Chapter 45: Poisonous or Not? (1/2)

Translator: Li Wenting

Proofreader: Prof. Zhu Yuan

Ruan Jiujiu pointed to Ruan Qingqing. Ruan Qingqing froze in perplexity.

She told Ruan Jiujiu? When?

People turned to Ruan Qingqing. They saw Ruan Jiujiu talk to Ruan Qingqing in a low voice just now. Nobody knew exactly what they were talking about. However, they heard faintly Ruan Qingqing utter the word “die.”

Ruan Qingqing had become the center of attention even before she could realize that.

A shiver ran over her body all of a sudden. Ruan Qingqing felt a hostile glare was fixed upon her. She raised her head and met the Emperor’s eyes.

There was a murderous look in his eyes.

Ruan Qingqing realized what was going on right now. She shouted: “No! I didn’t say that!”

“My dear sister, I’m so sorry. I brought it into the open merely because I was frightened. It is perfectly understandable that you didn’t want other people know it was you who had found these treasures poisonous.”

Ruan Jiujiu put on a remorseful tone. She sounded as though she had no choice but to give in to her fear.

It was quite reasonable that she chose to double-cross Ruan Qingqing for protecting herself in such a desperate situation.

“Your Majesty! I didn’t say that! How could I judge whether those treasures were poisonous or not from such a considerable distance?” Ruan Qingqing went all out to prove her innocence, while the guards who were going to arrest Ruan Jiujiu just now had already turned to her.

The Emperor would severely punish whoever tried to destroy his plan to humiliate Beiming Xuan.

Ruan Qingqing cried and even tried to escape. However, the strength of a little girl like Ruan Qingqing was definitely no match for that of the guards. The guards seized her tightly without the slightest effort. Ruan Qingqing got injured.

“Ruan Jiujiu, turns out you are so wicked. What Ruan Qingqing did was no more than cursing you, but you set your mind on killing her.”

Beiming Xuan’s secret words reached Ruan Jiujiu’s ears. Ruan Jiujiu was irritated.

Wicked? Only Ruan Qingqing deserved to be called “a wicked person” as she intended to kill Ruan Jiujiu in an underhand way.

Ruan Jiujiu ground her teeth as she spoke to Beiming Xuan in a low voice: “I have always been a wicked person. My Lord, be careful not to get schemed against by me!”

Beiming Xuan squinted his eyes. Intimidated by Beiming Xuan’s frosty gaze, Ruan Jiujiu zipped her lip.

“Your Majesty, please spare me! Your Majesty, I didn’t say that! I’m telling the truth! I didn’t say that!”

Ruan Qingqing was dragged into the city tower. She cried aloud. Ruffling the Emperor’s feathers was no different from courting death. In order to get spared, she shouted at the top of her lungs.

“My Lord, Your Highness, please save me!”

Having tried in vain to cry aloud, she turned to someone else in hope of being saved.

Empress Xiao had always taking gifts from Ruan Qingqing. What’s more, Ruan Qingqing presented lots of beauty maintenance medicine to the Empress every month. At the moment, Empress Xiao should step forward to support Ruan Qingqing.

Beiming Ting was her fiancé.

However, she had to face up to the harsh reality.

Empress Xiao had been kneeling on the ground for a while. Having yet to be pardoned by the Emperor, how could she intercede on Ruan Qingqing’s behalf?

Beiming Ting? No kidding. He was a clever person. He would not step forward unless he could derive benefit from saving her. Please never count on Beiming Ting if there was no benefit for him.

Ruan Qingqing almost cracked up!

No, she would stay alive. It was Ruan Jiujiu, instead of her, who would bear the heavy burden. And it was Ruan Jiujiu who would be sentenced to death.

“Your Majesty, Ruan Jiujiu is scheming against me! She wanted to curry favor with the Lord Ming, so she made up that nonsense to prevent the Lord Ming from accepting your gift. She did that deliberately. Your Majesty, Ruan Jiujiu is so wicked!”

Ruan Qingqing exerted herself physically and cried aloud. She couldn’t miss a single chance of staying alive.