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Published at 7th of July 2023 07:45:12 AM


Chapter 80

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"She fainted..." Hua Liuli came out of the Crown Prince's embrace, furrowing her brows. She had wanted to take the opportunity to provoke Xie Yao and extract information from her, to find out if the Xie family was involved in this case.

But she didn't expect Xie Yao to be so easily overwhelmed. She hadn't even had the chance to employ all her infuriating methods, and the person fainted.

Yao Jiamin and Xie Yao were both daughters of royal princesses, but Yao Jiamin was much stronger than Xie Yao.

Hua Liuli felt somewhat disappointed. It was evident how important it was for girls to exercise and strengthen their bodies from a young age. They should learn some horse riding and archery skills at the very least. It would make them much more resilient in the face of adversity.

It had been a few days since she last saw Yao Jiamin. Did she miss her a little?

The case was yet to reach a conclusion, so it seemed inappropriate for the person to just lie on the ground like this. Pei Jihuai, who had regained his composure, called for a physician.

He had long known that there might be a secret relationship between the Crown Prince and Fushou Junzhu, but he never expected that when the two were together, it would be like this...

Pei Jihuai truly didn't know how to describe this distinguished couple. He walked up to the Crown Prince and Hua Liuli, bowing respectfully, "Many thanks to the Crown Prince and Fushou Junzhu for making the culprit confess to her crimes."

It wasn't hard to understand why someone who could poison her own sister could commit acts such as arranging for assassins to kill the Crown Prince.

Pei Jihuai glanced at Xie Yao, who lay unconscious on the ground. Once the charge of plotting to kill the Crown Prince was brought up, regardless of her noble status, she would ultimately face the punishment of death.

"Xie Yao plotted against her own sister, Gu is deeply surprised and grieved by this. Gu will relay this matter to Royal Princess Leyang and her husband," In front of Pei Jihuai, both the Crown Prince and Hua Liuli returned to their normal selves. The Crown Prince's expression remained blank as he said, "As for Xie Yao, she must be interrogated slowly. Pay attention to the food she consumes. Until the truth of the matter is revealed, no one is allowed to visit her."

Hua Liuli tugged gently at the Crown Prince's sleeve.

The Crown Prince's eyebrows twitched, "Except for Fushou Junzhu, no one is allowed near Xie Yao without an order from His Majesty or Gu."

"I will follow your command," Pei Jihuai looked at the delicate and timid Fushou Junzhu, cupping his hands, "Fortunately, with the assistance of Fushou Junzhu, we were finally able to uncover the truth. The culprit refused to admit her crimes until you arrived. This posed a great challenge for me and the others."

"I never expected to gain such an unexpected reward," Hua Liuli smiled shyly, appearing quite bashful, "Before coming here, I didn't believe that Xie Yao could have done all these things. But..."

Her expression turned bleak, "I didn't expect her to hate me and the Crown Prince so much."

Pei Jihuai realized that he had never truly understood women. Fushou Junzhu had targeted every sore spot of Xie Yao's with her words, almost like an expert archer hitting the bullseye.

Women, sometimes they could kill without leaving a trace and nobody knew if it was intentional or unintentional.

With that thought, he looked up at the so-called timid and frail Fushou Junzhu, feeling somewhat curious.

Had she ever considered that getting so close to the Crown Prince would make people even more suspicious of the Crown Prince's relationship with the Hua family?

This Fushou Junzhu was truly peculiar. She seemed like a young lady with few notable qualities apart from her beauty, yet she unintentionally disrupted many conspiracies recently.

Could there really be so many coincidences in the world?

Noticing Pei Jihuai's gaze, Hua Liuli raised her folding fan to cover half of her face and hid behind the Crown Prince, appearing somewhat timid.

Who would have thought that just a while ago, this Fushou Junzhu had eloquently driven another woman mad?

After leaving the female prisoners' cells, Hua Liuli looked up at the sky, "It's getting dark. Your Royal Highness, let's go to Hua Family Estate for dinner."

"Alright," The Crown Prince didn't find it embarrassing to go to an official's estate for dinner. He wanted to take this opportunity to please his future father-in-law.

Yuan Yi sighed silently. The Crown Prince was lucky to have a noble status, otherwise, he would have long been abducted by Junzhu and brought to the Hua family's doorstep.

Before the two of them could leave, they saw two people bowing and hurrying in the direction of the male prisoners' cell. Hua Liuli had spent fifteen years in Qinghan Prefecture, so she subconsciously felt something was amiss when she saw these people. She spoke up, "Halt!"

The two men with cloth hats froze in their tracks, not daring to take another step forward or turn their heads to look at Hua Liuli and the others.

