Chapter 83 Banquet 2
Ye Heng's words stopped the laughter in the hall, and soon it was drowned out by a few deliberate coughs.
After all, it was a great day, and no one dared to bring this "little episode" to the table.
Ye Heng's hint made Lin Zhixiong's face turn pale and blue. In the end, he forced a smile to smooth things over and pulled Lin Xue aside.
Ye Bingzong put on a smile on his old face and watched Lin Zhixiong and the other man walk away.
"If it weren't for the Ye family's reputation, would I let you out?" Ye Bingzong smiled and raised his glass to deal with those people at the banquet, while not forgetting to warn Ye Heng to restrain himself.
Ye Heng snorted coldly: "It's a bit too late to regret now."
Then he ignored it and found a seat in a corner, calculating what he had asked Zhang Cheng to do yesterday, with a cold look in his eyes.
Not far away, the envoy sent by the royal family was greeting people with a glass of wine in hand.
The dress with gilded patterns shone coldly under the light, obviously to witness this "double happiness".
Soon, the banquet officially began.
Lin Zhixiong walked onto the stage, cleared his throat, and the spotlight shone on him. The whole hall instantly became quiet.
He held up his wine glass, with an unconcealable smile on his face:
"Thank you all for coming to the Lin family's banquet.
The first piece of good news I have invited you all here today is that the Third Princess is pregnant. It is an honor for our Lin family to have children for the royal family.
The royal family specifically allowed the Lin family to use this banquet to announce the good news to their relatives and friends."
As soon as these words were spoken, congratulations rang out in the hall, and even the royal envoy stood up and nodded, responding to the celebration.
"The Third Imperial Consort is now resting peacefully in the palace, taking care of her pregnancy. Although she was unable to be present, this good fortune is real."
Lin Zhixiong added with a smile, and then raised his voice and continued,
“This second joy must be related to the Ye family!
The head of the Ye family and his daughter Lin Xue were in love with each other, and the Ye and Lin families had long intended to marry each other.
Taking advantage of this auspicious day of Chongqing, I would like to officially announce——"
Before he could finish his words, Ye Heng suddenly stood up.
"No need to announce it."
His voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard throughout the banquet hall.
Everyone's attention focused on him again. Lin Zhixiong's words got stuck in his throat, and the smile on his face froze.
"Master Ye, what are you doing..."
Ye Heng glanced across the main stage, and when his gaze landed on Lin Zhixiong, there was no warmth in his eyes:
"Master Lin may have remembered it wrongly. I, Ye Heng, have a legitimate partner.
I have never said anything about Miss Lin and I being 'intimately compatible'."
He paused, turned his gaze towards Ye Bingzong, and then glanced at the guests in the hall. His voice suddenly became colder:
"As the head of the Ye family, I never agreed to this marriage from the beginning to the end."
These words were like a piece of ice dropped into hot soup, and the whole room suddenly became so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
Lin Zhixiong's face darkened immediately. Lin Xue tightened her grip on the hem of her skirt, and her eyes turned red.
Ye Bingzong slammed the table, stood up and shouted, "Ye Heng!"
Ye Heng ignored him and continued:
"If there really is a 'Patriarch Ye' who agrees to this marriage, the Lin family can go find that 'Patriarch Ye' to fulfill it. Anyway, it's not me."
This statement not only exposed the absurdity of the marriage, but also hinted at Ye Bingzong's meddling in matters beyond his authority.
Even the royal envoy frowned, his hand holding the wine glass paused in mid-air, and his eyes became more inquiring.
Ye Bingzong was so angry that his whole body was shaking. He finally understood what Ye Heng meant when he said, "It's too late to regret now":
"Ye Heng! What are you doing?"
"I'm not kidding." Ye Heng said lightly, and his gaze returned to Lin Zhixiong again.
He didn't say anything else, only his lips moved silently: "Old man, it seems you haven't learned your lesson yet!"
Lin Zhixiong was stunned at first, then he saw his lip movements clearly and was completely confused.
When he was wondering, a steward suddenly came up from behind and whispered anxiously in his ear:
"Master! This is bad! Ten of our interstellar supply chains are broken! It's Ye Heng who's behind this."
"What?" Lin Zhixiong turned his head suddenly, his eyes full of surprise, not because he was surprised by Ye Heng's moving hand.
