CHAPTER 498: CHAPTER 498: THE TRUTH REVEALED

Yan Chuhua immediately summoned her spiritual power to maintain the hypnotic state on Mu Chen.

During the hypnosis, any disturbance could easily interrupt the process.

Yan Qianyi said, "Little aunt, don’t get agitated. My friend is a Special Ability User who can hypnotize people and extract their true thoughts. If you still care about your relationship with Ah Lie, please do not interrupt. I will not distort facts, and everything will be based on truth."

"Qianyi, this..." Old Master Mu appeared bewildered as he turned to Yan Qianyi, "What exactly do you mean, what did Chu Hua just ask?"

Yan Qianyi’s gaze swept across the faces of the onlookers and settled on Old Master Mu’s face, reporting truthfully:

"Grandfather, actually, Ah Lie and I have always suspected that our father’s death was caused by the second uncle. Thus, I brought my friend here today. Chu Hua is a student from the Special Department at the Federation Military Academy. She can ask for heart-felt truths while hypnotizing someone and will never falsify anything."

Old Master Mu’s lips trembled slightly, hardly believing what his ears were hearing.

Yan Qianyi’s words struck like a thunderbolt, shocking everyone present.

"Chu Hua, continue, hurry and ignore the rest," Yan Qianyi urged.

Using a special ability consumes spiritual power, and one cannot maintain it indefinitely.

Previously, Yan Chuhua could only sustain a hypnotic state for up to one minute.

After studying a semester at the Federation Military Academy, she was now able to maintain a hypnotic state for almost ten minutes.

Yan Chuhua nodded her head and repeated the question, "Mu Chen, did you push Mu Feng off the rooftop back then?"

Everyone held their breath, anxiously watching Mu Chen.

Mu Chen, still expressionless, nodded his head, "Yes."

The crowd gasped in shock, their eyes wideness.

Old Master Mu’s eyes trembled, turning red in an instant.

Mu Huaner collapsed back into her seat, her entire body weakened.

Previously, she had deceived herself into believing Mu Chen, thinking that Yan Qianyi just wanted to destroy the familial relationships.

Unexpectedly, the cruel, bloody truth had to be faced eventually.

"Husband! What are you saying? Have you lost your mind?!"

Wen Shurou, agitated, grabbed Mu Chen’s arm, trying to shake him awake.

Yan Qianyi quickly pulled Wen Shurou away, "He’s not confused; he’s telling the truth. Are you trying to wake him because you’re afraid of the truth being exposed?"

Wen Shurou’s expression fluttered between panic and confusion, "Exposed what? What truth? I have no idea what you’re talking about! My husband and his younger brother were so close; how could he do such a thing?"

"Everyone shut up!" Old Master Mu growled, his face dark and terrifying, "Chu Hua, continue, and nobody is allowed to interfere!"

Everyone closed their mouths.

Sweat beads began to form on Yan Chuhua’s forehead.

Hypnotizing in such a noisy and disturbing environment was taxing, requiring the use of more spiritual power.

Mu Chen had almost come to his senses several times already.

Taking advantage of the quiet, she quickly asked, "Mu Chen, why did you want to harm Mu Feng?"

Mu Chen replied, "He snatched my love, took Nangong Chun from me. Without him, Nangong Chun would have been mine. Father also only liked him. I don’t feel inferior to him, and I couldn’t accept it. Since I exist in this world, there should be no place for him."

Hearing this, Wen Shurou’s legs gave out, and she nearly fainted.

Her children hurriedly stepped forward to support her.

She trembled all over, unable to believe her eyes as she looked at Mu Chen.

She knew that Mu Chen had never gotten over Nangong Chun.

But she could never have imagined that Mu Chen would plot against his own younger brother for the sake of a woman!

Yan Chuhua continued to ask, "Mu Feng bled profusely during the rescue because he had taken blood activators before falling from the building. Did you do this?"

Mu Chen nodded emotionlessly. "Yes, to ensure that he couldn’t be saved after the fall, I added blood activators to the wine he drank."

"Then, the so-called post-traumatic stress disorder you claimed to have, was that also fake?"

"Fake. I simply didn’t want to mention him again, and pretending to be ill was a way to avoid it."

"Dr. Shu Meng died in a car accident two years ago, was it you who directed Xu Zhiqiang to tamper with her car?"

Just as Mu Chen was about to respond, his daughter, Mu Lingling, suddenly burst out uncontrollably, "Enough! I don’t believe it, it must be Yan Chuhua intentionally bewitching my father to say these things!"

She then turned and glared at Yan Qianyi. "Why would you do this? To seize the Mu Family’s property? But my father was never an obstacle to you and Mu Yunlie, why would you do this to him?!"

Mu Lingling’s shouting brought Mu Chen back to his senses.

Yan Chuhua had persisted for a long time, and with the external interference, she could no longer keep Mu Chen in a hypnotized state.

Mu Chen’s eyes refocused.

But he had no knowledge of what had occurred during the hypnosis.

Seeing the strange expressions on everyone’s faces, he looked confusedly at his wife, who was being supported by his son and daughter, "What’s wrong?"

Mu Lingling said, "Dad, Yan Chuhua just hypnotized you and asked if you were responsible for killing Uncle Three. Quickly tell everyone, it wasn’t you, it was Yan Chuhua using her special ability to manipulate you!"

Mu Lingling could not believe that her father was capable of committing such heinous acts.

Mu Chen was taken aback.

He had been hypnotized just now?

"I... what did I just say?" Mu Chen asked anxiously.

Yan Qianyi said, "You said that it was you who put the blood activators into Ah Lie’s dad’s drink, and that it was also you who pushed him off the rooftop."

Mu Feng was shocked and defensively retorted, "I didn’t! It was you and your friend who designed to make me say those words! I never did those things!"

Mu Lingling said, "Grandfather, see how vicious Yan Qianyi’s heart is, using such methods to frame my dad!"

Yan Chuhua argued with reason, "It’s not framing, when I hypnotized him earlier, he spoke the truth."

"You’re Yan Qianyi’s friend, of course you would take her side!"

"Chuhua, no need to argue with her," Yan Qianyi said with a faint smile.

She knew that after the hypnosis made Mu Chen speak the truth, he would also deny it.

That’s why both testimonial and physical evidence were needed, to leave Mu Chen with nothing to say.

She looked at Mu Chen, "Aren’t you supposed to have post-traumatic stress disorder? How come you are normal now? Did you forget to pretend?"

Hearing this, Mu Chen was taken aback, and his hands began to tremble.

Yan Qianyi sneered, "Pretending now is too late. Masked Divine Doctor already told me she discovered your illness was a fake. The several times she came, she never treated you, and each time to cooperate with you, she had to stay long enough before leaving."

Mu Chen was agitated, "Impossible! I signed a confidentiality agreement with her, she couldn’t possibly tell you any of this!"

Hearing this, Mu Kang furrowed his brow and asked, "You really signed a confidentiality agreement with Masked Divine Doctor?!"