I am favored by the tyrant, so what if I am vicious?

Chapter 243 Capital Punishment

Li Kui's face suddenly darkened, and she immediately snatched the letter away.

Her eyes trembled as she read the contents of the letter, and her heart sank.

"No, it's impossible."

"How is this possible? It's obvious that someone is imitating my handwriting. I never wrote this letter..."

Concubine Wan sighed, "But the palace servants have already found many letters you wrote to Ling Da Ying in your palace. The handwriting on these letters is exactly the same as this one. Li Changzai, the evidence is irrefutable...are you still going to deny it?"

Li Kui's mind went blank.

She shook her head, unable to understand why all this was directed at her.

"I... Ling Da Ying and I do have a close relationship, and I did write her many letters... But this letter wasn't written by me. Someone copied my handwriting. Someone is framing me."

Concubine Wan couldn't help but feel a little angry. She sneered, "The evidence is irrefutable, it's all set in stone, and yet you still refuse to admit it. You really won't cry until you see the coffin... I never thought that Grand Secretary Li would raise such a virtuous, capable, and thoughtful daughter."

She stopped talking nonsense with Li Kui and directly presented all the evidence to Qin Feiling.

"Your Majesty, in addition to these letters, the palace servants also found the remaining poison that the noble lady was poisoned with in Li Changzai's palace."

"The imperial doctors have examined it and found that the poison is exactly the same as the one that the nobleman was poisoned with."

Li Kui fell to the ground, she felt like she was struck by lightning, and her entire soul seemed to have been shattered.

She collapsed and growled in despair: "It's not me, I was wronged."

Qin Keqing pinched the handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "Li Changzai, you are really stubborn. Even at this moment, you still refuse to admit it. Do you want to let it go only after your family is implicated?"

Li Kui's body trembled, and she looked at Qin Keqing in confusion.

She kowtowed to Qin Feiling repeatedly.

"Your Majesty, please don't implicate my family."

"All of this has nothing to do with my father and the others."

At this point, the truth has come to light.

Qin Feiling's eyes were full of coldness as he looked at Li Kui coldly.

"Grand Secretary Li's daughter is truly amazing."

"You've managed to fool us all! Great, great!"

Li Kui prostrated herself on the ground, her forehead pressed tightly against the cold floor. She closed her eyes and stopped arguing, countless tears silently sliding down her cheeks...

Qin Keqing lowered her eyes quietly, without any joy or pride on her face.

Lin Yan was quite disappointed with Li Kui and kept wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief.

Zhou Lingge watched this wonderful show, a smile on her lips as she turned to look at Qiao'er.

"Qiao'er, do you have anything to say?"

Qiao'er raised her chin slightly and glanced at Li Kui, whose face was covered in blood. She took out a jade pendant from her bosom and said, "I have had a rift with the Imperial Concubine recently because of some things. First, the late Concubine Zhao took advantage of the situation and bribed me to use me to deal with the Imperial Concubine. Then, the owner of this jade pendant secretly found me... gave me a packet of poison and secretly instructed me... to give it to Rui'er, the maidservant of the noble lady."

"At first, I couldn't figure out the purpose of the person behind this, so I chose to play along... According to this plan, I gave the poison to Rui'er. Unexpectedly... Noble Lady Gao died, and all the blame was thrown onto the Imperial Concubine. I still don't know who the person behind this is... Only this jade pendant can be regarded as an insignificant clue..."

Zhou Lingge narrowed her eyes slightly, and looked at Qiao'er with a dark look in her eyes: "So, you never thought of betraying me from the beginning to the end?"

"All you've done is to play along with the enemy, trying to find out who's behind this and who's trying to harm me?"

Qiao Er immediately expressed her loyalty to Zhou Lingge, prostrating herself and bowing her head. "Your Majesty has been so kind to me, and I am not someone who would be ungrateful... Please understand, Your Majesty, and stop doubting me."

Zhou Lingge was not very happy.

She stared at the jade pendant and couldn't help but snorted coldly: "I am very confused now. I can't tell clearly what is true and what is false."

Qiao'er's body trembled, and she looked at Zhou Lingge with red eyes.

"Miss."

Zhou Lingge raised her hand and interrupted her: "Let's talk about our business later."

"We still need to find out... who the owner of this jade pendant is."

Qin Keqing watched the interaction between Zhou Lingge and Qiao'er, and a hint of gloom flashed in her eyes.

She pondered for a moment, then immediately replied, "Your Highness, this jade pendant looks familiar to me."

"Could you please let me take a closer look?"

Zhou Lingge nodded in agreement.

Qiao'er immediately handed the jade pendant to Qin Keqing.

Qin Keqing observed for a while, and finally sighed helplessly. She looked at Li Kui with sadness in her eyes.

"If I am not mistaken... this should be Li Changzai's jade pendant."

"Mrs. Lin should have seen it too..."

Lin Yan frowned, she quickly wiped her tears and moved closer to Qin Keqing.

She took a few glances at the jade pendant made of high-quality jade and with intricate patterns, and the tears that had just stopped in her eyes began to flow again.

"This is indeed Concubine Li's jade pendant... When we first entered the palace, she told me... that it was given to her as a coming-of-age gift by Grand Secretary Li. This jade pendant is unique in the entire Jin Dynasty and is a very rare and exquisite piece... The small sunflower pattern on it was designed by Grand Secretary Li himself and polished by the craftsmen."

"Li Changzai, the truth has been revealed...do you have anything else to say?"

Li Kui seemed to suddenly calm down and stopped yelling.

She was like a puppet that had completely lost its soul.

Facing Lin Yan's questioning, she couldn't help but chuckle softly.

She glanced at the jade pendant calmly, as if suddenly realizing something: "So, it turns out to be like this..."

"Hahaha...it turns out that from the very beginning, we were all her pawns."

She started laughing like crazy.

At the end of the laugh, tears streamed down her face.

Everyone thought she was crazy.

In order to prevent Li Kui from harming innocent people, Qin Feiling asked the palace servants to control her hands and feet.

Then he issued an oral order to take action against Li Kui.

He stripped Li Kui of her title, demoted her to a commoner and imprisoned her in the Heavenly Prison, and executed her three days later.

When Li Kui was taken away, he stared at Qin Keqing... and smiled in a creepy way.

Qin Keqing's face was full of fear. She shrank closer to Qin Feiling and raised her hand to grab his robe.

"Your Majesty, I am afraid..."

Qin Feiling saw that Qin Keqing was really scared, so he gently comforted her.

"Don't be afraid, she won't harm anyone again. You've done a great deed this time, and I won't treat you unfairly."