Chapter 288: I also hope you are surnamed Yuwen, and not surnamed Chen!

Heavenly Prison Death Prison.

The wet moss that never melts all year round condensed on the stone steps. Every step was slippery, and the dampness with a rust smell drilled out from the stone cracks, mixed with the moldy smell of the rotten wood of the prison door, choking people's throats tight.

The prison cells on both sides were locked with iron chains as thick as bowls, the iron bars covered with mottled rust, like spider webs covered in black-brown.

In the dimness, only an oil lamp at the corner of the wall flickered. Under the bean-sized light, one could see the water droplets seeping from the stone wall sliding slowly along the chisel marks, dripping onto the sewage-accumulated ground, making "drip-drop, drip-drop" sounds, exceptionally harsh in the dead silence.

The air was filled with a faint bloody smell, mixed with the stench of the prisoners, pressing heavily on people's chests.

Chen Tongyuan's ankles were locked to the iron rings chiseled into the stone wall by two iron chains as thick as arms.

The chain body was wrapped in dark red rust. Every time he moved an inch, the friction between the iron ring and his bones made a "creak" dull sound, like a blunt knife sawing something.

He leaned his back against the cold stone wall, the prison uniform had long been soaked by blood stains and mold spots, sticking to his bones, cold and hard.

The iron chain dragged across the ground from in front of his knees, pressing two deep marks in the sewage-accumulated stone cracks. The black dirt condensed at the chain joints was indistinguishable whether it was blood scabs or mud that hadn't been washed for years.

And Chen Gubai was locked opposite him, but unlike him, his mouth was also blocked, fundamentally unable to carry out any verbal communication.

"I don't know what time it is outside....."

Chen Tongyuan looked at this dark, sunless, and damp environment, and couldn't help but mutter.

Ever since he was escorted back by Li Zhuan, he had been thrown here. From beginning to end, no one came to interrogate, and no one came to send a bite of food or honey water.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

A burst of rustling unlocking sounds came.

The door of this death prison was opened.

"Chief, the Wei Duke is inside......."

"Please!"

The old jailer put away the keys, stepped aside, and said respectfully to the young man behind him.

Chen Yan stepped past the old jailer, suddenly paused, turned his head, and laughed: "Old jailer, long time no see!"

"Ch... Chief, you still remember this little one?!" The old jailer was stunned, his body trembled, and he asked in surprise.

In fact, as early as when this young man was just brought by his superior, the old jailer had already recognized who he was.....

A former resident of this prison, and the only one who is still alive to this day.

It's just that more than half a year has passed, things have changed, he has already become famous in the world, holds high power, and is no longer that death row prisoner waiting to be beheaded.....

"Of course."

Chen Yan nodded slightly and responded.

Familiar environment, familiar location, familiar people.....

Everything hasn't changed.

Everything has changed.

Chen Yan revisited the old place after a long time.

It's just that this time he is no longer a prisoner!

Chen Tongyuan saw from afar the young man in brocade official robes at the prison gate, who was out of place with this place, and said: "Chen Yan, you finally came!"

"Listening to this tone, Wei Duke, you seem to have been waiting for me for a long time?"

Chen Yan heard this, smiled indifferently, led Zhu Yi and Hongye to walk up quickly, and asked calmly: "Or are you hoping for me to come?"

"I thought you would come at the first moment....." Chen Tongyuan pulled the iron chain on his hand and sneered.

After entering this cold, damp, and foul-smelling broken place, he thought this evil obstacle would impatiently come to show off with the posture of a winner.

As a result, it was unexpectedly not.

It was even after a long time that he came.

After a pause, he continued: "Chen Yan, you prepared all this, you prepared for a long time, right?"

"Not too long....."

Chen Yan shrugged, his gaze froze, and he laughed: "Started from officially becoming the Azure Dragon Mirror Master!"

Long?

Not long at all!

He is not a vengeful person at all!

"You!" Chen Tongyuan heard this and was directly angered into laughter.

"This can't be blamed on me, who let you, Wei Duke, have such unclean things under your ass?"

Chen Yan put one hand behind his back, examined Chen Tongyuan with great interest, and said playfully: "Just grab it and it's all problems!"

Actually, there are quite a few problems behind Chen Mouren, but they are handles he specifically left for Grand Chancellor Dad to hold......

It's just that most of them are private morality, and not enough to be fatal.

After all, a subordinate who is too perfect, has no desires, and is clean and honest will not be trusted by the leader, and is even more likely to be suspected!

"Ha!" Chen Tongyuan curled his lips, snorted coldly, and stared fiercely at Chen Yan.

"Wei Duke, the taste of this Heavenly Prison Death Prison is not bad, right?"

Chen Yan ate the chicken leg clean, spat out the bone casually, drank a mouthful from the ceramic jar, and sighed: "Didn't expect that one day, you would fall to this point, right?"

"Good wine!"

This Heavenly Prison Death Prison and this prison cell were places Chen Mouren once stayed in, so of course, he had to invite the culprit to experience it personally.....

Otherwise, his thoughts would not be smooth!

"Indeed!" Chen Tongyuan squeezed these two words from between his teeth, his voice as hoarse as if ground by sandpaper, "The thing I regret most in my life is that when you were born, I didn't pinch you to death!"

"Then there wouldn't be today's disaster!"

Before the words fell, he suddenly pulled the iron chain on his wrist, the iron shackles tearing his flesh and blood as if they were torn.

The chain body collided with the iron ring on the stone wall, making a deafening "clanging" sound, echoing endlessly in the death prison.

That hatred wrapped around his throat like a poisonous vine, making his chest heave violently, every breath carrying scorching anger.

