The reason why she chose to betray their family was simply because Prince Jin promised to make her a concubine!
Be a royal concubine... a royal concubine! "Hahaha..."
Zhu Longyuan looked at Song Anqiao with red eyes, and his laughter was full of sarcasm.
It was a satire on himself for being blind and falling in love with such a woman, and also a satire on Song Anqiao for dreaming in broad daylight.
He sneered, "You think you can become a concubine? You're a married woman, why are you so naive to think that the Prince of Jin would want you? If he really could usurp the throne and become emperor, then all the young ladies from the prestigious families in the capital would be vying to be his concubines. Why would he want you?"
Song Anqiao hated Zhu Longyuan for humiliating her with words.
However, her face still had that delicate look of a little white flower.
She shed tears and shook her head. "Long Yuan, don't you believe me either? I didn't do these things. I didn't! I don't even know the Prince of Jin. I'm your wife, and you're the only one in my heart. How could I possibly harm you and our Zhu family for that ridiculous dream of becoming a concubine?"
She looked up at Feng Changye again and started crying with a pitiful look as if she had been wronged.
"Your Majesty, you say that this bitch is colluding with the Prince of Jin. Can you provide evidence? If you don't have evidence, then even if you are the emperor with the golden words, this bitch will still not accept it!"
She patted her chest with tears in her eyes, looking loyal.
"I am innocent and have never had any private dealings with the King of Jin. I swear to the heavens, let the heavens bear witness to my innocence!"
Looking at her like this, Feng Changye was once again amazed.
If he hadn't been able to hear her thoughts through his mind-reading ability, who would have believed that she really had any dealings with Prince Jin?
She is such a great actress.
Moreover, her strong psychological quality of "I am innocent without evidence" is truly extraordinary.
He glared at her coldly, "Why do I need evidence? I am the Son of Heaven, and my words are the evidence!"
He looked at Zhu Longyuan and displayed his tyrannical aura!
"Zhu Longyuan, I order you to immediately lead the imperial guards to capture Song Anqiao's parents and brothers. Bring them all here and I will chop them off one by one in front of Song Anqiao!"
Zhu Longyuan immediately stood up and knelt, "I obey your command!"
He held the bloody sword in his hand, a determined look on his face, and was about to carry out the emperor's order.
Song Anqiao was horrified! "No!"
She crawled forward on her knees to block Zhu Longyuan's way and wanted to hug his legs, but Zhu Longyuan kicked her away, and there was no more tenderness and affection as before.
He looked down at her coldly.
A woman who colluded with outsiders to kill the entire Zhu family was not worthy of his pity.
"Long Yuan——"
Song Anqiao lay on the ground in a mess, crying bitterly as she looked at Zhu Longyuan.
Seeing Zhu Longyuan's cold expression, she knew that he would no longer show mercy to her, so she looked up at Feng Changye again.
She choked up and said, "Your Majesty, Princess Fengyao is your sister. If you want to kill me to pave the way for her, then just kill me directly. Why use such a trumped-up charge to slander me? I have never colluded with Prince Jin. Even if I go to the underworld, I can tell the King of Hell that I am innocent!"
Feng Changye really admired this woman's stubbornness in refusing to admit her mistakes.
He raised his chin slightly and said, "Zhu Longyuan, go arrest him. I don't believe that there is no one in the Song family who knows about this."
Only after watching Zhu Longyuan stride out of the lobby did he glance at Song Anqiao.
"You're still being stubborn. Do you think your parents would rather sacrifice their own lives to protect you?"
He shook his head and sneered, "How foolish. They may indeed love you as their daughter, but if their sons and grandsons are all going to die because of you, and their Song family will be extinct because of you, do you think they will continue to stubbornly protect you and lie for you, or will they reveal the whole story and sacrifice you to protect their sons and grandsons?"
"..." Song Anqiao clenched her fists and stared at Feng Changye.
Seeing his contempt and disdain for the dozens of lives of the Song family, Song Anqiao dug her fingernails into her palms, her heart sinking.
This tyrant is someone who can even kill his own brother...
The Song family and just a few dozen lives, why would he care?
Especially since Prince Jin told him all those things before he died, in his eyes, the Song family was originally criminals who had colluded with Prince Jin, so he would not care about the lives of the Song family members.
Thinking of this, Song Anqiao smiled bitterly.
She could only pretend to be innocent in front of the Zhu family.
Because the Zhu family does not have the power of life and death, as long as she refuses to admit it, the Zhu family will not have the power to convict her beyond the law, so she can be arrogant.
But in front of this tyrant, she has no right to be arrogant at all.
He was the one who could kill her entire clan at will.
She glanced at her injured arm and thought that she would be killed by the tyrant today whether she admitted it or not, so it would be better for her to die and save the lives of her family.
So she cried and called out to Zhu Longyuan, "Don't go. I confess everything. I did all this. It has nothing to do with my family!"
Zhu Longyuan stopped, looked back at Feng Changye, and waited for instructions.
Feng Changye motioned him to come back.
He would first listen to what Song Anqiao had to say. After she finished speaking, it wouldn't be too late for him to send people to arrest all the members of the Song family...
"Mother-in-law, eldest brother, second brother, since she is willing to tell the truth, then you can ask her. After all, she is still a member of the Zhu family."
Feng Changye looked at the Zhu family and gave them the right to question them.
He and his wife should just sit aside and eat melon.
"Thank you, Your Majesty."
Old Madam Yu Wanning slowly came back to her senses from the shock. She stood up and walked in front of Song Anqiao.
She still couldn't believe that Song Anqiao would collude with Prince Jin.
She lowered her head and looked at Song Anqiao. "You are the wife I chose for Long Yuan. Back then, I saw that you were well-behaved and sensible, and I thought you would be able to live a good life with my honest son... But I didn't expect that I would harm my son by being so blind as to choose someone like you for him..."
Tears streaming down her face, she asked, "Please tell me, why did you collude with Prince Jin? How has our Zhu family wronged you? Is his promise of a concubine worth giving up the years of love you've shared with Long Yuan?"
Hearing his mother ask this, Zhu Longyuan looked at Song Anqiao silently.
Song Anqiao has decided to confess, so naturally she won't hide anything anymore.
She looked up at Yu Wanning.
"Since Prince Jin wants to harm the Zhu family, does it matter whether I agree to collude with him or not? Even if I don't help him, he can still destroy the Zhu family! So don't look at me with that expression of "I'm sorry for the Zhu family". You have to understand that it's Prince Jin who wants to harm you, not me. I'm a weak woman and can't change anything! If I don't agree to help him, I will have to die with you, but if I agree to help him, I can exchange it for wealth and glory for the rest of my life, so why shouldn't I agree?"
After listening to her words and being silent, the Zhu family was not so surprised.
After all, she had left the Zhu family alone with such a clear conscience.
She has always been so confident.
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