Hou Ye's palm heart is a black lotus

Chapter 618 True Feelings and False Intentions (Sixth Update)
"Did...something happen to the Jiang family?" Ye Jingyan was a little surprised.

There was no news of it before.

"It seems so." Ye Chutang quickly retracted his gaze, pinched a piece of candied fruit and fed it to Xiaowu, seeming not to care much about it.

Ye Jingyan let down the curtain, seeming to be thinking about something.

"Sister doesn't seem surprised?"

Ye Chutang wiped his hands with a handkerchief, then looked up and asked with a faint smile, "It's lonely at the top. It has always been like this, hasn't it? After Jiang Zhaoyuan stepped down from the position of Prime Minister, he should have thought that this day would come sooner or later."

When passing the intersection, Ye Jingyan heard someone seemed to be throwing things at the Jiang family's gate and cursing.

He nodded, "That's what Sister said."

Ye Chutang said calmly, "Even honest officials die unjustly, let alone corrupt officials."

Jiang Zhaoyuan has been very popular in recent years. Relying on Jiang Qingmei and Xiao Chengxuan, he is extremely arrogant.

He is being investigated now, it's just the right time.

Ye Jingyan was silent for a moment, "Sister, what you said is very true. However, the Jiang family was confiscated, doesn't it mean that the Second Prince..."

He didn't say the rest of the words, but Ye Chutang understood what he meant.

Xiao Chengxuan and the Jiang family have a very close relationship, and they prosper together and suffer together.

This situation now can explain too many things.

"Didn't His Majesty issue an order to exile him to Yizhou?" Ye Chutang took a sip of tea. "Now that the Wazhen envoys have left, there is no need to drag it out any longer."

After all, you never joke.

Ye Jingyan didn't expect that it was just a ten-day holiday, and there would be such a lively scene on his way home. He was quite moved for a moment.

"Who would have thought that he would end up like this..."

Thinking back to when they first returned to the capital, Xiao Chengxuan was the prince most valued by His Majesty. How glorious was he?

In the blink of an eye, he became a prisoner.

Ye Chutang narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly.

"Things in the world are unpredictable, who says it's not?"

……

Zhongyong Hou Mansion.

Xiao Jiayi woke up slowly, opened her eyes, and stared blankly into the void.

She turned her neck stiffly and looked outside. It was already completely dark.

There was no candle in the room and it was pitch black.

She finally remembered what had happened before - the palace reported that Jiang Cairen was poisoned, Jiang Zhaoyuan was beaten to death, her only brother Xiao Chengxuan was exiled, and she was stripped of her princess status and demoted to a commoner!
The huge blow was too much for her to bear and she fainted on the spot.

Thinking back on it all, Xiao Jiayi felt heartbroken.

She struggled to get up, but just as she reached the door, before she could push it open, she heard a gloomy voice behind her.

"Where are you going?"

Xiao Jiayi paused and turned around suddenly, only to see that Xie Anjun was actually sitting at the table!

She was startled, her heart pounding, and her voice became shrill, "I'm so scared! Why are you here!?"

Xie Anjun taunted, "Just understand, this is the Xie family, if I'm not here, where am I?"

Xiao Jiayi was so angry that she couldn't refute.

But at this moment she didn't have the time or energy to argue with him, so she turned around and was about to leave.

"I want to go to the palace to see the emperor!"

Xie Anjun seemed to have heard something funny. "You? Entering the palace? With what identity? Do you still have the qualifications now?"

Xiao Jiayi suddenly froze in her tracks.

Only then did she remember that she no longer had the status of a princess, but was just a commoner!
Xie Anjun pulled the corner of his mouth, "You should thank the emperor for saving your life. Otherwise, like your grandfather and mother, you died inexplicably. Wouldn't that be pitiful?"

In comparison, Xiao Jiayi was only demoted, which was already a special favor from Emperor Mu Wu.

But how could Xiao Jiayi accept this?
Falling from the clouds into the quagmire is more painful than killing her!
In just one day, she lost all her supports!
Not only did he not see his mother for the last time, he was not even able to see Xiao Chengxuan off. He didn't even know what had happened in the palace!

"How could this happen...how could this happen!"

She turned around and rushed to Xie Anjun, grabbing his collar tightly, "Didn't you say you would help my brother clarify the matter? Now what can you say? "

Xie Anjun impatiently slapped her hand away.

"Do you still think you are a high and mighty princess?"

"I did say that, but your brother committed a capital crime! Your Majesty did not behead him in public, but only exiled him to Yizhou. This was already very magnanimous! How dare you still dream of releasing him without guilt and letting him continue to be the glorious King of Qi?"

"What a dream!"

He straightened his collar, stood up, and looked down at Xiao Jiayi.

"You'd better be honest and obedient. As long as you can make me happy, you can still have a place in the Xie family. Otherwise, you won't even have a place to stay! If you go out, you will only be bullied and trampled on!"

Xiao Jiayi couldn't believe that he would say such cruel words to her.

The disgust in those eyes was almost overflowing, as if he was looking at something dirty!

She had never seen such a look on his face before.

She murmured in disbelief.

"W-what are you talking about?"

She looked around, as if looking for something.

"No need to look. There's no one else here except you and me." Xie Anjun seemed to have guessed her thoughts and spoke coldly.

Xiao Jiayi slowly raised her head, only to find that this face was extremely unfamiliar.

"You... didn't we agree before that this was just an act? Do you know what you're doing?"

Xie Anjun showed a cold smile on his face.

"Of course I know. In the whole capital, who doesn't know that you and I have been separated and have been in a mess? Isn't it normal for me to do this?"

Xiao Jiayi was confused.

"You, you... But that was just a show! It was just a last resort to prevent the Xie family from being implicated by Cheng Xuan! How -"

Xie Anjun interrupted her with a sneer, "Who is playing a trick on you?"

Xiao Jiayi opened her mouth, her mind going blank.

"But, but you and Fan Chengzhuo clearly said at the beginning—"

Xie Anjun seemed unwilling to hear what she was about to say, and his face turned cold.

"Times are different now. It would be naive of you to believe those words."

Xiao Jiayi looked as if she had never known this person before, and her face was full of unfamiliarity.

She collapsed to the ground powerlessly, "So... you no longer love me! What did I do wrong that you hold such a deep grudge against me!"

All these years have been nothing but an absurd dream!

She raised her head suddenly, her eyes full of sorrow and resentment, "You have planned this a long time ago, right? On the surface, you pretended to flatter my brother, but in fact, you betrayed him from the very beginning! Xie Anjun! You are so cruel!"

Snapped!
Xie Anjun slapped her in the face, his expression gloomy, and he lowered his voice to warn her, "If it weren't for the fact that you are Lin'er's mother, I would have asked you to get out long ago, and why would I have kept you here until today!"