The Ministry of Justice Prison.
Seeing Yang Jinzhou thrown into prison too, the three of them went ashen.
Ouyang Xuan immediately lost her mind, muttering, "Impossible. Absolutely impossible! That plan was flawless. How could it have failed?"
Ouyang Xuan knew perfectly well what failure meant.
She didn't want to be exiled. She hadn't completed her mission yet. Once she was exiled, she would surely die.
Ouyang Xuan broke down sobbing. In the cell opposite hers, the Ouyang couple were heartbroken to hear her.
They regretted it.
If they hadn't written that statement of accusation, their daughter would still have been safe outside. They had dragged her down with them.
"What do we do, Lord Yang? Think of something! Even if you can only get Xuanxuan out!"
All Yang Jinzhou's earlier spirit was gone. He gave a derisive laugh and lay flat on the filthy, stinking floor. "It's no use. His Majesty caught me red-handed. The evidence is irrefutable. There's absolutely no chance of turning this around."
"How did it come to this?" Their strength deserted them, and they slumped to the ground.
Compared to their despair, Yang Jinzhou was even more desperate.
Fabricating evidence, knowingly breaking the law, framing an imperial official.
Crime piled upon crime. This time, he wouldn't survive.
Ouyang Xuan was still losing her mind. [System, hurry up and think of something!]
[Host, your parents were guilty to begin with. That statement only added to their crimes. There's nothing we can do now.]
[What?! Weren't you the one who told me to do it? Why did it fail? Why?]
The system was already impatient. [Host, the mission has failed. You should accept reality.]
[I'm unbinding now. Goodbye!]
Hearing that the system was going to unbind, Ouyang Xuan panicked completely and began pleading humbly with it. *[System, please