Reborn as Powerful Minister's Beloved-Chapter 681 - 642: First Update

Zheng Nianru was alive? This news struck Nanmen Yu’s mind like a heavy hammer, overturning all his previous understanding.

Zheng Nianru was still alive, the Empress of Nanzheng State.

He naturally had discovered that there was an Empress in Nanzheng State, but since Zheng Congyuan was ill, he had not paid much attention to her identity.

How could Zheng Nianru possibly become the Empress of Nanzheng State? Why?

Scene after scene played in Nanmen Yu’s mind, Nanny Yun and her crowd showed little to no sorrow, no, it wasn’t sorrow, every scene from Nanzheng State now seemed eerily odd.

Therefore, it was possible for Zheng Nianru to be alive, and moreover, hiding this fact from him seemed quite necessary.

Whether Nanmen Yu believed it or not, at this moment, he’d rather believe in Yin He’s lies.

"Cough cough cough—" Yin He fell to the ground from Nanmen Yu’s hands, coughing incessantly, Xing Yu, without caring for anything else, immediately went to help Yin He off the ground.

"Are you alright—" Xing Yu looked at Yin He with worry, yet her feelings were very complex at the moment, Her Highness was still alive, but telling Nanmen Yu would bring trouble to Her Highness, and if she didn’t tell, then Yin He would die right now. So even if she wanted to blame Yin He, she couldn’t bring herself to say it.

Nanmen Yu didn’t move, standing in the darkness, a moment’s calm led him to contemplate even more suspicions. Originally, everything should have disappeared with the very real grave there, but if all of it was fake, then Prince Duan, who no longer remembered anything, and the people he left, could no longer be called evidence.

Nanmen Yu clenched his fists tightly, at this moment, he didn’t know whether to feel angry or overjoyed, yet there was a force within him that made him wish to rush to Nanzheng State immediately, to see with his own eyes...

"How about we cooperate?" Yin He suddenly looked up, and Xing Yu beside him anxiously tried to speak, but Yin He firmly grabbed her hand.

Nanmen Yu looked coldly at the boy, within the darkness, he could not see the boy’s face clearly, nor did he truly want to cooperate with the boy, not deigning to work with him.

"Do you think, Zheng Nianru was forced to become this Empress? Was she driven into a corner?" The boy guessed Nanmen Yu’s thoughts, not in a hurry, slowly asking.

Nanmen Yu’s eyes grew deeper, somewhat puzzled, wasn’t that the case?

But the next moment, Nanmen Yu’s heart stirred slightly. Why pressure Nian Ru into this position of Empress?

He had once been in Nanzheng, knew that despite being the Commandery Princess of Nanzheng, her status was awkward, barely any Aristocratic Gentry Clans with a decent reputation would consider Nian Ru. However, back then, the relationship between Zheng Congyuan and Zheng Nianru was quite good.

Why was it good? Everything in Qishun Building was so out of sync with its rundown exterior, so, he should have guessed something earlier.

Zheng Nianru liked Zheng Congyuan, this seemingly impossible thing, only someone in the midst of it all would realize, if there ever was a hint of this, everything made sense, and all the pieces fell into place.

Nanmen Yu wanted to laugh, to laugh at his own blindness, how could he not see through Zheng Nianru’s perfunctory attitude. He had always made excuses for her, she was just too scared, worried.

All the uncertainties made her afraid to commit wholeheartedly.

So, it was all his wishful thinking, so the boy had known all along.

Nanmen Yu looked coldly at the boy, if Zheng Nianru was willing, then it wasn’t just about him going to Nanzheng State to see Zheng Nianru that would solve the problem, so was it all over?

As Nanmen Yu thought of this answer, every pore in his body constricted, preventing him from breathing, plunging him into darkness as if all his efforts, all the blood and violence, had become a joke.

The road he had traveled was fraught with extreme danger, many a time he had hovered on the brink of death, the strong beliefs that sustained him now seemed utterly ridiculous.

"How shall we cooperate?" Nanmen Yu asked, he didn’t believe that the boy truly wanted to help him, the boy’s intentions, he surely knew, even felt them as if they were his own.

"Let’s not look down on each other, we have the same goal, a common enemy. Right now, the most important thing is to not let that kid Zheng Congyuan have an easy time, as for what happens after that, how about a fair competition?" The boy spoke slowly, having to take a step back in the face of the current situation.

Otherwise, he had no interest in making deals with Nanmen Yu.

Nanmen Yu didn’t immediately answer, just contemplating whether the boy’s words could be trusted.

"Why should I trust you? Now, even if I were to attack Nanzheng, it’s not like it’s impossible to try." Nanmen Yu said coldly.