Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 166 Canglan Ferry (36)

Zhaiyue Tower.

In a private room with excellent privacy, Yan Jinhe and Yan Jinqing sat facing each other.

Since the incident at the Duke's mansion, the brother and sister haven't seen each other for over a month.

When Yan Jinqing returned to the Yan family, she was quite uneasy for a while, worried that if her father found out about the bone-dropping paternity test, she would definitely get a beating.

However, the Duke's mansion also felt ashamed of this matter and ordered the entire mansion to keep it a secret, so that not a single word of it leaked out.

Yan Jinqing escaped unscathed.

A month later, when Yan Jinqing saw Yan Jinhe again, her feelings were very complicated.

Yan Jinhe didn't notice her elder brother's expression and briefly explained her situation at the Duke's mansion these past few days.

“Brother, Jiang Li hates me so much. If she gains power, she won’t let me go. I can’t just sit here and wait to die.” As Yan Jinhe said these words, her eyes flashed with a cold, sharp, and obsessive light. “You need to think of a way to kill her.”

Yan Jinqing frowned, hesitated, and finally said only, "Jinhe, let it go."

"Let it go? Why should we let it go?" Yan Jinhe asked, puzzled. "Didn't you see how that bitch treated me? She stole everything that belonged to me. If it weren't for her, how could I have ended up like this!"

"Even if you kill her, what will change?" Yan Jinqing said helplessly. "You and Pei Wangzhou can't go back to what you were before, and the people in the Duke's mansion have also developed a grudge against you. Everything you're trying to fight for and grab now is meaningless!"

"I don't need meaning, I just want Jiang Li to die!" Yan Jinhe became agitated, her eyes turning manic. "I'll be happy if she dies."

“But the whole Duke’s mansion knows that you and Jiang Li are at odds. Now that she’s dead, Pei Wangzhou will suspect you first. If the murder is exposed, not only will we be imprisoned, but the Yan family will also be implicated.”

"Just keep it from the Duke's mansion." Yan Jinhe sneered. "Jiang Li is going to Qingshan Temple to offer incense in three days. You can send a group of people disguised as bandits to ambush and kill her on the way. Do it discreetly. Even if the Duke's mansion suspects me afterward, they have no evidence. What can they do to me? Anyway, I've already been rejected by Pei Wangzhou. If he doesn't let me have a good time, I won't let him have an easy time either!"

Yan Jinqing: "..."

He knew that Yan Jinhe was being stubborn. Since childhood, she had been more competitive than her sisters, always striving to be number one in everything at the clan school. Now that she had been defeated by a country girl she had never taken seriously, how could she be willing to accept it?

But she was confused, and as her older brother, I couldn't let her continue down this wrong path.

“You’ve been blinded by hatred; you’re heading down a dead end. I won’t help you,” Yan Jinqing said, standing up. “You’d better watch yourself.”

He finished speaking and was about to leave.

Yan Jinhe didn't stop her, but suddenly said, "Fine, if you won't help me, then I'll do it myself."

Yan Jinqing was taken aback and immediately turned around: "What are you going to do?"

"What else can we do? Fight that bitch to the death." Yan Jinhe said bitterly, "Anyway, I'm just like a walking corpse staying in the Duke's mansion, so I might as well take someone down with me when I die."

Yan Jinqing: "..."

He turned back, annoyed, and said, "Jinhe, do you have to do this?"

"Yes!" Yan Jinhe's eyes flashed with malice as she gritted her teeth and said, "That bitch drove me to the brink of death. You're not a woman, you wouldn't understand the sorrow of a woman in the inner quarters. Without my husband's favor, what good is it even if I have the Yan family backing me up? What good is it even if everyone still calls me the young master's wife? Pei Wangzhou will never come to my room again. I have no children, and I have no hope for the rest of my life... All of this was caused by Jiang Li, she must die!"

Yan Jinqing remained silent.

At this point, Yan Jinhe's face turned sorrowful. She grabbed Yan Jinqing's sleeve and pleaded, "Brother, only you can help me... I promise you, as long as you help me kill Jiang Li, I will divorce Pei Wangzhou."

Yan Jinqing's heart skipped a beat: "Really?"

Yan Jinhe nodded: "I stayed in the Duke's mansion only because I couldn't swallow this anger. As long as I get revenge and vent my anger, I will go back to the Yan family with you."

Yan Jinqing quickly weighed the situation in his mind. Given his sister's stubborn nature, if he let her run wild, something bad would happen sooner or later.

Why not take the risk and help her out? Once it's done, she can resolve this inner conflict and Yan Jinhe can be freed from the Duke's mansion.

“Okay, I agree,” Yan Jinqing said. “However, we need to discuss how to proceed.”

Yan Jinhe hesitated for a moment, then lowered her voice and said, "Didn't Father keep a group of assassins at his estate in Fuming Mountain? Why don't we let them take action..."

"Jinhe!" Yan Jinqing's face changed in shock. He cautiously opened the doors and windows of the private room, looking left and right to make sure no one was eavesdropping outside, before closing them tightly and returning to the room. He whispered, "How did you know about this?"

The Fuming Mountain affair had been planned for many years and carried out in great secrecy. Apart from Grand Tutor Yan and Yan Jinqing, no one else in the Yan family knew about it.

How could Yan Jinhe know?

She already knew whether the Pei family members were also...

Yan Jinhe noticed Yan Jinqing's concerns and smiled, covering her mouth: "I know this was a coincidence. A few years ago, before I was married, I hid in the rockery in my father's courtyard to avoid the nanny who was urging me to learn embroidery. I overheard my father talking about this with the Prince of Yan's people..."

"Don't worry, I know what I should and shouldn't say. This is a capital offense; how could I possibly tell the Pei family?"

Yan Jinqing broke out in a cold sweat, but after hearing what she said, he felt a little relieved.

"Tell me if you can mobilize the assassins from the manor to help me," Yan Jinhe said. "The assassins are highly skilled in martial arts, so they'll definitely be able to take down that bitch. It would be best if they could capture her and torture her to death in every way possible to vent my hatred!"

Yan Jinqing hesitated for a moment, then said, "Leave this matter to me. You don't need to worry about it. Go back and wait for my good news."

-

Three days passed in the blink of an eye.

In the Bamboo Garden of the Duke's Mansion, Yan Zhen was making final preparations for going to Qingshan Temple.

Pei Ji watched as she hid the dozens of hidden weapons arranged on the table into various places on her body, and said with embarrassment, "Be careful not to hurt yourself."

"It's okay, I know what's going on."

Pei Ji then asked, "According to our plan, you shouldn't have to take any risks, so why are you hiding so many hidden weapons?"

"It's better to be prepared. After all, we're also carrying Zhang Shulan, a weak woman. If we encounter any sudden danger, we can at least protect ourselves for a while."

Upon hearing this, Pei Ji hesitated for a moment, then said, "You shouldn't go."

Yan Zhen paused in his act of stuffing a small bow and arrow into his sleeve: "Why?"

"As you said, what if we encounter any danger..."

He could imagine that if something unexpected happened, given her personality, she would definitely not abandon Zhang Shulan and run away alone.

If necessary, she would even give her own life to Zhang Shulan.

"Fortune favors the bold, and you can't get the tiger cubs without venturing into the tiger's den," Yan Zhen comforted him. "If you want to kill Yan Jinhe, you must first bring down the Yan family. Today, I'm determined to succeed."