Chapter 3224 — The Old Director's Worry
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As she was now, she looked far too much like Xu Shilan! The old director could not help sighing inwardly. It seemed that denying it was no longer an option!
Since it could no longer be hidden, the longing the old director had buried deep in her heart for so many years came surging out all at once. She threw her arms around Xu Shilan, tears streaming down her aged face. "Shihan... my child..."
Hearing the old director admit it with her own lips, Xu Shilan immediately dissolved into sobs, and the two of them clung to each other, weeping together...
Wei Zhao, Yu Xiaoke, Cheng Yiyi, and Feng Sanmang all stood silently to one side and said nothing! The shock this had brought them was simply too great—the old director was actually Xu Shilan's mother...
Only after Xu Shilan and the old director had finished crying did the old director heave a sorrowful sigh and say with a helpless, bitter smile, "Xiaohan, you really should not have come. By coming here, you have as good as exposed your identity! And my identity will be exposed along with it... You do not know how vicious and jealous that woman of the Dongfang family is! She would love nothing more than to be rid of the two of us, mother and daughter! We... are no match for her..."
"Is it Dongfang Xiaocui?" Xu Shilan was briefly startled, and something stirred in her heart. So it was that woman, Dongfang Xiaocui, who had separated her from her mother back then, and who had beaten her mother so badly...
"You know of her?" The old director was taken aback, never expecting Xu Shilan to know such things! But on second thought, she let it go. "It was Tianlin who raised you, wasn't it? Tianlin must have told you all this? It seems that woman Dongfang Xiaocui never did hunt you down to the last..."
"No..." Xu Shilan shook her head. "I never knew about Father's affairs before. Brother Sanhuang was sent by Father in secret to protect me, and I grew up under Father's protection all along... But I only learned of these things recently, because Dongfang Xiaocui made a move against me..."
"What?! She moved against you?" The old director was instantly aghast. "After all these years, she still will not let the two of us be? Ai, but what is to be done..."
At this point, the old director suddenly seemed to have made some momentous decision. "Wei Zhao, Xiaoke is in your care from now on. I am going back—I will go to Dongfang Xiaocui of my own accord. So long as I am dead, the orphanage will be safe! And Xiaohan, under Tianlin's protection, should not be in much danger! Since nothing has happened for so many years, I suspect Dongfang Xiaocui's target is only me!"
The old director saw things clearly enough, and she meant to trade her own death for the safety of Xu Shilan and the orphanage.
"What? Why?" Xu Shilan was taken aback. "With Wei Zhao protecting us, we have nothing to fear..."
"Xiaohan, you do not understand. The Dongfang family is an ancient family, and the most formidable of the ancient families! Not only does Dongfang Xiaocui have her two brothers, those two fine fighters—her second brother, Dongfang Yinxing, has already reached the peak of the late Heaven rank, a top-tier expert, one of the overlords of the cultivation world!" The old director knew nothing of the affairs between Wei Zhao and the ancient sects; after all, she had no sources of information, and lately Yu Xiaoke and Wei Zhao had had little contact, so she was unaware of what had happened.