thenovelthief #345 - This one is crazy too.
#345 - This one is crazy too.
“I said, I am not…”
Lin Rumeng calmed down for a moment, still wanting to argue.
But before she could finish speaking, she suddenly stopped, her expression changing again.
A person's appearance will inevitably change with age and different life experiences.
Having returned from the well, if she were to become Pan Mengdie, she should resemble her fifteen years ago, not be exactly the same as her fifteen years later.
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Unless, someone familiar with Pan Mengdie had cast a spell on her.
Pan Anshou also narrowed his eyes slightly, revealing a thoughtful expression.
After Pan Mengdie married, she rarely returned to the Pan family, and even after he was promoted to Prefect of Xuzhou, she almost never visited.
And it was specifically mentioned that the people familiar with her were only Bai Wenyu and the White Dragon King of Liangjie River.
This obviously didn't refer to these two people, but rather the Bai family and the Liangjie River forces.
Since the Bai family had no reason to do such a thing, it could only be the latter.
Therefore, both of them were arranged by Liangjie River.
Rather than, as he and Bai Wenyu worried, coming from two different forces.
“Hmm?”
Xu Chengxian, who was watching the show, also didn't miss Pan Mengdie's previous sentence—because this was originally what he asked us to do, but I don't want to now…
“Does this mean, could it be…” Thinking of this, he couldn't help but look at Lin Rumeng, examining her carefully.
“If it's really what I think, then you really can't judge a book by its cover, and you can't be too one-sided when looking at people.”
Then he looked at Pan Mengdie again.
He felt that these two could truly be considered evenly matched opponents.
“What? Have you come to your senses?” Pan Mengdie asked again after seeing Lin Rumeng's expression. Her tone was mocking as soon as she spoke, “I really don't understand sometimes, how can a person be so stupid, and still have the nerve to live so shamelessly?”
Lin Rumeng, scolded, didn't retort, but looked at her with a resentful expression.
“Why are you glaring? Let me teach you a lesson.” Pan Mengdie sneered, “Don't be silly, the White Dragon King didn't think you could replace me when he sent you here. Your appearance is just to intimidate me.”
“To make me obedient and follow his orders.” She couldn't help but laugh as she said this, “That self-righteous, stinky man thought I would be as panicked and manipulated as I was fifteen years ago when I was intimidated? I won't!”
After speaking, her gaze fell on Xu Chengxian's face, and whether intentionally or unintentionally, she smiled at him: “Daoist, don't misunderstand, I'm not scolding you.”
Xu Chengxian flicked his horsetail whisk with a straight face.
He wouldn't pick up insults.
Self-righteous and stinky, neither of those apply to me!
“Pan Mengdie, what trick are you trying to play again?” Lin Rumeng stared at the face she had torn apart countless times in her dreams, and said angrily, “Although I don't know what you're talking about, don't rely on your glib tongue to…”
“Alright, stop talking.” Pan Mengdie impatiently raised her hand, “I'm annoyed, I can't be bothered to argue with you, you idiot.”
“Bitch! Who are you calling stupid?” Having been called stupid to her face, Lin Rumeng finally couldn't bear it anymore.
“Of course I'm calling you stupid.” Pan Mengdie laughed, “Don't you understand yet? From the moment you entered this courtyard and admitted that you were Lin Rumeng, the one harmed by me fifteen years ago, everything the White Dragon King promised you has become empty, hasn't it?”
Lin Rumeng was stunned.
Immediately, her expression became extremely ugly.
She pointed the dagger at Pan Mengdie and roared in a low voice: “Bitch, you're plotting against me again!”
“Otherwise? Otherwise, why do you think I would call out your name?” Pan Mengdie chuckled, “If I'm not mistaken, you want to replace me and continue to be 'Pan Mengdie', right?”
“Pretend to be me, come to the Governor's mansion, and tell my nephew that I, this 'Lin Rumeng', harmed you, this 'Pan Mengdie', back then.”
“Then, through Pan Anshou, find Bai Wenyun and tell him that the one inside this Pan Mengdie's body is actually Lin Rumeng. Back then, I used demonic magic to switch our souls, and in order not to give up the family's support, I switched my face back to the original.”
Pan Mengdie smoothly laid out a plan, and finally said, “The White Dragon King's people must have told you that this plan will definitely succeed, because it's based on the lies I fabricated, and Bai Wenyu believes in the soul-switching theory.”
Lin Rumeng didn't speak, her eyes flashing repeatedly.
Obviously, she was thinking about how to respond.
“Stop thinking, they're lying to you.” Pan Mengdie said, “You can't succeed, it's too simple to break the situation.”
At the same time, he noticed that Pan Mengdie really liked to smile, no wonder Lin Rumeng was always smiling when she pretended to be her before.
“Of course. Is Daoist trying to say that I might be executed together? That's indeed something they could do. However, what if I poisoned Bai Chengyou?” Pan Mengdie smiled brilliantly and said.
Her words shocked everyone.
“What?”
“Pan Mengdie!” Pan Anshou was shocked.
“Mengdie, is what you're saying true?” Bai Wenyu endured his discomfort and asked, “You poisoned Chengyou?”
“Pan Mengdie! You're crazy!” Lin Rumeng seemed to have found an opportunity and exclaimed in accusation, “That's your own flesh and blood!”
“Shut your mouth.” Pan Mengdie pointed at her, “I don't know who was the woman who didn't hesitate to agree to the White Dragon King, that as long as she could become the Bai's wife, she would strangle any children she gave birth to with her own hands.”
Lin Rumeng's expression changed drastically upon hearing this.
She shouted that Bai Mengdie was talking nonsense.
“...Oh, wow!”
Xu Chengxian blinked.
This is so intense?
“I can't compare to you, I only gave birth to one, and I've raised him until now.” Pan Mengdie said leisurely, “I've never been willing to do it.”
“You're farting! Bitch, it's clearly…” Lin Rumeng paused for a moment, then recklessly shouted, “It's clearly you and the White Dragon King who conspired to make a new plan, and wait until Chengyou grows up to go to the South Sea before killing him!”
“That way, even if the plan is exposed, Bai Wenyu will have to wait another fourteen years to have another son before he can fulfill the marriage contract!”
“Here it comes! Here it comes!” Xu Chengxian exclaimed in his heart.
Finally, we're getting to the point.
The point is the marriage contract!
The marriage contract between the Bai family and the Yellow Dragon clan of the South Sea Dragon Palace!
The White Dragon King's goal, of course, is to prevent this marriage contract from being fulfilled.
If he can't do that, he'll settle for second best and delay it for another fourteen years.
“The White Dragon King is scheming so meticulously, just for this?” Bai Wenyu was very puzzled, “What does my family's marriage contract have to do with him?”
“Even waiting another fourteen years is just a blink of an eye for the long-lived Dragon race!”
“What's the difference between fourteen years later and now?” He was filled with resentment, his face pained, “To this end, he's actually going to such lengths to take my son's life!”
His family has been single-line for several generations.
The ancestors left a letter instructing that if he couldn't marry a Dragon girl, then his Bai family would be extinct in this generation!
The White Dragon King, as expected, wants to cut off the inheritance of his family!
“Don't flatter yourself.” Pan Mengdie sneered upon hearing this, “The White Dragon King has schemed against the Bai family, but it's far from being meticulous and painstaking.”
“What do you mean by this?” Bai Wenyu was stunned.
“…” Xu Chengxian touched his nose.
Good fellow.
This one is also crazy.