SBCEJM -Chapter 365 Holy Crap! This Time It’s Real Incest!

【Tell me!】

Feng Zexuan rubbed her hands together, looking fully prepared to enjoy the drama.

【Su Yan, the Palace Gate Supervising Commissioner, twenty-eight years old, still unmarried.】

【The noble ladies in the capital who want to marry him could line up from the east side of the city to the west, yet he refuses every single one.】

【Some people say he’s into men, others say he already has someone in his heart.】

【But both guesses are wrong—he does have someone he loves, but he can’t marry her!】

Su Yan’s breathing suddenly halted.

Was the Prince of Zhenbei really going to drag out something this private for public discussion?

Lu Zheng guessed, “Can’t marry her? Could she be a courtesan?”

Li Jingyan shook his head. “With Brother Su’s character, I doubt he would care about social status.”

Xiao Che pondered. “Could she be a spy from an enemy nation?”

The system continued spilling secrets:

【To explain this, we have to go back five years.】

【During an assignment outside the capital, Su Yan once rescued an orphan girl named Su Meiniang.】

【The two fell in love, and Su Yan happily brought her home, intending to formally seek his parents’ approval and marry her properly.】

【But the moment he brought her back… something happened.】

The system deliberately paused for suspense.

【What happened? Hurry up and say it!】 Feng Zexuan urged.

【The first time Su Yan’s mother saw Su Meiniang, she felt the girl looked strangely familiar.】

Inside the tent, the other three men perked up even more.

【Madam Su kept asking Su Meiniang questions, and the more she looked, the more alarmed she became.】

【The girl looked seventy to eighty percent like her deceased mother—Su Yan’s grandmother—in her younger days!】

【And that wasn’t all. Madam Su also discovered a red butterfly-shaped birthmark on the back of her neck!】

【That completely shook Madam Su, because she herself had an almost identical butterfly birthmark in the exact same spot!】

All four men in the tent froze simultaneously.

Could there really be such a bizarre coincidence?

【Madam Su suddenly remembered that when she gave birth years ago, a farmer’s wife in the neighboring room had also delivered a baby girl.】

【She immediately became convinced that Su Meiniang had been deliberately switched and taken away by that farming family!】

【And the daughter they had raised all these years, Su Qingqing, was actually the farmer’s biological child!】

Li Jingyan sucked in a sharp breath.

Lu Zheng’s eyes widened like bronze bells.

Feng Zexuan exclaimed internally: 【Holy crap! This is way too melodramatic!】

The system agreed:

【Exactly! The lover turned out to be his biological sister…】

【And the original biological sister became the adopted one instead!】

【Su Yan practically went insane on the spot and knelt begging his mother to investigate further, but Madam Su was absolutely certain. The appearance, the birthmark, the age—everything matched perfectly. There was no mistake.】

【The Su family immediately updated the genealogy and restored Su Meiniang to the family registry.】

【Naturally, the marriage was canceled as well.】

【From then on, Su Yan never spoke of marrying again, while Su Meiniang spent her days drowning in tears.】

Feng Zexuan sighed inwardly:

【Tsk tsk… lovers becoming siblings. What a tragic twist of fate.】

The atmosphere inside the tent completely changed.

The three men who had been enjoying the gossip moments ago all fell silent.

Xiao Che thought no wonder Su Yan had remained unmarried for so long. Anyone would be devastated by such a blow.

Lu Zheng looked ashamed as well, remembering how he had once suspected Su Yan of preferring men. His face heated with embarrassment.

Su Yan lowered his eyes, his long lashes casting shadows beneath them and hiding every trace of emotion.

He had thought this secret would rot forever in the depths of his heart. Yet now that it had been exposed before everyone, he strangely felt relieved.

【Wait a second!】

Feng Zexuan suddenly raised a doubt.

【Could they have made a mistake?】

【I mean, the world is huge. Plenty of people look alike, and similar birthmarks aren’t impossible either, right?】

【Maybe it was all just a coincidence!】

Su Yan abruptly lifted his head, a spark flashing through his eyes.

Right!

What if it was only a coincidence?

Then he and Meiniang—

【Host, I already checked. Su Meiniang wasn’t mistaken for someone else.】

The system mercilessly dumped a bucket of cold water over him.

【She really is the Su family’s daughter. The blood relationship is genuine.】

The light that had just ignited in Su Yan’s eyes instantly dimmed.

Feng Zexuan sighed.

【What a pity. Looks like Su Yan is destined to spend his life alone.】

The tent fell into dead silence, broken only by three sympathetic sighs.

Then suddenly, the system spoke in a tone of wild excitement, as though it had discovered a whole new continent:

【BUT! Host, you’ll never guess this!】

【Lord Su here still refuses to give up!】

Su Yan’s body stiffened violently.

【On the surface, he accepted reality and treated Su Meiniang like a beloved younger sister. But secretly, he’s been saving money behind everyone’s backs.】

【He’s planning to run away with her!】

【To make money, he used his position to secretly operate several businesses—cosmetics shops, pastry shops, all kinds of ventures. They actually earn quite a lot. And even his everyday food and clothing expenses, he tries to reimburse through public accounts whenever possible…】

【His plan is to save enough money for his parents’ retirement, prepare a huge dowry for his adopted sister Su Qingqing, and then elope with Su Meiniang!】

Before the words had even fully landed, a thunderous scream exploded in everyone’s minds:

【HOLY CRAP! This time it’s REAL incest! This is insanely wild!!!】

The air inside the tent instantly froze solid.

The sympathy, regret, and pity on Xiao Che, Li Jingyan, and Lu Zheng’s faces shattered completely, replaced by expressions mixed with horror, disbelief, and shock.

They stared at Su Yan as if he were some kind of monster.

A madman!

He actually wanted to… actually dared to…

Su Yan felt as though someone had stripped him naked and thrown him into the icy depths of winter. Every inch of skin was being flayed alive beneath those disgusted and horrified gazes.

Seeing the unmistakable distance and shock in his friends’ eyes, the last trace of hope inside him vanished completely.

He slowly closed his eyes.

And when he opened them again, the ash-gray emptiness in his gaze had transformed into a kind of desperate madness.

It seemed the capital was no longer a place where he could stay.

Once he returned, he would take Meiniang and leave!

No matter how vast the world was, there had to be somewhere they could belong!

【Wait, hold on. Su Meiniang should also be twenty-eight by now, right? Didn’t she get married?】

The system chuckled mischievously.

【She did—but it was all fake. Su Yan paid someone to pretend to be the groom. On the surface, Su Meiniang married far away, but in reality he’s been keeping her hidden outside the city.】

【Good lord… Su Yan’s guts are way too big!】

The tent sank into a suffocating awkwardness.

Xiao Che and the other two sat stiffly, not knowing what kind of expression they should even use toward Su Yan anymore.

This colleague who was usually refined, elegant, and impeccably mannered…

Inside, he was actually this insane, this willing to defy every moral law.

As for Su Yan, he had completely given up struggling.

He sat there expressionlessly, radiating an aura of isolation that warned others not to approach.

He had already prepared himself to be despised by everyone.

And right in the middle of that suffocating silence, the system suddenly shrieked without warning.