Chapter 212: Because of You, I Have No Regrets
The Wisteria Cache!
Zi Di couldn’t help but sink into silence.
This important information surprised her greatly.
Before now, she never knew about it.
“I took over as president, and sorted out my father’s things, but didn’t find anything about it.”
“Perhaps because father’s death was too sudden, he was unable to leave a trail to the cache behind.”
“His things and home were definitely searched many times, and perhaps during the course of this, the trail was destroyed.”
“Father…”
When Zi Di thought that, she recalled her father’s voice and face, his tight brows, and felt his haggard heart and body.
Too many things have happened in these last few days.
First was the battle of wits at the auction.
Soon after, a chaotic battle involving Hun Tong, the fishmen, pirates, mercenary corps, merchant alliances, and other parties unfolded. The Dragon Lion Mercenary Corps couldn’t stay out of it and were unable to stop themselves from being completely drawn into the melee.
After Zi Di had left the auction hall, she kept watch from the Deep Sea Monster Fish. While doing so, in the final phase of the fighting, she suffered the agreement’s influence and narrowly avoided a serious mistake. She still didn’t know about the Devil Gold Coins’ existence and was still on edge.
Just now, she had heard about the Wisteria Cache from Qing Xin’s mouth.
In her jumbled train of thought, an idea suddenly appeared in Zi Di’s mind.
“Does Fei She know about the Wisteria Cache?”
Fei She was Zi Di’s father’s confidant and an elder who had helped found the Wisteria Merchant Alliance. He helped Zi Di’s father through their tough journey together, watching as the Wisteria Merchant Alliance sprung up, expanded, was divided up, and also saw Zi Di grow up.
Thinking of this, Zi Di was unable to hold herself back and contacted Fei She with the alchemy communication device.
Each of the survivors had one of these communication devices.
As an ordinary person, Fei She was looked after greatly. After escaping the auction hall, he had been hiding in a corner and never joined the melee.
With the Deceptive Disguise spell and a few self-defense tricks, he was able to get through the chaotic warfare unscathed.
The communication device quickly connected.
Zi Di’s voice transmitted, directly asking, “Elder Fei She, did you know about the Wisteria Cache?”
Fei She was at first silent, then he replied, “Did Qing, Qing Xin tell you?”
Fei She was a spectator and knew many things that happened on the battlefield.
Zi Di responded, “The nobles have always been searching for the Wisteria Cache, consequently forcing older sister Qing Xin to live incognito and disguise herself as a slave. Elder, please tell me all that you know.”
Fei She deeply sighed, “President, my, my answer might dis, disappoint you.”
“I know about the Wis, Wisteria Cache, but I don’t know the true inside story.”
“The old president was constantly scurrying away and transferring resources to accumulate a extremely value, valuable resource. It was to be used for a resurge, resurgence.”
“Once upon a time, The Wisteria Ca, Cache was also our final ho, hope against our challenges. Because it was too import, important.”
“As a matter of fact, this was done deliberate, deliberately. It was because I wasn’t involved in it that I was able to survive the pur, purge.”
Zi Di’s lips tightened.
Elder Fei She’s response was actually within her expectations.
Suppose Elder Fei She knew about the cache, wouldn’t he have informed her of it already?
Even if he wanted to keep everything for himself, he wouldn’t have gone to the Wilderness Continent with her, experiencing life and death along the way.
Zi Di was silent for a moment before finally vocalizing her most deeply thought question.
“Elder Fei She…please, you must answer it. If I agreed to the marriage connection…”
But Fei She immediately interrupter her, “President Zi Di!”
On Two Eyes Island, Fei She clutched the alchemy communication device and gazed at the scarlet sunset glow, his face solemn, “I have some, something I must tell you.”
“Your fat, father has always been proud of you!”
“What?” Zi Di was puzzled.
Fei She coughed, then continued, “To be more precise, he, he was happy that you refused the marriage connection. He was pro, proud that you decided to separate yourself from the fam, family and live independently.”
