The Queen Mother jumped from the tower, and His Majesty was reborn with fear

He pulled it out again, with blood still dripping from the tip of the knife, but he still used the bloody dagger to lift Yu Jinzhi's chin.

"How do you think I should punish you this time? How about breaking your leg?" His tone was gentle. It was clearly a punishment, but he said it like a reward.

Yu Jinzhi didn't dare to speak, only her heavy breathing revealed her nervousness.

"A person with a broken leg can never run again. After it heals, it will be broken again, until the injured leg can never heal again. Let's do this, what do you think?" The blood on the tip of the knife dripped onto Yu Jinzhi's white skirt.

"I just don't want to be locked up by you like this..." Yu Jinzhi said this in a tearful voice after a long time.

Xie Yuxiu's hand paused slightly, and his cold expression seemed to fluctuate a little at this moment.

"He just wanted to take me out because he knew I didn't want to be locked up. He didn't do anything..." Yu Jinzhi continued.

"Even now, are you still thinking about pleading for him? Yu Jinzhi, is there something wrong with your brain?!" Xie Yuxiu couldn't believe it.

Yu Jinzhi's eyes were slightly red: "If those things hadn't happened, I would definitely have become his Crown Princess..."

Her words instantly irritated Xie Yuxiu's nerves: "Crown Princess? Haha."

"Yu Jinzhi, are you still obsessed with the position of Crown Princess? Is the position of Crown Princess the most important thing in your eyes? Do you care so much about this position? Do you care about this power? Then do you know that the person you said you wanted to marry at the beginning was obviously me!" Xie Yuxiu smiled sarcastically, but it seemed like he was mocking himself.

After hearing this, Yu Jinzhi looked dazed: "I... never said I wanted to marry you." She didn't remember saying such words to Xie Yuxiu.

She had never known what love between men and women was before, but ever since the Crown Prince saved her, she had always remembered the figure that stood there with her on her deathbed.

That kind of love is not the same kind of love she has for her daddy. This kind of love makes her feel expectant, eager, and at ease...

It was because of that incident that she agreed to the late emperor's marriage proposal and told the Crown Prince that she wanted to marry him.

Never said that? When Xie Yuxiu heard this answer, the madness in his eyes almost burst out. How could she say that she had never said such a thing? She said it to him in person, and he always remembered it, but now Yu Jinzhi actually said that she had never said it?

Xie Yuxiu no longer wanted to endure it, and the last bit of pity in his heart disappeared again.

"Pass the stick and cripple her legs." He lightly decided the final result, and the knife in his hand was casually taken back by her.

The palace servant stepped forward and held Yu Jinzhi down. The arm-thick punishment stick made people feel scared. How could she not be afraid?

"Xie Yuxiu, you're crazy!" Xie Zhao still had the strength to shout.

But unfortunately, Xie Yuxiu didn't care about his struggle at all, nor did he care about what he said.

Xie Yuxiu took two steps back, all the emotions in his eyes turned silent, and he just looked indifferently at the woman who was being forced to kneel in front of him, and the worker holding a torture stick beside her.

"If you don't want to learn, then don't learn. You don't have to learn in the future. Anyway, once your legs are gone, you won't be able to run anymore." Xie Yuxiu's voice, without any emotion, seemed even colder in the cold night.

"Fight!" Xie Yuxiu gave the order immediately.

The executioner glanced at Xie Yuxiu and seemed a little afraid.

"I told you to do it!" Xie Yuxiu gave the order again.

Wang Yi winked at the executioner and shook his head slightly, and the palace servant immediately understood what he meant.

He raised the stick in his hand. Yu Jinzhi was frightened by this action and turned her head away and closed her eyes.

The moment the stick fell, she felt a dull pain in her knees and couldn't help but scream.

Xie Yuxiu clenched his hands behind his back. The torturers didn't dare to use real force, and he could see that they didn't dare. Xie Yuxiu knew that. Otherwise, Yu Jinzhi's legs would have been broken long ago.

Looking at the pale woman kneeling on the ground, Xie Yuxiu's emotions became complicated. After Yu Jinzhi died in his previous life, he had been thinking about what it would be like if he could see her again one day.

Finally they met again in this life... He had actually thought about giving her space and time at the beginning. But now he realized that his heart was still the same as before, he just wanted to tie her tightly to his side.

So when she just said that she had never said she would marry him, he went crazy and seemed to be out of control.

How could she so easily deny the promise she had made to him? He had kept that promise and waited for it all his life.

Xie Yuxiu's heart suddenly began to hurt, as if someone was tearing it apart.

The person who returned from hell finally got a glimmer of hope, and he relied on this glimmer of hope to wait until the day he could see the sunlight. But in the end, the person who gave him the hope blocked the sunlight tightly when he was about to see it. Isn't this terrible?

He looked at the woman who had her eyes closed in pain, and his heart was filled with mixed feelings.

Just as the palace servant raised the stick in his hand and prepared to hit him for the second time, Xie Yuxiu finally spoke: "Back off."

The palace maids were as if they had been pardoned when they heard this, and they hurried to leave this place of trouble. Yu Jinzhi didn't wait for the second time, so she looked up again.

"Physical pain is useless, you don't care anyway. But you can't overcome the mental fear. Aren't you afraid of being locked up? Aren't you afraid of being thrown into jail? Then try it again today." Xie Yuxiu didn't take another step forward.

But Yu Jinzhi began to panic. She was really scared, even more scared than breaking her leg.

"Take her away, lock her up with chains, and lock her in the darkest room in the dungeon." Xie Yuxiu gave the order.

When Wang Yi heard this decree, he looked at Xie Yuxiu in disbelief: "Your Majesty, that secret room..."

"She should experience the feeling of despair. How can she not bear a dark room? Take her away." Xie Yuxiu was no longer soft-hearted.

Wang Yi didn't dare to say anything else, but just looked at Yu Jinzhi with a worried look on his face. The dark room was used to treat the prisoner with a particularly strong will.

Although there was no severe punishment, no matter how strong a person's willpower was, once they entered that dark room, they would be completely defeated within three days. That was mental torture... How could a weak woman like Yu Jinzhi endure it? Not to mention three days, even one day would not be enough...