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"Your Majesty, you really have misunderstood! I truly didn't mean anything by it. I only heard the two lords say they'd entered the palace to see you. I'd just come from Cining Palace and knew you were keeping the Empress Dowager company, so I thought you might not be free for a while. They both looked so hurried and tired that I wanted to take them somewhere to rest until you left Cining Palace, then let them pay their respects. I didn't have the slightest improper intention!" The moment she was dropped, Xia Yuqing clung to Feng Tingye's leg and wailed. To make it convincing, she secretly pinched her own thigh, bringing tears to her eyes. Ouch... I pinched too hard!
Most of Feng Tingye's anger had faded on the way back. Once his head cooled, he immediately noticed the holes in what those two had said and pieced together roughly what had happened. But before he could speak, Xia Yuqing started wailing.
Well, now Feng Tingye was interested. He lifted Xia Yuqing's face by the chin and smiled, enough to change the color of wind and clouds. "Hearsay is empty; seeing is believing. Could what I saw with my own eyes be false?"
Feng Tingye's uncanny smile made Xia Yuqing shudder. She pursed her lips and, like a cracked jar past saving, gave up all caution. "What will it take for Your Majesty to believe me?"
The big bad wolf hummed thoughtfully, then began to hoodwink the little white rabbit without so much as changing expression. "Just now, I saw you behaving intimately with the two lords and speaking to them suggestively. Since you insist you have no improper closeness with them, you should produce solid proof. I have always been fair and just. I