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Meng Wanran's body trembled slightly. She slowly bent her knees and knelt in front of her parents who once regarded her as the apple of their eye.

Her voice was filled with endless sorrow and pleading, like drizzles brushing against the withered lotus leaves in autumn: "Dad and Mom, I was led astray by a single thought, but I have never taken a step that would harm the world and cause harm. I beg you to consider our blood relationship and save me from this dire straits. I will definitely change my ways and atone for this mistake."

But the two of them now fully understood that Meng Wanran in front of them was not a little white rabbit at all, but a wolf in sheep's clothing. They had given their true hearts to the wrong person from the beginning.

Seeing that the two men just turned their heads away and ignored her, Meng Wanran felt confused.

"Dad and Mom, why are you so indifferent? I know I was wrong, and I just want you to look at me. Do you really want to watch me fall into an irretrievable situation?"

Baili He didn't dare to act rashly because she was thinking about her parents, but the behavior of An Ning Hou and his wife was very strange, and they had no intention of helping at all.

A layer of frost condensed on Leng Shiyun's face, and her tone was heavy: "We already know the truth. You are just pretending to be our daughter to gain status. You are not our biological daughter at all. How dare you ask us for help?"

These words were so powerful that Meng Wanran's body swayed, as if he was hit by an invisible hammer. All his disguise and pretense collapsed in an instant.

Her heart was in turmoil, and disbelief surged over her like a tide - how could all this be revealed so easily?

She had clearly eliminated all those who knew the truth, and even their biological daughter was almost killed by her.

To allow myself to gain a firm foothold, but now, all this seems to have become a joke.

Meng Wanran's eyes were full of confusion and struggle. She almost pleaded as she made her final defense: "Mom and Dad, where did you hear this nonsense? How could I be an imposter? This birthmark and this token are all irrefutable evidence. Can't they prove my identity?"

Nan Rongyi's eyes were complicated and sad, as if they could penetrate the surface and reach the darkest corners of people's hearts. He sighed in his heart. It was Meng Wanran's pitiful appearance that almost made the two of them waver and mistakenly believe in her innocence.

"The token is real, but the person is fake. You actually tried to poison the old lady. Such a rebellious act. I ask, in this world, is there any descendant who would be so cruel to harm his own grandmother?"

"No...I didn't." Meng Wanran was still making his final argument.

But she found that there was a trembling imperial physician kneeling in the hall, and his face was very familiar.

The imperial physician said, "Your Majesty, I have no choice but to commit this crime. I am deeply troubled by the fact that the old lady of the Marquis's Mansion has hidden poison in her medicine. I dare not do anything. I am willing to exchange the whole truth for a glimmer of hope. I hope Your Majesty will show mercy and allow me to make meritorious contributions while serving my sentence!"

The imperial physician told the whole story in detail, how Meng Wanran coerced and bribed him to poison, but he did not do so. He only pretended to obey and actually informed the Marquis' Mansion of the matter.

Naturally, this confession was embellished in order to protect himself. It was a promise given to him by the Marquis's Mansion in exchange for a glimmer of hope. If they spared his life, he would be willing to correct Meng Wanran in front of His Majesty.

Meng Wanran retorted sharply: "This is ridiculous! He was clearly instructed by someone to deliberately frame me!"

"Your Highness, you told me all this yourself. Although I am behind bars, I will swear on my life that your words are true."

When Bailihe heard this, the anger in his chest erupted like a volcano and was difficult to contain.

He originally thought that she was just a woman born out of jealousy, but he never thought that there was such a deep deception hidden behind it.

And the reason why he married her from the beginning was because of her status as the daughter of a marquis.

"You are such a vicious woman with a heart of a serpent. You have manipulated all of us in your hands. Your methods are truly amazing."

There was a deep chill in Baili He's words, and every word was like a sharp blade, piercing Meng Wanran's heart.

Baili He suddenly kicked out with such force that Meng Wanran was caught off guard. His body swayed and he fell heavily to the cold ground with a dull sound.

She struggled to get up and hugged Bailihe's legs desperately. Tears rolled down like pearls from a broken string, soaking her clothes.

