Male supporting role is not a stepping stone

Of course, all that the heroine experienced was caused by Yang Yan. Jiang Ruxue was from the future after all. Although her character was not good, she had a lot of useful things in her head.

Since there was a ready-made person, he didn't need to expose his abnormality. He specially arranged people to follow them. Once the heroine made something useful, he would send people to snatch it.

With the things snatched from her, the Great Lin Dynasty developed a wave of people's livelihood. Many practical and cheap small inventions greatly improved the happiness of people's lives.

Everything in the court also developed very smoothly. The political power was completely in the hands of the cabinet. The emperor was completely reduced to a mascot. There was no longer a situation where the power was concentrated in one person's hands, where the emperor was angry and blood flowed like a river.

Yang Yan slowly eliminated those who were in office and promoted those who were truly capable and revengeful. The whole Great Lin Dynasty showed a thriving trend.

After sorting out the affairs in the court, he was considering whether to control the heroine and use her mouth to get out the future high-yield crops and other things to squeeze out her surplus value.

The people who monitored the hero and heroine suddenly sent a message that Fang Jiarong actually left Jiang Ruxue at night and rushed to the capital alone.

Yang Yan wanted to know what he wanted to do, so he told his men not to stop him and even gave him a green light in private, otherwise he couldn't even enter the gate of the capital with his current status.

Unexpectedly, Fang Jiarong went straight to the Ning Wang Mansion after entering the capital, and asked to see Ning Wang as soon as he opened his mouth, and said that he had a big secret to report.

Da Gen guessed what his so-called secret was, and Yang Yan asked someone to bring him in.

Although he had known for a long time that he had not lived a good life away from the capital, he was still a little surprised when he really saw him.

Fang Jiarong was the same age as the original owner, but the original owner had been on the battlefield for many years, exposed to the wind and sun, while he was pampered in the capital and looked more than five or six years younger.

But now the situation has completely reversed. Yang Yan has gradually put aside military affairs in the past few years and focused on government affairs. As he grows older, he looks much younger than before.

Fang Jiarong is just the opposite. He was beaten and had a broken leg. His luxurious clothes and delicious food became simple meals. After several years of living in poverty, he looked more than ten years older.

Moreover, without the confidence given by power, his back was not as straight as before. He looked at people with a bit of timidity unconsciously. At first glance, he was not much different from ordinary civilians.

"Prince Ning, I have a deal to discuss with you." Fang Jiarong did not kneel down, and the address was not so polite. He forced himself to straighten his chest and act like before, but his slightly uneasy eyes still revealed that he was actually unconfident.

Yang Yan was too lazy to argue with him on this point, so he glanced at him casually and said, "Speak."

His eyes were very light, without any emotion in them, but Fang Jiarong felt great pressure. He used all his strength to prevent himself from kneeling down cowardly.

For a moment, he dared not meet the man's gaze again. He quickly lowered his eyes and said, "Jiang Ruxue has a great secret that is related to the future of the Great Lin Dynasty. I want to use this as an exchange to restore my previous identity and status."

He really had enough of the days of ordinary people. It was also because he was too naive that he believed the woman's lies and followed her to do business.

Originally, he might have had a chance to lobby around when his eldest brother had just ascended the throne, but he didn't know why he was so confused at that time and believed the woman's theory of money being omnipotent.

He thought that as long as he had money in his hands, he could recruit soldiers and find an opportunity to return to the capital to take back everything he had lost. In the end, not only did he not make any money, but he wasted a lot of his time and energy.

"Oh? What's the secret?" Yang Yan showed a hint of interest on his face, but in fact, he was calm. The fact that the male protagonist could say something related to the future of the Great Lin Dynasty was nothing more than that her true origin was exposed.

What he was really curious about was how Jiang Ruxue could be so stupid as to easily tell others about her identity? You know, in the book that the original owner had read, she kept this secret tightly until the end.

At that time, the male protagonist abolished the harem for her. Such "deep affection" did not make her let down her guard. In this life, they are about to become resentful couples. Why would she tell it out?

"If King Ning wants to know, he must agree to my conditions first." Fang Jiarong shook her head and said.

As the saying goes, don't release the eagle before you see the rabbit. He can only rely on this to turn things around now. If he doesn't get the promise he wants, he will tell it out. He has no guarantee at all. How can he be willing to do this?

