"So you're telling me that, Yurou was part Pheonix and both of you ended up in a trial left behind by an ancestral Phoenix of the past?"
Xiao nodded his head at Yun Hao's words, by now Xiao had explained a part of how things had gone by, he just made it such that he didn't play a huge role in the trial, making him as a baggage that rode on Yurou's luck, his words had surprised everybody, who was now talking with each other, whispering what a twist this was,
"Where's Yurou's father?"
Xiao asked as he noticed the man's absence, he really wanted to meet the guy that nailed a phoenix, he didn't pay much attention to him before but it was not every day that he meets someone like that, the moment Xiao asked the question the talking in the room stopped as everyone started to look at each other with a hint of fear, feeling the silence Yun Hao spoke,
"He was burned to death by that woman"
Xiao didn't have much reaction to it and he didn't need to know who that woman was, Xiao, knew that Yurou didn't have a hint of love for her father as she had always talked about him just seeing her as some sort of trophy or some investment for the future, plus it was becoming pretty clear to him that whoever Yurou's mother was, she didn't seem to be particularly happy with her father too.
There might have been some sort of secret to what had happened, well it didn't interest him much, the only reason he asked was that the man was about to be his 'father-in-law' but now it doesn't matter anymore,
"Sigh...that stupid son of mine"
Xiao could see Yun Hao sighing as he sat in the patriarch seat but that was not the current topic at hand, as his focus soon returned back to Xiao,
"So that's all that happened? is there anything else?"
"Nope after I was thrown out Yurou nor did her protector pay me any mind as they left"
Yun Hao nodded his head, his eyes narrowing at Xiao as a subtle pressure filled his body, Xiao's body shook as his knees seemed to be shaking, well it wasn't affecting him at all but hey for now the play had to continue, he would pay back the debt another time,
Yun Lan screamed as she appeared in front of Xiao as she projected her own aura to cover the pressure that was acting on him, turning towards Yun Hao she screamed,
"What are you doing?!"
"Tsk.....nothing, you may leave"
Yun Hao spoke with a nonchalant voice, hearing it Yun Lan gritted her teeth in anger but she didn't say anything as she picked the 'weakened' Xiao and headed out of the room, under the snarly eyes of the other family members, Xiao whose cultivation was sky-high should be treated as a genius yet here he was not being paid any heed.
Soon Yun Lan left the scene with Xiao, marching with angry steps she entered her room, and as soon as she did her angry expression faded as it became calm, knocking at Xiao's head she spoke,
"Alright that's enough acting"
Hearing it the 'weakened' Xiao opened his eyes and he looked at his mother with a smug smile,
"Well not as good as mine"
Yun Lan replied with the same smug smile, they were truly mother and son,
"So what did Yurou's father do?"
"Oh, that idiot? well, as soon as that woman had shown up he displayed an arrogant expression and walked up to her as if he owned her and spoke 'hehe...so your here servant? then take me to my wife' after that all we saw was a blaze and all that was left were ashes"
Hearing it Xiao flinched, looks like that guy was an idiot through and through, shaking his head about such an idiotic action, he escaped his mother's hug as he spoke to her,
"Mother arrange a carriage I will be heading to the Li family"
"So soon? do you really like that crippled child?"
"Sigh...mother she's just a suffering girl and even if it is by a paper she's still my fiance, I have to keep up my appearance"
"Is that the only reason?"
Yun Lan asked doubtfully, to which Xiao nodded his head,
"Yes, it's just to keep appearances"
"Okay, it better be just that, you know I heard that Phoenixs are quite ruthless"
Saying so she made a cutting motion, to which Xiao just shook his head, soon he boarded a carriage that headed towards the Li family mansion, 2 hours later he had entered the mansion as a maid led him towards Li Lun's room, a few minutes later he reached her room and even before the maid knocked, the door was opened by Li Lun who was sitting in a wheelchair,
Her head was turned towards him as she sat on a wheelchair, her white dead eyes were looking towards him, seeing it he smiled and spoke,
"It's nice to see that you're fine Li Lun"
Saying so he walked towards her as he dispersed the maid, reaching up to her, he patted her head, causing her dead eyes to gain some sort of life as a smile came to her face, her hands extended forward not knowing where to move, Xiao understood as he bent a little hugging the pitiful girl,
She spoke with a low voice as she hugged him, Xiao chuckled at her shyness as he spoke back,
"Well I missed you too"
Saying so he left the hug much to the disappointment of Li Lun, seeing it he patted her head once more, a hint of guilt filled his heart, here he was with Li Lun yet now he was connected by heart to Yurou, even so, Xiao wasn't going to tell her about it, not because he was scared because he didn't want to hurt the girl more.
She had already lost so much, how could he say that her fiance was already in love with another girl, even more so when she seems to be developing feelings for him? he wasn't that ruthless or heartless, he will definitely tell about Yurou to her but not now, only when she stands far above the world will he tell her.
He will tell her when she has all the power and authority in the world, he will tell her when she's strong enough to take it, then he will take whatever anger or hatred she will have, he wasn't going to run away from his promise or responsibility, he promised her that he will marry her if she wants and he always keeps his promises
It might be stupid or perhaps hypocritical but that's who he was and he would continue to live by his thoughts and ideas.