269 How Do You Know? (2/2)

They could see how Uncle Qiu looked at Xiao Fang tenderly --- just like how a father looked at his own daughter dearly. This guess wasn't wrong. He didn't have a daughter and always yearn for one, thus, he treated Xiao Fang just like his own daughter. This kind of look was hard to fake...

Uncle Qiu could only gape at her when she had finished telling him the full story. He knew that there must be something big had happened on her journey. If not, how could she find out about that secret? But he could never guess it would be this big!

”Pri... Princess Han Xiang was dead?!” He could only ponder over the matter in disbelief. Crescent Lake was quite a secluded place and no commoners would be able to come inside here, thus, he rarely updated himself the latest news at a fast speed. He usually waited for his subordinates to bring the news from time to time. It seemed like even his subordinates hadn't gotten this news as well! Otherwise, he wouldn't wait to tell him ah~!

The quartet nodded their heads in unison and confirmed that she was really dead.

”The matter about the Han Emperor's wrongdoing... was it really true?” Uncle Qiu looked at them in disbelief.

Uncle Qiu knew that the Han Emperor wasn't a good person, but his inner courtyard always looked so peaceful from the outside. His women usually appeared so peaceful from the outside, were they just acting for the sake of their image? He would never think that something so despicable would happen inside his inner courtyard!

”Disgusting! Truly disgusting! I never knew that he is such a cruel person!” Uncle Qiu yelled in anger while slapping the table with his hand.

Uncle Qiu tried to calm himself down before he continued asking questions.

”Do you have any proof?” Uncle Qiu asked. He knew that he shouldn't ask this, but he truly couldn't believe that he served such a person loyally all this time. Despite his disagreement to take his old job back, it didn't mean that he was disloyal to the Han Emperor. He merely sulked and the Han Emperor understood his temperament very well, thus, he let him stay here to calm down.

Xiao Fang nodded. ”We have one and a lot of people also saw the proof,” Xiao Fang grinned widely. ”We won't let the Han Emperor destroy the evidence!” With so many onlookers, he couldn't dismiss what happened to Han Xiang as a baseless rumor.

”What do you mean?” Uncle Qiu asked.

”We have Han Xiang's handwritten blood letter,” Xiao Fang said. After that, she didn't forget to tell Uncle Qiu the things that had transpired after Han Xiang's death and how Han Xiang made a decision to tell the world about the truth! She had said that she didn't want to die in vain and it would be better if she could bring the Han Emperor down with her!

Uncle Qiu listened to everything that happened and his heart felt an ache for Han Xiang. After all, he had seen her grown up too! He thought that she had told him everything, but he didn't know that Xiao Fang would still drop another bomb next...

Xiao Fang hesitantly added, ”There's something more...”

Uncle Qiu was taken aback. ”More? What do you mean more? Is there something else that the Emperor has done?”

Xiao Fang shook her head. ”No... it's not about something that he has done, but instead, it's something that he will do in the future...”

Uncle Qiu furrowed his eyebrows, knowing that he wouldn't like what Xiao Fang was going to say next. He prepared his heart and asked, ”Tell me! What is it about?”

Xiao Fang told Uncle Qiu about the Han Emperor's paranoid tendency and how he wanted to get rid of several officials. Among those names, Xiao Fang's father was one of them.

Uncle Qiu shook his head sadly. He thought that the future plan was about the Han Emperor's harem... but it was more than that... Who knew that Princess Han Xiang was able to find out such a crazy secret?