Reborn to Become A Queen: The Real Heiress's Comeback-Chapter 256: Heal Well, I’ll Marry You When You’re Better!

Chapter 256: Chapter 256: Heal Well, I’ll Marry You When You’re Better!

Zhan Lan saw for the first time in a man’s eyes, the flicker of his passionate and straightforward love.

Mu Yan looked at her wound and frowned, "Your clothes are about to stick to the wound, I need to treat it for you. Bear with it a bit."

Zhan Lan laid on the bed, showing half her face, "Have your maid treat my wound!"

Mu Yan’s hand touched her back, "I don’t have a maid."

Zhan Lan turned to look at him, winced in pain, and Mu Yan’s hand gently pushed her back down, "Don’t move, you’re like this, I can’t have any improper thoughts..." ƒreewebηoveℓ.com

Mu Yan carefully cut open the back of Zhan Lan’s clothes, full of pity as he absorbed the sight of her mangled back, and couldn’t bear to look further down.

For the first time, Zhan Lan exposed her back in front of a man, burying her face in the quilt, feeling Mu Yan’s fingers with gauze, cleaning the wound little by little.

The pain and tingling feeling uncontrollably shook her body.

Mu Yan’s movements were already very gentle, he couldn’t tell her anymore to bear with it.

The water in the basin had turned red; Mu Yan helped her clean the wound with fresh gauze.

After treating the wound, Mu Yan’s fingers gently applied the cool ointment.

Sweat appeared on Zhan Lan’s forehead and neck. Mu Yan’s fingers touched from her waist to her buttocks lightly, Zhan Lan held his hand, "Let’s wait for Liu Xi to come back!"

Mu Yan blushed at the curve below her waist, lifted the cloth and peered, "It’s already a mess, I’ll let you see it in return."

Zhan Lan couldn’t see his expression, but scoffed, "I’m not watching."

Mu Yan cut open her skirt and looked at the wound below her waist.

His heart ached as he helped clean Zhan Lan’s wound, while her face had turned entirely red.

In her past life during wars, she had suffered more injuries than now, every part of her body had been injured, and when cornered, Xiao Chen had torn her clothes to apply medicine and stop the bleeding.

To her, Xiao Chen was like a brother, without any trace of shame between men and women.

Now as Mu Yan wiped her wounds, his fingers brought pain and tingling, making Zhan Lan feel embarrassed and uneasy, unknowingly tightening her grip onto the quilt and burying her face deeper.

She felt differently about Mu Yan compared to other men, even these intimate gestures didn’t repel her but only made her feel ashamed.

Zhan Lan clearly knew, she had a fondness for Mu Yan.

Yet, she feared this increasingly strong feeling, stronger even than her past feelings for Si Jun.

She really did not want to fall because of a man again.

Mu Yan applied the ointment, and after everything, he took off her shoes, gently moved her legs onto the quilt, covered her back with a light gauze after the medicine was applied and gently said, "Lie down and don’t move."

Face flushed, Zhan Lan nodded, "Oh."

Mu Yan looked at her, his eyes cool yet filled with concern, touched her hair, "I’m here, just sleep well here."

"Oh," Zhan Lan nestled in the cloud-like quilt, slanting her head, sneaking a glance at Mu Yan leaning against a soft couch by the window.

Mu Yan didn’t dare to look at her, just quietly staring out the window, he was very happy today because Zhan Lan had agreed to marry him.

He was also very unhappy today because Zhan Lan was injured.

He silently vowed, as long as Zhan Lan was by his side, he would never let such a thing happen again.

Now, Zhan Lan still didn’t know of his identity as the Regent King, including his background.

Resting his hand on his forehead, he looked at Zhan Lan and smiled, "Why did you decide to marry me today?"

Turning her head, she looked at him, "One is because of my selfish desires, if I don’t marry you now, Emperor Xuanwu won’t let me go, and second, every time I am in danger, you are always by my side, I might regret missing out on you! So I wanted to take a chance..."

Mu Yan slowly walked to her side, sat down by the bed, took her hand and said, "I don’t want to hide it from you, Emperor Xuanwu has been imprisoned by me, my current identity is the Regent King, and I am also the Imperial Uncle to Si Jun and the others, do you still want to marry me?"

After Mu Yan expressed his feelings, Zhan Lan was rarely still when she saw such a serious expression on his face, she couldn’t reveal that she already knew Mu Yan’s identity, to her surprise Mu Yan had gone this far.

Imprisoning Emperor Xuanwu? Was it for her, or because of her that he hastened his plans?

After a moment, Zhan Lan answered, "If the problem is solved, we don’t need to make it a transaction..."

