Chapter 533 Liu Yan's Plea
The room became quiet.
Ji Yunshu looked at Liu Yan's expression, pursed his lips and said, "I gave you a chance."
Liu Yan smiled bitterly and said, "Once you fall into some quagmires, there's no getting out. Even if you can get ashore, you won't be able to survive with your body covered in mud."
When she met Ji Yunshu and Ji Yunshu promised to let her go and give her a new identity to start over, it was the closest she had ever been to light in her life.
Unfortunately, the abyss was too deep, and she had stayed in it for too long and did not have the courage to walk out.
Ji Yunshu watched as pain, remorse, regret and other complex emotions flashed across Liu Yan's eyes, and she finally regained her composure. He inexplicably understood what she meant.
"Why bother? You're still young and have many options."
Liu Yan shook her head: "They won't let me go. You don't understand them. No one can escape unscathed after betrayal."
Ji Yunshu said, "Then I can only say sorry to you. I don't want anything to happen to my father and brother, and I can't let Youzhou fall into the hands of foreigners."
The apology in her eyes made Liu Yan laugh again. "Actually, you don't have to apologize to me. I've been waiting for this day. On the way back from Mobei, I revealed your whereabouts and caused you to be assassinated. Why didn't you expose me then?"
Ji Yunshu said, "It wasn't necessary at that time."
Liu Yan understood: "Indeed, putting a known spy next to you is better than having another one you don't know beside me. Besides, those people have no ability to cause any harm to you."
Ji Yunshu frowned, not wanting to talk about these irrelevant things anymore.
"Tell me, what exactly does Prince Yong want to do?"
Liu Yan couldn't help but ask, "Why do you think an insignificant chess piece like me can know what Prince Yong is thinking?"
Ji Yunshu said, "You are not an insignificant pawn. If we talk about importance, I'm afraid that people like Madam Qi who have been lying in ambush in Yongzhou for more than ten years are not as important as you. Am I right?"
Liu Yan was a little surprised: "Why do you think so?"
Ji Yunshu glanced at the burning oil lamp. The night was long, and they could chat slowly tonight.
"Based on my understanding of Prince Yong, he placed a person in charge in every location to ensure timely response and delivery of information. But after the incident in Mobei was over, I realized that this time we never encountered a strong enemy from beginning to end."
"Then why me?"
Liu Yan really didn't know where she had revealed her true identity.
She asked herself if she had hidden it well enough.
"It was because I didn't realize it was you at first that I wanted to let you go. But when you didn't want to leave and wanted to stay with me, I realized something was wrong."
Liu Yan was puzzled: "That was in Mobei. I was a weak woman with no one to rely on. It was normal for me to want to stay with you, wasn't it?"
Ji Yunshu shook his head. "Under normal circumstances, this is indeed normal, but the situation at that time was not normal at all. The situation in Mobei was unclear at that time. Whether we could return alive was still unknown. After you received my promise, the most important thing you should do is stay away from me."
She couldn't help but smile as she said this, "Besides, you're not a weak woman at all."
Most women of this era were indeed weak, but this definitely did not include the spies carefully trained by Prince Yong's Mansion.
Liu Yan smiled bitterly: "So that's how it is. That's right. My choice to stay with you is indeed a suspicious thing, but even so, I have no choice."
"Yeah, actually you don't care whether I found out or not. You think since I let you stay, I must have my own plans, so you recklessly revealed my whereabouts, thinking that it would be best if I were killed, but if I didn't die, then it wouldn't matter."
Liu Yan said frankly, "I did think so. When I revealed your whereabouts, I didn't think I could keep it a secret. I just didn't expect that I was exposed earlier. I also didn't expect that you didn't come to settle the score with me, but instead, as soon as you returned to Wuning, you pulled Madam Qi out."
Ji Yunshu smiled noncommittally and said, "Madam Qi can't be considered as my exposé, right? Ever since you found out in Mobei Royal City that I was looking for the spy buried with my father, you've been planning to push Madam Qi out, right? Stop beating around the bush and tell me who that person is."
The process of finding Madam Qi was so smooth.
Ji Yunshu had only slowly figured all of this out in the past few days. Only then did he realize why he always felt anxious even though everything was moving in a good direction and his father and brother's disaster had passed.
Her subconscious mind had been warning her.
The smile on Liu Yan's face froze for a moment, and she pulled the corners of her mouth with some difficulty: "Is this why you let Madam Qi die so easily?"
Ji Yunshu said indifferently, "I guess so. Of course, the main reason is Huo Cong's soft heart. If she fell into someone else's hands, she would definitely not have the chance to commit suicide."
Liu Yan knew that at this point in the conversation, some things were unavoidable.
She took a deep breath to calm herself down. "If I say something, I'll definitely die. Of course, I also know I'm not in a position to bargain with you. But I beg you, I'll tell you everything I know in exchange for my aunt's life, okay?"
Ji Yunshu looked at her pleading expression, feeling indescribably complicated.
Liu Yan blinked her eyes and forced back the tears: "Auntie really knows nothing and has done nothing. She has suffered too much to protect me. I beg you."
Her voice was choked with sobs, and Ji Yunshu's heart felt like it was blocked by a piece of lead. After a long while, she slowly nodded: "Okay."
When I came out of Liu Yan's room, the moon was already at its highest point in the sky.
The cold moonlight shines on the ground, as if a layer of frost has condensed.
Ji Yunshu, wrapped in a thick fox fur coat, walked slowly on the way back, being exceptionally silent.
A sharp wind blew by, and Yin Ye came back to his senses from Liu Yan's words.
She couldn't help but ask, "Prince Yong, is he crazy?"
Ji Yunshu looked up at the bright moon, as if thinking of something, and asked irrelevantly, "Do you still remember the Prince of Yong in the capital?"
Yin Ye didn't know why she suddenly mentioned Prince Yong, and nodded in confusion: "Of course I remember."
This prince lives a secluded life in the capital and rarely meets people.
But she didn't know if it was a coincidence, but she had met him several times when she went out with her wife.
Ji Yunshu gazed deeply at the moon. "Actually, when I first entered the palace, I really didn't like it there, nor did I like the princes and princesses. Because of my aunt, they seemed very kind to me on the surface, but I knew they didn't like me in their hearts either."
Yin Ye said with some distress: "You have been wronged."
She knew that even in the palace, living under someone else's roof was not a pleasant experience.
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