CHAPTER 567: CHAPTER 566: HATRED FOR STEALING WIFE, TO BE WASHED AWAY WITH HEART BLOOD

A year ago.

Dawei.

The second spring after the Empress’s death.

Xiao Pingfeng was still heavily intoxicated, staggering back from outside, he plunged headfirst into Yan Wanqing’s chamber and fell asleep instantly.

While sleeping in a daze, he sensed someone beside him, accompanied by an annoying milky scent, and Xiao Pingfeng sobered up significantly in an instant.

"Who is it!"

His dark eyes shone with a chilling light, making the newcomer tremble with fear.

"It’s you." Xiao Pingfeng frowned.

Liao Cuihua held a corner of a brocade quilt, about to cover him with it, but now she completely collapsed to the floor, terrified, her expression meek and pitiful.

"This humble servant, this humble servant just saw that Your Majesty had fallen asleep, and only then..." She tried to explain but saw Xiao Pingfeng raise his hand, "Get out."

"From now on in this chamber, without my command, no one is allowed in." He did not want to see anyone but himself here.

Liao Cuihua timidly got up from the ground.

Her voice very soft, as though she deeply pitied Xiao Pingfeng, "...Your Majesty, even if you punish this servant, this servant must still say that if the Empress were still alive, she would definitely not want you to neglect your health like this."

"Get out!"

Xiao Pingfeng was already annoyed, his eyes flashing with murderous intent, "Don’t think that because you are the young lord’s nanny, I will look at you differently. If you don’t leave now, I will take your life."

The cold, bloodthirsty words spilled from his lips, making Liao Cuihua’s hairs stand on end.

However, thinking of her mission, she steadied her mind, and in front of Xiao Pingfeng, bent slightly and then turned around, just at that moment, a transparent bottle fell from her embrace and rolled on the floor, accidentally stopping right by Xiao Pingfeng’s feet, successfully catching his attention.

"What is this?"

The bottle was indeed exquisite.

Transparent, truly unusual.

Even the Imperial Family did not possess such a fine bottle.

Liao Cuihua, as if her secret had been discovered, rushed forward attempting to retrieve the bottle.

Xiao Pingfeng was faster, clasping the bottle within his palm.

"Your Majesty, that is this servant’s!" the typically timid Liao Cuihua suddenly dared to shout at Xiao Pingfeng.

Xiao Pingfeng sneered as he toyed with the bottle, then brought it to his nose for a sniff; it was odorless and tasteless, but this bottle was only big enough to hold a single medicinal pill.

He was most familiar with such exquisite bottles; Yan Xiaoliu liked them.

Since Yan Wanqing’s death, the Yan Family seemed to vanish from the face of the earth, completely disappearing from Dawei.

His people had told him that at the coronation ceremony, the entire Yan Family had moved to the Qin State.

So, what kind of medicinal pills were stored in this bottle?

Xiao Pingfeng’s eyes deepened, and he sobered up considerably.

"Get out." He spoke again, "Three strikes, and you’re out, stay any longer, and I will kill you immediately."

Liao Cuihua tumbled and crawled out of the great hall.

Only when she was far from the great hall did she finally calm down under a tree, touching her wildly pounding heart.

According to Xiao Pingfeng’s suspicious nature, by this point, he must have linked the bottle to the Yan Family.

She breathed a sigh of relief, steadied her mind, and leisurely went back to sleep.

For this mission, she had sacrificed too much, she had even had a child!

Xiao Pingfeng handed the bottle over to his trusted aides, instructing them to investigate the origin of the bottle at Pine Crane Hall.

The news they brought back was exactly as he expected.

This was a bottle that Yan Xiaoliu had recently made specifically for storing newly developed medicinal pills.

"What medicine?"

"Yan Lingzhen named it ’Kill Green,’ and its effect is feigned death." The confidant meticulously explained the information he had gathered, and the next second, the furniture in the room turned to powder.

Xiao Pingfeng raised his hand to dismiss the confidant, standing alone in the room.

No wonder Chu Qi stole her body, because he knew Yan Wanqing wouldn’t die at all!

She revealed the truth to Chu Qi, yet she was unwilling to tell him...

Xiao Pingfeng clenched the bottle in his palm, slightly exerting force, and it instantly turned into numerous glistening, translucent pieces. He raised his palm to his eyes, the moonlight streaming through the window casting a shimmering glow on the fragments, brilliantly radiant, dreamlike and surreal, unlike anything of this world.

How beautiful... yet so deadly.

Just like Yan Wanqing.

The more beautiful the woman, the greater the liar.

While he racked his brains to maintain the balance between the court and his relationship with her, she had already conspired with Chu Qi, planning to take all of the Yan Family away from him... even disregarding the child they had together!

Yes, a child!

Xiao Pingfeng dashed out of the palace wildly, heading straight for the Crown Prince’s residence.

When he entered, the Crown Prince was drinking milk.

"Your Majesty!" Liao Cuihua pretended to be flustered, yet her clothing remained loose, revealing her chest.

The Crown Prince was a chubby bundle, one in his mouth, another in his hand.

"Mother, I want to drink more!"

He was sleepy, utterly unaware of what he was saying.

These words all reached Xiao Pingfeng’s ears.

His whole body stiffened.

No wonder... no wonder the Crown Prince, as he grew, looked less and less like him, and not like her either.

After all, for someone like her, who had orchestrated everything, the entire Yan Family had withdrawn, how could she possibly leave behind the child she had only just borne?

Of course, she took him too.

Except for him!

"Your Majesty, what happened?" After Liao Cuihua put the little flesh ball to sleep, she rose to come over.

Her body still smelled of milk, her face flushed, a temptation no ordinary man could resist.

She intentionally tugged at her garment, half-revealing, half-concealing, enticingly charming.

But upon approaching Xiao Pingfeng, she was instantly knocked over by the gust from him, her scream waking up the little flesh ball who started to cry out loud, unable to sleep well.

The cries like that of a slaughtered pig echoed in the grand hall, alarming the group of eunuchs and palace maids outside.

"Your Majesty, what has happened!" Everyone rushed in, Liao Cuihua, not minding her pain, fixed her clothing to cover her exposed skin.

Xiao Pingfeng, cold as ice: "Liao, you were specifically left here by her. I won’t kill you, you should be grateful, and from today onwards, you should be clear who your master is."

"I swear, in this life and the next, I only have one master, Your Majesty!" Liao Cuihua immediately knelt down.

"Take care of the child, and do not harbor thoughts you shouldn’t have." Leaving these words behind, Xiao Pingfeng left directly.

He couldn’t just depose the Crown Prince, letting the whole world laugh at him.

Let the whole world know he was a fool spun around by a woman!

"Yan Wanqing... since you loved Chu Qi, why did you marry me grandly, why did you agree to follow me back to the Capital City?" He foolishly gazed at the moon above.

The moonlight had once shone on him, but at this moment, he felt he had never truly seen through that woman, nor had he ever truly possessed her.

"Issue my decree, effective immediately, to concentrate all forces to attack the Chu Kingdom. Dawei and the Chu Kingdom, to the death!"

The hatred of having his wife taken, he planned to wash away with Chu Qi’s heart blood!