Chapter 32 : The Nightmare

Pei Si Yan's eyes widened in shock, unable to believe what she was seeing.

But it was just drinking a bowl of medicine for memory loss and vomiting blood, how did she suddenly run from Shide Xuan's ** to a world surrounded by white?

Could it be that she was travelling across again?

Pei Si Yan panicked, her own dream and Tanya Yan's last wish had not yet been completed, and it was just at the time when she started planning in earnest, she didn't want to give up so suddenly and turn back into an unemployed otaku girl again.

"No, absolutely not ..." Pei Si Yan muttered, running forward without stopping.

Although the colour white has always given people the feeling of purity and flawlessness, but at this moment for Pei Si Yan, the feeling of fear was even greater than when she was in the darkness when she crossed over!

Gradually, the pure white world shows some constantly swaying fuzzy shadow, the subtle sound of talking like a fly in the human ear "buzz" non-stop, no matter how to drive away, that annoying sound like a shadow.

Pei Si Yan simply stopped and carefully observed everything around her. Unconsciously, she found that the things around her could be recognised clearly, countless people surrounded her, thousands and thousands of people in black, dressed in ancient clothes, everyone's face with a look of indignation, as if they were facing an evil person who had an undeniable grudge.

She sought the people's gaze and turned her head to look, seeing the empty field importantly kneeling a woman in white, her hands tied behind her back by thumb-thick ropes, unable to move. The executioner wearing a red coarse cloth shirt carrying a large sharp knife stared condescendingly with a pair of huge eyes, his nose spewing thick air.

After Pei Si Yan saw the woman's face clearly, she couldn't help but scream out in disbelief, her heart aching as if it was twisted by a knife. But the people around her didn't seem to notice her panic, still chanting slogans in excitement-

"Kill, kill, kill!"

A wave of dizziness like a raging flood that broke the dike came violently, Pei Si Yan staggered back a few steps, her eyes staring dead on the woman who was about to be executed by decapitation.

"Your Majesty, the hour is almost up." An old voice that sounded familiar entered Pei Si Yan's ears, she looked up brightly to see the Second Prince in his metaphysical dragon robes, to see Grandmaster Feng, Wu Li, to see her uncle and Lady Yue Luo, and to see a familiar face with a malicious, smug, and pleasurable expression on it.

The Second Prince smiled and said, "Beat the drum."

The sharp drumbeat sounded, signalling the imminent end of that white-clothed woman's life.

Pei Si Yan looked around at a loss for words, where was Li Qing Yan? Where is Lanxuan? Or maybe where is Mo Xuan ...

Anyway who could come to save her from escaping and make her desperate to survive!

However, all she could see was angry to the point of distortion of the face, a cry that made her headache, but not the slightest shadow of those three people.

Pei Si Yan felt a bone-chilling sadness, in the vastness of heaven and earth, she was alone, helpless and unaided, watching the tragedy unfold in front of her eyes, as if there was a big invisible hand throwing her into the abyss of despair.

"Never die like this!" Pei Si Yan roared, pulling out her legs and wanting to run over to stop the executioner, but her feet felt like they were rooted, unable to move more than half a millimetre.

The hour of noon arrived, the second prince picked up the token and threw it on the ground in front of the case in the eyes of a group of people who were eagerly looking forward to it, coldly spitting out two words:

"Execution!"

"No!" Pei Si Yan's heart and guts cracked, and she watched as the executioner slashed at the man's head.

Blood splattered all over the sky, the blue sky changed to blood red in an instant, gloomy and scary, as if a picture of doom.

Pei Siyan found that everything in front of her eyes became more and more blurred, she really hope that everything she saw is nothing but a nightmare, but why would there be a strong sense of reality, as if this is their own future ...

...

The atmosphere in the main hall was unusually heavy, the heads of the various houses gathered here in unison, each with their own thoughts, but with only one purpose - after drinking the tonic, the young lady vomited blood and fell into a coma, and so far for ten whole days, her life and death were uncertain. At the same time as saving her life, she also had to worry about the internal and external problems of the Tantai family, as well as punishing the culprits!

Li Qingyan stood quietly at the door, his sword had been removed and was being escorted by two guards. His handsome and upright face was still devoid of any expression, so quiet that one could almost ignore his presence.

After a long period of silence, uncle ancestor heavily slapped the table, with such force that even the lid of the teacup jumped up with it, making a crisp ringing sound.

"What, you still refuse to tell us who instructed you to do this?" He asked sternly.

The crowd looked at Li Qingdian in unison, and the latter looked fearlessly straight at the highest ranking elder of the Tantai family, and said calmly and freely, "Qingdian was not instructed by anyone, but the young lady was not feeling well and asked the doctor to come for treatment."

