Secrets Hidden Within The Bamboo Forest

🎍Chapter Twenty-Five🎍

    So...
    How did this meeting come to the topic of Luo Binghe and his father joining hands?
    Shen Qingqiu brought his guard up-knowing this was the conflict that he felt deep in his gut that was going to happen. Shen Qingqiu had to remind Luo Binghe to keep his eyes on the demons lurking and attack when needed-

    "Are you still lurking around, Shen Qingqiu?"

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     Shen Qingqiu felt his body shiver and go cold. Had they figured he was there? People looked around, and soon backed away from where he stood, his eyes narrowed as he stared forward. Now that he was shown, it was even harder to conceal the person beside him.

    "It's Luo Binghe!" Someone shouted.

    Shen Qingqiu remained standing tall and stern, looking like it wasn't bothering him in the slightest that he was now the center of attention.

   "Zhangmen-Shixiong" He bowed respectfully. 

    Murmurs began rise all around. Shen Qingqiu spared no glance or an ear to them, he was focused on how this would all do down.

    "Quite the trouble that had been arisen in your name" Said Yue Qingyuan.

    "Don't you think you've had enough fun?" He asked, his tone stern.

    While Yue Qingyuan hadn't used such a tone to him before, it seemed that Shen Qingqiu must've bothered him quite a bit. But to say that he was out having 'fun' was quite the... How would one word it?

    "This one wouldn't necessarily call it 'fun', so Zhangmen-Shixiong claims it to be. Just like the others I've been having my fair share of hardships" Said Shen Qingqiu, his eyes narrowing in slight offence.

    Before anyone else could say anything, someone else spoke up in a hurry.

    "Never mind that! Luo Binghe had delivered him to our doorstep so might as well ask him outright-when does Tianlang-Jun plan to attack?!" He shouted.

    "What does anything of that bastard have anything to do with me?" Luo Binghe asked, crossing his arms and raising a suspicious brow.

    "Both you are father and son! How could you two not plan something together?!"

   "If I was planning on anything, I wouldn't be here now would I?" He smiled.

    "If I was planning everything he was, I'd have already started it, but no. This humble one spends time to warn you all in that dream and this is the thanks I get? My how you all wounded me" He said.

    While his tone was soft and slightly humored, Shen Qingqiu could sense the anger rising within him. 

    "Not to mention, he's not my father. We may be related by blood, but that's the only thing we have in common. I'd rather save a few worms than he" Luo Binghe said, his words slightly lowered and voice deep. 

    "Things would've been better if Su Xiyan had aborted you!" He shouted. 

    Luo Binghe looked like he really wasn't caring what they were saying.

    "The fact that she didn't but rather sent me away where neither of those cultivators who were hunting her down couldn't find me she intended for me to live. If that ain't love from a mother than I don't know what it" He tilted his head, one eye ever so slightly glowing a red.

    "That's one thing I have respect for her for, she knew what I was but kept me alive. I now know the full truth of my origins thanks to you lot. But this doesn't change a thing. I have no relation to that man you all claim thats my father" He said.