GBP Chapter 462 Joy of Life 18
Chapter 462 Joy of Life 18
Unfortunately, things don't always go as planned, and Fan Jian's meticulous plan ultimately failed to achieve its intended outcome.
Shaking off the jumbled thoughts in his mind, Fan Jian smiled and looked at the boy in front of him with a playful expression: "Judging from your tone, it seems you've been holding back a lot of resentment. How about we have a father-son hug, and then weep together to express the guilt we've felt all these years?"
Upon hearing this, Fan Xian quickly waved his hand to stop him, saying, "Please don't."
As soon as the two spoke, the serious atmosphere in the study vanished instantly, replaced by an indescribable sense of humor.
In the following time, Fan Jian inquired about Fan Xian's ambitions. After learning that Fan Xian only wanted to live a life of wealth and honor, he asked him how he planned to start his career.
Fan Xian unhesitatingly revealed his three time-traveling treasures: soap, glass, and white sugar.
Then Fan Jian poured cold water on him, extinguishing his enthusiasm.
Fan Xian then realized that his mother was also a time traveler, and had already blocked all the ways to make money that he knew.
Fan Jian raised the corners of his mouth slightly, then changed the subject and revealed the real reason for summoning him to the capital, successfully receiving three consecutive rejections from Fan Xian.
So Fan Jian began to explain the deeper meaning behind the marriage to him in a clear and logical manner.
When the topic turned to Lin Wan'er, Fan Xian directly stated that he already had someone he loved and was unwilling to marry Lin Wan'er.
Fan Jian took a deep breath and then talked about Lin Wan'er's background. Fan Xian guessed that Fan Jian wanted to use his marriage to climb up to the Prime Minister's power.
Fan Jian took another deep breath and began to analyze the situation in the capital. Fan Xian immediately suspected that he was trying to exonerate Aunt Liu.
Fan Jian: ...
Fan Xian: I don't want to, I won't do it, I won't listen.
This shows how cunning Emperor Qing is. Based solely on the information about Fan Xian sent from Danzhou, he was able to roughly outline Fan Xian's personality and foresee that Fan Xian might not obediently accept the marriage agreement with Lin Wan'er.
So, before Fan Xian entered the Fan residence, he arranged for him to meet Lin Wan'er, successfully making the two fall in love at first sight and develop feelings for each other. This eliminated the potential danger of Fan Xian refusing the marriage from the source and ensured that his plan could proceed smoothly.
Unfortunately, Fan Xian was unaware that the "chicken leg girl" he had been longing for was none other than Lin Wan'er, whom he was about to marry.
He was still racking his brains trying to find the chicken leg girl, and even plotting how to cancel the marriage arranged by Emperor Qing.
I don't know why, but after just one meeting, Fan Xian fell in love with Lin Wan'er.
Anyway, Fan Xian's current state is: open eyes, chicken leg; closed eyes, girl.
Furthermore, Teng Zijing's kneeling plea for him to retrieve a secret document from the Censorate completely made Fan Xian forget his true purpose for coming to the capital.
Just as countless people were focusing their attention on Fan Xian, the Prince Jing's heir came to the Second Prince's residence under the pretext of visiting him in his illness.
Yes, that's right.
Li Chengze is ill.
This time he was genuinely sick, without any pretense.
Since witnessing the royal scandal, his mental state has suffered an unprecedented blow.
His values, which he had established since childhood, collapsed at that moment, plunging him into chaos.
For Li Chengze, the mental blow was far more unbearable than the physical torture.
He originally thought that since his transmigration, his bottom line had been lowered again and again, almost to the point where it couldn't be lowered any further.
To his utter surprise, the world dealt him another heavy blow in such a disgusting way.
This is absolutely disgusting!
How could such a thing happen in the world?
I can't figure it out, I really can't figure it out.
As a result, Li Chengze now dares not open his eyes to look at the world, for fear of seeing something disgusting again.
Xie Bi'an was completely baffled by this.
He didn't understand why his prince had suddenly turned into this state after only resting for a while.
This made him suspect that someone might have poisoned him while his prince was resting.
Therefore, Xie Bi'an immediately led the guards of the Prince's Mansion to thoroughly search the entire mansion, inside and out, but they still couldn't find any trace of suspicious people.
In the end, Xie Bi'an gained nothing and could only stay by Li Chengze's bedside, praying for his speedy recovery.
Unexpectedly, Li Chengze's illness did not improve even after Fan Xian went to the capital.
In fact, at first, the general public in Kyoto believed that the Second Prince was faking his illness.
After all, Li Chengze had never been sick before, so how could he suddenly fall ill and not recover for a long time?
Therefore, many people speculated that Li Chengze's choice to fall ill at this sensitive time was likely an attempt to express his dissatisfaction with Emperor Qing.
He couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Emperor Qing has always been a man of absolute power, how could he allow anyone to disobey him?"
Now that the Second Prince has chosen this moment to feign illness, he is undoubtedly openly challenging Emperor Qing's authority. How could Emperor Qing let him off so easily?
So everyone tacitly waited for things to develop, speculating on how Emperor Qing would ultimately deal with Li Chengze.
However, days passed by, one day, two days, three days, half a month...
In the blink of an eye, a month has quietly passed.
The crowd began to get restless.
Damn it!
The second prince is actually sick!
If the Second Prince really doesn't make it through this time, wouldn't the situation in the court change drastically?
Emperor Qing was also getting restless. Although he intended for Fan Xian to succeed Li Chengze as a whetstone for the Crown Prince, Fan Xian hadn't taken over yet.
Therefore, Emperor Qing dispatched all the imperial physicians in the palace to treat Li Chengze in turn, but naturally, they were all helpless.
When the news spread, the Crown Prince was secretly delighted and almost laughed out loud, but when he saw Emperor Qing's gloomy face, he had to suppress his laughter and force a sad expression on his face.
But this clumsy performance only made Emperor Qing even angrier.
Indeed, Emperor Qing strongly suspected that the Crown Prince was behind Li Chengze's sudden and strange illness.
At first, Emperor Qing was somewhat pleased with the Crown Prince's method this time; not only was it clean and efficient, but no one noticed anything amiss.
Although the price of the crown prince's show of power was the loss of another son.
But for the sake of his grand ambitions, Emperor Qing believed it was all worthwhile.
However, Emperor Qing's joy was short-lived. He immediately abandoned the idea after discovering the Crown Prince's foolish attempt to use a group of scantily clad women to ruin Fan Xian's reputation.
Sure enough, he couldn't have too high expectations for the Crown Prince, even with the help of the madman Li Yunrui.
Thinking about it this way, Emperor Qing became even angrier.