He felt a pang of guilt, but all he felt was utter helplessness.
He's just a mortal, how could he possibly ascend to the Demon Realm?
"In this life, I still can't save my mother, can I?"
"If I hadn't changed my fate from the beginning, would my mother have avoided this outcome?"
Xiao Wanwan was like a helpless child, squatting on the ground, hugging herself and crying loudly.
Only Xiao Rui'an could clearly hear the childlike, innocent voice.
Seeing Xiao Wanwan crying so sadly, Yao Qianshu also burst into tears.
Everyone present was heartbroken, and tears fell silently.
Enraged, the regent grabbed his sword and rushed out the door, hacking wildly in the courtyard.
"Why? Why would you play such a joke on me?"
"Lanyin, didn't we promise to spend our lives together?"
"ah--"
His eyes were bloodshot. He vented his anger for an unknown amount of time until he was completely exhausted. He then stopped wielding his sword and plunged it into the ground. He knelt on one knee, and a mouthful of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth.
"puff."
In that instant, the Regent's jet-black hair was dyed white strand by strand, turning into a full head of white hair at an extremely fast speed.
Everyone rushed out and their pupils contracted as they looked at the regent, who was filled with grief and indignation.
The Regent's hair has turned white?!
Xiao Rui'an shouted, "Father, please don't do this..."
"Father, Mother is not dead yet. We still have a chance to save her."
"Yes, Regent, we..."
"Your Highness!"
Upon seeing this, Mo Qing and Mo Feng, who were hiding in the shadows, immediately appeared and rushed to the Regent's side.
"Your Highness, please take care of yourself. If the Princess Consort knew you had become like this, she would be heartbroken." Mo Feng's eyes were bloodshot.
They had followed the prince for so many years and had never seen him give up on himself.
Could it be that even the prince has noticed that the princess...
"Lanyin, wait for me... I'll go with you now..."
"We cannot live together, but we wish to die together, for all eternity, until death do us part."
This was a promise he made to Ye Lanyin: whether in this life or the next, they would never be separated again.
"No, Your Highness..." Everyone was shocked.
Suddenly, he opened his eyes, pulled a sword from the ground, his bloodshot eyes flashing as he swung the sword in the air before pointing it at himself, catching everyone off guard.
He closed his eyes, waiting for the swords to fall.
My children, I'm sorry, your father can't live without your mother...
But he waited for a long time and saw no sword fall. Then he opened his eyes and saw that the tip of the sword was only a hair's breadth away from him.
"Wanwan..."
“Father…” Xiao Wanwan’s hair all exploded and fell into the air, facing the Regent. Her small hands gripped the sword hilt, and she looked at the Regent with teary eyes.
“Father, it’s Wanwan’s fault. Wanwan didn’t protect you well. If Wanwan hadn’t told the Dragon Clan, if Wanwan hadn’t given the blood test, none of this would have happened.”
"It's Wanwan's fault, it's Wanwan's fault."
Xiao Wanwan looked like a lost child, her empty eyes devoid of any light. Xiao Rui'an looked at her, a tear of heartache sliding down his cheek. At that moment, he was filled with energy, and disregarding the fact that Xiao Wanwan was in mid-air, he suddenly touched the ground with his toes and jumped up to hold Xiao Wanwan in his arms.
Xiao Wanwan collapsed limply into Xiao Rui'an's arms, just as he had when she was a newborn, and he comforted her.
"Wanwan, your brother is here. He will definitely find a way to save Mother. She will be alright, don't worry." He said this without much confidence.
He spoke while comforting Xiao Wanwan, patting her back repeatedly.
Xiao Wanwan's emotions gradually calmed down.
Just as the people here had calmed down, someone came to the door.
Ye Jianxing and others had agreed with Ye Lanyin and others yesterday that they would attend court today to discuss the matter of the throne.
Because of Ye Lanyin's accident, everyone lost their focus.
Walking in, Ye Jianxing saw that everyone's eyes were red and swollen, and asked, "What... happened to you all?"
General Yao flicked his sleeve and turned away without saying a word.
Finally, Xiao Chengyun spoke through tears, "Cousin Ye, something happened to Mother. Last night, for some reason, Mother was kidnapped and poisoned when she was brought back."
Ye Jianxing's expression turned to shock. "What? How could this be?"
Last night, there was a violent storm outside, and they didn't hear any fighting sounds. How could they have been captured so easily?
"The Dragon Palace is heavily guarded, how could anyone have broken in?"
“We don’t know either. That man just kidnapped my mother, and then she was rescued.”
Do you know who it is?
Xiao Chengyun shook his head, crying, "I don't know, I don't know."
He knew nothing, which is why he was so anxious.
Only Xiao Rui'an and the Regent knew about this matter. Tian Jue started investigating last night and hasn't returned yet.
This person's identity is probably not simple either.
Ye Jianyi: "Where is my aunt?"
"Over there."
Upon hearing this, Ye Jianyi immediately went into the room, looked at Ye Lanyin's eyes, and then took her pulse.
After a long silence, his fingertips trembled slightly, and his brows furrowed deeply. "How could my aunt have been poisoned by datura?"
"You know?" Xiao Rui'an asked in return.
Ye Jianxing nodded and stood up.
“I know that datura is a deadly poison. This poison originally came from the demon realm. Back then, there was a woman in the demon realm who secretly practiced evil magic in order to replace the demon king and become the female demon king.”
At this point, Ye Jianxing seemed to remember something and turned around to ask, "I once read in a book that the poison of the datura was destroyed by Zi Ling, so how come it's still there now?"
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