Mu Yan stepped forward a few steps, grasping her hand, "You can’t back out now."

Zhan Lan smiled and said, "Alright, I’ll marry you."

Mu Yan, feeling like a candy at his lips was almost taken back, was relieved when Zhan Lan agreed, and the sense of loss instantly vanished.

His eyes tender and enthralling, "Before we get married, I need to confess something to you."

Zhan Lan looked at him, waiting for him to continue.

Mu Yan spoke word by word, "My apparent identity is the heir to the foremost family, the Mu Family, which can be verified publicly. My real identity is that half of my blood comes from the Si Family, and half from the Imperial Family of Zhongzhou; I am the son of the Princess of Zhongzhou and the only surviving heir of Zhongzhou. If my identity is exposed, the four nations would fear me, and maybe even want to kill me. Would you still want to marry me?"

Mu Yan truly wanted to know whether Zhan Lan was afraid of being implicated by him.

He yearned for an answer.

Zhan Lan’s scalp numbed, indeed startled by Mu Yan’s second identity; she finally understood what Mu Yan was scheming – not just over Nanjin, but unifying the entire world and reviving Zhongzhou.

She really was frightened by Mu Yan’s identity; Eastern Wei, Western Rong, Nanjin, Beiyue, none of their territories were as large as before when at most they could only claim kingship. The only major nation in the central plains at that time was Zhongzhou.

Those four nations were merely subsidiaries to Zhongzhou.

Later, because Emperor Guangling of Zhongzhou had no sons, at fifty years old, he finally had a daughter.

He cherished his daughter as a treasured gem, growing up to inherit the throne as Princess.

However, when the Princess grew up and was about to inherit the throne, she suddenly disappeared.

It turned out, that Princess was Mu Yan’s mother!

Mu Yan bent down to look at Zhan Lan, "These are my secrets. If successful, I will unify the world; if I fail, I’m afraid even you will be implicated. Zhan Lan, do you still want to marry me now?"

His palms were sweating involuntarily, and his Adam’s apple bobbed, fearing to hear an undesirable answer.

Zhan Lan had never expected Mu Yan’s identity to be so complex; even if she destroyed the Si Family’s reign and became the master of Nanjin, she would still have to confront Mu Yan.

Because she protected her family, and Mu Yan desired the world. If the world could be unified and wars cease, that was the scenario Zhan Lan most wanted to see.

Her gaze firm, Zhan Lan looked at Mu Yan and said, "Mu Yan, as long as you don’t harm my grandfather and the people of the main house of the Zhan Family, I am willing to take this risk with you."

Mu Yan let go of his tension-filled, sweaty hand; Zhan Lan was a rational woman, willing to marry him with love being secondary.

Between weighing pros and cons, she chose the safest solution.

He was just the best choice among many for Zhan Lan, but he could see from her eyes that her attitude towards love was to enjoy the present and not look to the future.

Moreover, if she discovered anything unfavorable about him, she would leave him at any time.

Even so, Mu Yan didn’t want to miss being with her; he gripped Zhan Lan’s hand tightly, "Zhan Lan, I know I am the best choice for you now, but someday, I’ll wait for you to give your heart to me."

Zhan Lan smiled faintly, "We’ll see how you do!"

Mu Yan smiled with a crooked lip, "Get well soon, I can’t wait to marry you!"

Zhan Lan lay on the bed, bored and swinging her feet and said, "If grandfather knew I was beaten in the palace, he’d probably be worried."

Mu Yan looked into her eyes and said, "Won’t you tell your husband about you and the Zhan Family?"

Zhan Lan knew she couldn’t hide anything from Mu Yan and spoke with ease, "You’ve figured it all out?"

Mu Yan nodded, "You and the people of the main house of the Zhan Family look very alike. That Zhan Xuerou doesn’t seem like she’s from the Zhan Family, could it be that you are the legitimate daughter of the Zhan Family?"

Zhan Lan resting her chin in her hand said, "Lord Regent is frightfully clever."

Mu Yan laughed, "My lady, do not mock me. Have you not reclaimed your identity because you fear Emperor Xuanwu would find out and accelerate his actions against the Zhan Family?"

Zhan Lan helplessly said, "You’ve seen through everything, but that’s just one of the reasons."

Mu Yan continued to listen, and Zhan Lan said, "The year I was born, there was a doctor named Yu Jinchan who personally saw two midwives switch mine and Zhan Xuerou’s identities."

"Both midwives died, only that Yu Jinchan’s whereabouts remain unknown!"

Mu Yan listened to Zhan Lan’s words, his brows furrowed, "That name sounds familiar."