Once he ruled out the people around him, the list of possibilities grew.
The first was definitely the prince of the Western Regions, Ruthis; the second was the Second Prince, Chu Xuanzhi; and the third was the original female lead, Jiang Qinghuan.
Why had he included the original female lead?
From the very first time he met her, he had felt that her personality differed far too much from the original novel. Rather than the supposedly pure, flawless white lotus, she had turned her nose up at him for wearing rags.
Then there was the scene where the original female lead abandoned the city and fled. That did not fit her "saintly" image in the original novel at all!
Besides, why had she not developed feelings for Chu Xuanzhen? Granted, his presence between them would have had some effect, but compared with the original story, where she fell for the male lead at first sight, the current situation simply did not match up.
Thinking it through further, Ruthis and the original female lead were highly suspicious, but he was not about to settle on a suspect so quickly.
Given the Database's usual twisted punishments, he kept feeling that this matter was not as simple as he imagined. Although those two were the most suspicious, he had no concrete evidence, so he set them aside for now.
As he mulled it over, Shen Yangge grew drowsy. A second before he closed his eyes, he seemed to sense that the candlelight in the side hall had dimmed considerably.
Suddenly, something slightly cool was slipped inside him. All the drowsiness he had built up vanished in an instant. Shen Yangge frowned and lifted his eyelids to find Chu Xuanzhen standing over him in his underclothes, staring down at him.
As for that slightly