HCB Chapter 255 Chen Wanyin
Chapter 255 Chen Wanyin
"Awan, Awan. Your name is too soft. I really don't know what kind of grievances you will suffer after entering the mansion."
When the emperor appointed Chen Wanyin to be Hongli's concubine, Chen Wanyin's father said these words no less than three times.
Chen Wanyin never thought that what her father said was right.
It’s not that she had any ideas, but after being introduced by her father’s boss to meet the emperor from afar, Chen Wanyin couldn’t hear anything else.
"Father, my daughter is supposed to get married. It is her destiny to be a wife or a concubine. A woman must go through life once.
Not to mention that the prince is a handsome and kind person, even if the prince is a man who wants to beat his concubine to death and sell her off tomorrow, my daughter still has to marry, right?"
Chen Wanyin's words were not self-abandonment, nor were they complaints. They were the truth.
Chen Wanyin really felt that life was just like this. For a woman, especially one like her who was destined to have no sense of existence, it was nothing more than moving to another place to live her life quietly.
Chen Wanyin said this and did this, and she did this for two lifetimes.
On the day Chen Wanyin died, the King of Hell said to her.
"You are a good person. I will allow you to return to the Forbidden City and experience a different life."
"Yes."
Faced with such a bizarre thing, Chen Wanyin just calmly replied to the King of Hell with a "yes".
The King of Hell and the Judge started talking behind him.
"She must have lived a good life in this life because she is so smart."
"I guess she's smart enough to figure out that one is also reborn."
"We can definitely fight back."
The judge held the judge's fatal pen in her hand. She first erased Chen Wanyin's name backwards, and then erased a name called Wei Yanwan.
Then he calmly said to the King of Hell without raising his head:
"Yan Wang is smart, Yan Wang is right."
The King of Hell laughed but felt something was wrong. When he turned back, the judge had already run away with the Book of Life and Death.
It was several months after Chen Wanyin's rebirth that the Judge was brought back.
"Why is she still painting? Hasn't she been reborn? Why isn't she competing for favor?"
The King of Hell was extremely surprised.
The judge remained silent.
The judge had long wanted to say that Chen Wanyin was reborn, not that she had a new soul. Her life was not favored, but smooth.
Especially, especially Chen Wanyin's mind is full of the emperor, I'm afraid it can't be easily changed.
Chen Wanyin and Wei Yanwan are different. The other one had a miserable life, but she broke through the shackles of fate on her own, not like Chen Wanyin, who moved with every push of the finger.
But, who says that the King of Hell is the boss? The judge could only say:
"Maybe, maybe painting is her way of winning favor."
The King of Hell nodded doubtfully.
This wait lasted for several more years.
Until Wei Yanwan found a way to send the Tenth Prince to Concubine Wan.
The King of Hell was so excited that he was afraid of the table.
"I said she was painting just to win favor. That's it."
Chen Wanyin sneezed, she really didn't know who was thinking about her. She was holding the Tenth Prince in her arms.
She also didn't expect that she would be able to raise the Tenth Prince in her rebirth.
She felt that it was her destiny to live out her life in the same way as before. She absolutely did not want to have the chance to raise a child.
"My Lord, you are able to raise the Tenth Prince thanks to Concubine Ling.
Should we go and thank Empress Lingfei?"
Shunxin reminded Chen Wanyin from the side. Chen Wanyin then realized that there was something different about this world.
Wei Yanwan's life trajectory is much smoother than before. She even has the ability to help her.
The first thing Chen Wanyin thought of was what the King of Hell said, and she had an idea in her mind.
"No, I'll thank him when I have the chance. Right now, I'm in the spotlight for raising the Tenth Prince. If I thank him again, I'll drag him into the spotlight as well."
Chen Wanyin didn't want to bring trouble to Wei Yanwan. Even though she knew that Wei Yanwan might also be reborn and that they might have a chance to keep each other warm, she never had such an idea in her mind.
"My Lord, the Queen Mother asked you to bring the Tenth Prince to the Yikun Palace from time to time."
Shunxin teased the Tenth Prince and told him the news from Yikun Palace.
Chen Wanyin was stunned.
"I won't go either. You told her that the Tenth Prince is not feeling well, and I'm afraid he might catch a cold, so I won't take him to see the Empress."
After her rebirth, Chen Wanyin seemed to be more timid than before and preferred to cower in her bedroom.
"Hey, what's going on? She's not going to either place. What does she want?"
Chen Wanyin's behavior was incomprehensible to the King of Hell. He was so angry that he took a bite of pork elbow and looked at the judge with puffed cheeks.
The judge continued to move his hands, but said in a rather doting tone:
"Hey, why didn't she choose? Didn't she choose Concubine Ling? Look, Concubine Ling's people told her to give the Tenth Prince more food, so that the child would be fatter and a little dumber, and she did it.
