C9 (1/2)
The exposed man sneered, ”Of course I'm not your brother Ye, but Bai Ruo Lan, you're going to die right now, hahaha!”
She laughed and raised her voice, ”Take care, Lan`er!”
The moment she saw the white figure soar into the sky and disappear into the boundless night sky, Bai Ruolan widened her eyes as she looked at the disappearing white figure. Before she could figure out what was going on, Mu Qingchen's eunuch, Wang Gong, appeared with the imperial guards in front of her.
”Eunuch Wang …”
”Empress, if you have anything to say, say it to Viva! Take him away! ”
A servant kneeling under the table said, ”This servant smelled a strange fragrance and lost all consciousness. When I woke up, General Bai's corpse had disappeared without a trace, and the Queen had also disappeared without a trace. Eunuch Wang had brought guards to search everywhere, and this servant specially returned to the palace to report this to the Emperor!”
”The empress disappeared without a trace?” Mu Qingchen used his hands to prop himself up, word by word coming out from between his teeth.
”Find it for me!” Even if we have to dig three feet into the ground, we have to find the empress! ”
”Yes sir!” The guards had just retreated to the door when they saw Eunuch Wang and the imperial guards returning with Bai Ruo Lan.
”What's going on?” Mu Qingchen gritted his teeth as he looked at the pale-faced Bai Ruo Lan.
”The empress has disappeared. This old servant brought the imperial guards to search for her and found her in a small house in the garden behind the white statue.”
”Just discovered the empress?”
”Also …” And there's still one more person who looks like the crippled crown prince who escaped! ” Elder Wang lowered his head, not daring to look at Mu Qingchen.
A deathly silence reigned in the imperial study. A long while later, Mu Qingchen's voice rang out, ”Bai Ruolan, what else do you have to say for yourself?”
”It's not like that... ”Didn't the emperor …”
”No?” Bai Ruo Lan, do you still want to pretend after what has happened? ” Mu Qingchen's gaze turned cold, ”What excuse are you giving your parents to guard the village? Your real intentions are to have been colluding with Mu Qingye to take advantage of this opportunity to escape, right?”
”I did not... The Emperor, wasn't Mu Qingye! That person from before was not Mu Qingye! He was a fake, and when I found out he ran away. ”