Chapter 3: Golden Wind and Jade Dew Meet Again (3) I only want Xie Yun to be my...
Lou Cheng came for her. Xie Yun knew that she had bad luck since childhood and her reincarnation skills were not very good. Born as Xie Qingyun's concubine's daughter, she had been treated coldly and bullied since childhood, but she didn't expect that her luck in escaping marriage would be so bad.
Not only was she caught by her fiancé, but she also happened to run into Yan Huinan. Now she was under attack from both sides.
A year ago, Xie Yun had just reached the age of marriage when Xie Qingyun betrothed her to Lou Cheng, the third prince of Daliang. Lou Cheng's mother was not favored, and he himself was the least favored of the other princes. Otherwise, he wouldn't have been chosen as a hostage to be sent to the Great Zhou.
No one in the Daliang court was optimistic about this downtrodden prince, but Xie Qingyun was the only one who was optimistic about him. The moment he personally brought the prince back to Daliang from the Great Zhou, he decided to rely on this prince to climb up step by step.
Originally, Xie Yun was not going to be part of this marriage that Xie Qingyun favored the most.
But it was only after Lou Cheng personally proposed to the Xie family that Xie Qingyun agreed.
In reality, only Xie Yun knew that this was just a trick played hard to get by Xie Qingyun. He had known that Lou Cheng was interested in Xie Yun, so he deliberately kept Lou Cheng hanging.
This echoed what Xie Qingyun had said when he took Xie Yun away from the Great Zhou: "You managed to charm the arrogant Yan Huinan without making a sound. My daughter, this is your ability. But your value goes far beyond this."
Xie Yun's mother was a musician with outstanding beauty and skills in the Jiaofang Division. She later fell in love with the talented but cold-hearted Xie Qingyun and gave birth to Xie Yun and Xie Run, a brother and sister.
Xie Yun inherited her mother's beautiful face. As a child, she was as bright and lively as a delicate and lovely winter jasmine flower. The young men in the Five Tombs of the capital, led by Yan Huinan, all loved to tease her. Later, she grew up to be even more clever.
Her graceful and charming willow-shaped eyebrows, her flowing almond-shaped eyes, a charming little mole at the corner of her eye, her delicate nose as straight as a distant peak, and her deep facial features are so captivating that one can't take their eyes away. Her slender waist, which can be held in one hand, always has an endearing charm.
But Xie Yun's cold and proud character made her affectionate eyes overshadowed by her cold temperament. She had been reading a lot since she was young, and later she loved to learn more and more.
She doesn't want to be her father's pawn, she just wants to be the chess player of her own life.
But Xie Yun had worked so hard for so long, and the life she had envisioned for so long had not yet begun. Was she going to die under Yan Huinan's spear?
Faced with life and death, Xie Yun's heart almost jumped out of his throat.
In the past, she had always told Yan to go back to the south with an impatient look on her face, playing tricks on him. But now everything has been reversed.
"General Yan, could you please take back the gun first for the sake of our past friendship?" Xie Yun was proud but not stupid. Now that death was imminent, it was not shameful to bow to Yan Huinan once.
Yan Huinan had a blank expression on his face: "What about our past relationship?"
Xie Yun tried to dig deep in her mind and spoke uncertainly, "For... the favor I gave you when you were seven and copied the Three Character Classic as punishment... and for keeping your falling into the water a secret when you were eight?"
After she finished speaking, she raised her hand and tapped the spear gently, whispering, "Please... please?"
The soldiers who heard Xie Yun's voice were petrified on the spot.
This was the first time I'd heard someone speak to Yan Huinan like that. It was so inappropriate! This was simply ridiculous! How could General Yan agree to such an unreasonable request?
"OK."
?
Yan Huinan kept his word and actually took the gun back. Everyone was stunned, their jaws almost dropping to the ground. This was even more shocking than witnessing Yan Huinan kill someone in person.
Xie Yun didn't breathe a sigh of relief until Yan Huinan's gun was taken away. Cold sweat dripped down her back, walking a long way behind her before being absorbed by her clothes.
Only then did she feel a stinging pain on her left cheek. She raised her hand to wipe away the blood that had slid down.
But Yan Huinan clearly had no intention of letting Xie Yun go, and he still had her and Fei Jing detained. Seeing this, Lou Cheng shouted to Yan Huinan, "Yan Huinan, I know you're a smart man. You've now entered Daliang's territory. I urge you to release Xie Yun immediately, or I can easily have you killed."
Yan Huinan's expression was very relaxed, and he was not threatened by Lou Cheng's words at all.
"Lou Cheng, I also advise you, if you don't want all the people you brought with you to perish here, don't try to take Xie Yun away. After all, she is your fiancée, but to our Great Zhou, she is indeed the daughter of a traitor."
Xie Yun was surprised. Yan Huinan was in a foreign country, so how could he know that she was Lou Cheng's fiancée?
When did he find out? But his previous reaction definitely didn't mean he recognized her.
Lou Cheng had been chasing them all the way and was unwilling to give up. He didn't believe that the thousands of elite soldiers he led would be defeated by Yan Huinan's mere hundreds of men.
Yan Huinan only asked his personal soldiers to take Xie Yun and Fei Jing back to Qingzhou, and he and the rest of the people faced Lou Cheng's thousands of enemy troops.
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Late autumn, in the dungeon of the Dali Temple in the capital.
Xie Yun was brought back to the capital from Qingzhou by Yan Huinan. As soon as she arrived in Beijing, she was escorted to the Dali Temple.
She has been detained for more than ten days now. During these days, she could only eat rotten leftovers every day and suffered torture.
