Yun Zhuo watched him go crazy in silence.
Ning Hongxi pounded on the prison bars, shouting that he wanted to see the emperor. The others joined in the crying, sobbing uncontrollably, while also cursing and hurling insults at Yun Zhuo.
Yun Zhuo simply stood aside and watched them coldly, but Ning Hongxi was the first to calm down.
Yun Zhuo then spoke: "I've thought about what you're saying. I've ignored the harm you've done to me time and time again just to consider my mother's feelings!"
"So much so that you have tried to kill me and my Crown Princess time and time again!"
Ye Qingxue had narrowly escaped death several times while pregnant, so he could not let these people go again.
Yun Zhuo continued, "...Later, I dreamed of my mother. In the dream, I told her what you had done. My mother said that she cared a lot about her family, her own brother, and her nephews and nieces."
"However, my mother also told me that if anyone wanted to harm her child, even if that person was her own brother, she would not forgive them. As a mother, her first consideration is the safety and happiness of her own child!"
After he had his own child, he suddenly realized that if his father wanted to kill his child, he would absolutely not allow it! Not only would he not allow it, he would fight desperately against his father!
Therefore, there is no need to use his biological mother's feelings to manipulate him!
The Empress Dowager will definitely stand by his side!
Ning Hongxi stared at him blankly, his eyes unfocused, and after a long while asked, "Does His Majesty really intend to execute our entire Ning clan? I have done so much for him."
"Otherwise what?" Yun Zhuo's lips curled into a mocking smile: "Does he want to announce to the world that he tacitly approved of you abducting young boys and girls? Or does he want the world to know that it was his idea to refine the Longevity Pill?"
Ning Hongxi: "..." Yes, so the emperor pushed them out to take the blame. He should have thought of it from the beginning, but he just refused to believe it these days.
After all, it was the wealth and glory of the entire clan, the lives of all its members. How could he believe that he couldn't protect the wealth and glory of the entire clan, and how could he accept that he couldn't protect so many lives?
Yun Zhuo slowly squatted down, looked directly into his eyes, and said in a cold and deep voice, "Now that things have come to this, I really want to ask you a question: why did you try to kill me?"
After all, his uncle's family had once supported him so much, and were his strongest backing.
He shares some of their blood with them.
Yun Zhuo no longer had any expectations for this family relationship, but he couldn't understand Ning Hongxi's purpose in doing so.
When he was deposed and forced to flee, he thought that Ning Hongxi was chasing him desperately because he misunderstood him, just like his father. But he gradually realized that this was not the case.
Even after he cleared his name and restored his innocence, the Prime Minister's Mansion still stood against him.
There must be some secret between Ning Hongxi and his father that he is unaware of.
Today, he is going to uncover this secret!
Ning Hongxi slowly raised his eyes to look at him, his gaze somewhat blank and dazed. The breath he had been holding in was released, and he seemed to have aged several years in an instant, looking extremely haggard.
"...Targeting you and trying to kill you was not my intention. You are my own nephew, and I have no hatred or disgust for you. I just want to preserve the wealth and honor of the Ning family."
Yun Zhuo sneered: "But I am the Crown Prince, the heir apparent. If I ascend the throne in the future, the Ning family will not be too bad off."
Ning Hongxi glanced at him and continued, "It wasn't until Xun'er died that I began to hate you and Ye Qingxue. If it weren't for you, Xun'er wouldn't have died!"
"..." Yun Zhuo pursed his lips, his beautiful eyes filled with a deep coldness: "If you want to reflect, why don't you start reflecting from the moment you wanted to kill my Crown Princess?"
Ning Hongxi suddenly flew into a rage: "But Ye Qingxue is not dead, she didn't even miscarry, while my Xun'er is truly dead!"
Yun Zhuo's eyes flashed with even more sneer, so only the life of his own son mattered; the lives of others didn't count.
"If Xun'er hadn't died, I really wouldn't feel any hatred towards you!"
Ning Hongxi stopped speaking abruptly, looking at Yun Zhuo with an angry yet strange gaze: "Even now, you still don't know the truth about why you were deposed last year, do you?"
He burst into laughter: "From the moment you were deposed, I knew that supporting you was nothing more than going against the Emperor. What future or prosperity could a family that goes against the Emperor possibly have?"
"Therefore, our Ning clan can only sever ties with you. You should hate your father, not our Ning family. I only hope that our Ning clan can survive forever. I am responsible for my entire family, not just for a deposed crown prince, a prince abandoned by the emperor! What have I done wrong?!"
Ning Hongxi's expression turned ferocious again!
Yun Zhuo's hand reached through the wooden fence and grabbed Ning Hongxi's collar: "Explain yourself!"
"Hahahaha!" Ning Hongxi laughed even more maniacally. "I've said my piece, you can figure it out yourself. Seeing you so anxious and angry makes me so happy!"
Yun Zhuo paused for a moment, then said, "All the male members of the clan aged eight and above were executed, and the rest were exiled. Are you still happy?"
Ning Hongxi's smile froze on his face. Yun Zhuo pushed him away, stood up, and a servant behind him brought him a handkerchief. He wiped his hands, turned around, and strode away.
He went to see Liu Qinghe and read out the imperial edict to execute Liu Qinghe. Liu Qinghe's family was all "gone," so the edict only concerned him. Like Ning Hongxi, he was to be executed in the autumn.
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