Chapter 571 Finale (with extra chapter)

The next day was the day when Xiao Yun, Prince Qing, Duke of Song and others were executed.

Xie Jingyu was not interested in watching people being beheaded, but Prince Yuzhang and Chu Yang had nothing to do, so they went to the execution ground to watch.

A good location was chosen for watching the execution: on the city wall.

Ordinary people were not allowed to go up, but their status was more noble than each other, so the city guards dared not stop them.

Those who knew thought they were watching an execution, while those who didn’t thought they were just enjoying the scenery.

They had caused a stir in Nanliang following Xie Jingyu, and when they returned to Ning Dynasty, Xie Jingyu became idle and they had nothing to do, so they returned to their leisurely and carefree days.

Not to mention the emperor, even their own fathers, Prince Teng and Marquis Linjiang, could not imagine their sons helping with official work in Southern Liang.

My own son, who I have watched grow up since he was a child, has nothing to do with serious business.

But if they hadn't helped the Southern Liang Emperor, his treasury would have been much fuller to give them so many good things.

Every time Prince Teng looked at his son, he wondered where he had made a mistake.

But no matter how he looked, he couldn't see anything special about his son.

Forget it, there are many good horses in this world, but good horse trainers are rare.

It is a good thing that the Prince of Jingbei can be used as a sharp knife for his son, who is good-for-nothing and only causes trouble in his eyes.

I just can't help feeling depressed.

Prince Teng could not see the strengths of his sons, so naturally he would not find jobs for them. Xie Jingyu did not serve as an official in the court. He had been busy in Southern Liang for more than half a year, and he did not want to get up before dawn to attend court. It was no use having his wife by his side when attending court.

But he was not idle either. The emperor didn't care whether he held an official position or not. He was his son-in-law anyway. It was good enough that he didn't ask him to review memorials. He could also choose not to use him when there was something.

Moreover, Xie Jingyu had the token given by the emperor that said "As if I were present in person", which meant that he was second only to the emperor in a sense.

The Ning Dynasty, Southern Liang and North Vietnam signed a truce, and the border was peaceful.

Xiao Huaijin asked the emperor to exempt the people from taxes for two years, so that the people could recuperate and live a peaceful life.

Chen Wan wanted a peaceful country with a clean and peaceful sea and clear water. Xie Jingyu did what he said and helped Chen Wan realize this wish.

As for Xie Jingyu's life, not only the children of ordinary aristocratic families, but even the princes would envy him.

He didn't have to attend court or report to the government office every day. In front of the emperor, he would switch back and forth between being a favored minister and a disliked minister. No one in the court, including his father, dared to look down on him.

The prince felt that the military power in his hands was no longer of much use due to his power and leisure.

But the good life of a certain prince consort who was rich, powerful and free was shattered on a full moon night three years later.

That night, Xie Jingyu dreamed of his past life, which he had always wanted to know but Shen Wan could not tell him.

In his dream, Shen Wan did not let her maid pretend to be her and return to the mansion, but she returned to the mansion in a carriage by herself and was rescued by Xiao Yun.

From then on, she secretly fell in love with him and wanted to marry Xiao Yun.

But Shen Ji remembered Lin Qingyin's instructions before her death, that Shen Wan could grow up safely, and find an ordinary marriage for her, not letting her marry into the royal family.

Xiao Yun saved Shen Wan, and the emperor always loved Shen Wan, so he wanted to propose marriage to Shen Ji. Shen Ji refused the emperor's proposal on the grounds that Shen Wan fell into the water when she was young and was injured, and it might be difficult for her to get pregnant.

The emperor trusted Shen Ji and loved Shen Wan. He knew how difficult life would be for a royal family without a child. In addition, the emperor did not really want Xiao Yun to inherit the throne, and Shen Ji refused to marry his daughter, so this matter did not happen.

She refused the emperor's proposal for her son's marriage because she was unable to have children, which almost ended Shen Wan's hope of getting married.

No one dared, and no one would ask to marry Shen Wan again.

But Xiao Yun did not give up. He married Shen Wan not because of Shen Wan as a person, but because of the power behind her, the military power in Shen Ji's hands, the wealth of the Yun family that rivaled a country, and even the old tutor Lin who loved Shen Wan very much.

There is disunity in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion. Shen Ji doesn't want Shen Wan to marry Xiao Yun, but everyone else in the Duke Dingguo's Mansion pushes Shen Wan to Xiao Yun.

Xie Jingyu liked Chen Wan a long time ago. He didn't care whether Chen Wan could give birth or not, and he was not afraid of Xiao Yun. If Shen Wan couldn't give birth, perhaps the emperor would not be afraid of the marriage between Jingbei Palace and Dingguo Duke.

