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

"The position of Princess Qi will belong to no one else except you."

"You may not be Lin Zhiwei, but you will always be the Princess of Qi."

Yun Shang looked up in surprise. What did he mean by this?

Did he find out?

But before she could figure out what was going on, Zhao Qiyan turned to look at Lin Yan and Liu who were kneeling on the ground, his expression stern. "If you want to know where Lin Zhiyi is, why bother bullying a weak woman who knows nothing? Just come to me directly."

Liu raised her head quickly, "Your Highness, do you know where Zhiyi is?"

Zhao Qiyan sneered, "Lin Zhiyi colluded with the time travelers to use explosives to set fire to Prince Qi's mansion and burn down the West Garden. I had planned to settle this account with Prime Minister Lin after I captured Lin Zhiyi in a few days."

"But since Prime Minister Lin and his family are so impatient, let's discuss this today. Who should bear the responsibility for setting fire to Prince Qi's mansion and robbing prisoners?"

"Who should compensate for the burned courtyard and property losses at Prince Qi's mansion?"

Prime Minister Lin Yan was stunned. "Your Highness, this is impossible... Zhiyi would never do such a thing."

Liu was also panicking at this point. She hurriedly knelt a few steps forward and eagerly vouched for Lin Zhiyi, "Your Highness, perhaps there is something you misunderstood? How could Zhiyi conspire with a time traveler to commit a crime? Zhiyi can't be a time traveler."

Lin Yan nodded quickly. "Your Highness, before we brought Zhiyi back, my husband and I had already verified her, and she's definitely not a time traveler. Furthermore, didn't Your Highness personally verify her on the day of the family reunion banquet? Your Highness, you should know that Zhiyi isn't a time traveler. How could she possibly collude with a time traveler to commit such a heinous act as burning down Prince Qi's mansion?"

Zhao Qiyan's expression remained unchanged. "It's true that I've verified it, but time travelers are omnipresent. Who can guarantee that the Lin Zhiyi from the family reunion banquet and the Lin Zhiyi who changed into wedding clothes and entered Prince Qi's mansion on the day of the wedding are the same person?"

"This...this..." Lin Yan was speechless.

This is indeed not guaranteed.

In a panic, Liu looked up at Yun Shang who was standing next to Zhao Qiyan. Seeing the calmness in Yun Shang's eyes, her heart trembled. She suddenly stood up and pointed at Yun Shang and shouted, "Your Highness, Zhiyi is not a time traveler. The real time traveler is her!"

"She is not Lin Zhiwei!"

"I raised Lin Zhiwei for sixteen years. She was timid and cowardly, very obedient, and never contradicted her parents. Today, not only did she contradict me, she also watched it all with indifference. The real Lin Zhiwei is definitely not like this."

Liu was speaking excitedly, as if she had discovered some truth. "Your Highness, it must be Lin Zhiwei. She is the time traveler. She was unwilling to accept her fate and wanted to harm Zhiyi, so she deliberately found other time travelers to act out this drama. It must be like this."

When Liu shouted that she was not Lin Zhiwei, everyone's eyes turned to Yun Shang.

Under her wide sleeves, Yun Shang pinched her palms tightly. Her eyes were slightly red as she forced herself to continue crying. "Mother, Lin Zhiyi wants to kill me. Just because I'm not your biological child, do you really want me to die in her place?"

As she spoke, she looked at Zhao Qiyan again, pulled Zhao Qiyan's sleeve and slowly knelt down, "Your Highness, you must know whether I am a time traveler or not, right?"

"My adoptive parents want to force me to death. I can only beg you, Your Highness, to clear my name."

Zhao Qiyan lowered his eyes to look at her, raised his hand, and said, "Let the princess's maid Qinghuan come in."

Qinghuan had been stopped at the door. When she heard King Qi calling her, she hurried in and knelt down.

Zhao Qiyan said, "The princess is my wife. It would be unfair for me to testify."

"But Qinghuan is a maid from the Prime Minister's Mansion, and she has served Lin Zhiwei personally for sixteen years. What she says can't be wrong, right?"

"Qinghuan, tell me, do you think your young lady is a time traveler?"

Qinghuan looked up at Yunshang, who lowered her eyes to the ground, not looking at her.

She looked at Liu and the Prime Minister again. There was a threat in their eyes, as if they wanted to make her bleed on the spot if she said something wrong.

Qing Huan retracted her gaze and replied respectfully, "Your Highness, in my humble opinion, the young lady is definitely not a time traveler."

Before she could finish her words, Liu rushed over and slapped her in the face, "Bitch, if you say it's not true, then it's not true."

Yun Shang shouted anxiously: "Qing Huan!"

Zhao Qiyan's eyes were cold. "Hold her down."

Qi Chuan immediately stepped forward, pushed Liu back to her original position, and made her kneel on the ground.

"Go on, what is the reason why you think your young lady is not a time traveler?" Zhao Qiyan looked at Qinghuan.

Qinghuan was beaten and her body tilted to the side. She covered her face and continued to kneel silently.

"I have never seen a time traveler, but I have heard that once a person is possessed by a time traveler, their personality will change drastically."

"But in my opinion, the young lady has never changed. Even after encountering a great disaster, she is still the same."

"Also, on the day of the young lady's wedding, it was the Second Young Lady who sent me away. If I hadn't been sent away, the young lady wouldn't have been nearly killed. It was all my fault."

After Qinghuan finished speaking, he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

Zhao Qiyan looked at Lin Yan and Liu, and said calmly, "Prime Minister Lin, Madam, do you have anything else to say?"

Liu was pinned down and couldn't get up, but she still insisted, "That's impossible. Qinghuan must have been bribed."

"Lin Zhiwei has changed. She never dared to contradict me before."

"She's so tough today, it must be because she's no longer Lin Zhiwei."

Zhao Qiyan bent down and helped Yun Shang, who was kneeling on the ground, up by her arms. "Even rabbits bite when they're angry. Weiwei is angry. Is there anything wrong with losing your temper?"

"My princess, shouldn't you be a little tougher?"

Yun Shang looked at Zhao Qiyan in surprise, not knowing why King Qi would defend her, but it was certain that he was taking advantage of the situation.

"I thank you so much, Your Highness. If it weren't for you, I would have died today."

"Before, in the mansion, no one would help me. I could only accept it, be obedient, and suffer less. Now that I have the support of the prince, I naturally have the confidence."

Zhao Qiyan helped Yun Shang up and then said to the Prime Minister, "Prime Minister Lin, you and your wife insist that Lin Zhiyi is not a time traveler, and I will not take human life lightly. In that case, let's discuss this matter later."

"Lin Zhiyi is now on the run with the time travelers who set fire to Prince Qi's mansion. I am sending people to capture him. I will make a decision after we catch him."

"The princess was frightened today, so she won't attend the return banquet. I will take the princess back to the palace first."