The emperor's plan: to rule the world

Chapter 226
Aning, why did you betray me?
A short sentence rang in his ears like thunder, and Chuning suddenly raised his head, his astonished expression froze on his face.

"His Majesty?"

He looked at the girl in front of him, and suddenly realized that he seemed to have never known her before.

She doesn't believe him?

"Your Majesty also suspects... Doubt that the minister wants to hurt His Majesty?"

He looked at the noble girl in purple clothes in front of him, spoke with difficulty, his voice was rough and hoarse, and looked at her in disbelief.

Gu Qingyi lowered her eyes slightly, and the sadness in her eyes could not be faked: "A-Ning, that jade cicada was given to me by you, if I didn't like it, if I didn't carry it every day, how could it be poisoned?"

"Hiding poison in there is exhausting, Aning, I trust you so much, but you want to kill me?"

"No!" Chu Ning looked up at her, his tone was tense, and his expression was also tense: "From the beginning to the end, I never thought of hurting His Majesty, I was wronged."

Gu Qingyi looked down at the scar on his hand: "A-Ning, how do you explain that I was poisoned?"

Chu Ning was silent for a long time before he said calmly, "I bought it from a traveling merchant."

Gu Qingyi smiled, her downcast eyes couldn't hide the cold breath: "Look, a little thing I bought at random was given to me, and it happened to be hidden with poison, Aning, how do you want me to believe you? "

Chuning was speechless.

He raised his eyes to look at the queen, and then at Qin Shu who was standing silently by the side, and suddenly remembered what Chu Xuan had said to him when he left Beijing.

My heart sank suddenly.

He looked at the queen in a daze, and only realized it belatedly. He didn't know when, His Majesty had begun to alienate him.

Chu Ning said with a wry smile: "I really don't know. If Your Majesty wants to convict me, I have nothing to say."

If Her Majesty has already determined that he was the one who poisoned him, no matter how hysterical he is... in Qin Shu's eyes, it will only make himself look more ridiculous.

Chu Ning looked down at the injury on his hand—the pain in his fingers, and even a slight movement would be a bone-chilling torture, and he didn't know how he survived it.

He had experienced all the tortures in Zhao Prison, and the only thing that supported him was that she would believe him.

He thought His Majesty would believe him.

but--

How could he have forgotten that without His Majesty's permission, how could Qin Shu have the courage to torture him? No matter how much Qin Shu disliked him and how much he hated him, he never lifted a finger from him.

Because His Majesty will protect him, because every time Qin Shu tried to do something to him in the past, as long as His Majesty found out, Qin Shu would be miserable.

But now that Qin Shu put him in prison and tortured him to extract a confession, His Majesty acquiesced to what he did and did not touch him.

He became a prisoner, but Qin Shu was by His Majesty's side, and he was still the master of the vast palace who was under one person and above ten thousand.

Her Majesty the Empress looked at him silently, and her expression faded: "A-Ning, I am very disappointed."

Chuning lowered her eyes and remained silent.

It's ridiculous to hear this sentence.

How could His Majesty be disappointed?
He wholeheartedly expected her to come, but she came, but she was accompanied by Qin Shu, every wound on his body was Qin Shu's order, if not, who would dare to treat the son of the prime minister's family like this?

His Majesty didn't do anything to Qin Shu, but he believed that every word and every word was poisoned by him, and he didn't even doubt whether he was wronged...

Is His Majesty really disappointed?
I'm afraid I hope he admits to this crime even more!

(End of this chapter)