This girl was very good-looking, dressed plainly and elegantly, with no expensive decorations on her body, giving people a sense of being otherworldly, but she knelt on the ground and did not speak.
Mu Yun'an asked suspiciously: "This girl, what are you doing?"
The girl raised her head and said, "Please, Your Majesty, let my father go."
Mu Yunan was a little confused when she heard this at first, but she quickly realized it and asked: "Are you Master Chu's daughter?"
Chu Lianyi said: "Exactly."
Mu Yunan asked curiously: "How do you know it was the prince who arrested your father?"
Chu Lianyi said: "It's my guess. I heard that my father testified in court that the regent was related to the heart-robbing monster. Later, after the morning court, my father disappeared.
I suspected that this matter was related to the Prince Regent, but it was just a suspicion. It was not until just now that I asked the prince to let the Prince Regent go, but Princess, you recognized my identity, which means that my father is indeed in your hands."
If they had never met her father, Princess Protector would not recognize who she was.
Mu Yun'an was shocked, as if she didn't expect that her words would become the basis for her judgment.
She couldn't help but admire her: "I didn't expect Miss Chu to be so smart."
Xiao Chengyi was also a little surprised. He looked at Chu Lianyi who was kneeling on the ground and said, "You have been following us just to save your father?"
Chu Lianyi lowered her head and said: "My father just listened to the rumors for a while and did such a treasonous thing. I asked the prince to be merciful and let him go."
Xiao Chengyi said: "I arrested him just to know who ordered him. Now that the murderer has been arrested, your father has nothing to do with this matter. I will let him go. You can go back and wait."
Chu Lianyi was overjoyed and said hurriedly: "Thank you, the regent, and thank you, the princess protecting the country."
With that said, she stood up and left dragging her legs that were unable to move.
Seeing her carriage go away, Mu Yun'an said with emotion: "Miss Chu, it's really a pity. I wonder if her leg can be cured? How about we help her."
Xiao Chengyi asked: "Why do you want to help her? You are not familiar with her? Is it because you think she is very pitiful?"
Mu Yun'an shook his head and said: "Just looking at her like this reminds me of you. In my previous life, I caused you to lose your legs and suffer the ridicule of others.
Miss Chu is a girl, so it must be the same, and she is very smart. If she is healthy, I believe she can live a life of her own."
Xiao Chengyi's heart moved when he heard these words. He held Mu Yun'an's hand and said, "It has nothing to do with you. It's my own choice."
Mu Yunan looked up at him, a little puzzled: "Huh?"
Xiao Chengyi said: "I was made to kneel that day because of my own free will. I wanted to hide my identity. Only by being bullied by you can others not doubt my identity as an illegitimate child.
It can be said that I actually took advantage of you at that time, so you don’t have to feel guilty. If I didn’t want to, who could let me lose my leg?”
Mu Yun'an blinked and looked at him, but she didn't believe what he said: "Are you trying to comfort me?"
Xiao Chengyi sighed helplessly: "I am not comforting you, but I am telling the truth. Your hostility towards me has allowed me to hide my identity very well in the capital."
The three years he spent dormant in the General's Mansion were also the three years he kept a low profile.
At that time, no one suspected that he had unknown origins. Later, when he was the top student in high school and was demoted from the capital for refusing to marry, he began his path to rebellion.
So what Yan Yan brought to him during those three years was not harm but protection.
Mu Yun'an pouted: "You just deliberately made me happy."
Xiao Chengyi chuckled lightly, stretched out his arms to hug her, and his tone was full of doting: "What a silly girl."