But Lin Zhixiong didn't understand. What Ye Heng did at this time was simply a thankless task.
It is impossible to really break it off with Ye Bingzong around, because Ye Heng is not really in power.
The housekeeper saw that the master did not react much, so he continued anxiously:
"Master, I mean it was Ye Heng who did it, not Ye Heng who did it in the name of Master Ye."
As soon as these words fell, Lin Zhixiong's face turned ashen.
He and Ye Heng had been at odds for a long time, and he had never gained the upper hand in their previous encounters.
This time, he took advantage of the fact that the third imperial concubine was pregnant to gain access to the royal family, and also relied on Ye Bingzong, the conservative old antique, as his backer.
I thought that by attacking from both sides, I could finally tame this stubborn Ye Heng.
The last time Ye Heng pinched the Lin family's lifeline, he used the Ye family's power. At that time, he could still go to Ye Bingzong to smooth things over.
Although Ye Bingzong did not agree that time, this time is different.
Ye Heng was mobilizing his own forces, and the Ye family had no power to intervene at all. Even Ye Bingzong couldn't stop him!
This wasn't a slap in the face, it was a solid blow to him!
Lin Zhixiong's hand gripping the wine glass creaked, and the wine sloshed out of the rim of the glass and splashed onto his dress without him noticing.
He originally thought he had Ye Heng under control, but in the end, he was the one who was fooled around.
Ye Heng took in the changes in his expression, and a faint sneer appeared at the corner of his lips.
She didn't look at him again, but turned to Ye Bingzong, whose expression was equally grim, and the provocation in her eyes was obvious.
—
Lin Yao's ball of light mist gently covered Ye Heng's body and tried to shake it. As expected, it had no weight at all and could not even bend a strand of Ye Heng's hair.
He simply leaned closer to Ye Heng's face, the stars on the edge of the fog rubbing against his earlobe. He asked anxiously, "What happened next?"
"You've already fought back so hard, and you've caused so much trouble for the Lin family. Why are you still lying in a cell in the White Tower?"
He pressed on, Guangwu trembling slightly, "Given your personality, you shouldn't just accept it like that."
Ye Heng turned his head and could feel the coolness on his cheek, as if Lin Yao was really touching him with his fingertips.
He moved his fingers to vaguely touch the light mist, but his fingertips passed through the mist and could not feel the real temperature:
"I did fight back, but I came to the White Tower on purpose."
Ye Heng was placed under house arrest by Ye Bingzong and couldn't even contact Ye Mang. He was surrounded by Ye Bingzong's men and even the laptop wasn't returned to him when he attended the banquet.
Ye Heng lowered his voice a little:
"It was originally planned that I could use the excuse of losing control of my mental power to enter the White Tower and avoid the entanglement of the Ye and Lin families."
The light mist swayed slightly, and Lin Yao's consciousness was filled with doubt: "How could it be..."
"I didn't expect Ye Bingzong to be so cruel." Ye Heng's Adam's apple rolled and his voice deepened.
He still underestimated how ruthless a conservative old man could be for the sake of his family and honor.
Ye Heng closed his eyes, and the scene in the reception room that day came back to his mind.
At that time, the banquet hall was filled with the sound of chattering and discussion.
In order to control the situation, Lin Zhixiong simply skipped the wedding and had someone clean up the mess, and he even forced the banquet to go on.
Ye Heng and Ye Bingzong were "invited" into the reception room by Lin Zhixiong.
It was said that the two parties sat down to talk, but in reality, both parties wanted Ye Heng to submit. Once the matter was settled, Ye Heng would have extraordinary abilities, and Lin Xue would definitely be the mistress of the Ye family.
It was Ye Bingzong himself who injected the medicine into Ye Heng. Once the medicine entered the body, it could only be treated with the most primitive method.
"It's a new medicine developed by the Lin family." Ye Heng's hatred grew with every word he spoke.
But no one expected that it was the poison left by Shasha that saved Ye Heng.
When he was still being affectionate with Lin Yao at the Chiying base, Ye Heng told Lin Yao that he wanted Shasha to inject some poison into his body.
Ye Heng's fluctuation value is very high, which is known to everyone on the Central Star.
But those people didn't know that Lin Yao had already counseled Ye Heng from the beginning.
Moreover, Lin Yao’s effect in guiding Ye Heng is very good, and Ye Heng’s value has always been within the range of 10.
