Chapter 123 He needs to be close to his wife to feel better.
Even the bird's claws, smaller than its eyes, were eager to try. The giant python silently opened its blood-red maw, its shadow enveloping the parrot, its sharp teeth gleaming with a ghastly white light.
If a giant python doesn't show its power, do you think it's an earthworm?
The parrot, startled, squawked and flapped its wings, chanting, "May your happiness be as boundless as the Eastern Sea! May your longevity be as enduring as the Southern Mountains!"
Late at night, at the Ministry of Justice.
A woman was bound to a cross. A vicious whip whistled through the air and struck her heavily. A muffled groan escaped her lips, which were gagged with rags. Bloodstains seeped into her prison clothes.
After a while, a man came up with a piece of paper covered in writing and respectfully said to Xie Linyuan, "Minister Xie, Lin Ruoxue has confessed everything. This is the evidence she gave."
With his slender fingers, Xie Linyuan took the paper, glanced at it briefly, and strode over to Lin Ruoxue's side.
"I'll give you one chance. Is there anything else you want to say?"
The observant subordinate removed the rag from her mouth.
After the damp constraints disappeared, Lin Ruoxue moved her stiff jaw, and the pain in her body made her unconsciously gasp for breath.
The pain was real, and so was the pretense.
Lin Ruoxue tilted her head slightly, letting the stray hairs at her temples fall across her pale face, presenting Xie Linyuan at the most beautiful and perfect angle.
All I want to say is, if I had been the one who fell into the river that day, would you have fallen for me?
Xie Linyuan looked at her mockingly, without saying a word.
"But I love you so much, and I didn't want to do this. Everything I did was for you. I really know I was wrong. Please, let me go..."
Lin Ruoxue pleaded desperately, on the verge of death.
Xie Linyuan turned to look at his subordinate, who stepped forward, took Lin Ruoxue's index finger, and wiped it on the bloodstain.
Xie Linyuan pressed his blood-stained fingers onto the paper and said coldly, "Don't use me as an excuse. It's disgusting. You're only doing this for yourself. You're just selfish."
Hearing Xie Linyuan's extremely disgusted voice, Lin Ruoxue raised her head and laughed sadly, wanting to hear what the person she loved so deeply had to say.
He said he felt disgusted.
Her voice filled the entire Ministry of Justice; the woman's shrill laughter echoed in the dead of night, likely adding another chapter to the Ministry's eerie legends.
After leaving the Ministry of Justice, Xie Linyuan hurriedly returned home. After washing up, he climbed into bed and wrapped his arms tightly around his sleeping wife from behind.
With his sharp jawline pressed against his wife's shoulder, Xie Linyuan gently nuzzled her, his thin lips slowly kissing Wen Shuwan. He was disgusted by that woman and needed to be close to his wife to feel better.
Before sunrise, when light is yet to come, the world is shrouded in a dark, chaotic state.
The staff on duty at the Ministry of Justice were fast asleep when a highly skilled man in black sneaked in. After a struggle, the man in black, covered in wounds, brought Lin Ruoxue out.
They fled to the ash pit in the west of the city to evade capture. Due to excessive blood loss, the man in black stumbled and Lin Ruoxue rolled into the ash pit, raising a thick cloud of foul-smelling ashes.
"Master, are you alright?"
Lin Ruoxue shook her head weakly.
Where do we go next?
Lin Ruoxue stared wide-eyed at the sky, tears sliding from the corners of her eyes into the ashes left after the waste had burned.
"...Go to the Northern Rong."
"Yes," the man in black replied blindly.
He was a person who blindly worshipped Lin Ruoxue's abilities. He could ignore even the emperor's words, but he would listen to Lin Ruoxue's words only and morbidly worship her as a deity.
After they fled to the Northern Rong, Lin Ruoxue was met by the Second Prince Tuoba Hong.
Tuoba Hong shoved Lin Ruoxue against the wall, his rough fingers pinching her chin hard, and said in a deep voice, "I have said that you should not fall into my hands in the future, otherwise, heh."
These words earned Lin Ruoxue a pitiful look, but Tuoba Hong slapped her hard across the face.
"You humiliated me back in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and I will make you pay double for it."
At the Xie residence, dawn broke, and the parrots began to sing.
Xie Mianmian sat up groggily, but Xie Mingyi pressed her back down. "You've just recovered, so stay home and rest for a few days. Don't go to school."
Xie Mingyi thought the child would be happy to hear that she didn't have to go to school, but Xie Mianmian rubbed her eyes and struggled to get out of bed.
"Mianmian has to go to school." She needs to know a lot of things, such as that merfolk are mermaids, otherwise it would be too embarrassing, especially in front of the Seventh Prince.
Xie Mianmian, being shy, curled up her toes.
What could Xie Mingyi do? She could only send the studious Xie Mianmian to the palace. In the end, she couldn't help but remind her not to study too hard and to rest whenever possible.
Xie Mianmian earnestly agreed, and as soon as she sat down in the Wenhua Hall, she began to listen attentively.
Even the Grand Tutor couldn't help but praise the little boy who was sitting so upright, saying that this five-year-old was truly a role model for all of us.
With such high praise, is Xie Mianmian proud? Yes, she's practically strutting around with pride.
Two children sat under the tea stall during the afternoon riding and archery lesson.
Xie Mianmian sat listlessly in the chair, her elbows resting on her knees, her hands cupping her little face, looking worried.
She pouted and said to the Seventh Prince beside her, "Seventh Prince, I'm sorry, but I've searched my whole family for information about the person in the painting, and I still haven't been able to find out anything."
"It's alright." He had expected this.
However, no one could explain what exactly happened back then. Should he ask his father, the Emperor? Would he tell him the truth? The Seventh Prince was unusually confused.
The two children sat together, sighing.
Suddenly, a long line of gorgeously dressed dancers passed by in the distance. One of them caught Xie Mianmian's attention, and the child's eyes lit up immediately.
She jumped off the chair and excitedly waved her arms at the people at the front of the line.
The man also noticed Xie Mianmian, and after informing the team leader, he walked over gracefully.
The child exclaimed in surprise, "Sister Bai, what are you doing here!"
Bai Yun bowed to the two and said, "Greetings, Your Highness, and Your Highness, Princess."
The Seventh Prince nodded, and Xie Mianmian smiled and took her hand.
"Bai Yun heard that the palace was recruiting dancers from the common people, so she came to try it out, and now she is a junior instructor."
Now that I've come from Shanzhanlou to venture into the capital, how can I not take a look inside this magnificent palace?
"That's great, Sister Bai, you're amazing!" In Xie Mianmian's eyes, someone who can be a tutor must have five, six, seven, or eight skills.
"You all looked very distressed just now, did something happen?"
Xie Mianmian said, "There's something we want to know the truth about, but we don't know who to ask, and there's no one who can tell us." After saying that, her little face scrunched up again.
"I see. Do you know about Shanzhanlou?"
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