Chapter 283 Nowhere to Hide

Yan Li smiled slightly: "This princess doesn't like to be flattered. If you want to talk about something, talk about it seriously. If you don't want to talk about it, you can leave here."

"... Sorry." Kang Ziyan bowed his head to apologize, "I was rude."

Ling Ning stood aside, always silent.

Yan Li said: "Go ahead."

"The Kang family has committed many evil deeds in Yanling, and it is not a pity to die." Kang Ziyan put his hands on his knees, with a perfect smile on the corners of his lips, looking gentle and harmless, "I can help the princess."

Ling Ning was surprised and looked at Yan Li subconsciously.

Yan Li's face was normal, calm: "How can I believe that you are really helping me, or taking this opportunity to use me?"

"The princess is of noble status. If there is a chance in the future, it will be as easy to kill me as to kill an ant. How dare I use the princess?" Kang Ziyan smiled faintly, "I just want to use the princess's power to achieve my own goals. I dare to guarantee that I will not hold the princess back."

Yan Li raised his eyebrows slightly.

"It's just that the princess should think things through." Kang Ziyan said solemnly, "The Kang family is the backing of the second prince. If the Kang family is touched, it is equivalent to touching the power of the second prince. Once something happens to the Kang family, the second prince's plan to compete for the throne will be in vain, and he should be angry and hate the princess."

Under normal circumstances, the four princes will definitely treat the princess as their own sister and protect her like a pearl-but the premise is that this princess will not affect their interests.

After all, they need to please the queen in their competition for the throne, and loving their sister is the most direct way to please the queen, and it will not make people feel that they are flattering.

But once the princess's existence hinders them, can they still love and protect her as always?

"I don't need to consider any consequences." Yan Li said calmly, "Just do what you should do."

Kang Ziyan nodded slowly and asked curiously: "Princess, did you deliberately target the Kang family when you arrived in Yanling, wanting to make a splash in the royal family, or was it a coincidence?"

"Is there anything in the Kang family that I should deliberately target?" Yan Li relaxed her body and leaned on the beauty chair, her voice lazy and indifferent, "Today it's the Kang family, tomorrow it's the Li family, and the day after tomorrow it may be the Wang family. As long as what they do violates the laws of the court and hurts the local people, then depending on the severity of the situation, they should pay the due price."

Kang Ziyan smiled: "But this is not something a princess should worry about."

Yan Li raised his eyebrows: "What if I worry about it?"

Kang Ziyan was speechless: "..."

Yes, what if I worry about it?

Will the big families unite to deal with her?

The current queen has been regent for so many years, and no family dared to oppose it, let alone many people really unite to deal with her.

Maybe someone opposed it before, but the end was not good.

"I made a slip of the tongue." Kang Ziyan apologized again, with a gentlemanly demeanor. "Since the princess has done it, she will not worry about any consequences. It is my petty mind."

Yan Li did not care about his attitude and said calmly: "What kind of help can you provide to this princess?"

"The Kang family has done many evil things in Yanling over the years. I will not go into details about how many people were forced to death in business. Just say that the wives and concubines in Kang Zixu's backyard were almost all obtained by him using tough means." Kang Ziyan's smile had not yet disappeared, and hatred was already in his eyes. "As long as all kinds of beauties caught his eye, he would use any means to get them. Of course, with his current status, he does not need too many conspiracies and calculations. As long as he threatens and tempts them a little, he can make those women unable to escape."

Yan Li's eyebrows were slightly locked, and his expression was calm and unpredictable.

"I can help the princess get the confessions of those women, let them willingly confess Kang Zixu's brutal behavior, and can also provide the burial place of those beauties who died at Kang Zixu's hands in recent years."

Yan Li nodded slowly: "Anything else?"

"The court needs to send someone to investigate other evidences." Kang Ziyan said gently, "I can only provide the greatest help."

Yan Li finally asked: "Why do you do this?"

Kang Ziyan was silent for a moment: "The princess may not believe it if I tell you."

"Tell me, I will judge whether you believe it or not."

"My legs are poisoned by Kang Zixu, and the girl I once loved the most was used." When Kang Ziyan said this, sadness appeared in his eyes, "It's a pity that she died herself, died at the hands of Kang Zixu."

This is a double betrayal of family affection and love.

The beloved was occupied by his own brother, and he was poisoned... If that woman was still alive, he could give his hatred a place to rest, or he would not be so extreme.

But she is dead.

He had no place to place his hatred, and could only make the culprit who caused all this pay a thousand times the price, otherwise he would have trouble sleeping every night.

"Your legs..." Yan Li's expression suddenly became subtle, "You must have been poisoned when you were nine years old."

Kang Ziyan's expression changed slightly, and then he smiled bitterly: "So the princess knows so much about the Kang family?"

"I know a little bit."

Kang Ziyan hummed: "So Your Highness thinks that you can't have someone you like at the age of nine?"

"Not really." Yan Li said calmly, "Some people fall in love earlier."

"She and I are childhood sweethearts." Kang Ziyan looked up at the depths of the garden, with a hint of sadness in his eyes, "After being poisoned when I was young, I couldn't accept the fact that my legs were disabled, my temper became increasingly irritable, and I even went on hunger strike many times. She has always been by my side to comfort me, take care of me carefully, come to talk to me every day, and never despise me for being disabled."

"After hearing the beginning of this story, I can probably guess the ending." Yan Li's mouth curled up slightly, "Your feelings for each other deepened as you spent more and more time together, and you became more and more inseparable from her. After a few years of getting along, you found out that she was the one who poisoned you."

Kang Ziyan's expression froze for a moment, and he turned his head and took a deep look at Yan Li. In a trance, he felt as if he was being stripped naked and there was nothing to hide.

Was she really just guessing, or had she already investigated him clearly?

But not many people knew this secret.

She had just arrived in Yanling last night, so how could she dig out his secret that had been sealed for many years so quickly?

"The evidence you provided is very useful to me." Yan Li said, "If it really works, I can find a way to cure your leg according to the principle of cooperation and mutual benefit."

Kang Ziyan was silent for a moment, and shook his head slowly: "The imperial physician has come to see you before."

"With your brother here, the imperial physician will not treat you even if he can." How could Yan Li not understand the twists and turns, "But I won't find the imperial physician in the palace, don't worry."

Kang Ziyan nodded indifferently, not holding much hope at all.

"If there is nothing else, I will take my leave first." Kang Ziyan bowed and saluted, "After I go back, I will tell my father that the princess agreed to make peace with the Kang family, but she is still angry and can't lose face for the time being."