bestfiction Chapter 285 Dong Yan
Chapter 285 Dong Yan
Jiang Xinyu felt she had overreacted.
People can be similar, and things can have similarities; perhaps I'm overthinking it.
But listening to what Mr. Bai said to Yu Yusheng, she felt that she was probably right.
This person is indeed a trusted confidant of the Yu family, but who says a trusted confidant cannot harm their master?
Strategists from prominent families like theirs always prioritize interests and have a broad perspective.
Those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trivial matters; personal feelings are simply not within their consideration.
Yu Hui is Yu Sheng's precious daughter, but to the strategist she is merely a woman in his harem.
In this patriarchal society, a strategist who wants to achieve great things will not care about the life or death of a woman.
At this point, Mr. Bai was still implying that the assassination of the young lady was a conspiracy.
Everyone knows that General Yu was a man of deep affection and loyalty, and he refused to remarry, having only two sons and one daughter.
Since the two young masters were already married with children, they were not the first choice for a marriage alliance. This unmarried young lady became an important link in the close relationship with the Yu family.
It is estimated that some powerful force was afraid that if the young lady married into a family with military power, the Yu family's power would rise to a higher level, so they sent someone to assassinate her.
Otherwise, what could a little girl possibly be in anyone's way?
The words were veiled, but Yu Sheng could still understand them; the "certain force" he was referring to was undoubtedly the imperial court.
It must be said that Mr. Bai's words were so reasonable and well-founded that even Yu Sheng was persuaded.
His daughter rarely leaves the house and has no enemies.
Besides being his darling, the only other thing about him is that a marriage alliance would easily invite resentment.
If Jiang Xinyu initially had only three points of doubt upon seeing Mr. Bai, now her suspicion has risen to eight.
This guy has always wanted to arrange a marriage between Yu Hui and the General of Longxi to incite rebellion between the two families.
This means they're trying a different approach since things haven't gone smoothly.
Given how much Yu Sheng dotes on his daughter, the likelihood of him rebelling would immediately double if his daughter were killed by the imperial court.
She just didn't quite understand why Mr. Bai was so keen on rebellion.
Was he also instigated by the Second Prince to rebel?
Is he truly a confidant of the Yu family, or an enemy of the Yu family?
If a rebellion goes well, everyone involved will rise to power; if it goes badly, everything will fall apart. This strategist, like a scoundrel, can just shrink back and find another master and still get by.
Those who rebelled were killed according to the family genealogy; no one on the register could escape.
Wasn't the Second Prince a perfect example? Even the young children in his household were demoted to commoners and imprisoned in the Imperial Clan Court.
His capable advisor, having escaped, is now causing trouble for Yu Sheng again. Why does she feel like this guy has a grudge against the Yu family?
And you know what? Jiang Xinyu's sixth sense was pretty accurate.
The white folding fan we see today is the one from the Mr. Dong who instigated the Second Prince to force the abdication of the throne.
The alias Bai was just a cover; Yu Sheng knew his real surname.
What Yu Sheng didn't know was that this Mr. Dong was hoping for the Yu family to be ruined and destroyed more than anyone else.
Dong Yan was an abandoned baby who was adopted by his master and learned literature and martial arts from him.
Later, his master became a guest of the Yu family, and he lived with the Yu family. By chance, he developed feelings for a concubine's daughter in the Yu family.
After his master learned of his thoughts, he first gave him a severe beating to make him give up on the idea.
In the end, she still cared for him and accepted a mission with a high chance of survival, hoping to gain great merit and then propose marriage to General Yu.
The Yu family had many illegitimate daughters, and the one Dong Yan liked was just a nobody born to a lowly concubine.
Originally intended for marriage alliances and to win over subordinates, if his master completes his mission, he will be considered the number one strategist in the mansion.
There's an 80% chance General Yu would agree to marry his apprentice and adopted son a nobody's illegitimate daughter.
Unfortunately, neither he nor his master were the protagonists of this world; the privilege of surviving against all odds was reserved for the protagonists.
