Chapter 110: Guardian (2)
If it wasn't for this time, Zhao Ziyan didn't want to pursue anything, but unfortunately the accident still happened.
"You brought her here?"
Zhao Ziyin felt very depressed at the moment, as if he was trying his best to suppress the impulse in his heart that could explode at any time. Although he already knew it, he still wanted to get the answer from Ling Menghan. Ling Menghan hesitated and then nodded. Facing Ling Menghan's confession, Zhao Ziyin felt that he needed a lot of courage to face it. When the truth was revealed, he still had to try his best to suppress it. He turned his eyes away from Ling Menghan, his heart in a mess, because he didn't know what kind of mentality he should use to face Ling Menghan.
"……sorry."
Ling Menghan said softly, very piously, like a child who had done something wrong and honestly admitted his mistake.
If it were under normal circumstances, Zhao Ziyin might have been powerless to forgive her, even if such a situation had never happened before; however, at this moment, Zhao Ziyin felt a mixture of love and hate for Ling Menghan. He knew very well that Ling Menghan knew nothing, and if it had nothing to do with all this, he would have easily accepted her apology, but as soon as he thought about what had happened, he felt as if he could not forgive her easily; Zhao Ziyin seemed to be able to guess Ling Menghan's intention of bringing Yin Yin into the palace, but just by bringing her into the palace, something irreversible had happened. It was not a tragedy, but it was the most unwilling thing to face.
" Why did you bring her in?"
Zhao Ziyu asked while trying his best to remain calm. His voice was calm, but a slight tremor could be heard. Ling Menghan fell silent after hearing this. She didn't know how to answer. She still lowered her head like a child who had done something wrong, with her hands clenched together, so she didn't notice anything unusual about Zhao Ziyu.
After that, neither of them spoke for a long time. Finally, Ling Menghan sorted out her thoughts, raised her head again and asked Zhao Ziyin: "Where is she now?"
"...Don't worry about this, go back first."
"Tell me where she is?"
"I told you not to worry about it."
"I brought her here. How could I just ignore her? She's missing. She's missing."
Ling Menghan finally noticed Zhao Ziyu's abnormality, but she didn't know the reason. Instead, she became impulsive after hearing Zhao Ziyu's repeated rejections. She knew that things were not as simple as she imagined. With such a big thing happening, Yinyin couldn't suddenly disappear for no reason. She had a very bad premonition, but Zhao Ziyu chose to answer her in silence.
"You know where she is, right?"
"Don't ask."
It was just a guess. Zhao Ziyin's reaction told Ling Menghan truthfully that Yinyin was not really missing, but there was a reason, and it was not a simple reason. How could Ling Menghan not know that Zhao Ziyin knew about Yinyin's entry into the palace? When something like this happened, people would usually choose to send the person away, but he didn't do that. After the case happened, Ling Menghan was just worried at first, but the more she thought about it, the more uneasy she felt. After there was no news about Yinyin, an inexplicable uneasiness surrounded her.
"Is this what King Zhao meant?"
Another hypothesis. Zhao Ziyin's eyes flashed with shock. This reaction did not escape Ling Menghan's eyes. She suddenly felt ridiculous. Isn't Zhao Ziheng the only person who can make Zhao Ziyin absolutely obey? But Ling Menghan didn't understand why Zhao Ziheng would hide Yinyin, especially at this time. This made Ling Menghan's mind flash a new hypothesis.
"Because it's related to the murder?"
This time, Zhao Ziyan's whole body trembled, and he turned to look at Ling Menghan with surprise and astonishment.
"Oh, is that really the case?"
As if she was talking to Zhao Ziyin or herself, Ling Menghan looked away. She didn't know why she made such an assumption, and she didn't know why she thought so. In her memory, she heard that this happened once when Lin Wei married Zhao Ziheng, who was still the prince. She didn't expect it to happen again today, and it seemed that this matter didn't end. After today, this happened again. Is it a coincidence? But what Ling Menghan couldn't understand was what this had to do with Yinyin? Could the murderer be Yinyin? In this case, even if Zhao Ziheng didn't see her, he couldn't avoid seeing her anymore, right?
Ling Menghan didn't know whether to feel happy or sad for Yinyin. Was it a good thing to meet in this way? Ling Menghan would never believe that Yinyin would do something like killing someone. But if it was an opportunity, Yinyin and Zhao Ziheng could meet. She believed that Zhao Ziheng would not kill an innocent person by mistake. But why did Ling Menghan feel that all this happened so strangely?
"What do you know?"
Just as Ling Menghan was immersed in his own thoughts, Zhao Ziyan noticed all the changes in Ling Menghan's expression without missing a single moment. His intuition told him that Ling Menghan knew something, which made him think that there would be a certain breakthrough in the current situation, so he seized the opportunity to ask.
"What do I know? Isn't it something you should know?"
Ling Menghan suddenly looked at Zhao Ziyin again, with anger in her eyes? This made Zhao Ziyin's heart startled.
"You locked her up, right? Could she be the murderer? Or did King Zhao want her to be a scapegoat?"
Ling Menghan didn't know why she was angry, perhaps it was because she knew the relationship between Yin Yin and Zhao Ziheng, and that Zhao Ziheng only had her in his heart and would hurt Yin Yin. If this was true, considering his reputation, he could not rule out the possibility of letting Yin Yin be a scapegoat, just like her.
