Inside the prison.
The imperial son-in-law, Xue Yuanyu, looked at the cold scraps the jailer had brought and sneered. "That's it?"
A few days ago, he had still been getting three meat dishes and three vegetable dishes. Today, all he got was this watery slop?
And it was sour?!
Once I get out, if I don't teach these dogs who throw their masters' weight around a lesson, I'll write my surname backward!
The jailer rapped a stick against the cell door and tossed the food bowl onto the floor. "Eat it or don't."
With that, he turned and left.
Someone had been sending silver to grease palms a few days ago, so of course there had been good food. No one had paid up these past few days. He was lucky to get any broth at all.
The prisoner next door had enjoyed his leftovers a few days earlier. Seeing him leave the food untouched, the man advised, "Lord Xue, eat up. Once the jailer comes to collect the bowl, you won't even have that broth."
Xue Yuanyu snorted. "Don't worry. Someone will bring me food soon. I might even be getting out any moment now."
He knew perfectly well how the Eldest Princess felt about him.
Without him, the Eldest Princess was nothing but a puppet without a soul.
To get him out, the Eldest Princess would gladly have her body smashed and her bones ground to dust, even make an enemy of all Great Xia.
During his first few days here, the Eldest Princess had been the one paying everyone off.
He had also heard that, ever since his imprisonment, the Eldest Princess had refused all food and drink. Emperor Deyuan was almost ready to relent.
Perhaps no food had come today because they were preparing to release