Chapter 3009: The ability to deceive people
"He's in the underworld, I'm afraid he's shed blood and tears!"
Upon hearing these words, Nan Yan's heart ached. Zhu Chengjin's voice was originally young and clear, but at this moment, his voice was a little hoarse after being ravaged by fireworks. When it sounded in his ears, the voice seemed to be mixed with the roar of evil spirits coming from the depths of hell far away.
At this moment, a blood-red color seemed to appear in front of Nan Yan's eyes.
In the endless sea of blood, it seemed as if someone was really struggling inside, and a blood-stained hand was reaching out to her, as if wanting to grab her, as if wanting to confide in her, and to question her.
Nan Yan closed her eyes subconsciously.
But when she closed her eyes, the blood-red before her eyes seemed to be swallowing her up. She quickly opened her eyes again, and Zhu Chengjin's voice was still ringing in her ears: "Have you ever thought about what your father would say to you if he knew all this?"
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"How disappointed will he be?"
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"In the future, if you were to die, would you have the nerve to see him?"
The more he spoke, the more confused Nan Yan's expression became, and there seemed to be a hint of anger in her confusion that came from nowhere.
Zhu Chengjin said: "What should be done and what should not be done, don't you really know?"
"I...what should I do..."
Just when he thought he was almost done, Nan Yan suddenly narrowed his eyes, and the confusion and anger on his face disappeared, leaving only a cold smile and a sarcastic look in his eyes.
"Do you have the final say on what I should do?"
"you--"
Zhu Chengjin seemed to sense something and was about to speak with a hoarse voice when he heard Nan Yan speak with a sneer.
"You are indeed very good at controlling people's hearts."
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"You only used Ye Quan, who had been dead for over a decade, to bring Ye Zheng back under your command. Back then, you used my father's death to confuse my mind and make me a chess piece."
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"No wonder you've been able to cause him so much trouble over the years. Besides possessing considerable power, your ability to deceive people is truly not to be underestimated."
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"Speaking of which, I'm actually a little curious. If you have such ability, how could you have suffered such a crushing defeat and been forced off the throne, out of the palace, and out of Jinling City?"
These words, like the "imperial concubine of the current dynasty" that Nan Yan had mentioned several times just now, hurt Zhu Chengjin.
A crack appeared on his masked face again.
He said faintly: "If it weren't for that, if it weren't for the fact that there were only those few pieces of trash left by my side—"
Nan Yan listened and raised her eyebrows slightly.
Back then, she was just a little woman tied to his dragon bed, like meat on a chopping board, at the mercy of others. She didn't know much about what was happening outside, and even if she did, she didn't have the leisure and wisdom to think about it.
However, after following Zhu Feng, she also had her own opinions on many things in the past.
For example, the Jingnan Campaign of that year.
Originally, Emperor Wen had an absolute upper hand. At least at that time, the imperial army was still powerful. The arrangements made by Emperor Gao from south to north were all aimed at his four sons. Even the Prince of Yan's Mansion had been besieged by the imperial army stationed in Peking. Zhu Feng was in a completely precarious situation.
If not for that, Xu Miaoyin would not have lost her first child.
However, that was just a static state. To truly end the matter, both sides had to take action. Once they took action, Emperor Wen made almost every mistake.
Later, Nan Yan also found out that the two ministers around him had no ability to control the overall situation, but they helped him to control the overall situation.
The final result is already before our eyes.
Now that everything has come to pass, looking back on the past, he is naturally filled with regret.
Zhu Chengjin gritted his teeth and said hoarsely, "If he wasn't here..."
Nan Yan's eyes suddenly flashed.
He didn't say anything else, but just raised his head, and stared at Nan Yan with his originally light-colored eyes, giving people the illusion of a bottomless abyss.
He said, "So, I haven't bewitched your heart?"
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"Or in your heart, your father's death is not as important as any other man?"
At this point, he sneered, "If that's the case, then I'm afraid nothing in this world can 'bewitch' you. After all, it's the human heart that's bewitched, and those who lack even propriety, righteousness, integrity, and shame are not worthy of being called human beings!"
Hearing this, Nan Yan laughed out of anger.
"Are you not worthy of being a human being, in terms of propriety, integrity, and shame?"
Then what about those many people who died on your dragon bed, and even those who were sent back alive, who were all crazy? Are they worthy of being human beings?
Who is the one who is not worthy of being a human being?
Zhu Chengjin only sneered when he heard her say this: "They serve me willingly, and dying for me is their honor."
Nan Yan originally didn't expect to hear words of guilt from him, but she didn't expect to get such an answer.
She sneered, "You're right. It's the human heart that's being bewitched, but if one loses all sense of propriety, righteousness, and shame, then he's not worthy of being a human being!"
Zhu Chengjin narrowed his eyes and looked at her: "So, you really don't care about your father's death?"
Nan Yan said coldly, "Of course I don't care, but I still haven't found out the truth about my father's death. How can I jump to conclusions?"
"What, you haven't checked it out yet?"
Zhu Chengjin said, "You're talking nonsense! When you returned to the capital, not long after leaving the cold palace, you entered the cabinet treasury and found a copy of the imperial edict!"
When Nan Yan heard this, she looked up at him.
"That's enough to prove that your father's death was due to someone betraying his whereabouts, yet you still have the audacity to claim that you haven't investigated thoroughly? How can you really not care about this for the sake of a man like you?"
Nan Yan looked at him for a while, then sneered and said, "You know everything about this palace."
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"But you've always been vague about my father's death. You didn't tell me the truth. You just gave me an ambiguous hypothesis and asked me to verify it myself."
Zhu Chengjin narrowed his eyes slightly: "Why, have you verified that what is written in the imperial edict is not correct?"
Nan Yan smiled at him and said, "I did go to the cabinet treasury and found the appendix to the imperial edict. I can even recite it to you - in the year of Guichou, the emperor learned all the details and sent the Guards to the Western Regions to eliminate the rebels."
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"This 'traitor' is probably referring to my father. This sentence means that after the Emperor Gao learned some 'details', he sent people to the Western Regions to eliminate my father."
Zhu Chengjin said coldly: "Isn't this clear enough?"
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