Chapter 22 When the false is taken for the true, the true becomes false.
Holding the note, Jiang Baoqing cried through gritted teeth, "Your Majesty, Your Highness, this couldn't possibly have been written by Jiang Ning! Someone must have switched the note for her!"
Jiang Ning raised an eyebrow and smiled coldly.
"Just now at the Marquis's residence, in front of everyone, I wrote this myself. Who would help me switch the note?"
Jiang Baoqing's eyes were filled with tears, but her gaze was also filled with ruthlessness and defiance.
"Jiang Ning, you can't even read, how could you possibly write such characters?"
After saying that, she bit her lip and looked at Yuwen Jue pitifully.
"Your Highness, could it be that you helped my sister?"
Yuwen Jue's face darkened, and his voice sharpened.
How could I possibly help her?
After saying that, he reached out and took the note from Jiang Baoqing's hand.
A look of surprise flashed in his dark eyes.
The writing on this definitely doesn't look like it was written by a woman, no wonder Jiang Baoqing suspects that he secretly helped her.
Emperor Ming had already seen the words, and now he spoke in a deep voice.
"Jiang Ning, to be fair, write another piece of calligraphy. If it is the same as the one you just wrote, I will believe it was written by you."
Eunuch Su immediately presented him with writing brush and ink.
Jiang Ning wasn't afraid at all. She stepped forward confidently and wrote a piece of calligraphy with flowing strokes.
Grandpa Su exclaimed in amazement.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty the Emperor Emeritus, the calligraphy of Princess Ling is indeed masterful! It is bold and vigorous, with a powerful and profound style!"
Grandpa Fu couldn't help but step forward and read the calligraphy aloud in a low voice.
"When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; when nothingness is taken for existence, even existence becomes nothingness... Truth and falsehood intertwine, falsehood and truth are intertwined, exquisite, exquisite indeed..."
Eunuch Fu bowed to Jiang Ning with utmost respect.
He had assumed that Princess Ling, Jiang Ning, was indeed, as the world said, a beautiful but incompetent woman.
Unexpectedly, Princess Ling's casual remark was so philosophical...
A single piece of calligraphy is worth more than ten years of studying!
Jiang Ning smiled and raised her clear, cold phoenix eyes to look at Emperor Ming: "Your Majesty, do you now believe that I am not lying?"
Emperor Ming looked at Jiang Ning with a complex expression and nodded slightly.
His eyes were sharp and dignified as he looked at Jiang Baoqing.
"Jiang Baoqing, is there anything else you want to say?"
Jiang Baoqing looked at the calligraphy in disbelief and explained while crying.
"Your Majesty, Guo Zilin has been harassing me. I wanted to get rid of him, so I impersonated my sister and wrote a letter to him inviting him to the Drunken Immortal Pavilion. But I really didn't hurt him..."
Jiang Ningling curled her lips into a mocking smile.
"Jiang Baoqing, you wrote the words, and you made the appointment."
"You impersonated me to harm Young Master Guo. The Emperor and the Retired Emperor are wise beyond their years; how could they possibly be deceived by you?"
That damned Jiang Baoqing, she always uses such methods to frame people!
Back then, it was clearly she who drugged Yuwen Jue, causing the original owner to mistakenly enter the wrong room.
But in the end, after her words, the original owner of the body, the victim, became infamous and was portrayed as a bad woman who drugged and harassed Yuwen Jue.
Now that she's here, she'll make Jiang Baoqing expose all the bad things the original owner did and make Jiang Baoqing pay the price for her actions!
Consort Guo knelt on the ground and wept bitterly.
"Your Majesty, as you know, the Guo family only has one male heir, Zilin. Now that his foundation has been damaged, he can no longer even carry on the family line..."
As she spoke, her eyes were bloodshot as she stared at Jiang Baoqing and said angrily, "If I don't kill this slut, how will I face the ancestors of the Guo family in the future!"
Sensing the boundless murderous aura emanating from Consort Guo, Jiang Baoqing burst into tears.
She kept kowtowing, and her head quickly turned a dark purple.
"Your Majesty, please forgive me! Your Highness, please forgive me! This humble woman truly did not harm Guo Zilin..."
She did have an appointment, but she's innocent!
In her fear, Jiang Baoqing's mind raced.
Her pupils constricted as she looked at Jiang Ning in fear.
"Guo Zilin was injured by Jiang Ning! It must have been her doing! I urge Your Majesty and the Imperial Concubine to investigate thoroughly!"
Consort Guo was so angry that she laughed, got up and kicked Jiang Baoqing hard.
"You shameless hussy, you still dare to argue!"
Even the retired emperor on his sickbed couldn't bear to watch any longer and spoke up in a hoarse voice.
“This Jiang Baoqing is wicked and no good person. Your Majesty, it is time to give the Guo family an explanation.”
Emperor Ming's pupils contracted, and he clenched his large hand tightly, replying, "Yes."
Having said that, he gave the order with a livid face.
"Jiang Baoqing plotted to harm people, causing the Guo family to have no descendants. Her crime is heinous."
"Guards, give him fifty strokes of the cane and throw him into jail!"
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