Volume 2 Chapter 57
Chapter 57: This Time, It Was Her Complete Victory
"What do you mean?" Even as Ye Junqing asked this question, Yao Mowan was already starting to walk towards the torture room. Before she even entered, she could already hear Yao Zhenting's bellowing.
"Where is Li Qingqing!? I asked a question! Speak!" As Yao Zhenting looked at the empty torture chamber, his veins bulged like they were about to explode.
"Re… Replying Master… It was Consort Yao's servant, Liu Xing, that took them away. It has nothing to do with us!" The men responsible for carrying out the sentence were currently kneeling on the ground fearfully.
"This is Prime Minister Yao's residence, what right does she have!? Servants, drag them down and hit them each fifty times!" Yao Zhenting's anger attacked his heart so he lost his balance. It was only because Yao Tu was supporting him that he didn't fall.
"Father… Wan er just didn't want Boan to lose his mother. Wan er knows what it's like to not have a mother… Father, don't be angry. It's all Wan er's fault…" At this time, Yao Mowan walked to Yao Zhenting with a timid pout and reached to grab his sleeve while looking up at him tearfully.
"Scram! You wretch! I'm going to kill you!" When Yao Zhenting saw Yao Mowan's feigned pitiful look, it snapped his last straw and he grabbed a nearby whip to swing it towards Yao Mowan.
Just as the whip was about to hit Yao Mowan, Ye Junqing rushed up to pull her protectively into his chest while catching the whip with his other hand.
"Prime Minister, please conduct yourself properly! No matter what, Consort Yao is currently a noble consort of the palace and ranks above you. Can Prime Minister bear the consequences of actually hitting Consort Yao!?" Ye Junqing's brows were furrowed sternly and his voice was cold.
"Stop that… If Father will feel better after hitting Wan er, Wan er's willing to let Father hit Wan er… But Wan er really feels that Boan is really pitiful. Even if he's not Wan er's actual younger brother and isn't Father's child, Father had treasured him for so long… Father, just let him off, alright? If Father wants a son, you can just take another concubine!"
Yao Mowan's words cut Yao Zhenting's heart like a knife and made him want to just go insane! Not only had he been cheated on, he had helped raise someone else's son, and it wasn't even just once! After finding about the incident with the 'rootless water,' Yao Zhenting's greatest desire right now was to just choke Yao Mowan to death.
"Yao Mowan! Shut up! You malicious woman! You snake in human skin! I'm going to kill you! To relieve this hatred! Servants, tie Yao Mowan up!" Yao Zhenting had already lost all rationality and was bellowing in a crazed manner.
In this moment, Ye Junqing finally understood what Yao Mowan meant. From the looks of things now, not only was something happening, it was something big. The servants of the residence looked at each other before turning simultaneously to look towards Yao Tu.
"Master, you can't do this! Consort Yao is your daughter, but even more than that, she's a noble consort of great Chu. Doing this would be offending a superior! It's a huge crime!" Yao Tu never imagined that things would turn out like this.
"Pei! She's a bastard child! Just like Yao Moxin, she's a bastard! Listen up, if you still don't move, I'll have all of you slaughtered right now!" Yao Zhenting's words touched Ye Junqing's greatest taboo.
As the servants rushed up all at once, Ye Junqing's figure moved and in a flash, all the servants had fallen to the ground, groaning in pain. Yao Mowan was the only one still perfectly uninjured as she leaned against Ye Junqing's chest.
"Yao Zhenting, if you weren't Moxin's biological father, this prince would've taken your life already! Regardless of if it's Moxin or Mowan, neither of them are existences that you can be impudent towards! This prince will report this incident as it happened to His Majesty. His Majesty will handle your crime of offending a superior!" Ye Junqing's clear voice contained bone-piercing chill. Each word rung like bells and his sharp gaze caused Yao Zhenting's heart to chill.
