Drugged

Chen Shi's account and explanation left Yan Wanning standing where she was, speechless for a long time. She took a deep breath and then looked Chen Shi straight in the eye. "Did you really forget, second aunt, or did you simply not want me to know?"

Chen Shi was at a loss for words. She truly hadn't wanted Yan Wanning to know, and had even planned to give the wedding dress, worth a thousand pieces of gold, to her daughter to wear at her wedding. Though it had been sewn more than a decade ago, the materials were excellent, and thanks to her careful preservation, it was still as exquisite and luxurious as the day it was made.

Yan Wanning's mother had never told her about it, so it had not been recorded in the register either. Even if Chen Shi gave it to her daughter, Yan Wanning would never know.

But... for the sake of that matter, she could only bring it out as bait.

"Wanning, don't be angry. Second aunt really did forget. I only remembered it when I went into the storeroom a few days ago," Chen Shi said regretfully.

Yan Wanning listened, but did not believe her.

After Si Yunqi left the dining hall, he felt a burning heat throughout his body. At first it was not strong, but by the time he reached his Princess Consort's room in the Clear Autumn Pavilion, the heat had grown increasingly intense.

He instantly understood that he had been drugged.

Si Yunqi used his internal energy to suppress the drug's effects. Veins bulged on his forehead, and an unnatural flush spread across his face. "Yun Yin!"

"Your subordinate is here." Yun Yin emerged from the shadows, frowning when he saw Si Yunqi's condition. "Prince!"

"Quickly, bring in a tub of water," Si Yunqi said, struggling to endure it.

Having received his order, Yun Yin did not dare hesitate and immediately turned to leave.

Si Yunqi was instantly left alone in the vast room. He closed his eyes and circulated his internal energy to suppress the drug, but just then the door suddenly opened, and a coquettish voice rang out.

"Prince~"

Yan Wanwen entered in loose clothing, swaying her slender waist. Si Yunqi frowned and shouted angrily, "Who let you in? Get out!"

Yan Wanwen was frightened by the imposing aura he gave off, but seeing that he really did appear to have been drugged, she gritted her teeth and went over to him anyway. Her slender, fair hands undid her outer robe, revealing her body clad in nothing but a dudou.

"Prince, Wen'er knows you're suffering. Wen'er is willing to offer her body to you."

She tentatively reached out both hands to touch Si Yunqi, saying in a soft, seductive voice, "Whatever elder sister can do, Wen'er can do too, so please let Wen'er serve you."

Her hands had only reached out half an inch when Yun Yin returned with the water. Seeing someone threatening his master, he flew over without a second thought and kicked Yan Wanwen hard in the chest. "How dare you! You dare threaten the Prince!"

"Pfft!"

Yan Wanwen spat out a mouthful of blood. Her limp body flew through the air like a kite with its string cut and slammed into the door. Yun Yin's shoe print was left on her snow-white chest.

Seeing her condition clearly, Yun Yin turned his eyes away in disgust and picked up a carpet from the floor to cover her.

The second young lady of the duke's residence was actually so shameless as to seduce her own brother-in-law.

"Throw her out. Don't let her dirty the Princess Consort's chambers."

Only after carrying the water into the bathing room did Yun Yin pick Yan Wanwen up and throw her into the courtyard. By then, she had fallen unconscious.

"Wen'er!"

A woman's piercing cry rang out. Yun Yin turned and saw the Princess Consort and Duke Yan's wife not far away.

This is bad, Yun Yin thought. I can't let the Princess Consort misunderstand the Prince.

"Your subordinate greets the Princess Consort."

Yan Wanning came over in small steps and looked in confusion at Yan Wanwen, who lay unconscious on the ground. Then she noticed that Yan Wanwen's body was covered only by what appeared to be a carpet, with the thin straps of a dudou visible on her snowy shoulders. Yan Wanwen's face had clearly been made up.

She knitted her brows tightly. She seemed to have already guessed what had happened, and she was not in a good mood.

"What happened to her?"

Before Yun Yin could answer, Chen Shi, who was clutching her daughter and wailing, demanded shrilly, "What did you do to my Wen'er? My poor daughter!"

Seeing that she had the gall to play the victim, Yun Yin sneered. "What did we do? Your shameless daughter seduced her own brother-in-law. Her scheme failed, so she was thrown out, that's all."

Her suspicions confirmed, Yan Wanning sneered. "No wonder you were willing to return Mother's belongings, second aunt. You were using them as a cover for your daughter."

"Duke Yan's wife, you secretly drugged the Prince. Your crime is unforgivable." Yun Yin respectfully asked Yan Wanning, "Princess Consort, how should they be punished?"

The thought of what they had done filled Yan Wanning with anger. "Give them fifty strokes of the board each."

"Princess Consort, wait!" Duke Yan called as he hurried over.

"Yan Wanning, my mother is your second aunt. You can't treat your elder this way," Yan Yuchi said resentfully.

Yan Wanning had no desire to hear another word from them. The thought that her husband had been drugged made her despise the whole family even more. "Anyone who pleads for them again will get another fifty strokes."

"Yun Yin, where is the Prince?"