CHAPTER 326: CHAPTER 128: THE DOUBLE AGENT STRATEGY (2) THE EMPEROR’S THREAT_2

The smile was so mocking.

Xiao Jinsen just watched Bai Mowan’s expression like this.

At this moment, he really wasn’t sure if Bai Mowan would trust him.

He deliberately changed the topic first, "I heard you wouldn’t be back until noon, how come you suddenly appeared here?"

"I passed by Nanshan Temple and saw that Nanshan Temple was on fire, so I brought soldiers up the mountain to help put out the fire and rescue people," Bai Mowan replied, mockingly, "Who knew I would run into the Prince, seeing the Prince in such a state?!"

Indeed, this was an excuse she had thought of earlier.

Xiao Jinsen’s expression worsened.

Although he had ordered people to guard the area, no one reported to him that Bai Mowan had climbed up the mountain.

Glancing around, he saw so many people putting out the fire at this moment.

He immediately understood that it was because of the fire that the guards had all returned to extinguish the fire and rescue him.

With a grave face, he then turned to Xiao Jinxing beside him, "What are you doing here?"

"Because I am here," Ye Qichi spoke.

Xiao Jinsen only then shifted his gaze onto Ye Qichi.

He just remembered, Ye Qichi was also here.

And he had come out of Nanshan Temple together with him.

That is to say.

Ye Qichi had been here all along.

She wasn’t here just today.

Perhaps she had been here since yesterday.

He immediately understood that all of this was absolutely no coincidence.

Possibly... it was all that woman Ye Qichi’s doing again!

He tried his best to maintain an impassive demeanor.

Ye Qichi said, "Prepared to pray for blessings tomorrow for the Prince and the Emperor at the hunting conference, I came early because I haven’t been feeling well and worried I might not withstand going up the mountain today, so I decided to stay in the temple one day ahead. However, I didn’t expect to bump into Prince Chu. The Prince has probably been here for over half an hour, right?!"

Ye Qichi’s statement at the end.

Was naturally deliberate.

She deliberately reminded Xiao Jinsen that she knew when he had arrived.

And also knew what he had been up to since he arrived.

Being such a clever man, Xiao Jinsen of course understood what Ye Qichi meant.

As expected.

As expected, everything was Ye Qichi calculating against him!

"I came to pick Qi’er to return to the mansion, and incidentally met Wan’er on the way, so we went up the mountain together," Xiao Jinxing explained at this moment as well.

Everything seemed to be a coincidence, everything seemed logical and reasonable.

However, Xiao Jinsen was well aware that all this was definitely premeditated.

Even though he knew it was a plot, at this moment he could not think of any way to change the current situation.

Even.

He couldn’t figure out why he was being plotted against by them.

Clearly, he had been so careful, how could anyone find anything suspicious?

"Prince Chu, you and Ms. Xie being like this..." Ye Qichi suddenly spoke, steering the topic firmly back, "seems hard to explain now no matter what."

Xiao Jinsen’s gaze sharpened.

He clearly understood Ye Qichi’s implications.

Now if he chose to repeatedly deny it, he couldn’t clear his name anymore.

Since Ye Qichi knew when he came, she definitely knew that he and Xie Ruiyao were in one room... Ye Qichi absolutely wouldn’t be so kind as to help him cover it up, and might even exaggerate the truth! In the end, it would just damage his reputation more.

But if he didn’t deny it, he was afraid he would have to marry Xie Ruiyao.

With the current status of Duke Mansion, coupled with Imperial Aunt Xiao Qinghui not yet deceased, the Emperor would surely afford her some honor; now that he had taken liberties with Xie Ruiyao, he would definitely be forced to marry her. And Xie Ruiyao wasn’t an ordinary woman; she was the legitimate daughter of Duke Mansion, and the Duke Mansion would certainly not let her be a concubine, a concubine was out of the question, Duke Mansion would definitely fight for the position of main wife for Xie Ruiyao.

All these years, in order to marry Bai Mowan, he endured controversy and remained unmarried, yet he had not foreseen that he would be so manipulated by Ye Qichi in the end!

It probably wasn’t only Ye Qichi, Xiao Jinxing was involved too.

Xiao Jinxing probably feared that if he married Bai Mowan, Bai Family’s army would become his support.

The more he thought, the angrier he became.

At this moment, Xiao Jinsen’s expression became almost fierce.

"The fire at the grand temple has almost been put out as well," Ye Qichi mentioned just in passing, then turned her head to look at the temple that had been extinguished by people, and walked towards Xiao Jinxing’s side.

Xiao Jinxing watched Ye Qichi.

She really achieved it.

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She did it so effortlessly.

He had already prepared an ambush outside the city, just waiting for Ye Qichi to fail, then he would execute his plan, but soon he received a message from Ye Qichi, and he took Bai Mowan up the mountain with him, synchronizing their act in that recent scene.

In front of so many people at this moment, Xiao Jinsen wanted to clear his name but couldn’t manage to do so.