Quick Transmigration Sweet Story, The White Moonlight Rescue Plan

Three days later, they arrived in Kyoto. As soon as they got off the carriage in front of the Imperial Palace, Xiao Xiao hurried to the Imperial Prison.

Seeing the once beautiful and charming woman in prison now ravaged beyond recognition, Xiao Xiao's heart ached.

This is a lingering regret from the original, and it is also her personal experience as the current host. Even though Gu Qingwan is not Xiaoxiao's biological mother, Xiaoxiao is still worried about her safety.

Gu Qingwan, who was in prison, seemed to sense that someone had come to see her. She raised her empty eyes and glanced at the person who came, then lowered them again blankly. The way she looked at Xiaoxiao was as if she were looking at an insignificant stranger.

Compared to the vibrant life that used to greet her with a beaming smile or a glare of anger, Gu Qingwan now seems like a soulless puppet.

The contrast was so stark that Xiaoxiao couldn't accept it for a moment. She quickly asked the jailer beside her what had happened to her mother during the time she was away from the capital, to make her look like this.

The jailer had clearly been instructed by someone, and remained silent in response to Xiaoxiao's questions.

Just as Xiao Xiao was pacing anxiously, not knowing what to do, Chu Yunhe arrived at the dungeon with his personal guards.

"Your Majesty, I would like to know why my mother, who has always been respectful, cautious, and self-disciplined, and kind to everyone in the palace, has been imprisoned for what crime she has committed."

Chu Yunhe did not answer Xiaoxiao's question directly. Instead, he had someone bring him a chair and sat down lazily.

"Since Miss Chu... no, I should call her Miss Xiao, if you want to know what your mother has done wrong, why don't you ask her yourself?"

Chu Yunhe's voice flowed out slowly, still as clear and pleasant as ever, but it always carried an innate sense of oppression, forcing Xiao Xiao to muster all her courage to meet his gaze.

"Your Majesty has also seen it. My mother is now mentally impaired, and I can no longer get the reason from her. What wrong has my mother done? I beg Your Majesty to tell me, and if I can atone for my mother's sins..."

Chu Yunhe wanted to hear those words, so he clapped his hands in approval and smiled with exceptional refinement and affability. "Since Miss Xiao has said so, then I will tell you what crime Consort Gu committed?"

Chu Yunhe lightly waved his folding fan, pointed at Gu Qingwan kneeling in the prison, and said with a slight smile, "The first crime of Consort Gu is that she attempted to assassinate the late emperor and was caught on the spot by me."

Gu Qingwan, imprisoned, seemed to feel a profound sense of injustice. Her clouded eyes cleared after hearing Chu Yunhe's baseless accusations, and she gripped the cage tightly, desperately protesting her innocence, "I didn't kill the Emperor! You're wronging me... I didn't kill the Emperor at all..."

Seeing this, Xiao Xiao felt even more strongly that what Chu Yunhe said was a complete frame-up. "Your Majesty, my mother has always been timid. How could she possibly do such a rebellious thing? Someone must have framed her."

Chu Yunhe grinned from ear to ear, "Then, Miss Xiao, would you like to hear about your mother's second crime?"

"Your Majesty, please enlighten me..."

"The second crime of Consort Gu is that she confused the imperial heirs, disrupted the harem, and attempted to introduce her child, conceived through illicit relations with another man, into the palace..."

Chu Yunhe's voice echoed in the empty prison for a long time before falling silent, but the profound meaning within it struck Xiaoxiao like a bolt from the blue, freezing her in place.

Upon hearing Chu Yunhe's words, Gu Qingwan lost her previous argumentative attitude. Instead, she curled up in a corner like a child who had done something wrong, repeatedly saying that it was all the late emperor's fault, that he had forcibly separated her from her lover, and that this was his retribution.

At first, Xiao Xiao didn't believe it, but when she saw with her own eyes the love story embroidered by Gu Qingwan and the letters in the wooden box in Chu Yunhe's hand, she had to believe that what Chu Yunhe said was true.

She was not the emperor's child, and she and Chu Yunhe were not even blood-related siblings. She was a bastard who didn't even know who her biological father was.

Now, Chu Yunhe's greatest mercy in not killing his illegitimate child, with whom he had never gotten along, is to him.

Chu Yunhe felt that she was still useful, which was why he wouldn't kill her so easily.

Xiao Xiao looked at Chu Yunhe, who was calmly and methodically strategizing in the chair, and with a mix of sadness and relief, she lowered her head and said the answer Chu Yunhe had always wanted to hear, "This commoner begs Your Majesty to grant this commoner and my mother a way out."

Chu Yunhe narrowed his eyes with satisfaction and glanced at the woman who was bowing her head in submission. He spoke slowly, "There is a way out. I have granted you three requests. You have now fulfilled two of them. Once you fulfill the third, I will grant you and the Gu family a way out."