Chapter 277: Secrets of the dead Empress.
The conversation with her mother did not go anywhere and it ended quickly. Mei Mei left the music room and returned with a quilt which she used to cover Jingzhe. Slowly, she backed out of the room and closed the door. It was her hope that the death of the Empress was not the thing that was weighing heavy on his mind.
She was on her way to the kitchen when royal agents entered the house. On seeing them, she turned and walked back to peek towards the doorway.
Ji Waning pointed her to the dining room and she took bold quick steps there only to come upon the emperor sitting down at the table, drinking wine and watching a hologram projected from his phone. It was news coverage of the explosion.
Wine was not the only thing on the table, an assortment of baked and deep fried meat whose intoxicating smell called to her stomach and taste buds.
Sliding into a chair next to him, Mei Mei helped herself to some orange chicken as Waning poured her a glass of freshly squeezed juice from a jug that madam Feng had left in the fridge.
"Where should I begin?" She asked as she picked up a deep fried lamb skewer. "I saw the news, you have my condolences."
Junjie did not respond immediately. He did not want to hear those words from her because they were a lie. They both knew the marriage was a farce. The likelihood of the explosion being an accident was more unbelievable.
"Do you by any chance know who did it?" He asked her.
Mei Mei frowned. Hadn’t Junjie been read in on the plan to erase his wife? Surely he had a clue! "Why would you even ask me that? I was at work all day just as I have been all week. If you think that I have information then you are looking in the wrong place. I think it was the smart mirror company or anyone else she pissed off with her anti-tech talk. What was she thinking?"
Mei Mei controlled her breath, a thing that she had learned to do following all the truth tests her grandma Chi had put her through. She had no plans of sharing what she knew. If the Empress Mother had kept Junjie out, it was for a reason.