Could Jin Zixuan not have stepped in before? Jin Ling is his son, after all. Wen Ning doesn't want to think ill of the dead, especially someone he killed, but it seems to him as though the man needed a bit more of a spine. But then, given his own history, this also isn't fair of him to think. He doesn't know enough of this boy's world to be making judgments on anyone.

He does wonder what Jin Guangyao had done to give himself away to where an execution had seemed necessary. He'd gotten away with so much more in his world.

"...A-and his mother? Is Maiden Jiang... ah... Jiang Yanli. Jin Yanli? Young Madam Jin..." He sputters trying to figure out what to properly call her. "I-is she still alive?"