Chapter 240:
Xie Wanning nodded in strong agreement, “Elder Brother is right!”
If only Lu Ziyan’s killing intent weren’t so strong, always thinking of taking Pei Yuqing’s life, she wouldn’t have to be plotting an escape.
The incident she encountered on the boat that night still filled Xie Wanning with lingering fear even now.
Thieves broke down the door and slashed with knives, then she jumped into the lake, grabbed the iron chain, and climbed into the next room.
If her reaction hadn’t been so quick at the time, if she hadn’t grabbed that iron chain when jumping into the lake, or if the thieves had looked more carefully downward.
If any one of those steps had gone wrong, she really would have ended up with her body sunk in Dayang Lake by now.
And the root cause of it all was Lu Ziyan.
He said he didn’t mind her remarrying someone else, that no matter what, he only wanted her.
He had gone against the world’s greatest taboo to snatch her away, and she had even accepted fate, planning to live well with him.
Yet he still harbored resentment over her marriage to Pei Yuqing.
A bloodthirsty person like this, no matter how much regret he felt now, had brought it on himself!
Xie Wanning gritted her teeth and, along with her own elder brother, took turns cursing Lu Ziyan, who was far away in Xiangzhou, for a long time.
In the end, Xie Yanyu stopped first.
He clenched his fist and pressed it to his lip, coughing lightly, then said, “If you don’t want to return to the capital city, then what do you plan to do?”
“Just stay and live in Bianzhou,” Xie Wanning touched her belly and said with a cheerful smile, “I have money and a child, servants below to wait on me, and no elders above to manage me—life couldn’t be more comfortable.”
That heartless appearance made Xie Yanyu’s hand itch.
He reached out and pinched his younger sister’s face, ignoring her indignant gaze, and said coolly, “You’re certainly comfortable, but have you thought about your mother in the capital city who cries day and night?”
Xie Wanning’s expression froze, and she said nothing.
In truth, how could she be comfortable.
She had only said it deliberately to keep her elder brother from worrying and feeling heartbroken.
Xie Yanyu pondered for a moment, then said, “The matter of you being safe and sound absolutely cannot be hidden from Father and Mother.”
“Good,” Xie Wanning agreed readily.
The pain of white-haired people sending off black-haired ones—she truly couldn’t bear to let Father and Mother endure it again.
In her past life, she had insisted on marrying Lu Ziyan, only to be poisoned to death amid the struggle for succession, which had already heartbroken Father and Mother—it was already deeply unfilial.
In this life…
“But,” Xie Wanning tugged at her elder brother’s sleeve and said softly, “Elder Brother, I really don’t want to go back to the capital city anymore. Is that okay?”
Xie Yanyu lowered his gaze and was silent for a long time before slowly nodding, “Good.”
His younger sister was already grown up and could make her own decisions; as her elder brother, he shouldn’t interfere too much.
Besides, the capital city had been turned into a bloodbath by that killing god, with undercurrents surging—with her identity, she truly shouldn’t set foot there now.
If someone else set their sights on her again…
Xie Yanyu said, “Since you want to hide from Lu Ziyan, your elder brother will soothe Father and Mother and make sure they don’t give anything away.”
With their daughter gone, under the circumstance of washing their face with tears every day, they couldn’t possibly return to normal overnight.
This was exactly what Xie Wanning had been waiting for; she cupped her cheek and smiled at her elder brother, “Elder Brother is the best.”
In past life and this life, her elder brother who always protected her.
Xie Yanyu shot her an annoyed glance, then looked at her belly, “…How many months until birth?”
Xie Wanning said, “September.”
“I’ll stay in Bianzhou until the child is born,” Xie Yanyu decided on the spot, then asked, “Have you hired a midwife? Does the manor have a doctor on standby? Right, where are you living now?”
Her elder brother had a cold and rigid personality and rarely spoke in such long strings; Xie Wanning blinked at this and answered honestly, “Haven’t hired a midwife yet, no doctor either, and the place I’m staying is pretty far from here, over on the west side of the city.”
