Chapter 368: A Final Farewell

"As for Bai Qiu, send her to the northern frontier to contact her spies and informants there and find out more about her situation. If Nalan Yujie hasn't delivered the medicine to her..."

Yu Shiyan's slender fingers tightened continuously, "I will make her pay with her life."

"I understand. Is there anything else you need to find out?"

other?

Yu Shiyan lowered his eyes, and his long eyelashes trembled slightly.

He wanted to know if she would really marry Nalan Jue.

But I never said a word to try and keep her, so she must be... angry.

After a long silence, Yu Shiyan simply sighed, "No."

Just then, Zhong Heng suddenly shouted at the figure peeking out from the corner, "Who's there!"

Seeing that she had been discovered so quickly, Yu Yuanrong hesitated for a few moments before stepping forward and saying, "Seventh Brother... I didn't mean to eavesdrop on your conversation, and I just arrived."

Although he had a mother like Chu Wan, Yu Shiyan knew that Yu Yuanrong had never been a bad person. He did not take advantage of Yu Shiyan's weakness to bully him. Instead, he called him "brother" like a real brother.

"Did you need something from me?"

"I have...I don't...I..."

Seeing that he stammered for a long time without being able to form a sentence, Yu Shiyan roughly guessed what he wanted to say, "Father has drafted an edict to execute him in the autumn, but the decree has not yet been proclaimed."

He then added casually, "The imperial edict is with me."

The implication was that Chu Wan's life was now in his hands.

Yu Yuanrong was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head with a complicated expression: "Why doesn't Seventh Brother announce the imperial edict?"

"What, do you want me to announce it? Or do you want to plead for her?"

Yu Yuanrong shook her head, "My mother has done wrong and should bear the consequences, but..."

"explain."

"Seventh Brother, could you please let me see Mother one last time, just this once?" Yu Yuanrong's voice was barely audible.

"This is the imperial prison; you can't enter without a written order."

"Oh well."

In fact, Yu Yuanrong had expected to be rejected. After all, even he could not condone what his mother had done back then, let alone his seventh brother.

"Zhong Heng, take him inside."

Zhong Heng responded and, before Yu Yuanrong could react, turned and walked back.

"What are you standing there for? Didn't you just say you wanted to go in?" Yu Shiyan frowned slightly.

Yu Yuanrong snapped out of her daze, hurriedly said thank you, Seventh Brother, and followed closely behind Zhong Heng.

"Oh my! So this is where you are, Prince Mu! I've been looking for you everywhere!"

The two had barely entered the prison when Li Yuande rushed over, his whisk swirling in the air, his face filled with anxiety: "Quickly, come with me to His Majesty's palace! His Majesty has just fainted from a sudden attack of anger. He just woke up and opened his eyes, and he's calling for you to come over!"

"Why did you suddenly become so angry?"

Li Yuande stamped his feet anxiously, "This servant is not a physician, and I cannot explain it clearly in a few words. You should come with me immediately!"

Yu Shiyan didn't say much. He pursed his lips, turned around, glanced at the plaque of the Heavenly Prison, and then followed Li Yuande to the bedroom.

At this moment, Yu Yuanchao also arrived, followed by Li Yuande's apprentice Xiao Minzi, who was clearly sent by Li Yuande to summon him.

Li Yuande chuckled twice, feeling genuinely embarrassed, mainly because he hadn't expected the Crown Prince to be so slow.

He deliberately lingered a bit on the way, but unexpectedly, Yu Yuanchao was unable to enter the palace before him.