"Ah?"
Everyone was utterly astonished.
"You're not mistaken, are you?"
"I couldn't be. His build is about the same as this one's..."
As soon as he finished speaking, he caught sight of the half of the tall man's face exposed beneath the veiled hat and let out a soft cry of surprise:
"Oh, this must be her husband."
Everyone's gaze fell on Qi Jinghe.
Then...
They all froze.
Was this the husband who was said to be as beautiful as a Heavenly Immortal, and praised to the skies?
Could it be that their eyes were faulty?
His brows were so sharp they looked like swords, and his gaze was cold, not gentle in the slightest.
His nose was far too high and straight, without the slightest hint of delicacy.
His lips were thin and tightly pressed together. One look was enough to tell that he would be extremely difficult to get along with.
His entire person had none of the soft beauty one expected of a man.
As countless assessing gazes fell upon him, Qi Jinghe's expression grew even colder.
He glared furiously at the woman still spouting nonsense in the courtroom.
If she wanted to conduct an interrogation, then interrogate. If she wanted to defend herself, then defend herself. Why had she dragged him into it?
Dragging him into it would have been one thing, but why had she said so many... so many shameful things?
Couldn't she have said such things after they returned?
She had to babble nonsense in front of everyone.
Shameless.
If he had known, he never would have come.
He had worried all night and hadn't slept at all. At dawn, he had even waited outside this place.
In the courtroom.
After examination, the food Su Qiao had provided indeed contained the deadly poison