She Holds the World After Being Reborn
Chapter 515 - 514: She Can Apologize, While Kneeling Down to Listen

Chapter 515: Chapter 514: She Can Apologize, While Kneeling Down to Listen

Seeing Xiao Pingfeng come in.

Disappointment could no longer be restrained in Yan Wanqing’s eyes.

She lifted her eyes to look over.

"I ask you, what are you doing!" Xiao Pingfeng repeated in a stern voice.

Qin Erya covered her shoulder, blood seeping through the white fabric of her clothes, her lips pale: "Your Highness, please don’t be angry, the Crown Princess Consort attacked because she saw a commoner girl staying in Linglan Palace, all of this is the commoner girl’s fault."

Again these words.

Again this kind of matter.

Yan Wanqing’s expression was somewhat weary.

She was really tired of dealing with these kinds of harem conspiracies and tricks.

So, she raised her gaze towards Xiao Pingfeng: "What do you think I am doing?"

"What are you doing standing there, go and treat the injuries of the Concubine Lan." Xiao Pingfeng, with anger, grabbed Yan Wanqing’s hand: "You come out with me and talk."

His strength was tremendous.

Yan Wanqing stumbled from his tug, nearly falling to the ground.

But the person in a towering rage, didn’t care at all.

Once she had steadied herself, he looked at her with a heavy gaze: "The reason."

"Just as she said." Yan Wanqing curved her lips, her normally clear eyes filled with fatigue: "What you see is so."

"I’m asking you!"

"Then you answer me first, when I sent for you, why didn’t you come!" Yan Wanqing ferociously shook off his hand: "Why didn’t you come?!"

"I... didn’t even—" Xiao Pingfeng paused for a moment, remembering that he had just been in the Imperial Study discussing the suppression of a rebellion. It seemed Ding Dang came in to report a Palace Maid had requested an audience, and then he directly waved it off saying he was busy.

Realizing this, his face showed difficulty: "Wanwan, I was busy."

"Busy?" Yan Wanqing sneered: "When Qin Erya’s people called for you, you weren’t busy?"

He actually came directly to Linglan Palace.

Yan Wanqing didn’t want to hear another word from him.

Since that night.

His addressing went from ’I’ to ’I, the lone one’.

If under imperial power, there is an inseparable boundary, then in the end, it is she, Yan Wanqing, who isn’t worthy.

"Xiao Pingfeng... I’m tired, this game, Qin Jun has won." She looked at Xiao Pingfeng, her lips tasting of bitterness: "The popular will prevails, you should make Qin Erya the Empress."

"Yan Wanqing!" Xiao Pingfeng’s dark pupils were steeped in towering anger: "Do you know what you’re saying?!"

He had exhausted all his stratagems just so he could have her stand by his side.

But now, she was saying such things.

"Could you stop making trouble? There’s already enough for me to be busy with."

Make trouble?

Yan Wanqing sneered, wiping away the tear at the corner of her eye: "Whatever you say, Your Highness. I’m tired, I’m going back."

His son’s life hung by a thread, and he did not ask a single question.

He came straight to Qin Erya’s side.

What more is there to say?

In this moment, she felt her heart turn to ashes.

The vows made under the blooming flowers and moonlight were completely washed away by the reality upon returning to the Capital City.

"Stop!" Xiao Pingfeng ordered in a low voice: "Did I allow you to leave?"

Yan Wanqing stopped, turning her head to look at him.

"It seems my favor has caused you to lose all sense of propriety, now acting without respect. And now you even ran to Linglan Palace and injured Qin Erya; now, you’re going with me to apologize to her!"

Apologize to Qin Erya?

In an instant, Yan Wanqing felt she must have heard wrong.

"Do you know what Qin Erya did?"

"I don’t care what she did, you injured someone, you should apologize." Xiao Pingfeng spoke solemnly.

His well-thought-out plan had been to bring Qin Erya into the palace as a Concubine, appoint Qin Huai to a second-rank official position, thus quelling the public’s anger.

But he hadn’t expected that before he even entered, he would see a nursemaid on the ground lifeless.

Upon entering, he saw Yan Wanqing stabbing Qin Erya with a candlestick.

If Qin Huai found out about this, all his efforts would be ruined!

Tomorrow was the coronation ceremony; he couldn’t allow this to happen.

"Now, come in with me to apologize." As long as Qin Erya agreed not to pursue the matter, today’s incident would be settled.

But unexpectedly.

Yan Wanqing outright refused: "In your dreams!"

She would not apologize to a murderer who almost killed her son!

If it weren’t for the Concentric Gu, Qin Erya would already be a corpse!

When had she, Yan Wanqing, ever endured such humiliation!

