"What? Little brother Qibing, you can't be serious? How could you have such a thought?" Yushan put on a great show of shock, while inwardly he was thrilled to the bone that Zhao Qibing had taken the bait. "Let me tell you, our Hidden Yu Family is no ordinary family. If you did such a thing, it would blow up into a huge mess, and when that happens, you'd be in deep trouble..."

"Trouble? What trouble could there be? Could they string me up and kill me? The Hidden Yu Family is no ordinary family, but is the Hidden Zhao Family an ordinary one? And I'm the young heir of the Hidden Zhao Family. As long as I take responsibility for Yuning, won't that settle it? Family scandals shouldn't be aired in public, and the sensible thing is to hold the wedding as soon as possible!" Zhao Qibing was utterly unconvinced, privately thinking that Yushan had grown much more timid after becoming a cripple, and that he no longer thought things through properly.

"That... does seem to make a bit of sense?" Yushan feigned hesitation for a moment, then said, "But the key problem is, even if you wanted to force yourself on her, you wouldn't get the chance. Yuning stays inside the Hidden Yu Family all day and never goes out."

"Oh? Aren't you going to be my inside man, Big Brother Yushan?" Zhao Qibing laughed and spoke probingly, little realizing that while he thought he was testing Yushan, it was in fact Yushan who had led him, step by step, to this very topic.

"I... I..." Yushan's voice suddenly turned halting, as though frightened out of his wits. "Little brother Qibing, don't joke around. I'm a cripple, what kind of inside man could I be! My standing in the Hidden Yu Family is very low right now, so please don't get me into trouble!"

"Haha, Big Brother Yushan, how could I get you into trouble? If Yuning and I really made a go of it, I'd be your brother-in-law, and our families would be doubly bound by marriage!" Zhao Qibing said. "You have to help me with this, Big Brother Yushan!"

"I... how could I help you? Are you asking me to trick Yuning into coming out so you can force yourself on her? No, absolutely not!" Yushan shook his head and denied it again and again. Yet even as he denied it, he somehow managed to describe a method and hint it to Zhao Qibing. It had to be said that he was advancing step by step, his intentions anything but honorable.

"It's simple, isn't it? Didn't you say it yourself, Big Brother Yushan? All you have to do is find a chance to trick Yuning into coming out, and everything is solved. Big Brother Yushan, I'm begging you. As long as you help me with this, once I rise to power, I will never forget your kindness!" Zhao Qibing could not suppress his longing to carry out this plan. Zhao Qijiu's affair had provoked him, and he genuinely wanted the Yu Family's support; and then, too, he truly had set his eyes on Yuning. Whatever way you looked at it, this was all gain and no loss. "When I become the head of the family, there will certainly be benefits in it for you!"

"What use are benefits to a cripple like me?" Yushan said with a bitter smile. "Little brother Qibing, it's impossible for me to become the head of the family now. All this cripple wants is to live the peaceful life of a rich young master. Those risky things, I don't want to do them..."

"Don't say that!" Zhao Qibing grew anxious at once. The desire in his heart had been stirred, and if it went unfulfilled, he knew he would neither eat nor sleep in peace. "Big Brother Yushan, you may indeed be a cripple, but that doesn't stop you from becoming an elder of external affairs for the family. You could manage the Yu Family's business in the secular world and handle the household's provisions. As long as you have a voice in your hands, it's not impossible that you could recover. From what I know, the third-grade Great Return Pill should be able to heal your injuries, no? Severe as they are, they aren't the kind that can't be cured, are they?"

"A third-grade Great Return Pill?" A glimmer of hope flashed through Yushan's eyes, only to dim again. Never mind a hidden family; even the ancient sects found it extraordinarily difficult to obtain a third-grade pill. What virtue or ability did the Hidden Yu Family have that it could lay hands on one?

And even if they did obtain a third-grade pill, given his current standing in the Yu Family, they would never give it to him to take. Yet even if only a sliver of hope remained, he would not have chosen revenge; he would not have chosen to risk everything.

Yushan had been injured by Wei Zhao back when the latter was still at the Earth Rank. In truth, the injury was not all that severe, and a single Great Return Pill would have been enough to restore him. But the Yu Family's coldness in a hundred different ways, and Old Master Yu's disappointment in him, left Yushan unable to see any hope at all. He knew he had been abandoned.

Ever since Old Master Yu learned the truth, any chance of recovery had been gone. That he was allowed to live quietly as a rich young master was already generous enough; the fact that the Yu Family had not swept him out the door showed they had left him some dignity.

"Exactly, so it's not as if there's no hope at all!" Zhao Qibing said. "As long as you have a say in the Yu Family, everything else can be discussed, right?"

"That's true..." Yushan said, though in his heart he thought nothing of the sort. "But those are secondary matters. If you want my help, fine, but you have to promise me one thing first!"

"What thing?" Zhao Qibing asked hurriedly.

"One day, when you have enough strength, you must help me get rid of Wei Zhao! He's the one who injured me, and he's the man I hate most in this world. If you promise to help me take my revenge, then I'll help you..." Yushan said after a moment's pondering.

"Wei Zhao?" Zhao Qibing was taken aback, then gave a bitter laugh. "My hatred for him is actually no less than yours, but I'm no match for him..."

"I said one day. If you have the strength by then, you'll help me take my revenge; if not, I certainly won't force you." In his heart, though, Yushan was thinking that whether Wei Zhao lived or died did not really matter. What he wanted most was for Yu Bing to die!

Yushan naturally knew all about the affair between Yuning and Wei Zhao, so handing Yuning over to Zhao Qibing to ruin was, in a roundabout way, revenge on Wei Zhao as well! And Yuning's status was somewhat special—she could not lose her virginity. Yushan actually knew a little about this, though not the details, but that did not stop him from moving against the Yu Family!

Once something happened to Yuning, the ones who would suffer were Old Master Yu, Yu Xiaochen, and Yu Bing! As for whether the Yu Family would decline as a result, Yushan did not care in the least. In his eyes, the Yu Family as it was now and a fallen Yu Family were no different to him.

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