Chapter 168: What are you saying?
The other man turned sharply towards the soldier, making him flinch. His eyes, dark and bottomless, burned with a murderous glint, as though weighing the soldier’s worth in mere moments. The intensity of his gaze could cut through bone.
"What do you mean? What are you saying?" His voice was low but sharp, a blade poised at the soldier’s throat.
The soldier gulped but steadied himself. "Think about it, my lord. She is the only woman, apart from the palace maids, who was with the prince at the time. After the fire broke out, all the maids were sent away before them. When they walked toward the hideout, it was just the two of them. And when the ambush happened, there were no guards, no servants. Even Wei Ling and Deng Mi were not present. Only the Seventh Consort was there with him. Doesn’t it only make sense that the woman we’ve been searching for is none other than Hua Jing?"
Things had indeed been suspicious ever since that day. The prince had no one else beside the seventh consort by his side at the time of the ambush.
The prince had been out of breath and unconscious lying on the cold snow and the man who had survived the ordeal had said that a woman had sprung out of now and saved the prince from death!
They were already very close to achieving all their dreams. The plans that had taken years had been completely destroyed with a single woman that they did not know anything about!
A heavy silence followed. The man, seated like a king even in the dimly lit room, let his mind turn over the soldier’s words.
Hua Jing? That weak, meek girl whom everyone in the palace disregarded?
He had been watching the Crown Prince’s marriage closely. It had come out of nowhere.
But from what he had heard, the Seventh Consort was an unremarkable noblewoman, quiet and unassuming. The reports painted her as someone who could not even raise her voice, let alone take a life.
She had suffered very much when she was still a child after her mother’s death. After all, she was just an illegitimate child who had been born unluckily.