The Story Of Dusk 176 The End Of The Banque

"Princess Zhao Tianqi, what is the meaning of this?" The Empress roared in dissatisfaction as she stood up along with the Emperor. "He is your man right?" She pointed at the man.

Zhao Tianqi, who was being questioned, tightened the knife in her hand as the sleeves of the dress that she was wearing were long enough, so the knife was hid safely beneath it.

"No… no… I don't know anything… I don't know anything about this…" Zhao Tianqi stuttered, it was a sincere fear that she felt. "I had never given such an order to him. Don't misunderstand me…" Cold sweat started to form on her forehead. "Why should I kill my own husband?"

Many people questioned the same thing, some of them did not believe with the words that came out from the Zhao Tianqi's mouth.

With her status and all, she didn't have a reason to scheme against her husband, if she did so, it would be more likely she had shoot her own feet. Why would she try to kill herself? There must be someone else, who had pulled the string behind all of this.

It was complicated and a messed.

"Why are you slandering my name too!?" Zhao Tianqi roared and dashed toward her personal guard, she had chose to save herself and rejected her subordinate pleading eyes. She didn't want to fall with him, thus sacrificed him was a necessary.

The personal guard who had been following her for these past three years, widened his eyes, he was still young when Zhao Tianqi recruited him for the first time and still learnt to read the situation.

However panic that struck him clouded his judgement, he didn't want to die yet, however his mistress threw him away once she found a scapegoat to save herself.

"Princess Zhao Tianqi…" He still tried to look her in the eyes, seeing if there was still a chance for him to survive, if Zhao Tianqi only put on act and would save him afterwards.

But, Zhao Tianqi was too busy to keep her head intact and wasn't able to catch his gesture in time. Moreover, she didn't have intention to do it. It would be much better if he just died, so all of her secret could be buried with his dead body.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

The pleading in Zhao Tianqi's personal guard and Zhao Tianqi's aloofness didn't slip from Mo Qin Yi's observation as his eyes turned even colder as if there was a raging storm within himself. He could burst out in any moment.

From the side, Xiao Jun looked at the scene that unfolded before his eyes with impa.s.sive expression. He had had his suspicion from the beginning toward Zhao Tianqi, the moment he announced the a.s.sa.s.sination attempt on him and Qianru, it would have something to do with the crown princess due to her strange reaction.

Meanwhile, Qianru was sitting comfortably while eating her food, now their attention was no longer on her, she could relax. And like her husband, she entertained herself with the scene before her eyes.

"Your husband is so bold." Mo Xuan Fei commented.

He would throw a careless or two opinions to engage a conversation with Qianru now and then. All of those, seemingly a harmless statement, thus Qianru would answer him with a curt replied.

"Indeed." She said, but then the corner of her eyes caught his left arm again and her curiosity got the best of her when she asked. "What happened with your arm?"

"Nothing." Mo Xuan Fei replied her too fast to be a believable answer. But, none of them talked further.

The moment Zhao Tianqi was in front of his subordinate with killing intention on her eyes and determination to finish him off, she was about to pull out the knife that she was hiding behind her sleeves when Mo Qin Yi held her hand down and kept the knife hiding.

"Keep both of them in the dungeon and interrogate them until they spoke the truth!" Mo Qin Yi ordered the imperial guards.

In the next second, both the a.s.sa.s.sin and Zhao Tianqi's personal guard was being hauled out of the room by ten strong men and Mo Qin Yi's personal guard led the way.

"I will not believe that my Crown princess had done something like that and intended to slander my name. The interrogation will continue until the truth comes out!" Mo Qin Yi declared, but his hand that was holding Zhao Tianqi's hand tightened. "Or another new information." He said with low voice that no one could hear except Zhao Tianqi, who was standing beside him.

There was a warning that laced in his tone and Mo Qin Yi didn't even bother to cover it.

He knew! And that was his warning!

Qianru felt chill ran down her spine as her feet turned weak, she would be dead in his hand if he manage to get a hold of another information from her personal guard, her life would be more miserable than this.

"I know nothing…" Zhao Tianqi shook her head lightly as she whispered in fear, she needed to keep denied it. Because that was the only way that she knew, which could save her life right now, the other matter could wait.

"We will see it." Mo Qin Yi whispered viciously at her, like there was a venom on the tip of his tongue.

Xiao Jun looked at the two of them with derisive smile, dancing on the corner of his lips. Mo Qin Yi had really picked a wrong person to be his wife this time. However, it was a good thing for him. With this, no one would look for trouble for Qianru in his absent. At least, Zhao Tianqi would think twice before she made another stupid.

It would be best if Mo Qin Yi grounded her or she was being exiled. Xiao Jun was really despised this kind of woman.

His rigid expression turned softened only when he saw his wife was looking at him with smile hung on her lips.

Xiao Jun walked closer to her and sat back on his seat beside her, he pulled Qianru into his warm embrace as he kissed her forehead, didn't pay attention to the commotion that he had created in front of him.

"Are you alright?" Xiao Jun concerned tone was heard next to her ear.

"It was a good show."Qianru whispered back at him while giggling when she remembered what had happened earlier.

Xiao Jun chuckled when he heard it and poured a cup of tea for himself.

However, he turned his head abruptly and looked at the direction of Mo Xuan Fei with brows knitted together. He was sure that he felt an intense gaze from this prince, but couldn't figure out why he did that.

The banquet party continued after the a.s.sa.s.sin and Zhao Tianqi's personal guard were out of the picture and both crown prince and crown princess went back to their designated seat.

However the tense atmosphere was so thick that not even a few entertainers could cease it down.

Finally before the midnight fell, the Empress went back to her room with tired as an excuse. The party became so stiff and far from its initial purpose.