Moreover, the Qin Family has already made their move against Mother and the others... If she hadn’t seen Mother and them today.

A bloodthirsty gleam shone in Yan Wanqing’s eyes.

She would have to bloodbath Linglan Palace, bloodbath the Qin Family!

"Xiao Pingfeng, you said you would never force me to do things I dislike."

"Times have changed, as long as the coronation ceremony is over, Wanwan, can’t you be a little more considerate?" Xiao Pingfeng took two steps forward.

Considerate?

"Is not being considerate enough to serve one husband with another woman?" Yan Wanqing couldn’t be bothered to waste more words: "Apologize? Fine, but let her kneel down and listen."

Xiao Pingfeng’s face darkened: "Don’t go too far."

He stepped forward to grab her wrist, forcefully: "Come, apologize to Qin Erya!"

Yan Wanqing struggled free and delivered a slap to his face.

Although it didn’t hurt, Xiao Pingfeng was indeed infuriated.

"Don’t force me to take action against you."

Yan Wanqing scoffed coldly: "Have you spared your hand today?"

"Is it amusing to make such insinuating remarks?"

"I, Yan Wanqing, have always spoken this way, are you meeting me for the first time?"

"Don’t push me." Xiao Pingfeng’s lips edged with frost: "For the last time, accompany me to apologize to Qin Erya."

Yan Wanqing’s eyes were piercingly clear as she curved her pale lips: "For the last time, I too can apologize, but that Qin Erya must kneel to listen!"

"You’ll have to suffer the consequences for not accepting a toast!" He surged forward intending to grab her hand again, but Yan Wanqing dodged, neither yielding. It looked like they were about to come to blows.

Ding Dang hurried in: "You must not do this! The young prince is out of danger, Crown Princess Consort, please calm your anger. You’re still in confinement!"

At those words, Xiao Pingfeng was taken aback.

"What’s happening with the young prince? What do you mean?"

Ding Dang’s face showed panic: "This morning, the young prince encountered an assassination attempt..."

After hearing this, Xiao Pingfeng took a step back.

He instinctively looked towards Yan Wanqing.

But he saw only her cold, disappointed gaze, the stars in her eyes nearly extinguished.

"I was unaware..."

"It’s not important anymore." Yan Wanqing interrupted him: "Your Highness is preoccupied with state affairs; I wouldn’t dare to disturb you with such trifles. With that, I shall take my leave."

When she left, her manners were impeccably correct.

Indeed, how could a legitimate daughter from the Yan Family, raised with such propriety, be at fault?

It was he who had said she could always be herself without reservation in front of him, that she could interact freely without restraint.

It was he who had promised to always stand by her side, that even from a thousand miles away, he would appear whenever she needed him.

It was he who had asserted he was unreasonable; he would always have her back...

So why, after returning to the Capital City, had things changed?

She hadn’t killed Qin Jun, nor had she intentionally hurt Qin Erya.

Yet in his eyes, there was only distrust.

Just one look.

She was rendered defenseless.

No more words could be spoken.

Xiu Hong was waiting for her at the palace gate. Seeing her enter, she wept with joy: "Your Highness, the prince is safe, all thanks to Miss Xiaoliu’s timely arrival..."

Xiaoliu had come!

A twinge of emotion overwhelmed Yan Wanqing.

She hurried inside, only to see Yan Lingzhen standing beside the bed: "Xiaoliu."

Yan Lingzhen turned around, her eyes wide with surprise upon seeing Yan Wanqing, then she quickly approached with reddened eyes: "It’s been just a few days since we last met, elder sister, how have you grown so thin?"

"Where’s Mother? Where’s Hongzhao? Where’s Xiaoqi?" Yan Wanqing asked anxiously.

Yan Lingzhen then shared the news of their separation.

"Elder sister needn’t worry. After escorting me into the palace, big brother immediately turned back to search for Mother and the others. We made thorough preparations before departing, the Qin Family will not have the last laugh."

Yan Wanqing seemed to lose all her strength.

"Elder sister!" Yan Lingzhen struggled to support her: "Elder sister, don’t scare me!"

Yan Wanqing sat down in a chair and took a drink of water: "...It was a trap."

The Qin Family intended to find evidence of the Yan Family harboring Dead Soldiers and conspiring with the martial world. Without these protectors, the Yan Family’s women had no chance of survival, a win-win for the Qin Family.

How diabolically sinister...

She placed the cup down, her gaze drifting to the figure on the bed.

"Xiaoliu, I’m asking you for something," she said.

"Elder sister..." Yan Lingzhen’s heart lurched, her elder sister had never used the word ’ask’ when speaking to her!

"Take the young prince and leave the Capital City." She didn’t want her child living in such a vile and filthy place: "And never come back!"