Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1544

Chapter 1544: Chapter 1539: Reluctance

Empress Dowager Yan was burning with anger. The thought that her son, due to the trust her late husband placed in Xiao Rongyan, had absolute faith in him, yet Xiao Rongyan was using this trust to gift the Yan Kingdom’s throne to his own woman... to his own child!

She said that human nature is selfish. How could Xiao Rongyan truly abandon his own flesh and blood in favor of a nephew like Ah Li!

Talk of betting the nation, this support for Ah Li, it all seemed to be the conspiracy of Xiao Rongyan and Bai Qingyan.

If Xiao Rongyan were here now, Empress Dowager Yan feared her gaze could bore a hole through him. She had entirely forgotten... in the beginning, at least on the surface, Xiao Rongyan was against the betting of the nation. It was Murong Li who insisted on it, and she even went to the Regent Prince’s residence late at night to persuade Xiao Rongyan with the memory of the late Empress Ji, begging for Murong Li to agree to Murong Li’s strategy of betting the nation.

Furthermore, even in truth, Xiao Rongyan initially did not agree to bet the nation because... Xiao Rongyan never considered himself the master of Yan Kingdom. In contrast, it was Murong Li who took charge and decided to bet the nation.

Now, Empress Dowager Yan was filled with nothing but hatred for Xiao Rongyan, believing it must have been Xiao Rongyan who incited Murong Li to bet the nation. Otherwise, with Xiao Rongyan’s abilities, there were a million ways to prevent this bet from occurring, yet somehow Yan Kingdom ended up in the current situation.

The Murong Clan relatives were bewildered by the Empress Dowager’s mention of the Regent Prince... speaking of Xiao Rongyan, and mentioning Bai Qingyan and the child. They understood each word, but the Empress Dowager’s combination of them left them baffled.

Xiao Rongyan was once a wealthy merchant of Wei Kingdom, known as the wealthiest in all under heaven, once friends with their Ninth Prince of Yan Kingdom. Later... in his grave illness, Emperor of Zhou and Bai Qingyan married him, and a month later, Xiao Rongyan passed away, leaving behind a posthumous child, which was the pair of twins born to Bai Qingyan, the current Emperor of Zhou.

"Empress Dowager, are you speaking out of anger?" Even her personal maid thought the Empress Dowager might be speaking nonsense in her rage.

"I am not confused! I am quite lucid!" Empress Dowager Yan’s gaze, full of intense hatred, swept over the Murong Clan members, who were either in shock, having realized the implication, or were still bewildered. She gritted her teeth, "Just as you all have guessed, our Regent Prince Murong Yan was indeed Xiao Rongyan, the once wealthiest merchant under heaven, the one who married the Emperor of Zhou, and became the royal consort of Zhou!"

The imperial kin were utterly shocked.

Even the imperial guard escorting the Empress Dowager was so frightened by these words that they fell to their knees.

If their Regent Prince of Yan Kingdom turned out to be Xiao Rongyan, the royal consort of Zhou, this would be the greatest secret of the Yan Kingdom’s imperial clan, an unsuitable topic for them to overhear.

"How... how could it be possible?"

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