The Emperor heard his words and fell silent for a moment, before slowly speaking: "Crown Prince, perhaps it's not the right time to say this, but I'll still muster up the courage to ask you for a personal favor. The incident in Jinling City last year, although it has been covered up, I'm still someone who knows about it. When I saw the Crown Princess last time, I felt something was off, and later when I saw you two together at the palace banquet, I roughly guessed that she had lost her memory, right?"

  Di Ji said, pausing for a moment before continuing: "I know that the Crown Prince has many ways to silence those who know the truth, but I've said this much - you can kill me and everyone else who knows about it. However, what if someone were to reveal the truth to the Crown Princess? Your Highness, I believe you wouldn't want her to find out about these things."

  Di Jun's eyes fluttered open, staring at Di Jiu, and for a long time, neither of them spoke.

  "I'm covering for His Highness the Crown Prince, not for anything else, just because I don't want to stir up trouble. But now I want to ask His Highness for this favor. He let the Crown Princess suffer, and I can double the beating back at him. As long as His Highness spares his life, I won't let anyone know about that matter, nor will anyone tell the Crown Princess about it."

  ……

  Chu Ci sent Chen Lan out to buy things for her, and she took the opportunity to leave.

  Chu Ci didn't go anywhere else, she just inquired around and then went to the isolation area.

  Because the guards outside the isolation zone were the dark guards of the crown prince, they naturally recognized Chu Ci. However, when they saw Chu Ci appear in the isolation zone, they quickly blocked him.

  "The Crown Princess, please stop here, this is a quarantine area." Two guards stepped forward and blocked Chu Ci.

  The blocked Chu Ci didn't seem surprised, she opened her mouth and said: "I want to go in and take a look."

  Shou Wei bowed his head and said, "It's too dangerous here, Your Highness, please leave."

  "Then I'll just take a look outside the isolation zone, okay?" Chu Ci said, retreating his steps.

  After all, facing the crown prince's consort, the guards couldn't maintain their tough attitude anymore. The several guards exchanged glances with each other and finally agreed to Chu Ci's request, but only allowed him to watch from outside the isolation zone's wall.

  As he walked further and further away, Chu Ci suddenly heard the sound of someone's painful moans coming from inside, accompanied by sharp cries, sobbing, and angry roars, all mixed together...

  Chu Ci stopped in his tracks outside the city walls.

  She was originally the same as these people, and it was because of His Highness the Crown Prince that she avoided suffering those hardships.

  After a while, Chu Ci heard some movement behind him, turned his head to take a look, and saw someone carrying a stretcher out. The person lying on the stretcher was covered with white cloth...

  Chu Ci looked at the stretcher being carried out, his expression changing bit by bit on his face, but his eyes remained still and unmoving. He asked with feigned ignorance: "What happened..."

  "The princess consort has been poisoned to death." The guard beside him replied.

  "Oh." Chu Ci kept staring at the stretcher being carried away, and it wasn't until a long, long time had passed that he slowly withdrew his gaze, but his expression was still subtly changing.

  She pointed inside the wall and couldn't help but ask: "How many people die in there every day?"

  "About ten," Shou Wei replied heavily.

  Chu Ci softly murmured "oh" and touched her slightly cool fingertips, without saying anything else.

  ……

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