Quick Transmigration: Why did you provoke him? He's love-struck!

Chapter 140 Canglan Ferry (10)

Pei Wangzhou's pupils contracted slightly, as if he had been struck on the head with a club.

Extreme shock and disbelief made him breathe rapidly, his chest heaving violently.

He then realized what he meant and quickly said, "If you want to go to the Duke's mansion, I can take you there and give you wealth and honor. You don't need to risk being discovered by bringing him back..."

"But you already know my plan, can you still take me back without any reservations?" Yan Zhen looked at him with a smile, his eyes like a cat teasing a dying mouse under its paws. "From the moment you regained your sight, you had to die."

Pei Wangzhou felt a tightness in his chest and slumped into the bamboo chair behind him.

“I accept that Pei Ji wants to kill me, but I don’t understand why you would do this to me when I have no grudge against you!”

"Maybe it's because I don't like the look of you," Yan Zhen casually offered as an excuse.

Pei Wangzhou gripped the bamboo chair beneath him tightly with both hands, his eyes filled with resentment.

Do not!

He cannot die here, cannot die at Pei Ji's hands, and even less can he be replaced by him after death.

For Pei Ji, the Pei family was the enemy who killed his mother. If he were allowed to enter the Duke's mansion under his identity, the entire Pei family would be destroyed because of his crazy revenge.

Pei Wangzhou grew increasingly terrified. He glanced around the room without making a sound, and taking advantage of the two men's momentary lapse in attention, he suddenly grabbed the cane beside him and smashed it down on Pei Ji's head with all his might.

But before the cane could even touch Pei Ji, Pei Ji swiftly kicked Pei Wangzhou in the chest, sending him flying and crashing heavily to the ground.

Pei Wangzhou was already injured, and this kick almost ripped out his internal organs. His face turned pale, and he bent over and suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.

Looking at the disheveled Pei Wangzhou, Yan Zhen thought of Jiang Li on the other side of the strategy map.

In her previous life, Jiang Li was falsely accused of poisoning the birthday gift given to the Imperial Concubine, causing the Imperial Concubine's face to be ruined and disfigured, and the entire Duke's mansion was held accountable.

When the officers came to arrest her, Yan Jinhe pushed her out to take the blame.

Jiang Li was imprisoned.

She suffered inhuman torture in prison, but she clung to life and refused to admit that she had poisoned him.

Firstly, her master said that the innocent will remain innocent, and she would not admit to things she did not do.

Secondly, she still held a sliver of hope for Pei Wangzhou, hoping he would come to rescue her.

She held onto this hope and waited and waited, and on the twenty-seventh day of her imprisonment, Pei Wangzhou finally arrived.

Along with Pei Wangzhou came an imperial edict ordering her execution.

Pei Wangzhou came to see her off.

Upon hearing this news, Jiang Li felt as if she had been struck by lightning.

She's only nineteen; she doesn't want to die in prison with such a stigma.

She regretted it; she shouldn't have left Canglan Valley with Pei Wangzhou.

She wants to go back to Canglan Valley.

"I'm innocent...I'm innocent!" Jiang Li cried out to Pei Wangzhou in terror and despair through the thickets of the prison cell, "Wangzhou, I didn't do it, I didn't poison him, believe me, I really didn't poison him!"

Pei Wangzhou grasped her hand, his eyes filled with sorrow and reluctance: "Ali..."

The fear of death weighed heavily on Jiang Li, and she pleaded desperately, "Wangzhou, save me, I don't want to die... Please go and beg the Old Madam, she has connections with the Empress Dowager, and if an investigation is conducted, she can clear my name."

Pei Wangzhou choked up and said, "It's too late."

"It's not too late. His Majesty isn't a foolish ruler. As long as he knows I've been wronged, he'll definitely give me justice... Yan Jinhe! This must have been done by Yan Jinhe. She took the beauty cream formula from me. To her, I've lost my usefulness. To make me disappear, she didn't hesitate to stake the entire Duke's mansion on framing me..."

"Jiang Li!" Pei Wangzhou suddenly interrupted her sharply, "Enough!"

Jiang Li was taken aback by the shout, but she also didn't miss the fleeting look of guilt in Pei Wangzhou's eyes.

"When you're about to die, don't try to implicate innocent people." Pei Wangzhou released her hand and took two steps back distantly. "Go in peace. Although you've done such a vicious thing, you are a concubine who has been included in my Pei family's genealogy. After you die, I will bury you in the ancestral graveyard and will not let you become a lonely ghost."

Jiang Li stared at him blankly, and in that instant, she understood everything.

Pei Wangzhou knew that she hadn't poisoned him, that she had been framed, and that he also knew who the real poisoner was.

Yet he still chose to watch her die unjustly.

It wasn't just because a scapegoat was needed to take all the blame for the poisoning, but also because of his weighing of the pros and cons.

If this matter is investigated extensively and it turns out to be caused by Yan Jinhe, the mistress of the household, and her concubine fighting over a man, not only will Yan Jinhe go to jail, but the Pei family will also become a laughing stock because of the unrest in the inner quarters.

Firstly, it would offend the Yan family, and secondly, it would affect Pei Wangzhou's career.

He was unwilling to bear such consequences, so he chose the simplest, most brutal, and least damaging way—to have Jiang Li take the blame to end the matter.

For Jiang Li, this incident caused her to die, and her life was forever frozen at the age of nineteen.

But for the Pei family and Pei Wangzhou, it was just the death of an insignificant concubine.

……

Yan Zhen came to his senses, looked at Pei Wangzhou lying on the ground, and shook his head with a tsk tsk.

"Rest in peace. Although I hate selfish people like you, I will choose an auspicious place to bury you after you die, in consideration of the fact that you provided me with a plastic surgery template and indirectly helped me enter the Duke's mansion. Even if you become a wandering ghost, you will be the one who lies in the most comfortable place."

Pei Wangzhou: "..."

After Yan Zhen finished speaking, he stood up and said to Pei Ji, "Let's do it."

Pei Ji raised his sword and pierced Pei Wangzhou's heart.

At the same time, one of the wounds on Yan Zhen's wrist slowly healed.

An hour later, on the back mountain.

Yan Zhen and Pei Ji each took a shovel and dug a pit to bury the body.

“Dig deeper. There are wild animals on the mountain. We don’t want the carcass to rot and smell, and get dug up by them,” Yan Zhen said.

"Ah."

Yan Zhen dug for a long time until his hands were sore and numb, so he stopped and leaned against the stone wall to rest.

Pei Ji kept moving, shoveling one shovel after another, his movements swift and decisive.

Yan Zhen stared at him for a while, recalling what Pei Wangzhou had said, and asked, "Is your mother really the daughter of a disgraced official?"

Pei Ji paused for a moment, then continued working as if he hadn't heard anything, ignoring her completely.

"Your mother is the daughter of a disgraced official, so wouldn't you be considered half a descendant of a disgraced official?" Yan Zhen continued, "If our identities are exposed one day, the combination of murder, impersonating the heir of the Duke's mansion, and being a descendant of a disgraced official, the buffs will be stacked up to the maximum, enough for us to each receive a guillotine gift package."

Pei Ji still ignored her.

"Hey, tell me, aren't we playing the villains here? You're the son of a concubine, teaming up with a gold-digging woman with ulterior motives to kill the male lead and take his place in the Duke's mansion..."

Before she could finish speaking, Pei Ji threw the shovel on the ground with a loud bang, his face extremely ugly: "Have you said enough?!"