This way the Queen won't worry about it anymore. It's a good idea, a very good idea."
The King of Hell said "Oh" thoughtfully.
"I told you, the person I value can't be wrong. She will definitely be reborn and change her fate."
"The emperor will definitely like it."
Chen Wanyin's favor was indeed much better than before. Because of the Tenth Prince and Yan Wan's help, she was actually a well-known person in front of the emperor.
Even during the Mulan Autumn Hunt, where she had been humiliated before, the emperor asked her to serve him once.
It's no longer the same as before.
On the second day of Chen Wanyin's sleeping with the emperor, she was so moved that she cried.
The King of Hell grabbed the judge's sleeve and bit a string of candied haws.
"I said that she will definitely get better in this life. She will no longer be the Wanpin who allows herself to be bullied by others."
"Ah, Judge, you don't know how much she has suffered in the past."
"That, that, and that, these three women passed a piece of torn paper back and forth, but it didn't reach her hands after three times."
The "that", "that", and "that" mentioned by the King of Hell are referring to Ruyi, Su Lujun, and Hai Lan.
The incident happened again in the previous life when Wei Yanwan won favor by singing Kunqu Opera in Mulan Paddock.
The King of Hell cried so hard that the judge's sleeves were soaked, and he kept shouting that it was too much of a bully.
"They are too bullying, aren't they?"
The King of Hell said the same words as before, and the judge echoed him.
It is hard for the judge to say that when that incident happened in the previous life, he was the one who accompanied the King of Hell to watch it.
The judge still remembered the words of the King of Hell.
"If Chen Wanyin was bullied to death early, I would give her a chance to be reborn. If she died of old age, I would also give her a chance."
The judge was silent.
No one knew that the ferocious King of Hell, as rumored by the outside world, loved sad dramas and felt that those infatuated women were extremely pitiful.
Chen Wanyin also remembered the incident of passing the note very clearly.
If Yan Wan had not fallen out of favor in this life, naturally this kind of thing would not have happened.
But Chen Wanyin could also sense Ruyi's unfriendly gaze, and occasionally she would hear some words from Hailan that showed she was unhappy about her being favored.
"Wanpin used to come to my sister often, but after raising the tenth prince, she stopped bringing him with her and came less often herself."
"I've been to the Emperor a lot more often."
Chen Wanyin just laughed it off when Hailan said this.
Shunxin couldn't stand Chen Wanyin being like this.
"My Lord, you are too easy to bully. Not to mention anything else. It is a well-known fact that the Tenth Prince is weak, but the Queen and Concubine Yu don't care and always say this to you."
"How dare she say anything when others don't respect her? I think she just thinks you are a good person who is easy to bully."
Chen Wanyin did not respond to Shunxin's words.
In Chen Wanyin's mind, Ruyi's harassment and Hailan's intervention were meaningless. He would rather go back and coax the tenth prince more, or paint a few more paintings of the emperor.
What has not changed from the beginning to the end is Chen Wanyin's loyalty to the emperor. Even after being reborn, Chen Wanyin still loves the emperor.
Chen Wanyin knew very well that she was not a promising person, nor was she someone who could make a comeback like Wei Yanwan.
She has not experienced much suffering, nor can she become a rose born out of suffering.
She is a grass, which can never be burned by wildfires and will grow again in the spring breeze. She will always be a grass, never envy flowers, and always admire the blue sky.
Another humiliation Chen Wanyin suffered at the hands of Ruyi was that she told Ruyi and Hailan that she had been out of favor for six years and three months, and was lectured by Ruyi and teased by Hailan.
In this life, Chen Wanyin was favored by the King of Hell and secretly protected by Wei Yanwan, so she never felt the pain of falling out of favor.
But the King of Hell remembers this matter clearly.
"Judge. Six years and three months. Not six months and three days, not three days and six hours, and certainly not three quarters of an hour."
When the King of Hell saw this scene, he wished he could go directly to the human world and let the Black and White Impermanence take Ruyi's life.
He wanted to ask Ruyi in person.
"She is dying without the emperor, and if things get really bad she can even drag Ling Yunche into it. How can she have the nerve to say such things?
It seems that she has satisfied herself and won't allow others to have fun.
Yes, she must be like that. Otherwise, why would she not want anyone to be favored? "
"She is willing to do it. She is willing to eat the lamb leg and drink milk tea, but she is willing to give up the opportunity for the emperor to sleep with anyone. Those two brainless people trust her. There is a chance to enjoy it.
Those who have risen to the top through their own strength cannot compete with her for the opportunity to enjoy themselves."
"Vicious, vicious, really vicious."
These were the only ugly words that Pan Gong remembered from the King of Hell. The less ugly words were said by the King of Hell for several hours. The ghosts in the Yama Palace were so scared that they trembled. They really didn't know who had angered the King of Hell.
