At this moment, Ke Shouwang silently stepped forward.
"Emperor... that insect is mine."
Everyone was stunned.
The legitimate son of the Ke family?
Bai Xilie’s gaze was dark, like a stormy sea.
He looked at Ke Shouwang with an intimidating presence.
"Your insect? How did it end up in the hands of the Princess!"
Ke Shouwang also didn’t know why.
He scratched his head: "When I just saw the insect, I was surprised too."
"But after thinking it over, I seem to understand, it seems that..."
Before Ke Shouwang could finish speaking, the Eldest Heir Bai Xuanmo stepped forward.
He bowed to Bai Xilie and said: "Imperial Uncle, the insect does indeed belong to Ke Shouwang."
"That day, my sister and I were wandering through the streets when we encountered Ke Shouwang, who insisted on competing with me in the Poison Technique."
"He took out the insect as a wager, and my sister was worried that something might happen to me or Ke Shouwang, so she secretly kept the insect."
Bai Xuanmo gave Bai Zhi’er a reassuring look, as if to suggest she shouldn’t be afraid.
He then continued: "Later, my sister forgot to return it. She even told me that when the right time came, she would return the insect to Ke Shouwang."
Bai Zhi’er nodded her little head: "Just now, Zhi’er wanted to put the insect on the table because this is where Sun Sun sits, so he would see it when he comes back!"
Bai Xilie furrowed his brows in confusion: "Sun Sun?"
Bai Zhi’er explained without changing her expression: "It’s a nickname!"
Ke Shouwang’s expression turned an awkward mix of pale and blue.
He was called Sun Sun by the little princess in front of everyone!
Bai Xilie didn’t linger on this matter.
He turned his gaze to Bai Yanyan, his eyes filled with a deadly aura.
"Do you understand now? All the witnesses are here, and yet you still dare say Zhi’er intended to poison?" Nᴇw ɴovel chaptᴇrs are published on novel⁂fire.net
Bai Yanyan was already dumbfounded.
"Emperor, this can’t be true!" she exclaimed in shock, "How can just anyone stand up and claim the insect as theirs?"
Ke Shouwang frowned slightly: "That’s mine, I raised that poisonous insect, I can recognize it."
The common people gasped in shock.
To them, it was a legendary tool capable of killing invisibly.
How could an ordinary person ever come into contact with it.
Yet, the powerful families standing by nodded and whispered among themselves—
"It’s quite normal; that deceased old Madam from the Ke family was the Holy Daughter of Miao."
"Yes, everyone knows the Poisonous Insect Technique of the Ke family is passed down in a single line, hasn’t Lord Ke inherited it now?"
"So that’s how it is; it seems we have misunderstood the little princess."
Bai Yanyan listened as these strangers instantly excused Bai Zhi’er.
She gritted her teeth, unwillingly saying: "Then what about the bowl of porridge? The little princess was holding it the whole time; isn’t that suspicious?"
Bai Xilie turned back and glanced at the bowl of sea soup porridge on the table that Bai Yanyan had claimed was suspicious.
He snorted coldly and looked at Bai Yanyan: "Trying to slander even as death looms, I see you are truly tired of living."
"This bowl of porridge was given to the Princess by me. So, you’re saying I intended to poison everyone present as well?"
Bai Yanyan was stunned again.
How could she have known it was sea soup porridge meant only for the Emperor and the Princess!
Just as she hadn’t known there was a Miao Grandma in Ke Shouwang’s family!
Bai Zhi’er, with a sweet and soft voice, blinked her big eyes: "This is for Brother Ce to taste. My master just called me, so I’ve been carrying it around~"
At this point, the little one huffed in frustration: "Hmph! Did you think I wanted to? Carrying it around everywhere, the porridge spilled on my hand!"
"It’s all because I wanted to bring it to Brother Ce." Bai Zhi’er mumbled.