Xia Chujian's eyes flickered as she slowly revealed herself and said sternly, "I am Xia Chujian, a Special Security Bureau Field Operative."
"I am carrying out a special mission for the Special Security Bureau, executing a heinous criminal!"
"If you dare show any disrespect toward a Special Security Bureau Field Operative, Marshal Huo will never let you off!"
She used her mecha's external amplification system to shout those words, her voice so loud it could practically cover a ten-li radius.
The officers surrounding her were stunned as well.
Then, without waiting for them to react, Xia Chujian dropped another bombshell. "Also, I did not kill the First in Line to the Throne!"
"This Tantai Jing is not the First in Line to the Throne at all!"
"You cannot pin that charge on me!"
Her words made the military personnel sent to carry out the Imperial Family's mission hesitate.
They had been urgently summoned under the claim that the Empire's nominal commander-in-chief of the armed forces—the Crown Princess—had been taken hostage and was in mortal danger!
Yet now, this murder suspect was telling them that the person she had killed was not the First in Line to the Throne at all.
And she claimed to be a Special Security Bureau Field Operative!
Just as these people began to waver, Xia Chujian continued, "If you don't believe me, go ask Her Majesty the Empress!"
"Even if you don't believe me, do you not believe the Empress herself?"
On the surface, Tantai Jing was the Empress's biological daughter.
Could the Empress fail to recognize her own daughter? Yet during Xia Chujian's conversation with Tantai Jing, she had long sensed that the Empress had likely realized this Tantai Jing was not her biological daughter.
Now that the Empress was openly opposing Nine Doubts Consort,