When Mu Chunxi was led into the study and saw the handsome and dashing man, her heart couldn't help but flutter wildly, but it was also accompanied by a deep pain. However, she did not show these emotions.
"Your Highness!" she bowed respectfully.
Fu Junheng sat on the couch, toying with a black chess piece, his eyes cold as he looked at Mu Chunxi. "Do you know why I called you here today?"
Mu Chunxi's heart skipped a beat, and her fingers, hanging at her sides, clenched tightly. She replied, "I know."
Fu Junheng stared at her coldly, then looked away and placed a chess piece on the chessboard. The crisp sound was especially loud in the quiet and silent space, like a heavy hammer striking Mu Chunxi's heart.
"Do you know the consequences of disobeying my orders?" His voice was calm, yet it carried a chilling undertone.
Mu Chunxi lowered her eyes and argued, "But isn't the result exactly what Your Highness is satisfied with?"
As she said this, she felt a sharp pain in her heart. How could she not see who His Highness was trying to protect?
The words were spoken.
Fu Junheng glanced at her, his golden pupils radiating a sharp and terrifying aura that instilled fear.
Mu Chunxi felt her blood rush backward, her body stiffen instantly, and her mind went blank for a moment. She immediately knelt on the ground, her heart filled with fear and unease.
She tried her best to control herself and calmly explained, "Only when the Empress Dowager is in trouble and Princess Weiyang is implicated will the hidden forces in the palace be brought to light. Your Highness should have known about what Princess Anxue was doing in secret long ago. Chunxi just helped her. Everything Chunxi did was based on Your Highness's great cause."
Her composed and unyielding demeanor made her appear so loyal, without a trace of personal emotion.
At the Imperial Noble Consort's birthday banquet, noble ladies from the palace gathered. Even though she was from a marquis's family and was once the most talented woman in the capital, she was ultimately just an accessory in such an occasion. Moreover, in the years since she left the capital, no one had paid much attention to her. So even if she disappeared quietly, no one would notice.
And she was right. Fu Junheng was already aware of the situation in the palace. He did not stop her, but his task for Mu Chunxi was to monitor Feng Anxue and make sure that Mu Chenshuang would not be harmed in this accident.
Therefore, she knew Feng Anxue's purpose. The person Feng Anxue arranged to impersonate was intercepted by her in advance, and the falling of the jade pendant was completely unexpected by Feng Anxue. Mu Chunxi's purpose was nothing more than to increase the suspicion against Mu Chenshuang.
"Moreover, the palace maid that Princess Anxue originally arranged to impersonate Shen Shuang was controlled by me at the time. If Shen Shuang cannot clear her name, handing over the palace maid can also prove Shen Shuang's innocence."
Mu Chunxi stared at Fu Junheng, but his golden eyes grew increasingly gloomy, as if frozen in ice. Even though she remained calm on the surface, her heart trembled violently with fear and unease.
Fu Junheng narrowed his pupils as he looked at her. "Do you know what kind of disobedient subordinates I hate the most?"
His cold and ruthless attitude was less stimulating to her heart than the word "subordinate".
"Acting on your own initiative!"
Mu Chunxi answered, word by word.
"If Your Highness wishes to punish Chunxi, Chunxi will have no complaints."
She lowered her chin, displaying an air of fearlessness in the face of death.
Fu Junheng stared at her with icy eyes, his aura so cold it was suffocating.
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