Chapter Nineteen: The True Culprit Emerges

  Although Yin Sheng and Yin Jizhao were not good people in Fei Dian's heart, Fei Dian still leaned towards Yin Sheng a bit. So he suddenly wanted to take advantage of the situation to vent his anger at Yin Jizhao for Yin Sheng's sake. Therefore, he said, "Who told you that Yin Sheng didn't find out anything? At least he knew what my true identity was, did you know?"

  "What?" Fei Yan indeed saw Yin Zhen's face change, but it immediately changed back. "Since we met today, why don't you just tell me what your identity is? It would save me the trouble of continuing to investigate."

  "Are you letting me tell you or have I already told you?" Flying Electric asked with a poker face.

  "Don't tell me... " Yin Ji Chu held his chin with one hand, narrowing his long eyes as he looked at Fei Dian, "This way, I'll become more and more concerned about you."

  "I don't care about you," Fei Yan stood up, lowering his eyes as if he didn't put Yin Zhen's words in his heart at all. "However, although you are so bad, I still want to thank you for telling me about Wan Xiang's first fall into the water and your inference. I will return to the palace and continue to investigate Wan Xiang's affairs."

  Fei Yan finished speaking and headed downstairs, Yin Zhen hastily followed up and asked, "Why must you investigate who harmed Wan Guifei? What's your relationship with her?"

  According to Yin Zhenzong's knowledge, Wan Xiang had already died before Fei Dian arrived, and the two should not have any connection.

  "In your mind, is life something that's useless or threatening to you, something that has no meaning or must die?" Fei asked coldly. "Of course, you don't need to answer, it doesn't matter, I just want to find out the truth because I hate things being unclear."

  The two walked downstairs, Fei Dian led the way out of the building, but Yin Ji stopped in his tracks, his hands clasped behind him as he watched Fei Dian disappear into the distance. The smile at the corner of his eyes grew more and more apparent. "What an interesting person," he muttered to himself.

  Unexpectedly, Fei Yan did come back after a while. He looked at Yin Zhen with an expressionless face, his tone was calm and peaceful without any ripples. He asked, "How do I get to the imperial palace?"

  Yin Ji raised an eyebrow and smiled lightly as she walked to Fei Dian's side, "I'll send you back."

  He said in a voice as calm and flat as Fei's.

  ……

  Yin Zheng sent Fei Dian back to the front of the Imperial City Gate and then left, but his actions overturned Fei Dian's long-standing distinction between good and evil.

  If he is a good person, what he did to Yin Huan and Yin Sheng is simply infuriating. If he is a bad person, he seems to be exceptionally kind to himself, and also told him about Wan Ying's affairs.

  Thinking of Wan Ying, Fei Dian organized the information he had found today in his mind, and the most important thing was whether Wan Ying really didn't die when she fell into the water for the first time.

  Alas... If only I hadn't let Yin Chen supercharge her so early, I could have asked her if she was really dead back then... But since this woman can't even remember who killed herself, how would she remember when she died?

  Fei Dian Xiang was lost in thought and didn't notice a shuttlecock flying over from afar, which hit him squarely on the head.

  He leapt back two steps, eyes widening as he saw that the thing attacking him was a shuttlecock. Frowning, he picked it up, and then spotted a big fatty and a small fatty running towards him - Yin Huan and Li Gonggong following behind him.

  Seeing Yin Huan, Fei Yan suddenly thought of the information he had heard, and now all the spearheads were pointing at this child who was not yet ten years old. He suddenly felt a strong disgust towards Yin Huan, and threw the ball far away, saying, "Take the ball away, don't come over."

  Yin Huan caught the ball, and before he could say anything, Li Gonggong immediately pointed at Fei Dian and scolded, "You think you're some kind of noble? How dare you speak to our Young Master Huan like that!"

  "Hmph, foolish people just don't have good memories," Flying Electric glanced at Li Gonggong, who looked like a ball due to his short and chubby stature. "I've said it before, you're not even qualified to speak to me like this."

