Gifted Bride of the Sinned Prince

264 I never stopped the King

“It is not a lie. It is the truth which I heard with my ears,” Lianying said with an evil smile. Now, his death was near, he didn’t care to tell more lies.

“Take him away,” Qiu Zedong ordered Qiu Mu. He bowed and walked up to Lianying.

Lóng Wei pushed him away, and Qiu Mu caught Lianying. Huang Xi also followed Qiu Mu to make sure Lianying would not attack him.

“Your Highness, your neck is bleeding,” Li Hua said. With a trembling hand, she touched his neck. However, Lóng Wei’s focus was not on it. Lianying ruined things for him. He lied in front of everyone. He was pissed off and wanted to kill Lianying on his own while making him confess that he had lied to everyone.

“Bring Peng Yuxian,” Qiu Zedong asked Gao Bing. He rushed to the western palace to get the physician.

“Have a seat, Lóng Wei,” Qiu Zedong told him. Li Hua held his arm and brought him to the broad chair. He made him sit and looked towards the door.

She got aside when Qiu Zedong came towards Lóng Wei and tilted his neck. “The Prince isn’t supposed to provoke the traitors this way,” he said, showing his concern.

“Brother Lóng Wei should not have asked him to kill you. What if something has gone wrong?” Xiaoming was also worried. He was the one who assigned this matter to Lóng Wei, and it made him guilty.

“Luckily, the Prince is safe,” Virtuous Consort Ruoxi said. “Eunuch Lianying started to tell lies,” she asserted.

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Noble Consort Xiuying realized that Ruoxi was getting on the good side of the King. So, she decided to agree with her words. “Indeed. Eunuch Lianying lied about Monk Yuze and the related prophecy that he had made for the Prince,” she changed her previous statement too.

Lóng Wei’s temper was in heaven’s sky. After hearing the words of Xiuying, he recalled how she had also started to judge him because of that lie.

“I never stopped the King from giving me a death sentence. He should have killed me the day I killed his concubine,” Lóng Wei said, and looked into his father’s eyes. “I know that almost everyone believed in Lianying’s words,” he stated with a displeased look.

“No one believed Lianying’s words. Brother Lóng Wei exposed his truth and that’s why he started to lie,” Xiaoming said. Lóng Wei was not satisfied with his answer. “I don’t need any treatment,” he said and stood up.

“I will see you later,” Lóng Wei told Li Hua, “forgive me.” He walked out of the hall despite the King asking him to stay.

“I would like to tell everyone something. Prince Lóng Wei worked hard the entire night to find the real culprit and the evidence,” Li Hua finally spoke. They all looked in her direction.

“Noble Consort Xiuying should not have said that Prince Lóng Wei could kill everyone around him. That will never happen. I agree that the ways of the Prince are different from the ones everyone follows. That’s why everyone thinks he is selfish and mischievous when it is not the truth. The last time, Prince Lóng Wei was punished because he beat Kang Huijuan. However, no one tried to learn the truth why he did that.” Li Hua didn’t want to stop today. She wanted to tell the King how considerate Lóng Wei was to the people around him.

“Kang Huijuan left a woman pregnant and even tried to kill her. That’s why Prince Lóng Wei beat him. Kang Huijuan is roaming freely in the capital and injustice has again won,” Li Hua mocked Qiu kingdom’s justice while looking at them.

“Yes, Royal Father. The Sister-in-law is absolutely right. Kang Huijuan tried to kill a pregnant woman. Brother Lóng Wei saved her from him, and in the end, they fought when he broke his hand. However, he accepted the punishment because he did wrong by taking the law into his hand. He remained quiet because of lack of evidence at that time and also, the woman’s life was in danger,” Mingquan supported the facts that Li Hua narrated to them.

“The Royal Father must not trust the Kang family. All of them are the same,” Xiaoming stated. “Kang Xi’s daughter’s words I still remember. For the position of the Crown Princess, her greed was visible,” he affirmed.

“No one will point a finger at Lóng Wei merely because Lianying told some lies to create unrest among us. I will not tolerate anyone’s behavior based on it,” he announced his decision.

The physician reached the hall with Gao Bing. But upon not seeing the Sixth Prince, they both got confused.

Tianjie told the physician to return as Lóng Wei wasn’t present in the hall.

“Send a summon to Kang Huijuan, Crown Prince,” Qiu Zedong said. Xiaoming was astonished to hear from his father, but he was happy. He promptly agreed to it and asked his father if he would send it soon.

“In today’s Court Session, he must be present,” Qiu Zedong said and scrunched his brows. He left the hall while the Queen walked behind him. The two consorts also left after a while.

“Li Hua, Brother Lóng Wei will return soon,” Ai Fen told her and put her hand around her shoulder. “Come, I will follow you to the manor,” she said in a soft voice.

“I will accompany you too,” Jingfei said. Xiaolian didn’t stay behind and decided to accompany them.

“Sister Jingfei, take care of the Princess Consort,” Xiaoming said. She nodded and they left with Li Hua.

“I am surprised that Brother Lóng Wei beat Kang Huijuan for a reason that was unknown to all of us,” Tianjie asserted and glanced at Xiaoming.

“Was Eunuch Lianying’s attack on the Crown Prince including the involvement of the Prime Minister?” Zhang Xi raised a suspicion.

“That’s tough to say at the moment. I have to leave as I need to send a summoning message to Kang Huijuan,” Xiaoming said and left the hall.