Ye Zhen was very sure that she was alone when she woke up in the cabin. She had never seen Ye Jingshu, let alone killed a wet nurse. However, Ye Wei seemed to regard her as a murderer.
"You don't have to quibble. You are the only outsider in the forest. If you didn't kill her, who else could it be?" Ye Wei snorted.
"Ah, you are so clear about it. So, you saw me kill someone?" Ye Zhen asked with a smile.
Ye Wei sneered, "You don't have to quibble. If it wasn't you, who else could it be?"
"If you come to me today to question me, I still say the same thing. I don't know Ye Jingshu, nor have I seen her, let alone a wet nurse. It's up to you whether you believe me or not. For more than a year, I am indebted to the care of the Ye family. I am grateful." Ye Zhen said lightly, "If there is nothing else, I will go first."
"You want to go? It's not that easy!" Ye Wei stopped Ye Zhen.
Fire Phoenix, standing next to Ye Zhen, chuckled. "I haven't seen anyone who dares to be presumptuous in Haotian City, let alone be so rude to the wife of the city lord."
Ye Wei's face changed. He had forgotten that Ye Zhen was now the wife of the city lord of Haotian City.
"Marriage is the order of parents. We have not received a marriage proposal from Lord Mo. How can Ye Zhen be regarded as his wife?" Ye Shizhong had other plans in mind. Naturally, he was unwilling to admit Ye Zhen's identity in Haotian City.
"Didn't you just say that? Ye Zhen is not the real daughter of your Ye family. " Fire Phoenix said coldly. The people of the Ye family really did not have good intentions. She didn't know what they wanted to do with Ye Zhen.
Ye Shizhong did not dare to be too rude to Fire Phoenix. He said seriously, "Even if Ye Zhen is not the daughter of our Ye family, in the past year, the old master has regarded her as his own granddaughter. Her marriage is our Ye family's business. We can't ignore it."
"Father?" Ye Wei was surprised. Was he going to let Ye Zhen go?
Fire Phoenix's eyes flashed with a sneer. Ye Zhen as his own granddaughter? Who are you trying to fool?
Ye Zhen smiled slightly. "Thank you for your concern, Lord Ye, but I can make my own decisions."
"Even if you can make your own decisions, you still have to go back to the Ye Family with us," Ye Wei said coldly. "You killed Jingshu's wet nurse. You have to go back and give the Ye Family an explanation."
"I want to see Ye Jingshu." Ye Zhen didn't want to explain anymore. She felt that this should be a misunderstanding between her and Ye Jingshu.
"You …" Ye Wei wanted to refuse, but Ye Jingshu's voice came from outside the door.
Ye Jingshu walked in slowly. Her eyes were like a lotus flower coming out of the water with a trace of coldness. She looked at Ye Zhen with grief and anger. "Ye Zhen, we meet again."
"Have we met before?" Looking at this beautiful young woman, Ye Zhen was even more sure that she had never seen her before. Since she had never seen her before, how could anything else have happened?
"It turns out that you're so forgetful. It's only been a year, and you've already forgotten me." Ye Jingshu laughed at herself, "It doesn't matter if you forget me, but you won't forget mute mother, right?"
Ye Zhen looked at Ye Jingshu calmly and listened to her questioning. "If I had seen you, I would naturally remember."
"I told you that I don't care about going back to the Ye Family. If you had told me that you wanted to replace me, mute mother and I would have promised you. Why did you have to be so cruel? Mute mother doesn't know anything, she …" Ye Jingshu took a deep breath. "Now that you have got what you want, are you satisfied?"
She didn't look like she was lying. The grief on Ye Jingshu's face was so real that Ye Zhen wondered if she had killed someone.
"Are you sure it's me?" Ye Zhen asked helplessly. "Today is the first time I saw you. When I woke up in the cabin, I didn't see anyone else."
"Is that your explanation?" Ye Jingshu smiled bitterly and shook her head. "You said that you fled into the woods to avoid being killed. You still want to find someone. I sympathized with you and wanted to help you, but now …"
Ye Zhen frowned tightly. She was confused by Ye Jingshu's words. Was she lying, or did she really do something that she had forgotten?
Fire Phoenix walked over and lifted his head to look at Ye Jingshu. "Your cultivation is at least at the pinnacle of the Qing State. How can a person who is about to enter the Spirit State be framed by someone who has no cultivation? How many people do you think would believe you?"
"It's really hard to believe, just like I never knew that Ye Zhen had a mythological beast like you." Ye Jingshu said.
"Of course you don't know. If I had woken up earlier, would I still need you to save her and give you a chance to slander her?" The fire phoenix sneered. "You said that Ye Zhen killed someone. Is there any evidence?"
Ye Jingshu shook her head. "Indeed, there is no evidence. I don't need others to believe me. Since you don't admit it, I have nothing to say."
"If I have done it, I will naturally admit it." Ye Zhen said lightly.
"Ye Zhen, I underestimated you." Ye Jingshu looked at her and said.
She should be the one who underestimated Ye Jingshu. For some reason, Ye Zhen felt that this sad and helpless woman in front of her should be the biggest opponent she had ever met.
"Ye Zhen, you must give the Ye family an explanation for this matter." Ye Wei said.
"What explanation do you want me to give?" Ye Zhen asked coldly. "If I didn't do it, then I didn't do it. There is no need to explain it to the Ye family."
Ye Shizhong motioned for Ye Wei not to speak again. "Ye Zhen, we believe that there is a misunderstanding in this matter, but we still hope that you can explain it to the old master in person."
"What if I explain it?" Ye Zhen looked at Ye Jingshu. "You believe that I killed your wet nurse, but there is no evidence. You came to Tianhao City to find me today, not just to question me. Why don't you get straight to the point? What do you want?"
"I'm not here to question you." Ye Jingshu looked at her calmly. "I have been practicing in seclusion for so long, not for anything else, but to kill you. My wet nurse is like a mother to me. You are the enemy who killed my mother. No matter what your identity is now, I will not let you go."
Ye Zhen nodded gently, understanding Ye Jingshu's position. She looked sideways at Ye Shizhong. After entering the door for so long, Ye Shizhong's attitude towards her was unprecedentedly kind. It seemed that he did not help Ye Jingshu kill her. "So, Master Ye, apart from confirming your identity with me, do you have anything else?"
"The old master hopes that you can return to the Ye family." Ye Shizhong whispered. Today, he found that Ye Zhen was different from when he first met her. Was it because she had become the wife of Emperor Mo?
"I can't leave Tianhao City." Ye Zhen said lightly, "If I have the opportunity to see the old master in the future, I will explain it to him."
In fact, explanations were all excuses. If she did not have a heavenly spiritual root, how many people in the Ye family would care about her life and death? Looking at the entire Ye family, only Tang Hanyan and Ye Muxin were sincere to her. As for the others … she felt that she did not need to explain herself to them.
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(Nine-headed Bird Academy)
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