The whole family is obsessed with love? The princess woke them up one after another.

"My parents respect my grandfather, so naturally they dare not sit here," Qi Zhiyu said.

"Don't you respect me?" Emperor Kangwu narrowed his eyes.

"I respect you," Qi Zhiyu said, her reasoning sound. "But I'm young, and standing for long periods will get me tired."

Emperor Kangwu: "...Chen'an, I remember you're almost of marriageable age, aren't you?"

"Not three or four years old."

It's almost fifteen, are you still standing here for so long?

In the palace, let alone teenagers, even five or six-year-olds have to endure standing for long periods of time!

"Sigh..." Qi Zhiyu sighed, lowering her eyes and saying softly, "It's probably because I injured my body when I was young, so I can't stand for long periods of time or get tired."

Emperor Kangwu: "..."

Even though he knew she was doing it on purpose, he still couldn't bring himself to argue with her.

That brat... she really knows how to manipulate him!

"Alright, you may sit down." Emperor Kangwu said, glancing at the eunuch beside him.

The eunuch immediately noticed and brought over tea and snacks.

This action caused the people in the room to have different thoughts.

Emperor Kangwu ignored them and instead looked at Lady Jingwen: "Are you saying that the poison was given to you by the Prince of Wu?"

"We ordered you to poison Earl Jingwen and frame Princess Rui?"

"Yes." Lady Jingwen knelt on the ground, and while speaking, she secretly glanced at the King of Wu.

Upon hearing this, the King of Wu looked at Lady Jingwen in shock, then lifted the hem of his robe and knelt down.

"Father, I absolutely did not do this."

Jing Wenbo stared at his wife in disbelief.

His eyes were filled with astonishment.

His shifty gaze revealed that he was experiencing extreme emotional fluctuations.

However, due to the occasion, he couldn't ask any questions, no matter how many he had.

He could only endure it.

"Your Highness, it was you who asked me to do this!" Lady Jingwen exclaimed loudly.

"You gave me that medicine too."

"You said that if anything happened to Prince Rui, you would become the crown prince, and then you would protect me!"

The King of Wu exclaimed, "Absurd!"

"Prince Rui is the son-in-law of your Jingwen Marquis family, so he is closer to you."

"How could you abandon Prince Rui and obey my orders to harm him?"

After speaking, the King of Wu bowed to Emperor Kangwu and said, "I beg Your Majesty to investigate thoroughly and clear my name!"

Emperor Kangwu looked at Prince Rui: "Elder brother, what do you say?"

"Father, Tang Jingrou is still my wife's younger sister." Prince Rui did not explain directly, but only mentioned the family of the former Marquis of Weiyuan who is still in prison.

"Grandfather, my mother's stepmother, doted on her daughter. My mother was a pitiful little thing in her own family," Qi Zhiyu said frankly.

She likes to be straightforward.

"It's perfectly normal for them to side with the King of Wu and attack our family on his behalf."

The King of Wu's face darkened: "If I had truly done it, would I have left any evidence against me?"

Qi Zhiyu smiled at him: "This is where King Wu's brilliance and boldness lie."

"By deliberately manipulating everything to the extreme, we can shift the blame onto ourselves. It makes others think we're using a self-inflicted injury to frame you!"

Even though Qi Zhiyu exposed King Wu's thoughts and plans, he still didn't reveal the slightest flaw.

"Everything still depends on the evidence; there's no point in arguing."

As he spoke, the King of Wu bowed to Emperor Kangwu: "Father, since Lady Jingwen says that everything was done by your son, please provide direct evidence."

"I am not convinced by her words alone!"

"Why don't we search my residence? If we don't find any poison..." King Wu looked coldly at Qi Zhiyu.

"Of course, Chen'an, you can also say that I have already dealt with those poisons."

"Ah, let's go search for it then." Qi Zhiyu nodded in agreement. "We have to find evidence anyway."

Emperor Kangwu glanced at Qi Zhiyu, then ordered his men to search the Prince of Wu's residence.

Soon, someone returned with the items.

When Emperor Kangwu inquired, he learned that the object had been dug up under a tree in a side courtyard.

Moreover, the marks of digging under that tree were still very fresh.

Even though it was concealed, it was still easy to spot.

After hearing this, the King of Wu couldn't help but laugh: "Father, if it really was my doing, how could I have been so careless?"

"What use would I have for such a thing?"

"Wouldn't it be better to destroy it or burn it?"

"Why bury it under the tree, and why put it in a porcelain bottle?"

"Isn't this just waiting to be discovered and proven guilty?"

Emperor Kangwu looked at Qi Zhiyu.

Before Qi Zhiyu could speak, the King of Wu preemptively questioned, "Chen'an, what do you say?"

Qi Zhiyu suddenly smiled at King Wu, and her smile made King Wu feel uneasy.

What does she mean?

"King Wu, don't you find it strange?" Qi Zhiyu asked with a smile. "You said you had nothing to do with this, right?"

"Of course!" King Wu said affirmatively.

"Since there's no connection, how do you know that the poison in this porcelain bottle is the same poison that Jingwenbo was given?" Qi Zhiyu asked, raising an eyebrow.

The King of Wu's expression changed, and then he quickly said, "Such a strange thing, if it wasn't deliberately planted in my palace to frame me, what else could it be?"

"Hey... that's not right." Qi Zhiyu stretched out her index finger and waved it at King Wu, disagreeing with his statement.

"If you deliberately planted this to create the illusion of being framed, it would be quite reasonable."

"Grandfather, why don't we invite the imperial physician to come and test it to see if it is poison?" Qi Zhiyu suggested.

Emperor Kangwu nodded and immediately summoned the imperial physician.

The imperial physician took the porcelain bottle and began to examine it.

He quickly came to a conclusion: "Your Majesty, this substance is not the poison found in the body of Lord Jingwen."

"It's just a common powder; its exact composition still needs further analysis and verification."

The King of Wu's heart skipped a beat. How could it not be?

He had instructed Lady Jingwen that if the matter were exposed, she should reveal everything.

In that case, he will definitely save her life.

He had already prepared for the worst and even figured out how to turn things around.

But why isn't there poison in this porcelain bottle?

If it wasn't poison, how could it create the illusion that Prince Rui deliberately framed him?

"Tsk tsk tsk..." Qi Zhiyu exclaimed, "This is really novel."

"King Wu, you are so certain that this is the poison that harmed Earl Jingwen, but it is not." Qi Zhiyu asked humbly with a half-smile.

"Then may I ask, King Wu, why are you so certain that this is poison?"

"You're still saying this wasn't something you planned beforehand, something you deliberately arranged to frame our family?"

The King of Wu's expression changed, especially when he felt the extremely oppressive gaze of his father, the Emperor; he panicked.

In his panic, he immediately realized a flaw: "Chen An, you're strange too."

"How could you have known this wasn't poison? Could it be that you arranged all of this beforehand?"

"After all, a person with a normal way of thinking would never think like you!"