The Lin's Patriarch is weird.

Chapter 159: 159.

After arranging for the Lin Family elders to routinely inspect the construction and ensure that the work proceeded without further interference, Lin Xuan finally shifted his attention elsewhere.

There was one matter that had been bothering him ever since he had obtained one of the memory cubes left behind by the original Lin Xuan.

As a transmigrator, Lin Xuan had inherited more than merely the name and body of his predecessor.

He had also obtained fragments of the original Lin Xuan’s memories, preserved within those strange memory cubes. Most of the memories were mundane, little more than scattered impressions of a life that had already ended.

But one memory had remained in his mind.

It concerned the Su Family.

Within that memory, the original Lin Xuan had once passed by an inn and inadvertently overheard several Su Family elders drinking together. They had been laughing loudly, their cups repeatedly raised as they spoke about the Lin Family.

At first, their words had seemed nothing more than drunken boasting.

Then one of them had sneered that the Lin Family was practically funding their drinking.

Every year, the Lin Family continued sending resources to the Su Family, and those elders had apparently taken it for granted that they could spend part of those funds on wine and leisure.

What truly caught Lin Xuan’s attention, however, was what they said afterward.

One of the elders leaned against his chair, his face flushed from alcohol, and laughed.

"They still cling to the hope that that bitch is alive! Hahaha!"

Another elder immediately glanced around before lowering his voice.

"I know, right? Oops. We shouldn’t be speaking about that here."

He looked toward the surrounding tables with a hint of unease.

"What if someone snitches?"

The first elder scoffed.

"Tsk. Who do you think we are?"

He lifted his wine cup and grinned.

"We’ll just clear up all the witnesses. Drink, drink up!"

The laughter that followed was carefree.

They had spoken of slaughter as casually as they spoke of pouring another cup of wine.

And that was the last conversation any of them ever had.

Lin Xuan had appeared before them and the next moment, the entire inn had been plunged into bloodshed.

No witness remained.

Lin Xuan could feel the predecessor’s emotions through the fragments preserved within the memory cube. Rage, confusion, hatred, and something far more difficult to describe had surged together until they had nearly overwhelmed his mind.

Then came the final scene.

The original Lin Xuan standing alone amid the corpses.

Afterward, he had sealed away that portion of his own memory.

It was as though even he could not bear to remember what he had done.

The current Lin Xuan remained silent for a long moment.

His brows gradually knitted together because he always felt that something was wrong in that memory.

Nascent Soul Realm, the original Lin Xuan had already reached the Nascent Soul Realm, so why the heck was he only at the golden core realm when he took over?

Lin Xuan’s expression changed slightly.

"Does that make sense?"

After a few deep breath, he decided to visit the Su Family personally.

The Su Family was also an eighth-rank clan, and their relationship with the Lin Family stretched back a few decades.

It had begun with the union of his parents.

Back then, the Su Family had only been a ninth-rank clan, while the Lin Family had not even qualified to be ranked.

When news spread that the young Patriarch of an unranked family had fallen in love with the princess of the Su Family, the reaction from the Su Family had been anything but pleasant.

They had considered the marriage beneath their daughter.

The Su Family had exerted considerable pressure on the Lin Family, making it clear that they would not accept the union without a sufficient dowry.

In the end, Lin Xuan’s father had surrendered one of the Lin Family’s ancestral heirlooms as the dowry.

Only then had the Su Family finally relented.

Over the years, a rumor had even spread throughout the entire Loushi kingdom.

The heirloom given to the Su Family was supposedly the very reason they had managed to rise from a ninth-rank clan to their current position as an eighth-rank clan.

Whether the rumor was true or not, nobody could say for certain.

But Lin Xuan intended to find out.

Today, he intends to visit the Su Family for two reason.

He wanted that heirloom back.

He did not believe there was anything wrong with demanding its return.

The Lin Family had already paid enough.

For years, a portion of the Lin Family’s profits had been sent to the Su Family.

The reason had always been the same.

They claimed that Lin Xuan’s mother was still alive somewhere in the world and that the Su Family needed those resources to continue searching for her.

Su Qinglan had believed it.

And because she believed it, she had never questioned where the money was going.

But Lin Xuan knew the truth and he believed his mother was almost certainly dead.

The Su Family had likely known that for years.

They had simply continued using her supposed survival as an excuse to drain resources from the Lin Family.

Lin Xuan’s expression became cold as he walked.

It was only recently that he had finally remembered this part of the past.

For some reason, the previous Lin Xuan had seemingly sealed away those memories.

Perhaps the truth had simply hurt too much.

The Su Family had been one of the few families his parents had trusted.

His mother had been born there and his father had endured their pressure because of her.

Su Qinglan had remained loyal to the Lin Family for all these years.

And yet the family that had once been closest to his mother had turned around and exploited her memory for their own benefit.

Lin Xuan could hardly understand why his previous self had buried those memories.

Why didn’t you simply put them in their place when you already possessed Nascent Soul cultivation?

And the second reason... It’s not really that important.

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