There was a touch of embarrassment hovering over Nangong Yuanâs face. He knows, those words werenât meant for his seventh son but rather itâs a warning to him.
âGrandmother,â looking up with his immature face, Nangong Zhun firmly replies to that request, âI understand. I will never be an ungrateful person in the future.â
As a grandmother she definitely held some emotions for her own flesh and blood, though itâs a generationâs apart, the terrible man was still her grandson. Nevertheless, she knew there was nothing she can do for him anymore.
âSomeone come!â Once his mother the Dowager was gone, Nangong Yuanâs gaze promptly turned cold: âTake Nangong Yi away and put him in the dungeon to await disposal!â
As striking as that order was, the Kingâs 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. Heâs 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.
âSo Iâve turned old tooâ¦â Her lips indivertibly curved into a bittersweet smile as she rubbed her own belly.
Now for that moment of folly, it has become impossibly difficult for her to become pregnant again.
âFortunately I still have a daughter. With my daughterâs excellence, wealth and power will come on its own!â A dark biting cold quickly overtakes that smile as she gloats with pride against the mirror, âSo 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 Zhiâs mercy to survive!â
As happily as she was over the current outcome of her life, there was something Yu Rong couldnât quite understand. Her mother Old Madam Yu definitely poisoned Lan Yue back then, yet the woman still managed to give birth to Bai Yan. Thatâs one mystery she still hasnât 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.
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 thatâs 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.
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âBai Xiao, what are you doing here?!â She exclaims, scared out of her wits by the threatening situation.
Shouldnât he be at the fighting arena?
Furthermore, why are these men from the Holy Land following him?
âDaughter, what happened?â It was then Old Madam Yu came rushing over with a parade of maids by her side.