What Pei Luoan didn't know was that after he came back, Ji Hanyue had died, jumping off Linyuan Pavilion and dying.
Pei Luoan could hardly believe his ears, and hurriedly asked people to look for Ji Hanyue under Lord Linyuan, but what they found was Ji Hanyue's body.
Jumping from such a height and drowning in the water...
After hearing this news, Pei Luoan refused to believe it no matter what. His original plan was that after this incident, he would depose Ji Hanyue, but he would not take her life. Letting her stay in the East Palace was also for her good. Once Ji Yongming died, the Ling'anbo Mansion would fall into decline.
As a former Crown Princess who married out, she would definitely not have a good life if she returned to the Ling Anbo Mansion.
He will treat her well and protect her even if he has no official status. Even if he marries another princess in the future, Ji Hanyue will be the only woman his heart desires.
Ji Youran is not important, she is just a tool to him. Other women are not important either. No one can replace Ji Hanyue’s position in his heart.
No matter how outstanding she looks or how charming she is, there must be a place for Ji Hanyue in my heart.
But Ji Hanyue is dead...
Seeing Ji Hanyue's body being fished out of the water, Pei Luoan almost went crazy. On that day, he had stabbed the guards who were fishing for her to death...
Ji Hanyue died. Why did she die
I originally wanted to keep her with me and let her accompany me to the throne. Status is not that important. As long as he always has her in his heart, that's enough, isn't it
As for Ji Yongming, he is nothing. A wife should obey her husband. Since she is already married, why should she care about other people in Ling Anbo's Mansion? As long as he treats her well, that's enough, isn't it
But why could she not think it through and jump off Linyuan Pavilion
Ji Youran said that she tried to stop him but failed. It was said that Ji Hanyue also beat Ji Youran. Another maid named Wei Yu also jumped off Linyuan Pavilion at that time.
Said he was a loyal servant.
Pei Luoan had the maid thrown into a mass grave. A loyal servant? What kind of loyal servant is a maid who doesn't hold her master's hand! A cheap girl, not holding her master's hand, but jumping into Linyuan Pavilion with her master.
When he thought of this, Pei Luoan hated her so much that he wanted to chop this maid into pieces...
But when he thought about his grand plan, he could tolerate all these, and they were nothing...
"Your Highness, the Crown Princess is here!" a eunuch reported in a low voice at the door.
"No!" Pei Luoan said hatefully, and with a wave of his hand, the teacup on the table was thrown to the ground with a crisp sound, which scared Liu Jingyu outside the door so much that he took a step back.
The eunuch came out and said, "Your Highness, please don't see me because you have something to ask."
Liu Jingyu was silent for a moment, then said softly, "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is busy, please give this dull soup to His Royal Highness later, and ask His Royal Highness to take care of his health."
As she spoke, she took a food basket from the maid behind her and said, "This is what I cooked specially for Your Highness in the kitchen just now. It is cooked to perfection now, and it is just the right temperature for you to eat."
The eunuch took it respectfully and said, "Your Highness, Crown Princess, I will take note of it."
Liu Jingyu nodded slightly and turned to leave. What happened? Why was the prince so angry? This matter seemed to be quite serious. What was it
The eunuch came in with a food basket and said, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess sent you some stew. She said it's cooked to perfection. Would you like to have some first?"
"Throw it away!" Pei Luoan said coldly.
The eunuch didn't dare to report again and retreated cautiously. When he got outside, he wiped the sweat off his head. At that moment, he felt that the prince was going to throw him out along with the food basket.
The Crown Princess is really something. She doesn't even know what time it is and actually lets her send the food basket in. Next time, he will stop the food basket from being thrown out by the Crown Prince.
This Crown Princess... She really can't win the heart of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Even the former Ji Youran can't compare to her.
Such a princess's background is not as big as imagined, and she is not favored. It is not certain how far she can go in the future...
They said that the Duke of Qi's mansion was the only granddaughter, and loved her more than her own granddaughter. If she married, the Duke of Qi's mansion would definitely stand on the side of the Eastern Palace. They also said that she was a county lady of a different surname since she was a child, how respectable, and her father was the youngest Shangshu, so she had a bright future... These were all spread just to get her to marry into the Eastern Palace...
The eunuch clicked his tongue twice, expressing his disapproval.
Ever since the Crown Princess entered the Eastern Palace, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has not taken her seriously, and his subordinates don't need to take the Crown Princess to heart.
It's so pitiful that she has fallen out of favor after such a short time since she got married! No, that's wrong too. She has never been favored, so how can she fall out of favor? But this can't be blamed on the prince. It's obvious that this princess created a lot of momentum before she got married in order to marry into the Eastern Palace, and deceived His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Otherwise, it would not be her turn to marry in.
Therefore, everything that happened now was her own fault. She couldn't blame anyone else or the crown prince. She could only blame herself and the Liu family...
