Chapter 259:
After Yu Cheng was captured alive, his confidants were still causing trouble everywhere.
The task of suppressing the rebel soldiers naturally did not require Lu Ziyan to take action personally, but at this time Xiangzhou was leaderless, so he stayed a few more days to take command here.
As the Crown Prince of a nation, his personal involvement in quelling the rebellion was purely for personal vengeance.
Once the cleanup was nearly complete, he naturally would not linger.
But when setting off to return to the Capital City, he changed his mind and instructed his attendants to take a detour to Bianzhou.
Xiangzhou and Bianzhou were not far apart, and the journey back to the Capital City was long anyway, so detouring to Bianzhou would only take one extra day.
He was willing to spend that one day to meet that person, the short-lived ghost whom his Wanwan had to save out of great compassion.
And at the same time in Bianzhou City, the Prefect’s Mansion.
Xie Wanning was being cornered in her room by her elder brother to talk.
Pei Yuqing’s sudden arrival had caught both siblings off guard.
Originally, Xie Yanyu had already been persuaded by his younger sister and was willing to let her continue concealing her identity, give birth to the child, and then live in Bianzhou.
Perhaps after three to five years, once everything had calmed down, their parents could also come here to stay for a while and see their daughter and grandson.
Thinking even more optimistically, if Lu Ziyan married another Crown Princess and had other women by his side, no longer obsessing over just one woman, his younger sister might even be able to return to the Capital City.
But Pei Yuqing’s appearance had still disrupted everything.
Especially since he showed no intention of leaving.
Even though his younger sister was pregnant with another man’s child, he still did not leave.
Xie Yanyu was helpless about this.
Xie Wanning was also very helpless.
She had made it very clear to Pei Yuqing that they could never be together again in this lifetime.
Not to mention that he was the Young Lord of the Duke’s Estate, the only son of the Princess and the Duke, with aging parents and familial ties he could not abandon.
Even if he was willing to abandon everything for her and leave the Capital City, Lu Ziyan would certainly notice something amiss.
Once Lu Ziyan discovered she was not dead but had faked her death, only to rekindle things with Pei Yuqing…
The terror of that scene was something Xie Wanning, who had already witnessed Lu Ziyan’s madness, did not even dare to imagine.
But with Pei Yuqing having come all this way to find her, Xie Wanning could not bring herself to tell him to leave, no matter how heartless she tried to be.
With Pei Yuqing’s intelligence, how could he not understand her meaning, yet he would only smile faintly each time and say to wait until after she had safely given birth.
Xie Yanyu had been busy with the Provincial Examination matters a few days ago, but now that it was over, he could no longer hold back and came to his younger sister’s courtyard.
“What are you thinking?”
Xie Wanning, belly protruding, sat on the soft chair. Hearing this, she shrank her neck like a quail.
“Speak,” Xie Yanyu got angry seeing his younger sister like this, “Your marriage to Pei Changqing has already been explicitly annulled by His Majesty. Now do you still want to be with him…”
“Nothing like that. I also want him to leave,” Xie Wanning shook her head repeatedly and said softly, “But he says to wait until after I give birth.”
“Wait until after you give birth?” Xie Yanyu was amused to anger. “Have you thought about in what identity he would accompany you during childbirth?”
His younger sister had grown up, and Xie Yanyu originally did not want to interfere in her romantic affairs, but he realized this young lady was both soft-hearted and thin-skinned.
She always felt she had let Pei Changqing down and failed to live up to his deep affection.
Over these days, he had watched their interactions go from initial awkwardness to growing closer and closer.
Those who did not know would really think he was the father of the child in her belly.
