Quick Transmigration: I'm so angry I could cry! The male lead has gone off-topic again!

Chapter 408 The Scumbag Woman Reborn, the Regent Prince Refuses to Be a Sucker 26

The original storyline never mentioned love potions.

However, the fact that Yun Qing happens to have such an event in her memory explains something.

Just because something isn't mentioned in the novel's plot doesn't mean it didn't happen.

In the original story, Helian Yin was also a regent who was able to push his elder brother to the throne and wield immense power in the court, so he must have been a person of exceptional intelligence.

His temperament and abilities are equally impressive; even if love-struck individuals lower their intelligence, it wouldn't be to that extent.

He compromised time and time again at Jiang Yunyan's demands, never unaware of the ultimate consequences.

He loved her so much that he disregarded his own life and death; one could say he was too deeply in love. But did he ever think about what would happen to Jiang Yunyan, whom he loved to the core, after his death?

With his extensive connections and influence, how could he not know what kind of person the Fifth Prince was?

In his previous life, he remained deeply devoted to Jiang Yunyan until his death, and no one could say that he didn't love her. However, his behavior was clearly illogical. Logically, he should at least have prepared a way out for Jiang Yunyan.

If he was under a love spell, on the one hand, he was uncontrollably and madly in love with Jiang Yunyan, humbly trying to please her at all costs, and on the other hand, he felt disgusted, resentful and rejecting of her because Jiang Yunyan took advantage of his love and humiliated him without restraint.

Reason struggles desperately, yet finds no relief.

He maintained his last shred of sanity and coldly watched her walk down a path of no return.

That seems much more reasonable!

In this life, according to the original plot, although Jiang Yunyan became his little darling, and he had to coax and pamper her, it was hard to say who was making amends to whom.

But at least she stopped being ambiguous with other men, betraying him time and time again, trampling on his deep affection, and driving him to the brink of despair.

His subconscious rejection was not that strong.

It's not surprising that under the control of the love potion, the two could live a peaceful and sweet life together.

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Yun Qing affectionately patted Helian Yin's head. Too much time had passed, and it was all due to a series of coincidences, so it would probably be difficult to verify the truth. However, she felt that the love potion was almost certainly true.

Once Helian Yin felt pity, he immediately took advantage of the situation and leaned over to kiss her.

Yun Qing let him have his way and even took the initiative to hug his neck. But just as they were about to kiss, she suddenly remembered something, pushed him away, and asked, "How did you break free of your love potion?"

Helian Yin: ...

He reached up to support his forehead, looking frail and weak, and frowned, saying, "You pushed me and I'm so dizzy, I can't remember."

Yun Qing: ...

She beckoned to him with a stern face, and Helian Yin immediately moved closer.

Yun Qing cupped his face in her hands and bit his lip. "Speak!"

Helian Yin raised his hand and rubbed the bitten spot with his fingertips, sighing inwardly. He wasn't afraid of him at all now.

If you're not afraid of him anymore, can't you at least give me a kiss? This is so perfunctory.

Yun Qing reached out and poked him, "Tell me quickly, how exactly did you get rid of the curse?"

Helian Yin grasped her hand, kissed her fingertips, and pondered, "Actually, I'm not quite sure either. If I had to say, it might be because I glanced at you a few more times at the palace banquet."

Yun Qing: ? ? ?

She looked completely bewildered and said, "Do I look that scary? Did I scare all the Gu worms to death?"

Helian Yin: ...

He chuckled and patted her forehead lightly. "What are you thinking? Can't it be that I fell in love with you at first sight, and my love is so deep that I'm turning the tables on the Gu worms?"

Yun Qing rolled her eyes at him. "Do you think I'm stupid?"

"Love at first sight, huh! Don't tell me you only saw me for the first time at the last palace banquet!"

That is impossible!

After all, she and Jiang Yunyan were sisters. When Helian Yin was paying attention to Jiang Yunyan, his former fiancée, it was impossible that he hadn't seen her.

Take the palace banquet for example. It wasn't her first time attending, and her seat was always next to Jiang Yunyan's. Even if Helian Yin didn't specifically look at her, he would always catch a glimpse of her out of the corner of his eye when he looked at Jiang Yunyan, right?

If it were love at first sight, it would have happened long ago!

Helian Yin had a feeling that he couldn't explain, but he insisted, "I just fell in love with you at first sight."

Yun Qing understood. "You mean, before the last palace banquet, you only had eyes for Jiang Yunyan and didn't even spare me a glance?"

As she spoke, she suddenly lunged at him, angrily grabbing his neck, "You heartless man! You fickle lover!"

Helian Yin protested, "How have I been unfaithful and heartless?"

"Look at me, I fell in love with you at first sight, so I married you and brought you home. I'm providing you with good food and drink, and I plan to provide for you for the rest of my life. I will never let you go hungry."

"Now you want to strangle me, I won't resist."

"This is clearly a love that arises without knowing its origin, and deepens with each passing moment; the living can die for it, and the dead can live for it."

Yun Qing grabbed his neck and shook him, "I'll strangle you right now and see if you can come back to life!"

Qi Shi: !!!

Should he protect his master?

