Huang Beiyue glanced at the stacks of paper that Ye Lian collected. It's surprisingly a sizeable amount given its only been a month since Ye Lian began her little investigation.
The results?
There is no little amongst them.
"Where's the damn Emperor's Smile? I knew Mother had some stash here somewhere." Huang Beiyue stood up, feeling as if she's about to just call it a day.
"Hold it! Calm down! Be rational!" Ye Lian forced her to sit down.
"You ain't making me read all those and expect to not get a headache!" motioning st the innocent stacks of documents.
"Well, why don't you pity me who investigated them? Give a moment of respect that I became a Private Detective in Xianxia World!" Ye Lian snapped, "If I didn't know any better, I'd say I am picking up pages upon pages from different location to piece up a novel like a damn jigsaw puzzle?! We're all sisters, if I'm going down, so will you!"
Huang Beiyue sighed, which is why she had grabbed unto Akane's dress so she won't ditch her. They are close sisters, they will all die together.
Which is why, they took turns reading through the papers and collectively groaned.
It's already well known of the story about Xiao Yuancheng fooling around with Concubine Qin on the very wedding day of Xiao Yuancheng and Huang Huiwen.
It was because of Huang Huiwen's kindness that she let Concubine Qin marry in as a concubine, basically they got married in the same day.
While it had enticed the uproar and rage of Huang Huiwen's suitor, the Princess Royal at that time who was slapped in the face, retaliated and kicked the man out of the wedding chamber and had not allowed him to enter her chamber since. This confirmed that Huang Beiyue is not the daughter of Xiao Yuancheng, hence his attitude.
Akane scoffed and rolled her eyes in disdain, "Dog man! Not only you did not give your wife any face, you expect her to welcome you with open arms! Dog man! Die!"
Ye Lian prevented their alter ego from ripping the papers apart.
Further back of the wedding, the details are too little given it was taken from a witness at that time, Principal Cang He who had joined in subjugating a Demon Beast. Many Master Experts had died in that battle, in which Princess Royal had shone wonderfully and a mysterious red haired man with the name Lord of the Night.
Dean Cang He had no clear recollection given the state of his injury however, he did notice that the Princess Royal and the Red Haired Man, such extraordinary talent, knew each other. It didn't matter at that time because Princess Royal Huang Huiwen knew so many people, powerful and with extraordinary backgrounds.
This confirms that the seal that contained Yan was used at that time and Huang Huiwen became the jail or, however how did it transferred to Huang Beiyue? They still need data given Akane is still studying the damn seal.
There is no dramatics and no one 'pulled a Tobi-aka-Obito move' when Huang Huiwen went into labor so they need more variable.
It was only much more earlier of that event did the Dongli and Jade Bone Poison happened.
Akane, "……"
Huang Beiyue, "……"
"Yeah, that's legit. Got it from the source, the Emperor himself." Ye Lian pulled a face remembering that she just went into her Royal Uncle's chamber and went into his memories while the man is asleep.
"You don't think we are the Emperor's…." Huang Beiyue hesitated on that
"Knock on the wood! That's a dangerous thought you're approaching!" Akane exclaimed, "No we aren't! We have red hair! Red hair! Understand?!"
The trio read more and there isn't much to it.
"Many had forgotten the Lord of the Night, although there are those that haven't, mostly they are the ones that monopolize the information and rid of those that knew, however, there is something I am certain…." Ye Lian trailed off to let the information sink in, "He went to a school once and is close with his Shijie who is now the Queen of Beiyao Country and the other source is in Glorious Palace….." Ye Lian didn't continue as if deliberating if she should tell the rest.
"There are more sources because obviously the first one is too far and us, being Royals, going there would definitely be political and literal suicide. Let's also cross out the second one because Glorious Palace is practically a good place to either get recruited or get killed. Infiltrating it with our current strength… We might as well dig up our own grave and build our own coffin." Akane frowned, "So…. spit it out."
