"Visiting him in prison?" Zu An was taken aback. Who would come to the prison to see him at this time?
Could it be the Crown Princess?
No, now that the Crown Princess is embroiled in a scandal with him, she definitely needs to avoid suspicion.
Could it be Zhu Xie Chixin?
The emperor sent him to rehearse his testimony?
But I said everything I needed to say yesterday, and Zhu Xie Chixin doesn't need to visit me in prison; he can just come directly.
Just as he was completely bewildered, a graceful figure in an ice-blue dress appeared not far away, and he was taken aback: "Chu Yan!"
"Ah Zu!" Chu Chuyan ran over and saw through the iron bars that there were no signs of torture on his body, and then she breathed a long sigh of relief.
"It's you!" Zu'an was both surprised and delighted, and went over to take her cold little hand.
Chu Chuyan snorted, pulled her hand back, and the joy on her face vanished in an instant, replaced by her usual coldness: "Who do you think you are, your Crown Princess?"
Anger from Chu Chuyan: +77 +77 +77...
Zu An smiled bitterly, "It's one thing for others to frame me, but do you think so too?"
Chu Chuyan's face showed a hint of reluctance: "If I thought that way, I wouldn't have come to see you so early in the morning."
Zuan felt a warmth in his heart and took her small hand again: "As expected, my wife knows best how to take care of me."
At this moment, Chu Chuyan said again, "Although you are a lecher, based on my understanding of you, even if you covet the Crown Princess, you would definitely do so under the condition of ensuring that nothing goes wrong, and you would never cause such a big commotion."
Zuan: "..."
Miss, you're in the imperial prison right now. Aren't you afraid of being disrespectful by saying that?
As if she had guessed his thoughts, Chu Chuyan snorted: "What's there to be afraid of? We just want them to know that you absolutely did not do anything to the Crown Princess yesterday."
As he spoke, he deliberately glanced provocatively at the prison guards who were monitoring the two of them not far away, as was their custom.
The jailers looked at each other strangely and turned their heads away as if they hadn't heard anything.
A group of people exchanged glances and whispered among themselves:
"Miss Chu is indeed as beautiful as the legends say, but why isn't her personality as cold as they say?"
"Lord Zu is truly blessed with good fortune. With such a heavenly wife, only a fool would stray outside."
"That's not necessarily true. Men are always looking for more than they have. Even the most beautiful woman will get boring after a while, let alone the Crown Princess, who is also very beautiful."
"Damn, the way you talk sounds just like my wife."
"How dare you speak ill of the Crown Princess? Don't you value your lives?"
...
At this moment, Zu'an on the other side asked, "Chu Yan, how were you able to enter the Heavenly Prison?"
“I waited for you at home all night yesterday,” Chu Chuyan said with a hint of resentment in her eyes. “Then Youzhao came to me and said that something had happened to you. That’s when I found out about you and the Crown Princess. Unfortunately, it was nighttime and no one could enter the palace. So I had to wait until dawn to ask my grandfather to take me into the palace.”
"I was almost stopped on the way by an eunuch surnamed Wen. Judging from his entourage, he must be the chief eunuch by the Emperor's side," Chu Chuyan said with a hint of fear in her voice. "I thought this was the end of me, and that my grandfather would be punished. But after he asked about my identity, he let me go. It was really strange."
Zu An smiled slightly, thinking to himself that all those gifts he gave to Eunuch Wen were worth it.
"Then, after arriving at the imperial prison, I originally thought I could use my maternal grandfather and second maternal grandfather's connections to see if the Right Guard General would make an exception. Unexpectedly, when he learned that I was here to see you, he actually let me through directly." Chu Chuyan looked at Zu An with a strange expression. "It feels like they weren't giving face to my two maternal grandfathers, but rather because of you. Are you doing so well in the palace?"
Zuan laughed heartily: "That's right, you know how charming your husband is, he's irresistible to both men and women..."
"And then they stormed into the Heavenly Prison?" Chu Chuyan interjected coldly.
Zuan: "..."
Getting interrupted halfway through your show-off act is quite hurtful.
Chu Chuyan hurriedly asked, "What exactly happened last night?"
“Of course I was framed…” Zu An repeated what he had told Zong Zheng and the others yesterday. It wasn’t that he didn’t believe her, but now that they were in the prison, there might be eavesdroppers, so it was better to be on the safe side.
"The Shi family is despicable!" Chu Chuyan's pretty face turned cold. She had experienced Shi Kun's shamelessness before and was almost killed by the Shi family in the Yao Guang Secret Realm, so she immediately believed that the Shi family was the mastermind behind it.
Zuan sighed: "If only it were just the Shi family, I'm worried that the biggest mastermind behind it all is Prince Qi."
Chu Chuyan's expression changed slightly: "No way, Prince Qi has always had a good reputation, and this time it involves the royal family's reputation. It's too risky for him to do this. Once it's exposed, it'll be a lose-lose situation."
Influenced by the Qin family, she actually had a fairly good impression of the Prince of Qi.
“I hope it’s not him,” Zuan said gravely. “But even if he’s not the mastermind, he’ll use this case to solidify the rumors between me and the Crown Princess and completely weaken the Crown Prince’s side.”
“If only you had agreed to come back to Bright Moon City with me before,” Chu Chuyan could naturally deduce that this was the inevitable choice of the Prince of Qi. However, after a brief moment of frustration, she immediately asked, “What can I do to help you now? You can’t just accept your fate and wait for others to keep smearing and attacking you.”
Zuan secretly praised his wife, realizing she was indeed not the kind of beautiful but brainless woman; no wonder she had been able to manage the Chu family for so many years.
"Yes, help me investigate some people. Find out who the palace maids, eunuchs, and guards are who claim to have seen me and the Crown Princess engaging in illicit relations. Investigate their backgrounds and whether they have any connection with Prince Qi or the Shi family."
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