"The law is the one who sentences him to die. But who is the one who wants him to die?"

After asking this question, Pei Yuanhao did not speak anymore, but stood in front of me, looking at me with a burning gaze, as if he wanted to see a hole in my body. I was so flustered by such gaze that I felt a little panicked. Although I had known the answer to this question for a long time, I couldn't say it at this moment.

The two of them met like this for a long time, but they didn't wait for my answer. Pei Yuanhao finally smiled faintly.

He said, "Well, let me answer you."

“…”

"It is the law that sentences him to death, and he himself! If the first article of the law is not the death of the murderer, I would not have made such a judgment; if he had not admitted in front of everyone that he was the murderer who killed Princess Anguo, I would not have made such a judgment!"

“…”

"But these are not the most important things. The most important thing is the people who want him to die, the princes and princes who watched the murder and heard him confess their guilt!"

“…”

"And who is behind those princes and princes—" he said, looking at me with a knife: "Do you know."

Although this sentence was a question, it was not him asking questions.

This question doesn't require anyone to answer at all!

Pei Yuanhao looked at my pale face, sighed a long time, and turned around.

He said in a deep voice: "The world's leisurely mouth is not that easy to block; the incident from that year cannot be reappeared!"

I felt like I was punched heavily in my chest. The dull pain made me almost unstable. I staggered back two steps and wrapped around the bead curtain on the door behind me. The dripping sound from the curtain made Pei Yuanhao turn around and look at me, but he looked at my helpless eyes. His eyes flashed and subconsciously walked to me and stretched out his hand to me, as if he wanted to grab me, but his hand reached into the air and stopped again.

Because he saw me take another step back.

The hand froze in front of me.

I looked at the hand, my fingers were slender and powerful, but I didn't catch anything. I just froze a little, and finally, slowly hanged down again.

At this moment, both of them fell silent, and I also understood what he meant.

Even if Mo Tieyi and his friends resisted the court and assassinated officials, they were just small people. Only Liu Li insisted on avenging his brother would care so much about their life and death. But this time, Liu Qinghan's life and death implicated too many people and too many things, and it would never be possible to fool them with just a death row prisoner like Mo Tieyi and others.

Otherwise, if Pei Yuanhao breaks his trust in the kings, princes and ministers, they will have reason to rebel!

This is a dead end!

I looked up at him in panic and said, "Does His Majesty the Emperor have to kill him?"

"..." Pei Yuanhao was silent for a long time, and suddenly said, "It's not that I have to kill him."

“…”

"But I, I must sentence him to death!"

“…!”

I was originally silent, and almost desperate to listen to him finish these words, but after a moment of silence, my heart suddenly moved-

What did he just say?!

I looked up at him, but saw that Pei Yuanhao no longer looked at me, but turned around and turned his back to me.

But, the words he just said echoed in my ears.

"But I, I must sentence him to death!"

It’s not that you have to die, but that you have to be sentenced to death!

Although these two sentences seem to have the same result, their meanings are different, and it can even be said to be very different!

I was suffocating my breath and looked at him in surprise: "Your Majesty the Emperor!"

"..." Pei Yuanhao stood there motionlessly.

My heart was beating, trembling, making my ears buzzing, and I could hardly hear my voice. I could only use my intuition to lower my voice and whisper a little: "If it can give him a glimmer of life..."

"Hmph," Pei Yuanhao immediately said coldly: "But some people don't think so."

“…”

"Those people are not that easy to fool."

“…”

"I, although I don't want to see him die, I can't see the situation getting chaotic because of him!"

I immediately bit my lower lip.

"Those people" are not that easy to fool. It is impossible to just use a death row prisoner to dress up as Liu Qinghan like in the past when dealing with Mo Tieyi and others, or to find a few people to rob the prison, because in that case, they will not let it go. Once the situation worsens, not only will Liu Qinghan's life be difficult to protect, but Pei Yuanhao's painstaking desire for stability will also be broken by those with ulterior motives.

It is precisely under such a weighing of pros and cons that he made the decision to behead Liu Qinghan!

Thinking of this, he and I were silent.

The study room was very quiet, probably because he had already ordered it, and I couldn't even hear anyone walking in the yard. Only the very light wind blew into this almost frozen room, rolling a wisp of blue smoke rising from the incense burner into a scattered look.

Silence, in such an environment, becomes more cautious.

My hand hiding in my sleeve was still holding the jade token of death.

The cold sweat made the jade token slippery. If I didn’t use force, I would almost not be able to grasp it steadily. My ten fingers pressed the carefully crafted patterns on the jade token, and I don’t know how deep the marks had been left on my skin.

Then, at this time, I spoke-

"What if, what if, those people, can't afford to offend, or, in other words, the forces they want to win over?"

Pei Yuanhao's shoulders twitched slightly.

I looked up at him and said, "If such a force takes action, they will not be able to continue making trouble and the situation will not deteriorate."

“…”

"What if it is such a force?"

As I said, I held the jade token tighter and felt my breathing was short and my heartbeat in my chest almost made me feel a little nervous.

At this time, Pei Yuanhao slowly turned around.

His face was still pale and his expression was still tired, but there was a little glow in his blood-cold and red eyes. This was also what made him look so sharp that he looked like a sword about to be unsheathed.

"You want to use 'them'?"

I bit my lower lip and nodded gently.

"Do you know what the result is?"

“…”

"Liu Qinghan will no longer be a minister of the court."

My heart couldn't help but sink.

Pei Yuanhao continued with a cold face, "The person who saved him is the enemy of the court!"

“…”

"You know, what does that mean?"

I was silent for a long time and nodded heavily.
Chapter completed!