My Princess and Crown Prince Are Revived
Chapter 276: Yan Lian Has Grown

Chapter 276: Chapter 276: Yan Lian Has Grown

"Princess, we’ve found her."

Just at that moment, Tang Yu appeared, supporting Jian Yun, who was dressed in bridal attire.

It turned out he had been pretending to be unconscious the whole time, to wait for an opportunity to act.

Now, he had finally found Jian Yun.

Jian Yun’s pale face was extremely weak.

"Jian Yun."

At the critical moment, Yan Lian rushed over and hugged Jian Yun.

"I am fine." Jian Yun persevered, giving Yan Lian a pale smile.

Yan Lian couldn’t express how heartbroken he was, he wished he could personally slay the An Family couple.

Clenching her teeth, Jian Yun’s gaze shifted despairingly towards Dongfang Yuan.

"Auntie. All these years since you married, my mother and grandmother have always been concerned about you. Thus, when they heard I was coming to Nanduan Kingdom, they instructed me to make sure to see you. Little did I expect that upon arriving at the An Family, I would be entering the tiger’s den..."

"Auntie, you forced me to marry my cousin, but he is already dead. I disagreed, and you drugged me, even tying me up. When you did these things, did you ever think of my mother and grandmother?"

Jian Yun articulated each word clearly, filled with immense sorrow.

Listening to Jian Yun’s accusations, Dongfang Yuan’s expression grew colder and her gaze turned spiteful.

"What’s so bad about marrying Congcong? In the future, all of An Family’s properties will be yours, and I will only let the other women be his concubines. As for you, you were to be the main wife."

She declared righteously.

"Shut your mouth. Jian Yun is a legitimate daughter of Yan Country’s noble family. With her status, even marrying the Crown Prince would be well within her reach. And here you are, forcing her to marry a dead man, have you no shame?"

Yan Lian couldn’t help it anymore, he furiously denounced Dongfang Yuan.

But instead of feeling a shred of shame, Dongfang Yuan’s resentment grew toward Yan Lian as well.

"Fine, I see. That’s why, on the first day Jian Yun arrived, when I indirectly tested her agreement to an arranged marriage, she disagreed. It turns out she’s been seducing some man outside. She is truly a disgrace to both the Dongfang Family and the Jian Family!"

Dongfang Yuan was aggressive, her words extremely devastating.

Jian Yun was so angered that her face turned scarlet.

At this moment, Chu Baihan covered her mouth and chuckled.

"At first, I couldn’t understand. The Dongfang Family is among the top noble families in Yan Country, and though you were born a concubine daughter, you could have easily been the main wife in an ordinary noble family. But why did you end up marrying so far away in the Nanduan Kingdom, and to a merchant no less..."

"Now, I understand. I suppose the Dowager Dongfang saw through your character long ago. If you had stayed in Yan Country, you would have been nothing but a disaster. Probably thinking your nature might have changed after so many years, she allowed Jian Yun to come see you. Little did we expect... your true nature is impossible to change."

Chu Baihan’s cold voice echoed by Dongfang Yuan’s ears, like a net trapping her, stirring up those years of buried memories.

Her expression quickly twisted into a hideous one.

Because Chu Baihan had guessed correctly!

Back then, the Dongfang Family had arranged a marriage for her.

But she looked down on the suitor, who was just a minor official; even being his main wife was undesirable to her.

What she really wanted was... to marry into the Jian Family.

Who would have thought that her sister, Jian Yun’s mother Dongfang Jing, beat her to it?

Later, she drugged the young master of the Jian Family, intending to force a marriage through consummation.

Unexpectedly, she was exposed before her plan succeeded.

Her father was furious and wanted to kill her.

It was Madam who pleaded on her behalf. Having lost her mother at a young age, it was Madam who had taken her in to raise alongside Dongfang Jing.

Although her life was spared, she was expelled from the capital city by her father.

"Jian Yun, you don’t need to pretend to care like your mother did. I grew up with her, and she always claimed to truly care for me, her sister. But she was the legitimate daughter and I the concubine daughter; can a legitimate daughter truly care for a concubine daughter? If she really cared, she should have convinced your father to take me as a secondary wife at the beginning."

Dongfang Yuan spoke with righteous indignation.

Jian Yun was utterly disgusted by Dongfang Yuan’s shameless words.

Mother truly wasted all her kindness on a dog.

Suddenly, at that moment, a loud "slap" sounded.

Everyone looked over, only to see Dongfang Yuan’s half face had swollen up.

It turned out Chu Baihan had made a move.

Chu Baihan stared at Dongfang Yuan with a cold expression, her tone icy, "If you do not need that face of yours, I can tear it off for you."

Perhaps the murderous aura emanating from Chu Baihan was too intense, as Dongfang Yuan’s arrogance vanished in an instant.

She quickly retreated to An Sheng’s side, saying frantically, "Master, save me."

But who knew, in the next moment, another "slap" was heard, and An Sheng actually slapped her.

"Master, you actually hit me?" Dongfang Yuan looked at An Sheng in disbelief.

Having been married for many years, although they were a merchant family, An Sheng was always submissive to her, never letting her suffer any grievances.

Yet, he had actually hit her today?

"I’m indeed hitting you. I have given you my heart and soul all these years, and I haven’t even taken a concubine. But you, you look down on my merchant status in your heart, and you still pine for someone else," An Sheng said through gritted teeth, his face terribly fierce.

"No, Master, listen to me, let me explain," Dongfang Yuan pleaded in panic.

But An Sheng harshly kicked her in the stomach.

"You wretched woman, you should die for Congcong," he said.

After speaking, he picked up a sword from the ground and violently stabbed it into Dongfang Yuan’s abdomen.

"Die!"

"Don’t look," Yan Lian immediately raised his hand to cover Jian Yun’s eyes, preventing her from seeing such a bloody scene.

"And you all, you all should die too," An Sheng seemed to have been blinded by rage.

He pulled the sword out of Dongfang Yuan’s body, then aimed to strike at Chu Baihan.

"Princess, be careful," Nan Xing panicked, she hurriedly went to help.

"Nan Xing, you must not..."

Chu Baihan tried to stop Nan Xing, but Nan Xing had already thrust the sword into An Sheng’s body.

He spat out blood, and the sword in his hand began to fall.

Then he fell to the ground, his eyes wide open in death.

"Princess, I apologize, I was concerned he might attack you, so I..."

Nan Xing immediately knelt to take the blame, her tone filled with remorse.

She understood the meaning behind the Princess’s earlier words, intending to spare An Sheng’s life to interrogate him.

"It doesn’t matter, it was unintentional," Chu Baihan immediately helped Nan Xing up and consoled her.

"Jian Yun!"

It was then that Yan Lian noticed Jian Yun had already fainted.

Chu Baihan quickly went over to check her pulse.

"She has consumed too many harmful drugs, her body needs slow remediation now, let’s first send her to the capital." Chu Baihan said seriously.

"All right."

Yan Lian immediately picked her up and hastened to the carriage.

Seeing his anxious demeanor, Chu Baihan and Yan Lin exchanged glances, both understanding something.

Yan Lian... had ultimately grown up.