Chapter 384 “The Excited Senior of the Lan House (1)”
There was a touch of embarrassment hovering over Nangong Yuan’s face. He knows, those words weren’t meant for his seventh son but rather it’s a warning to him.
“Grandmother,” looking up with his immature face, Nangong Zhun firmly replies to that request, “I understand. I will never be an ungrateful person in the future.”
Only with that promise did the old queen nod with satisfaction. But before she left, this granny didn’t forget to cast her grandson Nangong Yi (former crown prince) another final look.
As a grandmother she definitely held some emotions for her own flesh and blood, though it’s a generation’s apart, the terrible man was still her grandson. Nevertheless, she knew there was nothing she can do for him anymore.
“Someone come!” Once his mother the Dowager was gone, Nangong Yuan’s gaze promptly turned cold: “Take Nangong Yi away and put him in the dungeon to await disposal!”
As striking as that order was, the King’s word did not bring any emotional swing to the powerless prince because his eyes were still focused in on the direction of where Bai Yan left. He’s in too much pain and remorse right now to care. Pain at his own failure in life, remorse for not picking the right choice back then.
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Currently inside the Bai House, Yu Rong (step-mother) was currently starring at the vanity mirror in front of herself and coming to terms with the fact that the aged woman there was in fact her and no one else.
“So I’ve turned old too…” Her lips indivertibly curved into a bittersweet smile as she rubbed her own belly.
Before, in order to add another male heir to the Bai House, she would go as far as to join with another man to conceive a child. But before her plan could come to fruition, the scheme was revealed by Bai Yan, thus causing her baby to die within the womb altogether.
Now for that moment of folly, it has become impossibly difficult for her to become pregnant again.
“Fortunately I still have a daughter. With my daughter’s excellence, wealth and power will come on its own!” A dark biting cold quickly overtakes that smile as she gloats with pride against the mirror, “So what if you are more beautiful than me Lan Yue? So what if your daughter Bai Yan is even more beautiful than you ever were? In the end she still has to rely on my Zhi’s mercy to survive!”
As happily as she was over the current outcome of her life, there was something Yu Rong couldn’t quite understand. Her mother Old Madam Yu definitely poisoned Lan Yue back then, yet the woman still managed to give birth to Bai Yan. That’s one mystery she still hasn’t figured out yet.
Really, what sort of dumb luck did she have back then?!
Gritting her teeth over the fortune of others, Yu Rong was ready to turn away when her ears picked up the loud clamoring sound of metal against metal from the outside.
“Who is so bold to dare come make trouble at the Bai House! Is it Bai Yan that woman again?” Her face promptly turned razer sharp like it could kill.
Meanwhile outside of the room in the main courtyard, countless men in white had descended from the sky to surround the entire estate from top to bottom. As for the guards that’s supposed to fend off the intruders, these weaklings were already laying there unconscious on the ground, which was exactly what Yu Rong saw when she came out.
“Bai Xiao, what are you doing here?!” She exclaims, scared out of her wits by the threatening situation.
Shouldn’t he be at the fighting arena?
Furthermore, why are these men from the Holy Land following him?
She may not have had a lot of interactions with the member of the Holy Land, but due to Bai Zhi’s connection, she can still recognize who these people are based on their white wardrobe.
“Daughter, what happened?” It was then Old Madam Yu came rushing over with a parade of maids by her side.