I died tragically in my previous life, and I want to be an empress in my next life

Pei Zhiyan turned around and her eyes met Xuanyuan Che's. She saw the struggle and pain in his eyes. She sighed softly and said, "I know you care about the brother-sister relationship between you two. I don't want to embarrass you."

Xuanyuan Che smiled bitterly. He walked to the window, looked at the deep night sky outside, and said, "Difficult? In this situation, am I not embarrassed?"

Pei Zhiyan's eyes flashed with a hint of complex emotions, and her voice revealed a hint of determination, "If you are in trouble, you can report me!"

"I have no regrets about what I have done!"

"Yongtai was wrong, but isn't this punishment too severe for her? Do you know what this means to a girl?" Xuanyuan Che's voice was trembling and a little heartbroken.

He turned and looked at Pei Zhiyan, a complex emotion flashing in his eyes.

Pei Zhiyan was frightened at this moment. If it was him who was in trouble, would he question Princess Yongtai in this way?

She took a deep breath and tried to calm the waves in her heart. "Princess Yongtai chose the wrong path. This is the consequence she must face."

Xuanyuan Che looked at the resoluteness in Pei Zhiyan's eyes and felt a sharp pain in his heart. He found that he didn't really understand her, and her heart was stronger and more complicated than he had imagined.

"Yan'er, do you really think this is right?" There was some reluctance and doubt in Xuanyuan Che's voice. He seemed to be looking for a reason, a reason that would allow him to accept this cruel reality.

Pei Zhiyan did not answer, but just looked at him silently. There was a firm light in her eyes, as if telling him that she had made her choice and she would face it calmly no matter what the result was.

"Some things are neither right nor wrong. There are only choices and the courage to bear the consequences." Pei Zhiyan said lightly.

The two were relatively speechless.

Xuanyuan Che's anger and disappointment reached a peak in Pei Zhiyan's cold words. He stared at Pei Zhiyan with wide eyes, trying to find a trace of emotion and regret in her eyes, but he only saw indifference and determination.

His heart felt like it was torn apart and the pain was beyond words.

Xuanyuan Che also understood that he had no right to blame Pei Zhiyan. After all, it was Yongtai who started all this trouble. However, he could not understand why she would retaliate in such a vicious way.

That move was undoubtedly fatal. Yongtai's life might be ruined. He remembered her gentle and kind appearance in the past. At that time, she always had a smile on her face, as if the sun could shine brightly because of her.

And now, she had become so strange that it frightened him?

He could no longer endure such a conversation, and could no longer face Pei Zhiyan's indifference and determination. He punched the table hard, making a loud noise that shook the whole room. Then, he turned around and strode away from Yimei Garden.

His back looked lonely and resolute in the moonlight, and his heart was struggling in pain.

The moonlight was dim, and Pei Zhiyan lay on the soft bed, her thoughts surging like the tide. The scene just now kept replaying in her mind, and her mood was complicated and indescribable.

She understood the brother-sister relationship between Xuanyuan Che and Princess Yongtai. She also had that kind of blood-related feeling. He knew that Princess Yongtai would definitely feel distressed when she knew that something like this happened to her.

However, she believes that she has done nothing wrong and she is just defending her dignity and rights.

She knew that what she said might have hurt Xuanyuan Che, and she repeatedly asked herself in her heart whether she had said too much. But she could not stand his hesitation and retreat on this matter.

If Princess Yongtai hadn't come to provoke me, how could she have ended up like this? Once the wheel of fate starts turning, it can never go back to the starting point.

If she was kind to Princess Yongtai, perhaps next time, if she had the chance, she would deal with her again. She couldn't keep a time bomb around her.

She took a deep breath and tried to calm her emotions. She knew that no matter what the result was, she had made her choice. She would not regret it, nor would she back down. She only hoped that Xuanyuan Che could understand her decision and respect her choice.

How could she not know what kind of situation Princess Yongtai would face if this matter became known to the world?

If it weren't for Xuanyuan Che's face, she would never have kept silent about Princess Yongtai being humiliated on the mountain. At that time, after she left, she had already ordered Xiao Lin and others to kill all the bandits and guards.

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"Aunt, Pei Zhiyan escaped again this time. It seems that she is not an easy person to deal with." Xuanyuan Si said.

Pei Zhiyan had clearly been captured, but she escaped halfway, and Yongtai seemed to be in trouble, as all the people around her were killed.

"It's not like we've gained nothing this time. Didn't Che'er return to the capital?" The eldest princess played with the jade pendant in her hand, seeming to be thinking about something. This further confirmed that Xuanyuan Che was interested in Pei Zhiyan.

This is the biggest handle of these two people. As long as they have this handle in hand, they will have the initiative in the future.

It turned out that this was a plot set up by the eldest princess and Xuanyuan Sibu, who wanted to lure Xuanyuan Che into showing up by pretending that Pei Zhiyan was in trouble.

First, he let the young monk in the White Horse Temple cause Madam Lin to have an allergic reaction and fall into a coma, so as to lure Pei Zhiyan to rush to the White Horse Temple overnight. Then he took advantage of Princess Yongtai's hatred for Pei Zhiyan and arranged for the assassins of the Loyalty Marquis' Mansion to rob and kill her on the way.

But for some reason Pei Zhiyan returned to the capital safely, while Yongtai seemed to have suffered some kind of shock and became mentally confused. He was rescued by Xuanyuan Che and placed in the Sixth Prince's Mansion.

Xuanyuan Che announced to the public that Yongtai was in a bad mood and stayed in the Sixth Prince's Mansion to relax, so it was not convenient for them to go and visit him.

The princess gently put down the jade pendant in her hand, her eyes flashing with a sharp light, "Let's spread the rumors about them tomorrow."

"Yes, aunt." Xuanyuan Si said respectfully.

On the second day, another rumor spread in the capital. It was said that the reason why Xuanyuan Che refused Princess Galan's marriage proposal was not because he was heartless to the princess, but because he already had someone else in his heart.

This news was like a bombshell, instantly causing an uproar in the capital.

Everyone speculated who Xuanyuan Che's crush was. Some said it was the daughter of a minister in the court, and some said it was a chivalrous woman in the martial arts world. However, the truth was unexpected. According to rumors, Xuanyuan Che's crush was actually Princess Jing, his sister-in-law.

This news was like a thunderclap, exploding in the capital. Princess Jing was not only someone else's wife, but also Xuanyuan Che's sister-in-law. The gap between their status was like a chasm, which was unbelievable.

Rumors are like knives, hurting people without being seen. There was a lot of discussion in the capital, some people sympathized with Xuanyuan Che and Princess Jing's forbidden love, some laughed at their illicit love, and some secretly looked forward to the ending of this relationship.

The news was so convincing that people had to believe it. It was said that Xuanyuan Che had fled the capital because of Princess Galan's marriage. When he heard that Princess Jing had disappeared in the mountains near the White Horse Temple, he rushed back to the capital overnight to save her.