Jun Zechen felt as if he had been plotted against, and his brows furrowed tightly.
Suddenly, there seemed to be some faint noises coming from outside the palace.
Jun Zechen's expression instantly became alert. He didn't even have time to think carefully before he flashed and quickly entered another door.
If Yaoyao knew that he came to the cold palace to see Ling Yue, would she suspect that he still had feelings for Ling Yue?
Jun Zechen turned the ring on his hand in a panic.
Miaoyun pushed open the slightly dilapidated door of the cold palace, and Su Jingyao slowly stepped down from the phoenix sedan chair.
Afterwards, they entered the hall. Ling Yue was already sitting quietly at the table. Her face was unusually calm, like a pool of stagnant water without any ripples.
Seeing Su Jingyao come in, he didn't even stand up, but just raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said lightly: "You're here."
Miaoyun saw Ling Yue being so disrespectful to her master, and her eyebrows immediately raised. She immediately scolded him in a stern voice: "How dare you! You didn't even greet the Queen when you saw her!"
Su Jingyao raised her hand slightly. Seeing this, Miaoyun had to take a step back unwillingly without saying anything more.
Ling Yue tugged at the corner of his mouth into a cold smile, his laughter seemed full of sarcasm.
"Queen, are you very proud?"
Su Jingyao frowned slightly and asked calmly, "What am I so proud of?"
"You are now the queen who is high above everyone else. You have the eldest son and are favored by His Majesty. And you have framed me and sent me to the cold palace. Aren't you proud enough?" Ling Yue said with a hint of grief and indignation in her voice.
"Framed? Ling Yue, am I not good enough to you? When I was in the Eastern Palace, I gave in everywhere. I even risked my life to save you when I was pregnant with the eldest prince."
As Su Jingyao spoke, a look of pain appeared on her face, and her eyes flashed with complex light.
"After Your Majesty ascended the throne, I knew that Your Majesty only wanted you to be the Queen. In order to help you, I miscarried the royal heir."
"Even so, when His Majesty gave the Third Prince to you to raise, I never had a single complaint. But what about you?"
Su Jingyao's voice gradually became louder, with uncontrollable excitement.
"I can tolerate whatever you do to me, but the eldest prince is still so young, and you have the heart to hurt him. Do you still have a heart?!"
Su Jingyao looked at Ling Yue with eyes full of disappointment and confusion. Her body was trembling slightly, as if she was trying hard to suppress the grief in her heart.
"You know better than anyone whether you were truly helping me or were you simply backing down to gain His Majesty's favor. Today, it's just you and me here. Why do you have to keep pretending?"
Ling Yue gritted her teeth, her eyes full of resentment as she spoke word by word.
Su Jingyao took a deep breath, her eyes became extremely sharp, staring straight at Ling Yue.
"So that's how you've always thought of me. Is that why you hate me? But why do you have to make excuses for yourself? Ultimately, your hatred for me is because of His Majesty."
"But you said those high-sounding words just to make yourself feel at ease?" Su Jingyao questioned.
"No, it's you who planned every step carefully and made every move an elaborate scheme, turning everyone into your stepping stone." Ling Yue's face darkened.
"You don't want to admit what happened in the past, so that's fine. But the so-called evidence you found yesterday, can you swear on the Crown Prince that you didn't fabricate it?"
Ling Yue's eyes were wide open as he stared at Su Jingyao, trying to find any flaws on her face.
Ling Yue didn't expect that the queen was so tight-lipped. No matter how she tried to trick Su Jingyao, she never said what was in her heart.
When Su Jingyao heard Ling Yue ask her to swear by the eldest prince, she suddenly became speechless.
"Ling Yue, when I first entered the Eastern Palace, you took care of me, so I've never hated you. I understand your love for His Majesty and the emotions you felt after losing Him. But that doesn't mean you can hurt me without restraint."
There was a hint of majesty in Su Jingyao's voice.
"You say I'm framing you. Then I'm asking you, the poison found in the eldest prince's wet nurse's food wouldn't have any effect on an adult like her, but to a child like the eldest prince, it's a deadly poison."
"The Third Prince was poisoned by the same poison that the First Prince's wet nurse poisoned, yet the Third Prince was cured before the Imperial Physician arrived. Why?"
Su Jingyao's eyes were full of questions, and her speech speed gradually increased.
"Isn't it because you already have the antidote for this poison?"
Ling Yue's expression instantly turned extremely ugly.
"So you already knew that I hurt the eldest prince, so the third prince was just your revenge!"
Ling Yue seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, seized the loophole in her words, and spoke immediately.
At this moment, her face was flushed and her eyes were full of anxiety.
She no longer cared whether to admit that she had poisoned the eldest prince. Today she had to make the queen admit that she had murdered the third prince, otherwise she would be really finished.
"Ling Yue, you still refuse to admit it? It's a fact that you harmed the eldest prince. The third prince was poisoned and hurt with willow catkins. It was also people in your palace who personally admitted that you did it. And your purpose in doing this is to frame me."
Su Jingyao's face turned pale with anger and her voice became a little louder.
"You have the antidote, so the Third Prince will be safe. You are simply using His Majesty's attention and love for the heir to deal with me."
Su Jingyao said harshly, her eyes full of anger and disappointment.
“No, no, no!”
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