Reincarnated as the daughter of my mortal enemy, all I want is to ascend the throne.

Chapter 46 Longan

"The banquet prelude..."

Li Qingyan looked terrified and suddenly sat up from Li Yan's arms, her forehead hitting his chin.

Li Yan, disregarding his own pain, looked down at Li Qingyan, but his eyes widened immediately at that glance.

Because Li Qingyan's eyes had turned golden, he even saw dragons and phoenixes inside them.

Li Yan and she pressed their foreheads together; no matter what his little darling turned out to be, he would always be his child.

Li Qingyan clung to Li Yan's neck, motionless for a long time. Before her eyes was a sea of ​​fire, and she saw Li Yan and Yan Xu standing inside, their bodies riddled with arrows. Both of them had bled to death.

Even though she knew it was fake, she still couldn't help trembling, her heart aching as if she had really experienced it.

Li Yan gently patted her back without saying anything, but stood up and walked back and forth as if he were coaxing her to sleep when she was a child.

Until I felt her body was no longer tense.

"Li Yan... I saw Yan Xu, I saw him in the cave."

I also saw you standing in the Hall of Diligent Governance, being burned to death in the fire.

She didn't say the last sentence, perhaps because she felt it was unlucky.

Some bad things, if left unsaid, will never come true.

"He was covered in wounds, and there was blood all over him. Li Yan... will Yan Xu die?"

"No, he's incredibly lucky."

Li Yan didn't even realize that his throat was choked with emotion when he said those words. He seemed to see Yan Xu at fifteen years old, dressed in red, riding a white horse across the grassland.

Such a vibrant person, it's unimaginable that one day he would be lying in a coffin...

He unconsciously tightened his grip on Li Qingyan's hand.

Inside the general's mansion, the lights were on.

The White Tiger Army's medic, his hands covered in blood and his brow furrowed, said, "General, bear with it."

Yan Xu, his face pale, was chewing on a wooden stick. There was a deep wound on his back that exposed the bone. After rolling down the hillside, he encountered a tiger. He escaped with his life and hid in a cave.

Blood flowed onto the ground, and he could clearly feel his body getting colder and colder. In a daze, he saw the young prince running towards him.

In the blink of an eye, the little prince transformed into a golden dragon and snatched him away. When he opened his eyes again, he was rescued by Lü Rui and Lin Yi.

The army doctor was sweating profusely. "No, this won't do. The bleeding still won't stop. Quickly send him to the palace so that old bastard Zhao Zheng can administer the medicine."

"The bleeding won't stop?" Yan Xu was a little confused. Would his two rabbits be left unattended? Everyone says rabbits are gentle, but only those who have raised them know how fierce those two little white rabbits, one big and one small, can be.

Thinking of this, Yan Xu fainted in a daze. His little rabbit was already healed, so it didn't matter whether he lived or died.

Suddenly, a commotion arose in the Misty Courtyard. Li Yan, carrying Li Qingyan, looked outside and saw Lü Rui, covered in blood, clearing a path. Her cold voice carried a hint of urgency as she said, "Imperial Physician Zhao has come to treat the General."

Lu Rui knelt down in the courtyard facing the window. "Master, the General's life is in danger. Your subordinate has used the token to break into the palace. Please punish me."

Lü Rui raised the token with both hands. She had committed a grave taboo: a death squad member using a token to break into the palace was an act deserving of death.

Li Yan stared blankly into the distance, then simply nodded. "Let Hongyu take you to receive your punishment: twenty lashes."

"Yes."

"Yes."

Hong Yu appeared out of nowhere and went straight to Lü Rui's side. She grabbed Lü Rui by the collar, pulled her up, and left.

Because Hongyu was with them, they were very fast, and the two disappeared before anyone could react.

Only after they had walked a distance did Hongyu dare to say to her, "You're really bold."

Lü Rui rolled her eyes at him. "If General Yan dies, I'll lose my head."

"idiot"

Lü Rui didn't want to talk to such a stupid thing.

Li Qingyan fell into a deep sleep again after taking the medicine.

I vaguely felt the sound of wind around me and slowly opened my eyes.

