On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince's Hidden Illness-Chapter 42 - I Don’t Owe You

Chapter 42: Chapter 42 I Don’t Owe You

That night.

The night was hazy, with sparse silver light.

Leng Yu Yan, having disguised herself, applied a fake mustache before heading to the tavern.

The Eastern Palace Guards were strict; it would definitely not be as convenient as it was at the Leng Residence.

If Ye Yiheng labelled her as dishonest, her life wouldn’t be guaranteed.

She should take care of business before moving to the Eastern Palace.

Because of the incident with the jade pendant, the tavern’s shopkeeper had a particularly deep impression of Leng Yu Yan.

Seeing her today with a fake mustache, he couldn’t help but take a few extra glances.

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“Are you here to meet someone, or to dine, young master?”

Since this girl had dressed as a man, he referred to her as “young master.”

Leng Yu Yan nodded slightly, “The same as before, I want to see your boss.”

“Alright, could the young master please wait in the elegant room? I’ll go and report this at once.”

“Thank you,” Leng Yu Yan said as she lifted her robe and took her seat.

It wasn’t long before Li Yu appeared with a stack of documents.

As soon as they met, he reached out and swiftly removed the fake mustache from her lips.

Seeing his quick action, Leng Yu Yan frowned, “Hey, what are you doing?”

“Affixing it like this is like announcing ‘three hundred taels of silver not here,’ telling people you are a woman, letting everyone gauge your level of cross-dressing.”

“Is it really that fake?”

“Yes!”

Seeing her looking somewhat gloomy, Li Yu pushed the documents in his hand towards her, “Take a look at this. Is it detailed enough?”

Leng Yu Yan put the incident with the mustache out of her mind and carefully examined the documents.

The map revealed every corner of the Ministry of War, and even marked where various documents were placed in the Archives Room.

“Who exactly are you?” Leng Yu Yan closed the documents, “Such thoroughness is not obtained by an ordinary person.”

Li Yu laughed, “Haven’t you obtained them too? By that logic, you’re not an ordinary person either.”

Seeing he didn’t wish to reveal his identity, Leng Yu Yan didn’t press further; after all, she hadn’t disclosed her own identity to him.

“Thank you!” Leng Yu Yan stood and bowed with her hands folded.

Watching her about to leave, Li Yu hurriedly said, “You’re leaving just like that?”

Leng Yu Yan nodded, “Once the task is completed, I will certainly express my gratitude.”

“I…”

Li Yu hadn’t finished speaking when he saw her lightly press on the windowsill with one hand and then flip out the window.

She quickly disappeared into the night.

Leaping across the rooftops, Leng Yu Yan looked up at the sky.

When she had left the Leng Residence, there was still some dim moonlight.

Now, the moon was completely hidden behind clouds, apt for the saying, “It’s a dark and windy night, a perfect time for an investigation.”

Leng Yu Yan managed to enter the Ministry of War with ease, using the marks on the documents to avoid traps.

Finally, she arrived in front of the Archives Room.

Holding a flint, she observed the doors inscribed “Archives,” took a deep breath, and slipped inside.

From entering the Ministry of War to this moment, everything went smoothly.

What shocked her, though, was that the box containing the archives documenting the battle in which her elder brother was said to have died was empty.

She couldn’t just give up, so she turned to search for her brother’s personal archive.

It was empty as well!

Why were they both empty?

Had someone else gotten there first?

Could this mean there was a significant problem with that battle?

Li Yu, since he was able to provide her with such a detailed terrain map and documents, could he know something?

With this thought, Leng Yu Yan covered the flint and quickly left the Ministry of War.

She had to find Li Yu and get to the bottom of this!

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At this moment, Li Yu was drinking.

Beside the wine cup lay a fake beard.

His slender fingers set down the cup, then touched the fake beard softly, revealing a smile.

Just then, the Shopkeeper knocked and entered the private room, “Sir, the Crown Prince has arrived.”