But just when he was about to propose marriage, something happened to the princess.

The princess went to the Duke of Xingguo's mansion to celebrate his birthday. Because she got lost, she saw Queen Song and Prince Qing having an affair. She was silenced and thrown into a well.

His mother was murdered, and Xie Jingyu had no mood to care about himself. He just wanted to find the murderer who killed his mother to comfort her spirit in heaven.

Besides, he was in mourning and couldn't come to propose marriage.

Fortunately, apart from him, no one else would dare to come and ask for Shen Wan's hand in marriage, so Xie Jingyu went to the border without any worries.

On his way to the border, he met Chen Wan who was going to Prince Kang's mansion to celebrate the birthday of Concubine Kang.

He didn't know when he would be able to come back after going to the border, so he wanted to let Shen Wan know his feelings before leaving.

So even after leaving the city, he turned back and went to Prince Kang's Mansion.

He didn't expect that after Xiao Yun's marriage proposal was rejected, he still didn't give up and teamed up with the second branch of the Duke of Dingguo's Mansion to drug Shen Wan.

At that time, the effect of the medicine had just begun to take effect on Shen Wan, and she did see Xiao Yun walking towards her. Just as she was about to walk towards Xiao Yun, Xie Jingyu pulled her back.

Xie Jingyu wanted to find a doctor to detoxify Shen Wan, but Shen Wan drank some fruit wine at the banquet, which made her mandarin duck hair spread even faster, and she clung to him like an octopus.

He originally wanted to marry Shen Wan, and when Shen Wan called him and wanted to kiss him, how could he resist?

He took Shen Wan to an empty bamboo house...

They talked a lot that day.

He promised to marry Shen Wan.

Wait until he returns from the border and the mourning period is over, and then I will marry her.

Shen Wan agreed.

He gave the jade pendant, his mother's most cherished relic, to Chen Wan as a token of love.

Shen Wan couldn't bear him, and coupled with the effect of the Yuanyang Powder, she fainted.

He was the one who helped her get dressed.

However, he was not very good at wearing women's clothes. He struggled for a long time before he could put them on. Then he found that he had forgotten to give Xiaoyi to Chen Wan, and it was too bulging when he stuffed it into Chen Wan's arms, so he simply took Xiaoyi away.

When she left, Shen Wan's maid came looking for her, along with the fake Ye Caiwei.

Xie Jingyu never expected that the side effect of Yuanyang Powder would make him forget everything that happened with the Chinese medicine. He also never expected that the maid and cousin around Shen Wan would join forces to deceive her.

Chen Wan only remembered that when he was dizzy, he saw Xiao Yun and walked towards him.

She thought the person who saved her was Xiao Yun.

She was mistaken. Ye Caiwei and the maid also lied to her, saying that the man was King Cheng.

She believed it.

But even so, Shen Ji didn't want to marry her to Xiao Yun. She had rejected him once, and if she married him again, Xiao Yun would not treat Shen Wan well. From the moment he rejected the emperor's proposal, he decided that Shen Wan would never marry, and he and Shen Li would raise Shen Wan for the rest of her life.

But man proposes, God disposes, and Chen Wan became pregnant.

Shen Ji could prevent Shen Wan from marrying, but he could not feed Shen Wan abortion drugs to abort the child. The Duke Dingguo's Mansion could not afford the charge of murdering the royal heir.

He also couldn't leave the child without a father.

What's more, Shen Wan is willing to marry Xiao Yun.

Chen Ji could only disappoint Lin Qingyin's request and send Chen Wan to the bridal sedan.

Xie Jingyu was at the border when he heard the news that Chen Wan was going to marry Xiao Yun. He didn't believe it and couldn't accept it.

Shen Wan is already his, and she has even agreed to marry him, so how could she go back on her word and marry someone else?!

Upon hearing the news, Xie Jingyu jumped on his horse and rushed back to Beijing without even saying goodbye. He wanted to get to the bottom of it.

Afraid that he would not be able to return to Beijing in time, he rode as fast as he could, traveling day and night.

Exhausted, he encountered the assassin sent by the second master to kill him. He was almost defeated and died at the hands of the assassin.

By the time he recovered from his injuries and returned to Beijing, Shen Wan had already married Xiao Yun.

When he saw her again, she was several months pregnant and looked at Xiao Yun with a beautiful smile on her face.

At that moment, my heart was bleeding.

He didn't understand what kind of cold-hearted woman he liked, and how she managed to marry Xiao Yun as if nothing had happened.

Doesn’t Xiao Yun really care?

My heart has never felt so sour.

One glass of wine after another.

He is drunk.