For those of them who aren't even considered supporting characters, let alone facing a nine-out-of-ten chance of death, the probability of losing is more than winning, even if there's a one-in-three chance.
He went along that time too, and although he felt guilty towards his master for the hardships and dangers, he was also happy.
Every day I feel like I'm getting a little closer to my loved one.
However, the young master was stubborn and acted on his own initiative, which ruined things and even caused his master's death.
General Yu severely punished Uncle Yu and gave him a lot of money as a form of appeasement.
It was a mission with an extremely high mortality rate, so there was no one to blame but the young master Yu and himself for the mess. Dong Yan only hated the young master Yu who ruined things and himself.
He only found out after he finished arranging his master's funeral.
His beloved girl was married off to an alcoholic and abusive playboy by Madam Yu because she accidentally broke something belonging to the eldest daughter of the Yu family.
He secretly went to see her, and the once beautiful girl's eyes were now numb and lifeless.
He was only 20 years old at the time, and after his master left, he was isolated and helpless, and there was no way to rescue the girl for a while.
With his loved ones dead and his lover trapped, Dong Yan once again took a desperate gamble, accepting a mission with a near-certain death.
It's all or nothing for him. If he succeeds, he'll get a lot of money, and he can always use it to make his beloved woman live a better life.
Heaven still did not favor this poor couple.
Dong Yan succeeded in his mission, and even though he was covered in knife wounds and barely alive, he showed a genuine smile.
But just as he recovered enough to get out of bed, he received devastating news: the girl was no longer there for him.
She was three months pregnant when she was beaten until she miscarried and died.
He was so close to success, and he had already received a large reward.
He had clearly planned how to steal the beams and replace the pillars to deceive everyone.
Just a few days away, just when they were about to change their fate, his lover passed away.
Dong Yan has completely turned to the dark side.
He hated everyone in the Yu family, especially Madam Yu at the time and the eldest daughter of the Yu family who later became the Noble Consort Xian.
That kind girl had never done anything wrong, yet her nominal stepmother and sister treated her like merchandise, giving her away at will.
Madam Yu deserves to die, and her sons and daughters all deserve to die.
But they were enormous to Dong Yan, and given Dong Yan's status in the Yu family at the time, he couldn't shake any of them.
So Dong Yan lay low, faithfully serving the Yu family to build his own importance while secretly recruiting maids and servants to slowly carry out his revenge plan.
Ten years, twenty years, thirty years.
There's no such thing as a thief who can be caught a thief for a thousand days, and even though the eldest daughter of the Yu family entered the palace as an empress before Dong Yan had grown up, she couldn't escape it.
Dong Yan's influence couldn't reach into the palace, but he had the patience to wait. Finally, the second prince, born to Consort Xian, was released from his official residence.
He became the Second Prince's strategist, gradually pushing Consort Xian and his son into the abyss.
During those years in the Yu family, he stirred up quite a bit of trouble.
Although they were all small things, the results were remarkable.
The Yu family was plagued by discord and constant infighting. After the death of General Yu, the eldest son of the Yu family, who was incompetent, relied on him even more.
His subtle interference ruined several promising younger members of the Yu family.
Enticing others to have fun, praising them to death, and sowing discord between brothers.
It's difficult to teach a child to be good, but it only takes a little guidance to make them playful and go astray.
He was even behind the fact that Madam Yu was nearly driven to death by the old lady's nagging.
When he saw the old lady quarrel with her son and being accused of being vicious, her face turning ashen with anger, he felt a genuine sense of satisfaction.
Later, they even poisoned Madam Yu with a slow-acting poison, torturing her to the point that she was neither human nor ghost.
Ironically, even if the old woman racked her brains, she could never have imagined that he was a strategist who had little connection with the inner court.
Because the second daughter-in-law had already gone to Sichuan, the blame was instead directed at the eldest daughter-in-law.
Powerful clans are like centipedes that, though dead, do not fall down.
Dong Yan has been dedicated to creating internal troubles for the Yu family, who are currently free from external threats.