On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 887: Plunged Into Chaos

Very soon, Grand Doctor Zeng was summoned.

He examined Ye Yiheng’s condition and diagnosed, "The Crown Prince has been drugged with a knockout drug, hence the deep sleep."

"Knockout drug?" Leng Yu Yan frowned, "Grand Doctor Zeng, please quickly inspect the wine and food!"

"At your command!"

Grand Doctor Zeng bowed and retreated.

Leng Yu Yan slowly walked over to Ah Lea, bent down to take a closer look, and suddenly let out a cold laugh, "I wondered who it was, turns out it’s you!"

Earlier, she considered waking this woman with the help of Grand Doctor Zeng, but now she wanted to do it herself, no, with her foot.

Leng Yu Yan straightened and stomped on Lai Manting’s chest.

Lai Manting woke up with a start from the pain.

Seeing so many people in the room and realizing her seduction had failed, she needed to explain why she hadn’t succeeded, so she looked toward Ye Zhenyu and Ye Zhengmo, speaking in a sorrowful voice, "Your Highness, I intended to care for the Crown Prince but was kicked by him instead." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

Ye Zhenyu found it inappropriate to speak at this moment; to speak would be to admit Ah Lea was his woman.

Ye Zhengmo began to regret agreeing to Ye Zhenyu’s plot today. Earlier, the doctor diagnosed that Ye Yiheng had been drugged with a knockout drug. If the doctor found it in the food as well, then today’s banquet at the Prince Qi Mansion would have serious implications.

Neither prince paid any attention to Ah Lea, leaving her frantic with anxiety.

Just then, Leng Yu Yan pulled up a chair and sat opposite her, "Long time no see, I hope you’ve been well, Lai Manting."

Lai Manting stammered, "You, how did you find out?"

Leng Yu Yan didn’t answer her but turned her gaze to Ye Zhenyu, "Prince Liang, how did you not recognize her? For someone who was yours once, you should be familiar."

Ye Zhenyu’s pupils quivered, "She’s Lai Manting?"

"Indeed!" Leng Yu Yan nodded.

Others in the room were puzzled, and for a moment, discussions erupted.

Even Princess Duan asked, "Crown Princess Consort, how can this woman on the ground be Lai Manting?"

"No, I’m not Lai Manting!" Ah Lea screamed.

Leng Yu Yan calmly said, "Take a closer look at her face; notice how her skin barely moves when she speaks, only her eyes and lips move because her facial skin is already dead."

"Nonsense! My face is my own!"

Lai Manting touched her face, which recently lost sensation and turned increasingly pale.

To hide this, she applied layers of makeup, taking a long time to finish.

"I wonder if everyone can smell it, but I can detect a stench of a corpse coming from her face," Leng Yu Yan said calmly, then sharply added, "Lai Manting, how cunning of you, finding a facial skin similar to mine to wear, intending to seduce the Crown Prince?"

"No, it’s not true, my face was given by my parents, stop talking nonsense!" Lai Manting struggled to get up.

Leng Yu Yan leaned down to look into her eyes, "Wash off your makeup, then everyone will know."

Lai Manting backed away to the wall.

Ye Zhenyu ordered, "Someone, wash her face!"

He wanted to see for himself.

A servant approached, glanced at Ye Zhengmo, and upon his nod, used a damp cloth to wipe Lai Manting’s face.

With a few wipes, her gray-white skin was revealed to everyone.

What horrified everyone was the corpse spots already on her face.

Ye Zhenyu shuddered, stepping back two paces, wondering what kind of person he had been with these past two days?

On another glance at her skin, Ye Zhenyu felt goosebumps, utterly disgusted.

Lai Manting crawled to grab Ye Zhenyu’s robe corner, "Your Highness, I’ve always been deeply devoted to you, I returned to your side out of affection."

Ye Zhenyu moved away in disgust.

Zheng Liqi stepped forward, blocking in front of Ye Zhenyu, and remarked disdainfully, "So you took the alias Ah Lea, because your surname is Lai. I wondered who else could be so disgusting, sharing a name with me."

Leng Yu Yan pulled a chair again and sat in front of Lai Manting, sternly questioning, "You say you returned to Prince Liang out of affection but are a dancing girl of Prince Qi Mansion today. Should I assume, then, that both Prince Liang and Prince Qi conspired to frame the Crown Prince?"

Lai Manting regained her composure, knowing if she admitted it, Prince Liang and Prince Qi would not let her go.

So she answered, "No, no, I am indeed a dancing girl of Prince Qi Mansion now. I wanted to be close to Prince Liang, whom I yearned for day and night, upon seeing him today."

Leng Yu Yan chuckled, "What a pity, the intended prince has no feelings. Lai Manting, even now you shield Prince Liang, despite knowing he gives you no credit?"

These words shattered Lai Manting’s fantasies, and she let out a bitter smile, "Leng Yu Yan, you’re too clever. I lost to you, there’s no shame."

Li Lu, aware today’s banquet was a conspiracy, kept alert.

Hearing about Ah Lea’s failure, she came to witness the commotion, and unexpectedly saw that this Ah Lea was Lai Manting.

As Lai Manting lay on the ground, peering through the gaps between people, she saw Li Lu’s shocked expression.

Li Lu suddenly realized why she found her familiar; it wasn’t just her face but her eyes too.

With that thought, Li Lu squeezed through the crowd, standing beside Leng Yu Yan.

Lai Manting eyed Li Lu, as if saying, ever since Leng Yu Yan appeared, their family hasn’t had peace, let them kill her today!

Since Prince Liang and Prince Qi orchestrated today’s situation, if they fought desperately, they probably wouldn’t stand by.

She had to take a gamble.

If she didn’t act, she was dead; if she succeeded, she’d be a hero to Prince Liang and Prince Qi.

So, she raised her hand to pull the hairpin from her head and fiercely thrust it toward Leng Yu Yan.

Simultaneously, Li Lu also drew her hairpin.

The sisters lunged one after the other at Leng Yu Yan’s chest, and unsurprisingly, Ye Zhengmo and Ye Zhenyu quickly separated everyone else.

Leng Yu Yan smiled lightly, tilting her soft body to the side, "With just you two?"

Lai Manting declared viciously, "Leng Yu Yan, do you know when you were ten, I poisoned you, and not dying was my biggest regret. Do you know, not only did I lace your food with poison, but even the desserts Li Lu served were coated in arsenic. I didn’t expect you to be so fortunate as to survive!"

Upon hearing this, Leng Yu Yan turned to Li Lu, "Is what she said true?"

Li Lu clutched the hairpin tightly, "Yes, at ten I wanted to kill you."

Leng Yu Yan clasped her hands, "Good, you sisters truly share a bond!"

At ten, this world’s Leng Yu Yan died from poison after being thrown into a ravine; it was she who came back from the modern world.

Facing the two who harmed her, Leng Yu Yan laughed softly, drawing the golden hairpin from her head.

Ye Zhengmo and Ye Zhenyu exchanged glances, then surveyed the room.

Ye Zhenxian, Ye Zhenduan, and Ye Yongwang all lowered their heads as if they hadn’t seen a thing, retreating to the corners.

The situation quickly descended into chaos.

Outside the room, synchronized footsteps could soon be heard, clearly indicating the room had been surrounded.

Princess Duan panicked, clutching Ye Zhenduan’s arm tightly, asked in a whisper, "Husband, what do we do?"

Ye Zhenduan too harbored ambitions for the Crown, but never imagined it unfolding this way.