strictlysupreme Chapter 427 Master
Chapter 427 Master
Liu Xueying clenched her fists tightly, but her smile remained unchanged. She simply nodded and said, "Okay, that's good."
"But now that you've returned to your residence, you must not let your guard down regarding the Crown Prince."
"Will not."
Faint voices could be heard outside. Liu Xueying nodded: "Okay, I'm relieved to know everything went smoothly. You can go now..."
Liu Xueying leaned against the bedpost, seemingly exhausted.
Ye Zirui glanced at Liu Xueying before saying, "Mother, you can't just give up like this. Because of Ye Qing'an's deliberate provocation, Father rarely came to see you, which led to his gradual recovery of his senses. Now that Ye Qing'an has left the manor, I will make sure she never has the chance to come back. Father isn't really in any danger. When Father returns, he'll still need Mother's help..."
Ye Zirui slightly curled his fingers, his eyes filled with ambition: "Although we have now taken control of the Crown Prince, we cannot afford to lose the Ye family. The Ye family is the foundation upon which we stand. Because the Ye family still exists, because Father is still alive, we have another chance to get close to the Crown Prince, close to... the Emperor, close to... that position."
Ye Zirui said in a low voice, "Mother, Master told me to tell you that if he successfully ascends to that position, he will be the emperor and you will be the empress. This world will then belong to us."
Liu Xueying's throat tightened slightly, and after a long while, she nodded: "I understand. Please tell the master that he can rest assured. I am not admitting defeat, but just putting on an act. Only by performing this act well can I deceive everyone, lower the guard of some people, and make them show their true colors without any scruples. Only then can I take this opportunity to sweep away all obstacles one by one."
"That's good." Ye Zirui's lips curled slightly. "Then I'll take my leave."
Ye Zirui bowed and went out the door. As soon as he stepped into the courtyard, he saw someone waiting for him there.
Ye Zirui narrowed his eyes, pretending not to see her, and tried to walk around her towards the door.
"Big brother!" Ye Weilan stomped her foot, somewhat annoyed, and simply spread her arms to block Ye Zirui.
"You still know how to call me big brother?" Ye Zirui chuckled, pursing his lips as he looked at Ye Weilan: "I thought you had long forgotten that I am your big brother, and forgotten that the person in the room is your mother."
"You're even more formidable than I imagined. I originally thought you were just a little spoiled and had a bad temper, but I never expected you would actually poison your own mother."
When Ye Zirui brought this up, Ye Weilan's face turned red. She bit her lip and stamped her foot, saying, "How could you say that to me, brother? I had no choice. I did it for myself, and also for your own good."
"For my sake?" Ye Zirui laughed in exasperation: "Then tell me, how exactly are you doing this for my own good?"
“Brother, you weren’t in the manor before, so you have no idea what Mother was going through. She really went mad. She didn’t recognize me. Even when I was taking care of her, she would throw all sorts of things at me and even bite me…”
Ye Weilan rolled up her sleeves: "Big brother, look, these are the teeth marks she left on me. She really wanted to bite me to death back then. These teeth marks haven't faded even after several days."
"And you know how crazy she was back then. She would eat dirt from the ground and strip naked without caring whether anyone was around or whether there were any men present."
“She is our mother…” Ye Weilan said, her eyes welling up with tears. “It’s one thing for her to go crazy in the manor, but what if she suddenly went crazy in front of outsiders?”
"Then, won't you and I be ridiculed by the world for having such a crazy mother?"
Ye Weilan shook her head: "I can't tolerate it, I absolutely cannot tolerate it."
“Brother, you don’t mingle with those women in the inner quarters, so you have no idea how they talk about and slander others. But now that I’ve married into the Fifth Prince’s household, I’ll definitely still be in contact with them. I can almost imagine them pointing fingers at me and calling me the daughter of a madman.”
Ye Zirui's expression remained perfectly calm: "So you're going to kill her?"
"Of course we should kill her!" Ye Weilan roared. "The news of her going mad hasn't spread yet, and no one knows. If we kill her now, we can just say she died of a sudden illness, and no one will suspect anything. People will only sympathize with me, that I lost my mother at such a young age, and they won't point fingers at me."
"I'm doing this for your own good, brother." Ye Weilan's eyes gradually turned mad: "Although I don't know why, even though you're already eighteen, our parents still keep forbidding you from getting married. But it's precisely because you're not married that you can't have a crazy mother."
"If the news that Mother is insane gets out, although it won't affect my elder brother's career, tell me, who would dare to marry their daughter to a husband with a crazy mother-in-law?"
Ye Zirui scoffed: "Solution."
Ye Weilan looked like she was about to cry: "I knew it, my brother wouldn't understand me."
Ye Zirui sneered: "I really don't understand. All I know is that you have poisoned your own mother. If the news gets out, your marriage to the Fifth Prince will fall through, and your reputation will be completely ruined."
"I also know that even if you successfully marry the Fifth Prince, the Ye family will no longer be your support because of this incident. If you suffer any grievances or hardships at the Fifth Prince's residence, no one from the Ye family will stand up for you."
"I'm sure you understand what kind of life a woman without the support of her own family lives in her husband's family."
Seeing that Ye Zirui was about to leave after speaking, Ye Weilan quickly grabbed Ye Zirui's arm: "But I still have you, my brother."
"This Ye family mansion will belong to you sooner or later, brother. Once you become the head of the Ye family, you will definitely support me, right?"
Ye Zirui chuckled: "Me?"
"I won't."
Ye Zirui glanced at Ye Weilan, his eyes filled with indifference: "All of this was created by your own hand. When you did that thing, you should have understood what kind of consequences you would suffer."
"You chose this path yourself, so you can't blame anyone else."
After Ye Zirui finished speaking, he shook off Ye Weilan's hand and walked away.
Ye Weilan gritted her teeth: "Fine, you all think I'm a burden, you all think I did something wrong? You just wait!"
"Wait."
Ye Weilan turned her head and saw that the window was open, and a pair of dark eyes were staring at her...