Chapter 706: Unimaginable Tragedy! The Chen Family Prodigy Sets Out!

A woman came out from the end of the alley, looking to be in her forties or fifties, wearing a plain Daoist robe, but her hair was completely white.

Huang Xin didn’t expect that the dreamer would actually be such an older woman.

Moreover, from her attire, she didn’t seem to belong to the Taoist Sect, but rather a layperson practicing cultivation.

“Greetings, Patriarch Chen.” The female layperson ignored Huang Xin and directly performed a standard Taoist salute to Chen Han, obviously having practiced cultivation for a long time.

Chen Han, however, recognized her as the wife he first saw in the dream of the small farmhouse yard, only much older now.

So, he asked her, “Is this your husband and daughter?”

“Patriarch Chen, with eyes like a torch,” the female layperson said with a slight sigh.

Huang Xin was stunned.

He realized that this scene depicted the husband killing the daughter, and then she kept watch outside the alley, letting the husband handle the daughter’s corpse?

The accompanying tourist was also shocked, unable to comprehend encountering such inexplicable things in a dream.

“It seems you are haunted by this nightmare?” Chen Han didn’t rush to inquire why because he knew that in such situations, one couldn’t rush.

The female layperson nodded and instead began to speak proactively: “Patriarch Chen, would you mind listening to a story?”

“Please go on, layperson,” Chen Han gestured for her to continue.

The female layperson seemed to slip into memory, sighed, and said, “Life was really good back then, in the countryside, a small yard, not rich, but the husband and wife were hardworking and earnest, and the daughter was obedient and sensible.”

“She loved to sit on my lap and stargaze, and every day she eagerly awaited her father’s return with fruit for her to eat.”

“But human hearts have desires, and seeing other villagers move to the city to earn money, we wanted to follow to make a living in the city, starting as workers, saving money to start small businesses.”

“We made money, but we seemed to neglect our daughter’s education, forgetting how she loved to sit on her mother’s lap to watch the stars, awaited her father’s return, as our company gradually reduced.”

“Until one day, we discovered our 16-year-old daughter had utterly changed, became unrecognizable, mixed with ruffians with dyed hair, and even dated one.”

“Caught her and her boyfriend getting a room, the father exploded with rage, rebuking the daughter fiercely, not expecting to be beaten by her so-called boyfriend.”

“The daughter didn’t try to stop it either, as the father was hospitalized with fractured ribs for a month, and she never visited him.”

“From that time, the father cut ties with the daughter, even when she hid from the family to get married with the boyfriend using the household registration book, he didn’t interfere, even went as far as to remove her name from the household registry.”

“The father saw through it all, realizing his choice to enjoy life, not having to worry about the daughter, traveling nationwide with his wife, buying the car he liked.”

“Yet sometimes parents and children end up being entangled in misfortune, with the daughter and her husband being uneducated, struggling to find work, their family poor, soon finding life unsustainable.”

“Under her husband’s instigation, she targeted her biological parents, feigning repentance and desire to reconcile, inviting relatives and villagers to plead on their behalf, which the father saw through, knowing they were after his house, car, and over 2 million in savings.”

“So, the father sold the house, sold the car, and donated the over 2 million, directly confronted the daughter and son-in-law not intending to keep the daughter, and would rather donate the money than give it to them.”

“But who would have thought, with what they plotted slipping away, the son-in-law flew into a rage, attacked again, and this time the father was driven to the edge, taking a fruit knife and killing both the son-in-law and the daughter.”

By this point, the female layperson was silently sobbing, her face an emotion too complex to describe, allowing one to feel her helplessness, confusion, and despair.

Huang Xin had roughly pieced together the events.

It was simply a tale of parents neglecting their daughter for money, the obedient daughter enticed by a punk, turning rebellious, ending in family tragedy.

This is, in fact, a deeply felt and common situation in today’s society.

The term ‘yellow hair’ has even become a deeply ingrained trope.

Online, many people posting photos of cute and pretty daughters often see comments like ‘I wonder which punk will benefit’ or ‘the punk’s next target’ and so on.

‘Yellow hair’ refers to those with low education, seemingly street-smart, fitting into society, adept at navigating social scenarios.

Young girls at an impressionable age, unable to discern, not realizing these individuals amount to nothing, yet easily enamored by the aura of adventure, being willing to follow them on a reckless journey.

This presents an ignorant and ludicrous worldview, yet remains the real condition for many young girls.

Colloquially known as: foolishness.

These girls, filtered by punks, would either be taken advantage of and then handed off to a good-natured guy, or deceived back home to marry, not just for nothing, but also making enemies of their parents, ultimately suffering life’s hardships.

And like the situation in this female layperson’s household, it genuinely constitutes an extreme case.

Huang Xin, due to his responsibilities, still asked one more question, “Lady, what eventually happened to your husband?”

This case, he sympathized with her, but it still involved two lives, regardless of right or wrong, involving lives in China is always a serious matter.

The female layperson responded with clear acceptance, “He stayed inside for over a decade and passed away inside not long ago.”

“No wonder…” Upon hearing this, Huang Xin finally understood why this alley and the buildings didn’t align with modern conditions—turns out it was all from over a decade ago.