The letters were placed back on the desk. These were the letters that Qu Moying asked Yuxiu to go back home to get. They were also the letters that she had gotten from her father. None of them had anything to do with Pei Luoan.
After reading it, Qu Moying still felt that it was just a letter between a man and a woman, and had nothing to do with Pei Luoan's words.
If there wasn't some secret code here, then Pei Luoan had been deceived.
Qu Moying stroked the letters heavily with her hand and bit her cherry lips. It was these letters that harmed her family, her father, herself, and her sister.
My eyes felt sore and tears slid down one by one, landing silently on the table in front of me.
Her father was a hero in his life. He had led the army for the country for so many years. Ever since she could remember, her father had been on the border and only later returned to the capital. He was loyal to the emperor. But such a father died in an unclear manner in the end, and even his death was postponed for so long by Pei Luoan.
Looking at the letter in front of me, my father's voice and smile seemed to be right in front of me. I lowered my head and leaned on the table, with bloodshot eyes...
There was no one else in the room. At this moment, the weakness in her heart was infinitely magnified. Such a father, so loyal, and dedicated to the people, but in the end he ended up like that. How could she not hate him!
At the moment of rebirth, if she had power in her hands, she would rather destroy everything to pay tribute to her father's spirit in heaven...
Outside the door, Pei Yuanjun came with his people. The maids and old women knelt down and bowed respectfully: "Your Majesty."
"Where is the princess?" Pei Yuanjun stopped when he saw Yuxiu at the door.
"The princess is resting in there. She said she wanted to be alone." Yuxiu said worriedly. She saw that her master's face looked not good just now, and she was afraid that something might have happened.
Pei Yuanjun pushed open the half-open door and walked in.
Ji Hai waved his hand, and everyone else stopped and dispersed. He and Yu Xiu stood outside the door together...
"Are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?" Qu Moying was lying on the table, feeling the top of his head being gently pressed. Pei Yuanjun's voice was in his ears, and his nose felt sore and he could hardly control it.
After calming down for a while, he raised his head and said with red eyes: "I'm fine."
"How come you're still fine after being in this state!" Pei Yuanjun looked at her deeply and said gently. His handsome phoenix eyes revealed a bit of gentleness, which was very soothing.
He reached out and pulled Qu Moying up, sighed softly, and held her in his arms: "No matter what it is, you don't have to keep it to yourself. If someone bullies you, I will take you to bully them back."
Qu Moying was embraced and felt Pei Yuanjun's breath. His voice had the usual laziness but also a hint of doting. Combined with his embrace, Qu Moying felt like she was cherished and held in his heart. A trace of mist flashed through her eyes. She was much luckier in this life than in her previous one.
At least he still has...
There is such a him...
With him, I feel the light in my heart. After my rebirth, I see only darkness and desolation...
"Ji Youran...how is he now?" Qu Moying asked, biting her lip.
“Who can feel at ease if they are sent to the Western Prison, even if they don’t die?” Pei Yuanjun said, blinking his clear eyes.
It was a place that one could enter but not leave. Only a few people could survive, and almost no one could survive without being frightened silly.
Pei Yuanjun had previously been very disapproving of this former Eastern Palace concubine. The people he wanted to deal with were Pei Luoan and others, and had little to do with this Eastern Palace concubine. This kind of woman does have big ambitions, but no matter how big her ambitions are, Pei Luoan is useless, so what use is she, a woman
However, Qu Moying cared about it, and he was not afraid to resort to trickery. What he didn't expect was that Ji Youran's words actually contained so much information...
If it was really as she said, the deaths of the Crown Princess and Ling Anbo were indeed caused by the Crown Prince. He just didn't understand why the Crown Prince cut off his own arm and even attacked Ji Hanyue. Based on his understanding of Pei Luoan, if Pei Luoan really had no feelings for Ji Hanyue, he would not express it like this!
When he was at the border, he just felt that his arrangements were almost complete, so he brought his men back to the capital to prepare for his next layout. What he didn't expect was that he would eventually overturn his own layout, and what he didn't expect was that the prince would dare to do such a treasonous thing.
"Could what Ji Youran said be true?" Qu Moying bit her lip and tried hard to suppress the sobs in her heart. She wrote a letter to Pei Yuanjun that day about what Ji Youran said.
"We need to investigate it thoroughly." Pei Yuanjun said lazily, "It doesn't matter. Whether it is true or not, if Ling Anbo was really murdered, I will seek justice for him. I will never let a meritorious official die tragically, and I will not let your cousin die unclearly."
Originally, he didn't care about these things, nor did he care who killed whom or who destroyed which family. He was full of sinister thoughts and didn't care about the entire Zhou Dynasty. He even wanted to seize power and destroy it. Just for the woman in front of him, he overturned the chess game, just to let her enjoy peace...