0p0 Chapter 202 Meeting Xie Lingxian
Chapter 202 Meeting Xie Lingxian
Si Yan's marriage went smoothly. The betrothal was arranged, the wedding date was set, and the wedding day was set after the Mid-Autumn Festival to give both sides some time to prepare.
Matchmaker Yao received the gift from the Xie family and was so happy that she wanted to continue arranging matchmaking for Zhe Zhu and another person, but Zhe Zhu declined, and Qing Shan also found it troublesome. Matchmaker Yao was so angry that she privately complained that she didn't know what was wrong with the two of them.
Xie Bohuai declared that the wedding should be a grand affair, wanting everyone to know that he, Xie Bohuai, was still a powerful minister whose word was law. Ye Wanning spent over half a month preparing for this, finally getting everything almost done.
That day, the two sisters-in-law invited Ye Wanning to go to offer incense. Lin had been having dreams lately and learned that Baiyun Temple outside the city was very efficacious, so she specially treated them to a meal. After offering incense, they would go to her estate for a day.
Upon arriving at the temple, Lin prayed devoutly, while Jiang Si also had her own worries. After Ye Wanning finished worshipping Buddha, she followed the young nun to the temple to rest.
She just didn't expect to meet Xie Lingxian.
Xie Lingxian, dressed as a nun, saw Ye Wanning and gently raised her eyebrows. "Ye Wanning, you probably never expected to see me again, did you?"
"You're really something. The Emperor ordered you to remain a nun while still keeping your hair, yet you still managed to come out." Ye Wanning truly hadn't expected to see Xie Lingxian again. Moreover, Xie Lingxian had deliberately brought her here, probably because her sister-in-law's visit to Baiyun Temple was also due to Xie Lingxian's influence.
"What skills do I have? I have nothing left but this empty shell, and I have no say in anything." Xie Lingxian took a deep breath. "Unlike you, I didn't come from a humble background, but I've achieved my good life because of my looks. Ye Wanning, I'm so jealous of you. I'm no worse than you in any way, so why are you living a better life?"
As Ye Wanning looked at Xie Lingxian warily, Xie Lingxian suddenly laughed, "Don't worry, I'm not here to harm you. I'm here to make a deal with you. This deal is very easy for you, and it's also very important to you."
Ye Wanning couldn't imagine what connection she and Xie Lingxian had. "There seems to be no connection between us?"
“How could that be? Although Xie Bohuai has severed ties with the Xie family, he is still my third uncle, and he still bears the surname Xie. Moreover, what I want to talk about today is the death of Princess Longyu. Ye Wanning, Princess Longyu was so good to you, how could you act as if nothing happened when she was murdered?” Xie Lingxian said.
"What did you say? My godmother was murdered?" Ye Wanning frowned and rushed towards Xie Lingxian. "Explain yourself! What exactly happened?"
Seeing Ye Wanning's anxiety, Xie Lingxian looked her over and asked, "You really don't know?"
Ye Wanning glared at Xie Lingxian.
“It seems you really don’t know. That’s right, you’re so immersed in your own happy life, how could you care about the good things your former godmother did? I really feel sorry for Princess Longyu,” Xie Lingxian said.
Ye Wanning: "Are you kidding me?"
When her adoptive mother had her accident, even Granny Jiang said it was an accident, so she didn't think much of it. Now that Xie Lingxian has come looking for her, who knows if it's a lie?
"Why would I lie to you? I'm counting on you and Xie Bohuai to save me from this misery. What's the point of lying to you?" Xie Lingxian was fed up with her life as a monk. Everyone in the temple was watching her; she could die any day now. Since she was alive, she wanted to live life to the fullest. "Ye Wanning, use your brain! I went to all this trouble to see you; it was for my own future, not for the sake of harming you. Even if I hate Xie Bohuai, I hate Prince Cheng even more. It's his cold-heartedness and abandonment of my daughter and me that has led to this situation."
If King Cheng took her with him on his escape, she would be willing to die in a foreign land.
But she and her daughter became the abandoned ones. King Cheng would rather take his concubine than her, which shows that he had no feelings for her at all.
Xie Lingxian hated Prince Cheng the most, not Xie Bohuai.
"What do you want?" Ye Wanning asked.
"I can tell you who killed Princess Longyu, giving you a chance for revenge. But you must help me leave for distant lands so I have enough money to live comfortably for the rest of my life. Ye Wanning, you've also experienced life and death; you should be able to see through things. What family fortune, what deep-seated hatred—none of these are as important as your own well-being. Look at yourself now, aren't you enjoying the benefits Xie Bohuai brings?" If anyone else did this, Xie Bohuai would definitely find out. Only if Xie Bohuai does it can Xie Lingxian avoid being traced.
Ye Wanning's heart skipped a beat. "How do I know if you're telling the truth?"
"Aren't there still people alive? Why don't you go and try to scare them and find out if it's true or not?" Xie Lingxian was about to leave. "I hope you won't disappoint me. I'll be waiting for you to come find me."