The princess only wants to survive, and the cold-faced king of hell begs for mercy

Before Yun Shang could speak, Liu Shi spoke first, "It's okay, Zhiwei accidentally tripped."

After all, Qinghuan was a maid from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and her indenture was still in the Prime Minister's Mansion, so naturally she would listen to whatever Liu said.

Hearing Qinghuan retreat in response, Yunshang had no choice but to find a solution on her own.

"Mother, you've raised Zhiwei for sixteen years. Don't you know who I am? How could I do such a thing?"

"Let's not even talk about whether I have such evil intentions. Just talking about my ability, I wouldn't be able to do such a thing. I'm so weak, how could I get a living person like that out quietly?"

Liu was unwilling to listen to her explanation and interrupted her coldly, "Of course you can't do it, but who knows if the King of Qi will help you do such a thing?"

"Zhiyi has an outstanding temperament and is talented. She is proficient in music, chess, calligraphy, and painting. She is a model of a noble lady. The daughter of our prime minister's mansion should be someone like Zhiyi."

"And you, you've been unlearned since childhood. You can't write well, you can't play the piano well, and you're timid and cowardly. I was wondering how I could raise such a daughter. Sure enough, you're not my biological child."

"But Lin Zhiwei, I have never treated you harshly. You are Zhiyi's sister now. Regardless of whether Zhiyi's disappearance has anything to do with you, you are responsible for finding her."

Yun Shang slowly stood up straight, looked at Liu calmly, and murmured softly, "No wonder Lin Zhiwei committed suicide."

Liu didn't hear clearly, "What did you say?"

Yun Shang said seriously, "I said, Lin Zhiyi's disappearance has nothing to do with me. I don't care whether she is dead or alive."

"Since you, the Prime Minister's wife, are unwilling to acknowledge such a disgraceful daughter as me, I won't force you. Naturally, I won't help you find Lin Zhiyi either. She's a time traveler who walked right into the King of Qi's sword. She deserves her death."

Liu raised her hand high, "Lin Zhiwei!"

"You're a princess now, so you've grown so powerful, right? How dare you speak to your mother like that?"

Yun Shang turned her head away, closed her eyes tightly, and waited for the slap to fall.

Go ahead and fight me. Just consider it as Lin Zhiwei repaying you for the sixteen years of raising me.

At this moment, the door was suddenly kicked open from the outside, and Liu's slap was firmly clamped by a big hand and stopped in mid-air.

As the slap did not fall for a long time, Yun Shang quietly opened one eye and looked around, only to find that the person who came to save her was actually Zhao Qi Yan.

Zhao Qiyan looked at Liu with cold eyes, and with a flick of his hand, he threw Liu to the ground.

Prime Minister Lin Yan followed in and saw that his wife was thrown to the ground by the King of Qi. He hurried forward to help her, but was stopped by the guards following behind the King of Qi.

Zhao Qiyan glanced at Yun Shang, whose cheeks were slightly flushed and eyes were red, then lowered his eyes to look at Liu who was lying on the ground.

"How could this prince not know that there is a tradition in this dynasty that the princess must be disciplined and slapped by her mother when she returns home?"

Lin Yan quickly defended himself, "Your Highness, your words are too harsh. Zhiwei is our daughter after all. She has always been disobedient. Perhaps she angered Madam again, and for a moment she forgot that Zhiwei is the princess. Your Madam, I have no intention of disrespecting the princess."

Zhao Qiyan chuckled, "Disobedient?"

"Didn't Liu just say that Zhiwei was timid and cowardly and never dared to contradict her parents?"

"This...this..." Lin Yan was speechless for a moment.

Liu quickly knelt down and said, "Your Highness, you don't know. As the saying goes, you can know a person's face but not his heart. Although Zhiwei has behaved obediently over the years, she is the daughter of that vicious wet nurse after all. It's not certain that she has inherited her mother's viciousness."

Yun Shang covered her chest and said, "Mother, just because I said I didn't know where Lin Zhiyi was, are you going to treat me like this?"

Zhao Qiyan looked at her. There was a bright red slap mark on her fair little face, which was very unsightly.

Those almond-shaped eyes were red, making him look more like a poor little rabbit.

The sadness and shock on her face did not seem fake. Could it be that she really was not part of the Prime Minister's Mansion's conspiracy?

If this is true, then wouldn't she become a discarded pawn?

In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Zhao Qiyan's mind, but they were all hidden in his heart and not shown on his face.

He looked at Liu and said coldly, "So, the Prime Minister's Mansion knows about Lin Zhiyi marrying Lin Zhiwei?"

The Prime Minister knelt down and denied it. "Marriage exchange? I don't know what your Highness is talking about. The Prime Minister's Mansion will never allow such a ridiculous thing to happen."

"Really? Then why did Lin Zhiyi show up at Prince Qi's mansion in her wedding dress? And my princess was knocked unconscious and thrown into the mulberry forest west of the city. If I hadn't sent someone to protect her, I'm afraid she would have really been allowed to go on like this."

Zhao Qiyan said it calmly, but Yun Shang was shocked.

She suddenly looked up at Zhao Qiyan, "Your Highness, you said I was thrown into the woods? Then I...how..."

Zhao Qi Yan glanced at her indifferently without saying anything, but gave a wink to Qi Chuan behind him.

Qi Chuan understood and saluted, reporting, "Princess, it was my subordinates who led the troops to intercept the thieves in the mulberry forest west of the city and brought the princess back to the palace. Not far from the mulberry forest where the princess was rescued is a mass grave."

Yun Shang was terrified and her body went limp as she held onto the dressing table to steady herself.

Lin Zhiyi, actually really wants her to die?

We are all time travelers, so why should time travelers make things difficult for other time travelers?

I believed her because we were from the same hometown, but I didn't expect that she would actually want to kill me!

Zhao Qiyan then continued, "Liu, which daughter do you think is more vicious?"

Liu held herself up firmly, saying, "Your Highness, Zhiyi only loves you, and she's not wrong. But she would never do something like murder and kidnapping."

Yun Shang suddenly felt very uncomfortable and a sour pain in her heart. She didn't know if it was the real Lin Zhiwei who was in pain. Her tears were like beads that had broken off the string, falling silently to the ground.

"If Lin Zhiyi can't do it, does that mean Lin Zhiwei can definitely do it?"

"Lin Zhiwei will always remember the sixteen years of grace you gave her, but does that mean you can disregard her life?"

"Even if you want to punish a servant who was born in a family, you have to catch him red-handed. But can you force a daughter you've raised for sixteen years to death based on mere speculation?"

Every word Yun Shang said was to seek justice for Lin Zhiwei. She had to do something for Lin Zhiwei since she was given this life to live again.

As for whether her identity would be exposed, she no longer cared about it.

If Zhao Qiyan wants to kill him, let him kill him.

Just think of it as returning Lin Zhiwei and the Lin family’s life.

To her surprise, no one thought there was anything wrong with the angle of her speech. Instead, they all looked at her with sympathy.

Zhao Qiyan pulled her into his arms, gently wiped the tears from her face with his calloused hands, and coaxed her softly, "It's okay, it's okay."

"The Prime Minister's Mansion doesn't recognize you, it doesn't matter, I will recognize you."