Chapter 37: It must be Ye Qingran!

What are you doing? Hurry up and withdraw from My Palace!

Dongfang Xuan saw a dark crowd outside the door and instantly flew into a rage.

Although he didn't know why he had ended up rolled together with Zhao Yan, his embarrassing state was seen by others, and he felt extremely vexed and angry.

Dongfang Xuan's fiery gaze swept over the crowd, and he spotted Ye Qingran standing calmly at the back.

He instantly understood what was going on.

According to his and Ye Sisi's plan, tonight Ye Qingran was supposed to fool around with a servant and be caught in the act. But now she is unharmed, while he and Zhao Yan have become the object of everyone's ridicule.

Ye Qingran, it's you!

Dongfang Xuan immediately let out a questioning cry from his throat.

It must be Ye Qingran; she saw through their scheme and turned the tables on them!

The crowd looked at Dongfang Xuan, who was raving like a mad dog, wondering how Ye Qingran had offended him.

"Your Highness, Seventh Prince, what do you mean by this? You yourself are dissolute and have an affair with Zhao Yan, yet I haven't even questioned you, and you're the one crying foul. How can you justify this to Sisi?"

Ye Qingran's expression was stern and righteous.

Dongfang Xuan sneered: "Ye Qingran, did you design this scheme to frame us? Dare you deny it?!"

Ye Qingran laughed angrily: "Why would I frame you? What would I gain from harming you? Your Highness, Seventh Prince, you were disloyal first, yet you seek an excuse to cover up your wicked deeds."

The crowd nodded in agreement, feeling Ye Qingran's words were reasonable.

Dongfang Xuan blurted out: "You poisoned our wine!"

The crowd was startled, gazing at Ye Qingran with complex expressions.

Could it really be Ye Qingran who did this?

Ye Qingran showed no fear: "Since Your Highness, the Seventh Prince, has said so, the wine you and Zhao Yan drank tonight is still on the table. If it truly was poisoned, let us trace the poison through the wine."

Dongfang Xuan was instantly speechless.

The poison in the wine was bought by him from a poison master; that master's poison is not circulating on the market, and moreover, many people know of his relationship with that poison master.

"Your Highness, Seventh Prince, why aren't you speaking?!"

Ye Qingran had already had Han Xing Leng Yue investigate the matter thoroughly. Knowing the poison's origin was unusual, she concluded Dongfang Xuan would not dare to dig deeper.

Seeing Dongfang Xuan's shifting gaze, the crowd gradually realized, fearing that it was actually Dongfang Xuan who was slandering Ye Qingran.

Zhao Tian then mustered his courage to speak tentatively: "Your Highness, Seventh Prince, my daughter Yan..."

Dongfang Xuan's face darkened, he gritted his teeth and snapped: "I will take responsibility!"

Zhao Tian breathed a sigh of relief.

If Zhao Yan could thereby become the Seventh Prince's Consort, that wouldn't be bad either.

Ye Yu's expression was not so pleasant.

If Dongfang Xuan will take responsibility for Zhao Yan, then who will take responsibility for his daughter Ye Sisi?

However, Ye Yu did not dare to question Dongfang Xuan at this moment, fearing that if Dongfang Xuan flew into a rage, they would break ties.

After this incident, Zhao Yan left a licentious impression on the elite of Xiliang City, and Dongfang Xuan's figure and little toothpick became a secret joke among the people.

"I really look forward to Ye Sisi and Zhao Yan fighting like dogs!"

Ye Qingran curled the corner of her lips and spoke softly.

Everyone knows how infatuated Ye Sisi is with Dongfang Xuan. If she learns tomorrow about the affair between Zhao Yan and Dongfang Xuan, who knows how she will react.

Whether Dongfang Xuan grants Zhao Yan a title or not, it's a major headache.

If he does, Ye Sisi will surely refuse and cause a huge uproar.

If he doesn't, the Zhao family will not relent, and the status of the Guanglu Fu is not something one can bully at will.

Ye Sisi and Zhao Yan, this pair of fake sisters, have come to the end of their relationship.

As for the Ye and Zhao families, whose relationship was already precarious, it will only grow more distant.

Zhao Shi, caught in the middle, feels ever more uncomfortable.

"You're looking forward to it?"

Fu Hanxiu beside her heard Ye Qingran's murmur and couldn't help asking with a smile.

"Of course."

Ye Qingran did not hide her attitude. After all, pretending in front of smart people only makes one look like a clown, so she openly admitted it.

Ye Sisi, Zhao Yan, and the like are no pushovers; ending up like this is their own doing. Who let them ignore good days and insist on provoking her?

Finally, Zhao Yan was taken back to the Guanglu Fu by Zhao Tian amid her sobs, the many guests gradually dispersed, and what was meant to be a banquet to curry favor with the Ye family ended up as a joke.

The biggest beneficiary was still Ye Qingran.

As Ye Qingran had expected, after Ye Sisi returned to normal the next day, before she could even sink into depression, she learned of the affair between Zhao Yan and Dongfang Xuan.

She immediately flew into a rage, grabbed a broadsword, and rushed angrily toward the Guanglu Fu.

Had Zhao Shi not desperately blocked her, Ye Sisi might really have gone to fight Zhao Yan to the death.

"Sisi, stay calm; yesterday's affair is fishy!"

Upon learning of her own embarrassing state from yesterday, Zhao Shi nearly fainted.

But after thinking it over carefully, she sensed something was off.

Originally, the one who should have lost face at yesterday's banquet was Ye Qingran, but she was unscathed, while they all suffered utter disgrace and heavy losses.

"It must be Ye Qingran!"

After hearing Zhao Shi's words, Ye Sisi also finally calmed down.

"This damned Ye Qingran."

Ye Sisi really wanted to flay Ye Qingran, pull out her tendons, and bleed her.

But she still could not forgive Zhao Yan.

"Zhao Yan, that bitch, stole my Xuan gege, I will never forgive her!" Thinking of Zhao Yan and her Xuan gege entwined on the bed, doing the things she and Xuan gege have done, she feels nauseous.

"Once I settle Ye Qingran, I will definitely make Zhao Yan, that bitch, pay the price!"

Zhao Shi was helpless.

On one side is her own daughter, on the other side is her own niece.

"The matter of Zhao Yan we'll discuss later; for now the main issue is Ye Qingran. She also made us lose all face, and I can't swallow this anger no matter what!"

Ye Sisi also thought it made sense.

"Mom, let's go, we'll go to Ting Yu Xuan and confront that bitch Ye Qingran face to face. If it's really her, today I'll kill her!"

Zhao Shi and her daughter marched aggressively to Ting Yu Xuan, only to be turned away at the door.

"Ye Qingran, open the door quickly, or don't blame us for being rude!"

Ye Sisi shouted at the top of her lungs, radiating the aura that she wouldn't back down unless Ye Qingran opened the door today.

"Tsk, it seems those two guys from last night didn't get enough of a roughing up." Ye Qingran set down the book in her hands and tapped rhythmically on the table.

"Xiao Hu, the poison you newly researched still isn't strong enough."

The criticized Mo Xiaohu lowered his head in shame.