It was possible that Rong Che was jealous of his younger brother.
No way! He was certainly better than Rong Yan!
The high quality of wood talents combined with an intermediate level of fire talents - that was the cream of the crop in the genius gene pool!
The crown prince, Rong Jialuo, was the very first genius of Feixing kingdom amongst the royal family. His power was much better than Rong Yan's. No one could possibly be jealous of someone far more inferior and weak. She assumed that the eighth prince would be the same.
Master Hu heard the conversation between Rong Yan and Rong Che. He said, "My eighth prince, please don’t worry. I will be investigating it thoroughly even if we find anything in Ms. Gu’s residence. We will not judge aimlessly or make any careless conclusions. Please bear with us and be patient."
In fact, he did not believe that Gu Xijiu cheated on Rong Yan, as she was really ugly and useless - no one would take the risk to break into the General’s residence.
It was an unreasonable statement that Gu Xijiu sneaked out of the residence and did not come back the whole night! The strict security personnel of the General's residence would not have allowed her to do that.
Besides, the two people who claimed that she did not come home for the entire night was not a reliable source of information. How could she have magically appeared in her bedroom if she did not come home in the first place?
She was a trash - how could she sneak out secretly without anyone noticing?
If such a worthless imbecile could easily enter and exit the the General’s residence, then the security employed for the General’s residence were really a bunch of fools!
Therefore, Ms. Gu was probably innocent and someone was trying to get her into trouble...
An hour later, a few of the retinues returned from searching the courtyard. According to their report, none of them found anything suspicious.
In other words, Gu Xijiu was innocent!
All the Gu sisters had a look of disappointment when they knew the show was over.
Gu Tianqing turned pale, for she had placed an undershirt and a piece of jade under the bed in Gu Xijiu’s room. Had it disappeared? Did she find out earlier and hid it somewhere else instead?
Apart from that, her mother has gathered the security team for a lecture to create an opportunity for Gu Xijiu to sneak out. She saw her sneaking out and thus sent her mother a message so that she could dismiss the security team to resume their duties. They were ordered to conduct a stricter inspection to ensure the safety of the General's residence.
Even Gu Tianqing could not sneak in under such a strict security inspection, hence she had no idea how Gu Xijiu made it home!
She was confused and feeling heavy headed, but she could not tell anyone. In her heart, she was fuming with anger and was already thinking how to kill Gu Xijiu later...
While Rong Yan was pissed off as well, he had no idea what could possibly be the factor which caused his picture-perfect plan to fail.
He looked at Gu Xijiu and realized that she looked prettier than usual, regardless of the red mark.
Perhaps it was because she grew her bangs out today?
That actually looked nice on her! It felt strange as he was attracted to her.
The little girl seemed to have reborned!
However, she was still incompatible to be his wife!
As he had gained the love from the emperor, his wife must be an outstanding one, like Gu Tianqing was, instead of a useless trash like Gu Xijiu!
However, the little girl was not completely useless. He did not mind marrying her as a mistress if she could be slightly more understanding.
While he was still thinking about his plan, he heard Gu Xietian spoke, "Master Hu, please punish the two servants who deliberately accused Xijiu! There must be someone behind this, please help us find out who was the one who caused all these troubles to Xijiu and my family!"
Master Hu quickly promised him that he would. Gu Xietian said to Rong Yan, "Twelfth Prince, it’s really fortunate that our daughter is free from accusations; that being said, you’re free from worries as well."
Rong Yan smiled reluctantly, "You’re right, I knew she wouldn’t do that, I’m really relieved!"
It came to an end and everyone was ready to leave.
Gu Xijiu who stood aside this entire time suddenly voiced out, "My Twelfth Prince, I would like to seek your advice. I thought I would check with you some other day, but since you’re already here today and the trivial matters had been finalized, could you help me solve some problems?"
Rong Yan tried his best to listen and said, "Yes, what do you need?"
Gu Xijiu slowly took out a paper bird from her sleeve and said, "I found this letter yesterday evening and realized that it was your writing. You invited me to meet at your secret residence nearby Ningwu Mountain…"
Rong Yan’s face was visibly upset even before she finished talking. Indeed, he did assign someone to leave such a message in her courtyard. However, he remembered that he also told Gu Xijiu to burn the letter after reading, how come she did not adhere to his instruction?!
However, he could not bring himself to admit. He interrupted her and said, "Xijiu, why would you say that? I've never written such a letter. Besides, I don’t have any private properties nearby Ningwu Mountain. Could you pass me the letter to have a look!? That must be a fake one!" He extended his arms and tried to grab the letter.
He wanted to destroy the evidence before everyone managed to react.
He suddenly used his Qing Gong[1] as he was in a hurry to get the letter. That was extremely fast!
Even General Gu could not avoid his speedy action.
He was very confident that he would grab it from her, however, he did not expect Gu Xijiu to move away, just as his palm almost touched the letter.
Gu Xijiu managed to escape from his grab.
Rong Yan was stunned. Gu Xijiu looked at him innocently and said, "Are you sure this is a fake one? I can recognize your writing…"
She suddenly turned around and looked at the Eighth Prince who was fiddling with his fan, "I heard that the Eighth Prince is good at calligraphy, why not we seek his help?" She instantly stuffed the letter into Rong Che’s hand.
Rong Yan looked pale, as the Eighth Prince was an expert in painting and calligraphy.
There was no way to escape his sharp eyes if it was really his writing.
Similarly, he could easily tell if it was a fake one.
He was in deep sh*t!
Rong Che’s hand was shaky as he opened the letter. He looked at the letter and then shifted his gaze to Gu Xijiu.
Gu Xijiu crossed her arms in front of her chest innocently.
Translator's Note:
[1] Qing Gong is a qigong / martial arts technique for making the body extremely light in weight, by altering the distribution and flow of qi
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