Chapter 288 (1/2)

“I’ve leaked Lady Monique’s health condition despite the emperor’s gag order.”

“Who did you talk to?”

“Duke Jena.”

“Tell me why you leaked and decided to surrender yourself.”

The royal doctor said, swallowing, “I had no choice but to follow his instruction because he knew my weakness.”

“Your weakness? What is that?”

“That is…”

“Answer me right away.”

“… Well, when I became a royal doctor, I went out to treat an outpatient, but because of my misdiagnosis, the patient died. If anybody knew about it, I would be a dead man because the patient who died was the successor of the family. ”

“I see.”

It was indeed his weakness. How could a royal doctor allow the successor of a family to die because of his misdiagnosis? Like he said, he would have not only lost his medical license as a royal doctor and be in big trouble if anybody discovered this, but also incur the wrath of the family who lost their successor. Most likely he would have lost his life.

Once he started to talk, he continued with a more relaxed expression, “So, I decided to be loyal to him in return for keeping my secret. I regularly reported to him about the condition of the late emperor and the current emperor, and I was instructed to report to him about anything related to Lady Monique, however trifling it was.”

The young man with blue hair leaned forward, holding his chin. Then he stared at Duke Jena coldly and said, “Very interesting. Duke Jena, what do you think? ”

“I think it’s nonsense that you don’t have to listen to.”

“Really? Well, we heard the man in charge of my wines and the royal doctor’s testimony. Next witness is an assistant royal cook, I hear. Don’t you think it’s too peculiar to be a coincidence?

Hearing their testimony, anybody would think you had the intention to kill me by poisoning. In fact, you have actually poisoned me.”

“Do you really believe such nonsense?”

When I watched the two staring at each other sharply, I recalled one question that I had for a long time.

The palace office in charge of the emperor’s wines, the royal doctor and the assistant cook.

Although I was not sure of the cook, it was certain that the palace officer and the royal doctor were, and now Duke Jena’s moles, given their long connection with the duke.

According to the High Priest, a man can be violent in temper, though not impotent, when he is poisoned.

What if his plan to kill the emperor by poisoning was not discovered? What if Jena became the empress and gave birth to the successor to the throne? Of course, it’s my assumption at this point. In that case, however, was it possible for Duke Jena to take control of the empire? He would remove the violent emperor from the throne, then exercise power as the grandfather of the young emperor.

I felt goosebumps at the thought of that. Although it was just my absurd imagination, I already know a situation similar to this. What if all these assumptions actually became a reality in the past?

Oh no! I shook my head hard.

‘That can’t have happened! It’s just a delusion. No matter how similar the past and present are to each other, even if all the people around the emperor were Duke Jena’s men, no matter how much the emperor, who was always cold to me, harrassed me with an unusual hostile attitude, and no matter how much the old me was suspicious of poisoning, this couldn’t be true…’

This time Marquis Mirwa said, “This is direct evidence that can prove Duke Jena’s crime. This is a confidential document the duke sent to me, which details his plan about the assassination of the emperor. ”