"Your Highness, my heart is as clear as the sun and the moon. My love for you is deeper than the ocean. Wen Dai Dai is just a woman who is good at disguising herself. She is very scheming and has only used you. She has never been sincere to you. Everything I have done is out of my sincerity and concern for you!"

However, Bailihe's expression became increasingly stern. He forcefully and almost decisively pried open Meng Wanran's tightly clasped hands one by one. His eyes, which had once been gentle, now held only cold determination.

"You have been lying to me since the day you entered the East Palace, trying to blind my eyes. Now, you are even saying that you are doing it for my own good? This is really ridiculous!"

On the side, Baili Jingyao gently rubbed his frowning brows, feeling annoyed. He said in a deep voice, "Enough, this family matter should not be argued in this place. Meng, Meng, you know that you have not only committed the crime of deceiving the emperor! You have also committed a murder!"

Meng Wanran's heart trembled suddenly, and a fear like ice instantly invaded her limbs.

In this palace, what she feared most was the figure of the emperor sitting high on the dragon throne, looking down upon the world.

"Your Majesty, I beg you to show mercy! Even if I am wrong, my mistake was pretending to be the daughter of a marquis, but in this situation, it is not punishable by death."

Baili Jingyao sighed. He thought he was very scheming, but he did not investigate the woman's background in detail.

He looked at Marquis An Ning in silence, signaling him to produce the evidence so that Meng Wanran would be convinced.

Nan Rongyi asked another witness to come up. At this moment, Meng Wanran knew that there was no room for maneuver in this matter.

She was a thin and haggard woman. Her legs trembled and she finally knelt on the ground. Her voice was thin as a thread, but every word was heart-wrenching as she accused Meng Wanran of evil deeds to the almighty emperor.

"I have lost my child. Your Majesty, please take charge!"

She recounted the whole story of how she was deceived into an orphanage, gave birth to a baby boy, and then the child was taken away.

"If it weren't for His Royal Highness Prince Yu's timely rescue, I and the other twenty or so people would have all been buried in the sea of ​​fire!"

Then, the maid beside Meng Wanran told the whole story.

"The Crown Princess threatened the servant with my family's murder and asked the servant to kill the real young prince. In fact, the young emperor's grandson... the young emperor's grandson is fake!"

Meng Wanran's heart sank into a bottomless abyss at that moment. She knew very well that the lies and conspiracies she had woven were like a fragile spider web, which would fall apart in the storm of truth, and there was no possibility of recovery.

"Crown Princess, do you have anything else to say? Not only did you pretend to be the daughter of a marquis, you even tried to steal a boy and turn him into a girl."

Nan Rongyi added seriously, "Not only that, in order to conceal the truth, she killed a total of twelve innocent women. Their bodies have been dug up, and all her men have confessed their crimes."

This woman is too cruel and ruthless, and she will never give up until she achieves her goal.

The more Baili He listened, the heavier his heart felt. He suddenly knelt on the ground, his voice full of unquestionable determination: "Father, please understand that I was completely in the dark about what she did. It is difficult for me to be an accomplice in such evil deeds. From now on, I am willing to sever all ties with her, send her a letter of divorce, and have nothing to do with her from now on!"

At this moment, the best strategy for him was to draw a clear line between the two. He didn't want Meng Wanran to implicate him again.

And at this moment, Meng Wanran finally realized deeply what it meant to be isolated and helpless, and what the world was like.

Jiang Nianwei quietly hid behind the curtain, and with a pair of eyes that knew everything about the world, she quietly captured every subtle change on Meng Wanran's face.

She thought to herself that she would let Meng Wanran experience all the pain in the past that had made her want to die, to show that cause and effect and retribution are inevitable in this world.

Meng Wanran knew that she could not escape punishment today no matter what, so she could only take a step back.

As the Crown Princess, she naturally knew many unknown secrets of Bailihe. She could use this as a bargaining chip, and Bailihe would definitely not give up on her so easily.

Meng Wanran was imprisoned, but she could never figure out the reason. It was impossible for Marquis An Ning to be so smart that he could find out everything she had done.

