23 A Lot Of Doubts Reveal The Chaos (1/2)

“It was… urh… It was because of me… I told him about Ye Xiao…” Wang Xiaonian lowered his head and finally confessed.

“Hmm... I see. Mu Chengbai didn’t know Ye Xiao at the beginning. You hate Ye Xiao because he had extorted you. When you saw him, you encouraged Mu Chengbai to pick a quarrel with him. Is that right?” The Crown Prince said in a rather calm and peaceful voice.

But this calm and peaceful voice made Wang Xiaonian nervous. It almost made him pass out due to sheer fear.

“Y… Yes… Your highness…”

Wang Xiaonian spoke these words with great difficulty. He could clearly sense the much colder gaze from the Crown Princess. He couldn’t help quivering.

“Then what?”

“And then they had a wrangle… And then Ye Xiao suddenly h… hit Lord Mu… He knocked Lord Mu down to the floor… Then Lord Mu ordered his guards to fight back… Then Ye Xiao ran away… Then Lord Mu and his guards ran after him…”

Wang Xiaonian’s face turned pale. He was sweating profusely as he stutteringly narrated the events which had taken place.

“Ye Xiao hit Lord Mu and knocked him down to the floor…” The Crown Prince frowned, “As far as I know, Ye Xiao is one of the ‘three foppish lords’. He is just a fool, living a meaningless life, only to eventually waste away… Lord Mu had reached the top of the Mortal Origin Stage… and there were even two guards with him!”

He looked at Wang Xiaonian doubtfully, “Did Ye Xiao really beat Lord Mu and knock him down to the floor?”

“Y… Yes, your highness… Th… That’s true…” Wang Xiaonian stuttered. He was on the verge of fainting by the time he finished speaking. He couldn’t believe that he had drawn this much bad luck.

If it hadn’t been for his plans to take revenge on Ye Xiao, would Lord Mu be involved in this ordeal?

In his opinion, the useless trash, Ye Xiao, really deserved to die. But while Ye Xiao had managed to survive, the young Lord Mu, who really didn’t deserve to die prematurely, had passed away instead!

Wang Xiaonian felt like he was being pranked by a god!

This… this is just absurd!

“Oh… Ok.” The Crown Prince nodded, “Go on.”

“Ye Xiao fled away and Lord Mu chased after him with his guards… and… and then I w-went ho… home…” Wang Xiaonian finally couldn’t hold his tears any longer and started to cry loudly, “Please, your highness… I know nothing about what happened next…”

“You started all this… You forced my brother into this fight… and while he was fighting against Ye Xiao, you actually just went home? And now that my brother has been killed, you dare to tell me that you don’t even know how it happened?!” The Crown Princess stared bitterly at Wang Xiaonian. Her voice sounded like she wanted to tear him apart.

“I… I… Lord Mu wanted to kill Ye Xiao and told me to hide from the public… I… There was nothing I could do, your highness…” Wang Xiaonian cried like a baby. He was so scared that it felt like his soul was trying to escape his body.

“Guards! Take this useless garbage out and chop his head off!” The Crown Princess was so angry that she immediately gave the order to the royal guards. Wang Xiaonian heard this and immediately lost consciousness.

The Crown Prince waved his hand and frowned, “Wang Xiaonian is just a remote cause. There’s no need to kill him. It may force Wang Danian to betray us if we kill his son. After all, he is leading the royal guards… Besides, I think there are still a lot of things we don’t know regarding Mu Chengbai’s death.”

“Uncertainties?” The Crown Princess frowned angrily, “What bloody uncertainties could there be?”

“Ye Xiao is just a stupid foppish lad. He absolutely does not possess the ability to kill Mu Chengbai!” The Crown Prince clasped his hands behind his back, “There must be a third party… that we don’t know of… involved in this case.”

His eyes lit up, “This case needs a detailed investigation.”

“This Ye Xiao must definitely be involved!” The Crown Princess emitted a strong killing intent, “I cannot let my brother die in vain! Ye Xiao must be buried with him!”

The Crown Prince smiled bitterly, “Well we need to discuss it further. Ye Xiao is nothing, but his father, Ye Nan-Tian, holds a strong army and defends the north. He is the backbone of our kingdom. In the north, he is almost like a king. Besides, the world is currently in a great disturbance and other kingdoms are maniacal. Wars are aroused frequently and our princes are all constantly fighting to protect our kingdom… To kill the great general’s son in this period of time… is truly not a smart move!”

The Crown Princess turned offish, “Chen Bangguo! We can’t do this and we can’t do that! So are you saying that we should just let my brother die in vain?!”

The Crown Prince sighed, “First things first, we shouldn’t focus on just one or two aspects, we need to focus on the overall situation and find the real culprit… Fine... Let’s check on Ye Xiao first. If the murderer truly is someone else and we have killed Ye Xiao without giving him a chance to explain, we will lose our only lead and let the actual murderer get away. That would really be the situation in which your brother would have died in vain.”

“Fine! I will wait for the news!” The Crown Princess humphed and walked away with a beautiful scent trailing her. She turned her head around when she got to the door and yelled, “No mercy for this bastard Wang Xiaonian!”

“Eighty cudgel beatings!” The Crown Prince frowned, “Let the god judge whether he should die or live.”

Eighty cudgel beatings could kill a normal cultivator. Wang Xiaonian was just a normal young lord who was already weak because of immoderate debauchery. Even though he had cultivated, more or less, it was not worth mentioning.

If he really got the eighty cudgel beatings, he would absolutely die. So after thinking for awhile, he said, “Let Wang Danian carry this out!”

Let Wang Danian carry out the punishment to his own son… How could the lad die in such a situation?

“Humph!” The Crown Princess was pissed and left.

The Crown Prince made sure his wife was gone. He clapped and asked, “How’s your investigation?”

A man in black humbly came in and answered, “The whole thing is generally the same with what Wang Xiaonian said, but there is something weird.”

The Crown Prince frowned and didn’t say anything.