In the evening, Lu Yanluo walked into Chu Xuan's study with a meaningful smile on her face and placed the empty box in front of Chu Xuan.

Chu Xuan hesitated for a moment and said helplessly: "Took it away?"

Lu Yanluo immediately put away her smile, walked to the table and poured herself a cup of tea.

"You're asking even though you already know the answer. Why don't you believe that your little cousin has turned her love for you into hatred for you?"

Although the two had previously guessed that the person who sneaked into Lu Yanluo's room was Yan Xiwan.

But as the saying goes, to catch a thief, one must seize the dirty things. Lu Yanluo set up a trap for Yan Xiwan, with the purpose of testing whether the thief was Yan Xiwan.

So Lu Yanluo specifically asked someone to reveal the news of her going out to Xiwan Pavilion.

He casually put a fake drawing in a box and placed it under the desk.

Before leaving, he even sent away the guards around Yun Yayuan.

With the right timing, right location and right people, if it was really Yan Xiwan, she would definitely take action.

The result was indeed the same. When Lu Yanluo came back in the evening, the fake drawings were indeed gone.

Chu Xuan looked at the box in front of him, stood up and walked to Lu Yanluo's side, tilted his head and smiled: "A Luo, you know that's not what I meant, don't worry, I will bring the person back and ask him clearly."

Then he turned around and said in a deep voice: "Come here, quickly bring Yan Xiwan back to the palace. The king has something to ask her."

The guards responded and left, bringing the person back in less than half an hour.

In the study, Yan Xiwan's eyes immediately turned red when she saw Chu Xuan. Unfortunately, before she could call out "cousin" hesitantly, Lu Yanluo, who was resting in the cubicle, came out.

When enemies meet, they are extremely jealous of each other. Yan Xiwan's face suddenly turned ugly when he saw Lu Yanluo.

Lu Yanluo smiled and sat sideways on the chair: "Miss Yan, are you surprised to see me?"

Yan Xiwan snorted coldly: "You asked someone to bring me back? What tricks are you going to play now?"

Hearing this, Lu Yanluo glanced at Chu Xuan beside her and asked, "I heard that Miss Yan went back home yesterday to pack her clothes and left at noon today. Unfortunately, I just happened to lose something important today, so I naturally have to find Miss Yan to ask about it."

Yan Xiwan's heart tightened, and she spoke excitedly: "What a joke! You lost something and you came to me to question me. According to you, did I take this thing?"

Lu Yanluo pretended to be surprised: "Why is Miss Yan so excited? Everyone in the mansion today needs to be questioned, and Miss Yan is naturally among them. Miss Yan, are you feeling guilty?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Xiwan subconsciously looked at Chu Xuan who was watching the situation behind the desk.

From the moment Yan Xiwan entered the room, Chu Xuan sat there quietly. He thought that Chu Xuan had changed his mind, so he sent someone to pick her up. Unexpectedly, as soon as he entered the room, he was faced with Lu Yanluo's relentless questioning.

Yan Xiwan gritted her teeth in anger: "Stop talking nonsense! You said I stole something, then show me the evidence, or let me go immediately. Lu Yanluo, don't act recklessly just because you have Chu Xuan's favor. I warn you, let me go immediately, otherwise I will never let you off easily!"

At this point, Yan Xiwan just wanted to leave here immediately, but Lu Yanluo came prepared and would not let her leave so easily.

Lu Yanluo nonchalantly picked up the cup and took a sip of tea, then said calmly: "In this case, I might as well tell the truth. What I lost was a blueprint, which should have been safely placed in my room, but now it has disappeared."

As she spoke, Lu Yanluo slowly walked towards Yan Xiwan, leaned close to Yan Xiwan's ear, and whispered softly: "But the thief probably doesn't know that I have long been on guard against the covetousness of those with ulterior motives, so I used a little trick on the blueprint and coated it with a layer of mustard orchid powder. This substance is usually colorless and odorless, but..."

Lu Yanluo chuckled and took out a white porcelain bottle from her bosom. She kept playing with it in her hands: "But if it encounters this Dendrobium seed, the mustard orchid will immediately turn blood red. Looking at Miss Yan's expression, I think she must have a clear conscience. In order to prove her innocence, why not..."

Yan Xiwan was shaking all over, feeling chills down her spine, and her face turned pale in an instant, no longer having the righteous look she had just now.

It was not until this moment that Chu Xuan stood up and walked over. He looked at Yan Xiwan expressionlessly and said in a deep voice, "Is it you? I want to hear it from you in person."

"Cousin, I..." Yan Xiwan could no longer bear Chu Xuan's questioning and fell to the ground, her little face pale.

It was not until this moment that she figured out everything.

Why was there not a single person in sight when I sneaked into Yunyayuan yesterday?

Why did the drawings that I couldn't find yesterday just appear in the corner under the desk?

Why was it that even though he had already obtained the drawings, Chu Zhen turned against him and directly said that the drawings were fake?

Now that I think about it, all of this was planned by Lu Yanluo in advance!

The drawings were fake. Lu Yanluo had placed them there deliberately in order to frame her and wait for her to steal them!

Yan Xiwan lowered her head and wept, her heart in turmoil, and her hatred for Lu Yanluo grew stronger.

But now that things have come to this, the most important thing is to find a way to get out of this as soon as possible.

From the corner of his eye, Chu Xuan showed displeasure on his face. He stood aside with frowned brows and remained silent.

Yan Xiwan cried bitterly, raised her hand and grabbed the hem of Chu Xuan's clothes, and said pitifully: "Cousin, I admit that I stole the blueprint, but I was angry and confused at the time, so I did something wrong."

She planned to take advantage of Chu Xuan's childhood friendship and begged Chu Xuan to let her go: "You know, Xi Wan has been in love with you since she was a child. Since we first met, Xi Wan wanted to marry my cousin, but you... rejected me repeatedly for Lu Yanluo. I was furious, so I took the blueprint. Now I know I was wrong!! "

Upon hearing this, Chu Xuan slowly looked towards Yan Xiwan, trying to find from this face the image of the little girl who rescued him without hesitation at that critical moment.

It’s just a pity that Chu Xuan couldn’t see anything except guilt and calculation.

Seeing this, Lu Yanluo looked at Chu Xuan and Yan Xiwan who was pretending to be pitiful on the ground, and suddenly felt a little unhappy.

[The bad man is still so kind and gentle, he can't bear to see his little cousin suffer! ]

[Forget it, I don't need to be here to hurt my eyes. I might as well take some beauty sleep.]

"Now that the truth has been revealed, I will leave first. The final decision on how to deal with it is entirely up to His Majesty."

Chu Xuan immediately reached out his hand to keep Lu Yanluo, but after thinking it over again and again, he slowly put his hand down and watched Lu Yanluo walk away in vain.

Then he said in a hoarse voice: "Yan Xiwan, I can let you go, but this is the last time. My patience is limited. Now, get out of the Night Palace. From now on, we will never recognize each other again."

"cousin……"