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After hearing this, Xie Sui'an couldn't help but sneer and said, "What a good son you are! You betrayed your father with just a few words on such an important matter."

Yang Wenhao then realized what was happening, his face suddenly drained of color and turned deathly pale. He opened his mouth wide, unable to speak for a long time.

Seeing this, Qin Sang felt a pang of pity and said, "Your surrender is considered turning yourself in, which can be seen as helping your father pull back from the brink. If he is really exposed in the future, he can receive a lighter sentence."

Yang Wenhao's lips turned white, and he looked at Qin Sang as if she were his last hope, trembling: "Really?"

Qin Sang scratched her nose and looked at Xie Sui'an tentatively: "Really...?"

Xie Sui'an looked mocking and slapped his fan against his palm. Jin Yun, who was sitting next to him, struck out with lightning speed and knocked Yang Wenhao down again.

Poor Yang Wenhao had a half-eaten biscuit still in his mouth when he fell asleep again.

Qin Sang considerately took the half-cake, then suddenly frowned her delicate eyebrows and said with distress, "Now we've learned someone else's big secret. It's either you or me; there's no way to get away with this now."

Seeing Qin Sang's face suddenly turn worried, Xie Sui'an couldn't help but say with great enthusiasm, "Don't panic, little lady. I'm here. I guarantee they won't dare to hurt you in the slightest."

Qin Sang didn't seem to have heard a word she said. She nodded blankly and tried to comfort herself: "Whether I cower or stick my neck out, I'll still get stabbed. I can't be as carefree as I used to be. Oh well, I didn't come here to enjoy a life of leisure anyway."

After comforting herself, she looked at Yang Wenhao and asked, "What should we do with this idiot? Should we keep him with us or have him thrown back?" Before anyone could answer, she started analyzing the situation herself. "Keeping him with us is a burden. Who knows when he might decide to protect his father and betray us? Throwing him back would only alert him. Hmm, it's quite troublesome."

“Then let him take it,” Xie Suian decided. “At least he’s under our noses. With Jinyun around, he can’t escape our grasp.”

Just as the group was discussing how to deal with the young master of the county magistrate who had just risked his life to betray his father and was then ruthlessly defeated, a solemn line of black-clad guards escorted a rather luxurious carriage at a leisurely pace along the road from Li County to Quzhou Prefecture.

The carriage was adorned with exquisite copper bells, and the tall horse strode leisurely, each step producing a melodious ringing. The accompanying guards were all tall and broad-shouldered, their heads held high and chests puffed out, their undeniable air of arrogance deterring ordinary people from approaching.

In the entire Li County, there was no other carriage as exquisitely carved and adorned with fluttering red silk, nor any other with such a well-organized and well-trained procession of tall, imposing horses. Therefore, the coachman Qin Sang had hired carefully moved the horses to the side of the road and waited for the group of nobles to pass before daring to set off again.

Because of the brief stop, everyone lifted the carriage curtain and saw the scene they had just witnessed.

Jinyun's face turned green, and he couldn't speak for a long time, glancing at his young master again and again.

This is the Prime Minister's carriage. The uniforms worn by the guards were all privately chosen by the Prime Minister's residence. The color was a deep indigo that was personally modified by Young Master Xie a couple of years ago. The cuffs also have a special pattern—two puffs of breeze, which was chosen by the Prime Minister's Madam, symbolizing incorruptibility.

They were sent by the Prime Minister to pick up Su Yun'er.

Xie Sui'an silently withdrew his gaze and looked at Qin Sang.

He still couldn't be sure that Qin Sang was Su Yun'er. Although he felt that Qin Sang looked familiar from the moment they met and her age matched, the Su Yun'er in his memory was a chubby, spoiled little girl who loved to cry and wore pink dresses with her hair full of butterfly hairpins. She was completely unrelated to the beautiful Qin Sang in front of him, who exuded an aura of domineering confidence and wore a simple dress with a wooden hairpin.

Although Qin Sang had a young and pretty face, she was clearly younger than him, yet she always looked at him with a deep, pitiful, and foolish gaze. Xie Suian felt that the disdain in the eyes of Consort Tan, who was full of poetry and literature, arrogant and proud but fell out of favor in her later years, was similar to that of Qin Sang.