Xiao Jue thought a lot, thinking about how this woman would argue, thinking about how she would shirk the blame, thinking about how she would lie to herself... But he never expected that she would actually cry.
From the moment Xiao Jue met Qin Zhen, he never saw Qin Zhen cry.
Perhaps it was because of her origin and the environment in which she grew up that she was the most unique woman Xiao Jue had ever seen in his life.
She would never be as gentle and delicate as other women, would never be as dependent on men like other women, and would never shed tears like this.
Xiao Jue frowned and stared at Qin Zhen.
Qin Zhen raised her hand to wipe away her tears, and finally spoke, saying in a calm tone: "You are right, it was all my doing. I designed it to lure you to the backyard, and I designed it to attract that...
...That girl, I planned the time to take His Majesty to the backyard pavilion. I did everything, are you satisfied?"
Qin Zhen took a step forward, looked at Xiao Jue and said, "Now that you know the truth, what are you going to do? Kill me?"
She raised her finger to the moat outside and said in a deep voice: "There is no one else here. If you throw me down now, no one will know."
Xiao Jue was forced by Qin Zhen to subconsciously take a step back, and her brows furrowed even more tightly.
His head, which had been blinded by anger, finally regained some clarity.
It was true that Qin Zhen asked him to go to the backyard, but what happened after that... was a little unreasonable.
Everyone knows what Qin Zhen did when she arrived in the capital. She probably doesn't even know a few of the powerful people in the capital, let alone those boudoir daughters who rarely go out.
It is impossible for Qin Zhen to know Yun Ruying.
Until now, she doesn't know Yun Ruying's last name and still calls her "that girl".
Even if she knew Yun Ruying's identity, how could Yun Ruying come to the pavilion obediently and let him do that without resisting?
Afterwards, Yun Ruying was clear-headed and answered questions fluently, which showed that she had not been drugged.
Xiao Jue stared at Qin Zhen, the anger on his face faded a little, and turned into suspicion: "Are you really not the one who did it?"
Qin Zhen looked very calm at first, just shedding tears silently. Upon hearing this, she suddenly raised her head and looked at Xiao Jue, with anger in her eyes.
"I did it. I did it all. Didn't I admit it? Why do you still ask?"
Xiao Jue: "..."
Xiao Jue frowned: "Calm down!"
Qin Zhen pursed her lips, stopped talking, and began to shed tears.
Seeing Qin Zhen crying, Xiao Jue felt upset and couldn't help but ask: "Why did you ask me to go to the backyard?"
Qin Zhen didn't even think about it: "To frame you."
"Qin Zhen!"
Xiao Jue's face turned cold: "Speak carefully!"
Qin Zhen was silent for a moment, and then said coldly: "It's nothing. I just had nothing to do and prepared a birthday gift for someone else. I wanted to give him a surprise. It turned out that the surprise was not given out, but someone else gave it to him.
It’s a surprise for me.”
Xiao Jue: "..."
Xiao Jue remembered.
On the night of the accident, Xiao Chengye pointed at his nose and cursed, saying that Qin Zhen had prepared all the lights in the courtyard for him, but he...
Xiao Jue saw that light. He thought it was done by someone in the palace, but he never thought that it was Qin Zhen's birthday gift to him.
Xiao Jue looked at Qin Zhen, and after a moment of silence, he said, "Then why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Qin Zhen came up again and said, "Of course it's to frame you."
Xiao Jue: "..."
Qin Zhen gave him a little headache.
Just when he didn't know what to say, Qin Zhen on the other side suddenly broke out.
She stretched out her hand to push Xiao Jue and said while crying: "Xiao Jue, let me tell you, others are afraid of you, but I am not afraid of you. If you have the ability today, just throw me into the moat. I won't be able to do anything."
Let you go!"
"Back then in Longhu Mountain, you were a bastard prince. I could have saved your life and brought you back to the mountain. Why should I hurt you now and slap myself in the face? If I had known this, I wouldn't have done it in Longhu Mountain.
If I should save you, I should let you die in the snow, it is better than if you come here and accuse me unjustly today."
"The words are nice, one after the other. You have me in your heart, you will be good to me, you will ask your majesty for a marriage, you will let me be your only crown prince... It's all bullshit, you can't believe a word of it.
You also said you would give me a surprise. I am looking forward to your surprise, but what is your surprise for me? It’s you and that girl... I can’t bear such a surprise!"
Xiao Jue was stunned by Qin Zhen's yelling and was speechless for a long time.
He looked at the tearful person opposite him, and for some reason, he suddenly opened his mouth and said, "I'm sorry."
After saying this, both of them fell silent.
Xiao Jue couldn't help but be a little confused. He was originally here to ask for punishment, so how come he was the one who apologized in the end?
Before he could figure it out, Qin Zhen had already snorted coldly and said, "I can't bear the apology from His Highness the Prince. I don't have to repay the life-saving grace. I will just do a good deed that day. Nor do the promises made by the Prince."
Cash in. After all, it’s empty talk without any evidence, so don’t worry about it.”
Xiao Jue: "..."
Xiao Jue started to say again: "I'm sorry, it's all my fault."
Qin Zhen still had a bad expression.
Xiao Jue was about to coax a few more words, when the young man in white next to him who had never spoken suddenly said: "Princess Anshun is indeed a smart person."
As soon as he opened his mouth, Xiao Jue stopped and looked at the young man in white: "Yuan Xu, what do you want to say?"
As soon as Xiao Jue called out the name of the young man in white, Qin Zhen's heart suddenly skipped a beat.
She said that the young man in white looked familiar, and it turned out that he was Yuan Xu.
In her previous life, she had met Yuan Xu several times.
This Yuan Xu was the prince's staff. The reason why Xiao Jue succeeded was not only because he had Lou Yan to charge into the battle, but also because of this Yuan Xu.
Yuan Xu is Xiao Jue's brain, and all plans come from him and are then implemented through Lou Yan's hands.
He was half the credit for Xiao Jue's successful rise to power that year.
Qin Zhen instantly felt a little more wary of Yuan Xu.
Yuan Xu was looking at Qin Zhen at this time and asked softly: "His Royal Highness the Prince was drugged that night, so he did something inappropriate to Miss Yun in the pavilion. The rest can be said to be coincidences, but what about the drug?"
As far as I know, on the night of the birthday banquet, His Royal Highness only drank wine from two bottles. One of them was prepared by the prince himself, so there was no problem. The other one was the wine bottle on the princess’s table.”
"Medicine?" Qin Zhen was surprised: "Who is so bold as to dare to do such a thing in the palace?"
After a pause, he suddenly came to his senses, looked at Yuan Xu and said, "You mean, I drugged His Highness the Prince?"
Yuan Xu said calmly: "The princess is the most likely person to take action."
Qin Zhen laughed out of anger, turned to look at Xiao Jue, and asked, "You think so too?"