"How can you be so fierce towards Father!?" Yao Mowan pushed Ye Junqing aside in a cross manner, then walked towards Yao Zhenting. When she reached him, she leaned over slightly and spoke at a volume which only the two of them could hear.
"You should give up on trying to find Li Qingqing and Boan. Mowan has yet to fail in saving someone."
"I won't let you off!" Yao Zhenting gritted his teeth as he glared Yao Mowan. He looked as if he wanted to burn Yao Mowan alive.
"Nor will I." After saying this, Yao Mowan's voice suddenly got louder.
"Father, don't be angry. Even if you don't have a son, at least you have Wan er, this daughter!" Yao Mowan weeped as she turned around to head back to Ye Junqing's side. Even after they left Prime Minister Yao's residence, the tears at the corners of Yao Mowan's eyes still hadn't dried.
In the carriage, Ye Junqing hesitated a long time while staring at Yao Mowan's tearstained face before finally speaking.
"If it was only about what happened with Li Qingqing, there's no way Yao Zhenting would be driven so crazy by whatever it was that you said. What exactly happened? This prince doesn't understand, you hate Yao Zhenting? Why would he mention Moxin?" Ye Junqing's eyes were filled with confusion. He was always especially concerned about matters related to Yao Moxin.
"Why should Mowan tell you?" said Yao Mowan indignantly as she wiped away her tears. Although she had to suffer some tears, she had been able to anger Yao Zhenting half to death. This time it was her complete victory.
"Because you've just used Junqing, so you give some compensation, right?" replied Ye Junqing calmly. After they left Prime Minister Yao's residence, he finally understood why Yao Mowan insisted on tricking him here.
"Yao Zhenting indulged Dou Xianglan in poisoning Mowan's mother to death and even ordered for Mother's corpse to be thrown into Disorder Burial Mound. Prince, do you find this reason satisfactory?" Yao Mowan didn't bother to hide these facts from Ye Junqing and answered straightforwardly.
"That beast in human skin! I should've killed him just now!" Ye Junqing suddenly felt a little regretful and even had the impulse to jump off the carriage to head back.
"It'd be boring if he died." When Yao Mowan saw the indignance in Ye Junqing's eyes, she couldn't help but laugh. This was probably the so-called love the house and its crow.
"He knows that you're not a fool now?" When Ye Junqing saw the strange light that flashed through Yao Mowan's eyes, the indignance in his heart gradually subsided. How could he have forgotten? People that ended up catching Yao Mowan's attention all ended up with a fate worse than death.
"It's only interesting if he knows." Yao Mowan laughed softly. She had to take some time to think about how to stage the following events.
"Aren't you worried that he'll expose the fact that you're not a fool to His Majesty?" Ye Junqing looked towards Yao Mowan in confusion.
"Oh, he'll enter the palace, but he won't be looking for His Majesty." Yao Mowan leaned languidly on the back of the carriage and lifted the side curtain. She glanced outside, then gradually closed her eyes.
Ye Junqing could see the faint exhaustion on her face, so he didn't disturb her. If she hadn't said this, he never would've known that she carried such hatred. This was probably why she had targeted Yao Suluan so much. Now that he thought about it, he had been wrong for criticizing her back then.
Things happened as Yao Mowan had predicted. When Ye Hongyi found out what happened in Prime Minister Yao's residence, he gave a decree to deduct a year's worth of Yao Zhenting's salary. The next day, Yao Zhenting appeared in the main hall of Pure Flowers Palace.
"It's the prime minister? What a rare guest. Ming Yu, prepare tea." Yao Suluan was sitting languidly on the chaise lounge and holding a cup of freshly brew pu'er as she said this mockingly.
Regardless of whether it was Guan Osprey Palace or Prime Minister Yao's residence, she kept an eye on every little thing that happened. Since an incident that big had occurred with Li Qingqing, there was no way Yao Suluan would be unaware of it. When she got news that Father had wanted to kill Yao Mowan, she knew that Father had found out about Yao Mowan's true face.
__________Credits: Translated by Chiyomira
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