Chapter 239:
Hearing this, Xie Wanning hesitated to speak.
Seeing this, Xie Yanyu slightly furrowed his brows. “You still don’t want to return to the Capital City?”
“It’s not that I don’t want to return to the Capital City, but…” Xie Wanning smiled bitterly. “Elder Brother, tell me, how should I conduct myself after I go back?”
There were many remarried women in the Capital City, but none had caused such a huge uproar known throughout the nation.
Especially since those two men were the Young Lord of the Duke’s Estate and the Crown Prince of the current dynasty.
She had been properly married to one of them, yet she was pregnant with the child of the other.
Xie Yanyu’s gaze darkened, his line of sight falling straight on her abdomen. He said to Ji Chengfeng and Chen Xi’er beside him, “Please excuse us. My younger sister and I have some private words to discuss.”
Ji Chengfeng nodded lightly. “Just right, I’ll go review the case files of the Li Family scholar.”
Chen Xi’er couldn’t ask for more. Though she was curious about the two cousins who had suddenly appeared, nothing could compare to her husband and mother-in-law awaiting trial in prison.
After the two left, only the brother and sister remained in the pavilion.
Xie Yanyu no longer beat around the bush and said directly, “Whose child is this?”
Xie Wanning looked down at her belly. “Besides Lu Ziyan, who else could it be?”
When she was kidnapped by the Jin People, Pei Yuqing had already left the Capital City for over half a year. It couldn’t possibly be Pei Yuqing’s.
As she spoke, Xie Wanning suddenly looked up and said earnestly, “Elder Brother, rest assured, the Jin Raiders did not do anything to me.”
Discussing such matters with his younger sister was somewhat embarrassing, but Xie Yanyu indeed breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
He had indeed harbored such worries.
After all, the Jin Dynasty people’s brutal methods of rape and plunder under the Great Khan were widely known.
Not to mention a delicate noble lady—even an old woman on the frontier would not emerge intact if she fell into the hands of the Jin Raiders.
Therefore… Lu Ziyan had rescued her quickly.
In an instant, Xie Yanyu had to admit that compared to the Jin Raiders, it was far easier for him to accept that the child in his younger sister’s belly was Lu Ziyan’s.
It was just…
His face darkened. “Did that mad bandit force you?”
“…” Xie Wanning fell silent for a moment, then said dryly, “…Not really.”
It was she who had first relented and agreed to be with him properly. As for their first intimate relationship in this lifetime… that man had indeed been somewhat forceful.
But to be fair… it didn’t count as forcing her.
“Then…” Xie Yanyu’s gaze was complicated. “Is it true, as that mad bandit said, that after he saved you, you cleared up your past grudges with him and decided to rekindle your romance?”
Xie Wanning: “…”
“If that’s the case, why did he still go after Changqing!” Xie Yanyu gritted his teeth unusually, slamming the table hard. “He stole someone’s madam and now wants their life too—there’s actually such an arrogant person in the world!”
He didn’t blame his own younger sister for wavering so quickly.
One moment wanting to marry this one, the next being swayed by that one.
The only one to blame was that mad bandit for being too brazen.
Even a chaste woman fears a persistent suitor, let alone that they already had childhood sweethearts affection between them.
No matter how heartlessly she spoke or how ruthlessly she acted, those feelings couldn’t be faked.
This time, she had been saved by that mad bandit in such a perilous situation.
Hero saves the beauty—a tale passed down unchanging since ancient times.
Lu Ziyan had abandoned everything to come rescue her—even an iron-hearted man would want to repay him with his life, let alone moving the defenses of a young lady’s heart, which was too normal.
With that thief’s scheming, taking advantage of his little sister’s unsettled state to coax her into bed was just a matter of course.
How could he blame his own obedient and lovable younger sister.