The ghost officials in Yama's Palace knew it all. They comforted the reincarnated ghosts that it was all right, and that Yama was just excited to watch the show.
Although Chen Wanyin herself was not directly harassed by Ruyi, she saw all the harassment Wei Yanwan suffered. However, Chen Wanyin did not help Wei Yanwan blindly out of sympathy.
Chen Wanyin could see clearly that Wei Yanwan was a smart person, and if she insisted on interfering with Wei Yanwan's plan, she would probably end up making things worse.
Therefore, Chen Wanyin only spoke up occasionally when she encountered injustice, and she did not do anything unusual.
The judge was naturally trying to please the King of Hell when he saw this, and Chen Wanyin was just being wise and appearing foolish.
What probably satisfied the King of Hell most about Chen Wanyin was that she revealed the truth about Jingse's death.
In fact, on the day Jingse got into trouble, Chen Wanyin not only saw Jingse's self-written and self-acted performance, but also heard some of the words between Yanwan and Jingse.
It was nothing more than letting Jingse become a clear-headed dead ghost when he was dying.
Chen Wanyin heard Jingse say that Yanwan and Jinzhong had an unclear relationship, and heard Yanwan say that Ling Yunche and Ruyi might not have an affair.
Chen Wanyin heard all of this, but she felt that it was not that important anymore.
Chen Wanyin knew the emperor well. The emperor had been seriously injured, and what he needed was not to add insult to injury, but to quickly stabilize the harem, otherwise the dynasty would inevitably be in turmoil.
It was for the emperor's kingdom, and also to repay Wei Yanwan for having helped Chen Wanyin.
Chen Wanyin hid part of the truth about Jingse's death from everyone.
In fact, Chen Wanyin also knew that Yanwan had faked her death and left the palace. She accidentally saw Jinzhong asking Doctor Bao to prepare the fake death medicine.
Chen Wanyin originally just wanted to ask the Tenth Prince about some winter tonic recipes and didn't want to hear such words.
Chen Wanyin naturally pretended to know nothing.
When Wei Yanwan's coffin was carried away, Chen Wanyin and the empress dowager jointly persuaded the emperor not to disturb Wei Yanwan's peace.
The emperor probably loved Wei Yanwan.
Unfortunately, Wei Yanwan no longer loved the emperor, or rather, she had never loved the emperor.
Chen Wanyin doesn't care about these anymore.
"Why didn't you take revenge on anyone? Even though you saw that Wei Yanwan didn't love the emperor you loved the most, and even had an affair with Jinzhong, you didn't expose it."
When Chen Wanyin returned to the King of Hell again, he asked her the same question again.
Chen Wanyin smiled slightly.
"Loving someone is a very personal thing. It is my right to like someone and I can like him or her however I want.
I have this right, and so do others. The emperor may have loved me a little, but he has also loved many people.
So in a place like the harem where there is inequality, why should we demand anything from others? "
"What if Wei Yanwan killed your beloved emperor?"
The judge asked a very sharp question.
Chen Wanyin still smiled.
"Then I will naturally follow the emperor. Wei Yanwan didn't love the emperor and killed him. It wasn't because of me, and it has nothing to do with me.
I don't have the ability to take revenge on Wei Yanwan. Or maybe if I knew why Wei Yanwan hated the emperor, I would sympathize with her.
Rather than being in such a dilemma, it is better to come and accompany the emperor early."
"I asked Meng Po for a bowl of Meng Po soup early in the morning."
Chen Wanyin's clarity and lucidity made the King of Hell stunned again and again. He was so stunned that he even forgot to punish Chen Wanyin. It was the judge who reminded the King of Hell.
"She should go to Naihe Bridge, drink Mengpo soup, and be reborn."
"Oh. Go ahead."
The King of Hell waved his hand and Chen Wanyin retreated.
The King of Hell bowed his head and died in pain.
"I really don't know what the problem is. How come she is completely different from what I imagined? I thought she should be like Wei Yanwan, striving to become a favorite concubine.
It would be best if I had my own offspring."
The King of Hell didn't cry this time, but he completely didn't understand Chen Wanyin's principles.
The judge handed the King of Hell a fragrant roasted sweet potato.
"I just went to the human world to buy them. It's the season for roasted sweet potatoes."
Seeing the roasted sweet potato, Yan Wangye didn't care about anything anymore, he grabbed the roasted sweet potato and started eating it.
“It’s so delicious.”
The judge smiled with relief.
"As long as the King of Hell is happy, let's see who the King of Hell still has pity for and help them."
The King of Hell laughed heartily.
"Exactly, exactly."
The judge took advantage of the opportunity when the King of Hell was selecting someone and quickly sent orders to all the ghost officials.
"Don't tell the truth in front of the King of Hell. If you make him cry, you will die."