Seeing that she couldn't kill him no matter how hard he tried, Helian Yin kindly suggested, "Why don't you just bite him to death?"

Then the sounds coming from inside the carriage gradually became ambiguous.

Qi Shi: ...

Got it, this is called flirting, don't worry about it anymore.

But should he stay away from the carriage now, or should he guard the carriage and prevent others from getting close?

Sigh... It's all because his ears are too good.

In the end, Yun Qing not only failed to kill the person, but also found herself unable to breathe and almost suffocated.

She reached out and pushed Helian Yin's head away, resting her forehead on his shoulder for a while before thinking for a moment and saying, "Actually, my mother wasn't the kind of wicked stepmother. She wasn't bad to Jiang Yunyan at first. Although she couldn't love and be close to her like she did to me, she didn't mistreat her either."

“My mother never intended to touch her mother’s dowry; she planned to leave it to her.”

"But later my father took a concubine who was all talk and no action. She was very good at saying nice things, and Jiang Yunyan felt that this concubine was especially good to her, unlike my mother, who was much better to me, her own daughter, than to her."

"So after being provoked by someone, she went to my father to complain, falsely accusing my mother of mistreating her and trying to steal her mother's dowry."

At that time, Lady Ning'an Marquis truly did not mistreat Jiang Yunyan. She wouldn't hold a grudge against a young girl without a mother, and Jiang Yunyan posed no threat to her at that time.

As long as Jiang Yunyan behaves herself, she won't be unable to tolerate her.

Jiang Yunyan simply believed what others said and was convinced that Lady Ning'an would try to take her mother's dowry away from her, so she felt justified in framing Lady Ning'an as a bad person!

“My dad thinks children don’t lie. My mom must have treated Jiang Yunyan badly for her to cry and complain to him.”

“He was afraid of being accused of indulging his second wife in mistreating his first wife and daughter and of being lax in managing the household, so he got very angry and almost took back my mother’s power to manage the household.”

That was also the first time she learned to protect her mother by crying pitifully.

Isn't it said that children don't lie? She's even younger than Jiang Yunyan!

She cried as she took off the gold necklace that Ning'an Marquis had recently given her and handed it to Jiang Yunyan, saying aggrievedly, "This was given to me by Father, not Mother. It was wrong of me not to let my sister take it, but you can't hate Mother because of this and think that she treats you badly."

"You picked out all the fabrics I liked, and I even had to give you the purse I wanted."

“My sister said the Marquis’s mansion only needs one legitimate daughter, and that I stole Father from her, and that she hates me. I… I can give her back to you…”

As she spoke, she knelt before Marquis Ning'an, crying and saying that she wanted to cut off her hair and become a nun.

At that moment, Lady Ning'an held her and wept bitterly.

Jiang Yunyan was stunned. She wanted to explain, but didn't know how to start.

Marquis Ning'an looked embarrassed. This whole thing made it seem as if he favored his first wife's daughter and was forcing his second wife's daughter to become a nun.

He realized he had wronged Lady Ning'an, but he couldn't bring himself to apologize to her. He simply softened his tone and said, "Don't make Yunqing feel too wronged."

Then, in a fit of rage, he punished Jiang Yunyan by making her kneel for three days, until she fainted. This further convinced Jiang Yunyan that the Lady of Ning'an was not a good person.

Yun Qing played with Helian Yin's fingers and said, "With my mother's temper, after suffering such a great loss, she definitely won't show any mercy to Jiang Yunyan anymore."

"She's not willing to take the blame for nothing. Since Jiang Yunyan has decided she's a vicious stepmother, then she'll be vicious too!"

Since then, her mother has outwardly been able to find fault with Jiang Yunyan, but secretly she has made things difficult for her quite a bit.

“My mother said that anyone who treats a traitor like her well will be unlucky, and you have to treat her badly!”

"I'm definitely going to stand with my mother. She's a wicked stepmother, so I'm going to be a wicked sister too!"

"Doesn't she think my mother will try to take things from her? Well then, I'll just have to take them from her anyway, and I'll take everything she likes!"

Helian Yin, who had been listening attentively, spoke up quietly, "So, Fifth Prince, you're going to snatch it too?"

Yun Qing felt instantly guilty and muttered softly, "I was just a little carried away. I didn't actually try to steal it, did I? In the end, I stole you!"

Fearing that Helian Yin would continue on this topic, she quickly said, "Let me tell you, it's fortunate that you got rid of her. Otherwise, given her ambiguous relationship with the Fifth Prince, if she had really married you, who knows how she would have schemed against you and benefited her lover!"

Helian Yin nodded and said solemnly, "Then I must thank you properly, my wife. It's fortunate that you took me away."

Yun Qing immediately got off him, picked up a plate of dried fruit and said, "Consider this your thank-you gift!"

Helian Yin: ...There's no need to be so wary of me. I'm not the kind of person who would do anything reckless outside.

This world is harsh on women. Doing something so outrageous, she will face countless malicious speculations and dirty looks, both overt and covert.

He wouldn't let her suffer such injustice for a moment's pleasure.

He still has that much sense of propriety.

Hmm... I'll thank you properly when I get home!