Chapter 17 See Who I Am
The dizziness that followed made her lose her strength. When she fell, red pollen flew into her eyes. In a trance, she saw her father standing not far away. He was still wearing the blue-gray coat he wore on the day he left Nanyang. He was reaching out to catch her when she fell off the stone wall.
Xie Chengyan had seen Ye Lanzhou's skills before. She even dared to climb over such a high wall behind the Ghost Market, which showed that she did these things often. So he didn't expect that she would fall off the stone wall.
When he caught the falling body, he was nearly scratched on the neck by her grabbing hands. He didn't know where she got the courage to hit him.
Before his hand fell on Xie Chengyan, he quickly discovered something was wrong. The person in his arms grabbed his collar, and his eyes, covered with blood mist, were terrifyingly empty.
He clamped Ye Lanzhou's wrist and tried to call out, "Ye Lanzhou?"
Her arms were scraped against the stone wall, bleeding profusely. Blood stained their clothes, and the red blood vine she had picked was left beside them. She asked, "Why didn't you take my mother and me with you back then? Since you abandoned us, why did you find me when my eldest sister was about to marry into the palace?"
The rainy night when he was twelve years old came back to his mind. The torches of the Nanman cavalry dyed the night red. The carriage of the Ye family was heading towards Shangjing. The mother and daughter in the Ye family were forgotten in the huge house.
Xie Chengyan didn't understand what Ye Lanzhou was saying. The people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs had checked Ye Lanzhou's background. She was the legitimate daughter of the director of the Imperial Hospital. She had moved to Shangjing with the Ye family and had never left the Ye family.
He clamped her chin, trying to wake her up: "Look clearly at who I am!"
But he saw a hot tear fall on his palm. The tear was so hot that he was stunned for a moment.
Ye Lanzhou had cried in front of him many times, but he always recognized that it was just her acting. Her tears in the past were all ulterior motives, but these tears now came from real emotions.
He didn't know what kind of entanglement she had with the people in the Ye Mansion, but from what he heard, he knew that Ye Lanzhou had been abandoned by Ye Zhixing.
The tear on the tiger's mouth coincided with the tear in Jinling City in the 22nd year of Yinjing.
Xie Chengyan was a noble and precious person, and everyone thought that he was a prince who was born and raised in the capital because he was close to the emperor. Little did they know that he almost lost his life defending the city of Jinling.
When Nanjing was in turmoil, Emperor Yinjing, Xie Chengyan's father, ordered the capital to be moved to Shangjing in order to preserve the power of the court, but he was stopped by the people when he set off.
If the royal army withdrew, the people would not be able to survive, so the people in the city surrounded the city gates and prevented the army from passing. Emperor Yin Jing and the Empress discussed and let Xie Chengyan take over the title of Crown Prince and stay in Jinling City to settle the people in the city.
The real prince, later Emperor Yinning, followed the royal army to the new capital Shangjing.
Parents who love their children will plan for them in the long run, but some children are always abandoned by their parents.
Ye Lanzhou is, and so is he.
While he was thinking, he lowered his eyes to glance at Ye Lanzhou, only to see her blood-stained fingertips unconsciously picking at the jade buckle on his waist, like a wounded cub.
Xie Chengyan's hand, raised in the air, froze for a moment, and he finally used his fingers to gently wipe away a tear from the corner of her eye. Through Ye Lanzhou's pupils, he seemed to see his nineteen-year-old self.
The young man who was abandoned by the royal family in Jinling City.
Lonely and desolate, yet carrying the last hope of the people of Jinling.
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