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Gu Shichong couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Xue Zhiyi held Huo Wuyou's face and looked at it again and again, and couldn't help but burst into tears: "Husband, you have lost weight."
The cells where important criminals are held are different from ordinary prisons. They are not dirty or smelly, and the food is fresh, with both meat and vegetables available. Even the beds are covered with soft mattresses. Moreover, it's only one night, so how much weight can one lose?
How come Gu Shichong didn't know that Xue Zhiyi was so pretentious before?
Just as she was thinking about it, she didn't expect Huo Wuyou to hold Xue Zhiyi's hand in an even more pretentious manner: "Don't worry, once the truth is found out and your husband's grievances are cleared, we can be reunited as husband and wife."
Sui Yunlang's cell was just across the aisle from Huo Wuyou's. He could see everything they did. Holding the prison food in his hands, Sui Yunlang said, "You are so disgusting."
Gu Shichong agreed in his heart.
Xue Zhiyi's face was filled with sorrow. "What on earth happened? Who locked you up here? If His Majesty and Grandmother knew, I would skin them alive!"
But then Gu Shichong sneered, "You don't know what Huo Wuyou did? Do you really think he can get out of here? Xue Zhiyi, are you really clueless?"
He would no longer trust Xue Zhiyi, and would not believe that she knew nothing about this matter. He would not be fooled by such a cunning person again!
He raised his hand, trying to pull Xue Zhiyi in front of him so that he could see the calculation in her eyes, but his wrist was suddenly grabbed by another hand.
Huo Wuyou blocked Xue Zhiyi behind him and looked at him in confusion: "What is your highness going to do?"
Gu Shichong's wrist was painfully gripped by Huo Wuyou. He pulled his hand back and couldn't help but sneer. His eyes passed Huo Wuyou and fell on Xue Zhiyi's face: "Xue Zhiyi, things have come to this point. He is guilty of a capital crime and cannot escape death. How about this, I give you a chance. Leave him and become my person. I will protect your life."
Huo Wuyou immediately revealed a look of enlightenment: "No wonder His Highness was so kind as to let me into the palace. It turns out he had set up a trap to kill me so he could take advantage of the opportunity to kill my wife. I thought it was a spur-of-the-moment decision, but I didn't expect he had been coveting me for a long time!"
Hearing this, Gu Shichong sneered in bewilderment. "Did the prince harm you? Huo Wuyou, make no mistake. It was you who broke into the palace at night and offered the prescription, but it caused the emperor's condition to worsen. Could it be that the prince forced you to do such a thing?"
Huo Wuyou said firmly, "There is absolutely no problem with the prescription. If no one had interfered, this situation would not have happened. And the only one involved in this matter is you, Your Highness."
"Evidence." Gu Shichong said, "There is no evidence. What you said is slandering the prince."
It was true that he let Huo Wuyou into the palace, but all this was done in secret. What evidence did Huo Wuyou have?
At this moment, perhaps realizing the seriousness of the matter, Xue Zhiyi's expression turned pale. She placed her hand on Huo Wuyou's back and said soothingly, "My husband, I believe in you. The truth of this matter will surely be uncovered. If Heaven is unjust and you are to die unjustly, then I will follow you through thick and thin."
Huo Wuyou's frustrated eyes showed some emotion. He turned around and supported Xue Zhiyi's shoulders: "I'm sorry for making you suffer."
Gu Shichong felt like his eyes were about to roll to the back of his head.
On the other side, Sui Yunlang crossed his legs and watched them talking as if he was watching a play. He unknowingly ate half a bowl of prison food.
"ah!"
A sudden scream almost made Sui Yunlang lose his job.
Xue Zhiyi seemed to be frightened by something and threw himself into Huo Wuyou's arms again. Huo Wuyou quickly asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
Xue Zhiyi buried his head and pointed to a corner of the cell with trembling hands.
Huo Wuyou and Gu Shichong looked over and saw that next to the bowl of rice that Huo Wuyou had accidentally overturned was a rat that had eaten prison food. The rat was bleeding from all seven orifices and was lying on the ground twitching.
Huo Wuyou's face turned pale: "Someone poisoned me?!"
"What!"
Upon hearing this, Sui Yunlang didn't care about anything else, turned around and started digging his throat.
Xue Zhiyi's eyes were filled with tears, and her voice was trembling: "My husband, someone wants to frame you. Now that person has a guilty conscience, he wants to poison you and get rid of you as soon as possible..."
Although Xue Zhiyi did not point to anyone in particular, his eyes of vigilance and resentment kept glancing at Gu Shichong.
"Your Highness Prince Gong." Xue Zhiyi choked up, "If you want me, I will obey you. Why do you have to put such pressure on my life?"
Huo Wuyou embraced her, his tone extremely tragic and heroic: "Madam, please don't do this! I would rather die than let you suffer this humiliation!"
"What does this have to do with me?"
Amid Sui Yunlang's retching, Gu Shichong said sternly, "This matter has nothing to do with me from the beginning to the end!"
He had never felt so wronged before. He just wanted to trick Xue Zhiyi, but who would have thought that this pair of dogs and bitches would take advantage of him! It seemed like he was the one who broke up the couple.
But on second thought, if Huo Wuyou didn't commit suicide by himself, could it be that someone really used Huo Wuyou as a knife to murder the emperor?
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After coming out of the Sky Prison, Gu Shichong has been thinking about this matter.
He entered the palace as per the order to attend to the patient, and knelt in the outer hall of Changsheng Palace with several other princes, analyzing the matter in his mind all the time.
It was so abnormal… Why would Huo Wuyou suddenly do such a stupid thing? Logically speaking, with Xue Zhiyi, a cunning man, advising him, Huo Wuyou wouldn't take such a big risk to do such a thing, no matter how stupid he was.
What's more, he didn't believe that a person who could quietly gain the emperor's trust and take the Cavalry Battalion into his pocket would be a fool.
There must be something behind this, something he doesn't know.
Beside Gu Shichong, the Ninth Prince Gu Shiying shook his hand: "Third brother..."
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