Chapter 194 - Obscured Identity (1/2)

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As soon as Lei Xing walked through the doors of the royal study, she saw the Emperor smiling at her. Some of her irritation ebbed as her heart jumped. She returned an awkward smile before lowering her head as she stopped and bowed.

{...As expected, this is still kind of awkward! (⁄⁄>⁄ω⁄ {...Much better...}

The Emperor held her hand and pulled her along back to his throne chair, sat down with her and then hugged her to him and asked, ”Did something happen?” It was clear she was not regretting their night together. so he reasoned that something else must have upset her in their time apart.

Lei Xing immediately knit her brows and then sighed, ”I met my father...”

”I see...” He now understood the cause of her bad mood, ”He asked you to plead on Chen You's behalf...”

Lei Xing nodded with a frown, then she sighed again and looked up at the Emperor and asked, ”I know I said to do as you see fit...but...What do you plan to do with her?”

”What would you prefer?” The Emperor asked with a raised eyebrow.

Lei Xing knit her brows and then said, ”Well, I honestly don't care about Chen You...But death...I think would be too much...And there are those maids as well, in the end...” She frowned and then said, ”They spoke the truth s-”

”When the head makes a mistake, the body suffers. When one meddles in a failed venture, one has to take whatever consequences come with it.” The Emperor interjected with a frown.

Lei Xing pursed her lips, ”I understand that but...I am not comfortable with someone being punished for the sake of stating true facts on my account...There's also the fact that Chen You could have easily manipulated or even threatened them into aligning with her. They wouldn't have had much of a choice...” Lei Xing said resolutely looking at the Emperor.

While she did not feel sorry for Chen You, she did feel sorry for the maids. They were simply pawns being used by Chen You. She may not have much of a conscience in the matters of others, she definitely had one where the matters concerned her.

The Emperor silently scrutinized Lei Xing for a bit and then said, ”If they had succeeded, it could have cost you, not only your life, but that of your family's as well...Yet you want to advocate for them?”

Lei Xing frowned, then she lowered her head and quietly said, ”...It would weigh on me...”

{...I could probably live with it though, I can...I'm not going get on my knees or anything. I'm not that into sparing contributory factors to my demise -_-)...So if you still want to go ahead and kill them, that's your choice...At least I tried, guess Karma just wasn't on their side today. Not my problem anymore ( ￣^￣)...}

”Do you have some sort of connection with Chen You's personal maid?” The Emperor suddenly asked.

Lei Xing looked up at him with a confused expression, so he expounded, ”According to her, she owes you her life...and apparently sought to help you by going to Noble consort Li.”

”Oh, her...” Lei Xing unenthusiastically said, ”Li Ru did mention that...” She had forgotten about that.

”How do you two know each other?”