Chapter 99: Truth?

99. Chapter 99: Truth?

Night Patrol Office, dungeon.

Xie Zian looked at the middle‑aged man chained by iron links and suspended in midair, his expression as cold as frost.

"Just live properly, okay?"

"Why do people always jump out to seek death?"

"Or perhaps, after I left Jingcheng for three years, you all forgot that the young master's mind has always been small!"

"Xie Zian, every grievance has a cause and every debt a creditor; I did it, it has nothing to do with my family, they know nothing!"

The middle‑aged man looked at Xie Zian, his eyes full of panic.

"Lying to me, you are truly naive!"

Xie Zian slowly raised his right hand, fingers splayed, "I give you one final chance: name everyone involved in this matter, and I will spare your family!"

"I will count to five; if you have not answered by then, I will take it as you choosing to have your family die with you!"

"A whole family, all together, might be fine!"

Xie Zian's expression was cold, but his mood was calm.

When a major matter arises, one must calm the mind!

He was actually angry inside, but while probing the truth, he would not let anger dictate his thoughts; only then could he untangle the tangled clues and find the truth.

"One!"

"Two!"

…

"I speak, I speak!"

"It's Prince Jin!"

"The operation was planned by Prince Jin's manor staff member Zuo Qingming; I was only the executor!"

"Still lying!"

Xie Zian immediately looked at Zeng Jiu standing nearby, said calmly, "Send him and his family on their way!"

If a chance is given and one does not cherish it, then Xie Zian would not feel his own actions were cruel.

Different paths, no cooperation.

"I didn't lie 1"

"Xie Zian, I can swear by all the ancestors of my Song family that I did not lie; it truly was Zuo Qingming of Prince Jin's manor who planned this operation!"

"Our goal is to use the method of startling the snake by cutting the grass to provoke the Empress in the palace, and then someone will, at the right moment, drug her so that the prince in her womb aborts unintentionally!"

"However, I do not know who executes that part of the palace plan; perhaps only Prince Jin knows!"

The man spoke everything he knew as effortlessly as beans pouring from a bamboo tube.

Xie Zian, after hearing the other's words, turned to Zeng Jiu and said, "Now, you may go capture them!"

Prince Jin's manor staff member Zuo Qingming!

The surname is Zuo!

Xie Zian's complexion grew somewhat solemn.

In his memory, a few years ago, due to his involvement, the former Minister of Revenue Zuo Yutang's household was seized and the whole family exiled to the frontier.

Is this Zuo Qingming related to Zuo Yutang?

Xie Zian could not determine whether the two were truly related; everything must wait until Zeng Jiu brings the person back.

However, when the Night Patrol Office's dispatched men returned, Xie Zian heard unwelcome news.

Zuo Qingming is dead!

He drank too much, lost his footing, and fell from a building.

"He died quite timely, huh!"

Xie Zian's face grew even more solemn.

With Zuo Qingming dead, the clue was cut off.

Although he was Prince Jin's staff, who can guarantee he was indeed scheming for Prince Jin?

Without solid evidence, attempting to take down a prince is undoubtedly impossible.

After all, although Emperor Xi He now holds power, above him still stands the Grand Emperor.

Prince Jin is also the Grand Emperor's son.

Emperor Xi He lacks solid evidence, making any targeting of Prince Jin impossible.