Liu Xiyin sat up immediately and confessed honestly, “Someone was following me on the way back to the Liu residence. My father’s adjutant found it on him.”
“Why was it on you?”
Liu Xiyin glanced at him quietly.
“Speak.”
His expression was cold, without a hint of affection. It turned out that just a moment ago, he had been searching her body, and once he found it, he treated her like a criminal under interrogation.
Liu Xiyin dared not deceive him. “I was afraid my father wouldn’t stand up for me, so, so I stole a roll of film, wanting to find a chance to develop it and take a look.”
What did Liu Xiyin do wrong?
Knowing her future fate was to be fish food, naturally, she had to be cautious.
Who knew what kind of unclean thing had been following her from the start, secretly burying a huge bomb for her?
It was just that after returning to the Liu residence, she never found an opportunity to develop it, which is how it ended up in the hands of the great villain.
“You had better ensure you are telling the truth.”
Liu Xiyin raised her hands and swore, “If I am lying, let me be struck by lightning and fall into the eighteenth level of hell!”
Falling into hell would still be better than being cannon fodder in this book!
Yan Changye gave a cold snort. “Then what were you dodging just now?”
“…” Liu Xiyin said truthfully, “You didn’t take a bath…”
Even if they were going to spend their wedding night together, shouldn’t there be some emphasis on hygiene?
As a girl who grew up in a laboratory, she couldn’t let go of this bottom line.
“…” Yan Changye rose from the bed. “If I find out you lied to me…”
He lifted her chin. “Young Mistress, I will make sure you never have the chance to bathe again.”
Yan Changye straightened his military uniform and left behind a single sentence: “Tomorrow you will go to serve tea; stay here until dawn.” Then he turned and left.
Hearing the door close, Liu Xiyin collapsed weakly onto the bed, feeling that her life was too bitter.
She only read a novel; did she deserve to end up in this state?
Liu Xiyin lay on the bed for a long time without moving, until a maid knocked on the door: “Young Mistress, the Young Marshal has ordered us to come and change your bedding.”
Oh!
No matter how bitter life was, at least she was safe for the moment. Since she hadn’t taken a bath yet, she could have a wonderful sleep.
Liu Xiyin jumped up instantly, opened the door, and let the two maids in.
One maid changed her bedding, while the other drew bathwater and helped her wash up.
Western-style plumbing had already been introduced; Liu Xiyin soaked in a hot bath and happily rolled into the warm, clean quilt.
She would worry about tomorrow when tomorrow came. Perhaps if she died, she could travel back.
For now, sleep!
Liu Xiyin closed her eyes, ready to give up.
Yan Changye went to the study.
His Chief Adjutant had been waiting inside for a long time.
“Young Marshal.” As Yan Changye entered the room, Chief Adjutant Zhao Yuan clicked his boots and saluted.
Yan Changye handed him the roll of film. “Get this developed before dawn. You watch over it personally.”
Zhao Yuan: “Yes.”
He added, “That person has confessed and signed and fingerprinted the document, confirming that it was instigated by the Second Young Master.”
Yan Changye joined the army at twelve, starting as a basic foot soldier, and had spent twelve years away, expanding territory.
Unfortunately, Marshal Yan doted on the Second Concubine, and the Second Young Master born to her had been favored since childhood. Not only was he able to attend military academy, but immediately upon graduation, he entered the military government, becoming Marshal Yan’s right-hand man.
Although the Marshal’s thoughts were unknown, he still made Yan Changye the Young Marshal. However, in these years, everyone only heard of the Second Young Master and did not know the Young Marshal. The hearts of the people had been almost entirely won over by the Second Young Master.
Everyone knew that when Yan Changye returned, there was bound to be a struggle with the Second Young Master, but the Second Young Master did not intend to let him return at all, setting an ambush on the road.
Regarding the wedding ceremony today, Yan Changye should have arrived in Ancheng yesterday. He had barely escaped death, which was why he was late returning to the city.
Since he was already late, Yan Changye did not go to the Marshal’s mansion and instead personally interrogated the captured assassin, only for the bride to have an incident that night.
It was the Second Concubine’s people again.
This was a slap in the face to Yan Changye.
Yan Changye came directly from the prison, determined to see who dared to move his people right in front of him.
The interrogation of the assassin in the prison was left to Zhao Yuan.
Zhao Yuan handed the signed document to Yan Changye, but Yan Changye did not take it.
“We can’t move against him for now. Keep it for the time being.”
Second Young Master Yan Changzhuo had deep roots in Ancheng. Not to mention that Yan Changye was still alive, even if he were dead, this transcript wouldn’t be able to do much to him for now.
Yan Changye sat behind the desk. “Have someone get me another copy of the file regarding the Young Mistress.”
“Ah?” Zhao Yuan was stunned.
He had heard that the Young Marshal had brought back that Young Mistress who grew up in the countryside. Zhao Yuan had assumed it was the situation at the Marshal’s mansion that forced the Young Marshal to do so.
He hadn’t expected the Young Marshal to suddenly ask for the Young Mistress’s file.
Previously, Marshal Yan had sent a copy to the garrison, and Yan Changye had glanced at it and thrown it away. To find it now would take some effort.
Yan Changye: “Is there a problem?”
Zhao Yuan: “This subordinate will go handle it right away.”
Zhao Yuan left in a hurry.
Yan Changye pulled a signed marriage certificate from the bottom of the organized bookcase. He opened it and saw the small, elegant signature in the bottom right corner.
Liu Xiyin.
Yan Changye looked at the signature in the bottom right corner.
So, the bride had this name.
This time, he remembered it.