Liu Yunni listened quietly to everything that Lai's mother said. The smile on her face deepened. She said to Xie Jingrui, "Your Highness, you didn't expect that you were out there clearing out the bandits and protecting the people's livelihood, but you didn't protect your son, letting him be abused by others in the palace!"

Liu Yunni pointed in the direction of Lai's mother and said with a crazy smile: "Lai's mother is right, Hua Ge'er was tortured when he grew up, but Lai's mother also did it a lot. I only regret that I didn't torture Hua Ge'er to death. If he died, we would have a chance to give birth to our child, and I wouldn't have to live in fear every day, afraid that one day you would find out that the child was not mine."

Zhao Wanyan looked at Liu Yunni in front of her and was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat. She begged for mercy from the prince again and again, "Prince, Yun'er has been driven crazy, that's why she is saying these rumors. Please don't take it seriously. Yun'er has always been kind and would never do anything to harm others."

She looked at Mother Lai with resentment, raised her finger and pointed at her and said, "It was her. These must have been Mother Lai's ideas."

Xie Jingrui took the long sword with an expressionless face, and asked Lai Mama with a cold gaze: "Which hand killed Hua Ge'er?"

Mother Lai looked at Xie Jingrui's approaching black boots and the long sword in his hand, and shook her head desperately, begging: "My lord, please spare me, I will never dare to do it again."

Before she could continue speaking.

The knife rises and the knife falls.

In an instant, blood splattered everywhere. Lai Mama's arms were chopped off, and one of the broken arms flew in front of Liu Yunni.

Mother Lai's fingers were still twisting.

"Ah!" Mother Lai's painful wail echoed throughout the cell, and her body crawled on the ground and twisted continuously.

Liu Yunni was so frightened by the scene before her that she fainted.

Xie Jingrui turned his cold gaze and fell on Liu Yunni.

Zhao Wanyan noticed that Xie Jingrui looked amiss and quickly explained, "Your Highness, Yun'er, Yun'er was only bewitched for a moment and did such a thing. Please spare her life."

As Zhao Wanyan spoke, she knelt down in the direction of Xie Jingrui.

Xie Jingrui narrowed his eyes slightly, and said with his thin lips: "Come here, throw Liu Yunni to the cell at the end and imprison her together with the other bandits."

Zhao Wanyan fell to the ground, her face ashen. She begged Xie Jingrui, "My Lord, my Lord, I will tell you everything you want to know. Don't leave Yun'er there. It would be better to let her die."

Xie Jingrui pulled a cold arc at the corner of his mouth and said to Zhao Wanyan: "I have already found out everything I wanted to know. Now you want to tell me that I don't want to know anymore!"

"Someone, drag Liu Yunni to another cell!"

"Yes." Two secret guards stepped forward, carrying Liu Yunni and walked towards the end.

Zhao Wanyan's pleading voice rang out in the cell.

As the sound of iron chains in the cell rang, Liu Yunni was also thrown into the cell.

A few people who were originally in the corner heard the noise and carefully poked their heads out to see Liu Yunni. Several men with scary faces slowly approached her.

An Wei locked the door again and said calmly, "Save some breath."

They nodded hurriedly.

Liu Yunni, who was originally in a coma, also woke up at this time.

When she opened her eyes, she saw three men with scary faces staring at her.

"Ah!" Liu Yunni screamed in horror.

She got up from the ground and ran towards the door.

Seeing several people approaching, she cried and begged: "Mother, mother, save me, I don't want it, ah! You, you beasts, kill me..."

Liu Yunni wailed sadly. She knew very well what would happen next.

This made Zhao Wanyan's heart bleed. She stared at Xie Jingrui fiercely and said, "Why did the prince treat Yun'er like this? What did she do wrong?"

"I'm the one who did all this. If the prince wants to punish someone, just punish me." Zhao Wanyan's voice trembled with anger.

Xie Jingrui cast a cold gaze on her, and said word by word: "You don't repent, do you think you can still get out of this dungeon? This is just the beginning!"

Xie Jingrui's words were like a ghost. Zhao Wanyan fell to the ground with a pale face, and those words kept echoing in her mind.

Only then did Zhao Wanyan feel truly scared.

Liu Yunni's heart-wrenching wails echoed in the damp and humid cell, and finally turned into weak whimpers.

Xie Jingrui looked indifferent and walked outside.

The next morning, there were suddenly several unfamiliar faces in the Zhennan Marquis Mansion.

The two maids bowed slightly when they saw Yuan Qinglian.

Yuan Qinglian asked with some doubt: "Who are you?"

"We, Luzhu and Fusang, are the newly bought maids by the prince. Nice to meet Aunt Yuan." Luzhu took the lead.

Yuan Qinglian's eyes fell on the two of them. They looked ordinary, but the one who looked like a smart person.

She nodded slightly towards Luzhu and Fusang, signaling them to go down.

I don’t know if it was Yuan Qinglian’s illusion, but she always felt that the looks of these two maids were a little strange.

As she thought about this, she pushed the wheel towards Yunlinju where Song Shijin lived.

At this time, Song Shijin's door was closed. Yuan Qinglian raised her hand and gently knocked on Song Shijin's door and called out, "Jin'er's mother is here to see you."

Song Shijin in the room did not respond.

Yuan Qinglian couldn't help but worry.

She pushed the door open, put the wheelbarrow outside, and limped slowly inside with the help of a cane.

One of Song Shijin's hands was outside the quilt, with an obvious scratch on his wrist, and blood dripping down the back of his hand onto the ground.

Yuan Qinglian fell to the ground and suddenly crawled towards Song Shijin.

She shouted outside, "Someone, come quickly, save my brother Jin."

Yuan Qinglian crawled towards Song Shijin, lay on top of him, stretched out her hand, and with some trembling placed her index finger on the tip of Song Shijin's nose.

Seeing that he was still breathing, Yuan Qinglian finally breathed a sigh of relief, turned around, crawled out, and looked for someone to rescue Jin Ge'er.

When Song Nanzhi came out of Xingyuxuan and passed by Yulinju, he heard Yuan Qinglian's call and walked towards Yulinju.

After seeing who it was, Yuan Qinglian hurriedly grabbed Song Nanzhi's hand and cried, "Jin'er, he hanged himself. Quickly call the palace doctor to save him."

"What!" Song Nanzhi exclaimed, and without asking any more questions, he quickly ran to the courtyard where the court physician lived.

Not long after, Song Nanzhi came back with the court doctor, who stopped Song Shijin's bleeding and fed him medicine.

Song Nanzhi asked with some concern: "How is he?"

"The bleeding has stopped. It's nothing serious. He will wake up naturally later." After saying this, the court doctor picked up the medicine box and left.

Yuan Qinglian held Song Shijin's hand and sobbed softly: "It's all mother's fault. Mother shouldn't have hit you."

Hearing this, Song Nanzhi raised his head and angrily asked, "What did you say? You hit him?"

Yuan Qinglian's eyes were red and swollen. She looked at Song Nanzhi and bit her lip to explain: "He said he was going to look for his wife. I was worried that his wife would not want to come back after seeing him, so I failed..."

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