Jiang Muyu looked at the old man in front of him with a very ugly face and asked with a smile: "Doctor Wu Yu, according to the laws of Tiangan Kingdom, what crime should be punished for murdering the princess?"

Doctor Wu Yu shuddered, then he lifted his coat, knelt down in front of her, and pleaded, "I no longer have the face to ask the Empress for mercy. When I return to the capital, I will personally apologize to the Emperor. I only hope that the disaster will not affect my family."

"Don't worry, I will usually be able to distinguish right from wrong." Jiang Muyu said, waving at Yunyan, and said, "Go and invite Mr. Liu who is beside Prefect Jiang to come over."

"yes."

Yunyan then withdrew.

She continued, "Please be patient for a moment."

Wu Lianxuan stared at her grandfather's kneeling figure and felt a pang of pain in her heart. She threw back the quilt and struggled to get off the bed, but she fell heavily as soon as her feet touched the ground.

Doctor Wu Yu and the maid hurried over to help her up.

Doctor Wu Yu asked sternly, "What are you doing? Don't you think you're causing enough trouble?"

Although he was blaming, there was a mixture of heartache and pain in his eyes, and his tone was more of helplessness.

Wu Lianxuan looked up at Jiang Muyu who was sitting on the throne, and said in a hoarse voice: "My grandfather is old and can't kneel for long. If the queen wants to vent her anger, I am willing to kneel in his place."

Jiang Muyu looked down at the two people supporting each other, one old, the other sick, and said with a sigh, "What a kind and filial grandson, I can't bear it... In this case, you two should kneel together."

"You... just kneel down." Wu Lianxu gritted his teeth, and then he put aside the two people who were supporting him and knelt upright facing her.

If looks could kill, Jiang Muyu felt that he would have been stabbed by now.

Doctor Wu Yu was helpless and terrified: "Madam, it is because I have spoiled her habits that she has become so lawless."

Jiang Muyu lowered her eyes slightly and looked at Wu Lianxu, saying, "You should be under sixteen this year. I heard that you are the youngest female doctor in the palace. You do have some capital to be arrogant."

Wu Lianxu said nothing.

She continued, "Your grandfather protected you too well. You have not learned any way of dealing with the world in the palace for so many years, but you have learned some crooked ways. If you still want to marry into the Rui Palace, I'm afraid you won't be able to do so even if you live another lifetime."

Wu Lianxu glared at her angrily. Although he remained silent, the resentment and anger in his eyes were undisguised.

Jiang Muyu looked at her, smiled contemptuously, and said, "Now do you understand what respect and inferiority are? Look, even if you hate me in your heart and want to kill me right here, you still have to kneel before me and beg for my forgiveness. Otherwise, your whole family will be killed because of you."

"What does my sin have to do with my family?"

"If a son is not educated, it is the fault of the father; if a daughter is not educated, it is the fault of the mother. They are your family, but they did not educate you well. Do you think they are at fault?"

Wu Lianqiao's face was full of ferociousness: "How dare you! Six generations of our family have been imperial doctors in the palace, and we are highly valued by the emperor. Even if the queen mother wants to convict, she has to weigh it."

"You traitor, stop talking nonsense!" Doctor Wu Yu was so angry that he raised his hand and slapped her in the face.

Wu Lianxu was already weak, and was knocked to the ground by the slap, spitting out a mouthful of blood.

Doctor Wu Yu felt both distressed and anxious.

Jiang Muyu shook her head, with an expression that said "this child is incorrigible". She felt a little sorry for Doctor Wu Yu. He had been an official for many years and had lived a clean life, so how could he have raised such a stupid granddaughter?

At this time, a clear male voice came: "Really? How come I don't know that the Wu family has such a great ability that even the Queen Mother has to rely on you?"

Liang Qingchen walked in, followed by Yunyan and Mr. Liu.

Yunyan walked up to her and whispered, "When I went to invite you, the prince was there, so he followed me."

Jiang Muyu nodded.

The two people below froze the moment they heard his voice.

Mr. Liu came over, bowed, and asked, "What does your Majesty want to see me for?"

Jiang Muyu said, "I heard that Mr. Liu's confession was very well written. There happens to be a criminal here. Please write a copy for me."

"yes."

Mr. Liu did not ask any more questions and immediately asked someone to move the table from the outer room over and prepare the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone.

Jiang Muyu raised her chin towards Wu Lianxu and said, "It just so happens that the prince is here too. You should honestly confess all your crimes, no matter how big or small. If you do well, I will tentatively agree to give you the antidote. Otherwise, in two hours at most, your grandfather will die. As for whether anyone will hold me accountable in the future, you may not even see it."

Wu Lianxu crawled on the ground, struggling to catch his breath, and did not respond.

Doctor Wu Yu held her shoulders and said earnestly, "Nannan, listen to your grandfather's advice and don't be stubborn anymore."

"If you don't want to say it, that's fine." Liang Qingchen said coldly, "Then wait for the entire Wu family to be buried with you."

Wu Lianxuan felt a glimmer of hope when she heard the first half of the sentence, but the second half made her feel like she was falling into an ice cellar, and her whole body turned cold.

She raised her head and looked at the handsome man with a cold expression standing not far away beside Jiang Muyu.

This man appeared in her dreams several times, and every time he came like a god when she was in trouble. But in reality, her predicament was caused by him.

After a long while, she finally said in a hoarse voice: "I will tell the truth, and I hope the prince will let my grandfather and family go."

Liang Qingchen didn't answer, so Jiang Muyu had to say, "I won't implicate the innocent."

Wu Lianxu was silent for a moment before he narrated what had happened.

She had fallen in love with Liang Qingchen two years ago. She first met him in the palace when she accompanied her grandfather to see the empress dowager.

The Queen Mother was ill in bed, and Liang Qingchen came to visit her. He came in a crescent-white robe, his face as bright as the moon, his eyes as bright as stars. For the first time, she understood what "the man on the street is as beautiful as jade, and there is no one like him in the world" meant.

She was attracted by him at first sight.

Later, she found out that he was actually the current King Rui, who was more than ten years older than her and already had two children. She was heartbroken for a long time and finally decided to bury her feelings deep in her heart.

However, when she learned that she had a chance to get close to him, she became interested again, and after begging her grandfather for several days, she was finally able to accompany him to the south of the Yangtze River.

She originally thought that it would be nice if she could marry him and become his concubine.

However, after seeing how he was so affectionate towards Jiang Muyu but so cold and aloof towards others, and seeing how her attempts to get close to him all ended in failure, she gradually began to think about replacing him.

When she learned that the route had been changed that day, she knew that her chance had come. Not only did she bribe the maid to send away the soldiers who were protecting Jiang Muyu, she also secretly passed the message to the thieves, saying that there were gold, silver and treasures in the cabin where the princess was, so those people rushed to break into the cabin where Jiang Muyu was.

However, what she didn't expect was that Jiang Muyu, a weak woman from a noble family, could survive this disaster safely.

Fearing that the matter would be exposed, she killed the bribed maid, and taking advantage of the chaos on the boat, she tied the body to a heavy object and sank it to the bottom of the river.

…

Mr. Liu wrote down her statements one by one on paper, and finally handed it to Jiang Muyu as a detailed confession.

Jiang Muyu brought out the cinnabar ink and asked Wu Lianxu to put her fingerprint on it before she took out the antidote and gave it to her.