"There are three more….one is the Spirit Deity in the Seven Pagodas. It is said that mother had its help and assistance in driving out the Dongli Army and Wei Wuchen before… Well, you know, the particular Jade Bone Incident." Ye Lian said, the trio grimaced.
"Damn that man." the two murmured and Ye Lian nodded in agreement.
"Obviously, that will be much more dangerous because we'll be facing a Divine Beast. He may have done our mother a favor but we don't have the face to see him now." Huang Beiyue reasoned.
Ye Lian nodded, "I considered that earlier. The second one is the Obsessed Shimei."
"Obsessed Shimei?" the two parroted, tilted their head as to why Ye Lian used that particular word.
"Jiang Xue, the current Queen of Shura City who's still looking for the Million Beast Jade to remembered our cheap father by." Ye Lian stated flatly
The two pale hearing that, ""Qu-Queen….. Of…. S-Shura C-City….""
"Yes, you heard me right, the Queen of Shura City." Ye Lian confirmed, "It shocked me to almost dispelling when I found out, so obviously we are crossing that option."
"And the last one?"
"Beiyue Manor." Ye Lian answered.
The two groaned.
Akane decided that she at least wants to vent, even if it's unreasonable, "At times like this I want to go to another world and hired a Sherlock Holmes to investigate this case of us! Even Professor Moriarty will do, I won't be picky!" The two didn't comment on that. They had been to three world already, finding out that there is another universe out there, a Sherlock Holmes universe, didn't seemed to be farfetched, "This is a pile of hidden laundry that I don't want to air out or even wash!" Akane continued, "If we follow that thought process, I can't help but feel like our parents are a$$h*les in times like these!"
Ye Lian nodded and let the more hot headed between the trio to vent, after all, they need her for her sealing expertise, it won't do good if she's distracted with thoughts.
"Mother had a very long line of suitors no shorter than three digits, and I'm pretty sure dear Cheap Father also has a sizeable amount under his belt!" Akane whined, "These pair of harem member magnet actually got together. We, the poor sods, got born illegitimately from a pair of Heartbreakers and is unlucky enough to deal with the aftermath when they kicked the bucket!"
After a seldom of silence, giving their parents a moment of respect, annoyance, irritation, and exasperation. That moment of silence was also to get that little commercial break over, they decided to sign the topic back on track.
"Beiyue Manor I can understand, after all, it's the nearest here however it doesn't have a good reputation either," Huang Beiyue leaned back on her seat, feeling boneless, "We're too weak as of yet, we can't charge in there like a barbarian. We need a plan."
"So it's Beiyue Manor." Akane confirmed
"Are we sure there is even humans in there?" Beiyue asked her counterparts
"No, we're charging in blind but it doesn't mean that we should go unprepared." Ye Lian shrugged but then turned serious, "We need to cultivate. Finding out our identity is not much of a necessity as of now, we just knew that we are the descendant of a red haired man, ah, excuse me, Lord of the Night and we have the Hot Potato Jade with us. These two alone is incredibly dangerous, everyone can be our potential enemy and if we're not strong enough, we're sitting ducks."
They already knew that, their common sense isn't offline yet however it made it sound much more grave and serious when voiced out.
"It's a good thing our Cheap Father had left us a valuable instructor."
"What instructor?" The two asked
Ye Lian's drifted her gaze on Huang Beiyue, "Cheap Father left us a Portable Grandfather." Ye Lian smirked
Slowly a far too wide smile appeared on their faces.
Yan is a Demon Beast that can talk and communicate. He must have lived for so many years and knew so many things. They can't pry his mouth open now, but they can when Akane finished analyzing the seal and remake it.
"Akane." Ye Lian and Huang Beiyue spoke seriously and solemnly, as if it's all that is needed to be said to get the message across.
"Don't worry, I understand." Akane nodded, a fierce and determined glint flashed on their eyes.
In the mindscape, the dozing off Yan was awoken by the inexplicable chills down his spine.
"What in the world are those three up to now?" Yan murmured, feeling a sense of premonition.