Chapter 40

Tang Kexin's eyes narrowed. Under such circumstances, Xiao Cui definitely could not lie. Just now she said she did not know who killed Juhua, so she definitely did not know.

It was obvious that someone else had killed the palace maid, and Xiao Cui was just following orders from someone to frame her.

She visually assessed the dead body. The probable cause of death might be the wound on her forehead. The weapon was the bloodstained stone carelessly tossed beside the corpse. Judging from the wound, the dead maid must have been hit at least three times. In addition, her clothing were in a disarray. At first glance, there seemed to be traces of struggle.

At the time of the attack, she was already very close to the rock mountain, and even if she was too preoccupied with her thoughts, it was impossible for her to not notice or hear anything of the struggle.

So, Xiao Cui was arranged to frame her, and was definitely here a little earlier than her, but hadn't seen the culprit.

Therefore, the most likely suspect here was a skilled martial artist with a powerful qinggong.

A martial artist using a stone to kill a petite woman, how many times did he need to struck before she died? And did she ever has the chance to fight back?

Obviously not.

Then there was only one explanation of this murder scene. It was created to frame a weak woman like Tang Kexin of murder.

Even if the Board of Justice were to investigate, they would probably not find any flaws.

The person who laid out the plan was surely cautious, if she did not get the truth out of Xiao Cui today, it would be unthinkable.

She had already proven her innocence, however, as for the other matters, under these circumstances, she couldn't interfere.

Besides, it wasn't something she could intervene.

The palace was a place for eating people. If she could avoid it, she would avoid it. She did not want to die without a reason.

"Your Majesty, this daughter has finished asking questions." Tang Kexin looked at the emperor and lightly smiled.

"Right." The Emperor only recovered from his shock after hearing her words and replied in a low voice. His eyes looked at her, and he was extremely shocked in his heart.

With just these three simple questions, she had actually succeeded in getting the palace maid to speak the truth, easily proving her innocence.

This way of interrogation may appear simple, but it wasn't simple at all. Every sentence, every step, was perfectly executed.

If she hadn't tried to read a person's mind to the extreme, how could she have possibly done so?

However, her illness had just recovered, how could it be possible?

He looked at Tang Kexin with complexed emotions. The girl's expression just now was so carefree, he couldn't put her into that woman just now who had proven her innocence by sheer question tactics. Her pure and sincere smile was faint and gentle without the slightest hint of a shadow.

The Emperor was slightly startled. How was this possible? Or was it pure luck that she was able to disentangled herself from the case?

The crown prince pursed his lips and stared straight at Tang Kexin. A trace of coldness flashed through his dark eyes.

The corner of Ye Lanjue's lips slowly curled up, in an unfathomable curve. This woman's ability is truly not small, and she hid it quite deeply.

Tang Kexin naturally noticed the emperor's expression, but she didn't ignore the surprised look of the crowd.

If this matter hadn't directly involved her which would implicate and affect the people surrounding her, she wouldn't be wasting up efforts to such an extent, gaining attention more than necessary.

As much as possible, she really did not want to show off too much. She just wanted to keep a low profile. But after what had just happened, could she able to?

"Damned servant, how dare she frame Miss Tang." Imperial Consort Ming suddenly roared in anger.

"This servant deserves to die, it was this servant's fault. When I came over, I saw that Juhua was dead. At that time, it was only this servant who was around. This servant originally wanted to leave, but…" Xiao Cui's body trembled, maybe it was because she was nervous, and her voice was trembling slightly.

Hearing Xiao Cui's words, Tang Kexin suddenly walked in front of her and squatted down. She quickly placed a hand on her pulse.

"Miss Tang, Miss Tang…" Xiao Cui was startled. She looked at Tang Kexin with astonishment. For a moment, she was scared witless. After what had just happened, she was frightened of Tang Kexin from the bottom of her heart.

Everyone was stunned, unable to understand what Tang Kexin was trying to do.

"Don't worry about me, continue talking." Tang Kexin looked at her and gently smiled. Her voice was gentle and did not contain any resentment. It even carried a bit of innocence. She was like a child who was out to play.

However, as she was closed to her, Tang Kexin could smell a very unique scent emitting from her body, though it was faint. It was like a scent of some flower, but didn't seem like it. It was specially unique.

Normal people wouldn't be able to smell it, but she was very sensitive with smells that even though she was standing a bit far from Xiao Cui, she caught a whiff of it. So, she made a move of wanting to check her pulse to confirm that the scent was from her.

Xiao Cui's eyes flickered, she calmed herself down and then continued: "This servant found out that Juhua had died and wanted to leave, and coincidentally, Miss Tang came over, and this servant was afraid that someone might mistake it as me killing Juhua, so, this servant decided to push the matter to Miss Tang."

"You're done?" When Xiao Cui stopped, Tang Kexin looked at her and smiled, her voice was soft and harmless.

"En... Nothing more..." Seeing Tang Kexin's harmless smile, Xiao Cui was especially shocked. Just now, Tang Kexin also had this smile on her face earlier, causing her to completely let go of her guard and fall for her tricks.

"Alright." Tang Kexin lightly nodded her head. The smile on her face suddenly disappeared. Her expression darkened and she suddenly became serious.

"A person's normal pulse rate is one or two times a second, and just now the rate of your pulse rate reached four times a second. The obvious reason of your tachycardia is that right now you are nervous, and when a person is trying to remember something, his eyes will look up to his left. But when a person's brain is making up something, the eyes moves to the upper right direction. When you were talking just now, however, your eyes moved four times to the upper right direction. Meaning you are making up something, or in other words, you are lying...!"

Tang Kexin spoke very professionally. And she was a psychologist in the modern world. Her words and terms weren't something that could be completely understood by ancient people. For Tang Kexin though, this was what she wanted, for no one to understand what she uttered.

Xiao Cui's body went soft and fell to the ground, like a pile of mud, she trembled violently, her face instantly became pale white.

"No, no, I'm not lying." At that moment, Xiao Cui was scared out of her wits.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. Other than the last line, 'you're lying', they didn't understand anything else. It felt like they were listening to a scripture of heaven.

However, even though the palace maid didn't understand most of what was said, she still felt a strong sense of fear and danger. She trembled uncontrollably.

At this moment, almost everyone was looking at Tang Kexin. Some were shocked, some were sceptic, but some were awed of what they had just witnessed.

However, no one had expected that in the next moment…