"Heh--" Yang Yan looked at him with a smile, "Have you forgotten your current identity? I can have you arrested and tortured. How long do you think you can hold out without speaking?"

Fang Jiarong's body trembled involuntarily. He had used torture to pry open other people's mouths before. Although he had not experienced it himself, he could imagine the pain.

If those things really happened to him, he really didn't dare to say that he could survive.

Knowing that he had no room for bargaining now, he gritted his teeth and said helplessly: "I believe in the character of King Ning. He will not do anything to destroy the bridge after crossing the river. It doesn't matter if I tell you first."

He first put the man on a pedestal to prevent him from regretting what he said, and then said: "Jiang Ruxue is not actually from here, but a lonely soul from another world, who somehow occupied her body."

Fang Jiarong thought that what he said would cause the other party to be shocked, but he soon found to his disappointment that there was no fluctuation on the man's cold face, as if what he said was a very ordinary thing.

He had no choice but to continue: "The place where she is seems to be different from ours, so the poems she recited in public before were not written by her, but from some great writers we don't know."

Thinking that it was because of the poems "written" by Jiang Ruxue that he became interested in her, Fang Jiarong felt cheated, and all her talents were just plagiarized.

Even her unique personality is probably just because of the difference between the two worlds. Maybe she is just an ordinary woman in her own world.

"It's just some poems. I don't think it can affect the future of Dalin. If that's all you want to say, I'll have to send you away." Yang Yan pretended to be not very interested, trying to test how much he knew.

Fang Jiarong was really anxious, and blurted out everything he knew: "Don't worry, King Ning. Jiang Ruxue's world is much more developed than ours. She not only knows how to increase grain production, but also makes a lot of things we don't have here."

Seeing that King Ning really showed some interest, he then told how he discovered Jiang Ruxue's abnormality, how he asked questions calmly, and finally used drugs to confirm her origin.

Yang Yan suddenly realized, that's what he said, with the character of the heroine, how could she easily tell the big secret involving her own safety? It turned out that she was hit by a series of failures and let it slip when she quarreled with the hero.

Fang Jiarong is not a fool. She can jump from a prince of humble origin to one who is more favored than the eldest son. She can even be said to be quite smart. How can she not find something wrong with her after a long time of getting along?

Perhaps in the previous life, Jiang Ruxue thought she had kept the secret tightly, but in fact, he had already discovered it. It was just that he was in power at that time, and the things Jiang Ruxue knew were useful to him, so he didn't expose it.

And in this life, Yang Yan was holding them down, so even if they knew more things, they couldn't get ahead. Fang Jiarong thought of using her to exchange for power and status.

I really want to see what expression the heroine would have on her face after knowing all this.

When Yang Yan thought of this, he smiled a little, interrupted his ongoing story, and said: "This king agreed to restore your royal status, but the Fourth Prince's Mansion has been changed to other uses, and it is impossible to return it to you. Why don't you live in the palace in the future!"

Fang Jiarong's smile froze on his face before it bloomed. What does King Ning mean by this? He wants to put him under house arrest in the palace?

The mockery in the other party's eyes made him realize that his guess was right. This was not the result he wanted. He longed for a life like before, where people respected and feared him wherever he went, and lived a free and wealthy life.

He even thought a little more. After returning to the center of power, he might not be able to operate well and get the throne he dreamed of.

But the words of King Ning broke all his fantasies. If he was trapped in the palace and couldn't get out, what would be the use of restoring his identity?

Fang Jiarong wanted to protest, but Yang Yan looked down, and he could only be reluctantly dragged away with his mouth covered. What awaited him was a life of worry-free food and clothing, but loss of freedom.

As for Jiang Ruxue, who was sold by him, Yang Yan quickly sent someone to bring her back.

He had never given up monitoring the two of them. He knew from the reports of his subordinates that they had a hard time in recent years. When he really saw them, he could see from the surface that it was indeed the case.

Like the male protagonist, Jiang Ruxue looked like she had aged by a dozen years. Her face had become rough, her hands were covered with calluses and small wounds, and she was wearing a gray cotton coat. How could she still look like the wife of a duke?

She was brought back to the capital day and night, and she didn't understand what had happened. But when she saw Yang Yan, she suddenly understood, which made him feel a little puzzled.