Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life-Chapter 768 - 757: The Substitute Younger Sister

Duan Huaijin, when coming out from the side hall, also saw the Little Red Bird on the coffin and didn’t know if it was his illusion, but he seemed to perceive an indifferent emotion in the eyes of the Little Red Bird.

He must be hallucinating because he was too saddened recently. It’s just a little bird, and even if it were attached to its master, it wouldn’t have other feelings.

He shook his head, gave a self-mocking smile, thought about Wang Yanran’s interrogation just now, and also thought about the Ye Family people whom he was currently detaining.

Ye Borong sat in a slumped position the entire time, oblivious to his cracked lips to drink tea, while Ye Wangshi only knew how to hold Ye Xia and cry, to the extent of annoying everyone to the core.

The three of them had ashen faces but none of them thought of fleeing, for they knew Prince Li would not let them escape.

The courtyard door creaked open, startling the three of them, then their fear intensified when they saw Duan Huaijin walk in with a cold face.

"Your Highness Prince Li," Ye Borong said, holding back his fear, "may a commoner go out to offer worship to his own daughter?"

Duan Huaijin looked at him sarcastically: "Worship? You think you’re worthy?"

Ye Borong’s face turned even paler as he argued, "No matter what, Qiu’er is my daughter. Even if my previous care for her was not enough, it wasn’t bad either, right? If she felt wronged, why didn’t she speak out before? Why didn’t she complain to the Prince? Since she didn’t speak even at her death, it shows she doesn’t blame us, it shows she doesn’t want us to suffer on her behalf."

This was the excuse Ye Borong had just come up with. Although it contained some deception, it had to be said that there was some logic to it. If Ye Qiu truly resented the Ye Family, she should have exposed them much earlier, but since she hadn’t, Prince Li shouldn’t punish them.

But Duan Huaijin was not swayed by this tactic at all. He sneered and said, "Yes, Qiu’er was kind-hearted. She did not want to bother with you all, but I cannot let it go. If not for your deliberate illusions, if not for Ye Xia’s constant deception of me, Qiu’er would not have had to end her life in pain."

Upon hearing this, Ye Xia couldn’t hold back anymore and shouted, "Prince, is it really all our fault? Don’t you have a fault too? I say something and you just believe it? The real murderer is you, Prince. She was sad because of your mistrust, and it was also you who exiled her to the rural estate. What does all this have to do with us? You, Prince, are the real troublemaker."

"Silence!" Duan Huaijin yelled sternly, "I do have faults, but the biggest fault lies with you all. Making excuses does not work with me. I need to avenge Ye Qiu, I will severely punish you to console her spirit in heaven."

Watching the Ye Family’s pale faces, Duan Huaijin felt a wave of vindictive satisfaction. He laughed haughtily with eyes filled with cruelty, "Let me think, what is it that you care about most? Power? Wealth? Health?"

With each word he uttered, the fear on the faces of Ye Borong, Ye Wangshi, and Ye Xia grew more pronounced.

"Oh, that’s right, your family still has a younger son."

Speaking of Ye Zhixing made Ye Borong completely anxious: "Prince, Zhixing is innocent. He knows nothing and has never wronged his second sister!"

"Oh? Does he really know nothing? But the information I’ve found says that on the night you all forced Ye Qiu to enter into a marriage in someone else’s place, he was eavesdropping outside the window. Knowing that his second sister might be heading to her death, yet he never thought to stop it. Knowing that his second sister has not been well in the Ye Residence for years, he never cared. Is that called innocence?"

"But he has never harmed anyone; he’s just a child, what does he know? Everything is just the adults’ notion, please, Prince, spare him." Ye Borong knelt down, continuously kowtowing.

"Never harmed anyone? I’ve also found out that he once switched out his sister’s medicine. Doesn’t he know how crucial medicine is to a patient? A small mistake could mean death at any moment." Duan Huaijin said coldly, completely crushing Ye Borong.

Duan Huaijin looked at them with a vengeful stare, and it was only after three days, on the day Ye Qiu was buried, that the family was released. However, the once prosperous Ye Residence had been lost, and the three of them, along with Ye Zhixing who was captured later, didn’t even have a change of clothes.

At this moment, a golden Phoenix Illusion suddenly soared above the royal mausoleum, circling the sky a few times before shooting into the heavens and vanishing without a trace.

This phenomenon caught the attention of everyone in the capital, and soon it was known that the Phoenix Illusion had emerged from the body of the soon-to-be-buried Princess Li. Suddenly, rumors that she was the reincarnation of the true Phoenix, who was destined to be the Empress but died prematurely due to a mistake, spread everywhere.

Inside the Imperial Palace, a eunuch reported to the Emperor lying in the sickbed: "Your Majesty, I saw it clearly, it was indeed the illusion of a Phoenix, and many witnesses at the scene can confirm that the illusion flew out from the body of Princess Li. Everyone is saying, had Princess Li not died young, she would have been a motherly model for the world."

"Ridiculous," the Emperor coughed heavily, "Prince Li is but a Regent King, how could his wife be the Empress?"

"But Your Majesty, the evidence recently brought by that mysterious person truly confirms that Prince Li has long harbored a traitorous heart. Your Majesty, please think, can the young Crown Prince really withstand Prince Li in the future?"

The Emperor closed his eyes, and with deep pain said: "Then what do you suggest? If not him, whom else can I trust?"

"Please, Your Majesty, take care of your dragon health. As long as you are healthy, Prince Li poses no threat."

"Healthy? With this body of mine, up to now, I still can’t find out which of my brothers is the poisoner." The Emperor became truly angry, his face flushed with rage.

"This servant feels that Prince Li, who was least suspected before, is actually the most suspicious," said Chang.

"How so?"

"Your Majesty, now that Prince Zhao and Prince Liang have returned to their fiefs and have been ordered by you not to return to the capital for life, and Prince An is still imprisoned, it seems that only Prince Li has not been punished by you. Moreover, Prince Li is still young, who says he will have no offspring in the future? After acting as the Regent King for so long, would he let his own child be just an ordinary Commandery Prince in the future?"

"Chang, you’ve got some nerve," the Emperor angrily rebuked the bold eunuch.

"This servant dares not, I beg Your Majesty’s forgiveness," Chang respectfully knelt down, his face filled with fear and trepidation.

But the Emperor merely said lightly: "Go receive ten beatings yourself."

Chang’s heart relaxed: "This servant thanks Your Majesty for your graciousness."

After Chang left, the Emperor seriously pondered the matter, the Phoenix, the poisoning, the Hidden Guard... had Prince Li really been scheming from the very beginning?

Had he underestimated him, thinking that assigning him to the Northwest would grind down his ambition, yet he only grew stronger from adversity and almost succeeded.

The throne? He didn’t get it before, and he shouldn’t even dream of obtaining it in the future.