“When you were living alone, and would, wouldn’t use another’s money, your father was worry, worried from beginning to end.”
“On more than one occasion, he commended you in front of me, said that you real, really grew up, and that you were worthy of being hi, his daughter.”
When Zi Di heard this, her pupils momentarily dilated, and she blankly sat there.
Fei She added, “At the same time, he also felt ashamed, remorseful, and blamed himself.
“He said his tal, talent was too low, and that if he were a pow, powerful cultivator, he could pro, protect you, and wouldn’t let y, you receive such grievances.”
“But unfortunately, he, he wasn’t one.”
“He intentionally told, told me this so I could tell it to, to you.”
“President Zi Di, if you believe that it was your refusal of the marriage connection that led to the Wisteria Merchant Alliance being div, divided up, and your fat, father’s death, then you are gravely mistaken.”
“Don’t be naïve!”
“The Wisteria Merchant Alliance could, couldn’t be allowed to keep existing, because it didn’t belong to any nobles or clan. The benefits were too astonish, astonishing, and couldn’t be annexed by a single great lord or clan.”
“Consider this, of the empire six great merchant, merchant alliances, which doesn’t have an astonishing backer?”
“The Wisteria Merchant Alliance has none. It rose from not, nothing, spring from the commoners. It’s like when a farmer finds an unexpectedly lar, large ox on their farm. It had to be div, divided up!”
“If you agree, agreed to the marriage connection, at most it would give one farm, farmer a better justification and excuse to annex mor, more of the beef.”
“In fa, fact, your father appreciated you President Zi Di.”
“It was because of your re, resistance that his courage was stimulated. Who would wan, want to see their hard earned we, wealth be partitioned up by others? We and your father were extreme, extremely unreconciled!”
“In fact, we were all prep, prepared for that d, day. But from beginning to end, we never regretted anything.”
Your father had the le, least regrets!”
“In short, I, I want to say this to you President Zi Di. Don’t look down on your fat, father.”
Zi Di was silent.
Her eyes gradually glistened with teardrops.
Endless memories engulfed her.
At that moment, she felt paternal love again.
Paternal love was deep and worthy of the greatest admiration.
The old Wisteria president wasn’t powerful, but he still used his own shoulders to tenaciously hold up the heavens.
During those difficult years, he shouldered the rising pressure alone, racking his brains and exhausting every method to content with those lofty jackals and wolves.
With regards to his daughter, he silenced his heart and deliberately maintained distance.
His love, his true feelings couldn’t be conveyed directly, because he didn’t want outsiders to know that his daughter was his weakness, he didn’t want to drag his daughter into a gigantic whirlpool.
Perhaps because of this reason, those nobles finally let Zi Di go.
After all, she was a small iron level cultivating at college, her potential and gifts were known to all.
“No, there is a bigger possibility. Those nobles purposely let me live, perhaps thinking they could find the Wisteria Cache through me?” Zi Di coldly flashed.
She suddenly comprehended that she was a nigh identical situation to Qing Xin, she must have been monitored.
At this moment, she thought of her assassination attempt.
Not long after taking office, an assassin came for her.
Was someone really resentful that she’d become president?
Or was it really a spy?
“Perhaps they wanted to probe into what power I kept concealed, or force me to use the Wisteria Cache? If I had the cache at that time.”
However, fate was mysterious and unable to be predicted.
The assassin was defeated, Jian Zuan was drawn out, and War Merchant got involved.
The string of incidents that happened on Mystifying Monster Island really were hard to explain succinctly.
Finally, now, outside of Two Eyes Island’s waters, Zi Di had at last met with Qing Xin and understood what had happened behind the scenes.
A portion of the inside story.
Zi Di had a greater understanding of her father and his paternal love for her.
It was because of this love that another strong emotion flourished in her heart.
Hatred!
The more she understood her father and felt his paternal love, the more she hated!
“Who are they, those people who annexed the merchant alliance?” She asked both Fei She and Qing Xin.