It was only after she returned to Great Zhou that she learned that the current emperor was Song Hongxuan. In the past, he was the pampered prince who was always outshined by Yan Huinan.
Just because his mother was the empress, he should have inherited the throne after the death of the previous emperor.
But his misfortune also stemmed in part from the Xie family. When Meizhou fell, the Yan family suffered heavy losses, and their brave and skilled generals were either stationed at the border or sent to Meizhou to meet the enemy.
Little did they know that the Great Zhou was under attack from all sides at that time. When the northern barbarians heard that Lord Yan had passed away and soon after that the emperor of the Great Zhou had passed away, and that the Great Zhou was overwhelmed by the Daliang, they took advantage of the situation and attacked from the rear of the Great Zhou, and almost captured the capital in one fell swoop.
Song Hongxuan suffered this misfortune not long after he ascended the throne, and he will never let Xie Yun off easily now.
"Where is Yan Huinan? He won't say a word when he's not around." Xie Yun took a deep breath and asked Yu Xian, the former Prince Yu and now the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple, who was sitting opposite her.
She was tortured in prison and covered in wounds. Yu Xian received the emperor's order to use only the most torturous punishment and spare her life for the time being.
Trying to get Daliang's secrets from her.
But she was just a pawn at the mercy of others. What secrets could she have for him to find out?
Yu Xian has had an inhuman, dead-looking face since he was a child, and it hasn't changed over the years, except that the dead-looking face has grown from a smaller one to a larger one.
He said patiently, "Whether you tell it or not, the emperor will kill you."
Xie Yun felt as if she were in another world when she heard him speak. She hadn't seen these old friends in many years, but this time back in Beijing, everyone she saw was a familiar face.
How heartless! When I was a child, I spoke well of you in front of Sister Lu Lingyu. Xie Yunru thought about it, but she didn't have the energy to say it.
Even though Yu Xian was as cold as he was, when he spoke again, there was still a flash of hatred and grief in his eyes: "And how dare you mention Yan Huinan again? If it weren't for your father, how could his family be destroyed?"
These words were like another sharp blade, piercing deeply into Xie Yun's heart. This is what it feels like to kill someone and destroy their heart.
"Didn't he say in person that he couldn't come?" Xie Yun still held on to a glimmer of hope.
Yu Xian: "He sent you in personally, what do you think?"
Xie Yun remained silent. Her entire body ached, the pain magnified infinitely, crushing every muscle and bone in her body like a tidal wave. Breathing felt like straining a bellows. This wasn't her fault, yet everyone seemed to be blaming her for it.
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Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
Yan Huinan almost had Si Wen carry the eunuch who was delivering the imperial edict into the Yangxin Palace.
As soon as he arrived at the Yangxin Palace, the eunuch who was in charge of delivering the imperial edict ran to the emperor's side crying, fell to his knees on the ground, and began to painfully recount what had just happened.
Not only Yan Huinan was annoyed by the aggrieved cry, but the emperor could not stand it either.
But as soon as he saw the imperial edict that was returned intact, he knew what had happened.
He kicked the eunuch who held the seal away and told him to go outside the hall and cry.
"Ziyou, why don't you accept the imperial edict from me?"
Yan Huinan remained unmoved, but the etiquette between the emperor and his subjects could not be lost. He knelt down and replied, "Your Majesty, I will not marry until the foreign threat is eliminated and the lost territory is recovered."
"When the Emperor was alive, he loved you even more than he loved me. Now you're no longer old enough to marry, yet you're still alone. I'm sure the Emperor would be worried about you. Chang Heng has been fond of you since childhood, and you know that. Besides, you can't stay single forever. You need someone who understands you and can take care of your household affairs."
Yan Huinan used to be a child, unable to understand the ways of the emperor. But times have changed, and he is no longer the carefree playboy he once was.
The emperor tried to arrange a marriage for him many times, but after much deliberation, he finally chose Princess Changheng. His intentions were obvious: he wanted to use him while keeping him in check.
"Since the Emperor so desires to see me marry and have children, I will obey."
"! Then you can just accept the order directly..." The emperor hadn't finished speaking.
Yan Huinan added slowly, "But I only want Xie Yun."
The eunuch who was about to enter the room to announce the arrival of the queen suddenly heard a "pop" sound in the Hall of Mental Cultivation, which was the sound of porcelain breaking.
The next second, the emperor roared in rage: "Yan Huinan! Are you crazy? Has your heart been eaten by dogs and pigs?! If you dare to say it again, I will make you and Xie Yun go to heaven together!"
Yan Huinan repeated: "I only want Xie Yun to be my legal wife."
This time, even the hastily entering Empress heard it. She had lived in seclusion before entering the palace, but she had heard that Young Marquis Yan was the capital's little bully, untouchable. And even more untouchable than Young Marquis Yan was his childhood sweetheart, Xie Yun, the concubine of the Xie family.
But when the Xie family killed Lord Yan's family, everyone seemed to feel pity for Yan Huinan, but many people mocked and ridiculed him behind his back, mocking him for finding a nemesis for himself, who ended up killing his entire family.
The emperor's hair stood on end, his blood rushing to his head. He wanted to rush forward and kick Yan Huinan hard to wake him up. But Yan Huinan was now a loyal minister of the Great Zhou, and it was he who helped the declining Great Zhou return to its former glory.
He knew that he was able to sit firmly on the throne because he had Yan Huinan standing behind him, willing to assist him. So he couldn't kick him today.
He suppressed his anger and took several deep breaths before regaining his composure.
"Why? Tell me, what kind of curse did Xie Yun cast on you that, after all these years, would still make you want to marry her even if it meant risking the wrath of the world?"
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