Qiu Nanyan's heart sank suddenly. What did she mean?
What is she trying to say?
She quickly interjected, "That's because..."
"If Yu Nanqing had feelings for you, why wouldn't he mention you at all? He's never brought it up. What else could it be but that he's simply not important to you?" Su Wanyan finally couldn't help but laugh. "Do you think Yu Nanqing is so deeply in love with you that he doesn't mention you easily?"
Su Wanyan looked up at her with a smile: "Then why did he say yesterday that he didn't know you?"
"It's...it's because of you..."
"Because of me?" Su Wanyan's smile widened. "I am just a woman confined to the inner quarters. Even if I were to marry into the Gong Prince's household, I would still be dependent on Yu Nanqing. Do you think Yu Nanqing would deny your existence because of me? According to you, for Yu Nanqing, I am the important person in his heart, am I not?"
“You…” Qiu Nanyan’s face turned pale.
She hadn't expected that Su Wanyan would manage to entangle her in just a few words.
At this moment, she clenched her fists, unable to utter a single word in rebuttal.
He gritted his teeth and shouted, "No matter how much you deny it, the prince once..."
"I'm not really interested in what happened between you two in the past." Su Wanyan's gaze darkened slightly, her smile becoming ambiguous. "But you are... Yu Nanqing didn't save you, but the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley, who is also your senior brother. And you..."
Su Wanyan said nonchalantly, "Maybe it was just a lowly soldier serving the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley who happened to be in that situation."
Upon hearing this, Qiu Nanyan was startled, a chill ran down her spine, and she felt a coldness spread through her body.
she……
How did she know?
Could it be... that Yu Nanqing told her?
"Ha..." Qiu Nanyan suppressed the panic of her lie being exposed, her excited expression carrying a hint of ferocious smugness: "You just said that the prince had never mentioned me, but he still told you about me!"
"Oh." Su Wanyan's eyes lit up for a moment, then she looked at her with a sarcastic smile: "I guessed right?"
Qiu Nanyan's heart clenched painfully, her eyes wide with disbelief: "Guess?"
It's actually quite easy to guess. Yu Nanqing only has so many people under his command. If he had a good relationship with the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley, he would have definitely asked her to seek help from Baiyou Valley when he wanted her to escape from the capital.
After all... he already liked her so much back then.
Su Wanyan blushed slightly, a hint of shy pleasure on her face.
Since the relationship wasn't as good as he imagined, why would he come to the capital just because Yu Nanqing asked the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley to come? Either he had some leverage over Yu Nanqing, or he owed Yu Nanqing a favor.
She hadn't guessed this before, but after Qiu Nanyan's rambling, she immediately guessed another version.
However, she had no intention of telling Qiu Nanyan any of this.
She's quite pretty, but not very bright.
Su Wanyan squinted and smiled, "From the moment you lied to me and said you were the Valley Master of Baiyou Valley, I never believed you again, so I didn't hear a single word you said just now."
Qiu Nanyan gritted her teeth, glaring at Su Wanyan with a mixture of anger and embarrassment: "If he hadn't forced you to, what right would you have to be the Princess Consort of Gong!"
"If I don't do it, are you the one who should?"
Qiu Nanyan immediately perked up: "I'm more qualified than you!"
"What qualifications do you have?" Su Wanyan asked with a smile.
Qiu Nanyan opened her mouth, wanting to say something, but her mind went blank for a moment.
Su Wanyan smiled at her and directly exposed her: "Do you want to talk about looks? In terms of looks, there are thousands of beautiful young ladies in the capital, and we don't need you. In terms of talent? You have it, but others do too, and they are no worse than you. Or do you think you are superior because you know martial arts? But Yu Nanqing doesn't need a woman who knows martial arts."
"So, what you have, others also have; what you don't have, others also have. So what makes you think you're the only one worthy of Yu Nanqing? What qualifications do you have? Just because of your mouth full of lies?"
"Aren't you the same?" Qiu Nanyan snapped angrily.
"Whether I am or not, you don't need to know; Yu Nanqing knows." She looked at Qiu Nanyan with a hint of provocation in her eyes: "Do you think I'm right?"
"You!" Qiu Nanyan was both angry and anxious: "Su Wanyan! Don't be so smug!"
"If I'm not proud, who is?" Su Wanyan smiled throughout, neither arrogant nor impatient. "After all, you like Yu Nanqing so much but can't have him, while I don't have to do anything and Yu Nanqing obediently stays by my side. How could I not be proud?"
Qiu Nanyan was furious that Su Wanyan would be so blunt, her face turning red with anger: "Su Wanyan, you...you shameless!"
"You have no shame! You have no shame to stand in front of me, the legal wife, and openly try to steal my husband. This is the kind of behavior Baiyougu has shown. It's truly an eye-opener for me."
"You...you..." Qiu Nanyan jumped up, pointing at Su Wanyan, trembling with anger: "It was clearly you..."
She had never been criticized like this before, from childhood to adulthood.
Clearly... clearly she was the one who stole his love...
"You...you don't think I don't know..." Qiu Nanyan was so angry that her heart was pounding and she could barely speak.
However, just as she was about to say something, a gust of wind suddenly attacked from the doorway. Qiu Nanyan was startled and quickly used her inner strength to raise her hand to block it. But before she could even raise her hand, the gust of wind was already in front of her.
The speed was so fast that her expression changed drastically.
With a loud "bang," Qiu Nanyan was sent hurtling from the private room into the restaurant across the street like a cannonball.
Suddenly, splinters of wood flew everywhere, and the stone wall cracked!
A trickle of blood gushed from the corner of Qiu Nanyan's mouth, and her vision blurred for a moment. If she hadn't used her inner strength to counteract the damage beforehand, her internal organs would probably have been shattered by now.
Even her exquisite makeup looked quite disheveled at this moment.
In an instant, all the doors and windows were smashed down, and the balcony railings broke with a crash. The falling debris from the third floor startled passersby on the street.
A few shouts of "Ah—" were heard, and people dining in nearby restaurants all peeked out to see what was going on.
Even the people who had been trying to avoid the commotion stopped on both sides of the street and looked up to watch after the noise subsided.
Su Wanyan didn't even have time to see what happened; she only knew that a gust of wind swept past her, and Qiu Nanyan was sent flying in the blink of an eye.
When she came to her senses, she looked closely and realized that Yu Nanqing had appeared in front of her at some point.
His pear-white python robe, embroidered with gold patterns, fluttered down with his movements, and even his flowing black hair seemed to have no time to return to its place. When Su Wanyan reacted, his long legs were still outstretched, stuck in a kicking motion.
His sharp, deep eyes held an extreme anger, beneath which lay a chilling calm.
The discussions among the people grew louder and louder, and more and more people gathered around, creating a chaotic and noisy atmosphere.
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