Elder Fei She stated, “Too many to count.”
None of the six great merchant alliances were innocent, and the great nobles backing them had been the executioners.
Qing Xin replied, “There is a leader. It is said to be a member of the imperial family, but who they have never been divulged.”
“What? A bloodline descendant of Heavenly Emperor Sheng Ming?” Zi Di’s heart shook.
Like a bucket of freezing water, her body and mind were soaked ice cold.
Not all of Heavenly Emperor Sheng Ming’s descendants were elite.
But since this bloodline descendant was capable of serving as leader and could coordinate each large noble well to successfully partition the Wisteria Merchant Alliance…that kind of strength and influence was sure to belong to an important member of the imperial household.
If Zi Di wanted vengeance, wouldn’t she need to set herself against the imperial household, against the entire Sheng Ming Empire?
The enemy was too powerful.
Vengeance…was hopeless.
However, as Zi Di’s heart gradually sank, the dragonman youngster extended his dragon claw and turned the communication device off.
He consoled her warmly, “Don’t worry, Zi Di, I am still here.”
Zi Di stared blankly, then raised her head slightly to look back at the dragonman youngster.
The dragonman youngster had returned to the Deep Sea Monster Fish to guard against the agreement from taking hold once again.
While Zi Di, Qing Xin, and Fei She had been conversing, he had been listening.
The dragonman youngster hid the pity in his heart and smiled to Zi Di, “Zi Di, I will help you.”
He extended his dragon claw to Zi Di’s face.
Zi Di unconsciously stretched out her hand and put it into the dragon claw’s palm, feeling the dragonman youngster’s generosity, power, and stability.
The dragonman youngster’s tone was resolute, “No matter how lofty a noble is, when they rob another of their wealth to satisfy their own greed, they abandoned their honor and nobility, each and every one of them is a disciple of evil and sin, none of them are a righteous person!”
“They must receive a just punishment!”
“I firmly believe that taking revenge against them is the righteous path.”
The dragonman youngster leading the survivors in their redemption with the empire was not them bowing their heads to power, just a survival strategy.
As a believer in the Justice God, the dragonman youngster never feared power.
In this aspect, he and Chi Lai were alike. The latter had offended a bigwig to carry out justice and had been framed and reduced to slave for doing so.
“No, this is my personal grudge…” Zi Di shook her head.
The enemy was too powerful, she didn’t want to implicate her beloved.
But the young man’s answer had ruthlessly hit the softest depths of the young lady’s heart.
“Idiot.”
“Are you forgetting? I am your knight.”
The dragonman youngster slowly leaned over and carefully embraced Zi Di into his chest.
Since Zi Di had been forced to become a ghost, the two touched each other carefully.
The Deceptive Disguise spell was just a disguise, it couldn’t alter one’s essence.
The ghost girl didn’t have substance, and those that weren’t familiar with her situation would be affected by the Deceptive Disguise spell, and even if they poked through the ghost girl, they would be deceived and be unable to sense it.
But the dragonman youngster knew the truth, and Deceptive Disguise affected him much less.
Therefore, when the two touched, they were very careful. If they moved too much, they would pass through each other’s body.
During this prudent embrace, Zi Di’s heart came under a wonderful serenity, as if she was immersed in an ocean of happiness at this moment.
She had a completely new answer to that wretched and tortuous question pertaining to the marriage connection.
No regrets!
If she agreed then, how could she have met the dragonman youngster now?
Even if fate gives me more torment and suffering, because of you, I have no regrets.
The dragonman youngster then said, “Don’t worry.”
“Even if it is a member of the imperial household, we aren’t hopeless.”
“Right?”
Zi Di’s heart shook, she instantly knew what the dragonman youngster was implying.
“Yes.”
“We have the Bloodcore!”
“We have infinite growth potential!”
“The enemy is indeed formidable, but only for now.”
“In the future…”
“So long as we are given enough time to grow, the hope for vengeance will grow too!”