and sat down. She turned over a teacup and filled it. Then she looked at Shanyuan's teacup and filled it with tea for him as well.

Shan Yuan saw Li Ling'er's series of actions, and his eyes flashed with joy. He quickly stepped forward and said in an urgent tone,

"But my aunt doesn't want to listen to my explanation. Ling'er, are you willing to help me?"

"Ling'er can't help second brother." Li Ling'er picked up the teacup, took a sip, shook her head and sighed.

Seeing this, Shan Yuan's joy became even greater. If Li Ling'er agreed right away, he would have been a little skeptical.

He took a sip of the tea and sighed.

"Actually, it doesn't matter. Anyway, I also...never mind. I came here today because I want to talk to you about him."

Hearing this, Li Linger's eyes flashed with light, and after thinking for a while, she said,

"In fact, Ling'er also wants to know the reason why the second brother left behind the Taoist robe bamboo slips."

"Then there must be some drawbacks to the Hidden Edge Technique, right?"

Shan Yuan raised a helpless smile and shook his head.

"That was an invitation from the Human Clan, but I didn't expect Ling'er to bring him back to the palace. And...it's really fate that plays tricks on me."

"Second brother, do you have any way to solve that problem?" Li Linger raised her eyes and blinked her bright big eyes.

Shan Yuan looked at Li Ling'er, and after a long silence, he asked,

"If only one of him and I can survive, who would Ling'er hope to survive?"