Zhi Wei suddenly turns her head and started to throw up violently. She hasn’t eaten too much food all day therefore it was mostly stomach bile that came out. She had thrown up so violently that the green colored bile shot out and ended up getting all over Ning Yi who was holding her tightly. In fact, even Ning Cheng and Gu Nan Yi who were close by were not spared. No one jumped away though. Not even Gu Nan Yi who was obsessive about being clean.
Seemingly unaware of the foul smelling filth covering his body, Ning Yi tightens his arms around Zhi Wei, lays her on his knees and gently pats her back to make sure that her violent throwing up is not going to abstract her airway.
At this moment, thundering disarray of footsteps could suddenly be heard as countless black silhouettes show up on the horizon- Minister Zhou’s province guards have arrived.
Ning Yi abruptly turns his head, “staring” at the Yan ancestry chapel door that is cracked open a sliver, a fierce thirst for blood burst from his perpetually calm and unreadable eyes for the very first time.
“Destroy the Yan ancestry chapel!”
“Your highness!”
“Who dares to disobey, kill.”
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The whole Xi Yuan (that’s the name of the part of Yan manor where our two leads are staying at) have fallen into a cloud of despair. News of the royal envoy having fallen victim to the plague and might die any day has been firmly sealed off by Ning Yi but of course people inside the manor knew it well enough especially since their future is on the line. The fact that Prince Chu has become a ticking time bomb just caused the atmosphere in Xi Yuan to be even more tense. As people rush about they would not even dare to converse when they pass by each other. Other than giving one another a hasty glance, they would quickly rush by to continue on their search for physicians.
One group of physicians replaced by yet another group, precious priceless medicine poured into the manor like water, in the hallway twelve medicine pots brewed nonstop and Price Chu’s expression become more sullen with each passing day.
After his angry outbursts that day, he didn’t say another word to those closest to him neither did he sit in front of Zhi Wei’s bed 12 hours a day. He simply summoned one person after another, integrating the spies Zhi Wei had caught in front of Yan clan ancestry chapel and sending secret letters by express to the capital requesting a palace physician.
While Zhi Wei falls into a coma and is struggling for her life, South Sea is undergoing a total shakeup.
Ning Yi who has been thoroughly angered finally revealed his ruthless side.
On that day after Yan Clan ancestry chapel opened, Hua Qing helped Yan Huai Shi who was having difficulty walking out of the chapel along with his mother, Madam Chen. Instead of calling off his guards from surrounding the chapel, Ning Yi forcefully shut it and trapped everyone inside the chapel. Jumping on the window of opportunity while all the people are traveling to the granary to get their relief money and grain, causing the area to empty out, Ning Yi ordered his three thousand guards along with Minister Chen’s three thousand guards to dig an underground path right to the Yan Clan ancestry chapel in one day. After placing a large quantity of dynamites in the underground path, the dynamites were lit right away. With one muffled explosion, the ancestry chapel belonging to the biggest noble family of South Sea came crumbling down.
The towering structure adorned with the finest paintings and artworks, the sacred place of worship for hundreds of years to generations of Yan clan members, turned to rubble in an instant.
Everyone that was anyone of the male gender of Yan clan had all been in the chapel. The ancestry chapel was well built so even with the foundation collapsing the roof beams held which meant the destruction wasn’t total. Still, there was one death and countless wounded. Yan Huai Yuan’s dad was hit on the head and is still unconscious. Yan Huai Yuan himself was hit by a falling wall and his leg was broken. Old Yan clan leader actually escaped harm but he tearfully refused when members of Yan clan wanted to carry him away from the danger. Kneeling in front of the shattered ancestry plaques, the old Yan clan leader bowed his head to the ground then cries “Heaven refuses to bless my Yan clan! Other than death I have no way to face the ancestors!” then killed himself by smashing his head against a column. On the ancestry wall, bright red blood slowly trickles down.
Standing outside of the ancestry chapel, Ning Yi’s expression remains impassive in the dancing light of the fire. Smelling the smoke filled air and listening to the chores of wailing, Ning Yi’s lips twisted into a chilling smile.
“Heaven? I am the heaven here!”
Turning away without another backward glance, he leaves Yan clan’s wailing all behind.
“If something happens to her, you all will die!”
