Sent Back into the Womb?

Chen Changan had learned firsthand this time what it meant when a great kindness bred great resentment.

Chen Changan had understood this principle once, but he had never experienced anything like it in the course of his life.

As a result, he had instinctively overlooked the possibility.

The main reason was that Chen Changan had never feared betrayal, nor had he ever needed to worry about it.

"Do you think you can succeed?" Chen Changan asked with a faint smile.

"I'm not sure, but I want to try."

"What if I do succeed?" Fan Yi said with a smile.

"Have the person behind you show themselves."

"You wouldn't dare do this alone," Chen Changan said calmly.

"Hahahaha!"

"Just as expected of Chen Changan, the City Lord of Tianyuan City."

"I knew I couldn't hide anything from you."

"I also knew that with your temperament, even knowing there was poison in the wine, you'd still drink it."

When the person behind the scenes stepped out, Chen Changan wasn't particularly surprised.

Fan Yi couldn't have pulled this off alone. And even if he'd had the intention, he might not have had the nerve.

Fan Yi was nothing more than a pawn.

"Du Ruoxuan. So it was you."

"Were you really that eager to annex Tianyuan City?"

"Do you think you have what it takes?"

Du Ruoxuan was the City Lord of Tianqi City. Over the years, with Chen Changan's rapid rise, Tianqi City had gradually fallen into decline.

If anyone wanted Chen Changan gone, it had to be Du Ruoxuan.

"Isn't it already clear whether I have what it takes?"

"Chen Changan, it doesn't feel good to be betrayed by the people closest to you, the ones you trusted most, does it?"

"The poison I gave you was colorless and odorless. It