The moon hung high in the sky, and insects chirped softly outside the cell.
The emperor temporarily concealed the death of the crown prince and the poisoning of Prince Jin.
Quite by chance, the Crown Princess's cell was not far from Bi Xie's. The two of them had special identities, and their cell was located in the deepest part of the Heavenly Prison. The environment was relatively quiet in the Heavenly Prison, and they could not hear the crying and commotion of the other prisoners.
Bi Xie ate the food on the table without a care in the world.
Ru Hua: "Host, aren't you worried that the food might be poisoned?"
"If you really want my life, you don't need to bother decorating the cell." She was still feeling unwell, so she could only focus on recovering and conserving her strength.
"Host, I have some bad news for you. The villain's corruption value has rebounded."
Bi Xie paused, then asked, "How much did it rebound? What about the happiness points?"
Ru Hua dutifully reported: "The villain's corruption level is now 80 points, but his happiness level remains unchanged."
Bi Xie gave an "oh," and said, "So be it. If the emperor really arrested her to force Si Jin to have a woman to carry on the family line, then it would be a waste of all the effort she put into winning him over all this time if he didn't turn evil."
Ru Hua was about to say that the villain was extremely terrifying after turning evil, but a voice from next door interrupted her.
"Princess Consort Jin..." came the Crown Princess's soft, apologetic voice.
Bi Xie heard this, pursed his lips, and ignored it.
Ru Hua forgot what she was about to say and said sarcastically, "Host, I always said this female supporting character is not worth your friendship. If she considered you a friend, why wouldn't she have warned you that Ning Mingshao had set a trap to harm you?"
They could have easily and sweetly defeated the villainous boss and ended the mission perfectly.
“Princess Jin, I don’t ask for your forgiveness. I just want to say thank you, thank you,” she exhaled softly, her voice low and self-deprecating. “When I was fifteen, I married the Crown Prince in grand style. Now I’m twenty-two. Seven years have passed, and the Crown Prince has never touched me. Sister, will you laugh at me now?”
Bi Xie still didn't reply to her.
Her smile became even more desolate: "My father often said that if I had married into an ordinary family, he would have been impeached and dismissed from his position as Grand Tutor, and he would have given up all his wealth to get me a divorce. Unfortunately, unfortunately, I married into the royal family. Even though my father is the Grand Tutor of the court and the teacher of the emperor, he is powerless to help me."
"Does my sister wonder why the Crown Prince, who is so licentious, doesn't touch me?"
Bi Xie ate some more food. She had indeed wondered why the Crown Princess, though not a stunning beauty, was gentle and pretty. Why didn't the Crown Prince touch her after marrying her?
"It was only after I married the Crown Prince that I learned he married me only to get revenge on my brother—"
“My brother once helped him when he was harassing the daughter of the Minister of Rites in the street, but he secretly remembered it. After marrying me, he humiliated me in every way and told my brother. When my brother found out, he stood up for me and punched him a few times, but he tricked me into going to my room to see us, us…” At this point, she could not continue, and her throat tightened as she sobbed softly.
That beast!
“He’s already dead, and I don’t blame you,” Bi Xie finally spoke.
From the first moment she saw her, she knew she was a pitiful person, and even when she smiled, she wasn't happy.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, sister. I only agreed with him to lure you there and prepare travel expenses for him to leave the manor. He told me that you and I were childhood sweethearts and that he wanted to take you away. I never expected things to turn out like this," her voice was filled with deep guilt and self-reproach.
Bi Xie knew she wasn't lying, and said softly, "You don't need to blame yourself. If I were you, I would also cooperate with him." Having been imprisoned in the Eastern Palace for many years, living like a walking corpse, if she were her, she would also take risks and grab any straw that might free her from the consequences.
"If I were to apologize, I would say that I also disrupted your plans. In your deal with Ning Mingshao, you wanted him to create the scene of Ning Mingshao dying in bed due to excessive indulgence, right? That way, the imperial physicians wouldn't be able to find you, and the Grand Tutor's mansion wouldn't be implicated, and you would be free."
"Please don't say that, it's my fault for dragging you down," the Crown Princess hurriedly said.
Bi Xie smiled slightly: "Alright, there's no need for you and me to fight over who should take the blame. Since I've met you here, it means you've already confessed your crimes. In fact, you could have easily pinned the Crown Prince's death on me. The Emperor still wants to use me to blackmail Si Jin, so he won't do anything to me."
"How can that be?" The Crown Princess raised her voice. "If all the blame is placed on you, and something happens to you, I will have a guilty conscience for the rest of my life."
Bi Xie scoffed lightly: "You marrying the Crown Prince is like a beautiful flower stuck in cow dung."
The Crown Princess paused for a moment, then smiled softly.
Neither of them spoke for a long time. Finally, Bi Xie put down his chopsticks and said, "You don't need to feel guilty anymore. I really don't blame you. I just didn't expect Ning Mingshao to have learned medicine and poison. He tricked me. But he's dead now. Don't worry, the Grand Tutor's mansion will be fine. The Emperor won't announce the Crown Prince's death until Si Jin's poison is confirmed."
Even if the crown prince is incompetent and mediocre, he is still the heir apparent. If the crown prince dies, the very foundation of the nation will be shaken if not handled properly. The emperor will not take any risks rashly before making proper arrangements.
The emperor's attention should now be entirely focused on Si Jin.
I wonder how Si Jin is doing?
"Host, you should worry about yourself. The villainous boss is fine, but it seems he's been poisoned and has almost destroyed the Prince Jin's mansion."
Bi Xie was stunned: "Ru Hua, what's going on?" Wasn't the poison supposed to take effect in seven days?
"This servant doesn't know either. Just now, I glanced at the situation on the villain's side and saw that his eyes were bloodshot. He had killed most of the women the emperor had sent to his room. Then, the villainous boss rushed out of the room covered in blood. The guards and imperial soldiers in the manor tried to stop him, but he killed them all. Now, the Jin Prince's manor is a river of blood. It seems that the villainous boss has lost control—"
What color are his eyes?
"Red, host! What kind of poison did Ning Mingshao give the villain? How could it change his eye color and make the big boss look like a wild beast? Is the big boss really going to die in seven days? Host, we don't have much time left..."
Bi Xie didn't speak, her long, curled eyelashes obscuring her eyelids, casting deep shadows in the candlelight. After a moment of silence, she suddenly stood up, her brows furrowed and her eyes heavy. "Ru Hua, I want to leave the Heavenly Prison."
Since the big boss of every world is a ghost cultivator, it also proves that the boss of every world is a vampire. The fog that had always shrouded her in mystery was suddenly blown away by a hurricane, and she could clearly see everything behind the fog—
The pills Wei Zhaoye drank turned blood-red when dissolved in water; they weren't medicine at all, but rather a blood-staining agent.
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