  "How are you still alive?" Yin Huan walked to Fei Dian's side, "Didn't that cheap woman from Gu Yu country kill you? Or did you kill her?"

  "Don't speak ill of others," Fei Dian said coldly, "You are the most despicable person in the entire imperial palace."

  "How dare you scold me!" Yin Huan jumped up in anger, "I'll let the Emperor kill your whole family!"

  "How dare you scold our Lord Huan! You just wait!" Li Gonggong walked to Yin Huan's side, shielding him and coaxing him, "Lord Huan, let's go back. Don't bother with this kind of person. The Emperor will kill him sooner or later."

  It's frustrating to see this, it seems like everyone around Yin Huan wants him dead.

  "Who wants to go back with you, ugly eight monsters." Yin Chen pushed Li Gonggong away, and Li Gonggong retreated two steps and sat on the ground. By accident, a rolled-up scroll fell out of his bosom, and he immediately put the scroll back into his bosom.

  "You think I don't know you're making me go back and recite 'Sun Tzu's Art of War' again? Don't follow me."

  Fei Yan didn't smile lightly, "Hehe, people who rely on others' power deserve such treatment."

  "You..." Li Gonggong's face turned bright red with anger, but he couldn't say anything.

  After scolding them, they felt much more comfortable and decided to leave Yin Huan far away without paying attention to them. So he turned around and walked in the opposite direction.

  "Don't think about leaving!" Yin Huan threw the shuttlecock in his hand at Fei Dian, "I hate people who want to rob me of my brother's favor the most. I'm going to beat you up right now!"

  Fei Dian dodged to the side, and what he most wanted to do right now was go over and slap Yin Huang in the face. However, after turning his head around, he suddenly remembered something...

  Fei Dian was taken aback and asked, "Yin Huan, I'm asking you, did you send someone to kill Wan Guifei?"

  "Ah, you scoundrel!" Li Gonggong seemed extremely agitated. "The whole country of Li knows that Wan Guifei died from drowning, yet you falsely accuse our Crown Prince Huan. What is your intention?"

  "Did I ask you?" Fei Dian asked Li Gonggong coldly, "I'm very curious about the scroll hidden in your bosom. Is it a map of the imperial palace or something? Do you want to hand it over to someone outside the palace and let them know the layout of the palace, then come in and kill Yin Sheng?"

  "What? You want to kill my imperial brother?" Yin Huan heard Fei Dian's words and immediately pointed the spearhead at Li Gonggong.

  "How dare I, an old slave..."

  "Hmph, no one can harm Imperial Brother, otherwise I won't let him off!" Yin Huan said with a firm determination despite his young age.

  "Yes, yes, I am absolutely loyal to Your Majesty. Don't suspect me because of a stranger's words, Master Huan..." Li Gonggong finished his humble plea and immediately shouted at the guards who were following behind him: "Are your legs broken? Why did you take so long to catch up? Quickly invite Master Huan back!"

  Those guards were still panting, and upon hearing what Li Gonggong said, they immediately went to Yin Huan's side.

  Fei Yan furrowed his brow... why did he always feel like something was off.

  He asked again, "Yin Huan, did you know that your imperial brother left the palace last night?"

  "What? The emperor is leaving the palace?" Yin Huan was somewhat surprised, "Leaving the palace at night, isn't he afraid of danger? Humph, the emperor is really careless! I'll go and teach him a lesson right now!"

  Yin Huan finished speaking and ran towards the Golden Hall with a pout on his face.

  Fei Dian supported his chin and watched as the group of people walked away, but Yin Huan didn't even know that Yin Sheng had left the palace, so how could he send someone to protect him?

  ……

  Yin Sheng descended from the morning court and immediately invited Fu Wan, who had just rushed back from outside Xuchang, into the Golden Hall.

