After Wei Shuwan finished speaking with a sincere expression, she looked up at Li Qingchen with her watery eyes, waiting for his response.

However, Li Qingchen didn't say anything, but simply raised his hand to wipe away the tears on her cheeks.

The moment his fingertips touched her, Wei Shuwan shrank back, her peach blossom eyes widening in fear, like a frightened fawn.

Li Qingchen continued to wipe away her tears before slowly speaking, "If there were a way for everyone to avoid dying, would you dare to try it?"

"No one has to die?" Wei Shuwan blinked, making sure she hadn't misheard. "Including my father?"

"nature."

Li Qingchen withdrew his hand, put it behind his back, and gently rubbed his fingertips, which were still damp.

When he spoke again, his voice was neither stern nor gentle, as if stating something that had nothing to do with him: "Ever since you stumbled upon that matter, keeping you around has become a scourge to the Qiaochuan Prince's Mansion. If you want me to save your Wei family, it's only if your Wei family is willing to board our Qiaochuan Prince's Mansion's ship and conspire together, sharing both fortune and misfortune."

"You...you're planning to take me under your wing and have me work for your Qiaochuan Prince's Mansion?" Wei Shuwan asked timidly. But after thinking about it carefully, she realized that she didn't have the skills of Yuan Que and Gu Zhuang, so what could she do for him?

Li Qingchen was amused by these words and his lips twitched slightly. His already handsome face became even more striking, illuminating the entire prison cell.

Wei Shuwan was engrossed in watching when she saw his thin lips part slightly, and a clear, decisive voice escape from his mouth:

"I do intend to take you in, but not as my subordinate, but as my crown prince's wife."