Volume 3, Chapter 396 – You Are Slandering Me!

Lu Zhuxin tightened the cloak on her body and leaned closer to Chi Xiyan.

“Sorry, sister. I dragged you into this trouble…”

Chi Xiyan took a deep breath, “No, it was my own carelessness…”

“The Northern Snow Serpent Silk, I should have thought of it sooner…”

While the two were talking, Wei Ziqing stood up from the viewing platform. He looked at the group of nervous officials and waved his hand.

“Alright, you may step back for now.”

Hearing this, the officials could not help but be stunned.

The lead official hesitated, “But, Noble Consort, this woman is a fourth realm sword cultivator. She is dangerous. For your safety, it would be best to capture her first.”

Wei Ziqing looked at the official wordlessly.

If I really let you capture her, how would I win people’s hearts.

Moreover, this woman was also an alchemist, a fourth realm cultivator who cultivated both pills and swords. She was not so easy to catch.

Wei Ziqing coughed lightly and said, “If Miss Cheng truly wished to harm me, she had more than enough chances when she first came onto the stage. She would not have waited until now.”

“I think Miss Cheng’s actions must have had a reason.”

Saying this, Wei Ziqing turned to look at Lu Zhuxin standing beside Chi Xiyan.

Chi Xiyan noticed Wei Ziqing’s gaze.

This Noble Consort Wei was a man.

Chi Xiyan shifted slightly, subtly moving to hide Lu Zhuxin behind her.

The surrounding officials, seeing that Chi Xiyan showed no intention of continuing to fight, followed Wei Ziqing’s order and put away their weapons, stepping back.

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“Yes.” Chi Xiyan said, “I did this to save my sister.”

She turned her head, her gaze sweeping over the stage below.

“Someone wanted to use sinister methods to harm my sister.”

“They wanted to force her to make a move in public, wanted to ruin her reputation here!”

Hearing this, Wei Ziqing did not seem surprised at all. It was exactly as he had guessed.

“I act on His Majesty’s decree to set up this stage and select a consort. Whoever disrupts the consort selection shows contempt for the imperial authority and defies the sacred will.”

“Who would dare to play such vicious tricks here?”

Chi Xiyan took a deep breath.

Originally, she had borrowed the identity of the Cheng family’s daughter just so she could come here, not wishing to cause the Cheng family too much trouble.

But Cheng Yinyin had gone too far, actually using such methods against Muxue!

Even now, Chi Xiyan’s heart was still filled with lingering fear.

“Noble Consort, the person who harmed my sister is Cheng Yinyin of the Cheng family!”

She raised her hand, pointing at Cheng Yinyin below the stage.

Seeing this, Cheng Yinyin panicked inside, cold sweat rushing to her heart.

Wei Ziqing looked at Cheng Yinyin and calmly instructed, “Someone, bring her up.”

Two officials escorted Cheng Yinyin onto the stage.

With a thud, she fell to her knees.

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“I beg the Noble Consort to see clearly! This lowly woman has never done such things!”

“Cheng Lixia, she is slandering me with baseless accusations!”

Cheng Yinyin glared viciously at Chi Xiyan.

“Noble Consort, you may not know this!”

“Cheng Lixia is this lowly woman’s eldest sister, but she did not grow up with this lowly woman. In earlier years, the two sisters were raised outside by our father, only being brought back home recently.”

“As the youngest daughter of the family, this lowly woman had always wanted to get along well with her two sisters. Never did I expect that the two of them would harbor such resentment toward me and the Cheng family. They actually conspired together to frame this lowly woman with such vicious methods!”

“Noble Consort! How would this lowly woman dare show contempt for the sacred will, nor has she ever harbored intentions to harm anyone!”

“I beg the Noble Consort to seek justice for this lowly woman!”

Cheng Yinyin wept bitterly, crying most pitifully.

She had not expected that Chi Xiyan would not only escape capture but, in just a few short sentences, push her to such a dangerous edge.

She could not bear the charges Wei Ziqing had listed!

If these charges were truly confirmed, not only would she certainly die, but even the Cheng family behind her would be implicated.

Damn it. Why had it turned out like this.

Why were those officials so useless. They could not even stop one wild woman.

If that woman had not been given the chance to speak, the situation would not have turned out like this.

Wei Ziqing, looking at Cheng Yinyin’s expression, more or less understood what she was thinking.

Moreover, the immortal elder sister in his ring had already told him the truth about the Northern Snow Serpent Silk long ago.

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However, Wei Ziqing did not expose her directly. Instead, he looked at Chi Xiyan.

“Cheng Lixia, Cheng Yinyin says you are slandering her. How do you explain yourself?”

Chi Xiyan first glanced coldly at Cheng Yinyin, then said to Wei Ziqing, “Noble Consort, I have evidence!”

“The evidence is on my sister’s body.”

“The Northern Snow Serpent Silk, when it meets the fragrance of the Southern Border’s Seven Day Orchid, will dissolve and fade within moments, becoming as thin and transparent as a cicada’s wing.”

“Cheng Yinyin, you gave this dress to my sister. You had ill intentions from the very beginning!”

Wei Ziqing looked at Cheng Yinyin again and asked, “Cheng Yinyin, is what Cheng Lixia said true?”

Hearing this, Cheng Yinyin immediately knocked her head heavily on the ground.

“Noble Consort! This South Sea Flood Dragon Gauze skirt that Cheng Lixue is wearing was indeed given to her by this lowly woman.”

“But this lowly woman never knew what the Northern Snow Serpent Silk was! Nor did I understand anything about the Southern Border’s Seven Day Orchid fragrance!”

“Noble Consort, if this lowly woman truly wanted to harm Cheng Lixue, then why would I tamper with a dress that I myself gave her? Would that not be leaving evidence against myself?”

“This must be Cheng Lixue and Cheng Lixia deliberately tampering with the skirt, staging this scheme in front of you, all in order to frame this lowly woman and harm the Cheng family!”

“I beg the Noble Consort to seek justice for this lowly woman! Restore my innocence!”

Chi Xiyan’s gaze grew even colder.

She had not expected that even at a time like this, this woman could still be so stubbornly defiant.

That skirt had indeed been given by her, yet she could still insist she knew nothing about it.

Faced with such a shameless and vicious woman, Chi Xiyan did not know what to say for a moment.

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The atmosphere fell into an eerie silence at this point.

Just then, the Phoenix Ring trembled slightly again.

The voice of the person inside the ring rang in Wei Ziqing’s ear.

“That Cheng Yinyin, she is lying!”

“Among the plants she catalyzed with magic earlier, there was Southern Border’s Seven Day Orchid!”

“I know.” Wei Ziqing responded calmly, “But now is not the time.”

Wei Ziqing swept his gaze over the three people before him, each with a different expression.

He was waiting.

Since this young lady had already schemed all of this, she surely had other tricks up her sleeve.

He wanted to see just how far this young lady, who had planned this scheme behind the scenes, would go.

Sure enough, after waiting a moment.

A weak voice rang out.

“Noble Consort, I have more evidence.”

Lu Zhuxin stepped forward.

She took out a rouge box.

“This box of rouge was given to me by Cheng Yinyin.” Lu Zhuxin said, “Cheng Yinyin told me that if I applied this to my eldest sister, it would guarantee that she would fail to pass this selection.”

Chi Xiyan looked at the rouge box before her, surprise in her eyes.