Quick Wear: Under the Skirt, All Beings Are Equal

Chapter 434: The Traitor: Bright Moon, Drinking Alone in the Autumn

There were braziers on both sides of the prison. Tang Ran picked up the red-hot torture instrument beside him and took a look. The court dress on his body looked even weirder under the fire.

Tang Ran silently reflected the raging fire, his dark eyes full of smiles that also set his bewitching eyebrows on fire. He looked like a Rakshasa walking out of hell, with a deadly tenderness and danger.

"My men rescued a mother and son a few days ago. I heard that they were heading to Chen Country to seek refuge with my husband who was doing business. Unfortunately, they were unlucky and ran into bandits."

"That young man looks somewhat like Lord Zhou. The people below are ignorant and think that there is such a similar person in the world, so they sent him to Bianjing City to let Lord Zhou see this wonder."

A crack appeared on Zhou Wenye's gentle face, and he grabbed the iron bars excitedly, "Tang Ran, if you have anything to say, come to me, don't embarrass my wife and son."

Tang Ran raised the corners of her lips slightly, and looked at him in a good mood. She pretended to be surprised and said, "What is Lord Zhou talking about? Aren't your wife and son at home? I didn't move my wife and son at that time, and the people present can testify to that."

Zhou Wenye was choked to death by Tang Ran's words.

In order to ensure the safe departure of his wife and son, he specially found a mother and son.

Over the years, his wife and son have lived in seclusion, and even turned down all banquets hosted by the wives of ministers in the court, so few people have actually seen his wife and son.

In order to avoid arousing suspicion, he hid his identity in Northern Qi and married a commoner woman to hide his identity. But after so many years, Zhou Wenye still has some feelings for his wife.

Both of them knew it, but no one pointed it out.

"Tang Ran, don't touch them."

Tang Ran shook her head. "Don't worry, Master Zhou. Your family members are all well at home. No one will touch a hair on their head."

Zhou Wenye seemed to have aged ten years in an instant, and his expression was a little decadent. He stared at the young man in front of him. Yes, it was a young man. Tang Ran was only in his early twenties now.

"Did you already know this?"

Zhou Wenye said it with great certainty, but he was also confused. He didn't understand how he was exposed.

The Emperor of Northern Qi had investigated all the civil and military officials in the court many times, and even Tang Ran's father had never suspected him. Why did Tang Ran target him?

From Tang Ran's series of premeditated actions, he knew that he had been watched for a long time.

Tang Ran was silent for a while before he said, "I didn't find any evidence."

This made Zhou Wenye even more confused.

Tang Ran said, "I have never seen such a clean person, Zhou Wenye, you are too clean, so clean that no one can find any fault with you. People like you should not appear in the world."

Zhou Wenye suddenly realized. He had figured it out since Tang Ran said the first sentence.

It wasn't that he was exposed at a certain moment, but that Tang Ran looked at it from a perspective that no one had ever thought of.

Everything he had carefully disguised, the image that made him invincible, turned out to be such obvious evidence in front of Tang Ran.

Just like Tang Ran said, there is no such thing as a person who has no flaws at all. If there is such a person, he must be carefully disguising himself.

But Zhou Wenye didn't understand why Tang Ran chose to attack at this time after knowing the truth. It was obvious that the Xie family had just been confiscated by him a few days ago. If anything happened to him because of Tang Ran at this time, Northern Qi would definitely be shaken.

He also didn't know whether Tang Ran was just doubting him or had already known his original identity.

Tang Ran smiled sadly, and said in a cold tone: "You shouldn't set your sights on her."

Zhou Wenye was confused and didn't understand who Tang Ran was talking about. However, there were only a few things that happened recently. Apart from what Tang Ran did herself, there was... the death of Princess Sixteen.

Seeing Tang Ran's current appearance, Zhou Wenye felt somewhat happy.

It turns out that Tang Ran also feels pain.

It turns out that he also has someone he cares about.

It turns out that he is just an ordinary person.

He understood at once that Tang Ran was truly an admirable person. Although he acted like a treacherous minister, he was actually doing things to save the world. Compared to the saint image he deliberately created, Tang Ran was more like a saint hiding in the darkness, creating a bright future for the people of Northern Qi.

But now Tang Ran would act on impulse. In order to avenge the Sixteenth Princess, he would expose himself without any care and make the Chen Kingdom pay attention to him.

He even went so far as to put himself in jail despite the pressure from public opinion.

This made Zhou Wenye very happy. He was happy to see Tang Ran sad, and also happy to know that Tang Ran was not as invulnerable as he had imagined.

What he was afraid of was that Tang Ran was really invulnerable to swords and guns.

Then Tang Ran will definitely become Senior Brother’s strongest rival in his lifetime.

How could Tang Ran let him be happy for too long? She gave the order and all kinds of torture were used on Zhou Wenye.

It would be better if Zhou Wenye could tell me something, but it’s okay if he can’t.

Tang Ran knew Zhou Wenye's character. Even if all his bones were broken inch by inch, he would never utter a word that would be detrimental to Chen Kingdom.

But Tang Ran didn't have any expectations in the first place.

He just felt too uncomfortable inside and needed an outlet, a reason for someone to vent all his anger. Making Zhou Wenye's life a living hell became the only thing that could comfort his heavy and desolate heart.

Tang Yan looked at Tang Ran in front of him with worry. He felt that the sudden death of the Sixteenth Princess had changed Tang Ran a lot, as if she had stepped him into a deeper abyss, from which he could never climb out again.

Tang Ran is ashamed!

He always felt that he could have done better, could have protected Li Changan and let her live a long life, but her life was cruelly taken away and stopped at the age of six, and she didn't even have time. Make a second birthday wish, a third wish... the hundredth wish.

She clearly didn't understand anything, didn't know anything, and when she was wronged she just hid away and cried. She was a fool who could be coaxed into a daze by just a few words from her, and yet she became a victim.