Ye Qingxue said, "If Consort Cui doesn't believe me, she can send someone to investigate whether I actually entered the palace that day. You can also go to Jing'an Hall now; the Emperor and Xiangsi Zi should be there to determine what poison the Ninth Prince was poisoned with."
Choi Jae-in stared at her blankly, as if trying to determine whether she was lying or not.
As time went on, Cui Cairen could no longer see any trace of lying on Ye Qingxue's face, and she began to waver.
Ye Qingxue said, "Cui Cairen, I have killed people. If I had truly humiliated the Ninth Prince, I would not deny it."
Consort Cui shoved her away violently, turned around and stumbled out. She needed to go to Jing'an Palace to find out what kind of poison her son had been poisoned with!
Watching her departing figure, Ye Qingxue felt that she was getting close to the truth.
She turned and headed towards the prison.
Zhang Dezhong blocked her way, but Ye Qingxue used all sorts of persuasion, first enticing her with promises and then threatening her, before she finally managed to get in and visit Yun Zhuo.
To be precise, they had just met last night, but seeing each other again now felt like a lifetime ago.
When Yun Zhuo saw her, he was first surprised, then frowned. Her clothes were covered in blood, as were her eyebrows, eyes, and hair. Her lips were pale, as if she hadn't slept or eaten properly for a long time.
It's only a day apart!
"What happened outside? Are you hurt?" This time, without Ye Qingxue asking, Yun Zhuo took the initiative to step forward and ask her through the fence.
Ye Qingxue curled her lips into a mocking smile: "I thought Prince Jing was so eager to die that he no longer cared about what was happening outside."
These words were like a bucket of cold water, instantly chilling Yun Zhuo to the bone. He sat blankly on the haystack, looking at Ye Qingxue, his eyes filled with suppressed, surging pain.
Now that the separation has been made, he truly has no right to care about her anymore.
Yun Zhuo lowered her eyes.
Ye Qingxue said, "Last night, Prince Xuan set fire to the prison and broke in, releasing many fugitives. He originally intended to take the opportunity to kill you and then frame you for these things, but thanks to Zhuang Xin's foresight, you escaped a disaster."
"However, he made two preparations. Knowing that my younger brother Ye Cunsi had arrived in the capital yesterday, he used Madam Zhou to stop Ye Cunsi's entourage outside the capital..."
Ye Qingxue slowly told Yun Zhuo about those things.
She saw Yun Zhuo's hands, which were resting on his knees, slowly clench, and the veins on them bulged out.
"...When I invited General Lan up the mountain, I specifically instructed him to bring a colleague who could testify. However, I did not expect that they killed Princess Huaiming, hid in the Lan family, and falsely accused General Lan of murder."
"Now the entire Lan family is in prison. General Lan and Lord Jiang's testimonies are useless and are instead considered as a frame-up against Prince Xuan."
Yun Zhuo on the other side did not speak, but Ye Qingxue could feel that he was enveloped in an icy aura.
Ye Qingxue said, "Many innocent people died this time. Ye Cunsi, myself, and my maternal family, the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion, were almost wiped out..."
“Yun Zhuo, you were in the prison and didn’t see that when you were sentenced to death, everyone related to you was trampled to death.”
"When the nest is overturned, how can the eggs remain intact?"
Yun Zhuo suddenly looked up at her, his breathing a little heavy, his eyes bloodshot, but he didn't say a word, he was still enduring and suppressing his emotions.
...Just to protect the person he was willing to risk his life to protect!
Ye Qingxue met his gaze and asked, "Even now, you still insist that you were the one who killed the Ninth Prince?"
Yun Zhuo opened her lips, but her throat seemed blocked, and no sound came out.
The one who killed the Ninth Prince was him, it could only be him, it had to be him!
Ye Qingxue took a deep breath. "The Ninth Prince was poisoned before he died. Xiangsizi has already found out that the poison he was poisoned with is 'Floating Dream'. Because of 'Floating Dream', he mistook others for me and believed that 'I' had humiliated him. That's how the hatred between us was formed."
Yun Zhuo stared at her in astonishment, as if something was pounding in her head.
Ye Qingxue repeated what she had said to Cui Cairen to Yun Zhuo, her gaze fixed on Yun Zhuo's eyes.
She saw Yun Zhuo's Adam's apple bob, and his breathing became somewhat difficult.
Ye Qingxue paused deliberately, then looked intently at him and asked, word by word, very clearly:
“Yun Zhuo, on the day the Ninth Prince was killed, you didn’t have any conflict with him at all, right?”
"You saw 'me' kill the Ninth Prince. To protect 'me,' you snatched the sword from 'me' and used it to finish off the already disemboweled Ninth Prince, making everyone believe you were the murderer, right?"
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