[Past]
He sits still, staring at the wall. His knees are numb and feet are frozen. His father hasn't allowed him to wear a warm coat -- and it's been three days.
This punishment is still lenient.
It's so quiet that he has dozed off for a while, but the pangs of hunger have awakened him. Now, he can't sleep.
Somehow, his father is always a step ahead of him. Ye Duan An, the head of the Ye Clan, had already found out about the scam. The woman was already found before she could even make her way back to her kingdom. At the moment, she was in the dungeon.
How did his father find out? Ye Jing-e doesn't even want to know. There is a possibility that one of his soldiers is actually his father's man. He can't tell who it is.