Well, MC was brought out of prison for judgment before a board of elders. He would have been sentenced, but ML pushed his way through and withdrew his accusation that MC plotted to kill him. It was very dramatic. XDDD
Also a lot of people did a tsukkomi inside at ML, because WTH was he doing trying to save the person who was going to kill him?!?! (MC, or rather, 'Yin Biyue' doesn't have a good reputation)
That and some impassioned pleas by ML got MC out of prison for good. Also, MC is chattier than the original 'Yin Biyue,' so his shixiong and shijie all thought he had a mental breakdown or something. LOL. They all began to think that they should have taken better care of this little shidi, who probably was just lonely and had his first attempt at reaching out for friendship (with ML) meet with disaster.
MC and ML have, as I've mentioned, a gentle and trusting relationship. ML is mostly over the moon that MC 'forgives' him and tries to make nice as gently as he can. MC is bewildered somewhat but doesn't push away ML. We also see signs of ML's crush pretty quickly, ahahahaha~