The wrath of the powerful destroys heaven and earth. Any struggle is turned to ashes in an instant. By the time all the people are back from getting their disaster relief from the granaries, the only thing left to see of the once magnificent Yan ancestry chapel is just rubbles.
Due to the rumors Ning Yi had ordered to be spread around, the only thing people heard is that because Yan clan had oppressed their own descendants they have incurred the fury of gods and had brought on natural disasters which directly lead to the destruction of their ancestry chapel.
Common people have a tendency to believe these kinds of supernatural things. Even if they don’t, it is not like they could go find the real perpetrators. Earthquakes are common in South Sea so this falls squarely into natural disasters.
Moreover, who can make trouble without any evidence? Some of the villagers whose houses were affected received the most generous compensation ever given in the history of government compensation so they all quietly moved to their new house to count their money.
In one move, Ning Yi completely wiped out Yan clan’s top leaders then forcefully made Yan Huai Shi the new clan leader. Under the fierce gleaming swords of Prince Chu’s three thousand guards, members of Yan clan could only silently agree to Yan Huai Shi’s new status as Yan Clan’s temporary clan leader then watch him proceed to changed out all the core members to his own people effectively gathering up the real power over the clan businesses into his own hands.
The fall of the Yan clan ancestry chapel also completely destroyed Yan clan’s resolve to fight. Even knowing something fishy might be behind the ancestry chapel’s destruction they were intimidated by Ning Yi’s lightning fast savage actions.
Their concession also allowed Ning Yi to be certain there are no Chang clan’s spies in Yan clan or else there would’ve been some repercussions. Once the situation at Yan clan was mostly under control, Ning Yi didn’t rest and promptly moved onto getting rid of Chang clan’s spies hidden within the noble families.
While interrogating the spies (the ones Zhi Wei caught), Ning Yi secretly ordered his men to guard the city gate. Before they have even gotten any results from the spies, Ning Yi let his men leak out the information the captured spies have already confessed.
- Ning Yi was able to trick other spies to show themselves and eventually traced their connections to Huan and Guan families. In no time, it was announced that Guan clan was transporting forbidden items and an important member of Huan clan was involved in bribery.
- Not about to go down quietly, Guan and Huan families secretly contacted Chen and Lee clans for help but Ning Yi had already through Minister Zhou made Yan Huai Shi the main sea transport controller following by making the clan leaders of Chen and Lee clan deputy transport controllers. This of course put an end to any possibility of Guan and Huan’s hope to form a united front with the other clan families to fight against the government officials.
- Like pulling on a thread, Minister Zhou was able to pull out other hidden spies hidden among the government officials. Not satisfied, Ning Yi turns his attention to Chang clan. Chang clan’s base is obviously not at South Sea but they still have a manor in the city. Since the envoy arrived Zhi Wei had ordered people to keep watch over Chang manor. Ning Yi had purposefully allowed a few of the spies to escape during the interrogation and thanks to the “escaped” spies, Ning Yi was able to follow them and get rid of even more of Chang clan’s influence.
In just a few short days, from noble families to government, from Yan clan to Cheng clan, all experienced a silent and fierce shakedown. The common citizens were clueless and went on their lives blissfully. Only those who were the core members of the noble families and government were a witness to the whirlwind cleansing and were left astounded. Astounded that they have finally seen Prince Chu’s real side– It could be said that South Sea was settled in such a short amount of time because Ning Yi was able to use the situation perfectly to his advantage. The South Sea officials joke in private that with the South Sea envoy at death’s door, Prince Chu who was supposedly a great friend had not bothered to go visit for three whole days!
After three whole days, things have finally settled down and Ning Yi finally returns to Qi Yuan (the manor our two leads are staying at). There was no look of delight on his face over what he has accomplished in South Sea. He did those things because they were what Feng Zhi Wei was planning on doing. Now that she has fallen ill, instead of staying by her bedside worrying, he might as well finish what she wanted to do so once she wakes up she would be able to focus on getting better…and he can focus on waiting for her to wake up.
Everyone is waiting for her to wake up.
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Olha ,coisa de louco,mal posso esperar ZW acordar!!!
I wish this fierce Ning Yi had unleashed his wrath to save ZW from being taken to Jinshi in the drama.
