“King Qi’s faction went on the offensive? There’s no way the emperor wouldn’t do anything about it. Crown princess, you don’t need to worry,” Zu An reassured her. However, he knew anything that could leave the crown prince’s faction so dejected was definitely no small matter.

“If only it were that simple.” The crown princess sighed. “During today’s morning court session, our faction’s officials interrogated King Qi. After all, the assassination case was closely tied to King Qi. Regardless of how King Qi’s faction tried to defend themselves, we would have ways of dealing with it. However, we didn’t expect King Qi to be so vicious. He directly took on all of the blame, but then pushed it onto Cheng Xiong’s father and son.”

“Even though many of our people were doubtful, without any key evidence and with so many members on King Qi’s side, more and more people began to speak out for him, so the matter was settled at that....