After hearing her words, Yun Yi felt a chill between his legs, and his expression was very complicated.
He pinched her cheek helplessly, "You really dare to say anything! You're getting bolder and bolder!"
Li Yunyan was no longer afraid of him at all. She raised her eyebrows at him, as if to say, "What can you do to me?"
She took a few steps, reached out and touched the dead pear tree in the yard. Looking at the soil with varying shades of color under its roots, she knew it had been deliberately poisoned and killed.
His eyes were filled with regret.
"This pear tree used to be very beautiful when it bloomed. The yard would be covered with pear blossoms, and the ground would be covered with petals. However, the pears it produced were very sour, and even the birds didn't like to eat them."
She squatted down again, looking at the broken flowerpots on the ground. These were all carefully tended by the original owner in her spare time; she had collected the flowers and plants bit by bit from the discarded branches in the greenhouse.
It was one of the few things that made her happy.
Thinking of the original owner's past, Li Yunyan's eyes welled up with tears.
Sensing that she looked somewhat sad, Yunyi knelt down beside her and placed his hand on her head.
"If you enjoy tending to flowers and plants, I'll have someone prepare some in the yard when I get back, so you can see different kinds of flowers every day, how about that?"
Li Yunyan nodded and smiled at him, "Okay! And we should also plant a pear tree in the yard!"
"Okay! Whatever you say!"
After returning home, Li Yunyan was sentimental for a few days before receiving the results of the interrogation by the Li family.
The Eastern Depot was very skilled at interrogating prisoners. After a few rounds of torture, they could get all the old, trivial matters out of people.
Yunyi showed her their confessions. None of the Li family members were spineless, and they all confessed to everything they had done to the original owner in the past.
He was furious when he heard this, and even though they had confessed, he still ordered them to be tortured again. But there was no need to tell her any of this.
Li Yunyan took the confession. She knew all those past events, glanced at it briefly, and then stopped reading.
She's been a bit emotionally unstable lately, probably because of her pregnancy. She's afraid to look at it, but she also wants to cry for the original owner of this body.
Seeing her listless expression, Yun Yi felt a pang of pain in his heart. He tossed the stack of papers aside and told her the result directly: "Huang Shi, Li Shuang, and Li Chong, it would be too easy for them to die like this. Didn't they want you to be a palace maid? I'll send Huang Shi and Li Shuang to the laundry department to be the lowest-ranking maids. As for Li Chong, I'll make him a eunuch!"
Seeing her expression, Yun Yi continued, "Li Wenjin, he did not actively harm you, but his indifference and inaction towards you over the years make him their biggest accomplice. So I took it upon myself to release him and confiscate all of the Li family's assets."
He pulled a booklet from his sleeve, which was a list of the Li family's assets, and handed it to Li Yunyan.
"Confiscating property?"
Li Yunyan took the long list and secretly clicked her tongue in amazement.
Li Wenjin is a man who values fame and fortune above all else! Confiscating his property would be worse for him than death!
She was dazzled by what she saw; she hadn't expected the Li family to have so many businesses! She wondered how much of it was part of her mother's dowry.
Yun Yi saw that her eyes were widening and she no longer seemed sad, and her lips curled up slightly.
"Madam, please take your time looking around. All of these things are yours!"
"Mine?" Li Yunyan asked incredulously. "You can just distribute what you got from confiscating my property as you please?"
"How can this be considered confiscating property?"
Yun Yi smiled mysteriously and slowly said, "Li Wenjin is your father. When he marries off his daughter, does he not prepare a dowry for you?"
This works?
It seems that this is Yunyi's official explanation.
Li Yunyan covered her mouth and chuckled, her previous melancholy vanishing, replaced by a particularly greedy smile. "Yes, yes, yes! This is all my father's dowry!"
Yun Yi pulled out another booklet from his sleeve, this one being several times thicker than the previous one, and handed it to her.
"These are my betrothal gifts."
Li Yunyan took it, somewhat dumbfounded. Even though she had seen many good things, she was still shocked by Yun Yi's generosity.
Yun Yi's family fortune is so great that it would not be an exaggeration to say that he is as rich as a country.
What a treacherous minister!
Are all of these for me?
Li Yunyan smiled broadly, her face and eyes brimming with joy. She loved it when people would give her money without warning!
"Of course they're all for you!"
Yun Yi reached out and ruffled her hair. Seeing that she had regained her usual lively self, he breathed a sigh of relief. If he had known she was so easy to coax, he wouldn't have worried for so many days.
He pulled her onto his lap and placed his large hand on her lower abdomen. "Have you been feeling unwell these past few days?"
Li Yunyan shook her head, "I don't feel nauseous anymore, and I don't vomit after eating. I think my belly will get bigger soon, and then I won't go out."
"Yanyan is wronged."
Yun Yi lowered her eyes, feeling extremely guilty. His status prevented her from living like a normal woman; she even had to hide her pregnancy and keep it a secret.
“I’m not wronged at all!” Li Yunyan raised her two fair and jade-like hands and gently pinched his earlobe. She smiled and said, “Husband, I’m not a person who likes to go out much. I have everything at home, and it’s very safe. Is there any place in this world that is more pleasant than staying at home?”
Looking at her contented little face, Yunyi's heart was filled with joy.
He had always thought that his life would just pass by like this. After taking revenge, he would be a eunuch for life, grow old alone, and die in some corner of the world one day.
But she came.
He was glad that he had been so blinded by greed that he wanted to use her as a remedy for his headaches, keeping her by his side so he could smell her whenever he had a headache.
Who knew that she would enter his heart so gently and irresistibly, making him unable to let her go?
He cupped her face in his hands, his eyes filled with unwavering affection for her. "Yanyan, were you sent by heaven to save me?"
“Yes!” Li Yunyan smiled and said ambiguously, “I am a fairy who descended from heaven. The Heavenly Emperor said you are a cursed star, so he specially sent me to accompany you, to bear your children, and to grow old with you.”
Yunyi's eyes welled up with tears, and he pulled her tightly into his arms. "Then it's a promise. You will be with me for all eternity, for all lifetimes, until we grow old together!"
Li Yunyan's eyes flickered. It was probably impossible for them to be together for lifetimes, but it was possible for them to be together for one lifetime.
She nodded slightly and offered her lips.
The kiss was gentle and tender, like a spring breeze, slowly soothing the wounds in his heart. Yun Yi was initially immersed in her tenderness, but gradually took the initiative, turning the gentle breeze into a torrential downpour.
Li Yunyan gripped the edge of the table tightly, the gold hairpin tassels on her head swaying back and forth, making a pleasant clinking sound.
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