"Yu Qiwen, now, we might as well open the skylight and say something. I know that at present, in order to defend the orthodoxy of the Yun clan and the country in the hands of the Yun clan, Yun Zhen and Yun Jie must share the same hatred. That being the case, then it's not difficult for me to think that even if you don't know about Yun Jie's search for me yesterday, it shouldn't be difficult for you to guess his possible purpose, right?"

Speaking of this, Gao Ran deliberately paused, patiently waiting for Yu Qiwen's response.

Compared with before, Yu Qiwen at this time, compared with being wary of Gao Ran in front of him, he resisted and resisted the self-doubt in his heart even more. Even, in order to resist its influence on him, he did not hesitate to turn most of his awareness to himself, just to suppress it completely. However, in this way, his wariness of Gao Ran will be correspondingly weakened, but he has no idea about it......

Yu Qiwen thought that he had slowly calmed down, so he thought about Gao Ran's words just now in a state where he thought he was calm, and it was indeed as she expected that he quickly thought: The reason why Yun Jie went to Gao Ran privately was most likely to win her over.

"Hmm. After a long time, he whispered affirmation.

But Yu Qiwen's reaction inadvertently let Gao Ran know that he should have known that she had a personal relationship with Yun Jie. It's just that she still can't figure out how much he knows about the key details of this matter?

"Okay, now that you've guessed the purpose of his coming to me, then you should know that in my eyes, you and Yun Jie are with Yun Zhen. And right now, the relationship between me and your group is that you need me, not that I have to cooperate with you. Of course, it's not like I can't prioritize you.

"So, you'd better be clear: your attitude toward me now will affect whether or not I ultimately choose to work with you. You should know that if you miss this opportunity, you will probably lose my help completely.

"Not only that, but with the current situation in the city, the confrontation between the various forces in the entire Yunxiang territory, and my own situation—after roughly considering these, if you can think from my standpoint, then it is not difficult for you to think: once I refuse to help you, then I will most likely choose to help the Fu family instead, so as to get the Fu family's help to me. But if that's the case, then you're not just going to have to be beaten from the back. - My joining will allow the Fu family to be blessed with at least twice their own strength. Moreover, because my ultimate goal is not in conflict with the Fu family, they don't have to worry about pulling me into an alliance to lure wolves into the house.

"But you're miserable. In the face of such an enemy, you will surely be defeated. ”

"Tell me, what conditions do you have? Since you have come to visit late at night, we must still have room for negotiation. What do you want me to promise you?"

"Well, it's normal for you to think that. But this time you're wrong. I'm here just to ask you a few questions, but I need you to answer them truthfully. That's what I want – your cooperative attitude.

"How? Can you do it? If you refuse to cooperate, or deliberately mislead me, or even lie to me, then don't help you, even if it's just to get revenge on you, I won't let you sit on this throne.

"Although I don't necessarily have the ability to support which forces will be able to sit firmly in the country, if it comes to hindering or even hindering which forces are sitting on the country, then I am very sure. If I don't want you to get this country, I think my destructive power will still be able to be resisted by few people. - I still have this self-confidence. ”

"I don't doubt it. Yu Qiwen does not deny this at all. Speaking of destructive power, he had already learned the dangers of Gao Ran. I have long known that even if I can't be a friend, I must never be an enemy of her, otherwise I will not die or be disabled.

"Very well, since you are so sensible, then you are welcome. Let me ask you, since Yun Jie and you are in the same group, how much do you know about Yun Jie's personal relationship with me, and how much does Yun Zhen know about Yun Jie's relationship with me?"

"What do you mean?" Yu Qiwen could feel that Gao Ran's question was a little strange, but for a while, he couldn't think of what was wrong?

"It's not interesting, I just think, since you said that Yun Zhen is still as persistent with me as he was at the beginning, but in reality, he has been able to work with Yun Jie for so many years?—— this sense of disobedience makes me very puzzled: are the two of them at a different heart, but they are forced by the situation to choose to temporarily join forces with the outside world, and then settle accounts in the future? Or does Yun Zhen actually know very little about my personal relationship with Yun Jie, or even not as much as you?"

