Meng Guanghui: "..."
It was logical and well-founded, impossible to refute.
He gave an awkward smile and said no more, leading Xia Chujian to Huo Yushen's Office.
After opening the door and letting Xia Chujian enter, Meng Guanghui took up his usual position outside the door, standing guard.
The office door was shut tightly.
Inside the office, when Huo Yushen saw her enter, he activated his Quantum Encrypted program and enveloped Xia Chujian within it.
The two of them were face-to-face, yet they still had to use a virtual program to speak.
That was because the emperor had installed surveillance in his office. It was not completely confidential.
For matters the emperor could not be allowed to know, he had to activate his own Quantum Encrypted program.
Xia Chujian silently looked at Huo Yushen.
Before Xia Chujian could ask anything, Huo Yushen succinctly said, "You were able to escape this disaster today thanks to Zong Ruoning."
"He said that he had carelessly revealed to you that Tantai Jing might not be the Empress's biological daughter."
"So before you killed her, you already knew her identity."
"That was the only way to prove that you had not deliberately killed the Crown Princess."
Xia Chujian naturally knew that was not the truth and immediately understood that it was merely an excuse Zong Ruoning had devised to clear her name.
She was utterly astonished. She opened her mouth, wanting to ask how Zong Ruoning knew, but she did not know whether she should say it aloud.
Huo Yushen instantly understood what she wanted to say. He made a silencing gesture at her and explained the whole sequence of events.
"Remember this. Because you killed Tantai Jing, the emperor originally insisted that, when you killed her, you did not know Tantai Jing's true identity."