Since she traveled to the Great Sheng Dynasty, she had never suffered such humiliation. The prince was in the palace, and he didn't care about their past friendship at all and was eager to sever ties with her.

Now she has really become a helpless person.

In the cold and gloomy prison, she began to miss Qin Ziqian. Although he was a coward, at least he really loved her.

She was wrong. She shouldn't have had such big ambitions. If she had accepted her fate before, she wouldn't have ended up like this.

In the prison, she had to eat rotten rice and slop every day, which she couldn't swallow.

She was still in the confinement period, but now she was in a cold and damp prison. She didn't even have a decent winter coat, and all the valuable things on her body were stripped away.

At this moment, Meng Wanran felt that she wanted to go back and didn't want to stay here anymore.

The disheveled old lady next to her saw that Meng Wanran didn't want to eat these, "Miss, you don't want to eat them? If you don't want to eat them, can you give them to me?"

Meng Wanran didn't answer, so the old woman took it as her consent and stuffed the food into her mouth impatiently.

"If you don't eat now, you may not be able to eat these things in the future."

Meng Wanran then raised her eyes and looked at the dirty old woman in front of her with disdain, "I can't eat it."

Before being sent in, she had hidden some gold, which those people had not found. If she was hungry, she could pay the gold to have someone take it away, and she wouldn't have to force herself to eat such pig food.

"Girl, why were you imprisoned?"

Meng Wanran did not answer, so the old woman continued, "I came all the way to the capital to look for my missing daughter. Who would have thought that I would be thrown into jail after failing to file a lawsuit? It's a pity that I still haven't found my innocent daughter."

Meng Wanran didn't want to listen to these endless complaints, so she just turned around.

Unexpectedly, the old woman still did not stop: "I told you at the beginning not to covet what is not yours, but human desires are always insatiable. If she had not come to the capital, she could still live a peaceful and stable life with me in Longzhou."

"What a rich daughter of a marquis, who would have thought that the Crown Princess was also fake, all fake, all fake."

When the old woman said this, she began to sob.

Meng Wanran then moved. Could it be that the daughter the old woman was talking about...

She didn't dare to say anything, but just sat there on pins and needles, moving a little further away from the old woman.

But the old woman was already nagging and talking endlessly. Meng Wanran covered her ears and roared, "It's so noisy. Is it going to stop? What does your daughter's disappearance have to do with me? Stop disturbing my sleep."

She cursed, hiding her inner anxiety.

The old woman looked at her sadly and stopped talking. Meng Wanran finally calmed down, but her heart became more and more panicked.

It was not until dark that the jailer took Meng Wanran away and asked her to sign.

She took a look at the complaint and said, "Why do you want me to plead guilty? I am not guilty!"

Fu Rongxuan looked at her coldly, "Why, at this point, you still haven't realized the crime you committed? We have already found the bodies of those women, why don't I take you to see them?"

"I've already said it, I didn't kill them, they brought this upon themselves, their ambitions are as high as the sky, but their lives are as fragile as paper."

Fu Rongxuan directly had someone escort her to the corpse. Meng Wanran didn't expect that he would really dare to do so.

Some of these corpses were already in a state of decay and emitted a foul smell.

One of the jailers directly pressed Meng Wanran's head against a corpse and said, "Look, these are all women who lost their lives because of you."

Meng Wanran was startled, but the person behind her held her tightly and prevented her from escaping.

"Mr. Jailer, I was wrong. Please forgive me." As soon as she opened her mouth, she felt the smell rushing into her nose and mouth, and she couldn't help but start to dry heave.

"Let her sign."

Meng Wanran no longer dared to resist and signed the contract obediently.

After returning to the cell, Fu Rongxuan did not leave, but said to the old woman beside him: "I'm sorry, I was just transferred here. You are just an innocent mother. Now the murderer has been caught, but your daughter has..."

The old woman fell to her knees in disbelief. "Is she really, really dead?"

Fu Rongxuan seemed to feel guilty, and lowered his head and said regretfully: "Yes, I am sorry for your loss. You can leave here tomorrow. I have arranged for someone to make proper arrangements for you."