When Li Tiao saw the note, her pupils suddenly contracted!
It turned out to be a note passed to me by the Eighth Prince through a snack!
"But wasn't it hidden well back then?" Li Tiao wondered. "How did it end up in the hands of the Fourth Prince?"
"Do you know him?" the Fourth Prince asked.
Li Tiao quickly composed herself and shook her head: "Replying to your question, sir, I don't know you."
"The words on this note are from the Eighth Prince." The Fourth Prince didn't look at Li Tiao, but lowered his eyes to look at the note in his hand. He even read the contents of the note aloud. Then he looked at Li Tiao and said, "I'm also curious, how did the Eighth Prince's note end up in your room?"
Li Tiao inwardly cried out in alarm at her carelessness, realizing she should have done the same as before and swallowed it whole.
"Your Excellency, I do not know either."
Seeing the Fourth Prince slowly approaching her, Li Tiao subconsciously stepped back, but the Fourth Prince reached out and grabbed Li Tiao's waist, preventing her from retreating.
"Why are you shaking? And your hands are so cold? The dog days of summer are almost here."
In the height of summer, Li Tiao's behavior was indeed unusual, but what could she say?
"Master..."
“Knowing the Eighth Prince is knowing him, it’s normal for relatives to know each other, but to deny knowing someone when you clearly do…” The Fourth Prince deliberately paused, his hand slowly moving from Li Tiao’s waist to the back of her neck: “If you’ve lied to me…”
The blank spaces in an article leave the reader wanting more, while the blank spaces in a speech can send chills down one's spine.
Especially since the Fourth Prince's hand was still gripping the back of Li Tiao's neck like a branding iron, Li Tiao felt that if she denied it, the Fourth Prince could strangle her the next second.
She swallowed hard, quickly and cautiously glancing at the future emperor.
Li Tiao, knowing that discretion is the better part of valor, suddenly lowered her head, escaped the Fourth Prince's control, and knelt down with a show of flexibility: "Your Highness, I have no choice. The Eighth Prince insists on seeing me, and I have no choice but to comply. Moreover, this is not the first time the Eighth Prince has given me orders."
"What evidence does he have against you?"
To make it convincing, Li Tiao was even prepared to cry after she finished speaking, but who knew this gentleman would react so quickly.
"Your Highness, I don't know either. Besides, I've only just entered the palace and didn't even know the Eighth Prince before. How could I have any leverage over him..."
The Fourth Prince interrupted Li Tiao: "Just now, I was praising you for being clever, knowing how to fool me with a dead person. Now you're not even going to try to fool me anymore?"
Li Tiao's lips twitched, and she secretly vowed that if she didn't die this time, she would definitely run away. This place was no place for a human to stay, and the man in front of her was too difficult to deal with.
"Replying to Your Excellency, this servant truly did not deceive you..."
"Eighth Prince told you to go see him, and you went. You told me you had no leverage over him, but he caught you. How come I didn't know my concubine was so obedient?" Fourth Prince questioned sarcastically. "Or are you two having an affair, so you couldn't wait to meet in secret? Even if it was a secret rendezvous, shouldn't you meet at night? The sun is still high in the sky, and you're already so impatient..."
Good grief, that guy who's no good at anything really has a dark side. What is all this nonsense?
Compared to having a secret that the Eighth Prince could use against her, or having an affair with the Eighth Prince, Li Tiao wasn't stupid. She knew that admitting to having a secret wouldn't kill her, but having an affair with the Eighth Prince might get her drowned in a pig cage.
However, she certainly couldn't tell the truth that she was marrying the Fourth Prince in place of someone else.
Li Tiao's mind wasn't muddled at that moment, and she quickly thought of someone.
"In fact, Miss Yunhui and I have known each other for a long time."
Just now, after being mocked by the Fourth Prince, Li Tiao used a dead person as a shield. But at this moment, Li Tiao still has to pretend to be confused and take the Fourth Prince's words as praise, and continue to use Yun Hui.
The Fourth Prince looked at Li Tiao with a half-smile.
Li Tiao didn't know if he was going to mock her or if he was judging whether her words were true or false.
However, Li Tiao thought that since the Fourth Prince had heard her words, it seemed that her saying this was a pragmatic move.
So Li Tiao continued to pretend she didn't understand what the Fourth Prince meant: "Your Highness, before I participated in the imperial concubine selection, I overheard an old nanny from my maternal family saying that I seemed to have a twin sister or sister who was later kidnapped."
"Oh, really?"
Li Tiao pretended not to understand the Fourth Prince's sarcastic remarks: "But at that time, I just listened and thought it was the servants gossiping. Later, I accidentally ran into Miss Yunhui when I went out, and it felt like I was looking in a mirror. I began to believe what the old women had said back then."
However, because Miss Yunhui was being kept in a brothel, I didn't dare go back to ask my father and mother, so I gradually forgot about it.
Until a few days ago, I ran into Miss Yunhui again at the Prince's residence.
"Is this the dirt that Lao Ba found on you?"
Judging from the Fourth Prince's tone, he seemed somewhat skeptical, and Li Tiao knew that this alone was a bit hard to believe.
She remembered a saying, "feint to the east while attacking in the west," and decided to use a big move to lull the Fourth Prince into a false sense of security.
"In reply to you, sir, that is only part of the reason."
"And what about the other reason?"
Although Li Tiao had an idea, she was still hesitant. But then she thought that she couldn't afford to be indecisive in the current situation. She had to save her life first before she could think about anything else.
"In reply to Your Majesty, I didn't really want to marry into the palace from the beginning, so when the selection was held, I tried to have Yunhui take my place. But my father and mother found out and drove Yunhui away. Later, I went to the palace to participate in the selection and was then betrothed to Your Majesty."
Originally, this servant thought no one knew about this, but somehow the Eighth Prince found out, and then…”
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