"Oh?" Uncle Zu pursued, "Where is the young lady unwell? And what did you give Miss to drink?"

Li Qingyan did not hesitate for a second: "Miss has a weak constitution and contracted wind-cold."

The people present exchanged glances with each other, occasionally one or two people exchanged words and said something, after ten days no matter how they questioned Li Qingyan, the result was the same answer, the oldest doctor, as usual, couldn't ask a single question.

The uncle ancestor has always had a big temper, and now he can endure for ten days without seeing any means, the other house's head of the house secretly tsked, but look at the clearly visible veins on the uncle ancestor's forehead, I think it must be not far from the outbreak.

Sure enough, uncle ancestor hate said: "Now you are still tough? Do you want to use the family law before you are willing to tell the truth?"

"What Light Dye said, every word is true, not a single bit of it is false."

"How can you believe a family's words?" Uncle Ancestor picked up a book from the table and flipped through it with a clattering sound, and the clansmen gulped in secret as they looked at the rules of the clan.

Since the founding of the Blue Country, the Tantai family had been in a high position for several hundred years, and their behavioural constraints were already stricter than those of the general gentry and nobility, plus after several generations of the young lady's constant modifications, the family laws were more severe than normal, especially for those who were servants. Over the years, countless subordinates had been executed for violating the family rules, and there were several Tantai clansmen who had been executed, so it was evident that the family laws were strict.

That's why every time he took out the booklet of clan rules, it was always a shock to the heart.

Uncle stopped at a certain page and his eyes lit up, "According to the clan rules, those who wish to plot against the young lady must be executed!"

"Uncle, the matter hasn't been investigated clearly yet, it's not too good to be so arbitrary, right?" Tantai Zhang said hesitantly, his gaze sweeping towards the other clansmen, expecting someone to come out and speak for him.

The clansmen acted as if they didn't see it, pretending to avoid it.

"Where has it not been investigated clearly? Could it be that the medicine wasn't something that Li Qingyan made the young lady drink?" Uncle Zu sneered, with an air of determination, "We should make a fair deal of the matter before the young lady wakes up, letting the young lady know that we're still united in helping her, and that the young lady doesn't have to bother with this matter."

"Father is right," Lady Yue Luo agreed, "Think about how bad it will be for your health if Miss wakes up and has to worry about this matter? It would be better for us to settle it for Miss first. Moreover, with Li Qingdian doing such a thing, miss wouldn't want to see him again."

Tantai Zhang unwillingly argued, "But uncle, Light Dye, he only gave miss the wrong medicine by mistake, it wasn't a deliberate plot!"

"Miss is a pillar of the Lan Kingdom and the Tantai family, taking the wrong medicine is also a capital offence!" Uncle Zu said, glaring viciously at Tantai Zhang.

Tantai Zhang did not give in and continued to retort, "Uncle Father, you have handled this too hastily! Li Qingyan is someone beside Miss, it's better to wait until Miss is sober!"

"I've said not to disturb miss, big brother." Lady Yue Luo let out a cold laugh, "All the house heads are present today, how about we vote on whether or not we should convict Li Light Dye, how about that? In this way, do you still think it's rash?"

Tantai Zhang clenched his fists, helpless at Lady Yue Luo's proposal.

Lady Yue Luo nodded her head in satisfaction and said in a loud voice, "Good, those in favour of convicting Li Light Dye to death please raise your hands."

The heads of each house looked at me, I looked at you, and after hesitating for a long time, when they saw their uncles and grandfathers raise their hands, they also expressed their approval one after another.

Lady Yue Luo counted and said with a smile, "Eleven house people, seven houses agree."

Tantai Zhang's face was ugly to the core, and he huffed and skimmed his head to not look at his relatives, as if he was ashamed of sharing the same surname as them.

Uncle Zu stood up and slowly walked to his position in the centre of the main hall, smugly announcing, "Since this is the case, then I announce that according to the Tantai family's clan rules ..."

"Whoever dares to take Li Qingyan's life, I will kill them now!"

A broken cry exploded like thunder in the main hall, and people were startled, searching for the sound and looking towards the door to see the woman whose face looked as pale as the fox fur on her body, leaning weakly against Lady Yuexi's body.

Tantai Zhang rejoiced, "Clan, miss!"

Uncle Zu secretly screamed "not good", his face instantly sank.

Pei Si Yan walked into the main hall with hobbling steps, first giving a slight nod to Li Qing Dye, then looking at each and every clan member's face full of astonishment, and finally locking his gaze on Uncle Ancestor.

"Miss, you've finally woken up ah, why don't you take more rest and relax?" Lady Yue Luo said loudly, wanting to take the young lady from Lady Yuexi, but was blocked by the latter, awkwardly skimming her lips, "This matter can be handled by us."