He dragged her into the rockery when she was pregnant, strangled her neck and questioned her. If it weren't for his many years of brotherhood with Shen Li, he would have strangled her to death.

The next time we met was at my child’s first birthday party.

She gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. The emperor was very happy and held a grand birthday party for her.

He got drunk again.

This time he was even more drunk and almost raped her in the rockery, but she slapped him.

He didn't expect to be caught by Xiahou Yi and known by Xiao Yun.

For so many years, the emperor had never thought of making Xiao Yun the crown prince. After Xiao Yun married Shen Wan and gave birth to twins, the emperor had this idea.

Xiao Yun did not do anything to Chen Wan. After all, he knew from the beginning that Chen Wan was pregnant with someone else's child, but he did not expect that person to be Xie Jingyu.

Xiao Yun sent people to hunt down Xie Jingyu. At that time, the prince had already died. The people in the Jingbei Palace who had loved and raised him knew that he was not their flesh and blood, so they joined forces with Xiao Yun to persecute him.

He was forced to leave the capital and learned from his father that the Prince of Gaoyang in Dongliang was his cousin. Knowing that his cousin wanted to avenge his throne, he went to Dongliang.

At that time, there was no prince and Shen Ji at the border to hold them back, so it was very difficult for him and Pei Miao to take revenge.

By the time Pei Miao took that position, Shen Wan had already been banished to the cold palace and burned to death.

Knowing that the princess died at the hands of Prince Qing, and that the prince was also killed by the Second Master and his men, how could Xie Jingyu not seek revenge?

It was he who supported Pei Miao, and Pei Miao also wanted to avenge his aunt, so he lent him troops.

In addition, after Xiao Yun ascended the throne, he condoned people like Duke Song and Master Shen Er, causing chaos in the court and the people to suffer.

But even so, it took Xie Jingyu three years to attack the capital and bring Xiao Yun down.

He has avenged his father and mother.

But there is always a resentment in my heart.

This resentment tormented him and made him restless.

He was dressed in a dragon robe and walked to the cold palace where Shen Wan was burned to death.

Fu'an was a eunuch who was bullied by everyone in the palace. Sending him to guard the cold palace actually saved his life.

Fu'an never expected that such a remote and dilapidated place as the cold palace could welcome a great god like the emperor.

Fuan knelt on the ground and trembled.

He answered whatever Xie Jingyu asked.

Fuan didn't know what mistake Chen Wan had made to be banished to the cold palace. Knowing that it was Fuan who collected the ashes for Chen Wan, he asked Fuan to dig out the ashes.

The person you love the most and hate the most has become a urn of ashes.

He wasn't even given a chance to question or seek revenge.

He was blind and treacherous, and he deserved this fate.

The cruelest revenge is to grind bones and scatter ashes.

Shen Wan was already a ready-made ashes, so Xie Jingyu scattered her.

Let all the love and hate be blown away by the wind along with the ashes.

But just as he was scattering the ashes, Chen Wan's third cousin Yun Yi heard the news and rushed over, so angry that he wanted to beat him up.

Xie Jingyu had never mentioned his past with Shen Wan to anyone. Everyone in Ning Dynasty and Nanliang knew that he had a sweetheart, but no one knew who she was.

Xiao Huaijin stopped Yun Yi, and Yun Yi asked, "Do you know whose ashes he scattered?"

"She's my cousin! Your biological sister!"

Xiao Huaijin's eyes turned red and he went up to beat Xie Jingyu.

It was also on that day that Xie Jingyu found out that Xiao Huaijin was Chen Wan's twin brother.

During the fight, he accidentally knocked down the half-remaining ashes on the city wall.

Xiao Huaijin was furious.

He beat Xie Jingyu while scolding him, "My sister provoked you, why do you treat her like this?!"

Xie Jingyu's eyes turned red with anger, "She's the one who abandoned me after having sex with me!"

At that time, Yun Yi and Xiao Huaijin were both shocked.

There are some things Xiao Huaijin doesn't know, but Yun Yi knows a thing or two.

When they followed Xie Jingyu, Shen Wan had already been killed. At that time, everyone was busy with their work, and no one mentioned Shen Wan, or even remembered her.

But Yun Yi never expected that the person who abandoned Xie Jingyu was his cousin. After following Xie Jingyu, he often felt that the woman who gave up Xie Jingyu and married someone else was too stupid and foolish. No one in the world could be compared with Xie Jingyu.

It turned out that the girl was his cousin...

Yun Yi said, "How could that be? How could my cousin abandon you after having an affair with you?"

Xie Jingyu was reluctant to say more, so Chen Ping spoke for him, "She promised to marry my master at the Concubine Dowager's birthday banquet at Prince Kang's mansion, but she broke her promise and married Xiao Yun. Isn't that just abandoning my master?!"

