Mortal Mage

Zhang Mingxuan looked puzzled, not knowing how to respond. "What is Miss Yun'er's reason?"

"My father was framed by the prince." Yun'er stood up, lifted her skirt and sat on a stool beside her, and said slowly, "My father tried a serious case of killing innocent people and claiming credit for it in the border area in his early years. Because it was an ironclad case, my father ordered the execution of more than a dozen border soldiers. But I didn't expect that the prince overturned the case for some reason, and falsely claimed that my father was doing it to crack down on dissidents, and fabricated dozens of charges against my father."

"But because my father had many military achievements in his early years, the emperor only put him in prison, but I was sent to the Ministry of Education."

"I have repeatedly sought out close friends and relatives from my father's time in office, but now they are all members of the prince's party."

"Even my father's close friend, Shangshu Wang Mingde, is now unwilling to seek justice for my family."

"Now I know that Lord Zhang rejected the Crown Prince twice and was favored by the Emperor. I think Lord Zhang must be an upright person. I sincerely hope that Lord Zhang can help my father clear his name!"

After he said this, he covered his face and cried.

Zhang Mingxuan looked embarrassed. He had no connection with Yun'er and had no reason to agree to her abrupt request.

"Miss Yun'er, it's not that I won't help you, but I'm having a hard time in the court right now. I have the will but not the strength."

Zhang Mingxuan flatly refused, stood up, raised his hand to bow, opened the door, turned around, and was about to leave.

"Master Zhang!"

Yun'er suddenly stood up and called Zhang Mingxuan. She raised her hand and pulled out a jade hairpin from her black hair. She took the hairpin in her left hand and made a finger gesture with her right hand. Then a faint spatial ripple slowly appeared at the end of the hairpin, and then expanded to a black hole as big as a sleeve.

She inserted her right hand into the hole created by the jade hairpin, fumbled around inside for a while and took out a box.

Zhang Mingxuan was shocked, but his face remained calm. He sighed lightly and prepared to leave.

Yun'er suddenly grabbed Zhang Mingxuan's clothes and knelt down again, then opened the wooden box she had just taken out.

"How do you have so many spirit stones!?"

More than twenty low-grade spirit stones shining with green light were neatly arranged in the box.

"To be honest with you, Lord Zhang, my father was an official in the court in his early years. For high-ranking officials like my father, the court would give him a spiritual stone every year. My father knew that he had no talent for cultivation, so he accumulated it for many years just so that my daughter could leave Taicang. Now my daughter has no intention of practicing, and she only wants to help my father clear his name."

After Yun'er finished speaking, she saw the wooden box raised a little higher, almost touching Zhang Mingxuan's face.

"This……"

Zhang Mingxuan looked embarrassed and felt very nervous.

A big part of the reason why he didn't accept the prince's spirit stones was that he was afraid of the emperor. Now the fight between the emperor and the prince seemed to be a fratricide and the two were evenly matched.

In fact, Zhang Mingxuan most likely speculated that Emperor Li Si's strategy was superior to that of Crown Prince Li Jing, so his decision was not in vain.

If you accept Yun'er's spirit stone, you will have no choice but to stand on the side of Emperor Li Si.

Because according to Yun'er, his father was killed by Crown Prince Li Jing.

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Mingxuan slowly asked, "Miss Yun'er, what is your father's name?"

"My father...Qi Yuanqinghe"

"My daughter's original name is Qi Yuan's son. Now I am just using the pseudonym Yun'er in the Jiaofang Bureau..."

After saying this, Yun'er covered her face and cried.

Those who dare to go against the prince are all Qi Yuan's friends.

For decades, there has been no one in the officialdom of the entire Taicang Empire who is as talented as Zhang Mingxuan and dares to go against the crown prince.