When You Yuzhi rushed to the front hall of King Jinnan, there was already sound of an argument there.
"No way... How could it be that my cousin set the fire..." Chen Anzhi sat weakly in the chair, his face as pale as paper, his voice was low, and he looked quite weak. He seemed to be explaining to the King of Jinnan, but more like muttering to himself in disbelief.
Fang Qingyi knelt in the middle of the hall with her head hung, expressionless.
The King of Jinnan sat at the top of the table, his face looked extremely bad. He looked at Chen Anzhi, feeling disappointed and distressed. Seeing You Yuji stepping in, he waved his hand, and the servants around him immediately stepped forward to lead You Yuji to a seat.
Chen Shunzhi had already washed and changed his clothes. He stood beside Chen Anzhi, feeling sorry for his brother who was so weak and had to be carried here by his father. Standing in front of the sea of fire, he had a flash of greed and hesitation in his heart. Now that it was over, he was ashamed of his hesitation at that time, and now he had an unspeakable guilt in his heart towards his family.
Chen Anzhi looked towards Fang Qingyi, wanting to see those affectionate eyes on her face again, but Fang Qingyi kept her head down and did not move, so he could not see her expression.
He didn't want to believe that his gentle, elegant and noble cousin was a vicious woman with a heart of a scorpion. He didn't want to believe that he had always misjudged her. He didn't want to admit that he was a blind person.
"Qingyi, say something..." Chen Anzhi's voice trembled slightly, and his eyes were full of pain as he looked at Fang Qingyi.
The wound on his abdomen was causing him excruciating pain. The scene of Fang Qingyi throwing the burning lantern at his mother kept replaying before his eyes, like a nightmare that he couldn't get out of.
What else is there to drink
But he was so shocked that he still didn't want to believe it. He really hoped that this was a nightmare. Not so cruel as to tear away all the good things he had thought of in the past.
The King of Jinnan couldn't stand it anymore, so he picked up the teacup on the table and threw it at Chen Anzhi. The porcelain cup exploded at Chen Anzhi's feet, and the boiling hot tea splashed on the front of his long gown. He didn't have time to change his clothes, and the front of his long gown was left with marks from the fire.
"Father!" Chen Shunzhi pleaded, "My brother is seriously injured, and he is still running a fever, and his mind is not clear at the moment. Why don't we wait until he gets better and then..."
"Shut up!" King Jinnan shouted.
Chen Shunzhi immediately pursed his lips.
King Jinnan was also concerned about Chen Anzhi's current injury. He pointed at Chen Anzhi for a long time, but he still couldn't bear to say any harsh words. He took a deep breath, tried his best to control his anger, and said, "Okay, go and get her yourself!"
"Qingyi!" Chen Anzhi called her name in pain, trying to get an answer, an answer that could prove that he was not blind.
Even so, he clearly already had the answer in his heart.
The friendship they had grown up with, the scenes of the two of them together in the past reappeared in front of him again and again. Tears fell from the corners of Chen Anzhi's eyes, and he cried: "Qingyi, why did you do this? Was someone forcing you or... or..."
He racked his brains but couldn't come up with an answer.
Tears fell from Fang Qingyi's eyes, and she watched with her own eyes as the tears fell to the ground and shattered into pieces. She suddenly laughed and raised her face to look at Chen Anzhi.
"Why?" Fang Qingyi's low laughter grew louder and louder, gradually turning into a loud laugh.
The servants in the hall all lowered their heads, and felt a chill down their spines. It was really too weird for Qingyi to laugh so loudly in this situation.
Fang Qingyi finally laughed enough. She looked at Chen Anzhi with amusement and said, "Why are you still so stupid? I was so stupid that I actually believed your sweet words."
"When did I ever use sweet words to deceive you..." Chen Anzhi's eyebrows twisted into a "川" shape, and there was still some cold sweat on his forehead due to the pain of the wound. He opened his eyes wide, trying to see the person in front of him clearly. He really didn't understand how his love with his cousin could be considered as his deception
"It's you! It's you who made me a lowly concubine, someone to be bullied by others!" Fang Qingyi roared and accused at the top of her lungs.