  Fu Wan and Feng Ling were the most trusted people in the court, while Fu Wan had another relationship with Yin Xing. At that time, Yin Xing's mother died of difficult labor when giving birth to Yin Huan, and Yin Huan and Yin Xing immediately suffered persecution from the former empress dowager without their mother's care.

  At that time, most of the ministers in the court supported Yin Zhen's ascension to the throne. They all avoided Yin Cheng like a hot potato, watching as the two children wandered and struggled, their lives hanging by a thread.

  At the age of six, Yin Chen had never thought of becoming an emperor. He couldn't understand why his uncle, who was only five years older than him, always made things difficult for him and wanted to get rid of him completely. All he wanted was for Yin Huan to grow up healthily. However, Yin Zhen's actions made Yin Chen realize a truth: in the imperial family, only the strong could survive. If he wanted himself and Yin Huan to stay alive, he had to take control of the world's affairs and sit at the top of power.

  At that time, Fu Wan didn't think about assisting Yin Chen as emperor at all, but only felt that the two children were pitiful, so he took them in. Yin Chen and Yin Huan spent the weakest years of Li Guo in the Shangshu Mansion until the previous emperor passed away, and it was discovered that the name on the will was Yin Chen's, not Yin Zhenyue's.

  So Fu Wan can also be considered as half a foster father of Yin Cheng and Yin Huan, and Yin Cheng is very respectful to him.

  At this time, Fu Wan was reporting the border situation to Yin Cheng, when a child who looked about the same age as Yin Huan suddenly ran in from outside the hall, hiding behind Fu Wan and stealing glances at Yin Cheng.

  Fu Wan was startled and quickly turned around to ask the child: "Li'er, didn't I tell you to wait for me in the garden? Why did you run here?"

  "Whose child?" Yin Chen discovered that this child's eyebrows and eyes were extremely similar to Fu Wan, and asked, "Who is this child?"

  "Oh, this is my old minister's eldest son. He was born with a poor body and I sent him to the border of Miaojiang, where it is said that the medicine master can cure all diseases, so he has been staying there," Fú Wán said, "When Your Majesty and Huàn Shìzǐ lived in my mansion, Lí'ér was on the frontier, so they didn't meet."

  "So that's the eighth son of the Minister? He seems to be about the same age as Huan, let him play with Huan for a few days." Yin Sheng smiled slightly, looking at Fu Li and thinking of Yin Huan.

  "Want to keep Emperor Huan company? My youngest son has always been timid and afraid of trouble," Fu Wan said, "Li, hurry up and pay your respects to His Majesty!"

  "No need," said Yin Sheng, "this child is really lovely, Huan'er will definitely be delighted to see him."

  Fu Li stared at Yin Sheng with her big, round eyes that were as wide as those of Yin Huan, then looked at his father and finally asked, "Daddy, when will you finish talking to Emperor Gege? When are we going to see Huan Shizi Gege?"

  When Wu Li called Yin Cheng and Yin Huan like that, Wu Wan felt a bit embarrassed and immediately criticized, "You can't be rude!"

  "Haha... how lovely," Yin Chen smiled, "Huan'er must be even more delighted to have another little brother."

  "Ah, this child..." Fu Wan said with a hint of embarrassment, "A month ago, I went to Miaojiang to fetch him and told him about some things that Your Majesty and Prince Huan experienced during their youth. Since then, he has been extremely respectful towards Your Majesty and Prince Huan, and has been clamoring to enter the palace to see Your Majesty..."

  Yin Sheng walked over and patted Fuli's head, "Actually, I envy your carefree childhood, Huan'er didn't have one either..."

  Yin Sheng looked at Fu Li with a mixture of emotions, and after a while, he ordered the eunuch outside: "Gao Gonggong, take this child out first."

  The high-ranking official at the gate led the way, and came over to take away Fuli. Fuli looked at Fuwan and Yin Chen with some reluctance, as if urging them to speak quickly, making Yin Chen feel embarrassed.