Yun Yi said, "Wrong, wrong..."

After hating it for several years, Xie Jingyu finally realized that what Chen Wan had in Prince Kang's mansion that day was Yuanyangsan.

People who take Chinese medicine will mistake whoever is in front of them for their loved one.

Afterwards you will forget everything that happened.

Chen Wan was deceived by Xiao Yun into marrying him, and the twins are his own flesh and blood.

He ran down the city wall like crazy to pick up the ashes.

The ashes were blown away by the wind, leaving only a jade pendant in the urn.

It was the token of love he gave to Chen Wan back then.

Because it was something Shen Wan valued, and there was no place to spend money in the palace, Fu'an was timid and did not dare to take things from a dead person, so he buried the jade pendant and Shen Wan's ashes together.

The night he learned the truth, Xie Jingyu drank to drown his sorrows.

Turn white overnight.

He never thought of becoming emperor, but his enemy was Xiao Yun, the emperor of Ning Dynasty.

If he wants revenge, he must bring him down.

The revenge he needed was taken, and he also knew the truth about how Chen Wan had betrayed him.

Xie Jingyu was tired of the court struggles, so he passed the throne to Xiao Huaijin.

He found a place and prepared for this life.

Later, when North Vietnam invaded and there was no one available in the court, Xiao Huaijin came to find him, and he went to the battlefield.

Xiahou Yi was injured on the battlefield.

Later, Xiahou Yi ascended the throne, but his old illness relapsed and he died.

But he, who had never married in his life, was alone and helped Shen Wan to maintain his brother's kingdom.

Xie Jingyu lived out his previous life in a dream.

He woke up and was crying.

He wiped her tears.

Shen Wan woke up and hugged him and cried all night.

Xie Jingyu comforted her, "God has been kind to us. He missed out on a lifetime and compensated us with another."

Shen Wan cried like a tearful person.

But apart from nodding, I could only nod.

But neither of them expected that they were not the only ones who dreamed about their past lives that night.

There are also the emperor and Xiao Huaijin.

They both knew that Xie Jingyu was deeply in love with Shen Wan, and in order to save Shen Wan, he almost fell off a cliff and died.

But he didn't expect that he would harbor such a grudge against Shen Wan because he misunderstood that Shen Wan had abandoned him, and he even scattered Shen Wan's ashes.

If Xie Jingyu had not realized his mistake and passed the throne to Xiao Huaijin, the emperor would not have forgiven him.

A son-in-law who has seized the throne but doesn't want it and passes it on to Xiao Huaijin. Can the emperor still guard against his ambition?

Three years.

She was shocked by her son-in-law's political maneuvers in Southern Liang.

For three years, the emperor did not dare to ask Xie Jingyu to help him review memorials.

After this dream, the emperor had nothing to worry about.

It’s just that the person was used in the morning, and the son-in-law ran away in the afternoon.

He left Beijing without stopping, taking Chen Wan and his three children with him.

The emperor was so angry.

But it didn't run for long.

He returned in disgrace two months later.

Nothing else.

Shen Wan is pregnant again.

Shen Wan, “…”

Xie Jingyu, “…”

emperor,"……"

The scenery was so beautiful that she couldn't control herself and ended up getting pregnant again.

The emperor sat on the dragon throne, playing with his little grandson, while a certain prince consort resignedly helped to review memorials.

The emperor glanced over from time to time.

The look in his eyes clearly said, run, run again.

If you dare to run errands again, I'll give you a discount.

But this time Xie Jingyu is not alone.

Xiao Huaijin was there too.

If Xiao Huaijin is trained, the emperor will have someone to use and will not target him anymore.

Xie Jingyu had a good idea, but after he trained Xiao Huaijin, the emperor abdicated.

Xiao Huaijin sat on the dragon throne. After reviewing memorials for half a year, he was too tired to bear it anymore and started to think about his brother-in-law.

Xie Jingyu, “…”

The man was used in the morning, and my brother-in-law ran away in the afternoon.

This time it was even more cruel, he didn’t even bring the child.

Just run with Shen Wan.

The five children were packed up and sent to the palace for their uncle.

Um.

Chen Wan gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, for her third child.

Moer Ran'er was already nine years old at that time.

I didn't return to Beijing for half a year after this trip.

As long as Shen Wan is not pregnant, no one can control him.

Xiao Huaijin had no choice but to ask the emperor to write a letter to apologize and promise not to let Xie Jingyu help review the memorials. Only then did Xie Jingyu bring Shen Wan back to Beijing.

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(There are extra chapters, including Chu Yang's, Yuzhang Junwang's, and the stories of the prince and princess. If you have any other stories you want to read, please leave me a message~)