Huo Yushen said with certainty, "The Grand Princess still counts as a member of the Imperial Family, but her descendants do not."
"So it was perfectly legal and reasonable for these people to serve as the Grand Princess's security personnel."
Xia Chujian gave an "oh." "...What does that prove?"
"How old were these people at the time?"
Huo Yushen said, "At the time, they were all between twenty-eight and thirty-five years old."
"Now, they are between forty-eight and fifty-five."
"More strangely, all fifty of them died over the past twenty years, for various reasons."
"By now, only one is still alive. This man..."
Huo Yushen pointed at the man on the Virtual Display Screen—the one they had found today selling the antique Hairpin.
Xia Chujian said, "Anyone qualified to serve as a Royal Inner Guard had to be a Gene Evolver, right?"
Huo Yushen nodded. "The weakest among them were Rank B Peak Gene Evolvers."
"Forty of them were Peak Rank A."
"Even within the Imperial Family, Evolvers at that level were core personnel."
Xia Chujian said, "If this group had carried out the extermination mission at Ying Clan Manor, they should have been able to leave no traces behind, right?"
Huo Yushen said, "Absolutely."
"That was their specialty."
"They received more training in that area than even the Special Security Bureau's special operations teams."
"But under the relevant laws, they only carried out such missions for Royal Members."
The truth seemed to be right in front of her, yet Xia Chujian still found it hard to believe.
She said troubledly, "If it wasn't the Emperor or the Empress, then could it only have been... the Grand Princess?"
"But what would her motive have been?"
Of the three, the Empress had the strongest motive, but because of that Hairpin, Xia