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Chapter 372 The Regent’s Background
Isn't it natural for the regent to fight with the emperor?

At least that's what Qin Lang always thought before he gradually got to know Bai Qingqing.

Of course, his understanding is basically based on the stories in the vernacular novels.

Speaking specifically about Bai Qingqing and Su Yupan, Qin Lang only knew that the current dispute between the [Regent Faction] and the [New Emperor Faction] could be traced back to the affairs of the Crown Prince after the death of the previous emperor.

……

The late Emperor Zhaotong left a will to let his niece, Su Yupan, inherit the throne. To this day, no one knows the reason, including Su Yupan herself.

Anyway, the prince at that time could not accept it and began to find ways to seize power. It was from this time that Bai Qingqing began to support the former prince.

But soon, the former prince gradually fell into madness.

The Gu Family Fort, one of the six old factions granted amnesty by the previous emperor in his campaign to pacify the barbarians and defend the country, was brought up by the former crown prince, which led to the story of the six-year-old Gu Jin escaping and being picked up by Su Yinping.

As the former crown prince completely lost his mind, the regent became the new power in the court that "replaced" the former crown prince.

……

These were the earliest things Qin Lang knew about the struggle between the Regent and the Empress.

But these alone are obviously unable to explain the questions raised by Qin Lang himself.

"Qingqing, can I ask why you are fighting with Yupan?"

Bai Qingqing ate the roasted sparrow, thought for a while, and asked Qin Lang:
"My dear, why do you think that is?"

"I think…"

Qin Lang couldn't think of anything to say about the conflict between the Regent and the Emperor except the four words "struggle for power and profit", but he couldn't bring himself to say these words.

Because Qin Lang really couldn't force himself to tell himself how interested Regent Bai Qingqing was in power.

So Qin Lang had no choice but to test:

"It can't be... just for fun, right?"

Bai Qingqing blinked:

"Why not?"

"???"

Seeing Qin Lang's complicated expression, Bai Qingqing took a bite of the grilled fish in his hand, which she had previously disliked, and continued leisurely:

"I just questioned why it was not possible. I didn't say that I was just doing it for fun. What's that expression on your face..."

"What on earth is that for?"

After a long time, Bai Qingqing gave an answer that Qin Lang had never expected and could not understand at all.

"To repay a favor."

"Repay...repay a favor?"

Qin Lang was very puzzled:

"Whose favor are you repaying?"

"The late emperor."

"what?"

The Regent is fighting the Empress to repay the late Emperor's kindness?

Qin Lang didn't understand at all, but he saw Bai Qingqing had already eaten her portion of roasted sparrow, stretched herself, and then found a comfortable position and fell into Qin Lang's arms.

"It's over, it's over. Originally, eating is to get rid of sleepiness and replenish energy, but I am sleepy after eating. What should I do, my beloved concubine?"

"That's what we said... but there's still no clear plan for escaping. Although we have currently speculated that there may be a formation set up in the Ten Thousand Souls Forest, even so, let alone a clue to breaking the formation, we can't even get a glimpse of the formation itself..."

This is the most annoying and helpless thing.

Qin Lang is now very worried about Su Yupan's situation, but apart from using his internal energy to try to calm himself down, he has no other way to deal with it. Faced with the situation where the nearby scenery seems to be always changing randomly, what Qin Lang needs most is some accidents to break the status quo.

To put it bluntly, it means obeying orders.

At least until he could come up with a breakthrough, that was the only way. Therefore, Qin Lang was more interested in the previous topic:

“Qingqing…”

"Ok?"

"Did you forget to say something..."

"say what?"

"Repay a favor..."

"Oh, that one."

My beloved concubine's chest feels so comfortable. Bai Qingqing looked at the sky and pondered for a while:

"My beloved, do you know that what I am about to say is something that I have not told anyone so far? But I want to tell you, not only because I love you, but also because I am a little worried. If I can't get out this time, I may have to keep some things to myself for the rest of my life."

"Don't think too much. You won't be able to get out of here. That won't happen."

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"really?"

"real."

"Hmm~ Then I will continue to keep this to myself?"

"..."

"But, seeing that my beloved concubine wants to hear this, I am not a heartless person. Come, let me smell it first~"

Bai Qingqing said as she lowered her arms around Qin Lang's neck and kissed him on the handsome face, twice, three times...

Although Qin Lang felt helplessly that he was really like a "beloved concubine" who was being teased, to be honest, he didn't hate the Regent's soft lips.

"Alright, Mr. Bai."

Qin Lang deliberately changed to a more serious address:

"What exactly is this repayment of favor you're talking about?"

"Well…"

Bai Qingqing took a deep breath and said after a moment:
"Qin Lang, do you know how old Xiao Panzi was when he ascended the throne?"

"Thirteen."

"What about this king?"

"Uh?"

Qin Lang opened his mouth, and Bai Qingqing continued:
"That year, I was also thirteen years old. I am the same age as Xiao Panzi, but the difference is that she is the niece of the late emperor, and I am... the adopted daughter of the late emperor."

"The late emperor's adopted daughter?"

Qin Lang was shocked. This was the first time he knew about this.

Bai Qingqing said that it was normal not to know about this, as not many people in the entire palace knew about it.

"Even Xiao Panzi still thinks that I am just the daughter of a minister, which is understandable because the late emperor only provided manpower and material resources for my upbringing. How should I put it... Compared to a real adopted daughter, he treated me more like a fish in a pond, watching from afar and throwing me some food from time to time. But for me at that time, this was already a blessing from fate... Although I myself don't have any feelings for the late emperor's 'adopted daughter'..."

……

Qin Lang listened to this conversation intermittently, and now he seemed to understand it a little.

What Bai Qingqing called "the late emperor's adopted daughter" was actually like a big sect accepting a very marginal disciple. The sect leader and the marginal disciple rarely even saw each other, but at least the marginal disciple ate the sect's food and slept in the sect's house.

As for why Bai Qingqing had fallen to the point of being "adopted" by the late emperor, and why basic food and shelter were a blessing from heaven for Bai Qingqing, Bai Qingqing's next sentence made Qin Lang's eyes widen.

"Strictly speaking, I am not actually from the Great Zhou, because the person who gave birth to me was from the Rakshasa Cult."

……

Qin Lang never expected that the Regent actually came from the most mysterious Rakshasa Sect among the old six sects. The blood flowing in her body was that of an extremely mysterious and ancient Western Region Empire.

(End of this chapter)