"Aunt Fei, do you think my little brother is still alive?" Jing Yuansi asked.
Gong Yunfei lowered her eyes. "That's what we're all hoping…" But the chances were far too slim.
They investigated for a long time after the incident. Back then, after Nie Xuejiao was injured by the Nie Family, they even poisoned her with a deadly toxin. Killing Nie Xuejiao was secondary; killing the fetus in her womb was their real goal.
Given Nie Xuejiao's condition at the time, her chances of survival were very small.
And back then, the Pengge Sect wasn't like it is now, desperate to protect Nie Xuejiao. After she went missing, they exhausted every means to search for her but found no trace at all. Some said she had fled into the mountains, but a pregnant woman, gravely wounded, poisoned, and about to give birth—let alone entering the mountains, she might not even have survived long enough to find a place to rest.
