Chapter 597: Chapter 597 Unfair

It clearly wasn’t any confession, yet Lu Yichen and Zhong Niangyao’s interactions didn’t seem too out of the ordinary either. But somehow, everyone could distinctly feel an ambiguous atmosphere permeating between them.

The atmosphere was indeed solemn, yet inevitably, all those present found their attention drawn to these two.

Finally, Zhong Niangyao withdrew her gaze and then shifted it towards Huang Wan, directly activating her Heavenly Eye. As expected, she spotted something unusual in Huang Wan.

Inside Huang Wan, there was a small light spot. Although the light was inside Huang Wan’s body, it felt somewhat out of place. She guessed that it must have been the talents absorbed from Baili Lele along with the vitality extracted from her!

Thinking of this, Zhong Niangyao’s eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold light flashed in her eyes; she then lifted her hand towards Huang Wan and clenched her fist.

Before the crowd could understand what Zhong Niangyao meant, Huang Wan screamed again.

“Ah–” Unlike before, this scream was mingled with an indescribable and mournful wail, “No, no.”

At this moment, Huang Wan felt an unbearable agony once again, different from the bone-deep pain she had just experienced. It felt as if something was being peeled directly from her body. Though unaware of what it was, she sensed it was crucial to her.

She tried desperately to hold onto that thing, yet she couldn’t grasp it. Moreover, the intense pain prevented her from doing anything but feel an important part of her life slipping away.

Yi Huai had no idea what was happening. All he could see was his wife’s suffering; he wanted to question what was going on, but just as he looked up and met Lu Yichen’s icy eyes, he found himself speechless.

This ordeal ended swiftly; under everyone’s gaze, a light spot about the size of a soybean flew out from between Huang Wan’s eyebrows.

Once the light spot emerged, it bounced twice in the air and then, as if sensing something, rapidly flew towards a certain direction.

And that direction was precisely Baili Lele’s room.

“Don’t go, don’t go, it’s mine,” that is mine.”

As she watched the small light spot leave, Huang Wan let out a shrill scream. While screaming, she flailed her arms, pushed the supporting Yi Huai aside, and tried to chase after it.

However, she overlooked her physical condition. Barely making two steps, she fell to the ground.

“Wanwan.”

Yi Huai quickly stepped forward, helped Huang Wan up from the ground, and after a quick check asked with concern, “Are you alright! Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?”

“Ah Huai, Ah Huai, help me chase it!” Huang Wan watched the small light spot disappear before her eyes; pushing Yi Huai while crying and urging continuously, “It’s mine, I don’t want to lose it, I don’t want to lose it.”

By then, Huang Wan vaguely guessed what the light spot was. Precisely because of this, her emotions were so volatile, unable to accept the loss of something so important.

“Your thing?” Zhong Niangyao scoffed aloud, “Calling you shameless would be an insult to the word! What do you count for, calling something stolen as your own after using it for a while. It seems like you and Yi Huai are really a match made in heaven, both so shameless!”

Yi Huai’s face darkened even further.

“That is–”

Hearing Zhong Niangyao’s words, Baili Hengyuan also had a vague guess. However, he was still somewhat uncertain.

“Exactly.” Zhong Niangyao nodded affirmatively, confirming his suspicion, “That is my mother’s talent. If I’m not mistaken, Huang Wan must have contracted a serious illness and was close to the end of her life. So she concocted this method of extending life by extracting other people’s vitality. As for why my mother was targeted, it’s because Huang Wan was greedier–she wanted not just to continue living, but also to possess the talent for witchcraft. My mother was the perfect target. Of course, what Yi Huai just mentioned about the birth data is also one of the reasons.”

After hearing Zhong Niangyao’s words, when Baili Hengyuan looked towards Yi Huai and Huang Wan again, his gaze was filled with even more hatred.

However, suddenly as if a thought struck him, he abruptly looked up at Zhong Niangyao, “Nianyao, was it you who stripped away that talent just now?”

With his words, all eyes at the scene turned towards Zhong Niangyao.

Extracting talent directly from a human body, what kind of ability was that? And what kind of person was Zhong Niangyao, who could achieve such a feat?

“Yes.” Zhong Niangyao nodded calmly and then spoke somewhat indifferently, “This should also be considered a type of witchcraft, I guess!”

She didn’t know why she possessed such an ability. In the past, to achieve these, she had needed the aid of external objects. But ever since the power inside her had awakened, she found that she knew much more.

Oftentimes, she just had to think, and the method would appear in her mind.

Regarding this, she was not repellant.

Hearing this, Baili Hengyuan looked at Zhong Niangyao as if seeing a precious treasure, laughing out loud, “Good, good, this is really wonderful. I thought your mother’s talent was already high, but I never expected you to surpass her by far.”

Originally, the affection Bai Li Hengyuan had for Zhong Niangyao was only because she was Le Yao’s daughter, and so by association, he cherished her.

Now, looking at Zhong Niangyao again, that affection was filled with greater admiration and joy.

“It’s impossible, this can’t be.” Huang Wan kept shaking her head, seemingly unable to believe what was happening right before her eyes. “How could the daughter of Baili Lele be so remarkable?”

Zhong Niangyao’s capabilities felt like a harsh slap on her face in reality. The talents she desperately wanted, why did they so easily fall into someone else’s hands?

Not just Baili Lele, but now even Baili Lele’s daughter, the things she coveted in her dreams, somehow others were born with them, easily possessing what she had lost even in her theft.

Life was truly too unfair.

She felt a pang in her chest, and Huang Wan felt a sweet taste in her throat. She spat out a mouthful of blood and became even weaker.