Chapter 357 Inside Story
Huo Li shook her head gently, crying silently and sadly.
She begged desperately, "Master Shen, you are deceiving me, aren't you?"
"You're deliberately making up these lies to trick me and get the information you want from me, right?"
Huo Li felt like the sky was about to fall. Has Prince Jing's Mansion actually fallen into such a state?
She really couldn't believe it.
Shen Xuanzhi had a cold and distant look on his face, and his words were even more inhumane.
"You can never wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, believe it or not."
"I might as well tell you the truth! The entire Prince Jing's Mansion is now on the verge of collapse. Just a slight push will cause it to fall into an endless abyss..."
"Huo Li, now that it has come to this, is there any need for me to deceive you? You wouldn't still be counting on the people from Prince Jing's Mansion and Prince Duan to save you at this point?"
"You will never be able to walk out of this prison alive in this life."
Shen Xuanzhi sneered a few times, "Hehehe," and said again indifferently, "Don't harbor any more illusions. Even if you are dreaming, you should wake up."
Huo Li was stunned, staring at the roof of the cell without blinking, his eyes empty and helpless.
She slowly digested what Shen Xuanzhi said, and felt as if her whole body had fallen into a cold pond, her whole body was icy to the bone, even her soul was frozen.
Her mother, who loved her the most, had actually died, and within just two days, the entire Prince Jing's Mansion was like a building about to collapse, and was surrounded by enemies on all sides.
How could this happen?
Absolutely impossible?
Huo Li kept asking this question over and over in his mind.
She wanted to scream, to go crazy, to go out and visit her beloved mother, to wear mourning for her and send her off for the last time...
But she could do nothing.
He could only be locked in this small space, staring at the four corners of the sky above his head, and suffering all kinds of torture.
Why is she doing this?
What on earth was the reason for this? To make yourself look so miserable.
A feeling of confusion came over me.
Huo Li closed his eyes in despair, tears streaming down his cheeks.
Shen Xuanzhi observed Huo Li's every move and did not say anything, leaving her to figure it out herself.
Huo Li was like a wounded little animal, desperate and helpless, curled up in a ball, sobbing silently...
Anyone? Even the ones closest to you will be implicated by your actions, and may even lose their lives. They will surely feel regret, sadness, and despair, right?
Seeing that the time was ripe, Shen Xuanzhi's voice once again came down coldly and ruthlessly.
"Your family members are likely to be implicated by you, and their bodies will be torn apart and they will die with regrets..."
Only by destroying her beliefs and confidence first, then it will be much easier to pry useful information out of her mouth.
Time passes by little by little.
Shen Xuanzhi waited slowly.
After a cup of tea, Huo Li slowly opened his eyes. There was no longer any bright look in his eyes, only endless deathly aura was constantly permeating them.
But she still refused to confess.
He simply said, "Master Shen, let me think about it again! If I figure it out, I will tell you everything I know. If I can't figure it out, I will take everything I know to my grave..."
Shen Xuanzhi didn't expect Huo Li to be so ungrateful and conservative.
But he has plenty of patience.
He believed that he could pry open her mouth.
He has this confidence.
Huo Li lay on the ground motionless like a dead body.
Shen Xuanzhi drank tea silently.
For a moment, the space was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop.
After a long while, Huo Li suddenly turned his head and said with great anticipation, "If I tell you everything I know, could you please ask the Emperor to show mercy to the people in Prince Jing's Mansion, or at least guarantee that they can spare their lives?"
After hearing this, Shen Xuanzhi knew that Huo Li had figured it out and was ready to confess everything.
He was ecstatic in his heart, but his face remained calm.
"Okay, I can promise you this. At least no innocent people will be implicated."
"However, if Prince Jing's Mansion misses this opportunity to confess, it will be severely punished if the incident is exposed."
"Prince Jing's Mansion will be completely uprooted, leaving nothing behind..."
After hearing this, Huo Li's face finally showed panic.
She couldn't wait to speak, "I'll tell you everything..."
"In fact, as early as three years ago, I had already fallen in love with His Royal Highness Prince Duan. I asked my mother to go to Prince Duan's mansion and sounded out his opinion. But at that time, Prince Duan only had Gu Qingcheng in his heart, so he rejected the marriage request without hesitation."
"Later, I settled for the next best thing and stayed by his side as his younger sister, thinking that being close to him would give you the best chance of success. From that point on, we became quite close."
"In the royal hunting grounds, Prince Duan was poisoned. He sent me a message in a hurry and ordered people to escort me day and night to detoxify him."
"The poison that Prince Duan was poisoned with wasn't difficult to cure. It was completely removed after two days. I asked him if he wanted to check on the poisons in the Emperor, Concubine Li, and Prince Chang as well to see if they could be cured. Actually, I just wanted to please Prince Duan."
"But I didn't expect that after I proposed this idea, I was met with a cold shoulder and criticism from Prince Duan, who ordered me to be sent back to the capital that very night."
"From this incident, I also discovered his attitude towards his family members. I no longer dared to make decisions on my own, let alone ask for their detoxification."
After hearing this part of the story, Shen Xuanzhi also couldn't understand Prince Duan's behavior.
It is really incomprehensible that his own parents and younger brother are indifferent to it.
He had a big question mark in his mind.
Shen Xuanzhi thought for a moment and then asked, "Then why did you poison Lin Pianran? She and you don't know each other, and you don't have any connection."
Huo Li said without hesitation, "Because I found that Prince Duan was very interested in Lin Pianran, and he also suspected that she was immune to all poisons, saying that she must be hiding a big secret. I wanted to poison her to see if Lin Pianran really had the legendary special physique."
"Why does Prince Duan suspect that Lin Pianran has a physique that is immune to all poisons?" Shen Xuanzhi continued to ask.
"Because at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, Gu Xiangsi gave Lin Pianran a poison that kills instantly upon contact with blood. We all saw Lin Pianran drink the poisoned wine, but she was safe and sound, while Gu Xiangsi was poisoned to death."
"Did you poison Gu Xiangsi to death?"
Huo Li paused slightly, but still said "hmm" softly.
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