The male lead went insane after the female supporting character gave birth to the main villain'

"What?" Su Zhan asked in a panic and confusion.

Qin Yan's face darkened, and he clenched his fists tightly.

Su Yan hadn't expected things to turn out this way.

"All three of you have been poisoned by the Qi-Trapping Powder, but there are only two antidotes. You can decide for yourselves who will take the antidote. I need to go back and deal with my own sect first." He Qianji had no choice but to let them choose for themselves.

Crane Qianji came and went in a hurry, leaving Su Yan and the other two in the room in silence.

Su Zhan looked at the medicine bottle on the table and quickly made a decision. He knelt down solemnly in front of Qin Yan and said, "Your Highness, I beg Your Highness to take good care of Ayan in the future. When she grows up, please choose a suitable husband for her and send her off to get married in my stead."

"Chang Kaimo, don't ask me. Take care of your own sister. You and Ayan each take one antidote. I'll find another way." Qin Yan pulled Su Zhan up from the ground.

Su Zhan was unwilling, and the two were deadlocked.

Suddenly, Su Yan stood up, took the bottle, poured out two antidotes, and after carefully examining them, said to the two of them, "This antidote is real, you can take it without worry."

Your Highness, brother, we have almost two more days. I've already detected many medicinal ingredients in the antidote. I'll go back and try to make the antidote myself.

"Ayan, you take the antidote first." Su Zhan and Qin Yan tacitly left one of the antidote pills for Su Yan, wanting her to take it first.

Su Yan left without looking back, saying, "Put the antidote aside for now; I will definitely make one."

Su Zhan and Qin Yan knew that she, like them, hoped that the people she cared about could live, so they did not force her to take the antidote immediately.

Anyway, if they still can't make an antidote by the day after tomorrow, they will definitely give her one of these antidotes.

As for the other one, neither Qin Yan nor Su Zhan was willing to take it.

The next day, Su Zhan and Qin Yan, who had been locked in a stalemate all night, saw Su Yan's female bodyguard, Ling Chun, rushing over anxiously.

Lingchun was a female bodyguard that Su Zhan specially chose for Su Yan.

She was highly skilled in martial arts and extremely loyal.

He was almost always by Su Yan's side, and his personality was always calm and composed.

Why are you so flustered right now?

"Master, Your Highness, my young lady has gone missing!"

Su Zhan's vision went black, and he abruptly stood up from the ground. "What did you say? Ayan is missing? How could Ayan be missing?"

Ah Yan doesn't know kung fu and is physically weak, so how could she have disappeared under the protection of guards and retainers?

Lingchun quickly held the letter above her head. "Master, this is a letter left by Miss. I found it on the table in Miss's room."

Su Zhan hurriedly took the letter over, and Qin Yan also came over to look at it.

The letter contained only a few words.

Brother, Your Highness, Ayan is gone. There's no need to look for her.

Below the characters are the ink imprints of two jade pendants.

One of them was a red jade unicorn pendant that Qin Yan had taken off his person and given to her. Su Yan had worn it with her every day for the past three years.

The other jade pendant represents the identity of the direct descendant of the Su family. It is exactly the same as the jade pendant representing Su Zhan's identity, and the characters "Zhan" and "Yan" are engraved in the dark on it.

Su Yan took away the jade pendant that represented Su Zhan's status as a direct descendant.

Beneath the two ink marks, there was a line of small characters that read: "Ayan took these two jade pendants with her, as if her elder brother and Your Highness had accompanied Ayan through her final moments."

"Someone come quick!" Su Zhan ran out with tears streaming down his face, shouting for help as he ran.

Qin Yan wiped away his tears and summoned his personal guards. The two of them searched for Su Yan's whereabouts, using the small village as the center.

After searching for a day and a night, all the personal guards finally found Su Yan's trail on the mountain.

However, the trail led to a bottomless cliff!

Su Zhan knelt on the edge of the cliff, clutching a white handkerchief tightly in both hands. His lifeless eyes stared at the cliff, and his expression became one of deep pain.

Standing to the side, Qin Yan stared blankly at the cliff, motionless like a statue.

"Your Highness, footprints, bloodstains, broken branches, and threads from torn clothing—all the traces stop here," the subordinate sent out to search for the traces reported to Qin Yan in a low voice.

Su Zhan suddenly coughed up a mouthful of dark blood and then lost consciousness.

Qin Yan had Su Zhan carried back, and he stood on the edge of the cliff for a very long time, until the afterglow of the setting sun was about to disappear, before returning to the small village.

He returned to his rented room, picked up the white jade bottle containing the antidote, poured out one pill and swallowed it dry. Then he took the bottle to Su Zhan's room and said to Su Zhan, who was lying half-dead on the bed, "Eat it."

Seeing that Su Zhan had no reaction, Qin Yan grabbed his collar and pulled him off the bed. "Eat it! We're going back to Kunjing to avenge Ayan!"

revenge?

Correct!

Ah Yan was murdered!

He had to avenge Ayan before he could face her, his father, mother, and grandmother!

Su Zhan poured out the antidote and put it in his mouth, biting it hard. The intense bitterness spread in his mouth, but it was nothing compared to the bitterness in his heart at that moment.

He lost his last remaining relative in this world...

At this moment, Qin Yan's personal guards rushed over and said, "Your Highness, news has come from Kunjing that His Majesty will appoint Prince Changsheng as Crown Prince at the morning court tomorrow."

Qin Yan remained silent for a long time before suddenly asking, "How is the investigation going? Is the King of Everlasting Victory involved in this?"

"Your Highness, this matter was indeed orchestrated by Prince Changsheng, but it was not solely his doing. Major aristocratic families, led by the Jiang and Chen families, as well as former court officials, were all involved."

"Heh..." Qin Yan slowly curled into a cold smile, his eyes filled with sinister and ruthless intent. "Chang Kai, did you hear that? Those people are the murderers who killed A Yan. What do you think their fate should be?"

"Die!" Su Zhan's bloodshot eyes were filled with intense hatred.

Qin Yan's smile widened, "Then let them all die!"

.........

One month later, King Changsheng died suddenly, and Emperor Yongchang abdicated.

The champion king ascended the throne on the 18th of the following month and changed the era name to Shenwu.

After Emperor Shenwu ascended the throne, he ruthlessly suppressed powerful families and former ministers.

Every day, a large number of prisoners are beheaded and their heads displayed in the streets of Kunjing Market. Their blood stains the floor repeatedly, eventually soaking through it and leaving a dark red color that can never be washed away.

This also became one of the important pieces of evidence used by aristocratic families and scholars to criticize Emperor Shenwu for his cruelty and inhumanity.

Afterwards, along with the reputation of Emperor Shenwu for cruelty, other things that came to light included his fratricide, coup, lack of offspring, and abstinence from women.

It became a topic of conversation among the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

The common people heard from the scholars that Emperor Shenwu was cruel and tyrannical, and they also cursed him behind his back.

The name of tyrant was firmly attached to Emperor Shenwu.

…………

Eight years later.

Now eighteen, Su Yan has grown into the very image she had created in the regulator, a beauty so stunning it could make fish sink and geese fall from the sky, and the moon hide its face in shame.

Coupled with her delicate and frail appearance, even when she wore a veil and walked down the street, she still attracted the attention and stares of all passersby.

"System, is Qin Yan almost here?" Su Yan strolled casually along the bustling street.

"Here he comes! The tall, imposing man with the high ponytail is Qin Yan in disguise." The system marked him with a large, bold red arrow for Su Yan to see.