Huang Yanjing sat at the desk. Apart from his pale face, he looked no different from usual.
"Master Huang insisted that I come here. What secret do you want to tell me?" Xie Wanyun didn't bother to be polite with him and went straight to the point.
"Prince Rui is present in this matter, which may be inconvenient. Please step aside." Huang Yanjing said calmly.
Yan Jinbai frowned and wanted to get angry.
Huang Yanjing smiled and said, "Is there something else that Prince Rui is worried about? I am about to die, what danger can there be?"
Xie Wanyun gestured for Yan Jinbai to wait for him outside. He sat down and said, "Your Excellency is right. It's me who is stingy."
Yan Jinbai had no choice but to go out reluctantly.
Huang Yanjing then said, "Madam Xie, will you and Yan Suizhi get married?"
There was a hint of anxiety in his tone.
Xie Wanyun was stunned. She had never expected Huang Yanjing to ask such a question. What did it have to do with him whether they got married or not? Why did he look so anxious, eager to get her response immediately?
He immediately replied coldly, "This has nothing to do with Elder Huang. I came here today because he promised to tell me some stories from the past and solve the mystery I have been seeking for so many years, not to reminisce about the past. Besides, there is no past between Elder Huang and me."
"So you're going to get married? Yan Jinbai is also your child, right?" Huang Yanjing didn't care about her attitude at all and just kept asking.
Xie Wanyun was speechless. When had Huang Yanjing become so gossipy? Besides, this was their family affair, what did it have to do with him?
Huang Yanjing observed her reaction with a hint of nervousness, then he heaved a sigh of relief and said, "Then I'm relieved."
Xie Wanyun was even more confused. "Are you relieved? What does it have to do with you? Why are you so relieved?"
Huang Yanjing had a smile on his face, as if he was greatly comforted.
He had long been curious about who this nephew Yan Suizhi, whose origins were unknown, was.
What surprised him even more was Yan Suizhi's concern for Xie Wanyun, and these two people were willing to risk their lives to go to the imperial prison to save him.
So that's it, he was not wrong.
"Master Huang, if you have something to say, please just say it. If you don't have anything, I will ask first and you just answer." Xie Wanyun was a little impatient.
"Okay, thank you Madam for asking." Huang Yanjing replied happily.
"Did you try your best to stop the Blue Moon Pass incident back then?" Xie Wanyun still felt heartbroken when he mentioned the past in front of his enemy.
Huang Yanjing smiled bitterly, "Madam Xie, I know everyone doubts me, but you think too highly of me. I don't have that much power. I'm just doing things for others."
As expected. Xie Wanyun's eyes turned cold, "Who can order you around?"
"Mrs. Xie has already guessed it, so why ask me?" Huang Yanjing answered calmly.
Xie Wanyun felt a dull pain in his heart.
"You were instructed to delay. But you didn't expect the Xie family army to be so tenacious and hold out for so long. Under the repeated urging of the Minister of War, Lord An, and other officials, we were forced to send reinforcements. But you still refused to give up, so the Regent produced a fake marching map. Is that right?"
Huang Yanjing's eyes darkened. After a long while, he nodded gently and whispered, "I'm sorry."
It was like a sword pierced directly into Xie Wanyun's heart, causing her to break out in a cold sweat.
She had guessed all the causes and consequences, but the confession from the instigator himself still made her feel unbearable pain.
"Why?" She still asked these two words unwillingly.
"Of course, I'm afraid the Xie family's achievements will overshadow the emperor. In fact, I did advise the emperor to put the country first, but he insisted on his own way, so I had no choice but to take the blame for him."
"Why are you telling me this again today?"
Huang Yanjing's eyes suddenly flashed with hatred. "For so many years, I planned for him, endured his infamy, but now my usefulness is gone, and I still have to obey his orders and die. I won't accept this."
Xie Wanyun was shocked, "Did the emperor order you to be convicted?"
Huang Yanjing said self-deprecatingly, "How could he have convicted me? Convicting me would have been the same as convicting himself. He simply hinted that I could go and die. I committed suicide out of fear of punishment, which just fulfilled his benevolent heart of compassion for his old ministers."
Xie Wanyun immediately thought of Huang Yanjing's deathly pale expression when he took the imperial edict in the afternoon.
This cold-blooded emperor's mind is truly frightening.
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