Chapter 109: Conspiracy (3)
Sigh... In her previous life, Sun Jiaojiao loved watching palace-fighting dramas. She'd seen plenty of War and Beauty and Empresses in the Palace. In her company, none of those nasty little bitches who loved to play dirty had ever succeeded in scheming against her.
She leisurely turned to the black-clothed man and questioned him with a strong sense of pressure, "Now, raise your head, look carefully. Who am I?"
This time, the black-clothed man finally heard her voice clearly. He looked up at Sun Jiaojiao and immediately understood: his brothers really had slept with the wrong person!
But things had already come to this...
He gritted his teeth. Whatever beans they were, just stew them all in the pot!
"You are Young Miss Sun!" he argued, glaring. "I remember every woman I've slept with clearly. I would never be mistaken!"
The court burst into discussion.
The prince in purple robes shot the Crown Prince a meaningful, gloating look.
"Is that so?" Sun Jiaojiao wasn't flustered at all, appearing to have come prepared, which made everyone present see her in a new light. "You remember every woman you've slept with clearly? Then let me ask you, do you remember any physical features on my body?"
"Wh-what do you mean?" The black-clothed man panicked.
"For example, do I have a birthmark on my thigh? Do I have a small red mole on my chest?" Sun Jiaojiao pressed.
"Yes... No..." The black-clothed man said yes, then no, nodding one moment and shaking his head the next. "I... I don't remember..."
"So, is it yes or no?"
The black-clothed man hardened his heart. This was a suicide mission anyway. Regardless of whether he could successfully take down Young Miss Sun, he was dead either way. He might as well be bold and guess. "No birthmark, but there is a small red mole."
"Really? Are you sure you remember clearly?"
"No, no, there's a birthmark and a small red mole."
"Are you sure? No changing?" Sun Jiaojiao used to watch a variety show where the host loved to interfere when contestants were making a choice. She followed the example, and in no time, she had confused the black-clothed man, who no longer knew what to do.
"No birthmark! And no small red mole!" The black-clothed man thought for a moment, then felt it couldn't be nothing. What woman was completely clean all over? So he changed his story again. "No, wait. There's a very small birthmark, and also a small red mole."
"Can't change it now."
"Not changing."
"Alright!" Sun Jiaojiao raised her head, cupped her hands towards the one on the throne, and then cupped her hands towards the one behind the curtain. She said seriously, "This subject does not know why someone wants to frame her. But this subject has indeed never seen this black-clothed man, nor was her purity defiled by him as he claims. The one whose purity was defiled was this subject's personal maidservant, Yu'er. This subject's body is clean. There is nothing. I hope Your Majesty will see clearly. This crime... this subject did not commit it, nor can she accept it."
No one expected Minister Sun's daughter to be so quick-witted, clearing her name of this dirty water in just a few moves.
But whether the dirty water was cleared or not wasn't important.
What was important was that she had already been inspected and found to be impure. At most, she could save her life. To still want to be Crown Princess? That was wishful thinking.
The various factions looked at each other and smiled. Glances flew back and forth across the court.
Who knew whose brilliant move this was. It was simply killing two birds with one stone. Marvelous, marvelous!
"Then how do you explain your impure body?" The old Empress Dowager behind the curtain was still enraged. "A woman betrothed to my imperial family, yet so indecent, letting her body be broken by someone. And you still have the nerve to spout nonsense here?"
This matter of losing her body...
She couldn't take the fall for losing her body alone. Can one person 'pa pa pa'? Sun Jiaojiao looked at the Crown Prince without any hesitation, then said, stopping and starting, "This matter... this subject... this subject..."
Hmph. His Highness the Crown Prince took her virginity. How could he have the nerve to watch the fire from the other side of the river (i.e., watch impassively)?
Sun Jiaojiao deliberately started to speak, but then didn't continue.
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