In the innermost cells of the women's prison of the Criminal Department, the female dependents of the Jingning Houfu Mansion have been staying here for some time.

In the prison of the Criminal Department, let alone a woman, it is an ordinary strong and healthy man, who will be out of shape after staying here for a while.

Those glamorous and arrogant ladies and ladies who used to be in the deep courtyard of the high gate have long since seen the beauty and delicacy of the original, and the time here has taken away not only their glamorous appearance, but also all their reliance and brilliance.

After surviving day and night here, even their initial panic and anxiety were slowly worn away, and all that remained was numbness and the most humble desire to live.

Shaw was curled up in the corner of one of the cells on a mess of straw, his head hanging down, his figure looking much thinner than when he first entered, and his coarse cloth prison uniform looked a little empty on his body.

Hearing the sound of the cell door being opened, Xiao slowly raised his head, squinted his already sunken eyes, and subconsciously squinted in the direction of the cell door.

Aside from a few interrogations in the first few days, the cell has not been opened for a long time.

The light in the prison was dim, and the people who came were like Xiao's, squinting slightly.

Although Xiao, who raised her head slightly, can still judge her former beauty from her facial features, those beauties can only be the past.

Today's Xiao has a thin yellow face, deep eye sockets, and his eyes that were once watery and clear are now only cloudy and gloomy, and there is despair and confusion hidden under the numb appearance.

At the door of the cell, the waiter of the Criminal Department was looking towards Xiao, and behind the waiter of the Criminal Department, there was also a jailer and a female prisoner.

Xiao squinted for a while, and finally recognized that the female prisoner was the woman who had been put in the next cell a few days ago and had just been arraigned yesterday.

The hopeless and extremely boring days of the prison can almost torture people crazy, and the attention to new companions in such days can naturally give some spiritual sustenance.

Xiao was a little curious, but she didn't say anything or move, just quietly looked at the door of the cell.

"Take it away!" The squire of the criminal department only glanced inside, and then beckoned, and the jailer who followed the squire of the criminal department immediately bent down and entered the cell, dragged Xiao up from the ground very rudely, dragged her to the next cell, pushed her inside, and locked the door of the cell.

The female prisoner who was in the cell next to Xiao was put in Xiao's previous cell.

Xiao suddenly changed their cells for some reason, but what does it matter and difference whether they change their cells or not.

This cell was no different from the previous one, the same cramped and dim, the same damp and cold, the same musty smell.

Xiao squatted in the corner of the new cell with a numb expression, and began to silently count in her mind how many days today was her being locked up here.

People who have been in the prison for a long time in the prison department generally lose track of time.

But Xiao didn't, she counted the time every day, over and over again.

She knew exactly what day she had come in and how long she had been here.

Counting days seemed to be the only thing she could do here, but the more she calculated, the longer she calculated, the colder and more confused her heart became.

She didn't know that it was from that day, and a trace of doubt began to well-up in her heart, doubting her own persistence, doubting what that person had said.

However, every time this suspicion came out of her heart, she always hurriedly extinguished those thoughts.

Every now and then, she felt ashamed and guilty that she had such doubts, and she would feel sorry for the trust and affection that person had placed in her.

However, even though she decisively extinguished the thought of doubt countless times, it still came up again and again in an unusually stubborn attitude, and she had nothing to do about it.

The only thing she hoped for now was that the man would be able to fulfill his promise to her sooner.

She swore in her heart that if she could really get out of here, then she would be willing to dedicate her life to that person truly and unreservedly.

It's just that reality never seems to be as good as you want it to be.

After being entangled in contradictions again and again, Xiao's heart began to become more and more panicked, and her calmness and confidence were slowly eroded by time little by little.

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On the night of the day after Xiao was replaced, she witnessed an assassination in her previous cell, and the assassin was clearly directed at her.

Because the woman who had been transferred to her previous cell had put on makeup according to her appearance, and if you didn't look closely, you couldn't tell that it wasn't her.

When the Assassin committed suicide before being captured by the Punishment Department, the Punishment Department Squire brought the woman to Xiao, who looked at the woman's face in front of her, and she felt that her mind had stopped working at that moment.

Naturally, there would not be a good night's sleep in the prison of the Ministry of Punishment, so she woke up when there was just a noise in the cell where she had been before.

She witnessed in horror the fact that the woman inside fought the Assassin and that the Assassin suddenly appeared with the Assassin's servant, and then the Assassin committed suicide.

"I think, without further ado, you should know who the assassin is going to assassinate!" The waiter of the Criminal Department stared at Xiao Shi who was in a sluggish state, and said clearly word by word.

Xiao slowly shifted his gaze from the face of the woman opposite him to the squire of the criminal department, her eyes filled with deep disbelief and contradictory pain, disappointment, confusion, and some other deeper emotions.

"Let's go!" The squire of the criminal department stopped looking at her, turned around and walked out, and the jailer behind him opened the door of Xiao's cell, went in and brought Xiao out and walked out behind the waiter of the criminal department.

The passage of the cell emitted a pungent damp and musty smell, and Xiao, who had been in the prison for a long time, was no longer sensitive to these smells, and she looked numb and sluggish and let the jailer push and shove step by step.

The light in the passage of the prison was not very good, and the squire of the criminal department did not walk very quickly, but even if they walked slowly, they would eventually reach their destination.

I went up the front steps, and then turned to the side in the direction of the arraignment room.

"Your Excellency!" In the shadow around the corner, the jailer he had seen when he had just come in was still there, and when he saw them come out, he hurriedly bent down and saluted, and his voice was as fearful and flattering as before.

"Hmm!" The waiter of the criminal department bowed slightly, responded lightly, and without stopping, Shi Shiran crossed the jailer's side and walked in the direction of the interrogation room.

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