I Became the Eye Candy: Four Bigshots Claimed to be My Dad?

Chapter 414: The Imperial Family Owes a Favor

The woman raised a hand and pressed it onto the man in black’s shoulder. "Stand down."

"Second Miss?"

"You can’t win. We have nowhere left to run," the woman said faintly.

"How will we know if we don’t try?"

The woman shook her head and looked at Ye Qianning. "Miss Xiang, why don’t we make a deal?"

"I don’t need to," Ye Qianning said coldly.

"Not even if it means having the Xi Yan Imperial Family owe you a favor?"

Ye Qianning knew the woman’s identity was anything but simple, but she hadn’t expected her to be from the Xi Yan Imperial Family. Having them owe her a favor would certainly be beneficial in the future.

However, such favors were not given lightly.

Seeing her silence, the woman pressed on. "If you help me, and your General’s manor is ever in trouble, as long as it doesn’t involve an invasion of Xi Yan, my country will surely come to your aid, no matter how great the distance."

Zhan Chi’s brow furrowed. "You’re from Xi Yan?"

"That’s right."

"What exactly are you plotting by sneaking into the Beili Imperial Palace?"

"Plotting? The one I have designs on is your Beili Emperor." The woman’s words were laced with ridicule and anger.

Zhan Chi’s frown deepened. He found the woman’s words utterly unbelievable. "What could you possibly have designs on?"

"Lust." Ye Qianning coolly uttered a single word.

"..."

Zhan Chi was stunned.

A corner of the woman’s mouth lifted. "To think a grown man like you understands less than a child."

"..."

Hearing the taunt, Zhan Chi’s eyes grew critical. He couldn’t see the woman’s face clearly, but she didn’t seem like an unparalleled beauty. ’Does the Emperor have bad eyes?’ freeweɓnovel.cѳm

"For a woman the Emperor has kept imprisoned for over a decade, I expected some peerless beauty. You look rather ordinary," Ye Qianning said.

Zhan Chi nodded. "I agree."

"I was quite a beauty in my youth." The woman sounded indignant at their words, raising a hand to her cheek. "Locked away from the sun for over a decade... a woman’s looks fade day by day. How cruel is that? I used to be truly beautiful."

"..."

’So she’s stubborn,’ Ye Qianning thought.

"I don’t care if you were beautiful or not. Girl, stop wasting time with her. The search party will be here soon." Gathering his Inner Strength, Zhan Chi could already hear a large number of troops heading their way.

Ye Qianning said nothing.

The woman grew anxious. "Little one, since you know who I am, you must know that I’m innocent."

Ye Qianning heard the sound of pounding on the General’s manor gate. At the same time, a light rain began to fall from the sky again.

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The man in black also heard the knocking, and he gripped his longsword, assuming a fighting stance.

"Little one, you absolutely won’t regret this deal. Just help me," the woman persisted, not giving up.

Ye Qianning mulled it over for a moment before speaking. "I can help you evade capture, but that doesn’t include getting you out of the Capital City."

"Girl!" Zhan Chi exclaimed in surprise.

’Isn’t this just keeping a venomous tumor by our side? If they’re discovered, it’s a crime punishable by the execution of our entire clan!’

"If you’re afraid, then you’re free to leave. This isn’t the Zhan family’s estate anyway," Ye Qianning said coldly, then instructed Luo Wen, "Take the butler back to his room. Deal with the body and clean up the traces."

"Yes."

Luo Wen never questioned the young miss’s orders.

"That’s not what I meant." Zhan Chi’s face paled.

"Go back and treat your injuries," Ye Qianning said.

Zhan Chi’s lips tightened. ’Ever since the blood-paternity test, she’s gotten even colder toward me,’ he thought. ’If it weren’t for my father and mother, I probably wouldn’t even be allowed in the General’s manor.’

Ye Qianning looked toward the woman. "Can you walk?"

"Yes." The woman nodded.

"Follow me."

Clutching her chest and gasping for breath, the woman staggered toward her.