Xie Changling suddenly froze. Those bite marks were the ones Xi'er loved to leave when she couldn't bear it anymore, so—
"What did you do to Xi'er?!"
Xie Changling tried to reach out and grab Xiao Jin's collar, but the guard slashed his arm, causing blood to gush out and the white bone to be faintly visible.
Seeing that the others were about to kill him, Xiao Jin spoke up to stop them: "Stop!"
Xie Changling was pinned to the ground, looking as wretched as a dog, covered in blood and grime. The elegant and refined gentleman he had just displayed was nowhere to be seen.
His eyes were bloodshot, and the bloodstains on his face made him look extremely miserable!
"ah--"
The princess screamed in fright. Even though she was well-informed and had blood on her hands, she had never done it herself, let alone seen such a bloody scene.
"Xie Changling, have you gone mad? How dare you show such contempt for the emperor's authority—"
The eldest princess, still shaken, immediately condemned him. Since she had already offended the Prime Minister's residence, wouldn't it be better to eliminate the threat completely?
"shut up!"
Xiao Jin stopped her from continuing. He looked at Xie Changling, pinched his chin with his fingers, and saw the hatred in his eyes.
"Do you want to die?"
Xiao Jin did have a moment of rage, but Xie Changling's impulsiveness helped her calm down.
Especially after hearing the words of the Eldest Princess, he thought, "What a clever scheme my dear elder sister devised! Using me as a weapon to eliminate dissidents for her!"
"If you die, your mother will surely miss you. So I will send her down to scout ahead."
Xiao Jin looked at the woman sleeping on the chair. She hadn't woken up despite all the commotion, which meant that his good older sister must have done something again.
Upon hearing Xiao Jin's words, Xie Changling's initial resolve to die vanished instantly. What did this mean? Killing him wasn't enough; did they want to kill everyone in the Prime Minister's residence?
Xie Changling knelt on the ground in a sorry state. He struggled to raise his head under the guards' blades, looked at the high and mighty emperor, and gritted his teeth.
"You want to kill my mother?"
Looking at the familiar face before him, Xiao Jin remembered the scene when Xie Changling saved him, and how he had been looking forward to seeing Xie Changling again before coming to the Princess's residence.
But he absolutely could not let go of Song Lingxi. When he learned that Lingxi was the woman from the Song family whom he had arranged to marry Xie Changling to bring him good luck, he had already begun to feel regret.
Everything we're doing now is simply setting things right. Song Lingxi should have been his empress, the mother of the world, and someone who would share the throne with him.
"It depends on what you do, Xie Changling. I just said I would give you two choices, and those choices still stand."
Xiao Jin doesn't want him to die now, but in the future, killing him will be as easy as killing an ant, nothing to fear.
Xie Changling chuckled softly after hearing this, tears even welling up in his eyes: "Hahahaha, hahahaha."
"why are you laughing?"
Xiao Jin asked in a deep voice, his well-defined knuckles clenching quietly—a sign that he was about to lose his temper. If Xie Changling continued to provoke him, he would not hold back this time.
After Xie Changling finished laughing, his eyes were full of sarcasm: "Is this the choice His Majesty has given me?"
"You're not satisfied?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Jin's voice was unreadable, revealing neither joy nor anger. The flame in his heart burned ever brighter, carrying an aura of destruction, as if the next moment would cause the mother and son to be beheaded.
Time passed second by second, and finally, just as Xiao Jin's patience ran out, Xie Changling's voice rang out.
His pride seemed to shatter completely at that moment, and he was transformed—no, his very bones were broken.
"Thank you for your great favor, Your Majesty. Please grant me paper and pen, Princess, and I will present the divorce papers immediately."
Xie Changling's voice was filled with sorrow as he spoke each word, his voice trembling uncontrollably and his lips shaking incessantly.
Blood was gushing from his arm, and he was pinned to the ground with all the swords and knives at his neck. He was in the most wretched state, his face ashen.
Seeing this scene, even the eldest princess felt a pang of pity. Killing someone is just a matter of beheading them, and in her opinion, the emperor killing the person directly might even be a favor to him.
"Young Master Xie, here is paper and pen. The divorce agreement has already been written on it. All you need to do is sign and put your fingerprint on it."
After the princess finished speaking, she saw Xie Changling sign his name with his injured arm. His grip on the pen was very unnatural, and it was clear that he was forcing himself to do it.
And then there's the bloody handprint; the blood on it is all fresh blood from the wound, enough to chill anyone to look at.
"In that case, will Your Majesty and the Princess spare my son and me?"
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