Chen Tongyuan hated it extremely!

"Unfortunately, there is no regret medicine for sale in the world....."

Chen Yan shrugged, broke off another chicken wing, and poked his heart lightly.

After a pause, the conversation turned, and he asked: "However, Chen Tongyuan, I have always been very curious, why do you hate me so much?"

"Even, not hesitating to put your legitimate eldest son to death?"

"It couldn't be just to support the two idiots born to Meng Wan, right?"

As he spoke, he pointed to Chen Gubai opposite with that chicken wing.

"You really want to know?" Chen Tongyuan looked at the dead silence of darkness outside the iron bars, his lips suddenly hooked into an extremely cold smile, the smile didn't reach his eyes, only pulling a stiff arc at the corner of his mouth, carrying a bone-deep mockery.

"Of course."

Chen Yan nodded and laughed: "Otherwise, I wouldn't have specifically made this trip....."

"Then go underground and ask the cheap woman who gave birth to you!"

"Let her tell you this answer!"

"Let her tell you well what kind of cheap woman she is!"

Chen Tongyuan suddenly raised his head, a roar like a trapped beast burst from his throat, the sound hitting the stone wall of the death prison.

Shaking the iron chains until they "clanged" messily, even the dampness in the wall cracks seemed to be shaken and surged.

He suddenly arched his body, his hands clutching the iron chains tightly, his knuckles turning white from the force.

The iron shackles dug deep into his flesh, blood beads flowing down his arms, dripping into the sewage on the ground, blooming into dark red flowers.

That "cheap woman" said one after another was exceptionally harsh.

Chen Yan's face immediately darkened, smiled contemptuously, and said coldly: "Chen Tongyuan, if my mother really did anything to apologize to you, I should be surnamed Yuwen, not Chen!"

Did he really think he, Chen Yan, was very happy to be surnamed Chen?

He was hoping he could be surnamed Yuwen, hoping Grand Chancellor Dad could be his biological father!

That way many things wouldn't need his own effort!

Why would he need to walk on thin ice like today?

"Let her tell you properly what kind of cheap slut she is!"

If the Old Master hadn't protected this evil obstacle, how could he have let him grow so big, thereby backfiring on himself?

But if he were surnamed Yuwen, the Old Master would probably help him together.....

Chen Yan shook his head and mocked lightly: "But it's a pity, the Old Master established me as the successor from the beginning!"

"And now I also want to, as the Old Master wished, inherit the Wei Duke's position!"

His speaking speed was not fast, but every word was like a sharp knife, stabbing into Chen Tongyuan's heart.

"Chen Yan, do you know how your mother died?"

"Hahahaha!"

Suddenly, Chen Tongyuan's angry roar stopped abruptly, turning into crazy laughter.

"How did she die?" Chen Yan heard this, his eyes narrowed slightly, and asked.

Chen Tongyuan laughed until his whole body trembled, the iron chains dragged until they "clanged" messily, the rotten flesh at his ankles tore open new wounds, blood winding down the chain body, weirdly saying: "You wouldn't really think that Xie Jintang, that cheap woman, was injured by giving birth to you, and eventually died of illness after a few years, right?"

"Yuwen Hu and Yuwen Heng are also truly stupid, actually really believing it!"

Between the lines, it was all extreme mockery.

"Did you do it?" Chen Yan asked.

"Yes, that's right!"

Chen Tongyuan raised his head and said crazily: "I spent a lot of money to buy chronic poison, hinting at Wan Yi to put it in that cheap woman's daily diet!"

"So that her body became weaker day by day!"

Zhu Yi heard this, clenched his fists, the veins on the back of his hands jumping.

His eyes had no temperature at this moment, only murderous intent that couldn't be dissolved.

Back then he was arranged by the Madam to be with the young master, never thinking that the Madam's true cause of death was so.....

"Using such underhanded tricks on your own wife, Chen Tongyuan, you are truly a bastard!" Chen Yan's face was left with only a dead silence, cursing.

"So what?"

"She deserved to die!"

"If the Old Master hadn't protected you at all times, you would have ended up like this too!"

"There would be no need to go to such great lengths to send you to some Heavenly Prison Death Prison!"

"Do you know how painful that cheap woman was before she died?"

"The pain of a heart being gouged and intestines being broken!"

"She suffered for two full days and nights before she breathed her last!"

"Hahahaha!"

The light of the torch illuminated Chen Tongyuan's twisted face, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes filled with pride, the corners of his mouth split into a ferocious arc, laughing crazily.

It's just that Chen Yan was exceptionally calm, without a trace of emotional fluctuation, examining Chen Tongyuan, as if he had seen through everything, and asked: "So, you are trying to anger me, so that I will kill my father with my own hands?" ===== CHAPTER 289 =====

"Using such underhanded tricks against your own wife—Chen Tongyuan, you really are a bastard!" Chen Yan's face was nothing but dead, silent cold as he cursed.

"And so what?"

"She deserved to die!"

"If the Old Master hadn't been protecting you all the time, you would have met the same end!"

"And there would have been no need for all this trouble to send you into the Heavenly Prison's Death Prison!"

"Do you know how much pain that cheap slut was in before she died?"

"The pain of having her heart gouged and her intestines severed!"

"She suffered for two full days and nights before she finally breathed her last!"

"Hahahaha!"

The torchlight illuminated Chen Tongyuan's twisted face, the wrinkles at the corners of his eyes filled with triumph, his mouth stretched into a hideous arc as he laughed maniacally.

Yet Chen Yan was exceptionally calm, without the slightest emotional fluctuation, observing Chen Tongyuan as if he could see through everything, and asked: "So, you are trying to provoke this Chief into killing his own father?"