Li Yu then lifted his eyes and saw Ye Yiheng, his face behind an eye veil, appear before him, flanked by that rascal Jian Lecheng.

He waved his hand, signaling the Shopkeeper to withdraw.

The Shopkeeper bowed respectfully, retreated quietly, and gently closed the door behind him.

Li Yu grabbed two empty cups and placed them across from him, lifting his hand, “If you don’t mind, join me for a few drinks.”

Jian Lecheng, seeing that even formalities were neglected, was about to speak out but was stopped by a gesture from Ye Yiheng and helped him to their seats.

Li Yu’s lips curved, pouring wine for the two across from him, “Although there is no moonlight at the moment, my mood is good, so I’ll indulge you both with a few drinks.”

Jian Lecheng grew angry, “Ji Qingyu, the Crown Prince is patient and doesn’t hold grudges against you. I do not have such patience! Your restaurants and tea houses spread those slanderous words, and His Highness has not blamed you. Don’t be too presumptuous!”

“Oh, so I’m called Ji Qingyu now? What counts as slander? I’m not the one marrying an ugly woman!” He toyed with the jade wine cup in his hand, chuckling lightly, “I somehow feel the Crown Prince would be more fitting as the Ji Family’s son, after all, my parents protect him even more than me.”

Jian Lecheng slammed the table, causing the bowls, chopsticks, and wine cups on it to tremble, “The incident from that year…”

“The incident from that year, what do you, an outsider, know about it?” Ji Qingyu’s smile vanished immediately, replaced by a cold harshness.

Ye Yiheng took the wine cup, drank the wine inside, and gently placed it back on the table, “I owe you nothing.”

Ji Qingyu sneered and raised an eyebrow, “Heh, owe nothing?”

With that, he poured him another drink.

“If you still consider yourself her son after not having returned home for years, your Aunt misses you greatly. You should go see her.” Ye Yiheng stood up, slightly tilting his head towards Jian Lecheng, “Let’s return to the Eastern Palace.”

Jian Lecheng nodded and stepped forward to support Ye Yiheng as they both left the private room.

Back in the Eastern Palace Carriage, Jian Lecheng said indignantly, “This Ji Qingyu is so ungrateful! If he knew that His Highness could see today, who knows how crazy he would turn!”

Ye Yiheng took off the white eye veil in front of him, as not many knew of his actual condition of sight, not even the Imperial Physician.

Thus, on days he could see, he would still wear the eye veil.

Jian Lecheng was infuriated, pounding the carriage with his hand, “Those slanderous words I heard earlier at the teahouse across the street, thinking about it now, damn it, makes me want to beat him up!”

“If I am not angry, why are you?” Ye Yiheng said indifferently, “The rumors and gossip within Tiansheng Territory cannot all be attributed to him alone.”

Shortly after Ye Yiheng and Jian Lecheng left the tavern, Leng Yu Yan returned to the private room at the tavern.

She saw Li Yu sitting alone and drinking, with two wine cups opposite him filled with wine, puzzled, “Do you have a weird habit of drinking alone?”

Hearing the crisp and pleasant voice, Ji Qingyu slowly turned his head.

He had thought he was hallucinating just before.

Now, seeing her appear again, his heart surged with elation.

“The moonlight is really beautiful tonight!”

Hearing this, Leng Yu Yan frowned, “Are you drunk? What moonlight tonight?”

“Just a casual remark, a casual remark.” Ji Qingyu gestured with his hand, “Please, take a seat.”

Leng Yu Yan placed the documents in front of him and sat down, “The archives I was looking for are all empty!”

As Ji Qingyu heard this, he was also in disbelief, “How can this be?”

“Let me ask you, when you obtained these documents, did you mention to anyone that I was investigating something?” Leng Yu Yan asked directly.

Ji Qingyu shook his head, “Never. You have to believe me!”

Leng Yu Yan nodded.

Regardless of whether the matters she was investigating had been revealed and the archives had been moved or someone else got there first, it all pointed to a significant problem with that battle years ago!