After Lu Yiyi finished speaking, she felt her whole heart tremble.
Could something so bizarre really have happened?
Or...
Did the emperor mean something else that she had failed to grasp?
"Your Majesty?"
She prompted him.
The emperor gazed toward the far end of the hall, as though he could see through the walls to a time ten years ago.
A moment passed.
He sighed but still said nothing. He merely took out a sheet of paper and handed it to Lu Yiyi.
Lu Yiyi looked closely.
It read:
"On such-and-such a date, at such-and-such a time, Lu Chenzhou received a treasure from Lu Yiyi: a pair of Copper Gong Magic Treasures;"
"On such-and-such a date, at such-and-such a time, Lu Chenzhou received money from Lu Yiyi: twenty thousand Spirit Stones;"
"In such-and-such a year..."
It was a record of everything Lu Chenzhou had taken from Lu Yiyi over the years!
Lu Yiyi said in astonishment, "Your Majesty..."
The emperor waved a hand and said:
"Everything he took from you has been entered into my records. When you marry one day, I'll repay you a hundredfold."
Lu Yiyi sighed.
Under the suspicion she now harbored, those things no longer mattered.
What truly mattered was—
"Yiyi, do you remember when you went to the East Sea that year? Did Chen Zhou touch anything of yours?" the emperor asked.
"No! Before I left, he even gave me a huge bag of Spirit Stones to buy sweets with," Lu Yiyi said.
The moment she finished speaking, her heart tightened again. Her eyes met the emperor's.
His gaze held caution, deep thought, and uncertainty.
Yes.
That man...
Ever since the Border City Battle, he seemed to have become a completely different person.
That was why the emperor had always suspected something.
He had broken