Chapter 220 Dragging Into the Mire

Chapter 220: Dragging Someone Down

Consort Li glanced at her and nodded slightly. "Mm, I trust Nanny Sun to handle things."

The mother and daughter exchanged a glance, a calculating smile curling at the corners of their mouths.

When Ji Yuntang arrived at the Hall of Political Affairs, everyone's eyes immediately fell on her in unison.

Some were worried, some were puzzled, and some were gloating.

Ji Yuntang acted as if she saw none of it. She glanced at Nanny Gui, who was standing behind her with her head lowered.

"Speak. Tell everything you just did."

Luo Qianxue's heart pounded with excitement.

Here we go, here we go!

Nanny Gui must have broken that bitch's virginity.

Without her purity, she would watch how that bitch would die.

Nanny Gui fell to her knees with a thud and cried out for mercy.

"Your Majesty, spare my life! Her Majesty the Empress, spare my life! It was all under Nanny Sun's orders that I hid a needle in my hair bun, intending to ruin Princess Ye's chastity."

"Princess Ye is still a virgin with no blemishes at all. I beg Your Majesty and Her Majesty the Empress to see clearly."

She added this part on her own. Although she had not examined Ji Yuntang, Nanny Gui was desperate to save her own skin.

As her words fell, everyone in the hall was greatly shocked.

Especially Consort Li and Luo Qianxue, their expressions were a mixture of shock and fury.

Luo Qianxue's face contorted in fury.

"You wretched slave, what nonsense are you spouting? Nanny Sun is my mother's trusted servant. Without my mother's permission, how could she allow you to ruin Princess Ye's chastity? This is clearly your own intention. Seeing that you failed, you want to frame her. How vicious your heart is!"

Luo Qianxue's indiscriminate scolding made Nanny Gui angry. She gritted her teeth and said:

"Tenth Princess, please understand. I hold no grudge against Princess Ye. Before this, I had never even seen her. How could I hold any grudge against her?"

"If Nanny Sun hadn't ordered me to do this, even if you gave me a hundred times the courage, I wouldn't dare harm Princess Ye. Nanny Sun is my older sister. She told me long ago that she despises Princess Ye to the bone and wishes she could slice her into a thousand pieces."

"If you don't believe what I say, you can summon my older sister to testify against me."

The Empress was livid. She said coldly, "Someone, summon Nanny Sun."

The eunuch at her side acknowledged the order and departed. Soon, Nanny Sun was brought to the Hall of Political Affairs.

When she saw Nanny Gui kneeling on the ground, her heart skipped a beat, and she knew something was wrong.

The Empress narrowed her eyes and questioned coldly, "Nanny Sun, Nanny Gui says it was you who ordered her to ruin Princess Ye's chastity with a silver needle. Is this true?"

The Empress's words were like a thunderbolt out of the blue, scaring Nanny Sun half to death. She dropped to her knees at once.

"Your Majesty, please understand. It's not true. I've been in Weiyang Palace all day embroidering a pouch for my lady. I never even saw Nanny Gui, so how could I have ordered her to ruin Princess Ye's chastity with a silver needle?"

Nanny Gui stared at her in disbelief, taken aback by her denial and her attempt to wash her hands of the matter so quickly.

"Elder Sister Sun, do you dare to say you haven't seen me half an hour ago?"

"At that time, I had just finished my shift. Elder Sister Sun came and told me that a huge opportunity might arise soon, and asked if I wanted to seize it. If I did, I would climb the ranks and enjoy endless wealth and honor."

"Considering our sisterly bond, I was momentarily bewitched and foolishly agreed."

"Unexpectedly, you said that if the Emperor later ordered a matron to examine Princess Ye's virginity, I should take the opportunity to ruin her chastity and falsely accuse her of having been defiled."

"At that time, the Emperor had not yet issued that order. Curious, I asked Elder Sister Sun how she knew the Emperor would have Princess Ye examined, and what if he didn't?"

"Elder Sister Sun told me it was top secret, and that I should just do as she said. If I valued my life, I shouldn't ask any more questions."

"Your words are still vivid in my memory. How can you deny them?"

Xie Liuzheng narrowed his dark eyes and gave a lazy, nonchalant chuckle.

"So it seems Nanny Sun already knew in advance that the Emperor would have Princess Ye examined? That's quite something!"

"Unless the Tenth Princess planned this in advance to propose the virginity examination of Princess Ye before the Emperor, so you were certain this situation would occur."

"Otherwise, I can't imagine how a palace matron could foresee the future."

Luo Qianxue saw that the matter had somehow implicated her, and the one suspecting her was Xie Liuzheng himself.

She was nervous, but even more than that, she was angry.

Why!

Why did she like him so much when he kept helping Ji Yuntang and opposing her time and again?

Luo Qianxue felt a stabbing pain in her heart. She looked at Xie Liuzheng with a look of hurt and grievance.

"Lord Xie, that was Nanny Sun's own doing. What does that have to do with me? How can you say such things about me?"

"Do you really see me as a conniving, scheming woman in your heart?"

Xie Liuzheng thought: Why wouldn't she be?

Every time he had seen Luo Qianxue, she was either scolding someone or plotting against others.

She had never spoken to anyone calmly.

Though he grumbled inwardly, on the surface Xie Liuzheng was smart enough not to say it aloud.

He laughed nonchalantly: "The Tenth Princess is mistaken. I am merely asking a simple question!"

"You can cast doubt, saying that Princess Ye was abducted and lost her virtue. Then I question whether you planned ahead to propose the virginity examination of Princess Ye before the Emperor. What's wrong with that?"

After saying that, he added: "Questioning things is just to get to the truth. Of course, you can use your own logic to refute my point."

Luo Qianxue: "..."

Luo Qianxue: "!!!"

Was Xie Liuzheng trying to drive her mad?

He knew she wouldn't scold him, so he talked to her that way?

Although, indeed, everything was prearranged by the three of them: her, Consort Li, and Nanny Sun.

When they learned that Ji Yuntang had been abducted by eight assassins in black, and that Emperor Jingyang was about to summon her to the palace once more, they came up with this plan.

She and Consort Li did a good cop, bad cop routine to coax Emperor Jingyang into agreeing to let Ji Yuntang undergo the physical examination.

Nanny Sun was tasked with finding someone to carry it out, planning to strike at Ji Yuntang during the examination.

The plan itself was perfect, but the fly in the ointment was that troublemaker Ji Yuntang.

They had no idea what she did to Nanny Gui to make her turn against them, even dragging Nanny Sun down with her.

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