My Devil Emperor
Tribunal

An atmosphere of tension was felt in the courtroom. ZiXuan stared intently at the palace servants standing in front of him while looking down.

He turned to look at Luo Li who was standing on the left side along with BaiSan who was accompanying him.

"I can't believe there's anyone who's so brave to do this to me, don't you want to live?" he opened his voice.

"What's really going on, Your Majesty?" ask BaiSan.

"Sister Bai, are you doubting me?" The whisper was heard entering his ears. BaiSan turned her head to look at Luo Li. Of course he believed that his woman did not have any relationship anymore with ZiXuan, but her name should also be cleared.

BaiSan smiled. Her outstretched cry grasped Luo Li's warm hand. "How is it possible? I'm just worried about you" he explained.

The two of them refocused on the court when someone returned to speak, this time it was not ZiXuan but Yuan who started it.

"What actually happened? I'm sure everyone here is also curious, right?. So I'll start with your future wife. Princess Luo Li, when we met in the storage room you said that you were there to meet my empress. How can it be like that?"

Luo Li looked doubtful and stared at Yuan's left side, there were two of his personal servants there. "A palace maid came to see you and said that you wanted to meet me in the storage room for something important" Luo Li said slowly.

ZiXuan turned his head towards his wife with a questioning look, while the woman spread her shoulders a sign of not knowing anything.

Yuan cleared his throat slowly and said, "You said, he's a servant. Did— "Yuan hang up his sentence and glanced to his left side at a glance.

He took a slow breath and exhaled. The blinds of her eyes moved down covering the eyeballs as beautiful as night begonia. "Tell me. No problem," he said quietly but still heard in the quiet room.

"That's right. The servant is one of your personal servants, Your Majesty the Empress."

This is what he worries about. This must be just a mistake.

Yuan opened his eyes again, tilted his body slightly and turned to the two maids.

One of them stepped forward. He sat down beside Yuan with his head bowed.

"Your Majesty, that is me. Last night I said that the Empress wants to see Princess Luo Li in the storage room. But for this matter, I don't know. I said right. And for that message, I did not receive it directly from the Empress. It was from someone who met me near the empress' room."

Yuan was still staring at the woman with an inexplicable feeling. Not only was he shocked, but also everyone including Li Wei.

"Continue," said Yuan turning his gaze straight ahead.

"Every night I wanted to see the Empress in my room. As always, serve you or ask if you need anything before going to bed. But I didn't find you there. So I decided to look for you." Jingli sighed for a while before returning to continue, "Then, I met a servant not far from Empress Xuan's palace. He seemed to be in a hurry and walked up to me. Then he said Empress Xuan had just gone to the storage room to wait for Princess Luo Li. Empress Xuan asked him to pass the message on to Luo Li's daughter but the maid said she was in a hurry to complete the task the emperor had given her and was afraid of not being able to complete it in time, so he asked me for help to meet Princess Luo Li and deliver His Majesty's message the Empress." Jingli finished his explanation in a kneeling position and lowered his head.

"How will you prove it? You could be lying, right?" asked ZiXuan coldly.

Suddenly Yunniang came forward and knelt beside Jingli. "Your Majesty may I speak?" ask him politely. Yuan turned his head and looked at the servant with the meaning 'What are you doing?' But Yunniang just smiled and lowered his head.

Without turning his head, ZiXuan said, "Getting cleared."

Yunniang continued, "As long as I work to serve the Empress with Jingli, she is an honest woman. Never once made a big mistake let alone dared to harm the Emperor and Empress. His Majesty the Emperor and the Empress please investigate again to the fullest."

Yuan now looked at ZiXuan. "Your Majesty, what Yunniang said makes sense. This empress did not intend to defend her because she was my personal servant, but there was no reason for her to do so to you. He was not only my servant, but also my childhood friend. I know him more than anyone. He's the one I trust. There's no way he'll hurt the people I love. Your Majesty, please investigate again," Yuan said expectantly.

"Your Majesty, please investigate again." This time it was Li Wei who spoke.

ZiXuan sighed softly. He again said, "Then you can appoint the servant who asked you to pass the message on to Princess Luo Li."

Jingli turned his head while raising his head. His eyes scanned one by one the face of the servant standing under the steps of the stairs carefully then his eyes stopped at a not so conspicuous servant standing at the very corner.

"That's it," he said as he pointed at the maid without hesitation.

Everyone stared at the direction Jingli was pointing at, including Yuan.

Yuan narrowed his eyes and said subconsciously, "Isn't that the same person who met you last night, Your Majesty?"

"Yes, there he is. Take him forward!" zixuan's orders were immediately executed by the bodyguard who stood close to the line of servants.

The servant's face was a little pale, but it still looked calm.

The two bodyguards dragging him kicked the servant's knee until he fell to his knees.

"Do you want to say something?" ask Yuan.

The waiter looked down. Without seeing Yuan's face, he replied, "Nothing."

"Who told you to?"

The waiter was silent. He refused to give an answer.

Yuan growled in annoyance. "Do you have no mouth?" the sarcasm.

ZiXuan glanced at the different-looking Yuan. The woman seemed to be holding back anger. He smiled faintly and said, "My Empress, don't be angry."

Yuan hissing. ZiXuan could pour oil into the fire!

"Your Majesty, you know exactly what he's doing! It doesn't matter if I'm affected. But what if it was you? What if I'm not there? What if the plan works?" tanyanya.

Seeing Yuan who could not contain his anger made people wonder what was really going on. Empress Xuan was indeed strange at times, but she rarely displayed her anger in public. Although not scary because Yuan's face does look like a gentle and educated graceful woman, it is still different if a dynastic empress does it.

ZiXuan looked at Li Wei and the man immediately understood his point.

Li Wei took out a rectangular box and handed it to ZiXuan.

ZiXuan opened the box that turned out to contain an incense stick and placed it on the table.

"It was a Pair of Night Incense, one of a kind of aphrodisiac incense," he said calmly.

Everyone who heard was shocked.

An aphrodisiac incense stick that has the effect of increasing arousal is placed in a tightly closed room. Inside the room were two people trapped inside. What happens after that can be predicted.

[Aphrodisiacs are substances that can increase sexual desire. The term is derived from the Greek, ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ , aphrodisiacon, from aphrodisios, i.e. "related to Aphrodite"]

"What! Absolutely outrageous!"

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