Farm Girl's Manor
Chapter 870: The Death of Chen Ji (4)

Chapter 870: Chapter 870: The Death of Chen Ji (4)

Mo Yan, however, refused to lift her head to look at the person, abruptly stretching out her hand to push the unprepared Xiao Ruiyuan to the side, and got up, preparing to hide back into her room.

Xiao Ruiyuan’s heart panicked, his hand reacting faster than his brain, and he tightly gripped the woman’s wrist, "Yanyan..."

Mo Yan harshly shook her hand, but couldn’t break free from his strong grip. Unable to resist, she turned her head and glared fiercely at Xiao Ruiyuan, "Let go!"

Xiao Ruiyuan, unwilling to let go, saw the woman’s lips red and swollen, even slightly cracked, and a deep regret flashed in his eyes, "Yanyan, I’m sorry!" As he spoke, he reached out to embrace the startled woman into his arms, ready to comfort her thoroughly.

Mo Yan stared and sidestepped to avoid giving him the chance to get close, "You should leave, I’m very angry right now and don’t want to talk to you."

Call her capricious or say she’s being dramatic if you want, but this guy kissed her against her will, nearly suffocated her to death, and despite her pleading, he still refused to let her go. If it’s like this now, what will happen after they are married? This time, she must teach this guy a lesson!

Xiao Ruiyuan had no idea what Mo Yan was thinking. Believing that his beloved girl had grown to truly dislike him, his face changed instantly, and he wished he could slap himself hard.

Seeing the annoyance and guilt in the depths of his eyes, Mo Yan felt slightly better, but still had no intention of forgiving him easily, and said in a rather cold tone, "You can go. If it’s not urgent, don’t come over in the middle of the night. I don’t want to make my father angry." With that, she forcefully struggled free from the man’s grip and pushed him towards the door.

Realizing that Mo Yan was genuinely upset, Xiao Ruiyuan suppressed the panic inside him, striving to calm down and quickly thought of ways to obtain Mo Yan’s forgiveness. Surprisingly, he came up with one.

"Yanyan, I have something very important to tell you, please listen to me!" Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes brightened, once again grasping Mo Yan’s wrist, his forehead breaking into a faint sweat.

Upon hearing this, Mo Yan was indeed curious about what he had to say, so she did not push him away anymore.

Xiao Ruiyuan secretly breathed a sigh of relief and tentatively led the woman toward the sofa.

Having just suffered on the sofa, being pinned down and unable to move, Mo Yan was unwilling to go over and warily said to Xiao Ruiyuan, "Just stand here and speak."

Disappointment flashed in Xiao Ruiyuan’s eyes, he took a deep breath and spoke, "Chen Ji is dead, this morning. He was murdered in his cell by his own daughter."

In the beginning, when the Chen family was captured, because it was close to the New Year, executions were postponed to avoid offending the spirits. Later, after Mrs. Du was rescued by Mo Yan and secretly sent away by Xiao Ruiyuan to her hometown, never to set foot in Jing City again, only Chen Ji and his daughter were left in the cell.

Having committed so many evil deeds, Chen Ji was set to be executed after the New Year; however, Emperor Huian suddenly changed his mind, wanting the chief culprit who dared to poison the Pure Empress to suffer and be humiliated before dying. Thus, the Ministry of Justice’s Prison applied its cruelest tortures to Chen Ji every day, until he couldn’t bear it anymore, they would have the doctor revive him, only to continue the punishments...

Chen Ji is dead? Killed by Chen Shanshan?

Mo Yan felt dazed for a moment, Chen Ji’s face, which had grown blurry in her memory, surged into her mind, still finding it hard to believe that the man who had harbored malicious intentions towards her and her family had actually died like this, and at the hands of his own daughter?

No matter what, the dire threat was dead; that was ultimately good news. Mo Yan snapped back to reality and sneered, "Hmph, it’s letting him off easy to have him live till now before dying!"

However, why would Chen Shanshan kill her own father? Chen Ji had treated her very well; otherwise, she wouldn’t have taken the burden of fleeing with her in their escape!

As if he had perceived Mo Yan’s confusion, Xiao Ruiyuan explained, "Someone hinted to that woman that as long as she killed her own father with her hands, she could live and leave this place."

As a result, Chen Shanshan, in order to cling to life, really did take off her dirty, stinking clothes and smothered Chen Ji to death, who, after months of torture, had become nothing but skin and bones and was utterly powerless to resist.

Upon hearing this, Mo Yan knew right away whose doing it was, and felt a chill. Even in death, Chen Ji had to die by the hand of his own daughter, unable to rest in peace. Such methodology was exceedingly cruel; it was clear that Emperor Huian hated Chen Ji to the bone!

"What about Chen Shanshan then? Will they actually let her go?" Mo Yan didn’t believe that Emperor Huian would be so kind-hearted. Not having the Chen family executed was because he had no family to execute; otherwise, heaven knows how many innocents would have unjustly died alongside Chen Ji.

Xiao Ruiyuan shook his head, "She will be sent to a mine in the North."

A hint of surprise flashed across Mo Yan’s face. Was Emperor Huian really that merciful? Nevertheless, although Chen Shanshan was detestable, she was indeed innocent and had no blood on her hands; her crime was not deserving of death.

Xiao Ruiyuan saw what Mo Yan was thinking but said nothing. That woman had nothing to do with Yanyan, so why bother letting Yanyan know of these dirty affairs!

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