After a stick of incense, Si Haodang was escorted into the hall by two soldiers.

He was wearing prison clothes, his feet were shackled, and his face was very haggard. Although he was not tortured, he was interrogated all night long and his mental state was not very good.

boom!boom!boom!boom!boom!

As soon as Si Haodang came in, he knelt down and kowtowed, making a buzzing sound from his head.

"Your Majesty, I am innocent. I have never tried to murder the princess. I am innocent!"

Si Haodang spoke with a crying tone and kowtowed hard, and his appearance made him seem a little pitiful.

"Unjust? My daughter almost lost two lives, and you're talking to me about injustice?"

"If I hadn't arrived in time and rescued Qingming from Si Haodang's hands, I'm afraid Qingming would have become a ghost long ago."

Xie Lang's sarcastic voice was heard, forcing Si Haodang to look up.

He saw Xie Lang staring at him with extremely cold eyes, with a gloomy aura emanating from his body, which frightened him.

"Mother-in-law, it's unfair, it's unfair!!!"

However, the next moment, a stream of spiritual power rushed towards Si Haodang, and with a sudden collision sound, Si Haodang was knocked to the ground.

"Ah!!!" A shrill scream burst out from Si Haodang's mouth. Si Haodang collapsed on the ground, his breath weak, spitting blood and gasping for breath.

"You still dare to call me your mother-in-law?"

"Princess, Princess..." Si Haodang trembled all over as he uttered these words tremblingly. He no longer dared to call her mother-in-law.

In addition to Si Haodang, all the officials in the court were frightened by Xie Lang's move and their hands and feet became weak.

Beating someone up like this from a distance is no longer human. It really is a ghost, it's really scary.

But they knew they were ghosts and they could not escape. They could only suffer here and live every day like a year.

There are also some ministers who have strong psychological endurance and have already accepted the fact that Xie Lang is a "ghost". It is not a big problem for them to accept that she has some special abilities.

But generally speaking, I'm still afraid.

"Princess, I didn't murder Qingming. Seeing is not necessarily believing. All this... all this is..." Si Haodang struggled to get up from the ground, his shackles making crisp sounds as he rose and fell. "Everything is a frame-up for me. I am totally innocent!"

"Marquis Cheng'en's destruction of witnesses and evidence is a good move, but Doctor Qian explained everything clearly in the prison yesterday. He used drugs to cause the princess to have a difficult labor, resulting in two deaths. Doctor Qian also covered up the incident and swapped the royal bloodline. This was all done by you!!"

When Zou Xing heard that Si Haodang dared to say that he was wronged, he couldn't help but make a sarcastic remark.

Does he really think that he can exonerate himself by destroying witnesses and evidence?

It's so stupid.

Even if there was no evidence provided by Doctor Qian, as long as the princess said that he murdered the princess, then he murdered the princess, and the princess was the biggest witness.

How could it be false if the princess saw it with her own eyes?

Si Haodang was kneeling on the ground in a state of embarrassment at this moment, with blood still lingering on the corners of his mouth. Tears and sweat soaked his back. "No, that was all Doctor Qian's framing of me. Qingming and I were deeply in love, how could I possibly do such a thing as murdering her? Swapping the child is even more absurd. Qingming gave birth to my child, and I love her so much, how could I bear to hurt my own flesh and blood!"

"It must have been done by Doctor Qian. I have no idea about it. If you don't believe me... you can ask Qingming. Qingming will definitely testify for me."

Xie Lang couldn't help but sneer. How could he have the nerve to murder the victim and ask the victim to testify for him?

Really, it's so shameless!

"Yes, I will testify for him."

A clear voice sounded, and Wei Qingming walked in from the entrance on the right side of Wei Changche, wearing a green phoenix dress and various pearls and jade hairpins on his head. He saluted the emperor and Xie Lang in turn: "Your Majesty, and mother."

Afterwards, she walked down the steps and stood in the middle, two meters away from Si Haodang behind her. All the ministers bowed to her.

Seeing Wei Qingming's overwhelming joy, Si Haodang said happily: "Qingming, tell them that I didn't murder you at all. I am innocent!"

The reason why Si Haodang was so confident that Wei Qingming would be on his side was because Wei Qingming had always been so considerate in the past, so he thought it would be the same this time.

It is also a matter of course.

Wei Qingming smiled at Si Haodang. Seeing him in such a state of disgrace, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Then he turned around and bowed to Wei Changche: "Your Majesty, it is absolutely true that Si Haodang plotted to murder me and pretended to be a royal bloodline. I beg Your Majesty to make the decision for me."

"Wei Qingming, are you crazy?" Si Haodang's face was full of disbelief. He couldn't believe that Wei Qingming, who used to be full of him, would say such cold words at this moment.

