TGCFNM -Chapter 438 WTF!

Chu Ling felt as if a thousand horses were galloping in her mind. A single word kept rolling around in her mouth, and finally, she couldn’t hold it in:

“WTF!”

Wan Sanjin grabbed onto Chu Ling and Su He’s arms tighter and tighter, looking like someone who had just been shocked out of his wits, muttering over and over: “Shi Lanyu… is actually a woman… actually a woman… But… maybe it’s a man disguised as a woman? Lord, what do you think—the chances of Shi Lanyu being a man in disguise?”

Su He quickly grabbed Wan Sanjin’s hand, pressing it down, then looked at Chu Ling: “Lord, it seems our Wan Sanjin has completely lost his mind.”

Chu Ling also helped restrain Wan Sanjin: “Wan Sanjin, you need to learn to accept reality.”

Even though the reality was terrifying!

Just then, Wu Huan suddenly darted past Chu Ling.

Chu Ling instinctively stood and reached out, but Wu Huan’s skirt slipped quickly through her fingers.

She had already flown far away.

Wan Sanjin hurriedly pulled Chu Ling down into a crouch: “Lord, be careful! We’re sneaking around here, watching secretly.”

But Chu Ling seemed not to hear him. Her eyes followed Wu Huan as she positioned herself between Fu Qingyu and Chu Yue, repeatedly grabbing at Shi Lanyu’s arm. She saw Wu Huan screaming wildly, collapsing to the ground in agony, her hands clawing toward Shi Lanyu like deadly talons.

Shi Lanyu, however, smiled gently, calmly looking at Fu Qingyu, saying something that no one could understand.

Ghost Scholar whispered softly at that moment: “So… this is… Master Lan?”

The one who destroyed the Wu family… and ruined the Si family… Master Lan?

Wu Huan turned toward Chu Ling, her cheeks streaked with blood and tears. After knocking her forehead heavily toward Chu Ling, her figure slowly dissipated.

Chu Ling blinked, her eyes stinging, almost ready to shed tears.

Wan Sanjin noticed Chu Ling’s unease and whispered hurriedly: “Lord, are you… alright?”

Chu Ling nodded lightly.

Wan Sanjin lowered his voice: “The world is unpredictable… who would have thought Shi Lanyu would suddenly appear. But you… and Qingyu… sigh…”

“Lord doesn’t like Fu Qingyu—you didn’t notice?” Su He suddenly asked Wan Sanjin curiously. “Or… did you really not notice?”

Wan Sanjin froze, his eyes going from confused to shocked: “You… you… Su He… you actually… you actually noticed that Lord is a woman?”

Now Su He was the one taken aback: “I’m a coroner.”

Wan Sanjin: “…Oh, right. You’re a coroner.”

Su He nodded. He was a coroner—the best in Da Zhou!

“Then… why… why have you never mentioned it before…” Wan Sanjin’s voice dropped, secretly glancing at Chu Ling.

Lord wouldn’t think he had leaked the secret and then pick a dark, windy night to… get rid of him, right?

“Lord is Lord. What does it matter if they’re male or female?” Su He asked curiously. “Besides, Lord doesn’t like people—Lord only likes money. You like the money your older brother earns. I like corpses. And we can live our whole lives simply like this.”

Wan Sanjin thought for a moment: “You’re not wrong.”

Su He nodded—indeed, there was no mistake, it was perfect.

“But, Master, don’t you like Qingyu? Qingyu is talented in both literature and martial arts—the number one young master in the world.” Wan Sanjin relaxed a bit and grabbed Su He, starting to list all of Fu Qingyu’s virtues. “Someone like Qingyu is unmatched by almost any woman. Of course, Shi Lanyu is out of the question—her ambitions are far too strong.”

Su He looked at the babbling Wan Sanjin, wishing he could poison him.

Chu Ling leaned closer and lowered her voice: “Shi Lanyu is actually Chu Yue, and Chu Yue is the eldest daughter of the Chu family.”

She now strongly suspected that this encounter had been orchestrated by Chu Yue herself. Based on Wu Huan’s final reactions, this Chu Yue was actually Young Master Lan.

And Young Master Lan was the mastermind behind the setup, the same person behind the pawnshop back then, and also the young man that Master Wan had mentioned—someone younger than him but extremely formidable.

If Chu Yue had also been reborn, everything would make sense.

According to Chu Rou, Chu Yue had not become empress in the end. Something must have happened that caused her to miss out on the throne. Moreover, Xiao Lengjue had expanded the harem extravagantly, leaving no trace of the original vows and promises.

So Chu Yue had likely gone down a darker path.

Reborn in this life, Chu Yue would probably eliminate quite a few people. Chu Rou was merely a pawn she had deliberately set free—both to restrain Xiao Lengjue and to accomplish a number of tasks for her.

The original female lead is indeed a female lead—resourceful, capable, and able to foresee events.

The question now was: why, in this life, did Chu Yue choose Fu Qingyu, and why had she been approaching Fu Qingyu and… Wan Sanjin since childhood?

At this moment, Wan Sanjin and Su He were completely stunned.

“Shi Lanyu is your eldest sister, Master? She’s Chu Yue, the eldest daughter of the Chu family?” Wan Sanjin was dumbfounded. “How… how could that be? Although Shi Lanyu is mysterious, and Master never allowed us to inquire about her identity… she really is Chu Yue?”

Chu Ling nodded.

Su He looked at Wan Sanjin, then back at Chu Ling. “So our Master is actually the daughter of the General’s mansion?”

Chu Ling: “……”

Wan Sanjin, realizing it too late, hugged his head and shuffled sideways, then leaned close to Su He and quietly explained, “That’s why the Chu family wasn’t fortified like an iron bucket. People can come and go as they please.”

Su He grabbed both Wan Sanjin and Chu Ling and brought them into the cabin.

The boatman pushing the vessel was also from the Wan family. Once they entered the cabin, he quietly said, “I’m one of Master Wan’s men,” and then rowed the boat away.

Chu Ling’s expression remained calm. After all, her identity was no secret in the eyes of the Wan family.

Wan Sanjin looked at the two of them and said, “Don’t worry. We Wan family people don’t talk nonsense.”

“Let’s set that aside for now.” Su He looked at Wan Sanjin. “You’d better tell us everything you know about Shi Lanyu.”

Wan Sanjin thought for a moment and then began from their first meeting, recounting everything about Shi Lanyu—her knowledge, her talent, and how the three of them had grown close in school.

“Shi Lanyu often asked for leave, and every time Master just approved it immediately. I, however, couldn’t—I needed my brother to write a leave note. But she never fell behind on her studies, so I can’t really complain.” Wan Sanjin said, “To outsiders, the three of us seemed very close, growing up together, playing together. It was because Shi Lanyu always mentioned her concerns about Fu Qingyu that I went to Sishui County to find Master.”

Chu Ling knew that Wan Sanjin had said Shi Lanyu had always worried that Fu Qingyu might be coveted by others and expressed concerns about her.

And since Fu Qingyu had once saved Wan Sanjin, almost at the cost of his life, he had always valued her as a friend, which was why he went to Sishui County.

However, Wan Sanjin had gotten lost along the way. By the time he arrived, her injuries had already recovered to seventy or eighty percent.

If Wan Sanjin hadn’t lost his way, at that time, the back of her head had been struck, and her life had been hanging by a thread.