Just as Rong Qingqing was about to lose her temper, he changed the subject and asked, "By the way, what are we having for dinner?" Girls are usually quite shy, and given the many romantic scenes in the storybook, it was understandable that she denied it outright.
Rong Qingqing almost choked on her breath. She was so angry with him that she was about to die. What was the point of eating?
"I haven't fully recovered yet, and I don't want to cook," she said curtly, turning to the side.
Upon hearing this, Xie Jingrun glanced at her and surprisingly didn't insist. "Then forget it. You get some rest. I'll be going now."
Rong Qingqing was quite surprised, not expecting this guy to be so easy to talk to today. She opened her mouth, but in the end, she just replied, "Oh."
Xie Jingrun walked towards the window.
Watching the man skillfully climb through the window, Rong Qingqing's forehead creased with annoyance.
So, she can't seal this window after all?
She was immediately discouraged.
He sat down at the table and casually opened a storybook.
Unexpectedly, when she turned the page, she found a shocking scene.
Her eyes widened as she looked at the explicit scenes.
That girl Yanran...
No, she just randomly flipped to this page. Does that mean Xie Jingrun was lying on her bed and looking at this page the whole time?
Thinking of this, her face flushed red, and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
No wonder he looked at me strangely.
He must think that he's both lusting after her and denying it, right?
She let out a wail and collapsed onto the table; she was truly in a situation from which there was no way to clear her name.
The Imperial Palace.
Granny Hong knelt at Feng Mo's feet, looking haggard and lacking her usual vigor. She weakly explained, "Your Highness, please understand. This old servant has always been loyal to Her Highness. How could I possibly poison Her Highness? It wasn't this old servant who poisoned her."
Feng Mo, who is usually so dignified and composed, has been exhausted lately because of Situ Jin's matter, and his face shows deep fatigue.
After listening to Granny Hong's explanation, he rubbed his temples and said in a deep voice, "But my mother's food and medicine have always been handled only by you. If it's not you, then who else could it be?"
He didn't actually believe that Granny Hong would poison his mother.
Granny Hong has served the Empress Dowager for decades and has always been loyal and has almost never made any mistakes.
But the fact that the Empress Dowager was suddenly poisoned and disfigured is too strange.
He felt extremely distressed when he thought of his mother, who was now imprisoned in the cold palace.
Although the imperial physicians had cleared the poison from the Empress Dowager's body, her face had been disfigured when the poison took effect, and it was impossible to heal it completely.
His mother, who always cherished her appearance, was further devastated by the double blow of being deposed, and became extremely tyrannical and anxious.
Confined to the cold palace, unable to harm others, she could only resort to self-harm.
He was anxious and helpless about all of this.
"Your Highness, that night, an assassin suddenly broke in. Could it have been the assassin's doing?" Granny Hong suddenly asked.
Feng Mo had already considered this possibility, but who could the assassin be?
He suspected it was Xie Jingrun, but he had no evidence.
Thinking of something, he asked, "That day when Rong Qingqing was poisoned, did you and Mother visit her?"
Upon hearing this, Granny Hong's eyes flickered, and she stammered, "Your Highness, Her Highness did indeed go to see her."
"Why does Mother suddenly want to visit her?" Feng Mo was deeply puzzled. Hadn't Mother always disliked Rong Qingqing?
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