Chapter 119: Conspiracy
Lu Yao closed her eyes and looked at Su Tan.
She heard her voice tremble slightly, and asked with a hint of hope: "Is Yan Qin kept in the dark about what the Yan family did, or is he also aware of it and just acquiesced to it?"
Su Tan sighed, and her cold voice drifted into Lu Yao's ears along with the north wind outside.
"In fact, there is no need for me to give you a definite answer. You already have the answer in your heart, don't you?"
Lu Yaozheng was stunned for a moment, then closed her eyes, with a hint of bitterness in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows. She looked at Su Tan for a while, and suddenly laughed at herself.
"Yes, I am just deceiving myself."
"As you said, the Yan family are all inhuman. How could Yan Qin be completely unaware of this?"
Lu Yao inserted her fingers into her palm, leaving bloody marks on it, but she was still unaware of it.
She sat on the chaise longue next to Su Tan, quietly listening to the wind outside.
"Your Highness." Su Tan frowned, thinking that Lu Yao had misunderstood and that the situation was hopeless. "Your Highness, don't worry. The Emperor sent me here to bring the princess back safely. I will not let anything happen to you in the Yan family."
"Don't worry, Your Highness. You are so precious and will always overcome the danger."
Lu Yao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly looked up at Su Tan, pursed her lips and smiled, "County Lady Jiayi, you misunderstood. This is not what I am thinking about."
She shook her head, and a hint of decadence appeared on her young face, like a flower blooming during a heavy spring rain, which still had time to bloom before withering as the curse fell.
"I don't actually care about life and death as much as you think."
She walked from the small fishing village to the palace.
Then he came to Lanzhou from the imperial palace.
It can be said that he has been displaced.
She no longer took life and death so seriously.
She looked at Su Tan quietly, and said word by word, "I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. Since Princess Jiayi is so good at fortune-telling, why don't you help me calculate? If I continue to take that medicine, will I become a so-called inhuman being like the Yan family?"
Su Tan suddenly raised his eyes and was stunned.
"Yes, but..."
Before she could finish her sentence, Lu Yao interrupted her, "I understand."
"If I could become a non-human being and stay with Yan Qin forever, I wouldn't mind."
However, the premise of all this is that the Yan family plotted against her just to be with her for a long time.
Su Tan: “…”
Su Tan's expression froze for a moment, and a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes.
"Princess...you...what did you say?"
Lu Yao looked calm. She knew that what she said sounded incredible.
"County Lady Jiayi, I'm different from you. For someone like me, no one cares whether I live or die. I'm fine with being alive, and I don't mind dying either."
Therefore, even if the Yan family plotted to take her life, if their intentions were good, she could actually let it go.
Su Tan: “…”
Su Tan opened her mouth, but didn't know what to say for a moment. If a woman in the world is bound by love, her life and death, honor and disgrace will depend on the other person's thoughts.
The so-called love to the end depends entirely on conscience.
But - but Lu Yao is a princess, no matter what, she shouldn't treat herself so badly as a princess.
Logically speaking, Su Tan should be disappointed in Lu Yao and despise her for being so self-deprecating. She even gave up her life for the Yan family who were scheming against her. She even ignored them even though she knew they were plotting against her.
But perhaps it was because she had been practicing for a long time and knew that everyone has their own tribulations to overcome, or perhaps it was because she saw her former self in Princess Jingxi Lu Yao, so she didn't say anything to hurt others.
He just said, "Princess, your life is in your own hands. No one has the right to treat you with contempt."
Lu Yao pursed her lips and said nothing after hearing this.
"What's more..."
Su Tan suddenly changed the subject and said, "Besides, if the princess really gave up on me, then it would be fulfilling the wishes of others."
Lu Yao paused, then suddenly raised her eyes, clenching her palms tightly, "What do you mean by that?"
What does it mean to fulfill other people's wishes?
Su Tan calculated with her fingers and said, "Princess, you are a child of wealth and should not be so self-deprecating. Yet, you still give up on yourself. I wonder if it's because, over the years, no matter what you wanted to do or learn, it has always gone against your wishes."
Lu Yao suddenly grabbed Su Tan's arm, her tone tinged with urgency, "You know something, don't you?"
Her voice was hoarse, and the moment she grabbed Su Tan's wrist, it was as if she had grabbed the last straw to save her life. "What do you know? I... I have become like this now, could it be... could it be..."
Su Tan met Lu Yao's gaze, nodded slowly, and sighed softly, "As Your Highness has imagined, the reason why everything you try to do always goes against your wishes is because ever since you married into the Yan family, your luck has been slowly being drained away."
"And Your Highness..."
Su Tan looked at Lu Yao and said in his heart what a pity. Princess Jingxi should have been in the prime of her life, but because she was involved in a conspiracy, she lived a miserable life for half of her life. As a result, at such a young age, she looked more lifeless than an old man.
"And if Your Highness is truly as you think, and for the sake of this momentary warmth, you even forgave the Yan family's schemes against you, then once you die, your body and soul will be put to good use, made into a Yin Pai, to bless others with a smooth and carefree life and a bright future."
"Your Highness has spent his entire life preparing wedding dresses for others. I don't want to urge you to treat yourself well. I simply want to ask, are you truly willing to be used until your death, to be used as a stepping stone?"
Lu Yao felt as if something exploded in her mind.
She stared blankly at Su Tan, her heart tightening little by little, and the dejection and anger in her eyes were gradually replaced by rage and hatred.
"so……"
Lu Yao gritted her teeth, her resentment pouring out of her heart. "So, ever since I married into the Yan family, I've become a pawn in the eyes of others?"
ridiculous!
How ridiculous!
She was not treated well when she was young, and was ignored by others after returning to the palace. Only after she married into the Yan family did she feel the long-lost warmth.
Just for this little illusory thing, she forgave all the strange things that happened to the Yan family.
Even when the Yan family poisoned her and tried to kill her, she pretended not to see it.
She even thought that as long as Yan Qin treated her sincerely and as long as the Yan family treated her the same as before, she would be happy even if she died.
After all, as long as she is really with her family, what does it matter whether she is dead or alive?
But now, Su Tan told her that all the tenderness and kindness were fake.
The Yan family were nothing more than puppets cultivated by others, sucking away her luck and trapping her in the quagmire for life.
Lu Yao gritted her teeth, hatred suddenly bursting out of her eyes. At that moment, her lifeless eyes suddenly brightened surprisingly, "Who is it?"
"Who on earth wants to plot against me like this?"
Over the years, she has been unable to learn anything.
In fact, the harder you work, the more jokes you make.
She always thought that she was not smart enough.
I never thought that all this was calculated by others!
Su Tan looked calm as he said a name that was unexpected yet reasonable.
Lu Ling.
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