Chapter 56
After Liang Ruoyan disappeared, her water flow also returned. Seeing the water flow disappear, the white-eyed woman withdrew her hands and stood still, unmoved by Liang Ruoyan's fate. Shi Ye carefully scanned Wang Sheng through the white-eyed woman's eyes, and after confirming that Wang Sheng was not seriously injured, he wanted to take the white-eyed woman back.
Wang Sheng noticed that the white-eyed girl was about to leave, so he immediately suppressed his sadness and shouted at her, "Hey, kid, where is your master now?"
The white-eyed girl received Shi Ye's order and turned her gaze away the moment Wang Sheng looked over, not meeting his gaze. She pointed downwards, and Wang Sheng thought Shi Ye was standing at her feet, but he saw nothing.
He wondered, "Could it be that he used a talisman to become invisible?"
He walked over and scooped up the air. There was no one here.
In the underworld.
Shi Ye watched Wang Sheng still searching for him and smiled, but the wounds on his body quickly faltered. He spat out another mouthful of blood, which splattered far away. The other creatures, fearing the ghost tamer's blood would contaminate them and lead to their contract, squeezed to the back.
The white-eyed girl and the ghost domain disappeared together. Wang Sheng still hadn't found them, so he had to give up looking for them.
The buildings in the East Palace that had been destroyed in the ghost realm were all restored to their original state. Walls were erected one after another, and Wang Sheng's head was covered by beams and tiles. Finally, he stopped and sat down on the ground, not caring whether it was dirty or not. He just lay down and closed his eyes to rest.
The time inside and outside the ghost realm is different. Wang Shengcai was pulled in, but to outsiders, he came out not long after.
Han Tan finally found this scene after searching through each room. Wang Sheng lay quietly on the ground, barely breathing, as if dead. This truly frightened him. He knew how powerful Chen Kanglian was, at least superior in strength, and assumed Wang Sheng had died in the ghost realm after being defeated by Chen Kanglian.
"Wang Sheng! You won't die, will you?" Han Tan screamed and wailed. If he died, His Highness would definitely bury him with him!
Wang Sheng opened his eyes faintly, and whispered as if he had just crawled out of the underworld, "Can you let me rest for a while?"
This time he finally realized how powerful Shi Ye was. This time he faced Chen Kanglian alone, and his legs were actually shaking. Now he wanted to rest for a while.
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Outside the Changqiu Palace, Xia Yue helped Chen Kanglian climb inside and dumped him in a random side hall.
Chen Kang even lost the ice spike on his thigh, but the bloody hole was still bleeding. He was thrown to the ground and looked at Xia Yue with a ferocious face, "Xia Yue! Are you crazy?"
Xia Yue lowered his eyes and looked at the beleaguered Chen Kanglian, without a trace of pity. There had never been any camaraderie between the two of them, only a thirst for power and strength. Sometimes they would even try to trip up the other, destroying the ghost domain that the other had worked so hard to find, preventing them from completing their mission.
In the past, Xia Yue could still put on a fake smile to deal with Chen Kanglian, but today he was in no mood to hide it, and his face was cold.
If Chen Kanglian had not directly exposed his identity just now, he might have been able to deceive Wang Sheng and say that he was recommended to work in the capital without his knowledge, but all of this was ruined by Chen Kanglian.
After Chen Kang finished scolding him, he realized that something was wrong with Xia Yue. He had known that this fake scholar was good at putting on airs, but he had never seen him stare at him so intently.
"Xia Yue, what do you want to do... The Queen is in the main hall right now, do you think you can still kill me and silence me?"
From the main hall nearby, growls and questioning voices were heard.
Yin Jianyue looked at the woman who was reading a book with great interest above her seat, and her face looked very bad.
"Did you send someone to the Eastern Palace? Mother, aren't you overstepping your bounds?" Between the two of them, they were first the monarch and his subject, and then mother and son. The Queen was already challenging his identity.
The Queen flipped a page and said, "This is all for your own good. You're so close to your uncle, and sooner or later you'll be deceived by him. After you ascend the throne, with the Black Feather Army as powerful as it is, lurking in the north, do you think you can sit comfortably in that position?"
Her leisurely tone made Yin Jianyue very dissatisfied, and she said angrily: "So you and Atleshi teamed up to kill the uncle in the northern border, so that you can become your queen mother in the capital?! Then aren't you afraid that Atleshi is a wolf and will bite you in the end!"
With a cold snort, the woman closed the book and stroked the cover with her slender fingers.
"Prince, why are you so unlike me? You're so indecisive and nostalgic, just like your useless father. You're truly annoying."
The capital was now divided into two factions: one led by the Prince of Huai'an, the other by the Empress. Indeed, neither faction represented the Emperor's own power. The two factions were constantly hindering each other, fighting each other to the point of death and injury, leaving the current Emperor a mere waste.
Yin Jianyue sneered softly. He looked up at the woman who gave birth to him and couldn't help but recall the painful memories of his childhood. He had been forcing things to happen and had great expectations for him, hoping that he could surpass his cousin and suppress his cousin's reputation for extraordinary intelligence.
