Chapter 12 - The Princes Interrogation (2/2)

Chu Qiao was expecting him? When did she become so smart?

But Dantai Yunhan didn’t give much thought about it and said: “Then take me to the Princess.”

Qing Luo nodded and gave another curtsy: “Please come with me, Your Highness.”

Dantai Yunhan smelled floral fragrance as soon as he walked into the Palace. He looked around and saw several pots of night blooms, which he had never noticed before when he came here in the daytime.

Qing Luo noticed that Dantai Yunhan was looking at the pots of night blooms, so she said: “The Princess planted several pots of night blooms recently and said that she wanted to smell their fragrance.”

Dantai Yunhan nodded.

Recently, he often felt that Chu Qiao had changed so much, as if she had been another person. Was it all his illusion?

Qing Luo stopped at the door of Chu Qiao’s room and said: “Your Highness, I’ll just stop here. Please go in.”

Dantai Yunhan lifted the curtain and walked in. When he entered the room, he saw that Chu Qiao was leaning against the window sill, looking at the night blooms outside, and taking a deep breath from time to time with her eyes closed.

Looking at Chu Qiao’s side face and her jade-white smooth skin, Dantai Yunhan subconsciously swallowed, his Adam’s apple slightly moving, and he felt a fire burning up from inside.

Chu Qiao had already noticed Dantai Yunhan, but only after a long time did she turn around and say: “Here you are, Your Highness. Please have a seat.” Then she went straight to the soft couch and sat down.

Dantai Yunhan didn’t sit down. Instead he walked up to Chu Qiao and asked her with a poker face: “Chu Jiao said that you put the stones into her box to frame her, is that true?”

Having already expected that her cunning sister would say so, Chu Jiao had prepared her answer: “That’s what I have expected, so I asked Qing Luo to wait at the door for Your Highness. First, I disdain to frame her. Second, I don’t have any grudges against her, so why would I take the risk of embarrassing Your Highness just to give her a hard time?”

Dantai Yunhan knew that Chu Qiao would defend herself in this way, so he said: “Chu Jiao broke into your Palace a few days ago, didn’t she?”

Chu Qiao suddenly realized that Chu Jiao wanted to take this as an excuse. Then Chu Qiao would also like to take advantage of it.

She looked straight at Dantai Yunhan’s querying eyes and said: “Yes, she did.”

Dantai Yunhan then asked: “So did you frame her out of grudges against her?”

“Your Highness, do you think I am a grudge holder? Surely, I was angry that day when she broke into my Palace, but I scolded her. So if someone was to bear grudge, it should be her. Why would it be me?”

Chu Qiao picked up the teacup from a small bed table on the soft couch and took a sip, “Besides, I know that Your Highness value your brotherhood with the Emperor a lot, so how could I commit an offense knowingly?”

Dantai Yunhan would have been convinced that it was committed by Chu Qiao if it had happened in the past. However, he noticed that recently Chu Qiao was very prudent and moderate, so he was not so sure any more.

Noticing that Dantai Yunhan’s face slightly softened, Chu Qiao added: “And I’m the one who arranged this birthday banquet, so I would certainly hope things to go along well. Why would I stir up trouble to upset myself?”

What’s more, she was a gangster princess in her past life. Would she get engaged in such degrading business? Of course not.

But she kept these words to herself.

Dantai Yunhan resolved his doubts after a brief moment of hesitation. It’s not good if he questioned Chu Qiao further now that her words were reasonable and justified. So he changed their topic of conversation and said: “You have changed a lot recently, haven’t you?”

Of course she had changed a lot, because she was not the original Chu Qiao at all. She sneered silently and replied: “In fact, I haven’t changed much. It’s because Your Highness used to pay little attention to me and recently you see me more frequently that you think I have changed a lot.”

Hearing this, Dantai Yunhan couldn’t help being infuriated. He stepped forward, grabbed Chu Qiao’s wrist and glared at her.

Chu Qiao didn’t evade. Instead she looked straight into his eyes. But she forgot the fact that men would become more excited if you fight back.

Dantai Yunhan put his left hand around Chu Qiao’s waist, and pushed her down forcefully.

Chu Qiao couldn’t move now that she was pinned down by Dantai Yunhan. Hearing and feeling his warm breaths beside her ear, she got lost in a fit of shivers.

When they were lying on the soft couch in a suggestive posture, Dantai Yunhan noticed that there were some freckles on Chu Qiao’s face, which were not ugly but rather lovely.

So he lowered his head slowly, stared at Chu Qiao’s ruby lips and was about to kiss her.

Seeing Dantai Yunhan’s movement, Chu Qiao suddenly came out of the trance. She pushed him away, turned her head aside and dodged his kiss.