"Your Highness, do you really have a way to avoid implicating others?" Shangguan Wanning's voice was hoarse and her body was trembling slightly.
"Um."
"But if I go to the Ministry of Justice to expose my grandfather like this, I'm afraid... no one will believe me."
"As long as you promise to testify, that will be enough. I will go back to the Ministry of Justice to turn myself in early tomorrow morning. The Ministry of Justice will then hold a trial and summon you to testify. You just need to tell the truth about the facts you know."
Shangguan Wan stared at Mu Jingrui and nervously held his hand.
"It's too risky. If...if you fail, you will be executed."
"With your testimony, I will be fine."
Shangguan Wanning felt a surge of warmth in her heart. "You... trust me so much?"
Mu Jingrui was slightly startled, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. "Ning'er, you and I have experienced life and death several times. If I don't even trust you, who else can I trust?"
Shangguan Wanning couldn't help but have a lot of thoughts.
Yes, an army of one hundred thousand was completely wiped out. Under such circumstances, although he was very excited when he entered the room just now, he still patiently listened to her explanation.
All this touched Shangguan Wanning deeply.
She leaned on Mu Jingrui's shoulder, feeling his breath, and hugged him tightly.
"Jing Rui, I know. Actually... my grandfather and my third uncle deserve to be executed by the emperor for what they did. But they are my relatives after all. I really can't do that."
"However, now that you have guaranteed that no one else will be implicated, I feel relieved. Jing Rui, I'm sorry..."
Mu Jingrui gently stroked Shangguan Wanning's face and gently gathered her hair behind her ears.
During his recovery, whenever he thought of Shangguan Wanning, he felt chest tightness and shortness of breath, and he wished he could slap her to death.
But for some reason, his heart softened when he saw her tearful eyes.
Even willing to believe her unconditionally.
Mu Jingrui couldn't help but sigh silently that he would probably never be able to escape from Shangguan Wanning's control in this life.
"Don't say sorry, you didn't mean it."
Mu Jingrui comforted Shangguan Wanning instead.
"Ning'er, it's getting late. I have to go. Remember, you just need to tell the truth in court tomorrow. Leave the rest to me."
"Um."
Shangguan Wanning was reluctant to let go of Mu Jingrui's hand. She stared at him with tears in her eyes, imagining the pain and pressure he had endured these days, and her heart ached.
She took a deep breath and kissed Mu Jingrui on the lips.
Mu Jingrui tried his best to endure it and did not move.
"Ning'er, you really made me..."
Shangguan Wanning was so bold for the first time, she blushed and lowered her head.
She stood up and walked Mu Jingrui to the door of the room. After they said goodbye reluctantly, she watched his figure disappear into the night.
Shangguan Wanning was about to turn around and go back to her room when she suddenly saw her parents standing in the corridor opposite.
She was startled, then felt ashamed and embarrassed.
Did they...see Mu Jingrui leaving her room?
Shangguan Yue and his wife walked towards their daughter, both of them looked unhappy.
"Dad, Mom."
Shangguan Wanning bowed and followed her parents into the house. She lit the candles and stood aside timidly like a child who had done something wrong, with her head down and no words.
"That person just now... was Mu Jingrui?"
Shangguan Yue's voice was neither loud nor soft, so Shangguan Wanning could not tell any joy, anger, sorrow or happiness from it.
She opened her mouth, not knowing how to explain, so she could only nod.
"This kid is quite capable. He was able to come back alive under such circumstances."
Shangguan Yue always felt that Mu Jingrui was no ordinary person and would definitely not be an ordinary person in the future.
It is best not to have a hostile relationship with such a person; but if unfortunately you happen to stand on the opposite side, you must eliminate him as soon as possible before he becomes a force to be reckoned with.
"Dad, Jing Rui actually..."
"Why did he come to see you today?"
Shangguan Wanning couldn't help but glance at her mother, secretly wondering how she should start talking in order to reduce the harm to her mother.
"Does he want you to testify against your grandfather and your third uncle in the court of the Ministry of Justice?"
"Dad, you..." Shangguan Wanning was very surprised.
Shangguan Yue sighed deeply.
"In fact, when the news about your grandfather at the border came back, I realized that the situation was not good."
Shangguan Yue is also an old fox. He never believed that his father-in-law could be so easy-going and let bygones be bygones.
It was not until today when I saw Zheng Binghong drunk in the Yiyong Marquis’s mansion that I learned the whole story from him.
He never imagined that Zheng Guoxun would be so cruel that he would disregard the lives of 100,000 soldiers just to avenge his son and grandson.
"Ning'er, what are you going to do?"
At this point, Shangguan Wanning has nothing to hide.
"Dad, I know that Grandpa and Third Uncle were confused for doing this, but... the souls of those 100,000 wronged people have been lingering in my mind. I really can't remain indifferent."
"Ning'er, so you have decided to help Mu Jingrui testify against your grandfather?" Madam Shangguan finally couldn't help it. She grabbed her daughter's hand and said anxiously, "Ning'er, you must not do this."
"mother……"
"Ning'er, think about your childhood. How did your grandpa and your three uncles treat you? Especially your grandpa. He loved you to the core. Can you bear to see him go to jail and be beheaded at such an old age?"
"I..." Shangguan Wanning's heart was gripped tightly.
When Mrs. Shangguan learned about this, she felt dizzy.
She knew very well that those 100,000 soldiers died unjustly.
"Ning'er, your grandpa is old. How many more years of wealth can he have? For the sake of his love for you, please don't go to the Ministry of Justice, okay?"
Seeing that her daughter was still hesitant, Madam Shangguan said anxiously, "From today on, I will ask your grandfather and your third uncle to eat vegetarian food and chant Buddhist scriptures to repent for their mistakes. Give them a chance to correct their mistakes."
Change? Opportunity?
Shangguan Wanning didn't want this to happen either.
But, one hundred thousand lives! This price is too high, and it cannot be redeemed by simply becoming a vegetarian from now on.
What's more, it also concerns Mu Jingrui's innocence.
"Ning'er, just consider it as your mother begging you..." Madam Shangguan said as she was about to kneel down to the woman.
Shangguan Wanning was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she also knelt in front of her mother. "Mother, you...you are shortening your daughter's life by doing this, aren't you?"
Mrs. Shangguan couldn't bear to see her daughter in such trouble. She reached out and stroked her daughter's face while crying.
"Ning'er, my child... Mother really has no other choice. Your second uncle died tragically trying to save you, and Zhixing also passed away at a young age... They are all my relatives. If anything happens to your third uncle and grandpa again, then I..."
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