Jiang Xiancao looked at him trying to make amends for Jiang Huaizhu and smiled sarcastically:

"Oh, since your sister Zhu'er is so dignified and well-behaved, she shouldn't have accepted a token of love from a stranger like me! Otherwise, if she accepted the token privately and didn't tell her family, wouldn't that be considered a secret exchange with a man outside her family, which is even more unethical.

Don't you think your explanation doesn't make sense, Mr. Jiang Si?"

Jiang Jinan was speechless for a moment.

Jiang Xiancao glanced at their faces with different expressions and continued:

"I have already sent people to investigate. The temple where Jiang Huaizhu went to pray that day was Nanshan Temple, and the incident happened in the woods to the north.

Jiang Huaizhu's route to and from the place where the king was injured and unconscious never passed by, unless she had a special reason to take a detour there.

The liquor store owned by Jiang Xiancao's adoptive parents was right next to the woods to the north, and she was often driven there by them to pick mushrooms to sell for money to supplement the family income. The Japanese king was unconscious in the woods and happened to come across her picking mushrooms, and she rescued him.

Later, I recovered some of my internal strength. When I woke up, she had gone out to buy new medicine for me and was not around. I was afraid that the pursuers would come, so I left a token by her pillow and left.

Because I was in such a hurry that day, I didn't even look at her face properly. So six months later, when Jiang Huaizhu stole the token from Jiang Xiancao and claimed she was my savior, I mistakenly believed her!

Jiang Xiancao took out the token and smashed it to pieces on the ground in front of everyone in the Jiang family.

The moment the token shattered, Jiang Jinan's last hope also shattered.

"I only recognized the token, not my savior. I was blind! For such a vicious woman who lies so much and repeatedly framed my benefactor, I am showing mercy by not taking her life myself!"

Jiang Xiancao sneered, his eyes filled with undisguised bloodthirsty murderous intent:

"However, I won't kill her myself, nor will I let her go. Nor will I let you, the mad dogs who aided and abetted her and abused your own sister for her sake, go. The Jiang family of the Wenning Marquisate, right? The blood feud between you and me will never be resolved!"

Sooner or later, she would make these five beasts in human skin lose the protection of their family and be punished for the wrong things they had done before.

After Jiang Xiancao left with the palace guards, Jiang Jinyan suddenly went crazy and smashed many things in the ancestral hall courtyard.

The torture instruments were thrown heavily onto the ground, and soaked in the blood that Shen Tingsi had shed, they looked even more shocking.

These things are all evidence that the Jiang brothers tortured their own sister in broad daylight.

The servants all hid outside the yard and didn't dare to come in to clean up.

Jiang Jinan stood there in a daze, his mind full of what the Ninth Prince had said before.

The person who actually saved the prince was not Zhu'er, but Jiang Xiancao?

He couldn't believe that Jiang Huaizhu had lied, and he couldn't believe that it was Zhu'er who, in order to gain the favor of the Ninth Prince, took away the credit that should have belonged to Jiang Xiancao in this way.

He had previously believed in his heart that the marriage with the Ninth Prince was originally Jiang Huaizhu's, and Jiang Xiancao should not rely on her status as a legitimate daughter to openly take away what belonged to Zhu'er.

He thought it was Jiang Xiancao who bullied Zhu'er, but he didn't expect the truth to be the other way around.

The morning sunlight shone on Jiang Jinan's pale face, and also revealed the anger in his eyes.

He was angry, but he didn't blame himself for trusting Jiang Huaizhu. He also didn't feel much guilt towards Jiang Xiancao because of this.

He was angry just because Jiang Huaizhu had deceived him in order to marry the Ninth Prince!

He was so good to Jiang Huaizhu, always meeting her requests, opening his heart to her, treating her as more important than his own life, and never asking for anything in return.

But in her heart, what is he?

Is he just a stepping stone for her to marry a powerful man?

Is she sincere towards him at all? !

The more Jiang Jinan thought about it, the angrier he became, and he just walked away with a flick of his sleeves.

But Jiang Jinyan stopped him:

"where you go?"

"Go back and lie down!" Jiang Jinan answered stiffly.

Jiang Jinyan frowned. He could see that Jiang Jinan was in a bad mood and said in a deep voice, "Even if the Ninth Prince was really saved by Jiang Xiancao, so what? This does not change the fact that Zhu'er is our beloved sister."

Jiang Jinan clenched his fists suddenly.

Jiang Jinyan's persuasion seemed like a mockery of his true feelings.

What he never wanted was to love Jiang Huaizhu as a sister.

His love for Jiang Huaizhu is the love a man has for a woman.

He was so obsessed with her that he was willing to lower his bottom line for her time and time again and cover up those dirty secrets for her.

He had even realized long ago that Jiang Huaizhu was not as pure and beautiful as she appeared, but he still loved her.

But he was born into a noble family, and even though Jiang Huaizhu was only an adopted daughter of the Jiang family, she was still his nominal brother. His love was destined to remain hidden and could only be disguised as a brother-sister relationship.

He suppressed his restless desire and, as a brother, planned a way for his beloved woman to marry another man.

Then, while feeling heartbroken, I persuaded myself in my heart:

There's nothing we can do about it. Who made Zhu'er save the Ninth Prince on the way back from praying a year ago?

Zhu'er is not the kind of woman who desires to cling to power. She just happened to encounter such a thing. She can't let her kindness in the past go to waste, right?

She was his beloved girl, but she was destined not to marry him, so he also hoped that she would marry a good man and live a good life in the future.

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