Chapter 990: 467 The Truth Comes to Light (Third Update) Chapter 990: 467 The Truth Comes to Light (Third Update) “`Princess Xinyang spoke in a tone cold as ice, “How can you be exempt from blame? If it weren’t for that woman you brought back attracting assassins, how could my son have been poisoned?”

Marquis Xuanping furrowed his brows even more tightly, “Do you think the poisoners were targeting her?”

“Isn’t that the case?” Princess Xinyang retorted.

Marquis Xuanping fell silent.

Princess Xinyang laughed scornfully, “Speechless now, are you? Aren’t you always loath to take the fall? Come on, tell me, how have I wronged you?”

Marquis Xuanping looked at her with a complex expression, “Qin Fengwan, has this incident affected your feelings for Xiao Hen?”

“What do you mean?” Princess Xinyang was puzzled.

The depths of Marquis Xuanping’s eyes darkened, “You think the assassins were targeting his mother, does that cause you to harbor a trace of resentment towards him as well?”

Without waiting for Princess Xinyang to respond, Marquis Xuanping continued, “I was never a good person to begin with; just when I managed to do something right, I end up being wrongfully accused. Qin Fengwan, you were the one who wanted to ask, and no matter the outcome, you’re not to blame me.”

A sense of bad omen rose from the bottom of Princess Xinyang’s heart.

Marquis Xuanping looked at her steadily, his gaze solemn and icy cold, “Qin Fengwan, we had an agreement from the start, you wouldn’t fall in love with me, and I’d better not fancy you either. On our wedding night, you yourself asked me not to touch you, that we would forever be a married couple in name only, not interfering with one another. But later, due to a fluke… I touched you, you got pregnant, I asked you, do you want this child? If you do, he will be my, Xiao Ji’s, legitimate son. In my life, I will have only one legitimate son, and that’ll be the child of you, Qin Fengwan! If you don’t, then I won’t say another word. The choice is yours, the womb is yours.”

I surely know whether I was looking forward to this child. Both the Princess Residence and Marquis Xuanping’s residence were guarded to what extent back then, more impregnable than the palace itself, not even a fly could enter! Let me ask you this, how could assassins poison the child!”

Princess Xinyang’s gaze trembled, “You… ”
Marquis Xuanping nodded with a cold laugh, “That’s right, that’s what I’m saying, there is a traitor among us! A traitor has emerged from your own circle.”

Princess Xinyang’s complexion changed, “Impossible, I have the Dragon Shadow Guard watching over the two children day and night, how could anyone have had the chance to poison them?”

The cold smile froze on Marquis Xuanping’s lips, his eyes chilling, “Yes, you have the Dragon Shadow Guard guarding the children, so who else could have poisoned them! Think for yourself!”

A thunderclap of realization exploded in Princess Xinyang’s mind!

Dragon Shadow Guard!

No, it couldn’t be.

How could the Dragon Shadow Guard harm her children?

This conjecture was too bold, even absurd; she laughed at herself.

However, before long, her laughter gradually solidified on her face.

Marquis Xuanping was right, at that time Marquis Xuanping’s residence and the Princess Residence indeed had tight security–so tight that outsiders couldn’t get in, even the Emperor’s Dragon Shadow Guard might not have been able to infiltrate without alerting anyone.

Because she had the Dragon Shadow Guard as well.

Under those circumstances, aside from the Dragon Shadow Guard themselves, no one had the opportunity to act.

But she trusted the Dragon Shadow Guard too much, so she never considered this flaw.

Princess Xinyang struggled to suppress the shaking of her body, desperately clinging to the last shred of possibility, “Why couldn’t it be those people? Do they not have any suspicion at all?”

Marquis Xuanping said, “I’m not clear about when they came and when they started targeting Xiao Hen.”

Because Xiao Hen was seldom by his side, he wasn’t present when those people were watching Xiao Hen, and thus he failed to notice in time.

He said earnestly, “But I can tell you plainly, when the children had their mishap, those people had not yet arrived in Zhan Country.”

Princess Xinyang looked into his eyes, “How can you be so sure?”

Marquis Xuanping met her scrutinizing gaze without flinching, “She said so herself; she said if she didn’t die, she would lead them here.”

As he spoke these words, there was not a trace of emotion in his eyes.

Princess Xinyang averted her gaze, “Her dying words?”

“Yes,” Marquis Xuanping replied.

“Then did she really die?” Princess Xinyang asked.

Marquis Xuanping sighed, “Either way, I buried her with my own hands.”

Princess Xinyang gave a bitter smile, “You even buried her yourself, how unexpected.”

Marquis Xuanping pressed his lips together, not arguing with her. He looked at her deeply, “She never implicated Xiao Qing, Xiao Qing did not die because of her and Xiao Hen.”

But Princess Xinyang’s attention was caught by that name, “You still remember his name?””`