“Understood. Let’s conclude the questioning about Sierra Raymond’s status, and now, we will move on to the most crucial question in this case. Sierra Raymond.”
“Yes.”
A palpable tension filled the room.
There was only one question that mattered the most in this case, which was why everyone kept their eyes fixed on Count Ers and Sierra.
“Did you poison the tea that the Empress drank during the tea party?”
“Yes. That’s correct.”
Sierra responded without a hint of hesitation, with a confident demeanor.
“Oh my goodness!”
“How can someone commit such an act without recognizing the Empress’s grace!”
In addition to confessing her crime, Sierra’s unabashed attitude shocked everyone.
“I am the one who poured the poisoned water into the Empress’s tea.”
“To commit such an audacious act and be so casual about it. It’s truly frightening.”
“That’s right. How can one be so shameless?”
Then, accusations and condemnations began to pour onto Sierra.
Despite the uproar of voices from all directions, Count Ers remained silent, as if waiting for the atmosphere to intensify even further.
For quite a while, the meeting room was filled with fingers pointing and insults directed at Sierra.
Even in the midst of the commotion, Count Ers uttered no words.
It seemed as though he was waiting for the tension to escalate.
Despite the relentless criticism Sierra faced within the chamber, when I looked at her with concern, she responded with a smile that seemed to assure me not to worry.
Witnessing Sierra’s resilient demeanor, I took a moment to gather my thoughts and nodded subtly.
“Now, please quiet down.”
Thinking that the atmosphere he intended had been established, Count Ers finally intervened and silenced the crowd.
“Since there are still questions to be asked of Sierra Raymond, let’s proceed. Sierra Raymond.”
“Yes.”
“It was mentioned that the act of poisoning the Empress’s tea was not solely planned by you. Is that correct?”
“Yes. That’s correct.”
“Then you must know who the instigator behind that act is. Tell us their name.”
“Fortunately, the person who ordered me to poison the Empress’s tea, to kill the Empress, is already present in this room.”
“Present in this room?”
Even though Count Ers already knew what Sierra had confessed, he asked with surprise, as if hearing it for the first time.
“Yes. That person is…”
Instead of directly revealing the name, Sierra closed her mouth and scanned the surroundings with her finger.
With each pass of Sierra’s finger, the nobles could be heard holding their breath from here.
However, as if reconsidering, Sierra lowered her arm without pointing at anyone.
“Oh, before that, there’s something I want to say to everyone present here.”
“What is it?”
“I just swore to the gods here that I would never tell a lie. However, I want to correct something due to a sense of guilt.”
“Does that mean you’ve been lying all along?”
“Yes. That’s correct. I feel guilty about it, and I want to rectify it.”
“How can you lie in such a sacred courtroom?”
“Truly shameless and wicked.”
As Sierra’s words concluded, once again, a barrage of accusations was directed at her.
Nevertheless, Sierra remained undaunted.
Now that she could finally speak the whole truth, she began to express herself with a relieved expression.
“First, let me correct my identity. Currently, my name is indeed Sierra Raymond. However, Raymond is my husband’s last name. Before marriage, my original name was Sierra Hasper.”
As soon as the name Hasper was mentioned, the conference room fell silent as if a mouse had died. No one expected that name to come up here.
“If it’s Hasper…”
Then, a nobleman was the first to mutter the name Hasper. Following that, remarks about the Hasper family erupted from the nobles.
“If it’s Hasper, that’s the family that disappeared due to rebellion over a decade ago.”
“Come to think of it, they said back then that one of their daughters vanished without a trace.”
“Yes, they never found her. Could it be that the maid…”
“How could something like this happen…”
Observing the shocked faces of the people swept by a great shock, Sierra didn’t stop there. And with the next words, the conference room soon turned into chaos.
It was because the story coming out of Sierra’s mouth was even more unbelievable than before.
“As for the question about who ordered me to poison the Empress’s tea, I will answer it now. The person who instructed me to kill the Empress is none other than the Empress herself.”
When scheming men desperately battle for her favor in the male harem
This one’s also on my reread list! The rivalry, scheming between the men in the imperial harem are just as intense and thrilling as in classic palace drama novels, where concubines fight to the death. Give it a read, girls! I promise you won’t be disappointed.
Synopsis:
“I am not worthy of her… but I still want to be by her side, even if only as a loyal dog…”
Those were the painful whispers of Yue Guanyi – the proud Crown Prince of the Great Qi, who was torn between deep love and a guilty conscience. Despite holding the supreme power of the Imperial Guard, he still could not forget the dark past when he was sold into a brothel.
Fate played a cruel twist when Qiu Shuzhi – a young female official who had just passed the imperial examinations with top honors – stepped into his life. She did not know that she was the one who had saved him from a tragic fate many years ago. And now, her heart was the target of pursuit for both Yue Guanyi and the powerful Empress Dowager Qin Qing.
While Yue Guanyi only dared to silently care for and protect the one he loved from afar, the Empress Dowager Qin Qing openly expressed his feelings and did not hesitate to take advantage of his power to approach Qiu Shuzhi. The covert struggle between the two most powerful forces in the imperial court began…
Trigger warning: All men in this novel are yandere style.
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