Yu Qiwen also thought that Gao Ran should have investigated him before he came here, if that was the case, then she should have known that he had already known about her acquaintance with Yun Jie. He replied frankly, "I hid it." ”

The implication is to imply Gao Ran: If it is not necessary, it is easy not to let Yun Zhen know the truth. Otherwise, the consequences will be unimaginable.

Gao Ran knew that Yu Qiwen's hint was serious. She could also imagine that, with Yun Zhen's persistent possessiveness, he had probably taken it for granted from the beginning that once the crisis was resolved, she would sooner or later be his possession. - This kind of Yun Zhen, especially with such a big force, she really has to deal with him carefully! Otherwise, it will not only be her own trouble. With the power in his hands, maybe the people who will be innocently affected and implicated will be far beyond her imagination. - This guilt, she doesn't want to bear it in vain. I don't think I can afford it!

"I understand your concerns. But since you can find out, it's probably only a matter of time before Yun Zhen knows about it. He doesn't know now, but it should be out of trust in you. You and Yun Jie have both concealed this matter from him, and since I have been away from the capital for many years and out of his sight, it is reasonable that he has not yet found out. But there are always hidden dangers. - What's more, Yun Jie has made it clear to me that he will not regret his marriage. And you, whether out of personal affection or righteousness, but your deliberate act of hiding this matter from Yun Zhen, once it is revealed, you are likely to completely lose Yun Zhen's trust in you. He doesn't necessarily understand your good intentions. And in the future, I'm afraid you will also have to worry about your life.

"As a king, once you become suspicious of your subordinates, especially those who once trusted you immensely, it will be a matter of time before you become murderous to a confidant like you. - It's an anomaly that I won't kill you. - Have you ever thought about that? Are you fully aware of this?"

"That's what I want to ask you. Since you know that Zhen is in love with you, and you don't want to have anything to do with the royal family, then why do you still want to make a private engagement with Jie? Even if he took the initiative, with your temperament, if you don't want to, who can force you?"

"Well, is that hard to understand? Or did you not understand what I really wanted during the two years you spent in the mountains with me?"

"Yes, I did think that you really wanted to hide the rivers and lakes and not ask about the world, but when I came back, I learned about Jie's relationship with Tiange, and then I found out that you were the thread involved, and then I found out that you actually had a private marriage contract with Jie...... So, how do you make me believe in you?"

"Alas-" Gao Ran sighed helplessly, and said with emotion: "It seems that you are still a fan of the authorities." It's so obvious that you can't see it at all just because you're in it?"

"Can't see clearly? I can't see what?"

"You will feel that my words and deeds are contradictory, because you are in the game and can't see clearly, you will feel contradictory. But in my opinion, my choice and my ultimate goal are never contradictory.

"I think that at the beginning, I was helpless, powerless, and powerless, and I thought that Emperor Yun would live for a long time - at least longer than me, so I wanted to take advantage of Yun Jie's initiative to open up to me, and use the marriage contract with him, intending to use him and Emperor Yun's power together to suppress Yun Zhen's possible attempts at me when necessary, forcing him to give up on me. But I didn't think that when I came back this time, I didn't have time to regret my marriage, so I was first told by Yun Jie that he would not regret his marriage.

"This matter is very important, and I know that Yun Jie will not make such an insistence rashly, so I want to stop expressing my position for the time being and wait and see what happens. I plan to make a decision after we have a clear understanding of the specific situation of all the forces in the capital today.

"But who would have thought, I just had this plan, and Yun Jie then informed me that Yun Huang might not live that day. After all, when I first made my marriage contract with Yun Jie, I didn't take into account that Yun Huang might die prematurely due to an unnatural death! But now that it has happened, I can only accept reality and improvise.