Pei Jihuai, who followed them, immediately recognized that these two were Jinpo envoys who had come to visit the prison. He stood by and didn't say a word.

"Who are you?" Yuan Yi and Yurong unsheathed their swords.

The two unfortunate Jinpo envoys mustered up the courage to enter the Ministry of Justice, only to be stopped by a noble young lady from Great Jin. They were so frightened that they bowed and saluted, "Greetings to the esteemed noble young lady from Great Jin. We are envoys from Jinpo and wish to visit the Second Prince of our country in the prison."

"People from Jinpo..." Hua Liuli's eyes revealed a touch of disgust. No matter how pitiful these Jinpo envoys looked as they cowered, she couldn't forget their heartless and bloodthirsty actions when they slaughtered innocent people in Jin. They looked pitiful now only because Great Jin had won and they no longer dared to invade Great Jin. If Great Jin were to lose...

"The Ministry of Justice never detains innocent people," Hua Liuli said calmly, "You two have the right to visit the prisoners. Please proceed."

The faces of the two Jinpo envoys changed upon hearing her words. Did this mean that the Great Jin had no intention of releasing the Second Prince?

They didn't know the identity of this elegantly dressed young lady, but seeing the officials of the Ministry of Justice showing respect in her presence, they couldn't help but speculate silently. Could she be a princess?

But Emperor Changlong only had two daughters, there didn't seem to be a princess as young as her.

The two envoys cautiously greeted Hua Liuli and didn't dare to argue. They lowered their heads in dejection as they entered the men's prison.

Hua Liuli stared at their receding figures and grabbed the Crown Prince's arm, "Let's go and see."

The two envoys entered the dungeon; their first impression was that the Ministry of Justice had constructed the prison like a maze. If someone were to come to rescue the prisoners, they might get lost inside.

The prison guard who was leading them seemed unaffected by the previous encounter. With a calm expression, he led them through twists and turns, pointing to a cell, "Gentlemen, the prisoner, Prince A'Wa, is confined here."

The person in the cell seemed to be asleep, lying motionless on the bed.

The two envoys eagerly rushed to the railing, desperately trying to get a better look at the Crown Prince. They wondered if he had lost weight after enduring so much suffering.

However, when they saw the person lying on the bed, they realized it was just a chubby, white man.

Their Crown Prince was a tall and upright man with wheat-colored skin that charmed countless women. Who was this obese person lying there with a bloated belly like a pregnant woman in the seventh or eighth month? His face was full of fat, his neck was even obscured. Who was he?

They felt somewhat displeased. Even though they were the defeated country and Great Jin looked down on them, they couldn't believe that they would point at a dead fat man and claim he was their Second Prince. Who were they trying to fool?

Did they really think they would not know what their own Second Prince would look like?

"Daren, Jinpo's visit this time is sincere. It's a bit too much for you to just point at a fat man and claim he is our Second Prince. Please don't joke around and take us to see the real Second Prince," one of the envoys from Jinpo forced a smile.

"Who's joking with you?" The prison guard rolled his eyes and took out a wooden stick from his waist and forcefully knocked on the prison door, "Prisoner A'Wa, there are visitors to see you!"

Prince A'Wa woke up from his slumber and saw the two Jinpo envoys standing outside the cell. He was so excited that he tried to get up from the bed, but due to his excessive weight, he nearly fell off the bed.

"Envoys, you've finally come to the capital!" After being confined in the cell for several months, Prince A'Wa finally saw familiar faces. Even though he fiercely fought on the bloody battlefield before, he was still on the verge of tears, "Has my father given the order for you to take me back?"

"Are... are you really the Second Prince?" Envoy A looked at the man before him, whose eyes were barely visible due to his excessive weight. He sounded like the Second Prince, but... but...

What had happened to him in the Great Jin? In just a few months, how had he become so fat?

"Naturally, it's me," Prince A'Wa had little patience for envoys from his own country, "Tell me quickly, how does my father plan to save me?"

"His Majesty said that we should do our best to persuade the Emperor of Great Jin to release you and allow you to return to our country," They remembered the attitude of the noble young lady they had encountered earlier, her tone was ice-cold.

Both envoys were worried. What if the Emperor of Great Jin refused to let their Second Prince go?

Looking at the hopeful eyes of the Second Prince, they didn't dare to voice this speculation.

"Second Prince, have the people of Great Jin tortured you?" Envoy B's eyes were red, "It's only been a few months, yet you've become this fat."

Prince A'Wa: "..."

Words failed him. He lived a life akin to a pig's. It couldn't be considered torture, but it wasn't enjoyable either. It left him feeling helpless.

