Chapter 278: The Princess in Question

Chapter 278

Noble Consort Chen silently mourned for her father and brothers, despairing calmly.

She did not have a breakdown, did not roar, and did not even cry.

The current her already had no more tears to shed.

She sat numbly on the bed, her mind completely blank,

The intense stimulation made her unable to recall what had happened at the execution ground that day,

Nor could she remember her father and brothers' severed heads falling to the ground before her.

Liu Yue persuaded her for a long time, but she only felt a constant buzzing in her ears. Other than the sound of her own heartbeat, she could not hear anything else.

Until the room door was opened again, Kang Yubin bowed to Noble Consort Chen with clasped hands,

"Paying respects to Noble Consort. His Majesty knows about the affairs in your residence and is very concerned about you, so he immediately let us come back to accompany you. He also sent people back to the Qinling Mountains to check on the Old Madam. As for the Lord and Young Master's funeral arrangements... His Majesty has also permitted an honorable burial."

Noble Consort Chen regained her senses from her numbness, got out of bed,

"Where are the people? This consort wants to go!"

She rushed out emotionally, Liu Yue desperately held on to her, sobbing and persuading,

"Noble Mother, don't go! When you were unconscious... they had already been buried..."

Noble Consort Chen drew the direct distance between Suzhou and capital,

She estimated roughly that if she had travelled in a straight line, galloping day and night from Suzhou back urgently, it would have taken her two days at most.

"Why? It clearly only takes two days, but he took me on a three day detour!"

Noble Consort Chen was increasingly agitated, as if mad, sweeping everything off the table, almost roaring hoarsely,

"Why! Why take me on a detour? I could have made it in time to save Father and Brothers! Why!!!"

There were tears in her eyes, but her gaze was fierce enough to frighten people.

In that instant, the fog clouding her heart was peeled away layer by layer.

She recalled Xiao Jingheng telling her that all the evidence against the Ning family this time was gathered by Prince Rui,

And she remembered that Prince Rui had always resented her for causing the death of his birth mother, so he had always been biting into the Ning family,

Then there was the obviously impossible letter of treason that could not have been written by her father,

As well as An Vice General who had deliberately taken her on a detour and was now drinking merrily with Prince Rui...

The more Noble Consort Chen thought about it, the more furious she became, feeling that her five organs were about to explode inside her body.

She clenched her ten fingers tightly, the just healed wounds on the fingernails that were broken during the long arduous journey split open and bled again.

“It’s him! That bastard Xiao Jinglian!