Chen Anzhi shook his head in confusion.
In an instant, all the past affection between the two seemed to have changed. However, Chen Anzhi knew that he had no ability and dared not disobey his parents and disobey their orders, so that his cousin, a daughter of a marquis, could become his concubine. He whispered guiltily: "This... This is indeed my fault..."
His guilty look of admitting his mistake in time angered Fang Qingyi. Fang Qingyi stood up and staggered to Chen Anzhi. The servants in the mansion were afraid that she would have evil intentions again, so they hurriedly stood in front of her.
She raised her arm over the person who was trying to stop her and pointed at Chen Anzhi: "Why are you pretending to be affectionate? Tell me, who were you thinking of when you listened to me playing the piano? Who were you thinking of when you persuaded me to wear white clothes? Who were you thinking of when you and I were having fun in bed?"
Chen Anzhi's face changed, and he looked up at Fang Qingyi in panic. He pursed his lips tightly, unable to explain. After a long while, he stammered, "I, I like you too..."
“Hahahaha…” Fang Qingyi laughed crazily, almost losing control.
The two old women who were stopping her quickly used brute force to push her back.
Fang Qingyi's laughter suddenly stopped. She looked at Chen Anzhi and spoke word by word: "Chen Anzhi, you make me sick!"
Chen Anzhi's pupils shrank suddenly. The pampered prince had never heard a harsh word since he was a child. He didn't expect that today it would be said by his cousin who he always thought loved him deeply.
The bitterness in my heart was as unbearable as the burns on my hands.
He turned his head away to hold back his tears, then looked at the King of Jinnan and choked up, "Father, I am also responsible. Things have come to this point, and I hate to have implicated my mother and sister..."
Thinking of his mother's serious injury, Chen Anzhi shed two more tears. He sniffed and spoke again: "But my cousin is pregnant with my child now, please spare her life, father."
King Jinnan was so angry that he laughed: "You also know that your mother and sister will be in trouble. At this time, you are still begging for her?"
"It was my son who didn't handle the affairs of the harem well, and he is also responsible. No one is perfect, and my cousin was just angry that my son didn't fulfill his promise to her to be her legal wife. Everyone has impulses, and my son has been impulsive and got into trouble recently. Maybe, maybe some evil spirit possessed him, just like my son didn't mean to disobey his mother! Maybe my cousin was also possessed by some evil spirit for a while!"
He pleaded for mercy because he thought his cousin loved him deeply, which was why her love turned into hatred.
You Yuji, who had been sitting quietly at the side, suddenly spoke up: "The reason why the prince has been so impulsive recently is because Fang Qingyi added Zao Nu San to the wine he gave you."
Except Fang Qingyi, everyone looked at You Yuji in surprise.
You Yuji was still sick and exhausted. She felt a headache after listening to the confrontation between Chen Anzhi and Fang Qingyi. She just wanted to make things clear as soon as possible and go back to rest.
King Jinnan looked at You Yuji in surprise. He had already learned about the Zaonu Powder when he tortured He Lusu, but he didn't know You Yuji knew about it. He asked You Yuji to come over to find out why she went to the back door that should have been tightly sealed, as if she had known that the wall of the back door had been demolished. Now that You Yuji took the initiative to mention the Zaonu Powder, King Jinnan thought about it and guessed that she probably had suspected Fang Qingyi a long time ago.
"What is this Zao Nu San?" Chen Anzhi looked at You Yuji in shock, "Don't take advantage of the situation to slander Qingyi!"
He wanted to ask how his cousin could have poisoned him, but the bloody hole in his abdomen made him hold the words on his tongue and unable to utter them.
"Bring the people up!" King Jinnan ordered.
Soon, Green Shu, who had been beaten beyond recognition, was dragged up, and her blood left a long mark on the ground.
