Natuo questioned her furiously, “Did you secretly leave the residence?”

Hearing this, Jing Xuan understood.

It seemed Natuo had received some information!

She remained calm and unhurried, responding steadily, “I don’t understand what Your Highness means. All day today, I’ve been resting in my room and haven’t gone anywhere.”

Her tone was firm.

Natuo frowned, half-believing, half-doubting in his heart.

He turned to question the several maids in the room, “Tell me, did the Princess Consort go out?”

The several maids hastily knelt down, saying, “Reporting to Your Highness, this servant did not see the Princess Consort go out. When the Princess Consort was resting, we were all keeping watch outside, and from time to time we would come in to look. The Princess Consort has been lying in bed the whole time and hasn’t gone anywhere.”

The people in the courtyard were all informants Natuo had placed around Jing Xuan. If she had gone out, the maids would not conceal it.

“Truly never went out?”

“This servant dare not lie.”

Natuo’s fierce gaze instantly glared at the maid who had come to report to him, a fire blazing in his eyes, “You dare deceive this Prince?”

The young maid’s whole body trembled.

She immediately knelt on the ground.

Bowing her head, she said, “This servant saw with her own eyes the Princess Consort entering through the back gate. Absolutely wouldn’t be mistaken.”

“Your meaning is that they’re all lying?”

“This…”

“Still not telling the truth!”

“What this servant said is the truth.”

“Someone come, drag her out and cut off her tongue for this Prince.”

Uh!

The maid was frightened pale, kowtowing repeatedly, “Please spare this servant’s life, Your Highness. This servant’s every word is true. I dare not lie. Please spare this servant’s life…”

However, the guards from the residence had already dragged her out.

That soul-wrenching sound could still be heard from far away!

The people in the room dared not even breathe.

All were frightened stupid!

What kind of temperament the Third Prince had, everyone in the residence knew.

But usually, though fierce was fierce, he had never been this bloodthirsty.

Everyone couldn’t help but sigh!

Jing Xuan sat on the bed, head lowered, not speaking.

Natuo stood before her from his superior position.

Warning, “At this time, you’d better behave yourself.”

Jing Xuan: “…”

Natuo waved his wide sleeve, about to turn and leave.

But suddenly glanced and noticed a piece of cloth exposed from the cabinet beside.

He walked toward it.

Seeing this, Jing Xuan’s heart tightened.

She watched helplessly as Natuo opened the cabinet and discovered the black cloak she had just taken off inside, along with a pair of shoes covered in mud.

Natuo’s eyes darkened, turning to ask her, “What is this about?”

Her hands gripped the bedsheet on her body tightly, her breathing becoming rapid.

“You really did go out, didn’t you!”

The voice echoed in the room, making everyone unable to help but tremble.

Not waiting for Jing Xuan to answer, Natuo had already quickly walked to the bedside and grabbed her delicate neck.

Ugh!

Jing Xuan was forced to raise her head, her brow furrowing.

“Who exactly did you go to see?”

Her face full of discomfort as she asked back, “Does… does it matter?”

“Speak!”

“You… kill me then.”

The woman’s defiance stimulated Natuo’s sensitive nerves.

“Don’t challenge my patience time and again! Since you want to die so badly, fine, I’ll grant your wish.”

The force in his hand increased.

As if he would break that slender neck alive.

Jing Xuan’s face flushed red, her breathing difficult. She opened her mouth wide but couldn’t make a sound.

Her ten fingers desperately grabbed at Natuo’s hand gripping her neck, but she couldn’t muster any strength to struggle.

The people in the room all knelt down in unison.

Someone pleaded, “Your Highness, please don’t take the Princess Consort’s life!”

“Yes, please spare the Princess Consort, Your Highness.”

“Your Highness…”

If Natuo really killed Jing Xuan, once word got out, he would be finished too!

But at this moment, he was like someone possessed by a demon, full of murderous intent, with only one purpose—to kill this woman.

Jing Xuan was enveloped by a sense of suffocation!

But she felt no fear at all.

Instead, she hoped Natuo would really strangle her to death and be done with it all.

But fate always likes to play tricks on people.

When her mind went blank and her vision gradually blurred, the force on her neck became lighter and lighter until he released her.

Her body went limp and she fell from the bed to the floor.

Utterly wretched.

“Cough, cough, cough…” She coughed violently.

When she caught her breath and looked up at the man before her, she discovered Natuo’s face full of shock, holding a jade pendant in his hand.

That was… the jade pendant Gong Shilin had given her!

She reached out her hand, using all her strength trying to get the jade pendant back.

“Give… give it back to me!” Her voice was weak, extremely faint.

But in this quiet room, it was enough for Natuo to hear.

He couldn’t believe it!

Couldn’t believe that the jade pendant Gong Shilin had carried since childhood would be on his “Princess Consort.”

And at this moment, he seemed to understand.

Understood thoroughly!

So he himself was the fool kept in the dark!

That feeling was as if he had been betrayed!

Blatantly betrayed by his own brother.

His eyes mixed with shock and disappointment.

His heart cut like a knife!

Jing Xuan gasped for breath, crawling forward, her hands desperately clutching Natuo’s robe, pleading, “Please, give the jade pendant back to me! Please…”

Natuo looked down at her with bloodshot eyes, gave a cold laugh, then…

Kicked her.

Jing Xuan’s shoulder hurt, but her hands clutching his robe refused to let go.

“Please…”

Natuo restrained his fury and loudly ordered the people in the room, “All of you get out.”

Everyone looked at each other.

They withdrew one by one.

Only the two of them remained!

He crouched down, his face dark, pinching Jing Xuan’s chin, smiling bitterly, “So that medicine bottle from before wasn’t something he dropped at all, but something he gave you, right! I wondered why every time something happened to you, he was there. It wasn’t coincidence at all, but that he was concerned about your every move from beginning to end.”

Jing Xuan tightened her neck, her dark eyes looking at him.

“You secretly went out today, it must have been to see him at the Ministry of Justice prison, right!”

“…”

“Hehe.” He raised the jade pendant in his hand, saying with great disappointment, “Do you know? He once told me that even if he died, he would have to carry this jade pendant with him. But he actually gave it to you. This shows how important you are to him! I suppose behind my back, you two have long been secretly involved, haven’t you?”

Jing Xuan said, “Between him and me… pure and innocent.”

“At this point, you still dare say pure? Slut!”

His words were harsh and severe.

With a wave of his hand, he struck Jing Xuan hard across the face.

Jing Xuan was knocked prostrate on the ground, blood at the corner of her mouth.

Then Natuo heavily threw that jade pendant down in front of her.

“Clang!”

It shattered into pieces.

The fragments splashed up, cutting her cheek.

“No!”

Disregarding the wound on her face, her hands frantically grabbed at those fragments. As a result, they were cut until her hands were covered in blood…