Xiao Xian couldn't bear to hear them bickering, so he sternly shouted, "Interrogate them rigorously! Find out who's behind this!"
Upon hearing this, several guards dragged the two men to the torture room.
When he returned to the Cining Palace, Qu Li was resting.
Looking at her profile, Xiao Xian raised the corners of his mouth.
He walked up slowly and sat down opposite her gently.
Changle came in with a few palace maids and a basket of flowers. Seeing Xiao Xian's infatuated look, she couldn't help but curl her lips.
Xiao Xian glared at her warningly. Changle snorted twice and put the flowers in the vase.
Qu Li slowly opened her eyes and met Xiao Xian's deep and gentle eyes. Her dark eyebrows were slightly frowned and her expression was indifferent.
"Found it?" she asked.
“The results were somewhat unexpected.”
"Isn't the murderer among these people?"
Qu Li felt it was impossible.
After all, the cloth was so small that it would be difficult to find if she had not been accustomed to observing carefully.
Similarly, it is impossible for the real murderer to notice such a subtle detail and then throw away the eunuch uniform.
"The murderer is among these people."
Changle took a piece of cake and handed it to Qu Li's mouth, "Why is it unexpected?"
Xiao Xian watched Qu Li accepting food from Changle, and a sense of restlessness surged in his heart for no reason.
"Both eunuchs' hands are clean."
Changle's eyes widened. "Two? What's going on?"
"That's why the result is somewhat unexpected." Xiao Xian said with a half-smile.
"How do you plan to identify them?"
"They have been dragged to the torture chamber. The criminal department has thousands of ways to make them talk! Besides, the news has already spread, which is a good opportunity to lure them out." Xiao Xian also took a piece of dessert, hesitated for a moment, and handed it to Qu Li's mouth.
Qu Li looked at him indifferently, "Too sweet, too greasy!"
Xiao Xian said embarrassedly, "What I gave you is too sweet for you?"
"Because I'm good-looking!" Changle joked with a smile.
She rarely saw her seventh cousin being humiliated, but during this period of time following Qu Li, she had seen it quite a lot, and it was even more exciting and vivid than the opera in the theater.
Xiao Xian didn't want to get angry with Qu Li, so he glared at Changle.
Changle pouted in grievance, hugged Qu Li's arm, and almost got into her arms, "Seventh cousin, please look at my seventh cousin quickly, he's so scary!"
Xiao Xian let out a breath, grabbed her arm unkindly, and forcibly pushed her out of the side hall, then closed the door.
Changle gritted his teeth in anger: "Seventh cousin, you're going too far!"
Qu Li held his forehead.
"Be more careful next time!" He tightened his lips and warned in an impatient tone.
"Are you even jealous of Changle?" Qu Li sneered.
"It's an eyesore!"
"Because you are dirty inside, you think others are dirty too!"
Xiao Xian opened his mouth and wanted to explain, but ultimately gave up.
She resented him deeply, and now he couldn't make her angry again.
After taking several deep breaths, he finally suppressed the evil fire in his heart.
He briefly told Qu Li about Fugui and Xiao Lizi, and Qu Li was quite interested in Xiao Lizi.
Looking at the smile between her eyebrows, if Xiao Lizi was not a eunuch, Xiao Xian would have suspected that Qu Li had some feelings for him.
Suddenly, Qu Li felt a chill emanating from him, and his eyes were filled with confusion.
"This little eunuch is interesting. I want to go and see him."
"A eunuch, and a particularly arrogant one at that. What's so good about that?"
Xiao Xian tried very hard to control his emotions, but jealousy and envy were like leeches in his bones, making his brows furrow deeper and deeper.
"He's just a little eunuch, but he knows about white phosphorus. This just shows that he's very smart and not a simple person."
"He's very ugly."
"Just be smart!"
Xiao Xian choked, his fingers gently rubbing the rim of his teacup. "The interrogation by the criminal department will definitely involve torture. You'll be covered in blood and it's filthy!"
"I'm a doctor. When I cut open flesh with a scalpel, blood bleeds!"
"Qu Li!"
The anger that Xiao Xian had been suppressing suddenly rose and burned his eyes red.
"What? Are you so angry because of this?" She said with a sarcastic smile.
"I did hurt you before, but how can one live without making mistakes? If you make a mistake, just correct it."
Qu Li still had an indifferent expression and nodded in agreement: "Yes, you are right!"
Xiao Xian felt somewhat depressed.
"Since you also think that what I said is right, then, can you please stop arguing with me?"
"Making trouble?" Qu Li frowned. "Xiao Xian, do you understand what love is?"
The always invincible King Chen Xiao Xian suddenly showed a confused expression.
Qu Li felt that the distance between them was too close, and was afraid that he would go crazy and force a kiss on her like last time, so she stood up and retreated to a safe distance.
Such an action is no less than stabbing Xiao Xian's heart with a knife.
He just felt extremely bitter in his mouth, and the look in his eyes when he looked at her was full of accusations.
Qu Li ignored all the expressions in his eyes and said calmly, "Love is a matter of mutual consent."
Although she had never been in love before she traveled through time, she had seen pigs run even if she had not eaten pork. What's more, she had witnessed the beautiful love of a couple with her own eyes.
"Love is not plunder, not confinement, not coercion! I am a vengeful person. I cannot accept a man who once treated me like dirt."
"But the royal family didn't divorce!"
The determination in her eyes suddenly made him panic.
Qu Li nodded: "Have you ever eaten crab?"
Xiao Xian frowned, questioningly saying, "I'm not kidding you."
"The first person to eat crab was said by others to be stupid and to be ready to die after eating it! However, he tasted the delicious crab."
"This king will never let go!"
Qu Li didn't continue to dwell on these things, and just said: "If you don't take me to see Xiao Lizi, then I will go and ask the emperor for permission."
Originally, Xiao Xian didn't plan to take her with him, but what she just said made him change his mind.
"Clean it up."
Qu Li asked Imperial Physician Tang to keep an eye on the place, and then she went to the death row with Xiao Xian.
"Princess, please wait here!" the guard advised.
"Nothing."
She actually wanted to see with her own eyes whether a unique person like Leonardo DiCaprio could remain calm after being tortured.
The servant was afraid that she would be frightened by the bloody scene, and looked at Xiao Xian with some concern.
Xiao Xian shook his head slightly, and he and Qu Li entered the torture room one after another.
Fugui and Xiao Lizi were tied to a wooden frame. Their eunuch uniforms were stripped off, leaving them only in their inner clothes. When the whips hit them, their inner clothes had already been stained red with blood.
Hearing the voice, Little Leo reluctantly raised his eyelids and looked at Qu Li.
"Princess Chen, I'm not a slave. Can you trust me?"
His face was clearly covered in blood, and his hair was soaked with sweat, with strands sticking to his face, but his eyes were unusually bright, flashing with a light of unwillingness to admit defeat and to accept fate.
"Put him down." Qu Li ordered.
The guard looked at Xiao Xian inquiringly.
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