King Jinnan looked at Fang Qingyi and said, "Since you are unwilling to explain it clearly to Anzhi, let this maid speak!"
Lu Shu was tortured and was left with only his last breath.
Fang Qingyi glanced at her, and her crazy and rotten heart suddenly felt a little bit reluctant.
"Don't push her. I said."
"The first time I fed you Zao Nu San was the day before your wedding. I wanted you to lose your composure on your wedding day." Fang Qingyi shook her head in disappointment. "I heard this medicine is amazing, but I didn't expect it to be so effective. Or maybe you're just too timid. I thought you'd go crazy with the effect of the medicine and beat up You Yuji. Tsk, the newlyweds were humiliated, and the bride couldn't bear it and hanged herself. How wonderful."
Chen Anzhi listened to Fang Qingyi's words in a daze, and felt that the gentle and elegant cousin in front of him seemed to have turned into a devil.
"You smashed things and vases and quarreled with others because of the effect of the drug. It's a pity that you are such a coward. Under the influence of such a twisted drug like Zao Nu San, you don't even have the courage to kill someone!"
"You..." Chen Anzhi kept saying "you" for a long time but couldn't say anything else.
Fang Qingyi just sneered: "Feeling disappointed? I am the one who is really disappointed. You are still so cowardly even though I feed you with stuff like Zao Nu San!"
More and more cold sweat oozed out of his forehead because of the pain, but the burn on Chen Anzhi's hand was more painful. He didn't even have the strength to raise his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.
He took a long breath, suppressed the pain, and then spoke again: "You did all this just to grab the position of the Crown Prince's Consort? Is the position of the Crown Prince's Consort so important?"
"Yes, it was to rob." Fang Qingyi admitted.
But she knew in her heart that her admission was not the same as what Chen Anzhi thought. She snorted and looked at Chen Anzhi with contempt: "Do you think I really like you?"
Doubts appeared in Chen Anzhi's eyes again. She did so many crazy things, wasn't it because she loved him too much, couldn't accept that he had someone else in his heart, couldn't accept that his position as his legal wife was also someone else, so she turned from love to hate and did such a horrible thing
Fang Qingyi's look at Chen Anzhi turned from contempt to pity.
"I like your status as a prince, and your stupidity that is easy to fool." Fang Qingyi had already given up. Since her future was blocked, there was no point in living. Fortunately, she said everything she wanted to say.
"Chen Anzhi, you're an idiot!" Fang Qingyi sat on the ground and laughed like a madman, "Chen Anzhi! You're so easy to fool. You believed me when I told you that You Yuji and Zhao Sheng were having an affair. You also told me that I saw Zhao Sheng crying while holding a jade pendant with the word Ji engraved on it. Those were all made up stories. It was my idea to assassinate your wives and concubines, and my mother just took the blame for me. You actually believed it, and even advised me to stay away from my mother and not be led astray? Hahaha..."
Chen Anzhi's face turned pale.
All the past events flashed back in his mind. His pale face gradually became bloodless. The burns gave him a fever, but he felt like he was falling into an ice cave, and he could no longer feel anything except the cold. After a while, he could not even feel the biting cold.
I feel lost and don't know where I am.
Nanny Gu beside the princess walked in quickly. Prince Jinnan stood up immediately and asked if the princess had woken up.
"yes."
Nanny Gu replied, then turned to look at You Yuji and said with a smile, "Madam, the princess wants you to come over. She has two things to say to you."
Aunt Gu smiled and spoke in a friendly tone. The servants' every move often represented the master's intention.
You Yuji was led by Nanny Gu to the princess's room.
The princess lay on the bed, watching You Yuji approach and stretched out her hand.
You Yuji held the hand she handed over.
"You rushed into the fire and saved me." These were the princess's first words.
"When things are done, are you willing to be my adopted daughter?" This was her second sentence.
The author has something to say: 2 more chapters will be after 12 o'clock