"So, right now, I don't just have to wait and see what happens, but I can't break off my marriage contract with Yun Jie easily!

"You think, now that there is no first emperor and Yun Zhen has become the new emperor, then if the Yun clan really escaped this catastrophe and let Yun Zhen sit firmly on the throne, then I really need Yun Jie to check and balance Yun Zhen's possible threat to me for me. - I think that since Yun Jie dares to insist like that, then he must have mastered something that can balance Yun Zhen. Otherwise, his persistence will be tantamount to planting a curse for himself and dooming himself to self-destruction in the future.

"So for me, the best choice for me at the moment is to not easily break off the marriage contract with Yun Jie until I understand how much bargaining chips the two brothers have in their respective hands and what they have. Sure enough, it would be better to keep this 'shield' for the time being—whether it really works or not. ”

Listening to Gao Ran's eloquent talk, Yu Qiwen couldn't help but take a deep breath. Only then did he suddenly remember that Gao Ran had reminded him a long time ago when he was in the mountains, asking him not to invest too much personal feelings in Yun Zhen. She once said that Yun Zhen's identity was destined from the beginning for him to sacrifice a lot for his identity and for the country he had to defend in the future - including his own sincerity. And at that time, he also had a moment because of her reminder, and he really remembered the kind of kiss between his father Yu Ying and the former emperor, who said that they were not close, and that they were far away, but they were obviously wary of the delicate relationship between each other everywhere.

Thinking of these things again, Yu Qiwen remembered for the first time something more distant and something that he almost forgot now: he remembered that when he was very young, he once asked Tai Ying why he didn't have a mother, and then Yu Ying told him that he was his adopted son from the Zilou, not his own child. And Yu Ying herself has already sworn not to marry for life.

But as for how Yu Ying persuaded the former emperor to agree to his wishes, Yu Qiwen is unknown. However, it is not difficult for him to think now: if he can force the former emperor to make concessions, and if he does not forcibly give marriage and pull Yu Ying into the ranks of the emperor's relatives, there must be something in Yu Ying's hands that can coerce the former emperor to comply. - "But what is it? How did he do it in the first place?—— not only forced the emperor to give in, but also saved the lives of their father and son to live to this day?"

"What are you thinking, so engrossed?" Gao Ran asked deliberately feigned curiosity. It was the first time since her visit tonight that she tried to lighten the mood between the two.

was reminded by Gao Ran like this, and Yu Qiwen quickly retracted the unexpected distraction just now.

"Nothing ......"

After coming back to his senses again, he revisited what Gao Ran had just said, and Yu Qiwen began to believe it a little: the inconsistency between Gao Ran's words and deeds in the past was not because her words and deeds were really contradictory, but that he had always thought about Gao Ran's actions from his own standpoint, which caused him to completely ignore the issues that he had to consider only when thinking from her standpoint, which led to a misunderstanding of what she did.

At this time, when Gao Ran patiently confessed her true thoughts to him, Yu Qiwen thought carefully about the explanation she gave, and agreed-if she thought about it from her standpoint, then her choice was indeed reasonable-, and he believed Gao Ran's words a little: Perhaps, the reason why she has not broken off her marriage contract with Yun Jie is because she is afraid that Yun Zhen has not let go of her "obsession" (in her words).

"Since I decided to hide the matter between you and Jie, I naturally have been prepared for it. The stakes are high, and now it seems that we can only take one step at a time......"

Gao Ran understood Yu Qiwen's words and responded: "It seems that you finally believe me? Don't worry, my ultimate goal is nothing more than to get away from you, not to provoke the relationship between the two brothers, let alone take Yun Jie away." If the situation allows, I will definitely not be able to ask for the dissolution of the marriage contract with Yun Jie. But right now, it's not the time. ”

"Well, I believe you. ”

Either way, at least the most difficult knot between the two of them was finally untied. And, no matter what happens in the future, only the two of them can know about it. - Even Yun Jie must not let him know about this.