She Holds the World After Being Reborn-Chapter 606 - 605: It’s not this prince, it has nothing to do with this prince!
Qin Zhen’s voice was loud, causing the Idle King to feel utterly humiliated.
"Qin Zhen, are you blind? Do you know who I am? Even if I took a dancer, what could you possibly do to me? Besides, she was already a prostitute from the brothel. I slept with her, that’s all. What right do you have to question me? The envoy disappeared from his own room—that should be your negligence. What grounds do you have to question me!"
Enraged, he sat bolt upright, his corpulent body gleaming whitely in front of everyone, his belly creased with four layers of folds, each one trembling vigorously as it manifested its master’s fury.
Upon seeing this, Lu Yanluo wept even more bitterly.
Too ugly, too disgusting.
It was like swallowing a lump of fat directly, making her retch.
"Why are you so agitated, Your Highness? I’ve barely said a few words and your spittle is almost spraying on my face," Qin Zhen said, as he reached up to wipe his cheek.
After a few days of being sensible, this fat fool is going crazy again. Has he forgotten that he’s still under the effect of Heartbreak Powder?
The Idle King couldn’t help but swallow his saliva, his eyes darting around.
What happened to Song Huaxu last night? He said he was going out to find a place to sleep, but where did he go?
"I am not the least bit agitated. The matter of the Chu Kingdom’s envoy has nothing to do with me," he retorted.
"We cannot take the Prince’s word for it alone. I want to hear what the dancer has to say," Qin Zhen remarked, and then looked down at Lu Yanluo. "Don’t be afraid, just tell us what happened last night, I will stand up for you."
The Idle King’s face turned pale, but remembering how Lu Yanluo had fainted in his arms the night before, and probably knew nothing, he let out a cold laugh and turned his head away, beginning to get dressed.
Meanwhile, Lu Yanluo rubbed her forehead, feeling groggy.
"Last night this servant accompanied the honored guest into the room, and he had me continuously calling..." At this point, Lu Yanluo felt somewhat embarrassed, her cheeks reddening a touch: "Then I grew tired, had a cup of tea, and after that, I don’t remember anything until I woke up today..."
Lu Yanluo stole a glance at the Idle King, wishing she could poke her own eyes out.
Who would have thought that she would end up being taken advantage of by such a fat-eared brute.
Seeing the disdain in Lu Yanluo’s eyes, the Idle King grew angry: "What do you mean by this, you whore?"
"This servant means nothing! Please spare my life, Prince!" However ugly he might be, he was still an Imperial Kinsman and Nobility, someone not within reach for a lowly person like Lu Yanluo to provoke.
"So, what you’re suggesting is that the Prince entered the envoy’s room and took advantage of his inattentiveness to steal away the dancer? Then, the only person who saw the envoy at that time was the Prince himself? I wonder if my understanding of this is correct?" Qin Zhen said, deliberately measuring his words.
The crowd nodded in agreement after hearing this.
"Indeed, if the Idle King hadn’t entered the envoy’s room, how could he have taken the dancer away?"
"And since the dancer was unconscious, surely the unconscious person couldn’t have walked out by themselves, right?"
"Your Highness, Idle King, you’d better explain quickly where the envoy is. It’s alright for you to fool around normally, but the situation is critical now. That’s the State Preceptor of the Chu Kingdom we’re talking about. Before His Majesty finds out this has something to do with you, you’d better confess," the people advised one after another.
The Idle King was in despair, without an excuse to defend himself.
"No, it’s not me! I have nothing to do with this matter!" he protested.
Lu Yanluo spoke softly to the side, "Even if the envoy’s disappearance has nothing to do with you, you are ultimately the last person who saw the envoy."
"You wretch, shut your mouth!" the Idle King cursed, frustrated and furious.
Lu Yanluo immediately covered her mouth with her hand, not daring to speak anymore.
"Since the Prince has said this matter is unrelated to him, I have no further recourse but to leave it to His Majesty’s judgement," Qin Zhen sighed and waved his hand dismissively, "Take His Highness, the Idle King, to see His Majesty. I believe that once it reaches his ears, the truth will come to light. Regardless, the envoy disappeared within the Imperial Palace of Qin State, and we cannot escape blame. For now, we can only hope that the King of Chu Kingdom is a reasonable man who will give us time to investigate this matter thoroughly."
She heaved a long sigh, a look of sorrow on her face: "This world is finally heading towards chaos."
Upon these words, everyone looked at the Idle King with a touch of hatred in their eyes.
This damned fool, bringing calamitous misfortune upon Qin State!
The Idle King wished he could die right then and there.
"How would I know where he went? He only said he wanted to go out; I truly had no idea where he was heading!" In his desperation, the Idle King immediately began to argue. Just as he had spoken those words, he saw Qin Zhen raise an eyebrow, her look profound, "Oh, so it was the envoy himself who wanted to go out. In that case, this has nothing to do with Qin State. I hope that in front of the King of Chu Kingdom, Your Highness can testify just like today."
Without another word, the guards stepped forward and seized the Idle King’s shoulders.
The Idle King had just dressed himself, and now he was restrained by the guards: "Impudence—Are you blind? Can you see who I am?"
The guards, without saying anything more, hoisted him up and took him away.
Idle King: "..."
"Take him away!" Qin Zhen spoke coldly and without sympathy.
A crowd followed the Idle King out, leaving only Qin Zhen behind. Looking down from her position of authority at Lu Yanluo, she took a long while before finally saying softly, "Get up."
Lu Yanluo, no longer the meek and subservient figure she had been before, responded calmly, "Yes."
"What exactly happened last night?" Qin Zhen asked.
Lu Yanluo replied coolly, "Last night, I drank the tea that contained a narcotic and lost consciousness. As you predicted, that blockhead of an Idle King couldn’t restrain himself and committed an act of treachery in hopes of trading your life for Song Huaxu’s antidote. And..." Lu Yanluo paused, "The Idle King gave Song Huaxu a very special gift."
"What was it?"
"I dared not open my eyes to look too closely, but I know that the gift glowed, rivalling candlelight," Lu Yanluo recalled. "The Idle King also said that when worn on the body in winter, it generates enough heat to keep one warm even in light clothing. Moreover, Song Huaxu recognized this object, calling it the Glow Stone."
"Glow Stone..." Qin Zhen repeated the words, her eyes narrowing thoughtfully.
She hadn’t heard of an object that could glow and keep the body warm, immune to the cold. Could it be some unique kind of Warm Jade?
"You have had a rough time," Qin Zhen sympathized, knowing it be immensely humiliating for someone like Lu Yanluo to be in company of a man like the Idle King.
Bowing her head, Lu Yanluo said earnestly, "It’s an honor to serve you, my lord. If it weren’t for the Yan Family, I would have died without a place to be buried." And besides, being originally from the brothel, such things were all too common for her.
Qin Zhen, thinking about the Glow Stone, felt uneasy within.
The disappearance of Song Huaxu was surely related to this stone!
