The Peerless Beauty Stuck With Me

Chapter 1400 - 1399: The Culprit

"It's me, it's really me!"Zhang Yishan jumped in through the window, startling Song Xiaoxiao with his bold move.

In the past, Zhang Yishan would never make such daring moves toward Song Xiaoxiao, but today, Zhang Yishan slipped into the Song Mansion right under the Song Family Master's nose and directly found Song Xiaoxiao in her room.

"Yi Shan, my father is still in the Song Mansion, what are you doing here? Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

In Song Xiaoxiao's eyes, Zhang Yishan's actions were suicide. Imagine if the Song Family Master found out Zhang Yishan came to see Song Xiaoxiao, what would the consequences be?

"I know whether I'm courting death or not. I don't want to be apart from you anymore, Xiaoxiao, come home with me."

Song Xiaoxiao never doubted Zhang Yishan's feelings for her, just like how Zhang Yishan confidently told the Song Family Master that he and Song Xiaoxiao had always been in love with each other.

However, Song Xiaoxiao didn't dare to go back with Zhang Yishan. Fear ran deep in her bones; she was afraid that if her father found out one day, her father would threaten her with death, and what would Song Xiaoxiao do then?

"Yi Shan, I can't, I can't go back with you."

Song Xiaoxiao's words were like a harsh blow, leaving Zhang Yishan unsure of what to say next.

"Can't? Xiaoxiao, you don't want to go back with me?"

The number of times Zhang Yishan shook his head in front of Song Xiaoxiao increased, as he looked at her like she was a stranger. The hand that held Song Xiaoxiao's suddenly let go.

"You say you have concerns, I can accept that. You say your father opposes us being together, and I find it understandable, but now, you can't come back with me is it because you think I, Zhang Yishan, am not good to you, or have you already had a change of heart?"

Zhang Yishan had thought about the possibilities and was prepared to explain to Song Xiaoxiao, yet at this moment, Song Xiaoxiao left Zhang Yishan at a loss on how to explain himself.

"I haven't!"

Zhang Yishan's disappointed look added a layer of melancholy to him. Song Xiaoxiao, used to Zhang Yishan's cheerful and steady demeanor, saw his dejection, and her heart ached.

"You haven't? Then why can't you come with me? Aren't you going to give me an explanation?"

"I have nothing to explain, Yi Shan. If you believe that I will never let you down in this life, but right now, I really can't be with you."

Not letting Zhang Yishan down, yet wanting Zhang Yishan to believe Song Xiaoxiao?

Is Zhang Yishan a fool?

"No, Xiaoxiao, you don't understand my feelings for you, because our investments and efforts are different, so you feel that my goodness to you is taken for granted, while your attitude towards me is indifferent at best, do I hold no place at all in your heart?"

Zhang Yishan's sudden flair of temper earned him a slap from Song Xiaoxiao.

"Zhang Yishan, what kind of nonsense are you spouting?"

Hitting him was mild compared to the feeling of Zhang Yishan using words to stab Song Xiaoxiao; it was nothing.

"Zhang Yishan, you bastard!"

Clearly she slapped him, yet Song Xiaoxiao felt an intense pain in her own body.

She could easily have told Zhang Yishan to get lost or declare that she never wanted to see him again, but Song Xiaoxiao couldn't bring herself to say those words.

"Zhang Yishan, if I'm with you, you will die!"

Song Xiaoxiao's hand still stung with pain, her palm still retaining the warmth from Zhang Yishan's cheek. She didn't want to admit she had hit him, but the prickling sensation in her hand was evidence that she had.

Die?

Zhang Yishan didn't understand what Song Xiaoxiao meant.

"Being with you is death, not being with you is also death, however it goes, it's a dead end. No matter how I struggle, I can't escape the net of love you've cast, only to be tortured within it, suffering immensely. Do you think that's okay?"

Song Xiaoxiao knew Zhang Yishan was not okay, but had Zhang Yishan ever considered Song Xiaoxiao?

"Yi Shan, if you don't let go, neither my father nor I will be okay. Do you want both me and my father to die in front of you?"

Song Xiaoxiao almost bit her lips through, only then daring to speak of life and death.

In any normal situation, Song Xiaoxiao wouldn't utter such words to Zhang Yishan.

"You and your father die in front of me? Why would you and your father die in front of me, is there some hidden matter or something, tell me, tell me!"

When Zhang Yishan arrived, he already smelled the scent of conspiracy, but his anger clouded his judgment. Even if it was a conspiracy, he believed it was Song Xiaoxiao's deliberate doing!

"Because someone is using poison to threaten me and my father never to reconcile with you. If there's any chance of easing tensions between our two families, he will make me and my father die in front of you. He even said my father should take all your property and combine it with the Song Family's to give it to him, only then would he spare us."

Song Xiaoxiao found a place not easily overheard to tell Zhang Yishan using sound transmission.

Whether Zhang Yishan believed it or not, everything she said was true.

"Who, tell me who that person is?"

Zhang Yishan felt that whoever it was, unless someone was too cruel, someone was taking this opportunity to destroy both Zhang and Song families, their intentions malicious beyond measure.

"Even if I told you, you couldn't kill him. But if I don't tell you, you will never believe me. It's the housekeeper from your Zhang family, the one who used to stay by your father's side!"

Housekeeper!

Zhang Yishan nearly froze in shock; the housekeeper's reach extended so far!

"What, you can't believe the housekeeper's the one who did it, right? We've been with him for so many years without seeing him turn against us, but that's the cruel reality!"

The housekeeper was always loyal to the Zhang Family Master and was patient with Zhang Yishan. How could he be the one threatening the relationship between the Zhang and Song families?

"I believe what you're saying! If you had said this before my father passed, I might not have believed it, but he killed my father with his own hands, that's an undeniable fact!"

What!

Why had Song Xiaoxiao never known about this?

Song Xiaoxiao always feared Zhang Yishan's blind faith in the housekeeper, reluctant to shatter his long-held good impression. After all, the housekeeper had been with Zhang Yishan even longer than Song Xiaoxiao had.

"Why would the housekeeper kill my father?"

Song Xiaoxiao's gaping mouth slowly closed.

"Because he was always Uncle's man. For small profits promised by Uncle, he heartlessly killed my father to seize power."

Zhang Yishan had seen it all in the Image Stone. Hearing alone is not believing, seeing is. With the Image Stone as evidence, even the most skilled liar can't dispute the truth.