So sweet of him to do all those things for ZW (and being covered in puke!) I wept!! Hope ZW wake up soon. 🙏
This is so, SO delightful to read!!!
Although it’s also killing me as I want to know what’s next but I have to wait another week 😭
Wish there was finally an English version of the whole book but God bless you for the translations, you are the best! ❤️
Just so good! Can’t wait for next week. Maybe some steamy scenes? LOL
Chinese novels…no such thing. Ok, that’s not true. There are plenty of smut Chinese novels out there but not in the legal major websites. Chinese gov’t has a fairly tight control on that. You want to join the group effort on the “fan fiction” on the boat scene? 😉
Hurray!
I am so grateful that you have been publishing these on a regular weekly basis. The book is so good!
I can’t wait till your translations finally advance to the ‘boat scene’ that was mentioned in epilogue 4!
Thank you, Thank you!
Seriously guys, the said “boat scene” is like one or maybe two sentences long. I am afraid you guys are all going to send me hate mails when we get there. Maybe this can be a group effort and we can “fan fiction” the boat scene?
Will love to read the fan fiction of the boat scene. 😍 pls post the Link when u have it. 😉
I have just finished reading the book (Google transaltion) … very, very painful but I had to do it because I just don’t seem to be able to let go of these two characters, particularly Ning Yi. However, I intend to keep reading your posts because your writing style is beautiful and I have to get that transalation out of my head now. Thank you so much for doing this.
could you please pass me the link of the novel that you’ve read the book in chinese please?
I jump around different sites but you can find it easily by googling 凰权小说
thank you so much! could you tell me which chapter in the book was the one that you last translate?
I think we are at chapter 73.
Thanks for your hard work! I’m just worrying about Nan Yi, he was so worried last time!!! oh, and btw, curious question: does ZW in the novel make that promise to her “mother” never to marry NY? (I can’t remember reading anything of the sort in your translation so far) again many thanks for your work and dedication to this proyect!! Greetings from Colombia 🙂
No, I don’t believe that promise was made in the novel. Plus it would not have been appropriated. Zhi Wei’s relationship with her mother is extremely complicated, more complicated than she herself even realizes at this point. Her mother was her nation’s princess and female general so that puts her directly at odds with her husband and Zhi Wei. However, she has obviously chosen to throw her lot in with her husband whose life mission is to serve Zhi Wei (although it could be argued he eventually lost sight of that in his fever to revive the last dynasty) so in that token her “parents”” actual relationship to her is more like servents to master. But of course Zhi Wei is deeply attached to her mother emotionally as the only family she has ever known and one she desperately wants to be loved by, so our heroine would only see her mother’s wishes as something vital for her to achieve. Her mother naturally knows of Zhi Wei’s real feelings towards her but her mother is also aware of all the other aspects of their relationship so it would not make sense for her to “demand” something from Zhi Wei as a daughter as she did in the drama. Remember, unlike it was in the drama, our heroine had two immortal ancestors who made sure she had the formidable Bloody Pagoda behind her.
Yes I have a question on that too, is it mentioned in the Novel , that her Mother did not want ZW to married Ning Yi? What boat scene is everyone referring to? You did mentioned previously that ZW had seduce Ning Yi is that what everyone is referring to? In the drama it was Ning Yi that was poisoned what a switch they made in drama verses the novel. Please continue to translate love every minute. I wish that it was a English translation somewhere….just wishing….
I answered your first question in a previous comment. I am assuming the boat scene everyone is getting very excited about despite my valiant effort to clarify that it really is a two-sentence scene, is one Ning Yi teased Zhi Wei about in the prologue translation. Our hero was drunk at the time and let’s just say our heroine decided it was a good time to jump him. Unfortunately, our author didn’t choose to describe how Zhi Wei did the deed in detail so the whole scene was about as long as what I just wrote.
Zhi Wei has 2 immortal ancestors? Please refresh this aging memory of mine. Thank you. Bless you for your translations.
Her ancestors are not part of the story at all in the drama but it’s a very important part of the set up in the book. Legend of Fuyao, another book by the same author that was also made into a drama, tells the story of Zhi Wei’s great-great-great-parents? (Don’t hold me on the number of “greats” I didn’t bother to count.)
I see. Thank you!
I so look forward to your translations!