"Miss, why do you let others pour slurs on you like this! What she said is completely unfounded. It's a blatant attempt to shift the blame!"
Honglu couldn't stand Yun Xi's calm and non - defensive attitude. She was as anxious as an ant on a hot pan and couldn't help explaining to Qi Rong on Yun Xi's behalf:
"My lord, please believe our miss. She's innocent! She never even touched Miss Wei, and she never said that she wanted Miss Wei to stay by your side..."
As an on - looker, Honglu had observed the way Qi Rong and Yun Xi got along for a long time and had probably figured out some of Qi Rong's thoughts.
Qi Rong cared about Yun Xi, so he also hoped that Yun Xi would care about him in return.
If Yun Xi showed that she didn't care about Qi Rong at all, it would anger him. And this would do no good to their relationship!
"Shut up!"
Before Honglu could finish, Qi Rong scolded her coldly. His face was gloomy, and ice seemed to flash in his eyes.
Honglu trembled and her face turned pale. However, thinking of Yun Xi, she still wanted to speak. But Yun Xi grabbed her wrist and gently shook her head.
"Honglu, stop talking."
The innocent will prove their innocence, and the guilty will expose their guilt.
If Qi Rong really believed her, she didn't need to explain. On the contrary, if he didn't trust her, no amount of explanation would help.
"All I want to know now is how my father is. Can you tell me right now?"
Yun Xi stared straight at Qi Rong, her eyes filled with expectation.
If things were really as Wei Xueming said, that her father had been arrested by the Jinyiwei and thrown into the Zhaoyu Prison, she couldn't stay in Lingchuan any longer.
She had to rush back to the capital immediately and try to rescue her father from the Zhaoyu Prison!
Otherwise, in such a cruel prison, every extra hour would pose a greater threat to his life. Although she had moved out of the Prime Minister's Mansion, no matter where she went, she was still her father's daughter!
Qi Rong had clearly given Yun Xi a chance to explain, but not only did she not refute what Wei Xueming had said before, but she also immediately asked about her father. This made Qi Rong, who was already in a bad mood, fly into a rage!
Qi Rong grabbed Yun Xi's wrist so tightly that she couldn't help frowning:
"Is it true that the only things you really care about are the Prime Minister's Mansion and your father?"
She didn't even bother to care about his affairs and was even willing to give him away easily. This made him feel both disappointed and extremely angry!
Looking into Qi Rong's angry eyes, Yun Xi felt extremely helpless.
"Is my father really in the Zhaoyu Prison? Is his life in danger?"
She thought that they would have plenty of time to explain what had happened today in the future. However, with her father in such a life - and - death situation, she really didn't have the energy to care about other things.
The two stared at each other, neither willing to give in.
Finally, the look in Qi Rong's eyes as he stared at Yun Xi gradually became cold and cruel.
"Your father colluded with the Li Kingdom, betrayed the secrets of the Liu Kingdom, and even instigated your younger sister to poison the crown prince. Now he's locked up in the Zhaoyu Prison, suffering all kinds of torture every day and being severely interrogated by the Jinyiwei."
Watching Yun Xi's face turn even paler, a cold and cruel smile appeared on Qi Rong's face.
"Maybe he's already dead, and there's only a corpse left!"
"No!"
Yun Xi took a frightened step back. Her eyes were red and filled with mist, and her face was full of terror!
In her mind, she kept seeing her father being brutally tortured by the Jinyiwei in the Zhaoyu Prison, covered in wounds and on the verge of death.
"Miss!"
Honglu quickly supported Yun Xi to prevent her from falling. But Qi Rong cruelly curled his lips and snorted:
"He deserves it! You should thank me for keeping you in Lingchuan. Otherwise, it wouldn't just be your father and your younger sister who would be thrown into prison now."
Now the entire Prime Minister's Mansion was on the verge of a crisis. As long as the emperor gave an order, the whole family might be executed and their property confiscated!
"No, I have to go back to the capital!"
She would never hide in Lingchuan and live in safety while her father was in danger! She would go back to the capital and try to clear her father's name!
Because she simply didn't believe that her father would collude with the Li Kingdom. It was obvious that someone was deliberately slandering him!
Thinking of this, Yun Xi suddenly woke up. Her eyes looking at Qi Rong were full of suspicion and a bit of certainty:
"Was it you?"
Yun Xi blurted out instinctively. Her heart struggled, not wanting to know the answer but also hoping that Qi Rong would deny it.
"You knew my father was in trouble a long time ago, so you did everything you could to keep me in Lingchuan?"
Connecting all of Qi Rong's previous actions, she had always felt that something was fishy. But now that this had happened, she realized that she had been kept in the dark by Qi Rong from beginning to end!
Maybe her father had already had an accident after he sent her that letter!
Since Qi Rong could get in touch with her father, he couldn't have been unaware of such a major event that had happened to him!
In response to Yun Xi's questioning, Qi Rong just slightly curled his cold lips and his eyes were blazing:
"Take a guess."
This ambiguous answer made Yun Xi's heart tremble! She didn't need any more words. She had already got the answer she wanted!
"I hate you!"
Yun Xi was extremely angry. She rushed towards Qi Rong like a crazy woman, clenching her fists and pounding him with all her might.
She had never hated Qi Rong so much, to the point of gnashing her teeth and feeling a pain in her heart as if it were being torn apart!
Qi Rong looked cold. He let Yun Xi vent her anger on him without any intention of stopping her.
Until Honglu let out a scream. Yun Xi suddenly fainted and was quickly caught in Qi Rong's arms. Only then did a flash of panic appear in his cold eyes.
"Xier!"
Qi Rong gently patted her cheek and called out anxiously. But seeing that Yun Xi didn't show any reaction, he put his finger on her pulse.
"Where's the medicine?!"
Qi Rong angrily urged Honglu, who was just crying. Just as he managed to feed the medicine for heart disease into Yun Xi's mouth, she spat it out the next moment.
After several unsuccessful attempts, Qi Rong frowned tightly. He directly put the medicine in his own mouth and then, lip to lip, fed the medicine into Yun Xi's mouth.
It was not until Yun Xi swallowed the medicine smoothly that Qi Rong let go of her lips.
Everyone stared at Qi Rong's actions in stunned silence. Wei Xueming was so jealous that her eyes were red, and her heart felt like there was a fishbone stuck in it.
She had originally wanted to use Qi Rong's hatred for the prime minister to drive a wedge between Qi Rong and Yun Xi and create an image of Yun Xi as a "very vicious" person in Qi Rong's mind.
Finally, she was sure that Qi Rong would save her. After this incident, although it was out of necessity in an emergency, the two had indirectly had "physical contact". Logically speaking, Qi Rong should marry her.
Otherwise, once this matter spread, her reputation would be ruined.
She had taken such a desperate risk and staged this play of self - injury at the cost of her life. Her purpose was not to make a wedding dress for others!