His Rui

There was a cold and fearless smile on Xi Ying’s lips as he glanced at Qin Wenya and asked coldly 

”Does Your Majesty recognize this woman?”

Qin Wenya swallowed and tried to compose herself as she shook her head in oblivion and said calmly 

”No, Prime Minister Xi. Bengong doesn’t know who she is.”

At this answer, Xi Ying raised his eyebrows. The smile on his lips went colder and then said with the same cold smile

”Your Majesty doesn’t need to worry. This Lord will help Your Majesty in rememberimng.”

Qin Wenya’s fists were clenched so tightly that her naild dug into her palm. She was scared as now she was realizing that Xi Ying knew everything. 

Everything that she had thought had been hidden very well by her known to Xi Ying. But how, she was unable to find the answer to this question. 

She could only watch as Xi Ying asked the maid to raise her head and speak in front of the Emperor. 

The maid really raised her head, however, she never spoke. When her eyes fell on Qin Wenya, they were filled with horror. 

Her forehead was covered in sweat and her mouth parted widely as she breathed heavily. It was only then people saw that she didn’t have tongue. 

The maid didn’t speak not because she was terrified of Qin Wenya but because she didn’t have tongue.

”She can’t speak, Your Majesty.”

Xi Ying spoke again and his eyes again landed on Qin Wenya. 

”Your Majesty must be knowing why the maid can’t speak. After all, it was only Your Majesty who had taken the right to speak from this maid. It was Your Majesty who had ordered her people to cut down the maid’s tongue.”

A few people in the banquet hall had their eyes wide while others closed their eyes as they imagined the scene in their minds.

It was surprising that the maid didn’t lose her life when they cut her tongue. 

Amidst the silence inside the banquet hall, Xi Ying continued 

”The maid had been hired by Li Na and Li Caihong to drug this Lord’s wife Li Rui, four years ago. She was the same maid who had informed everyone about this Lord’s wife disappearance from the banquet hall at that time and then had led everyone to the room …where she was found later on.”

Those who were present in the banquet hall four years ago really remembered that something like that had happened so they nodded their heads as they heard whatever Xi Ying said. 

”Unofrtunately, she was found by Her Majesty who didn’t want all of this to come out and hence to silence the maid she ordered her people to cut her tongue and then sent her far away from the Imperial Palace.”

Xi Ying had started investigating the incident that had happened four years ago as soon as he had returned to the Imperial City after getting his body back. 

He had asked his shadow guards that had came to the Imperial City from the valley to collect all the evidence that could help him getting justice for Li Rui wheneve he would find the right opportunity. 

All these people were in his care all this time. He was just waiting for a day like today where he would be able to humiliate all these people who had humiliated his wife in front of so many people.

He looked at Qin Wenya who was the starting point of whatever had happened four years ago. Yes, Li Na and Li Caihong had schmened against Li Rui but if Qin Wenya had not hidden all these evidences then there would have been no misunderstanding between him and Li Rui. 

He would not have lost himself in his anger feeling that he was being used and ignored Li Rui for four years. His son would not have lived away from his mother for these four years when he needed his mother a lot. 

For all this, Xi Ying despised a part of himself as well as Qin Wenya wholly.

The maid had her head lowered and her body shivered every few seconds. She never dared to raise her head to look at Qin Wenya again. 

On the other hand, Qin Wenya was standing there on the throne calmly.

She never said anything until Zhao Wang Lei asked her on his own. 

”What does Empress wish to say in response now?”

Qin Wenya’s face didnn’t have any emotion. After a few moments of silence, she said calmly.

”Yes, I did so.”

Though she looked calm, her heart was on fire. She knew this would be a huge setback to everything she had planned for her and her children’s future. Butt she could also see that Xi Ying was adamant to prove her guilty here today. If she refused, he would just present more evidence …evidence about which even she doesn’t remember so it would be better if she took the blame on herself after this. 

But in a different way. 

With a calm face, she continued 

”Li Rui was drugged in the Imperial Palace. Even though it was Li Sisters who drugged her, it was an Imperial maid who had mixed that drug in her drink. It was an Imperial Guard who had tried to defile her. How could this Empress let all this be revealed to the ordinary citizens and then put a stain on the Imperial Clan? Which maiden would feel safe and protected in the Imperial Palace after all this would come out! It was this thought that had made this Empress hide all this, Your Majesty. This Empress was just trying to protect the prestige of the Imperial Clan.”

The banquet hall was silent after Qin Wenya’s speech but it could be seen that many people were moved by her words. They believed her. She was just doing what an Empress would do. 

However, Xi Ying’s cold sneer brought them out of their trance.