Chapter 20
Seeing the Crown Prince lunge at her, Michelle's cold smile widened, and she swiftly reached into her sleeve and took out a simple folding fan. A strange thing to do when someone is attacking you.
When the Crown Prince was about to stab her, Michelle unfolded the fan and swished it horizontally, leaving a stream of blood behind.
The Crown Prince felt a terrible pain in his chest, and when he looked down, he saw a deep gush which damaged even the bones of his rib cage. One could see the white of his bones through the wound.
Feeling such intense pain for the first time, the Crown Prince screamed in pain, falling to his knees. He pressed his hands to the wound, in a futile attempt to stop the bleeding.
Seeing his son in so much pain, no matter how enraged the Emperor was, he felt pity for the Crown Prince, but not enough to call a doctor for him.
The guards at first rushed to the Crown Prince's side, but when they realized that the Emperor didn't say a word, they retreated back, not daring to help stop the Crown Prince's bleeding.
It was a gruesome sight to watch the Crown Prince writhe on the ground, groaning and with blood spilling out of his chest, but no one said a word or moved an inch. All the people in the room watched the Crown Prince bleed out on the floor.
Everyone's expression was sour or worried, but Michelle was still smiling like she didn't even take notice of what was happening to the Crown Prince.
When the Crown Prince stopped writhing around, and it was clear that he was either dead or nearly dead, Michelle took the green stone Mare gave her a while before and inserted her spirit energy into it. The green stone was a vision stone, so a projection appeared in front of Michelle, showing a very interesting scene.
It was a scene where the Emperor's concubine, a.k.a. the Crown Prince's mistress, bought poison in the black market and then went to threaten one of the Emperor's maids to poison him otherwise the Crown Prince would kill the maid's family.
The scene was recorded by Mare when she was acting as a spy in the Imperial Palacez and one day, she found the concubine's movements suspicious, so she followed her only to discover this.