Before returning to the Central Star, Ye Heng had a feeling.
This time, someone will definitely make a fuss about his fluctuation value. Instead of exposing the real information, it is better to have a disguise to let those people relax their vigilance.
After hearing his reasons, Lin Yao agreed and asked Shasha to inject the modified toxin into the necklace.
As long as Ye Heng wants to change the fluctuation value, he can mobilize toxins to stimulate and produce a false reaction.
Who would have thought that the medicine injected by Ye Bingzong actually caused a toxic reaction. Although it did not achieve the purpose of continuing the family line, it really stimulated Ye Heng to lose control.
—
"Wait a minute? Can the drug cause a toxic reaction?" Lin Yao interrupted Ye Heng.
"What is this potion? You know, it's the toxin that was modified by Shasha. Only toxins of the same type can cause it to resonate with you?"
Ye Heng paused, his fingertips pausing as a dark look welled up in his eyes.
He was silent for a moment, then squeezed out a cold and hard word from his throat: "So the Lin family cannot stay."
The light mist stayed where it was, silent, as if it was digesting this meaning.
Ye Heng raised his hand, vaguely holding back the chill, before continuing, his tone as calm as if he were discussing someone else's affairs:
"What happened next was simple. The symbiotic toxin in my body was triggered and I woke up completely. The originally planned 'loss of control' became a real loss of control, and I lost consciousness."
"When I opened my eyes again, I was already being tied up by Ye Bingzong and sent to the White Pagoda." He pulled the corner of his lips with a hint of self-mockery.
"He must have been really pissed off with me, and worried that I wouldn't behave myself in the White Tower, so he specifically summoned the family discipline before sending me in."
He didn't mention how much it hurt, nor did he say how serious the injury was, but Lin Yao could sense the hesitation in his voice.
The so-called family rule of nailing hooks made Lin Yao furious.
Guangwu gently rubbed his cheek, as if kissing or comforting him.
The room was silent, with only the cool touch of the light mist brushing against the skin.
Ye Heng's voice softened: "Don't be sad, Mumu."
He paused, as if remembering something, and added, "I'm telling you some gossip!"
Ye Heng asked Lin Yao if he remembered the harsh words Ye Bingzong had just said. Lin Yao said he remembered, "What did he want to do?"
“It’s nothing more than trying to replicate the Cang family’s plan. Cangye is not here to register, but that doesn’t prevent him and Delinwei from registering.
The old man must be planning to take Lin Xue to the White Pagoda and force the marriage to be finalized under my name."
At this point, Ye Heng raised the corners of his lips, with a determined smile:
"But he didn't stand a chance. I had Bian Miao hack into the White Tower's mainframe and destroy all my citizen information from the Imperial database."
The light mist trembled violently, and Lin Yao was conscious with shock: "Ruined?"
"Yeah." Ye Heng nodded, his fingertips gently stroking the mist.
"From now on, the name 'Ye Heng' will no longer be found in any of the Empire's databases. He tried to register without me, but he couldn't even find my name. Who would he register for?"
"Unless he marries Lin Xue himself, I don't mind having another grandmother!"
Ye Heng's voice was filled with relief: "He won't get what he wants. Our affairs have never been the place for others to interfere."
The light mist suddenly exploded for a moment, and the stars were shaking in disarray. Lin Yao's consciousness was full of shock:
"Illegal resident? Are you...going to become an illegal resident like me?"
He was forced to delete the information before, but Ye Heng took the initiative to remove himself, which almost cut off all the obvious ways.
"What else?" Ye Heng smiled, and rubbed the edge of the light mist with his fingertips.
"We can't just leave the information for them to mess around with."
"What about the properties under your name?"
Lin Yao asked anxiously, those fleets and transit stations were Ye Heng's foundation over the years, how could they be given up just like that?
"It's been moved a long time ago." Ye Heng said lightly.
"A few days ago, I asked Bian Miao to transfer the money to a hidden account that my mother left behind. I registered it under several virtual identities. Ye Bingzong can't find out what Bian Miao is doing, so don't worry."
The light mist condensed for a moment, as if it was completely relieved, and then moved closer to his cheek.
Lin Yao's voice was a little anxious, but also full of excitement: "Then, will you come with me?"
"I will save you," he repeated, the mist gently wrapped around Ye Heng's fingertips, with seriousness,
"Come with me, and we'll become space pirates?"
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