Rebirth of a Lost Nation: Princess, Please Respect Yourself

Jiang Lige responded, then left everyone behind and quickly went into the boudoir. Feng Quan handled the matter efficiently and sent away the palace servants who were waiting outside.

Under the dim light, Ning Yunxiao sat at the table flipping through a blue-covered book. From Jiang Lige's position, he could just see his proudly straight back and the tall nose bridge hidden in the candlelight.

"Prince?" Jiang Lige said with a smile, breaking the silence. "It's rare to see the Prince at this hour."

Ning Yunxiao naturally heard Jiang Lige's teasing. He glanced at the sky outside and said lightly without saying anything back.

"I just came out of the Ministry of Justice."

"Bai Fenglin joined the Ministry of Justice?"

"Yes."

Jiang Lige had heard that the Ministry of Justice was tough. "So, what did he confess?"

"No," Ning Yunxiao answered bluntly, then added, "The Ministry of Justice has never been shy about using officials' positions when it comes to punishment. It's just that Bai Fenglin is more stubborn than I thought. He didn't even say a single useful word."

"Is that so..." Jiang Lige was a little discouraged. "Then what do you think is the breakthrough point to get Bai Fenglin to speak?"

Ning Yunxiao said straight to the point: "It's the princess."

"what?"

"Bai Fenglin obviously only needed to get rid of Feng Yu, but why did he risk failure to deal with the princess? He must have a reason to kill the princess, and this reason is enough to disturb his mind."

Jiang Lige was stunned for a moment. She knew that Ning Yunxiao was right, but looking at Ning Yunxiao's calm eyes, she felt that this analysis seemed a bit cold and indifferent.

She and Ning Yunxiao were only tied together by an arranged marriage, and others had no obligation to consider her in every aspect.

In just that instant, Jiang Lige felt her mood had hit rock bottom. Even she herself felt that the anger in her chest was unwarranted.

"Yes, that's true." Jiang Lige replied.

Obviously, Ning Yunxiao didn't notice Jiang Lige's frustration. "There's no time to lose. Let's leave the palace now."

"Okay, let's go."

Ning Yunxiao nodded, turned sideways and made a gesture of invitation, maintaining his usual courtesy.

Jiang Lige breathed a sigh of relief and left without asking any more questions. If she had known that this way of traveling would be so simple and crude...

She would ask more questions, she swore.

Thanks to Ning Yunxiao, Jiang Lige was grabbed by the collar and flown over the capital. Although the method was a bit rough, it was indeed fast. It only took an incense stick of time to get from the imperial city to the yamen.

Bai Fenglin was imprisoned in the prison of the Ministry of Justice. After entering the prison, Ning Yunxiao first asked Jiang Lige to wait in the place where the yamen runners rested, and he went into the corridor where the prisoners were held first, and came out after a cup of tea.

"Let's go," he said.

"it is good."

The prison was damp and dark, and the pitch-black corridor was really creepy. Jiang Lige shrank behind Ning Yunxiao at the right time.

"It's so dark."

Originally, Jiang Lige just wanted to show his weakness appropriately and didn't expect Ning Yunxiao's reaction.

But the moment she finished speaking, she felt someone grabbing her wrist. The warm touch made her look up at Ning Yunxiao in surprise, but she saw that the man's expression was still normal, as if this action did not mean anything intimate.

"Not afraid."

After saying this, a blush crept up to his ears silently. Ning Yunxiao brushed his hair unnaturally and added another sentence as if to cover up his mistake.

"It is now night, and the prison is dim. Princess, just follow me."

Jiang Lige's mind was now filled with the impression that Ning Yunxiao was a "blockhead", so he was careless and didn't notice anything wrong. He nodded and walked in with Ning Yunxiao.

Hearing the noise, Bai Fenglin looked up at the two people who came hand in hand and said sarcastically:

"Why? Princess Zhaohua, who kills people, is also afraid of seeing blood?"

When Jiang Lige heard this, he caught sight of the figure curled up in the cell.

Bai Fenglin was slumped on a pile of straw, his face covered with bruises, his hair disheveled, and he was wearing a dark cloak that covered his tattered prison uniform. A smell of blood filled his face.

I think when Ning Yunxiao came in just now, he was here to give me the cloak.

Thinking of this, Jiang Lige couldn't help but feel sweet in her heart. At the same time, she also keenly grasped the key to Bai Fenglin's words.

"Oh? How did Lord Bai know that I killed someone?"

Bai Fenglin spat at her fiercely, "Bah, you coward who dares to do something but not take responsibility for it!"

"So, you want to kill me because you think I killed someone?"

Bai Fenglin then realized that he had been tricked. Instead of getting angry, he looked at Ning Yunxiao and smiled maliciously.

"Today, she climbed to power by stepping on the lives of others, and tomorrow she will step on yours. The prince is a handsome man, and now he has achieved such a great feat. His future is definitely limitless. Look at this, how can such a scheming and vicious woman be worthy of you?"

"Don't worry about my business."

Ning Yunxiao's tone was very calm, as if he didn't care at all about Bai Fenglin's words. "Master Bai, oh no, you're no longer a master now. You colluded with bandits to cause chaos and take human lives, and you deserve the death penalty. If you behave properly, perhaps we can help you."

"Oh, when I did this, I never thought I could still be alive."

Jiang Lige continued to play the good guy, "Death? What a great way to evade responsibility. It would be a relief for you to just die, but it's a pity for your elderly parents and wife. Not only do they have to see their son die, but they also have to bear the infamy and struggle to survive."

"My wife is the only daughter of the He family. Although the He family can't be said to have absolute power in the capital, they can still protect my wife and children. As for others..." Bai Fenglin shrugged nonchalantly, "What does a man who married a concubine have to do with me?"

Ning Yunxiao kindly reminded, "You still have a mother."

"Mother?" At this point, Bai Fenglin seemed to go crazy, staring at Jiang Lige with his eyes, and his expression became ferocious. "My mother is dead."

Jiang Lige sneered and looked at Bai Fenglin with eyes full of pity, as if he was looking at a beggar.

"You only know that your father favors his concubines, but you don't know how to reflect on why. Aunt Zhang can manage your father's harem and win the hearts of the people; Bai Jinyuan can occupy a place by the Queen's side. They can both bring benefits to the Bai family in some way.

What about you? You can only bring disaster to the Bai family! How can you think that you, a person who only brings discredit to the Bai family, will be valued by Mr. Bai?

Once your crimes are made public, your father will expel you from the family tree in order to appease public anger. Not only you, but also your mother will be moved out of the Bai family cemetery.

"Given Aunt Zhang's temperament, your mother's final resting place must be a mass grave, right? Isn't that tragic, Bai Fenglin? Because of you, your mother's grave will be dug up and her body thrown out, and she won't rest in peace in the afterlife."