Chapter 8 — In Rebirth, My Sister Stole My Cold-Faced Husband

Seeing me enter, the two people's reactions were completely different. Ta Lam Uyen: "An Ninh? Why did you come!" Bui Nghien Chi: “……You shouldn't come.”

“When can Ta Lam Uyen go?” I don't beat around the bush.

Bui Nghien Chi's eyes swept across my face, finally stopping on Ta Lam Uyen's tied wrists.

“Wait until I finish investigating.”

"Whether or not he has suspicions, you know in your heart."

“The process cannot be abandoned.”

“Bui Nghien Chi.” I stared at him, "you know who is behind it."

His finger on the file paused for a moment.

“What do you want to say?”

“Trieu Nguyen Bach.” When I said this name, Bui Nghien Chi's pupils slightly shrank.

“How do you know this name?”

“I have my sources.” I can only say vaguely, "You can find out the true background of that warrant. You can also see the loopholes in the file. You don't release Ta Lam Uyen, because someone is putting pressure on you—forcing you to drag Marquis Vu An in."

Bui Nghien Chi was silent. Ta Lam Uyen next to me looked at me in surprise.

“Master Bui.” I took a step forward, "In your previous life, you tried three hundred and eighty cases and never wronged a good person. In this life, are you going to break your rules?"

This statement contains too much information. Previous life. Three hundred and eighty cases. Rules. Bui Nghien Chi understood every word. He closed his eyes and let out a long breath. Then he took the key from the table and unlocked the binding device in Ta Lam Uyen's hand.

“You go.”

Ta Lam Uyen moved his wrist a bit, stood up and looked at Bui Nghien Chi.

“Young Khanh Bui, what happened today——”

"I will continue to investigate the case. The real murderer is not you." Bui Nghien Chi's voice was very calm, "But Trieu Nguyen Bach's story must not be spread out, otherwise we will fight a snake and move grass."

Ta Lam Uyen nodded. I left Dai Ly Tu with him. When I stepped out of the gate, I turned around and looked back. Bui Nghien Chi stood at the door of the interrogation hall, watching us leave. His expression was indecipherable—not anger, not sadness, more like a kind of acceptance of fate. Ta Lam Uyen next to him said softly: "He still has feelings for her."

“So she——”

“That doesn't matter anymore.”

He didn't say more, but quietly took my hand. The fiery torpedo named Trieu Nguyen Bach quickly exploded. At the end of July, Bui Nghien Chi officially presented to the Emperor the progress of the case—a sharp point directed at Trieu Nguyen Bach. The Trieu family panicked. Lord Trieu, the maid of Bo Ho, personally entered the palace to ask for love, but was scolded by the Emperor and then chased out. The Trieu family began to frantically defend themselves. They used a cruel move: they sent Tham Minh Chau to cry in front of Bui Nghien Chi, saying that if Trieu Nguyen Bach was convicted, the Trieu family would drag the Bui family down with them—because the Trieu family held an old story of Bui Nghien Chi's mother in their hands. Bui Nghien Chi's mother was not of high birth. That year, she married into the Bui family because of the Trieu family's matchmaking. There is a letter in the Trieu family's hand, which can prove that Bui's mother once hid a part of her past. Putting such a thing in the royal court is not a big crime, but putting it on Bui Nghien Chi—a man famous for his honesty and integrity—was enough to ruin his reputation. Tham Minh Chau took this card to threaten Bui Nghien Chi: "Bui Lang, the Trieu family and we are relatives. If you send Trieu Nguyen Bach to the scaffold, the Trieu family will announce your mother's story to the public. At that time, your future——"

“The future is the future, the case is the case.” Bui Nghien Chi said.

"You don't think about yourself, you have to think about me too!" Tham Minh Chau panicked, "I married you because your future is bright. If you are dismissed, what should I do?"

Bui Nghien Chi looked at her.

“It turns out she married me for her future.”

Tham Minh Chau froze for a moment, realizing he had said something wrong.

“That's not what I meant——”

“What do you mean? I know in my heart.” Bui Nghien Chi stood up, "Trieu Nguyen Bach is the mastermind. The evidence is solid. I will not stop."

“Bui Nghien Chi!”

"Tham Minh Chau, that year at the flower brooch banquet, I chose you because I thought you were at least innocent. Now it seems—I was wrong."

Tham Minh Chau's face was sometimes white, sometimes red. Bui Nghien Chi's next sentence is even more direct.

"You took the jade brooch and pawned it, fifty taels of silver was used to pay the gatekeeper of the Bui family's gate, and the story of spreading rumors about An Ninh—do you think I don't know?"

Tham Minh Chau's whole body was shocked.

“You…you all know?”

"Young Khanh Dai Ly Tu investigates the case, do you think I can't find out what happened next to me?" He looked at her coldly, "I just didn't say it."

“Then why do you——”

“Because it's not worth it.”

These three words are like three needles, piercing straight into the face that Tham Minh Chau values most. She pushed the door and left. This story is because Quy An knew people in the Bui palace.