Do you have evidence?
Yin Jiuniang asked Huo Zhan.
Ye Zhen had some doubts about this, but too much time had passed and they still hadn't found any evidence.
Upon seeing this, Huo Zhan slowly smiled. "You noticed it too?"
But the smile quickly vanished, replaced by anger.
Since Yin Jiuniang knew that Ye Jinghong's death had nothing to do with him, why did she still abandon him and why was she so heartless towards him?
This heartless woman.
"Did Ye Yunheng betray Jinghong?"
Yin Jiuniang pressed for an answer, her tone urgent.
Huo Zhan felt uncomfortable again. "If I tell you the truth, you will come back to Dongwu with me."
"impossible."
Without a second thought, Yin Jiuniang refused, "You hate me, you can take revenge on me, but I will never accept your humiliation again."
Huo Zhan's words just now revealed that there were indeed suspicious circumstances surrounding Jinghong's death, and Zhen'er already had suspicions; it was only a matter of time before they found evidence.
When have I ever humiliated you?
All sexual encounters are under his control, but this woman only has other women in her heart and always resists him, which makes him even more annoyed.
He had planned it all out on the way here: if she was really stubborn, he would explain to her that it wasn't humiliation, but normal sexual intercourse between a man and a woman.
But Yin Jiuniang had just said that he wasn't even worthy of carrying Ye Jinghong's shoes.
He didn't want to explain anymore.
Screw your shoe-carrying.
Why should Huo Zhan be expected to carry Ye Jinghong's shoes?
If there is anyone in this world who needs him to carry their shoes, it is only Yin Jiuniang.
But she disdained it.
Huo Zhan laughed angrily, his voice icy, "If you won't go to Dongwu, I'll send Ye Zhen instead."
Years ago, he inexplicably saved this woman, and upon learning that she had nowhere to go, he impulsively made her stay in his mansion as a servant.
Seeing that he had resisted women for many years, his mother, who rarely kept a woman by his side, arranged for her to stay in her room and take care of her.
Before long, he sensed her hatred for him and guessed that she had deliberately approached him, bewitched by him. He wanted to see how this woman would kill him.
But this woman was incredibly patient. For two whole years, she made no move. Instead, he succumbed to her advances through her probing and teasing.
Knowing that she approached him to avenge Ye Jinghong, he hesitated for a long time, even staying away from the mansion for half a year without seeing her.
However, upon learning that she was leaving Dongwu, he still rushed back to the manor, and she finally made a move against him.
She threw the deadly poison into his tea without batting an eye, which infuriated him. In a fit of rage, he secretly replaced the poisoned tea with an aphrodisiac and forced her to drink the remaining half.
He took her body as revenge, and became even more reluctant to let her go, so he shamelessly clung to her for two years.
She never loved him, yet she never rejected him either, which made him realize that she didn't just want to kill him for revenge; she also wanted to gather intelligence.
He was taught from a young age to be loyal to the emperor and love his country, and to put his family first. You could see the sorrow in her eyes. She often climbed onto the roof in the middle of the night and sat there for half the night, gazing in the direction of the abyss.
When she sneaked into his study again, he pretended not to know.
Dongwu has lost!
He comforted himself, saying that the emperor was warlike and that Dongwu's treasury had been empty due to wars over the years, leaving the people destitute.
A defeat that brings a truce between the two countries might be worthwhile.
But he never expected that Crown Prince Zhaolin would burn and kill 50,000 prisoners. Although those 50,000 soldiers were not his Huo family's army, they were still citizens of Dongwu.
These 50,000 lives are all debts owed by Huo Zhan.
He was determined to die with those 50,000 soldiers, but all he wanted was to see her one last time before he died. He sent out countless shadow guards, but none of them could persuade her to come back.
His personal attendants even knelt down and begged her to come back and see him one last time before sending her back to Da Yuan.
She ran away before he could even finish his sentence.
He could endure the insults from his clansmen, the accusations from his mother, and the complaints from the people, but he could not bear her heartlessness.
If he couldn't win her heart, he would keep her by his side. He didn't believe that Ye Zhen would stay in Dongwu.
Yin Jiuniang knew that he was capable of doing what he said, and angrily said, "She is the future Crown Princess of Dayuan. Don't act recklessly. Think about your country and your family."
If he were to forcibly take Ye Zhen away, Da Yuan would not be willing to befriend Dong Wu, even if it were for the sake of saving face.
Given the Crown Prince's deep affection for Zhen'er, war between the two countries is inevitable.
"Since she is the Crown Princess, the debts of the husband should be repaid by the wife. Since Crown Prince Zhaolin burned and killed 50,000 of my prisoners, it is not unjust to use her to pay off the debt."
He released Yin Jiuniang.
Thanks to Li Heng's explanation, he learned that Xie Shizi was actually Crown Prince Zhaolin.
Huo Zhan resumed his refined and scholarly demeanor, saying, "You are heartless, and I am ruthless; only then are we a good match."
"You're crazy."
Yin Jiuniang felt like she was going crazy.
We finally achieved a truce. If war breaks out again because of her, what was the point of her years of infiltrating Dongwu?
Huo Zhan gave a self-deprecating smile. Wasn't he just crazy?
"You are now the emperor, you can have any woman you want, and your cousin has waited for you for more than ten years. She was chosen by your mother as your principal wife. Why are you like this?"
Yin Jiuniang was truly puzzled.
She was nothing more than a concubine. What is a concubine? In the words of his cousin, a concubine is nothing more than a plaything.
He truly only saw her as a plaything; if he loved her, why would he force her to do those shameful things?
How could he have made it so public that he even boasted about buying erotic pictures, allowing his cousin to mock her for being shameless and despicable?
In his eyes, her dignity was simply not worth mentioning.
He has always respected his lawfully wedded wife…
If he hated her, humiliating her for two years was enough.
Huo Zhan's lips curled into an even colder expression.
Very well, not only did they abandon him, they even picked out a wife for him.
What cousin? He didn't even remember if she looked square or round. She was just someone who stayed with his mother for protection after her family fell on hard times.
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