Chapter 1762: Chapter 1755: The Conspiracy Behind Hong Lian

Leng Muling couldn’t see his face, only seeing him gripping the branding iron, pressing it mercilessly onto Hong Lian’s body.

"Sizzle—"

The sound of the branding iron searing flesh made one’s skin crawl.

Leng Muling felt a shiver down her spine, and dared not imagine the sensation of that thing burning the skin.

But her glance at Mo Qi grew more and more concerned.

What exactly did Hong Lian do to make Mo Qi imprison her in the imperial prison and interrogate her with such torture?

Mo Qi didn’t seem intent on extracting anything from her mouth, only inflicting the torture repeatedly, listening to Hong Lian curse, weep, and scream.

Not giving her a chance to struggle.

Leng Muling stood at the entrance of the imperial prison for half an hour, her back drenched in sweat.

Mo Qi turned around, only then realizing it was her standing there.

His eyes showed a moment of surprise, first with shock, then with a trace of shame, "Sorry, I thought someone sent by the Crown Prince."

Unexpectedly, it was her.

"Seventh brother, what on earth happened?"

Leng Muling’s lips trembled, showing her fear.

She had never seen Mo Qi with such a heavy aura of ominous anger.

Mo Qi washed his hands in a nearby copper basin, then walked up to her, wrapped her cloak tightly, and took her out of the imperial prison, "The stench of blood here is heavy, don’t come again."

Leng Muling was held protectively at her waist, but her hand unwittingly grabbed his chest collar, "Seventh brother, don’t hide it from me, what really happened?"

She would never be a Tussah Flower always under his protection!

Clearly, only being viciously hurt by Hong Lian would agitate him so much!

Hong Lian must have committed a grave offense affecting the imperial court to end up like this.

Mo Qi took her out of the imperial prison. Seeing the dark circles under his eyes and a hint of fatigue, Leng Muling pulled him into her carriage, having Leng Qiu stand guard outside.

Mo Qi sat in her carriage, inhaling the fresh sweet scent inside, the pair of watery eyes watching him with concern.

He subconsciously wanted to pull her into his embrace.

"Uh..."

Leng Muling was held so tightly by Mo Qi, her bones pressured she nearly couldn’t breathe.

But she didn’t try to release his hold until he tired and loosened his arms, she heard him sigh deeply against her back.

This deep sigh seemed to have been trapped in his body for a long time.

Mo Qi separated from her, held her hands, and spoke softly, "The child was strangled to death by Hong Lian. I merely took the child to see a court physician, and upon returning... Hong Lian took his life."

"What?" Leng Muling was shocked beyond belief, "That was Hong Lian’s child, carried for ten months, yet she... killed him with her own hands?"

Mo Huan was not only a child over a year old but also Hong Lian’s own flesh and blood!

How could she do such a thing?

"The child is not mine; Huan’er... there were marks on him post-medication, and to keep me from discovering the truth, Hong Lian wanted to burn him and destroy the body,

I seized the child’s body and sent it to the Imperial Medical Academy. The court physician concluded the medication used on the child came from Ting Chao Ge."

As Mo Qi recounted, he felt his heart constricting with painful suffocation.

Leng Muling merely listening felt uncomfortable, not to mention how Mo Qi was deeply entangled in it.

"Hong Lian had been using you, and I was deceived by Lu Mian..."

Leng Muling, stunned, took out the letter given to her by Lu Mian from her bosom.

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