novelraw Chapter 283 Nowhere to hide
Chapter 283 Nowhere to hide
Yan Li smiled slightly: "This princess doesn't like to hear flattery. If you want to talk about things, talk about them seriously. If you don't want to talk about things, you can leave here."
"... Sorry." Kang Yanyan bowed his head and apologized, "I'm so abrupt."
Ling Ning stood aside, always silent.
Yan Li said: "Go ahead."
"The Kang family has committed many evil deeds in Yanling, and it's not a pity to die." Kang Yanyan put his hands on his knees, with a perfect smile on the corners of his lips, looking gentle and harmless, "I can help the princess."
Ling Ning was surprised and subconsciously looked at Yan Li.
Yan Li looked calm and composed: "How can I believe that you are really helping me, and you are taking advantage of me?"
"The princess is a noble person. If you have the chance in the future, it will be as easy to kill me as to kill an ant. How dare I use the princess?" Kang Yanyan smiled faintly, "I just want to use the princess's power to achieve my own goals. I can guarantee that I will not hold the princess back."
Yan Li raised his eyebrows slightly.
"The princess should think things through." Kang Yan said seriously, "The Kang family is the emperor's backing. If the Kang family is touched, it is equivalent to touching the emperor's power. Once something happens to the Kang family, the emperor's plan to compete for the throne will be in vain. He should be angry and hate the princess."
Under normal circumstances, the emperor will definitely treat the princess as his own sister and protect her like a pearl-but the premise is that the princess will not affect their interests.
After all, they need to please the queen in their competition for the throne. Loving their sister is the most direct way to please the queen, and it will not make people feel that they are flattering.
But once the princess's existence hinders them, can they still love and protect her as always?
"I don't need to consider any consequences." Yan Li said calmly, "Just do what you should do."
Kang Yanyan nodded slowly and asked curiously: "When the princess arrived in Yanling, she deliberately targeted the Kang family, wanting to make a name for herself in the royal family. Is it a coincidence?"
"Is there anything in the Kang family that is worth me deliberately targeting?" Yan Li relaxed her body and leaned against the beautiful backrest, her voice lazy and indifferent, "Today it's the Kang family, tomorrow it's the Li family, and the day after tomorrow it may be the Wang family. As long as they do things that violate the laws of the court and hurt the local people, then depending on the severity of the situation, they should pay the due price."
Kang Yanyan smiled: "But this is not something a princess should worry about."
Yan Li raised his eyebrows: "What if I worry about it?"
Kang Yanyan was speechless: "..."
Ah, what if I worry about it?
Will the big families unite to deal with her?
The current queen has so many regents, but no family dares to oppose her, let alone unite to deal with her.
There may have been some opposition in the past, but the ending was not good.
"I made a slip of the tongue." Kang Yanyan apologized again, with a dignified demeanor, "Since the princess has done it, she will naturally not worry about any consequences. Don't be petty."
Yan Li didn't care about his attitude, and said calmly: "What kind of help can you provide to this princess?"
"The Kang family has committed many evil deeds in Yanling. I won't go into details about how many people have been forced to death in business. Just say that the wives and concubines in Kang Xu's backyard were almost all obtained by him using tough means." Kang Yanyan's smile had not yet disappeared, and hatred had already appeared in his eyes. "As long as all kinds of beauties caught his eye, he would get them at any means. Of course, with his current status, he doesn't need too many conspiracies and calculations. As long as he threatens and tempts them a little, he can make those women unable to escape."
Yan Li's eyebrows were slightly locked, and his expression was calm and unpredictable.
"I can help the princess get the confessions of those women, so that they will willingly confess Kang Xu's brutal behavior, and I can also provide the burial place of those beauties who died at Kang Xu's hands."
Yan Li nodded slowly: "Anything else?"
"Other evidence of crimes needs to be investigated by the court." Kang Yan said gently, "I can only provide the greatest help."
Yan Li finally asked: "Why do you do this?"
Kang Yan was silent for a moment: "The princess may not believe it."
"You tell me, I will judge whether you believe it or not."
"My legs were poisoned by Kang Xu, and he used the girl I once liked the most." When Kang Yan said this, sadness appeared in his eyes, "It's a pity that she died herself, died at the hands of Kang Xu."
This is a double betrayal of family affection and love.
His beloved was taken away by his own brother, who also poisoned him... If that woman was still alive, he would have a place to place his hatred, and he might not be so extreme.
But she died.
He had no place to place his hatred, and he could only make the culprit who caused all this pay a thousand times the price, otherwise he would have trouble sleeping every night.
"Your legs..." Yan Li's expression suddenly became subtle, "You must have been poisoned when you were 18."
Kang Yanyan's expression changed slightly, and then he smiled bitterly: "So the princess knows so much about the Kang family?"
"I know a little bit."
Kang Yanyan hummed: "So Your Highness thinks that you can't have a crush on someone when you are 18?"
"Not really." Yan Li said calmly, "Some people fall in love earlier."
"She and I are childhood sweethearts." Kang Yanyan looked up into the depths of the garden, with a hint of sadness in his eyes, "After being poisoned when I was young, I couldn't accept the fact that my legs were crippled, and my temper became increasingly violent, and I even went on hunger strike many times. She has always been by my side to comfort me, take care of me carefully, come to talk to me every day, and never dislike me for being crippled."
"After hearing the beginning of this story, I can probably guess the ending." Yan Li's mouth curled up slightly, "You two became more and more emotional as you spent more and more time together, and you became more and more inseparable from her. After spending a few days together, you found that the one who poisoned you was her."
Kang Yanyan's expression froze for a moment, and he turned his head and took a deep look at Yan Li. In a trance, he seemed to have a feeling of being stripped naked, with nothing to hide.
Did she really just guess casually, or had she already investigated him clearly?
But she didn't know much about this secret.
She arrived in Yanling last night, how could she dig out his dusty secrets so quickly?
"The evidence you provided is very useful to me." Yan Li said, "If it really works, I can find a way to cure your leg according to the principle of cooperation and mutual benefit."
Kang Yan was silent for a moment, and shook his head slowly: "The imperial physician has come to see you before."
"With your brother here, the imperial physician will not treat you even if he can." How could Yan Li not understand this? He said in a roundabout way, "But I won't find the imperial physician in the palace, don't worry."
Kang Yan nodded indifferently, not holding much hope at all.
"If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Kang Yan bowed and saluted, "After I go back, I will tell my father that the princess promised to make peace with the Kang family, but the remaining anger has subsided, and I can't lose face for the time being."