"what……"

That was terrifying! How did she end up standing in mid-air?

"Where am I?"

Li Qingyan could see the mountains and lakes below her feet, and the city, but she had no way to get close.

She didn't know how long she had walked, but she sat down impatiently.

'Buzz buzz buzz'

The sound of wings flapping reached my ears. Looking up, I saw a dense swarm of birds in the distance, their beaks blotting out the sun, their fangs gleaming with a blue light.

They charged down towards the city below as if their lives depended on it.

And the person standing on top of the largest bird at the very front...

Li Qingyan saw his face clearly; it was... it was Yan Xu.

"Banquet Prelude... Banquet Prelude..."

Li Qingyan ran frantically towards that person. After running a few steps, the scenery around her suddenly changed.

She stood in the center of the Hall of Diligent Governance.

The ground was littered with corpses.

The corpses were studded with arrows; upon closer inspection, one could see that the arrows were actually huge bird feathers.

They penetrated the human body.

"Grandpa Laifu? Hongyu?"

Li Qingyan spotted the two of them immediately; they were standing there with swords in their hands, their hearts pierced by feathers.

With red eyes, she tried to touch them, but her efforts were in vain.

"Li Yan, without the protection of the Emperor's Seal, the human race should be destroyed today."

A familiar voice reached Li Qingyan's ears. She looked in the direction from which the voice came.

Li Yan and Yan Xu were both injured, and the person who wanted to kill them looked exactly like Yan Xu.

Countless black feathers flew towards Li Yan and Yan Xu...

"don't want!!!"

Li Qingyan sat up and took deep breaths.

She pinched her cheek, "Ouch..." Thank goodness it was just a dream.

Wait a minute... why is there someone next to her? Just as she was about to slap him, she saw Yan Xu's face.

He was covered with a blanket, and his exposed shoulder was wrapped in a white cloth. The white cloth extended downwards, and it was clear that the wound must have been quite large.

Li Qingyan poked his face; his skin was much darker than Li Yan's.

She turned and jumped to the ground, but immediately felt dizzy. She rubbed her face and went to the next room.

"Who was so heartless as to put me next to Yan Xu? I'm not fully recovered yet. If Yan Xu gets sick on top of my injuries, wouldn't that be fatal?"

"It must have been some traitorous bastard who put me here."

"Attempting to damage the foundation of Daewoo is suicidal; cut them down. They must be cut down."

【Host……】

Before Fei Cha could even speak, she was grabbed by the collar and pulled into an embrace. Li Yan stared at her, "Insulting me again?"

Seeing the doubt in her eyes, he said, "I placed you by his side."

Li Qingyan's lips twitched. "Old Deng, even if you hate Yan Xu, you can't 'murder' him like this, can you?"

Li Yan squinted, able to see through Li Qingyan's thoughts at a glance. He pinched both cheeks with one hand and said, "If you curse me again, I'll tear down this Misty Courtyard for you."

Li Qingyan slapped his hand away, rubbed her face, and said, "Li Yan, don't forget, I haven't even touched your study yet."

The father and daughter clashed again.

The two only calmed down after Physician Zhao came to deliver medicine to Li Qingyan and Yan Xu.

Li Qingyan was placed next to Yan Xu because of the fish-scale stone. Yan Xu was injured by a tiger and his body was poisoned. Li Qingyan had just drunk several bowls of medicine containing the fish-scale stone, and the smell of the medicine emanating from her body could clear the poison.

Only then did they place her next to Yan Xu.

Li Qingyan nodded, indicating that she understood.

Li Yan could not stay here for long. He had a lot of memorials to deal with in the past two days, so he hurriedly returned to the Hall of Diligent Governance, saying that he would come to see Li Qingyan again in the evening.

Yan Xu still needed to recover from his injury, so Li Qingyan could only sit in the room where she used to have classes and read books.

But... who was out of their mind to send the "Book of Yu and Xia" here? If she could understand this thing, she could become the top scholar in the imperial examination.

Enraged, Li Qingyan threw the book down.

"Who has offended the little princess?"

Her slender, fair hands, marked with a few faint lines, picked up the book from the ground.