Chapter 57 Killing the Tyrant 6 (2/2)

"With the world in chaos, our entire Su family are sinners!!!"

Minister Su suddenly released his grip.

The ancestral hall fell into a deathly silence, with only the crackling of the candlelight.

Su Ruofan knelt on the ground, her face deathly pale.

He had never thought about these things. The Zhanjun Pavilion had only ever said that Yin Jiuxiao was a tyrant and that only by killing him would the world be at peace.

They never said what would happen to the world after Yin Jiuxiao was killed.

"Do you understand now?"

"Someone come here..."

Minister Su rubbed his temples wearily, and five trusted servants entered in response.

"Send the young master to Qinghe Manor."

"No one is allowed to let him out without my authorization!"

Minister Su turned his back, not wanting to say anything more.

"Father! What about my elder sister..."

Su Ruofan panicked.

"I have my own plans regarding your sister's matter!"

"Take them away before His Majesty retracts his order."

Minister Su waved his hand, his voice suddenly sounding much older.

As the sound of horses' hooves faded into the distance, Minister Su finally knelt before the ancestral tablets, a single tear falling onto the blue brick.

"Our ancestors..."

He choked back tears and kowtowed, "This unworthy descendant... truly could not protect these two children..."

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Meanwhile, Su Ruodan, who had been brought back to the cell from the interrogation room, was dumbfounded.

When Su Ruodan was dragged into the dungeon, the guards put shackles on her hands and feet again.

The clanging of shackles echoed on the stone wall.

She staggered, the chains on her ankles rattling.

The shackles on my wrists were heavier than before, and the inside was deliberately roughened so that they would rub off and draw blood with the slightest movement.

"Go in."

The guard behind her gave her a push.

Su Ruodan slumped onto the damp straw and looked up at the prison gate. There were six guards with swords, twice as many as last time.

Everyone's hands were on the hilts of their knives, their eyes wary as if someone were about to break them out of prison.

She was momentarily stunned.

She's already told everyone she knows!

She thought this would allow her to go home; she had already planned to take the family's banknotes and leave the capital.

And what was the result?

"Why!!!"

"I have told you everything I know."

She questioned the guards in a hoarse voice.

But the guards were just following orders, so why would they answer her question?

The iron gate slammed shut, the sound of the lock clicking particularly jarring.

Leaning against the cold stone wall, Su Ruodan suddenly realized that she had made a fatal mistake in her second life!

She thought that revealing information would give her freedom, but she forgot who the emperor was!

How could a tyrant who could order the execution of his own brother and mother possibly keep his promise?!

The dungeon was eerily quiet, with the occasional screams of torture coming from afar, but the only sound near her cell was the footsteps of the guards pacing back and forth.

Su Ruodan looked down at the shackles on her wrists and suddenly remembered the last days of her previous life when the enemy country invaded. She had the same shackles, the same guards, and then a palace maid forced her to drink a cup of poison.

"Ha ha……"

She chuckled softly, laughing at her own naivety and foolishness.

The laughter sounded particularly desolate in the empty prison cell.