After her transformation and rebirth, she manipulates the innocent and ruthless to overthrow the wor

Jiang Shaorong reached out his hand, intending to help Xiao Ran up.

But Xiao Ran only felt—

Nausea.

Nausea.

Extremely disgusting.

She slapped Jiang Shaorong's hand away, pounced on the woman, and turned her twisted body over.

The woman's eyes were not yet closed, and the black cloth covering her face was also untied.

His mouth was still opening and closing.

Xiao Ran leaned down to listen.

“Heaven… son…” The woman’s words were mumbled indistinctly, and Xiao Ran tried hard to make out the sentence.

After that, there was no more sound.

Her pupils seemed to be covered with a layer of gray, and in the final grayness, a tear slid down from the corner of the woman's eye.

She was only in her early thirties, but her hair had already turned white.

She loved beauty and didn't want to show her worried, gray hair in front of her son.

She fell ill from missing her son and began to treat other people's children as her own.

Was she wrong? Was she not wrong?

The problem lies with the way of Heaven!

Heaven is unjust, so she was trapped in the dirty street. All she wanted was to clear her son's name. What did she do wrong?

Xiao Ran turned around angrily and looked at Jiang Shaorong, who had his back to her.

Jiang Shaorong, his profile full of contempt, was slowly wiping the blood from his hands when, as if sensing something, he turned to look at Xiao Ran.

His eyes were devoid of emotion, as if he were looking at some object.

Just like the look in her eyes when she died.

He slowly spoke, "Someone come here."

Suddenly, there was a commotion at the iron gate. Someone unlocked the gate, and a group of people rushed in.

They immediately rescued the unconscious child and carried away the woman who lay dead with her eyes wide open in front of Xiao Ran.

Jiang Shaorong put on a gentle smile again and slowly extended her clean hand.

This is the scene that Duanli saw upon entering.

"Miss Xiao."

"please."

……

In court.

The person seated at the head of the table was the Minister of the Court of Judicial Review, while Pei Yun sat to one side looking preoccupied.

Xiao Ran was invited to take her seat and sat on a grand chair to the side.

"Zeng, do you know your crime?"

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review spoke angrily, his beard trembling with rage, making him look quite frightening.

The person below, however, had empty eyes and didn't glance at him. The shackles on his body seemed to have become a habit for him; his back was bent under the weight, and his eyes were fixed straight on the ground.

He did not say a word.

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review slammed his fist on the table and said to the kneeling guard, "You speak!"

The guard immediately crawled forward, his voice trembling, and said, "Sir, it has nothing to do with me!"

“I have always been dutiful in my duties. His mother, Zhang, has neither a travel permit nor a household registration. I have been following the rules and cannot enter the capital…”

Xiao Ran noticed that Zeng Jitian's eyes seemed to have shifted slightly.

She said, "How can there be no household registration? Every citizen of Jing Kingdom has a household registration. Is that your reason for not letting people in?"

The guard wiped his sweat and glanced at the Minister of Justice.

They all had household registrations, but how could the emperor allow lowly commoners to enter the capital...?

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review coughed, stood up, and waved his hand.

"That's all."

"Yunniang's son from the West Street Cloth Shop is also unharmed. Now that the culprit Zhang has been executed, the Dirty Street case can be considered closed."

The Minister of the Court of Judicial Review waved his hand and looked down at Zeng Jitian. "Take him away. Deal with him as you see fit."

Immediately, someone escorted Zeng Jitian away from the courtroom.

He then turned to look at Pei Yun and said, "Little Pei..."

Pei Yuncai came to his senses, but his voice was somewhat low.

"My subordinate is here."

"Such a big incident happened on Dirty Street. We need to send people to manage it properly from now on and make sure that such things don't happen again. I don't want to see any more cases like this in the future."

The Minister of Justice implied a sense of reproach towards Pei Yun in his words.

Pei Yun wasn't stupid; he understood.