Rebirth: The Journey of an Heiress novel Chapter 1123

Chapter 1123: Chapter 1117: Power to Turn the Tide

Bai Qingyan’s gaze calmly observed Yun Poxing, who was set on dying, and heard his deliberate words meant to provoke Cheng Yuanzhi. Her heart was filled with hatred, screaming for her to use countless arrows to torture Yun Poxing to death, shouting to make her inflict upon Yun Tianao the pain his grandfather Yun Poxing had once inflicted on little Seventeen.

But Bai Qingyan was not Yun Poxing... she would not do such a thing.

Cheng Yuanzhi heard the names of the Commander and Vice Commander from Yun Poxing’s mouth, and upon hearing Master Seventeen’s experiences, his eyes were bloodshot, with hatred threatening to destroy all his reason. Like a Rakshasa returned from hell, filled with murderous aura, he raised his sharp blade and decisively severed Yun Poxing’s neck.

Yun Poxing’s bloodied head rolled away...

Though his head was severed, his sight remained; he saw the snowflakes drifting down from the dark sky, saw his blood spraying into the white snow, as if staining the soon-to-fall pristine white.

In the instant before the light in his pupils dispersed, Yun Poxing’s thoughts seemed to replay his entire life.

He was born to the main branch of the Yun family, the head of Xiliang’s Eight Great Families. If he hadn’t joined the military back then... and accepted the arrangements to serve as an official, he would have inevitably inherited his father’s mantle, becoming a leader who opposed the Emperor of Xiliang with the court officials.

Before the previous Emperor was even born, he was already a designated companion to the princes, which was to say, a companion to the future Emperor, even if he was older than any of the princes at that time.

The previous Emperor was the legitimate heir, born when Yun Poxing was ten. The previous Emperor was intelligent from a young age and adored by both the ministers and his father, seemingly the destined Crown Prince, favored by the heavens... Yet he was very attached to Yun Poxing, not in a way of trying to win him over or curry favor, but treating him like a family member and elder brother.

At that time, his father was extremely strict in teaching him, for he was the future of the Yun family. His father’s expectations were often too high for him to meet, resulting in frequent beatings with a whip. He was proud and didn’t want others to know, but the previous Emperor always noticed...

He remembers that it was one of those rare snowy days in Xiliang when he stole medicine from the Imperial Medical Bureau and secretly handed it to him upon entering the palace. With bright black eyes looking up, he said, "Brother, rest assured, I’m clever enough not to let anyone find out, secretly brought this for you! No one will know you were punished again!"

Then, the previous Emperor was three years old. The large snowflakes landed on his long lashes and turned into water droplets, making his eyes appear wet. Those eyes contained the purest place Yun Poxing had ever seen in the world...

At seventeen, the previous Emperor, ten years his junior, disregarded his own safety to shield him from a bear’s paw at the hunting grounds, allowing Yun Poxing the chance to slay the bear, almost costing the previous Emperor his life...

The previous Emperor was unconscious for three days; Yun Poxing knelt at the palace gates for three days. When the previous Emperor awoke, the first thing he did was to plead with his father not to punish Yun Poxing.

Later, the previous Emperor’s health never fully recovered, needing medicinal soups to sustain life despite being so young. Yet he never regretted saving Yun Poxing; in fact, he always held back his coughs in his presence, his face turning red, comforting Yun Poxing by saying he was fine.

Time passed quickly, and the previous Emperor reached the age of twenty, the coming-of-age ritual. But due to his health, he delayed consummating his marriage with the Crown Princess Consort, unable to father an heir, to propagate the imperial lineage. The ministers and families who once supported the legitimate branch of the previous Emperor shifted their allegiance to the Crown Prince and the Second Prince, thinking... given the current state of the previous Emperor’s health, he could die at any time.

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