Chapter 304: Side Story Five: Final Chapter

Side Story Five: Final Chapter

Could it be that the one who saved me last time wasn't the Chi Family's eldest son, but this annoying little pest?

Chi Nan Yi stood at a distance, watching the scene, and couldn't help but chuckle while shaking her head.

"What are you laughing at?"

A warm embrace wrapped around her waist.

Mo Junyan's deep voice echoed in her ear: "The Crown Princess hasn't smiled at me like this in a long time."

"Earlier I always thought second brother found Yu Xi amusing, so he would occasionally tease her; today, hearing him describe in detail everything Yu Xi has eaten these past days, I finally realized he actually likes her."

"What's so funny about that?"

"It's not funny; I'm just very grateful—grateful that I could meet you, grateful for everything I've experienced here."

Just as the two's atmosphere grew warm, Yun Tian's voice appeared at an inopportune moment.

"Your Highness, Crown Princess."

"Bang!" Yun Shui was flamboyantly slapped into the air.

"What are you doing?"

"Not killing him is already good enough."

Chi Nan Yi waved at the hesitant Yun Tian nearby: "What happened?"

Yun Tian's face turned pale, and he whispered: "Word came from over there that Meng Qinghe wants to see you."

Chi Nan Yi's brows twitched slightly.

Meng Qinghe?

"Not going."

Mo Junyan pulled Chi Nan Yi's hand: "A person on the brink of death need not be seen."

At nightfall, a figure streaked across the sky and landed in a dilapidated courtyard.

Pushing open the door, a wave of putrid stench wafted out.

Meng Qinghe stiffened his body, turned slowly, and stared at the completely unrecognizable face; Chi Nan Yi's expression did not change at all.

"You've come."

The once haughty tone was gone; now Meng Qinghe's voice sounded like that of an elderly man at dusk, dry and hoarse.

"I heard you wanted to see me."

"Indeed, I do want to see you." Meng Qinghe looked at the stunning face before him, his eyes filled with jealousy and rage: "Chi Nan Yi, I refuse! I refuse! Why has this life turned out like this? We're both reborn people; why are you now high-ranking and powerful while I end up like this? Why? It's unfair!"

"Unfair? How is it unfair?" Chi Nan Yi sneered: "Are you saying that only you, Meng Qinghe, being in a high position makes it fair, and people like me are destined to be trampled under your feet, becoming your stepping stones?"

"Shouldn't it be so? You're a low-born scum; what right do you have to contend with me?"

"Low-born? Meng Qinghe, have you forgotten who I am? My father, who was meritorious in pacifying the northwest, personally ennobled by the Emperor as a Protector of the Nation; my mother, the legitimate eldest daughter of Jingcheng's foremost family. And you? You're merely a pawn the Jiang Clan used to vie for favor and ascend. In terms of birth, I could leave you several streets behind." Chi Nan Yi looked impatiently at her: "Speak, what exactly did you come to see me for?"

It seemed to hit a sore spot; Meng Qinghe was on the verge of going berserk.

"I don't have that much time to waste here with you."

"Let me out, give me a new identity and heal my face, or I'll expose that you're a reborn person. Then I'll see whether you can still hold the Crown Princess position. Mo Junyan will only treat you as a monster! He'll abandon you, just as I have become a dog of a bereaved family!"

"I thought you might have something impressive to threaten me with!" Chi Nan Yi took a few steps forward, half-smiling, and said: "There's something I haven't told you: actually, Mo Junyan is also reborn."

Those words made Meng Qinghe's complexion change completely.

"You... what did you say?"

"I said, Mo Junyan is also a reborn person; he learned my identity even before you did."

Meng Qinghe stepped back a few paces, lost his footing, and fell to the ground.

"You... you..."

At that moment, a faint footstep sounded behind them; Chi Nan Yi, too lazy to turn, swung her arm sharply, sending a figure flying backward, which slammed into the door, producing a huge crash, and immediately a spray of fresh blood erupted.

"If you want to kill me, don't use such clumsy tricks; that's too low-level."

Turning to the dying Mo Junheng, Chi Nan Yi chuckled lightly: "There's something I haven't told you: actually, your impotence isn't a disease but a poison, mixed into your food daily, and the one who poisoned you is the Empress, who constantly claims to support you becoming Emperor."

"You... what did you say?"

Actually, Chi Nan Yi only figured this out recently.

Recalling the faint medicinal scent that occasionally emanated from him in his previous life, that was the best proof that the Empress had been poisoning him.

The Crown Prince's Residence's cook belonged to the Empress, so the lethal medicine was in his daily meals.

Fresh blood spurted again; Mo Junheng's eyes filled with fury: "No way, you... you deceived me."

At this point, I have no need to lie to you, Chi Nan Yi's lips curled slightly: "Across two lifetimes, you've only been a chess piece in the Empress's hand; a piece still hoping to become Emperor is just a dream."

"Pfft..."

Mo Junheng collapsed in the pool of blood, apparently killed by Chi Nan Yi's sheer rage.

She turned her gaze toward the now frantic Meng Qinghe, did not linger, and walked away.

Early the next morning, she received news of Meng Qinghe's death.

"Did you do it?" Chi Nan Yi looked at Mo Junyan, knowing she couldn't hide it, and Mo Junyan nodded: "Disturbing my Crown Princess's rest at the dead of night—damn, why, are you not pleased?"

"How could it? Killing her would only soil your hands."

"As long as your hands stay clean, I am willing to be your blade, to do anything for you."

Chi Nan Yi smiled and said: "You may be the future Emperor, but obeying me like this will have the ministers ridiculing you as a Daqi ruler who is a henpecked husband."

"So what? Besides, who said I intend to become Emperor?"

"Hm?"

"The old man's health is already fine; with your pills, he could live another twenty years without issue. By then, our children will be grown, and the throne will pass to them— I don't want it."

Chi Nan Yi looked at him, shocked: "You refuse something so within easy reach?"

"It's precisely because it's within easy reach that I refuse it; in this life and the next, the only one I desire is a single person."

Three years later, a little bun dressed in a bright yellow Crown Prince python robe was cradled by the Emperor and seated on the throne hall.

"May I see the Emperor."

"Today at court I have only one announcement: the imperial eldest grandson has been born; I intend to pass the throne to him and, today, officially appoint him as Crown Prince."

The Daqi dynasty's youngest Crown Prince has been born.

"A Yan, you say, we are here traveling and sightseeing, and Chen Er is so young yet has to attend court— is that alright?"

"Fine! What's wrong with that? You'll get used to it." Mo Junyan wrapped his arms around her waist, his thin lips lightly biting at her ear.

"Yi Er, if you truly feel sorry for him, why not give him a younger brother to share his worries, okay?"

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