Yin Jianyue stood there and suddenly said, "Are you still jealous of the eldest princess?"
Because of jealousy, his anger burned his reason, so he killed her twelve years ago.
A book suddenly flew towards Yin Jianyue, "Shut up!"
The woman looked at Yin Jianyue in disbelief as she said this, and the makeup on her face looked particularly terrifying because of her anger.
Yin Jianyue looked at her, exposing her every word: "I've seen the portrait hanging in your room before. It's of a man. Is it the Prince Consort Zhong Baixiu?"
After lying down for a while, Wang Sheng immediately turned over and rushed to Changqiu Palace, hiding his breath outside the window. After hearing Zhong Baixiu's name, he grabbed the window and almost couldn't help but push it open.
Zhong Baixiu is his father. He takes the Huang surname, while his father's surname is Zhong.
After Yin Nanxing was born, Zhong Baixiu didn't care what his last name was, because in his eyes, Yin Nanxing would always be his and Yin Shiluan's child. In the two or three years that Wang Sheng had complete memories of, Zhong Baixiu was a handsome and doting general. He balanced the Northern Territory with his wife and children, never letting either side lose balance.
It was such an outstanding man who was pursued by countless women in the capital at that time.
Queen Zhao Fangru is one of them.
Yin Jianyue seemed to have hit upon the most unbearable secret Zhao Fangru had hidden deep in her heart, the one she most hated to recall. She suddenly stood up and yelled, "Shut up! What do you know?! What do you know?! Who allowed you into my bedroom?! All the etiquette I taught you was thrown away, right?"
Du Ruo, who was standing behind, lowered his head and trembled, not daring to make a sound.
Yin Jianyue nodded. "That's right. You're attracted to Zhong Baixiu, but he only loves the eldest princess, and you and the eldest princess gave birth to your cousin. You couldn't get his love, so you entered the palace and became the queen. You were determined to suppress the eldest princess and show Zhong Baixiu that you're no worse than her. Am I right?"
"You hated the Princess so much that you began to seek out ghosts and gods. Then you learned that there were such things as ghost tamers. So you became one, searching for powerful ghosts that could kill with one strike. Then, twelve years ago, you massacred the Princess's mansion."
"It's just that you made a mistake. Originally, you only wanted to kill the princess, but you couldn't control the evil spirit at the time, and killed the prince consort as well."
In the side hall, Xia Yue and Chen Kanglian were so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. They temporarily put aside their quarrels and listened to this old case caused by jealousy.
Yin Jianyue's eyes flushed as she looked at her biological mother. She took a step forward and said, "Mother, I am the child you gave birth to in order to seize power. Do you really think you have no feelings for me at all?"
Because she did not marry the person she loved and the child she gave birth to was not the child of her loved one, Zhao Fangru hated Yin Jianyue and Yin Nanxing, the child born to the eldest princess.
Outside the window, Wang Sheng's face was as pale as ink.
He suppressed his emotions, clenched his fists and placed them on the window, feeling a chill running from the soles of his feet to his head.
Wang Sheng had long guessed that the person behind this might be Zhao Fangru. He thought a lot about it. Zhao Fangru preferred power. She killed the whole mansion for the Black Feather Army in his father's hands. Later, she was suspected of colluding with the northern border to deal with King Huai'an, also for the military force in King Huai'an's hands.
Wang Sheng could remain calm and composed even if he died because of power, but it was precisely because of this ridiculous and stupid jealousy that the eldest princess and Zhong Baixiu died.
How ridiculous, it makes people laugh.
Why did Zhao Fangru's unrequited love lead to the harm of others, causing Wang Sheng to become an orphan and wander the world, having to sacrifice so much dignity to survive and finally reach this day? Yin Shiluan and Zhong Baixiu, one shouldering the responsibility of distributing porridge widely, while the other was injured and bleeding to guard the northern border, yet they didn't even know why they died.
Wang Sheng began to tremble all over.
Zhao Fangru, he must kill her.
Zhao Fangru regained her composure. She smiled, then sat down and said frankly, "So what? I used to treat that bitch Yin Shiluan as my best friend, but she cheated on me with Zhong Baixiu. How can she be a good person? She deserves to die!"
"As for Zhong Baixiu, he is a blind man. Since he only has eyes for that bitch, let's die together." Zhao Fangru tilted her head and looked at Yin Jianyue, looking like she was crazy.
However, she ignored the fact that Zhong Baixiu had actually fallen in love with the eldest princess a long time ago. She just thought that the eldest princess seduced Zhong Baixiu.
Yin Jianyue and her had nothing more to say to each other. He closed his eyes, opened them again, and said the last words: "From now on, you and I will only be king and subject, and there will be no other relationship." He shook his sleeves and left.
The main hall of Changqiu Palace was completely quiet.
Zhao Fangru relaxed all over. This was the first time she spoke out the ugly things in her heart.
Although she said that she wanted Zhong Baixiu to die, only she knew what she was thinking in her heart.
Wang Sheng glanced through the gap at the woman sitting in the main hall, then walked out.
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