With these words, Elder Mu was simply unable to refute.
Even so, he could not help but plead for mercy again, “I know my current request is excessive, but I only have this one granddaughter, I can’t afford to see her suffer.”
At the end of his sentence, his voice also became choked up.
The old man also fell silent.
He could understand Elder Mu’s feelings, but that didn’t mean he could forgive.
Finally he sighed and asked rhetorically, “Old Mu, if today if the time were reversed and someone were to harm Mu Wanxian and your little great-grandson, what would you do?”
I would make that person pay a hundred times and a thousand times the tragic price!
Master Mu mused in his heart.
And although he didn’t say it out loud, the old man still got some guesses.
“I think you will make the same decision as I did.”
The old man pushed his heart to say this and simply hung up the phone.
……
The Mu family villa.
Master Mu held the already hung up phone, but the last words of Elder Feng were still echoing in his ears.
He knew that his best friend was not going to forgive.
As he thought about it, he hung his hand in despair, as if his whole person had aged ten years in an instant.
“Wanxian ah Wanxian, grandpa has run out of options.”
Elder Mu covered his face, his voice choked with sobs as he murmured.
In fact, he knew that he was imposing himself at this time by going to beg his best friend.
And since his granddaughter was to blame for all of this, he was even less qualified to resent his best friend and Feng Shenye and the others.
But he could not stand by and watch his granddaughter spend the rest of her life in prison.
“If only I hadn’t brought you back in the first place.”
Elder Mu had never regretted as much as he did at this moment, regretting bringing Mu Wanxian back to attend his best friend’s birthday.
At the same time, he also regretted even more how he had agreed to his best friend’s words to set up his granddaughter and Feng Shenye in the first place.
“It was my mistake, one wrong step at a time, that led to it all being a mistake.”
He murmured in a low voice, his eyes, which were originally gleaming, now turned grey with a watery glow.
After slumping for a while, Elder Mu then had to regain his spirits.
After all, Mu Wanxian was still waiting for him to figure out what to do.
And he knew that it was now impossible to save his granddaughter from death.
The only thing possible for him now was to fight more and find a way to help his granddaughter reduce her sentence.
Master Mu began to use all his connections to try to reduce Mu Wanxian’s criminal liability.
On this day, he had someone bring in a powerful lawyer from abroad, hoping that he could help his granddaughter.
“All people sympathise with the weak, my granddaughter was also tortured by others to do such a radical thing, if this is used as an entry point, can my granddaughter have a chance of having her sentence reduced?”
“If it is used properly, it is possible, but it is also possible that it will not work, so you should not get your hopes up.”
The lawyer did not say the words to death.
Even so, Elder Mu was hopeful.
And naturally, what was happening on his side was not hidden from Xu who had been following up on the matter.
Xu got this news and immediately went to the hospital to report to Feng Shenye.
“That old man of the Mu family has been operating frequently recently, and has also hired a team of famous foreign lawyers to argue for Mu Wanxian, and it looks like he wants to help reduce Mu Wanxian’s sentence.”
“No matter what he does, I want Mu Wanxian to stay in jail for the rest of her life to atone for what she has done!”
Feng Shenye ordered with a gloomy face, only thinking that Elder Mu was too whimsical.
This time, his wife had walked through the gate of ghosts and almost couldn’t come back, no matter what, he wanted Mu Wanxian to be sanctioned by the law and get the punishment she deserved.
In short, there was no way he would let Mu Wanxian escape so easily.
He would make Mu Wanxian pay a painful price for what his wife and children had suffered!
“I’ll leave this matter to your full responsibility, I don’t want to see any information about Mu Wanxian’s sentence being reduced.”
“I understand.”
Xu nodded his head and left.
……
That afternoon, Wen Shiyu woke up again.
The doctors and various specialists did another examination on her.