Si Haodang's face was distorted, and it looked very ferocious with his miserable face. He bared his teeth at Wei Qingming and said, "Wei Qingming, please tell me that I am innocent. I didn't murder you at all. This is all a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding..."

Wei Qingming was unmoved by Si Haodang's shouting behind him, and he bowed calmly, "Your Majesty, please make the decision for me."

"You bitch..." Seeing that Wei Qingming ignored him, Si Haodang became furious. He wished he could tear Wei Qingming's face apart and wanted to go over and teach her a lesson.

Just when Si Haodang was about to explode, the guards standing on both sides of the hall were quick-eyed and rushed out quickly. One of them kicked him to the ground, and then several guards drew their swords and surrounded him.

"How dare you attack and hurt others?"

Wei Changche was completely furious. Si Haodang's behavior was simply disrespectful to the emperor and his father and was extremely bold. The ministers in the court also came forward to petition for him to be executed. Wei Changche raised his hand to quiet down the whole audience.

"No need to be so polite, niece." Wei Changche asked Wei Qingming to stand up first, then looked at Si Haodang coldly, and said in a stern voice: "Where is the Minister of Justice?"

"I'm here." Zou Xing stepped out and said.

"According to the law, what crime should be committed for murdering the princess, confusing the royal bloodline, and violently injuring someone in the court?"

Si Haodang was sweating coldly at this moment. He was finished.

Wei Changche's words had already determined his guilt.

"Your Majesty, according to the law, those who plot to murder the princess shall be executed along with their entire clan. Those who confuse the royal bloodline shall be executed along with their entire clan. Those who violently attack and injure others in the court shall be executed. These multiple crimes should be combined and their bones should be crushed and their ashes scattered."

Zou Xing answered calmly.

At this moment, Si Haodang looked devastated. No, I can't do that.

So he looked at Wei Qingming standing in front of him and wanted to crawl over to grab her skirt, but was stopped by the guards in the palace: "Qingming, I was wrong, I was really wrong. We are husband and wife, and a day of marriage brings a hundred days of grace. The Si family is also your in-laws' family. Can you really bear to see the Si family exterminated?"

"I will treat you wholeheartedly in the future. Can we die together? I will only love you in the future..."

Si Haodang kept crying and complaining to Wei Qingming, because he knew that Wei Qingming was a soft-hearted person.

He is in such a miserable state, Wei Qingming will definitely plead for mercy with the emperor.

Moreover, they were husband and wife, and if he died, Wei Qingming would have to remain a widow.

The Si family is also her in-laws' family, she can't just let it go.

Wei Changche was about to speak when Wei Qingming gave him a reassuring look.

Xie Lang's expression did not fluctuate. This was something Wei Qingming should face.

"Si Haodang," Wei Qingming turned around slowly. Her eyes were already filled with tears. She began to tell her story. Her voice was not loud, but very firm: "I married you when I was 16. It has been nine years now."

"For nine years, I was filial to my mother-in-law. I didn't dare to take charge of anything, let alone disobey her. But my mother-in-law treated me like an enemy. She made me kneel down when it rained heavily, and made me cook for her when she was seriously ill, and helped her wash and change clothes. She would look at me and take her anger out on me."

"Before you married me, you said you would love me wholeheartedly. But a few years after you married me, you took in many concubines. The expenses of the mansion were very high, so you asked me to use my dowry to supplement them. You also allowed the concubines to take my dowry. If I didn't obey, you said I was not virtuous enough and too selfish."

"In fact, you are the truly selfish person. You have never given anything for me, but you think that what I have given is not enough."

Wei Qingming was very calm at this time. If the content of his words had not been too shocking, one would have thought he was just stating a trivial matter.

"I tried to influence you with my sincerity, but I didn't know that human greed is greedy. In the end, you wanted to kill me and even the flesh and blood in my belly."

At this point, Wei Qingming smiled, but tears couldn't stop flowing: "I am a princess!"

"Qingming, I, I'm sorry..." Si Haodang choked up, looking at Wei Qingming with hope, "Can we get back together? Give me another chance, I will treat you well in the future, I won't let my mother bully you, and I won't have a concubine anymore..."

"Enough." Wei Qingming wiped his tears and his eyes suddenly became cold.

"Si Haodang, you have no moral integrity and are even more greedy. You destroyed the evidence of murder and acted lawlessly. You killed me and harmed my own flesh and blood. You are not worthy of being my husband."

Wei Qingming continued, "Today, in front of His Majesty, my mother, and all the civil and military officials in the court, I divorce you, this vicious husband. From now on, you and I will have nothing to do with each other."

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