"What a bad man," the Empress chuckled. "But I like your rudeness."
Young girls might like gentleness and sensitivity, but for a mature woman like her, she knows best what she needs.
"What exactly happened at the Qi Prince's mansion?" Zu An didn't want to get too emotionally entangled with her, so he changed the subject.
"You can't forget other things at a time like this?" the Empress said, somewhat annoyed. "Fine, since you just made me happy, I'll tell you as a reward for your hard work."
Zuan looked at the other person with a strange expression, thinking that all that was missing was for him to throw a wad of cash at him before leaving the house.
"The King of Qi's concubine accidentally fell into the pond and drowned a few days ago," the Queen said.
"How is that possible?" Zu An was taken aback. "Where are her maids and servants?"
Although she was a concubine, she was still a secondary consort of the Prince of Qi, and countless people served her. How could this situation have occurred?
"That's the strange thing," the Empress said with a hint of schadenfreude. "It's said that she secretly went to the pond alone in the middle of the night, so she didn't have any maids with her." "There are several theories circulating in the capital about her death. Some say that she really did fall by accident, some speculate that she was caught having an affair, and some say that she was silenced because she saw some secret that she shouldn't have seen... Which one do you think is the case?"
"Having an affair?" Zuan asked tentatively. Going out alone in the middle of the night always makes people wonder.
“That’s what I thought at first too,” the Empress said with a smile. “But Zhao Jing is quite handsome and charming. I really can’t understand why his woman would cheat on him. And who in the entire Qi Prince’s mansion would dare to have an affair with the Princess? This matter is definitely not simple.”
Zuan suddenly looked strange: "Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, the usually dignified and elegant Empress would be even less likely to do such a thing."
"You bastard!" The queen finally broke down and pounced on him, biting him hard...
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