She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 286 - 285: Clarify and Make a Clean Break

Chapter 286: Chapter 285: Clarify and Make a Clean Break

"Send it over later." A complex light flickered in Yan Wanqing’s eyes.

Now that Sun Lianyi’s child had been found, it was impossible to be negligent again. Immediately, the guards in her sleeping quarters doubled, and Yan Wanqing even arranged for a few assassins from Stormy Building to stay nearby, dedicated to protecting her and her son.

"There’s something you said that was very right." Sun Lianyi and Yan Wanqing sat on a soft couch, and she gently patted the sleeping little prince in her arms, feeling an unprecedented clarity: "To plan is to live, not to plan is to die."

When she said this, she looked deeply at her cousin.

Everything had developed just as she had said it would.

"If I had listened to you from the beginning, planned ahead, perhaps my father and brothers would not have encountered this misfortune."

Sun Lianyi’s eyes reddened once more.

Yan Wanqing stared at the still tea on the tray and softly began, "Cousin, there’s something you should know."

"What is it?"

Yan Wanqing pursed her red lips: "My elder brother has returned."

Stopping her hand that was patting the little prince, Sun Lianyi looked at her disbelievingly, unable to hold back the tears that turned into crystal drops rolling down her beautiful cheeks.

"...He’s back?"

Seeing Yan Wanqing nod, Sun Lianyi felt her throat suddenly constrict tightly. After suppressing the turbulence in her heart several times, it finally turned into a long sigh.

"...Heaven has eyes."

Four words, and nothing more needed to be said.

There was no possibility left between her elder brother and cousin, was there?

The sense of yearning and unattainability poked at Yan Wanqing’s heart. Thinking of Xiao Pingfeng’s angry questioning just now, her feelings became complicated.

Wasn’t the situation between them similar?

Tonight, she would make it clear to him, and put an end to it.

She was determined to seize this world, and the Emperor, she was going to kill.

She would settle all the debts the Imperial Family owed her father and brothers, one by one.

"What are you thinking about?" Seeing Yan Wanqing distracted, Sun Lianyi asked with concern.

Her cousin was always so decisive—when had she ever seen her lapse into a daze?

Yan Wanqing shook her head: "It’s nothing serious."

"Don’t keep things bottled up inside; it won’t do you any good if you hurt yourself in the process. Although cousin can’t help you much, I do have the time to listen to you vent," Sun Lianyi handed the little prince to the nursemaid and stepped forward to take Yan Wanqing’s hand, "Tell your cousin, are you facing some kind of difficulty?"

Currently, the inner and outer courts of the Capital City are under the control of Empress Zhang Lanyi, and the vast majority of the situation in the Capital City is also within Yan Wanqing’s grasp.

So seeing her like this, Sun Lianyi felt genuinely concerned.

What could it be that had rendered her usually composed and collected cousin so utterly distraught?

A bitter smile formed on Yan Wanqing’s lips. She didn’t want to bring up the matter between her and the Crown Prince.

But seeing her cousin’s current state, she thought of her own situation with her elder brother.

Yan Wanqing finally relented and disclosed everything that had happened recently to Sun Lianyi in detail.

When she heard about how Miss Third of the Li Family had repeatedly plotted against her, Sun Lianyi’s eyes narrowed in anger: "It’s only because you can’t bring yourself to act against these women. If it were me, on the first day itself, I would have made it impossible for her to get away with it."

Yan Wanqing felt warmth in her heart: "Not anymore, it won’t happen again."

"There is indeed an insurmountable gulf between you, but after listening to you for so long, all these have been your thoughts. Have you ever sought to understand his true feelings?"

At these words, Yan Wanqing froze.

His... feelings?

...

The sky gradually darkened.

Yan Wanqing emerged from the palace. In recent days, the Emperor’s health had been deteriorating, and Empress Zhang Lanyi’s face was growing darker by the day.

Everyone knew there wasn’t much time left.

The Emperor’s demise was a matter of sooner or later.

Many of the old officials were petitioning the Empress to issue a decree to recall the Crown Prince from his faraway post at Governor’s Office Pass.

Little did they know, their Crown Prince was already in the Capital City.

The fragrance of the Hehuan Tree in the evening was so rich that one couldn’t help but want to stand beneath it and take a few more breaths.

Yan Wanqing stood by the lakeside, waiting quietly.

In her hand, she pinched a flat stone and threw it with force, the stone skipping across the lake’s surface: "One, two, three, four, five, six... "

After six splashes, the stone finally sank to the bottom of the lake.

The person who should have arrived still hadn’t come.

Her mood sank along with it.

They had agreed to clear things up, yet the person hadn’t shown up.

Was he playing her?

Princess Anping couldn’t understand why, but she felt a surge of anger building inside her.

She didn’t wait any longer, turned around, mounted her horse, and headed straight for the city.

Xiaoliu had told her that he was currently staying in a very nice house in the city.

She wanted to see just what had held him up, making her wait in vain for an entire hour!

Yan Wanqing jumped down from the eaves angrily.

At that moment, Lin Yanran had just helped Xiao Pingfeng onto the couch.

The young Crown Prince kept muttering: "Wanwan, Wanwan. "

Hearing this, Lin Yanran felt endless jealousy and hatred in her heart.

How lowly a woman must he call for in his sleep.

What virtue or ability did that lowly woman have to make the Crown Prince dream of her to such an extent?

As she thought this, her hands were deft in their movements.

She went forward and took off Xiao Pingfeng’s boots, then stripped off his outer robe.

She had somehow found an opportunity today, pouring the medicine onto the teacup and mixing it with the tea for the Crown Prince to drink. Otherwise, she really didn’t know what to do.

Wang Quan’s old ghost medicine really worked.

Watching Xiao Pingfeng on the couch, continually tugging at his own clothes, his cheeks becoming more flushed, admiration filled her eyes.

Crown Prince truly lived up to being the pride of humanity, his good looks made her feel a heat all over her body.

Lin Yanran couldn’t wait any longer, kicked off her shoes in a rush, and was about to get onto the couch.

At this moment, a long sword was placed against her neck from behind.

"Move again, and your life is over," said a clear, beautiful voice filled with indescribable anger.

Yan Wanqing had not expected that she would come running over and witness such a scene.

Lin Yanran raised her hands and slowly turned around when she clearly saw Yan Wanqing, her face turned two shades paler: "...I haven’t done anything."

"If you had, right now you would already be a corpse," Yan Wanqing said without any mercy.

Now looking at Lin Yanran, her eyes were full of disdain.

"Get out!" she hissed lowly.

Lin Yanran wanted to say something more, but looking at the long sword in her hand, she eventually kept her mouth shut and walked out.

What a waste of effort, in the end, just to make a wedding dress for someone else.

The more Lin Yanran thought about it, the angrier she got. She slammed the door shut, then quickly ran back to her own room.

With the scandal exposed, she had to hurry up and pack her things to flee.

Neither Yan Wanqing nor the Crown Prince was someone to be trifled with.

Lin Yanran put all the silver coins she had scrounged up in the residence into a bundle, and then taking advantage of the night, she quickly escaped through the side door.

Inside the room.

Yan Wanqing threw the long sword in her hand onto the ground.

She, fuming with rage, poured out a pot of tea from the table, then walked to the side of the bed where the Crown Prince lay with a delirious gaze, and dumped it over his head...