"Father!"
Seeing Ji Zehai's miserable condition, Ji Yunchuan couldn't bear it anymore.
After the jailer opened the cell door, he immediately rushed over and knelt in front of the unconscious Ji Zehai with a plop.
"Father, why were you beaten like this?"
Hearing Ji Yunchuan's voice, Ji Zehai's turbid eyes moved with difficulty in his eye sockets, and the blood foam overflowing from the corners of his mouth dripped along his silver beard onto his dirty clothes.
"Son, don't worry, Dad... Dad is fine. Now that you're here, Dad can go out right away!"
Ji Yunchuan looked at the shocking wounds on Ji Zehai's body, and his eyes turned red instantly.
He turned around suddenly and glared at the jailer who was leading the way: "My father is an official appointed by the court after all, how dare you abuse and punish him?"
"Even if my father is guilty, he should be convicted by the Ministry of Justice. How can you, a filthy bunch, abuse and torture him with lynching?"
"Lynching?" Upon hearing this, the jailer sneered rudely as if he had heard something funny.
Then, leaning against the mottled prison wall, he slowly scratched at the rusty chains with his fingernails and said sarcastically, "General Ji, you've been away from the capital for too long and have forgotten what the Heavenly Prison is."
"In this prison, His Majesty's decree is law!" The jailer pointed at Ji Zehai. "Sir Ji, His Majesty personally ordered your imprisonment. He hasn't said anything yet. What qualifications do you have to accuse us?"
"Or do you think this prison is like the back garden of your mansion, where whatever you say goes? You don't even take His Majesty seriously?"
As soon as these words were spoken, Ji Yunchuan was directly accused of disrespecting the emperor.
Meeting the contempt in the jailer's eyes, Ji Yunchuan's face flushed instantly, and he pointed at the jailer and was about to continue his outburst.
"Ji Yunchuan, are you done yet?"
Before Ji Yunchuan could retaliate, Shen Ningyuan on the side interrupted him impatiently.
She pointed at Ji Zehai lying on the ground and said calmly, "If you don't carry your father out, he won't have much time left here."
"At least..." Shen Ningyuan looked at Ji Yunchuan sarcastically, "Now that he's been taken back to the Marquis' Mansion for treatment, he can still breathe!"
"Leave some breath?"
Seeing that Shen Ningyuan was actually favoring outsiders, Ji Yunchuan turned around abruptly and pointed at Shen Ningyuan in frustration, "Shen Ningyuan, you are really good at pretending to be virtuous! When that dog slave humiliated me just now, why didn't you stand up and speak for me?"
Seeing Ji Yunchuan like this, Shen Ningyuan looked at the jailer helplessly, "Brother jailer, please carry him out."
The jailer nodded hurriedly and said, "Don't worry, Madam. I'll make the arrangements right away!"
Seeing that the jailer seemed to listen to Chen Ningyuan's words, Ji Yunchuan became even more angry, his voice trembling: "Chen Ningyuan, don't forget who your husband is! I haven't been back for only a year, are you so shameless? How dare you seduce other men in front of me!"
The jailer's face darkened when he saw Ji Yunchuan spitting out obscenities.
Shen Ningyuan didn't expect that Ji Yunchuan would actually turn the tables. The smile in his eyes disappeared and his eyes suddenly turned cold.
"Ji Yunchuan, you must have forgotten where this place is!" Shen Ningyuan scolded coldly, "If you keep talking nonsense like this, don't blame the bricks and tiles of this prison for suddenly growing ears!"
After being scolded by Shen Ningyuan, Ji Yunchuan's originally arrogant anger suddenly stagnated and he fell silent in an instant.
Only then did he realize that this was the Heavenly Prison - not only a place where serious criminals of the court were imprisoned, but also under the jurisdiction of His Majesty.
The prison was filled with the emperor's trusted confidants, who only obeyed the emperor.
There were many high-ranking officials who died in the Heavenly Prison on a daily basis, so the jailer did not take him seriously.
What's even more terrifying is that if the jailer exaggerated what he had just said and did and reported it to the emperor, the Ji family would probably lose the emperor's trust again.
Thinking of this, Ji Yunchuan felt a sense of fear and began to secretly annoy himself for his previous recklessness.
"snort!"
Ji Yunchuan glared at Shen Ningyuan coldly and turned his attention to Ji Zehai.
At this moment, he didn't care about competing with Shen Ningyuan anymore, and hurriedly ordered the other jailers beside him to carefully carry Ji Zehai out.
Shen Ningyuan watched Ji Yunchuan and his group leave in a hurry, then turned to look at the jailer: "Do you have something to say to me?"
Seeing the jailer's surprise, Shen Ningyuan continued, "Just say what you want to say."
Hearing this, the jailer was surprised, as if he didn't expect Shen Ningyuan to be so sure.
“Miss Shen, when did you find out?”
Shen Ningyuan pursed her lips and chuckled, then said calmly, "You've secretly looked at me several times just now, and you've used your sleeves to cover your lips several times. If I can't even see that, wouldn't I be a fool?"
Since her rebirth, she has unconsciously developed a highly acute perception, so she had long noticed the unusualness of this jailer.
The jailer felt ashamed when he heard this.
The dim candlelight cast a strange shadow on his face. The jailer glanced vigilantly in the direction of the prison door, then moved closer to Shen Ningyuan.
Since Shen Ningyuan had seen through him, he stopped beating around the bush and said immediately: "Miss Shen, His Highness asked me to tell you that Ji Zehai was tortured like this mainly to vent your anger."
"What?" Shen Ningyuan was surprised and subconsciously called out Xie Wanzhou's name. "Xie Wan--"
But halfway through the conversation, he realized something and immediately lowered his voice and asked quietly, "Are you his?"
Shen Ningyuan never imagined that Xie Wanzhou had actually placed his own spies in the emperor's prison.
The jailer nodded and said, "Miss Shen, you don't know that ever since Ji Zehai was imprisoned in the Sky Prison, the master has been sending his men to keep a close eye on him!"
Remembering his master's instructions, the jailer seemed a little proud and added again: "The master also said that the tortures Ji Zehai suffered in the prison were just appetizers for you. If you can do what you promised him, he will do anything for you... willingly."
When the jailer said this, it was obvious that he was expressing his feelings for Xie Wanzhou.
Shen Ningyuan frowned, and the doubts in her heart became even greater.
Xie Wanzhou's love for her has become known to everyone?
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