LOVE OR DESTINY

101

But shortly thereafter, Jing Xin told Tan Er that Xiao Tan had agreed to save Pan Er and talk to Lian Cheng later.

Then when Xiao Tan returned, Jing Xin informed Tan Er of the message. "My son said that you're a very good man. He said you must have a way, right?"

"You make it sound so easy. How can there be so many good ideas?"

The Queen Mother goes to the dungeon where Pan Er is locked up. Pan Er immediately fell to her knees and begged for the Queen Mother's forgiveness. But of course the Queen Mother was so angry with him.

"How dare you touch my people. I'll let you die tragically!"

Pan Er assures that the Queen Mother wrongly accused him, the poisonous wine is actually for Tan Er. He really did not expect that Qing Yun would drink it. It's all Tan Er's fault.

She begged the Queen Mother to investigate the matter well. Even if he had great guts, he would not dare to harm Qing Yun.

"You wouldn't dare? Aren't you brave enough?"

Did Pan Er think he didn't know it was Pan Er who orchestrated Lian Cheng's attempted murder in the theater at the time? Pan Er claims he is innocent. He had nothing to do with the incident.

The Queen Mother was cynical, she knew very well that Pan Er and her mother incited Qing Yun to kill Tan Er so that they would have a chance to kill Lian Cheng as well and make Qing Yun a scapegoat.

Eunuch Li told Pan Er that the Queen Mother had expected everything and sent him to protect Lian Cheng. Otherwise, Lian Cheng would have long since died at the hands of his assassin Pan Er.

"But you still dare to free yourself from this matter before me? The crime of killing Lian Cheng, even if I let you die 10,000 times, will not be enough to dispel my anger!"

But their meeting was cut short quickly when a bodyguard came to tell Lian Cheng to come and ask to meet the Queen Mother.

Lian Cheng paced back and forth anxiously awaiting the arrival of the Queen Mother. The one he was waiting for finally came shortly afterwards and asked what business Lian Cheng had hurried to come here.

"I'm coming for Qu Pan Er."

"Are you going to beg for forgiveness for her?"

"true."

The Queen Mother refused. Pan Er had already made Qing Yun die. If he doesn't kill Pan Er, then his anger won't go away. The nobleman Anle also needs answers to his daughter's death.

"Grandmother, there's one thing that makes me curious. Is Grandma willing to give me the answer?"

"What?"

"My life and Qu Pan Er's life, which one is more important?"

"Of course, your life."

"That's great. If we take advantage of Qu Pan Er's life in exchange for a greater opportunity for me so that I can ascend the throne. Should we exchange it or not?"

The Queen Mother doesn't understand what that means? Lian Cheng also tells about Mr. Qu who tried to ask Yi Huai for help, but Yi Huai refused to save himself.

He claims that Mr. Qu ended up coming to him because he had no other way. If he helped Mr. Qu, then he could use the power of the Qu family to his own advantage.