"My father raised my brother and me all on his own, working as a cook for a meager monthly wage. We haven't even had the chance to repay him, and now he's... He wanted to enter the Marquis's Residence because he missed us. Pity the hearts of parents everywhere. Please, for the sake of all he's endured, spare my father's life."
As Xu Rourou spoke, she actually began to cry.
She tried to kneel and kowtow, but Qing Sheng caught her with one hand.
"Concubine Xu, what makes you think I can influence the Government Office's decisions? It's true your father raised you, but it's also true he poisoned Uncle Li. He himself couldn't hold out and signed and fingerprinted his confession. The shopkeeper confessed too. Such is the law. How could I possibly have the power to bend it?"
Wasn't this asking the impossible of her?
Liu Wan shook her head slightly.
If she truly possessed such heaven-reaching power, she would have secured an amicable divorce and left the Marquis's Residence.
Since ancient times, there had never been a precedent for a daughter-in-law from a respectable family obtaining an amicable divorce.
"Sister, your younger brother was just promoted to deputy commissioner of the Court of Judicial Review. Getting one prisoner out shouldn't be difficult. Do you still hold a grudge against me, Sister? Is that why you refuse to help?"
Xu Rourou thought she had already admitted her fault and come to beg Liu Wan. What more did she want?
She knew full well that everyone in the Liu Residence must have conspired to frame her father.
That was why she could only bow her head to Liu Wan and cast aside her dignity, trading it for a word from Liu Wan that would save her father.
"The law