"I hate it."
Xie Lingqin turned to look at him, "My hatred is far deeper and stronger than you can comprehend."
Yuwen Yao's body trembled slightly as he looked at Xie Lingqin. He appeared calm and composed, but only he knew that his hands under his wide sleeves were constantly suppressing, suppressing, and suppressing again.
"Yuwen Yao, between us, it's not just you who lies, I lie too." Xie Lingqin suddenly smiled with utter desolation, the smile not reaching her eyes, but instead making people within a hundred miles feel as if they were being chilled.
Yuwen Yao's heart skipped a beat.
Xu Yiran's heart suddenly sank as well.
"I trusted you too much. Even though I had a vague suspicion that it was you and Yuwen An who had conspired to withhold the antidote from me all along, after all, you are the Crown Prince. You love me so much, how could you bear to see me suffer even the slightest pain? So, I told myself that you wouldn't do that, that I was wrong. You were just momentarily confused between your younger brother with a troubled past and the woman you love most, unsure of which to choose. With your wisdom, you will surely come up with a perfect solution."
Xie Lingqin said, looking into Yuwen Yao's eyes, her gaze filled with a desolate yet laughable expression.
Yuwen Yao's heart skipped a beat. "You, you already suspected it, you..."
"Yes, but seeing me suffer from the poison again and again, yet you still can't get the antidote. At first, I didn't understand, but later I did. Yuwen An is your brother, and he listens to you the most. Why would he make things so difficult for me? I can't find any other explanation other than it being at your behest, but..."
Xie Lingqin raised her hand and touched the corner of her eye. She thought she still had tears, but there were none.
She sneered, "But I'm so immersed in the peaceful life you created for me that I can't pull myself out."
Xie Lingqin spoke and laughed, but that laughter was so desolate that it made Yu Yao's eyes flash with a fierce light, yet his lips were dry, as if he couldn't utter a sound.
"To make me completely devoted to you, you even deliberately had Yuwen An drug me, didn't you..."
"No."
Yuwen Yao suddenly denied it coldly, his voice slightly unsteady. "I did tell him to keep the antidote under control, which is why I had Yu Qingyi go to the west to get the antidote himself. However, I didn't know anything about Yuwen An drugging you. I admit what I did, and I can explain what I didn't do."
Even if you no longer want to hear this explanation.
"Heh..." Xie Lingqin's starry eyes turned icy cold. "Yuwen Yao, whether it is true or not is not that important anymore. What you have done is far more than this. That day, after we came out of the hot spring, my poison took effect. You originally wanted to use your internal energy to help me suppress it, but then you said you were afraid of conflicting with Xu Yiran's internal energy. But is that really the case, Yuwen Yao? It's because the cultivation technique in your body is originally from the same source as Xu Yiran's."
As soon as Xie Lingqin finished speaking, Xu Yiran's expression changed, seemingly surprised, yet also unsurprised.
Clearly, he knew, but it was an unexpected fact that Xie Lingqin already knew.
"You're afraid of triggering my inner memories and making me out of your control, so you see me in pain and don't save me, right..." Xie Lingqin sneered with each word, "Yuwen Yao, I love you, I trust you even more, I trust you unconditionally. I let down all my guard in front of you, but what about you? You've been playing tricks on me at every turn."
"You said that when Yuwen An was five years old, he saw something he shouldn't have seen—he saw my mother, Yun Yishang, right? The saying 'a loss may turn out to be a blessing in disguise' applies here. My mother was kind-hearted. Although she was an enemy of the Emperor, she couldn't bear to see Yuwen An so young and ignorant of the ways of the world. So, she used the Yun Clan's spiritual arts to restore his sanity. But the cycle of fate is endless; there's never such a good thing. There must be a price to pay. So, his legs were crippled. As for the Yun Clan's spiritual energy in you, I suppose it was because my mother later wanted everything to be perfect, so she gave it to you to help Yuwen An's body, allowing him to walk a little more sometimes over the years, Yuwen An..."
Xie Lingqin looked at him with an almost sarcastic expression, "Am I right?"
"Yes, everything you said is correct."
"But you are so ungrateful. My mother was wrong in the end, which is why you are harming her daughter like this more than ten years later. The Yuwen royal family is so heartless, there are no exceptions."
"Xu Yiran, all these days you haven't said that your willingness to go through with the wedding banquet that day was because he threatened to destroy the antidote, wasn't it?"
Xu Yiran's expression shifted, she closed her eyes briefly, and her silence was the answer.
"From beginning to end, you were holding the antidote back and forth between Xu Yiran and me, and yet I was head over heels in love with you. Looking back now, I was incredibly stupid."
"However, now that things have come to this, there's something I need to ask you. I think you no longer need to lie."
Yuwen Yao's eyes narrowed, and a pain spread through his heart. He felt a chill on his toes, but he still calmly met Xie Lingqin's sharp gaze. "Ask away."
"Five years ago, the Zhang family was massacred in Fengnuan City. The Heavenly Mystery Hall reported that you went to the Zhang family that night, didn't you?"
Yuwen Yao remained silent for a moment, then nodded. "It's me."
"no."
Xie Lingqin suddenly shook her head, "Yuwen Yao, you really have a very good conscience towards your younger brother."
Yuwen Yao's heart skipped a beat.
Beside him, Tinghai, who had already appeared, tensed up and stared intently at Xie Lingqin, afraid of missing a single word she uttered.
"In this world, who can match the Crown Prince's stature? Apart from your own brother, Yuwen An, I don't think anyone else could. And Yuwen An has always had mental problems. That night, he went mad and slaughtered the Zhang family. Then, when you received the news and rushed over, you saw Tinghai. So, under the pretext of investigating this matter, you took Tinghai under your wing, is that right?"
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