Chapter 692 Li Rui Defending Xi Ying (2)
Xi Ying's words surely brought General Li a great relief but the remembrance of the information he had since a few moments ago completely replaced that relief very soon.
He looked at the young prime minister with a grim face and said in a very disappointing tone.
"This General had not expected this from you, Prime Minister Xi."
He had thought that his secret was safe with Xi Ying but now he knew that he had been wrong.
On the other hand, Li Rui frowned when she looked at her silent husband. She couldn't help but remember how defeated and regretful he had been looking last night.
Last night surely changed something inside her for Xi Ying.
It made her feel protective of him. Perhaps that's why she couldn't stop herself from defending Xi Ying in front of her father.
"Father, it is very easy to blame him. Rui is sure that whatever he did, he must have some reason behind it."
General Li looked at his daughter with an incredulous expression while Xi Ying who heard Li Rui's words couldn't help but smile seeing her defending himself.
He even thought that even if General Li said more and more demeaning words now, it didn't matter anymore…as long as she will defend him like this.
When General Li saw Xi Ying's stupid smile, he was angrier. He couldn't help but throw his hands in the air with the sword still in one of his hands.
Afterward, he stepped forward and asked his own daughter.
"Do you even know what has he done? It was he because of whom your mother had been drugged with that poisonous drug. He told Qin Wenya something that provoked her to poison your mother's food."
General Li had thought that this would fill some sense in his daughter's mind…according to him.
However, Li Rui only looked at her husband and asked her calmly.
"Ying, why did you do that? Did you have any other way and this was the last way you had in that situation?"
Xi Ying was not smiling anymore. He looked at his wife with complex emotions in his eyes and shook his head.
"No, I didn't have any other way. It was important to make Qin Wenya go against Zhao Wang Lei otherwise she would have gone to him and told him everything about I planning against the Imperial Clan."
Li Rui nodded her head and looked back at her father.
"See Father. Ying didn't have any other way. He did what was right in that situation."
Li Rui again defended her husband.
General Li's mouth was parted. His eyes looking at Xi Ying held resentment. He was finally getting the feeling that his daughter was not his anymore.
Perhaps that resentment again made him raise his sword as he shouted in anger.
"Just what did you do to my daughter!"
Xi Ying didn't even blink as he felt the cold metal of the sword against his neck. His attention was on his wife who stood up from the chair again and walked to General Li.
"Father put down the sword. You are being very unreasonable. At least try to understand Ying once."
Li Rui said with a serious expression on his face.
Behind her, Xi Ying was looking at the small back that covered him like a shield.
He swallowed the lump that was forming inside his throat. He didn't know why but he suddenly felt a little emotional.
His heart was full.
It has been so many years after his parents' death. Even when they were alive, he had not felt this full. Perhaps because no one had ever tried to protect him like this, speak for him like she was speaking.
She was going against her father whom she had not gone against for herself.
Xi Ying blinked as he lowered his head looking away from Li Rui's small frame.
After maintaining his emotions, he raised his head and held Li Rui's hand silently trying to comfort her and calm down her emotions.
On the other hand, General Li was looking at his daughter with a somber face.
"Rui, you don't know anything. Do you even know what kind of secret he had revealed to Qin Wenya?"
Li Rui smiled suddenly at these words as she looked at her father. When she saw him looking confused at her smile, she said calmly
"How can Rui not know, Father? The secret must be very important. Rui knows…it is so important that Father told Rui everything except this secret."
Anger left General Li's eyes slowly and he looked away from his daughter's eyes. What could he even say in response!
Li Rui sighed noticing his actions. She didn't say anything regarding her last few words anymore and just tried to make him understand.
"Ying knows this secret as well, Father but he never told Rui anything."
Li Rui held Xi Ying's hand with more force when she felt him stopping amidst his movement of caressing her knuckles gently. She knew he might be thinking that she blamed him.
But she soon put an end to this misunderstanding of his with her next words.
"Father knows why? Because he respects Father. Father should wonder what kind of situation it must be that he was forced to reveal everything to Empress despite his promise to Father…"
"Rui understands Father's love for Mother. Rui also loves Mother but if Ying had not been there then we would not have been able to save Mother. At that time, he didn't even know that it was because of him Mother was fighting for her life. Father should also remember this."
The study room again gained its silence.
General Li looked at his daughter and slowly lowered his sword again. He put it back inside the sheath.
Li Rui sighed in relief.
She turned and frowned when she saw the small cut on Xi Ying's neck.
"I will bring the medicinal paste."
Finishing her words, she turned around to leave and Xi Ying left her hand reluctantly.
After she had left, he looked at General Li again and said solemnly
"This Lord has a plan to destroy Qin Wenya. General Li, would you like to join this Lord?"