Chapter 848 - A Tough Decision (1/2)

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The Queen looked at the bracelet and was silent for a long time.

Madam Qiao had been the Queen’s attendant when she was young. The Queen was older than her and they had grown up together.

And they had both fallen in love with Qiao Yanze’s father.

But the Queen had an engagement since young and could not decide on her marriage herself. When Madam Qiao had gotten married to Mr Qiao, the Queen had given her this bracelet.

Later, they each had their own families and she became the Queen. The friends.h.i.+p between the two of them gradually drifted apart.

But when she gave Madam Qiao the bracelet, she had given her a wish.

As long as she was still alive, the wish would be valid. Madam Qiao had used her death as an exchange for her son’s safety.

This was her one and only wish.

The Queen held the bracelet in her hand and sighed helplessly. “Pei Lin is going to see him at last. When he left, she wanted to follow him.”

Nan Zhi looked at the Queen, surprised that she knew her grandmother so well.

The Queen adjusted her mood and looked at Nan Zhi. “Your grandmother has given me a difficult problem. Your uncle violated the law and there’s no mistake about it at all since he has admitted the charge and the evidence all leads to him. Interpol will be taking him out of the Capital tonight. Although I’m the Queen of this country, if I were to ask them to pardon your uncle publicly, then what authority do I have in front of the Royal family and the public in the future?”

Nan Zhi nodded silently.

She knew that everyone was equal before the law.

Uncle was already guilty and the Interpol would not let him go, even with the Queen’s words.

The Queen looked at Nan Zhi and frowned slightly. “Nan Zhi, you’re the Crown Prince’s lover. You should know that your uncle committed a serious crime and the Qiao family will fall with him. It is impossible for our Royal family to have a marriage union with a family that is tainted.”

Nan Zhi’s heart tightened. After her uncle’s incident, she had already thought about it.

“If you want to save your uncle, I’ll give you two choices.”

Nan Zhi had a bad feeling in her heart. The hands on her knees clenched into fists tightly and a layer of cold sweat made her palms cold and clammy.

“I can’t publicly rescue your uncle from the hands of the Interpol. I can only operate in secret. I’ll replace your uncle with a criminal on death penalty who look like him and let that criminal to commit suicide in the detention center. Then, I’ll send your uncle to a safe place.

“Of course, there are conditions with it. If you choose to go with your uncle, you must promise me not to let your uncle enter S Country and never be entangled with the Crown Prince again.

“I’m not someone who will break up lovers, so I’ll give you another choice. If you agree to make a clean break with the Qiao family and your uncle, I can arrange another ident.i.ty for you so that you can get married to the Crown Prince as the daughter of a n.o.ble family. But you can’t have any contact with the Qiao family anymore!”

Nan Zhi had roughly understood what the Queen meant.

The Qiao family no longer had a spotless reputation. With its decline, the Qiao family could no longer be involved with the Royal family.

As the granddaughter of the Qiao family, if she wanted to get married to Mu Sihan, she could only appear with a change of her ident.i.ty.

From then on, she would have nothing to do with the Qiao family.

Could she do it?

Was she going to abandon her family for love and her own future?

Nan Zhi bit her lip, feeling extremely miserable in her heart. But Nan Zhi could understand the Queen’s starting point and proposal.

Even ordinary aristocrats were unwilling to get involved with a tainted family, let alone the Royal family that was focused on face, duty and command over the country.

The Queen looked at Nan Zhi’s eyes that were slowly turning red and she seemed to have thought of her younger self.

She also had to make such a difficult decision and understood the girl’s inner turmoil.

But it was impossible to have the best of both worlds.