"Ji Yuyan, you really sicken me."
Ji Yunxi stepped out from behind Feng Xingzhi.
Her face, which had remained calm, now flushed with anger.
"You killed your own father. How dare you claim he treated you unfairly? And you even resent us. By what right? Because your mother killed mine?"
Ji Yuyan retorted, "It's a false accusation! It was your mother who accidentally ate the poison and wrongly blamed it on mine! She endured so many years of hardship. Who among you can understand?"
"Why should we understand?" Ji Yunxi was a bit calmer compared to her hysterical outburst.
"Ji Yunxi, if my mother really killed someone, why didn't she pay with her life?"
"Because Father took your feelings into consideration," Ji Yuchen suddenly spoke up. "For your sake, we endured. But we never expected you to be so ungrateful. Now, thinking about it, not only does Yunxi find you disgusting, I do too."
Ji Yuyan stared with wide eyes, her face covered in blood.
Hearing Ji Yuchen say he was disgusted with her, she didn't seem to care. When she was young, she had wondered why her two elder brothers were nicer to her elder sister and always seemed to keep a distance from her.
She thought it was because she was naive, but she never realized that they were never meant to get along peacefully.
"Ji Yuyan, you claim Father was partial, but although you're a concubine's daughter, when did Father ever treat you badly in terms of food, clothing, or daily necessities? Do you think I don't know how many things you've done in the name of the Prime Minister's Mansion? Do you think Father didn't know that you secretly took things from the treasury to support that poisonous woman?"
Tears welled up in Ji Yunxi's eyes. "He knew it all, but he did it for you."
Her words left Ji Yuyan stunned for a moment. She seemed to see her father holding her hand and teaching her to walk, praising her needlework, scolding the servants who bullied her, and patting her head...
Ji Yuyan suddenly fell silent.
She knew she was unforgivable. When her father passed away, every tear she shed was genuine.
Perhaps out of guilt, she lowered her head and murmured, "I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to..."
Feng Xingzhi had always been an outsider, calm enough to notice that something was wrong with her. He secretly mobilized his spiritual power to protect Ji Yunxi.
Sure enough, Ji Yuyan, who had been repeating those words, suddenly raised her head, glaring fiercely at Ji Yunxi's face. She shouted hoarsely, "It's all your fault! If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have increased the dosage! I just wanted to marry Su Ningyuan. As long as Father agreed, I would have stopped. Father shouldn't have died... So it's all your fault!"
Hearing her distort the truth and fall into a wrong obsession, Ji Yunxi mocked herself inwardly for being unnecessary. She knew she had been killed by Ji Yuyan in her previous life, but in this life, she still wanted to know the truth, only to add to her sadness.
While she was lost in thought, Ji Yuyan suddenly launched an attack. The spiritual power she had accumulated in recent days rushed towards Ji Yunxi.
She thought well. Since she had already been convicted and everything was about to end, even if she was going to die, she would take the person she hated the most with her!
Feng Xingzhi had been prepared, but Qing Xuan was even faster. He secretly stepped in to block Ji Yuyan's attack on Ji Yunxi.
Ji Yunxi saw this and her anger flared.
Unable to bear it any longer, she stretched out her hand. A surge of spiritual power shot out from her palm, lifting Ji Yuyan by the neck.
With a loud "bang", she was slammed against the wall. Her feet left the ground as she struggled desperately, covering her neck. Soon, she could barely move or even breathe.
Ji Yuchen and Ji Yunyi, as Ji Yunxi's elder brothers, naturally knew what their sister was capable of. But they never expected her spiritual power to increase so suddenly. Now, the word "genius" was no longer enough to describe her.
Ji Yunxi's spiritual cultivation was unfathomable!
The two brothers exchanged a glance, seeing the shock and doubt in each other's eyes.
Could it be that because of some medicine, her previous spiritual power and cultivation had been suppressed?
Thinking of their powerful younger sister, the two brothers' eyes suddenly became meaningful.
Ji Yunxi released her hand before Ji Yuyan suffocated and coldly asked, "Who is the person behind you?"
Ji Yuyan slid down the wall. Frightened out of her wits, she curled up in the corner, shivering. She covered her neck and coughed wildly while shaking her head stupidly.
Now, it was impossible to expect Ji Yunxi to spare her. Instead, it would be better to keep silent and not expose the person behind the scenes. Maybe there would be a glimmer of hope.
Ji Yuyan's mind was extremely clear at this moment. There was even a hint of unnoticeable provocation in her eyes when she looked at Ji Yunxi.
"It doesn't matter if you don't say. We can wait and see if he will come to save you."
As Ji Yunxi spoke, she observed Ji Yuyan's expression. She saw her eyes widen slightly at first and then shift nervously to the side.
Ji Yunxi caught this moment of nervousness. It seemed there really was a person behind the scenes.
An idea came to her mind.
"Ji Yuyan, you've been in this prison of the Ministry of Justice for many days. Will that person really come to save you?"
"Or does he just see you as a dispensable dog?"
"That's right. After all, you're a dog that can bite."
Ji Yunxi paused after each sentence, letting her words sink deep into Ji Yuyan's heart.
Leaning against the wall, Ji Yuyan dug her fingernails into her skin so hard that blood flowed. She turned her head away, not looking at the others.
The others exchanged a glance and knew there would be no result today, so they left one by one.
On the way back, Ji Yunyi whispered, "Yunxi, is there really a person behind the scenes? In the confession letter, Ji Yuyan took all the blame."
Ji Yunxi nodded. "She should take responsibility for what she did. But there's someone behind the scenes pulling the strings. For example, the poison came from the Northern Di tribe. Ji Yuyan could never have obtained it."
Thinking of their father's death, Ji Yuchen's face turned ashen. "Traitorous thing!"
"She's going to die anyway," Ji Yunxi said indifferently. "Even if Ji Yuyan doesn't say anything and that person doesn't show up, I won't let this go easily."
The two brothers also nodded. They would never let this matter rest just because Ji Yuyan died.
Not long after they left, the prison door suddenly opened. Ji Yuyan seemed to sense something and struggled to her feet.
She was covered in injuries. Every step she took tugged at her wounds, and the sand and gravel that had rubbed against her wounds during the struggle were still bleeding.
Not far away, a person walked towards her slowly. She felt that this person was coming for her.
Sure enough, a veiled man slowly appeared. Ji Yuyan immediately became excited. They really came to save her!
The man stopped in front of Ji Yuyan. His face was hidden, and he didn't say a word.
Ji Yuyan immediately knelt down when she saw him. "Are you here to save me? Right?!"
She grabbed the prison bars tightly. "Save me, please save me. I didn't expose you..."
She kept begging, but the man just stood there, looking at her as if she were already a dead person.