Ye Fan panicked. He struggled to grab Ye Wanqing's clothes again and explained repeatedly, "Princess Chen, I know you are kind-hearted and you have been helping me secretly. I was wrong to kidnap you to the villa that day. I feel sorry for you and I also wanted to save you..."

I like you in my heart! I swear, I will never betray you this time, can you plead for me?"

Shen Xu sat down in an empty seat beside him, crossed his legs leisurely, and said jokingly, "Okay, then swear. Widowed..."

Ye Fan's expression froze, and he felt sweat dripping down his back. He sat stiffly in the chair, unable to utter the three words "I swear".

He froze for a long while before he hurriedly said, "Princess Shen, don't listen to her, she's a lunatic!"

Ye Wanqing smiled with tears in her eyes, "You are really in a mess, Brother Ye Fan."

She turned around and said resolutely, "Kill him quickly, don't let him dirty this place anymore."

"Princess Shen, why do you treat me like this? You can't be so heartless! If you don't want to save me, why do you insult me!"

"Be quiet." Shen Xu pinched his jaw hard to stop him from yelling and screaming. She narrowed her eyes and said, "Since you are my brother, I can fulfill one of your wishes before you die. Think about it first."

She released his jaw, and Ye Fan immediately yelled, "You lunatic!"

Shen Xu said viciously: "This is your last chance, forget it if you don't want it."

Ye Fan was shocked by her ferocious look. He stopped struggling and seemed to calm down. "Kill me if you want. Do you still want to humiliate me?"

"I'm very curious. Aren't you going to save your sister Wan'er? She's sick and needs blood, the blood of the Ye family."

Jiang Ran chuckled, "Superstition is not advisable."

A trace of fear welled up in Ye Fan's eyes, "What do you want to do to Wan'er!"

"Tsk tsk, you're such a devoted person. Since you're so righteous, why not use your remaining value to feed her and give her blood to prolong her life?"

"That's fine. It's better than both of them dying."

Seeing Ye Fan's face turn pale, Shen Xu raised a strange smile, "Brother, you are hesitant. Why not have a good death? It will be painful and will pass quickly."

Ye Fan hesitated for a long time before asking, "Will you really deliver the blood to the Queen?"

Shen Xu turned around and snorted, "Forget it, it's a thankless task. If I can survive forty-nine days, I won't have to die."

"Okay, as long as it can save Sister Wan'er, I'll take her blood."

Jiang Ran picked up a long rib-piercing needle from his medical bag and waved the shiny thick needle in front of him. "General Ye, don't worry. I learned my medical skills from the Yan family of Xinglin. If you trust me, I can guarantee that you will live for forty-nine days."

Seeing the thick needle, Ye Fan closed his eyes nervously.

"Brother is nervous?"

Jiang Ran replied, "Humans are the same as animals. If you blindfold yourself, you won't be nervous."

A soft black cloth covered his eyes, and Ye Fan felt only darkness before his eyes. After a while, he heard the sound of someone pushing the chair he was sitting on. After pushing for a while, he felt like he had entered a room and someone was taking off his clothes. Then he felt a foreign object drilling into his skin at his ribs. It didn't hurt, but he could feel the long needle piercing his ribs.

Tick-tock...

The sound of blood flowing from the wound and falling into the bowl.

"What exactly do you want to do by pretending to be me?"

No one answered him.

Tick-tock...

The blood seemed to be constantly flowing, but I felt no pain at all.

"It's been so long, and you still haven't filled a bowl?"

It was still so quiet that the only sound was the sound of blood falling into the bowl.

Tick-tock...

The blood was still flowing, but no one came to clean up the dishes.

Ye Fan panicked and shouted for help, but no one responded. There was only the terrifying ticking sound.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but he just felt exhausted both physically and mentally, tired and hungry, and it seemed as if all the blood in his body was about to drain out. He stopped shouting and slumped in the chair, feeling weak and numb.

......

Everyone stood on the platform, watching Ye Fan below go from hysteria to collapse.

"Lock him for ten days or so," Shen Xu ordered calmly, "then let him go."

"What! But he--" Lin Fuxue stood up, looked at Ye Wanqing, and her voice stopped abruptly.

Ye Wanqing frowned, trying hard to hold back her tears. She turned to Chen Xu and said, "Ah Xu, killing someone means paying with one's life. This is only natural. If I hadn't been soft-hearted and biased, the person most important to you and your sister-in-law wouldn't have died at his hands. Even if he was my biological brother, you shouldn't have shown him mercy just because of me."

"Qingqing, I didn't show him any mercy. On the contrary, all of this is his punishment."

"Ten days in jail is too little! This punishment is too insignificant!" Ye Wanqing strongly disagreed with her approach and worriedly said, "What if we let him out and he harms others again?"

Murong Yan stepped forward and said soothingly, "Qingqing, Ah Xu must have her reasons for doing this."

"Well, don't worry, this is the punishment he deserves."

Ye Wanqing didn't seem to believe Chen Xu's assurance. She just felt that everyone was taking care of her feelings. Her brother was guilty of a heinous crime. How could he be released after ten days without doing anything?

She turned to look at Fu Yi, "If you don't want to kill him, then lock him up forever. Brother Zhang, didn't you have a medicine at the Dali Temple that can disable martial arts? If you can disable his martial arts, you can't let him off so easily."

Shen Xu nodded, "It's okay to destroy his martial arts, but there's really no need to lock him up."

Lin Fuxue stood there, wanting to say something but stopping herself. She was actually not satisfied with the result.

Ye Fan killed her father. With her personality, even if he was cut into pieces, it would not be enough to vent her anger. Besides, Ye Wanqing had agreed to execute her brother, but Shen Xu made such a decision and no one else objected.

Shen Xu patted the back of her hand and said gently, "Sister-in-law, I promise this is the greatest punishment for him. He won't get away with it."

The more Ye Wanqing thought about it, the more guilty she felt. She strode over to Chen Xu and Lin Fuxue and knelt on the ground with a plop. "I am guilty. I know that I can't get away with just a few sorrys. I am willing to accept any punishment and spend my whole life atonement. I'm sorry!"

"Qingqing, what are you doing!" Lin Fuxue and Shen Xu quickly stood up and helped Ye Wanqing up.

Chen Xu comforted him, "Every wrong has its perpetrator, and this has nothing to do with you. It's not your fault that you have such a father and brother. You have been taking care of my brother, my parents, and everyone else for so long.

You have done a great job, and I have no complaints."

Lin Fuxue also held her hand and said with embarrassment: "Yes, we have always been good friends. You will also be my sister from now on."

Ye Wanqing sobbed and nodded, "Well, I won't feel sorry for him anymore, and I won't plead for him anymore. He is as unworthy as my father, and he deserves to die."

She cried and hugged Shen Xu and Lin Fuxue, "You are my real family."

"Just live a good life with Brother Yan from now on."