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Chapter 416 His Speculation
When Xia Liang wanted to take the opportunity to slip away, Zhu Jinyou called her and his tone was unexpectedly gentle.
"I'll tell Miss Xia my speculation and analysis. How about you listen?"
Xia Liang thought that she had nothing to do anyway. After her sister Luo Hong left, she didn't know what to do in the palace alone. Now she had to curry favor with His Royal Highness Prince Ning to save her life.
"Okay, tell me!"
"Ever since I met Miss Luo Yu, she's been using the name Bai Fengchu. Before that, Miss Qin told me she had a sister named Qin Luo Yu who went missing when they were thirteen. Now that I've thought about it carefully, I think Qin Luo Yu might be her real name. Bai Fengchu, Jiang Qiu Ning, and Helian Na Ling aren't really her at all."
"Your Highness, you haven't been thinking about it all night, have you?"
Zhu Jinyou ignored her interruption and continued his analysis: "I always thought that she and Miss Qin were hiding their true identities, simply to cover up the identity of Concubine Ying. Later, they sent people to investigate the Jiang family in Wangzhou and found that her handwriting was completely different from that of Miss Jiang. This practice is really incredible. Later, the nanny beside the Queen Mother discovered that her identity was a princess of a foreign race. After being kidnapped by Chi Nur in Blackwater City, she claimed that she had lost her memory. I don't believe that people with amnesia can lose their previous language ability."
Xia Liang stuck out his tongue and said in annoyance: "Why didn't you expose her then?"
"I also suspected that she was hiding her identity as a princess from a foreign country. After all, she and I are a national and family feud. I once thought she was deliberately concealing her identity and borrowing someone else's identity to come to me just for revenge."
"No wonder you deliberately avoided seeing me for a while. Did you know I was a princess from a foreign country back then?"
"Well, at that time I thought of the worst possible scenario. I persuaded myself to give up Miss Luo Yu. Perhaps it would be better for everyone."
"Yes, if you had truly given up on her at that time, she wouldn't have died so miserably now."
Xia Liang's eyes turned cold. Thinking that her sister had died so many times because of this bastard, she wished she could use a knife to cut his heart into pieces.
He was not moved at all.
"Luo E couldn't speak the language of Qi Yue, let alone understand it. She didn't seem to have any attachment to the grasslands. Even someone with amnesia couldn't completely forget the place where they had lived for over a decade. I gradually began to suspect that she might not be any of these people. On the contrary, Miss Qin's story of them leaving the southwestern mountains at the age of thirteen and then parting ways was the version closest to the truth. Both Miss Luo E and Miss Qin spoke the dialect of the southwestern mountains and were very familiar with the terrain, even many of their habits, which allowed me to discover many hidden anomalies. Miss Luo E had never lied to me because her special identity couldn't be revealed casually. Even if she had told me the truth at the time, I'm afraid I wouldn't have believed it at all. She must have believed it, right?" He paused slightly, his voice much weaker. "I've wronged her in the past. I always thought she was deceiving me. It's my fault."
Xia Liang couldn't control her mouth at all, and said coldly: "It's too late to regret now."
Zhu Jinyou just glanced at Xia Liang and suddenly became extremely excited. The man who was like a walking corpse and dying just now suddenly became a different person as if he had been injected with chicken blood.
"Xia Liang, if you were really able to live in the White Tiger's body at that time, then this body of Concubine Ying was also the body of Miss Luo Yu?"
Before Xia Liang could answer, he practically danced with joy, answering his own question, "Of course, that's right. Absolutely. Luo Yu told me that she doesn't remember much about the time before she gave birth, and she doesn't even have any special feelings for the little prince. It's because she's just borrowing this body and doesn't know the true identity of its owner, so she's feigning amnesia, right?"
"If she really is the princess of Qiyue, how could she speak the southwestern dialect and possess so many strange and unusual skills? Is it because the stories she fabricated in the past no longer hold together that she wants to leave me?"
Xia Liang's head exploded. No wonder Sister Luo Yan became so weird. It turned out that if one fought with such a person, one would either die of exhaustion or go crazy.
"Don't ask me, I really don't know."