"Hold on a bit, Second Prince. We will do everything we can to rescue you," Envoy A quickly said, afraid that Prince A'Wa would recall the heart-wrenching experiences during his imprisonment, "After learning that you were taken away by the Hua family army, His Majesty had been worried for a long time. In order to save you, we sent gold, silver, and jewels to the Hua family, sought assistance from others, and even set up an ambush along the way to try to rescue you, but none of it succeeded."

"Last year, when we learned that the Hua siblings were returning to the capital ahead of schedule, our plan was to capture them as hostages and use them to negotiate your release. However, they changed their route, and we ended up waiting in vain."

"It's... it's for the best," Prince A'Wa's expression was filled with weariness, "None of the Hua family members are good people."

"Second Prince, initially, when you were intentionally getting close to Miss Hua, everything was going smoothly. But in the end, what happened..." Their original plan was to extract military information from Hua Liuli, but they never expected that the valuable information would slip away, and instead, their Second Prince would be captured.

Until now, the Kingdom of Jinpo still hadn't figured out how their brave and skilled Second Prince suffered such a humiliating defeat and was captured in his own tent by the enemy's general.

Prince A'Wa's expression turned somewhat unpleasant. He had thought he was playing that girl by using the beauty trap, but in reality, the other party had outmaneuvered him.

Being captured by a seemingly fragile young lady was an enormous disgrace to him.

Faced with the curious envoys, Prince A'Wa couldn't bring himself to speak.

"Could it be that there were spies sent by Great Jin in the military?" If there weren't any spies, how could the army's supplies be burned and the large army be rendered defenseless in the face of an enemy ambush?

Yunhan in the neighboring prison cell held his breath and quietly listened in.

"Hey, why are you guys talking?!" The prisoner next to Yunhan, separated by a cell, threw a piece of dry steamed bun at Prince A'Wa and said, "I'm sleeping, don't disturb my rest."

Envoy A looked at the steamed bun that fell at his feet and found that it had already become moldy. It made him feel nauseous.

"What are you looking at?" This prisoner, who always liked throwing steamed buns, scolded with his hands on his waist, "This is Great Jin's Ministry of Justice prison, not your Jinpo Council. Go back and talk where it's easier."

Yunhan, who was pretending to sleep, furrowed his brows. He didn't expect them to be interrupted by this annoying prisoner just as he was hearing the crucial point. It was truly detestable.

Envoy A: "..."

It was uncomfortable for them to hear such righteous words from a mere prisoner in a dungeon. Were all people from Great Jin not right in the head?

"If you love your country so much, why did you commit a crime and end up in jail?" Envoy B couldn't help but retort.

"What's wrong with being a prisoner? Even if I'm a prisoner, I'm still a prisoner of Great Jin," The prisoner sneered, "Jinpo people aren't worthy of talking to me."

"That's right, Jinpo insects aren't worthy of talking to me!"

Someone chimed in, and soon, a chaotic mix of objects was thrown from all directions, hitting the two envoys and leaving them covered in filth, looking disheveled.

"Hey, aren't you also from our Jin Kingdom? How can you just sit and watch the commotion at a time like this?" One prisoner, seeing the strategist in the blue-clad robe sitting still, looked at him disdainfully, "Truly ignorant."

The strategist in the blue-clad robe coldly glanced at him without saying a word.

The prisoner being stared at wasn't afraid either. He dug up some mud from the bottom of his foot and continued to throw it at the Jinpo envoys. Others took the opportunity to throw a few more at the strategist because they didn't like him.

Yunhan glanced at the foul mud on the strategist's forehead. In order to avoid being beaten by others the next time he moved stones, he turned over and got up. He picked up some mud from the ground and casually threw it, "Kill the Jinpo insects!"

Little did he know that he threw it with exceptional accuracy and hit the envoy's forehead.

Envoy: "..."

Yunhan: "..."

He truly didn't intend to hit anyone. Everything is fate, everything is predetermined, he cannot be blamed.

The strategist in the blue-clad robe silently took off the mud from his forehead and looked at Yun Han with an inexplicable emotion in his eyes.

"Great!" Seeing Yunhan hit the envoy's forehead, the other prisoners applauded.

Seeing that the prisoners had caused enough commotion, the jailer, who had been pretending to be blind, finally spoke slowly, "Alright, these are envoys sent by the Kingdom of Jinpo. Don't be disrespectful."

In his heart, however, he thought of the countless innocent and helpless people who had died at the hands of these beasts.

Smash, fiercely smash!

Krish728

Author's Note:

Yao Jiamin: No, all my strength comes from my disguise. I beg you not to think of me, please forget me.

Yun Han: I didn't do it on purpose, I didn't want to. Don't blame me.





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