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Chapter 4721: Utterly Arrogant

Long Xiangyun only felt a chill deep in her heart from her grandmother's five iron-like fingers gripping her.

The old woman seemed to remember something and suddenly took out a coffin from her spatial ring.

Long Xiangyun's eyes widened in shock.

Grandmother actually… carried Xueyuan sister in a coffin with her?

So Grandmother had indeed planned all along, intending to extract the mermaid pearl for Long Xueyuan the moment she killed Qiao Mu?

Long Xiangyun couldn't help but shiver at the thought.

"Xueyuan promised me she would dedicate her life to our Forgetful River Long family," the old woman said with an air of utter arrogance.

"Let her keep the mermaid pearl for a while. Then, when your brother's child grows up, she will hand over the ten-thousand-year mermaid pearl to your brother's heir, to be passed down through generations."

"This way, the future of our Long family can be passed down for thousands of years!" The old woman's eyes gleamed brightly as she spoke.

Long Xiangyun, however, opened her mouth, unsure what to say.

She felt like the old woman was completely deluded.

For that illusory future of the Long family, she had been scheming all along, thinking about this and that, even using her own grandson and granddaughter in her calculations.

"I can't rely on my son, nor can I rely on my grandson. I can only place my hopes on your brother's child."

Long Xiangyun stared blankly at her grandmother.

Her brother didn't even have a wife yet, so what was this about placing hope on his child?

"I've already chosen a fiancée for your brother. Duo Shanmei of the Duo family. Her talent and bloodline are quite good, a perfect match for your brother."

"Since he cannot bear the great responsibility of the Long family's future, he must obey the arrangements and bear an intelligent and healthy heir for the Forgetful River Long family."

Long Xiangyun shivered again, staring blankly at the old woman.

So that means…

"Was it because Aunt didn't obey your arrangements that you wanted to kill her back then?"

The old woman probably didn't love Long Xueyuan that much either.

It was just that in her eyes, Long Xueyuan was a very qualified tool.

Willing to expend her heart's blood to deduce the family's future for the Forgetful River Long family.

For the sake of the Long family, she agreed to the old woman's request to never marry and serve the family her entire life, assisting the family's future successor.

Then, what about her, Long Xiangyun?

The old woman suddenly grabbed Long Xiangyun's arm and roared, "As the next successor, and the paternal aunt of your brother's child, I hope you won't be as ungrateful as Long Chuyun!"

"Back then, when I asked her to return the mermaid pearl, she told me that the mermaid pearl had merged with her body and bloodline. Taking it out rashly would kill her."

A hint of disdain flashed in the old woman's eyes, and she cried out sharply, "So what if it kills her? If it were me, for the prosperity of the entire family, even if I were to die, I would absolutely hand over the mermaid pearl. What about her? She's just a selfish ingrate."

"I gave her two paths back then. One, stay with the mermaid pearl and become the Long family's Saintess, assisting the next successor, which was Hui'er."

"The other, take the mermaid pearl and enter a marriage alliance. But the future couldn't be predicted, and even if something happened later, I wouldn't help her."

Long Xiangyun shivered, staring blankly at her grandmother as if seeing her for the first time.

"For that illusory prosperity for thousands of generations, you, you just… treat your own children as, as tools?"