"Leave it to you guys to bend the law?" Pei Si Yan used all her strength to rebuke, both legs had no strength at all, relying on Mrs Yuexi's assistance to barely stand.

"How can ..."

Lady Yue Luo just opened her mouth to defend herself, Pei Si Yan coughed and interrupted, "Li light dye has been appointed by the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Wuban House of the Chief Historian as early as two months ago, from the fourth rank official position, eating is the salary of the imperial court, if there is any wrongdoing is also the Ministry of the Ministry of Criminal Justice or the Royal Historical Bureau to investigate the conviction, when is it your turn to uncle uncle adult?"

Uncle Joe and Lady Yue Luo were dumbfounded, the main hall was silent.

Pei Siyan was quite satisfied, "Your private investigations, seeing as they are bent on doing me a favour I won't pursue it further, disperse!"

The house heads hurriedly walked towards the door, not wanting to stay here for a few more moments.

Lady Yue Luo was unwilling: "Miss, do you intend to harbour Li Qingyan and not hand him over to the Ministry of Justice?"

The heads of the houses who had just walked to the door stopped again, Pei Si Yan glanced at them and said, "Have you carefully asked the doctor about my illness? Because of the stagnation in my heart, my breath is not smooth, plus infected with wind-cold, the prescription given by the doctor made me spit out bruised blood, so what is the crime of leaving light dye?"

Lady Yue Luo's face was not much better than Pei Si Yan's, as she held her uncle's ancestor sullenly back to their courtyard.

Only after the crowd had all left did Pei Si Yan let go of her aunt's hand and fell helplessly into a chair, panting heavily, her face even paler, nearly transparent under the sunlight.

Mrs Yuexi asked with concern, "Xiao Yan, are you alright?"

Pei Si Yan lifted her back and swung it twice then hung it down and said softly, "I'm fine, Auntie go back, I still have things to say to Light Dye, he'll send me back to Shide Xuan later. These days are really troublesome auntie to take care of, Xiaoyan can't thank you enough."

"Silly child," Mrs Yuexi lovingly stroked her niece's hair and smiled, "We're family, we should. Then I'll go back first, you also go to rest early don't work too hard."

Pei Si Yan nodded, "Well, okay."

When Lady Yuexi also left, only Pei Si Yan and Li Qingyan were left in the main hall.

Li Qingye closed the door to the room before kneeling on one knee, "It was my subordinate's negligence that caused miss ..."

Looking at Li Qingye who finally revealed a guilty look, Pei Si Yan smiled bitterly, he also had good intentions and was loyal to the Lord, if he wanted to blame, he could only blame himself for not being the real Tanya Yan and not having lost his memories, the so-called unknowing person is not guilty.

"You should stop blaming yourself," Pei Si Yan said, leaning on the back of the chair, "There are more important things that you need to do." Thinking about that horrible dream, Pei Si Yan shuddered violently for a moment, as it was too intensely real for her to slow down from it.

She was really afraid that that was her future.

"How is the situation on Shen Zhongning's side?"

"According to your instructions, he has contacted most of the minor officials in the capital from the seventh rank to the fifth rank outside the stream, all of them expressing their willingness to adhere to you."

Pei Si Yan's face finally revealed a rare smile, "The minor officials that they can't see into their eyes, let me take care of them more. A dike of a thousand miles collapses in an ant's hole, when the time comes, we have to let them know that a small amount of power is also enough to shake the foundation."

"In addition, Lord Wang wrote that the men and horses are ready, ready to sneak in and set up camp near the imperial capital."

"Good, when the people arrive, I'm going to make a trip there myself," Pei Si Yan suddenly felt her head getting dizzy and her eyes were about to open, she steeled herself and continued, "When His Highness, King Hui, comes back, I want to meet with him alone."

Li Qingye frowned slightly, "Has Miss made up her mind to ally with His Highness King Hui?"

Pei Si Yan nodded, "Yes, it is necessary to ally with him, I want to ... sweep away all the enemies as soon as possible, I would rather have blood on my hands, but definitely not let the dream come true."

"Yes, subordinate understands." Li Qingye lowered his head to lead the order, waited for a moment but didn't hear a single movement from the young lady, he raised his head to see Pei Si Yan lying on the coffee table, already unconscious.

"Miss?" Li Qingye shouted, he hurriedly stood up and helped Pei Si Yan up, "Miss, wake up!"

Looking at her softly leaning on his arms, and that bloodless face, the look in Li Qingye's eyes strangely gradually softened, he hesitantly raised his other hand, but turned to hold Pei Si Yan's arm halfway up.

The subtle look in his eyes also disappeared in the blink of an eye.