"That's right. It was you who came to look for Miss Qin and Miss Luo Yu. If Miss Luo Yu had returned to her original body and not come looking for you, I'm afraid I would never have found her again."
Xia Liang was curious about his certainty and asked weakly, "How do you know that even if Sister Luo Yu wasn't dead, she wouldn't come looking for you?"
"Because her death was very strange. She clearly knew what was going to happen, but she didn't hide from it. It seemed more like she did it on purpose. She must have done it because she wanted to leave me."
"She must have wanted to leave me. She wanted to leave me when she was in the Northwest grasslands."
"I shouldn't have let her come back. I shouldn't have confined her to this little space. I shouldn't have let her lose her fighting spirit and become completely tired of this palace."
Xia Liang sighed and said coldly, "It's good that you know. So, just treat it as Sister Luo Yu has passed away. If she really liked this place, how could she be willing to leave us?"
Zhu Jinyou seemed not to hear what she said clearly and staggered out of the house. The early morning sunlight was particularly dazzling, hitting his face and stinging his eyes. The maids beside him retreated respectfully to the side, not daring to say a word.
Xia Liang looked at the cold body of Concubine Ying on the bed, and a sense of sadness rose in her heart. This man was so heartless. After knowing that she was not Luo Yu's sister, he actually left her here alone. Was Concubine Ying really going to be buried alone in this foreign country?
Instead of doing this, she might as well find someone to transport Concubine Ying's body away and bring it to Qin Bingrui, asking him to find a chance to send it to Chi Nur, so that she can return to her roots.
Concubine Wan was imprisoned in the prison. No matter how she was pressured, she refused to admit that it was the Empress Dowager who sent her.
Seeing Zhu Jinyou standing before her, his face weary and haggard, her heart ached. She had never seen him so destitute since he'd been brought back to the palace five years ago. She'd thought she'd do anything, even sacrifice her own life, just for him to remember her kindness. Now, she knew, even in death, he wouldn't remember her in the slightest.
Zhu Jinyou took out the dagger he had picked up at her feet and held it in front of her. His tone was extremely calm, but it sounded extremely cold.
"Is this dagger poisonous?"
Concubine Wan shook her head vigorously. She had seen this dagger before and knew that it was in the hands of the secret agent arranged by the Empress Dowager, but she didn't know why it was in Miss Luo Hong's hands.
Zhu Jinyou snorted coldly, but didn't make things difficult for her.
He just pushed the sheath of the dagger open little by little, revealing the blade and rubbed it gently on the back of his hand.
"I wonder what will happen if I cut it with this knife?"
Concubine Wan's heart tightened. Although the medicine put in the wine on New Year's Eve would only last for three days after midnight, no one could say whether there would be any residue in the body. The medicine itself was non-toxic and harmless, but after circulating in the human blood with the medicine on the knife, it would become highly toxic and no one in the world could cure it.
"Your Highness, please don't move!"
"It seems that Concubine Wan knows the origin of this dagger?"
"Yes, I am jealous of Miss Luo Yu. Why does she, an unfavored noblewoman, receive such favor from His Highness? Why do I try my best to please him but never get the slightest sincerity from His Highness? I envy her, hate her, and only want to get rid of her secretly. If it weren't for her appearance, all of His Highness's plans would have been foolproof. But she showed up and disrupted everything. She never really stood on His Highness's side, so why do you still speak for her and make excuses for her? Why would His Highness like a woman who doesn't put you first?" As Concubine Wan spoke, she slowly knelt on the hard stone slab, shouting heartbreakingly, "It is this slave who has evil intentions and has evil thoughts. Your Highness, just kill me!"
After she finished speaking, she suddenly burst into laughter like crazy again.
"That's great! She's dead now, so no one can stop His Highness's great cause!"
"Your Highness, you can't give up your ideals just because of a woman!"
"Your Highness, she doesn't really like you. She knew at the time that I had ulterior motives and wanted to kill her, but she didn't try to avoid it... Your Highness, that woman just wanted to leave you. Only Lian'er was willing to give her life to you, to you..."
Zhu Jinyou's eyes were so red that blood seemed to drip out, as if he could hear Qin Luo'er's voice echoing in his ears.
"I don't want to be a stumbling block to you, please set me free!"