Chapter 617 - 181 Visiting the Prison
"Mr. Shen, what should we do now?" Princess Yongning said.
Up to this point, neither Prince Cheng nor Empress Dowager Liu had come to communicate with her, not even to speak a word of comfort, to ask her to wait, a single sentence would have settled Princess Yongning’s heart. But there was nothing, not one of her own people had she seen since the joint trial by the three judicial offices ended. Even when she invoked the names of Prince Cheng and Empress Dowager Liu, these people ignored her; the way they looked at her was as if they saw a person doomed to die.
Princess Yongning finally felt fear, she felt uncertainty about the future. In her whole life, she had never imagined that one day, she would find herself so helpless in a prison cell. She used to keep a private prison in the Princess’s Mansion, using all kinds of bizarre methods to torment those people, listening to their screams, watching them beg for life but unable to beg for death. The more frightful their cries, the more pleased she was, reveling in the thrill of controlling life and death.
However, now, with others holding the knives and her the fish on the chopping block, she had become a prisoner awaiting the decision of others regarding her life or death. Such an absurd situation, she thought, was almost like a dream.
Without Prince Cheng, without Empress Dowager Liu, and stripped of her princess title, she had no choice but to clutch at her last straw, Shen Yurong. She pushed Shen Yurong through the bars, "Mr. Shen, speak, will you!"
Shen Yurong turned his head, glanced at her indifferently, and for some reason, his lifeless, flat eyes suddenly made Princess Yongning feel afraid. She unconsciously released her grip on Shen Yurong’s sleeve.
"There’s no way out," Shen Yurong said, "I have no way out."
Princess Yongning was stunned for a moment, as if she only then realized what Shen Yurong was saying. She shrieked, "How could there be no way out? How can you say you have no way out at such a time? You’re lying to me, aren’t you, aren’t you? You still have a way; we won’t die, will we, Mr. Shen?!"