Chapter 496: Chapter 496 Blood Clan Queen (25)

“If that’s the case, why doesn’t His Highness wake up Xia Ci and ask her?” Karlo took a deep breath and tried to stay calm.

Chuzheng spoke with a hint of coldness, “Are you sure?”

It’s all for your own good.

Why don’t you understand my painstaking efforts.

Karlo said, “Everyone is clear about what’s inside the Altar. If that thing comes out, not to mention humans, even our Blood Clan will be plunged into disaster.”

Chuzheng took a step back.

She signaled them to do as they wish.

Karlo didn’t wake up Xia Ci but instead, another Blood Clan member roused her.

“Xia Ci, what did you see just now? Who destroyed the Altar?”

Xia Ci’s neck hurt, and her mind was somewhat muddled as if she hadn’t yet figured out what had happened.

Hearing the question, Xia Ci’s thoughts began to converge.

“The Altar…” Xia Ci looked over with a trace of fear.

“Who destroyed the Altar?” the Blood Clan member urged.

Xia Ci shook her head, “I don’t know…”

Although Xia Ci said she didn’t know, her gaze drifted towards Chuzheng.

As if Chuzheng didn’t allow her to speak.

The Blood Clan on the side warned, “Xia Ci, do not conceal anything. We all heard what you said before!”

“What exactly happened with the Altar?”

“Speak up quickly!”

This time, the ones urging her, Chuzheng took a brief glance, were all from Karlo’s side.

Hmm!

Later, Su Ji can consume them!

[…]Blood Clan don’t feed on Blood Clan, Miss, have you ever seen humans eat humans?

Chuzheng: I have.

[…]Never mind what I said.

“It was… His Highness…” Xia Ci seemed frightened.

“What nonsensical things are you talking about!” Bruno, now siding with Chuzheng, naturally wanted to protect her.

Xia Ci shook her head, “I am not. The affair of His Highness giving up his position was… was intentionally done by His Highness.”

The crowd stirred.

“So, I thought as much,” Chuzheng said leisurely, “Why look at me? Continue with the story.”

Chuzheng’s reaction was off.

Not only was the storyteller confounded by her reaction.

Even the Blood Clan felt the same.

Chuzheng held an expressionless face, impossible to decipher, and so she let her thoughts run wild, opening a barrage of inner sarcasm.

Incidentally, she even finished brain supplementing Xia Ci’s story.

[…]Miss, you really have abundant energy.

The King’s Account didn’t know what to do except to praise her.

Karlo’s gaze reached Xia Ci, who continued speaking.

She twisted their collusion for a coup into everything being instigated by Chuzheng.

Just a moment ago Karlo was still defending her.

Xia Ci said, “I don’t know what His Highness intends to do, but soon after His Highness left, Lord Karlo discovered some anomalies, and I also saw a book about the Altar in His Highness’s study room…”

“What does it say inside?”

“…It talks about how to open the Altar,” said Xia Ci, “Earlier at the Altar, I saw a man, he had heterochromia…”

Xia Ci’s description changed the princes’ expressions.

Because what Xia Ci described was correct.

The Blood Clan beneath the Altar did indeed have heterochromia.

If Xia Ci, a human, hadn’t seen it, how could she describe it in such detail?

So now, it looked like Karlo and Xia Ci were in cahoots to usurp the throne.

But instead, it was framed as Chuzheng’s premeditated plot to release the Blood Clan inside the Altar.

Karlo and Xia Ci turned out to be the ones exposing the conspiracy and deserving credit.

Chuzheng was curious how they would wrap up their story, “If I had been instructing you, why would I come back at this time?”

Karlo replied, “Because Your Highness realized that the Altar could not just be opened like that.”

Karlo walked towards Chuzheng.

“So you had to come back.”

“Oh.”

Chuzheng feigned realization.

That reason was crafted so carelessly!

Poor excuse!

“You seem to know a lot,” Chuzheng praised sincerely.

“Because I have also read the book that Your Highness left behind,” Karlo said, “Your Highness, why do you want to open the Altar?”

Chuzheng asked calmly, “You say I have a book, where is that book?”

Xia Ci immediately answered, “It’s still in Your Highness’s study.”

Chuzheng nodded, “Shall we all go take a look?”

Let’s see what that book looks like.

Karlo and Xia Ci exchanged glances.

Although they felt something was strange, they had come this far…

They had to see it through.

“Sure,” Lucy was the first to agree.

Bruno followed after.

The rest of the princes consented one after another.

Leaving some from the Blood Clan to check the Altar, the others began to move towards the old castle where the former owner had lived.

The former owner’s study was akin to a small library.

“The more the merrier, let’s search together,” Chuzheng leaned casually against a bookshelf, signaling for the Blood Clan to help themselves.

In the beginning, Karlo was quite confident, but as time ticked by.

They turned the study upside down but didn’t find any book.

Chuzheng was very accommodating, letting them search the entire castle.

Chuzheng put down the book she was halfway through, “Found it yet?”

“Your Highness, no.”

“No…”

“No…”

Chuzheng hopped down from the desk, looked at Karlo and Xia Ci, “I’ve never seen any book, but since you can mention it, maybe you’re framing me, so… shall we search you?”

Bruno, along with other Blood Clan members, echoed her sentiment.

“Her Highness makes a good point.”

“Her Highness allowed herself to be searched; Prince Karlo surely wouldn’t refuse.”

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Xia Ci felt a wave of unease rising within her.

Now they were searching Karlo’s study, the Blood Clan hadn’t found anything, and next would be Xia Ci’s room.

Xia Ci stood at the doorway, certain there was nothing in her room.

But she couldn’t shake the feeling of unease.

She clutched the hem of her gown tightly.

Her heart felt like it was about to leap out of her chest.

“Your Highness! We found it!”

One of the Blood Clan members came out with a book.

Xia Ci was startled.

What had they found?

“Your Highness, look.”

The book was very old and “Altar” was scrawled on it messily.

“No… this isn’t mine!!” Xia Ci shook her head immediately, “This isn’t mine.”

“Xia Ci, this was found in your room,” Bruno snorted coldly, “With so many from the Blood Clan as witnesses, what more can you deny?”

“No, it’s not mine!!” Xia Ci shook her head.

“Xia Ci, Her Highness was so good to you, yet you dared to set her up!”

“You even wanted to activate the Altar, you’re out of your mind!”

“Such an ungrateful wretch!”

Xia Ci stepped back.

No…

This item wasn’t hers.

But no one listened to her explanation.

Xia Ci turned to Chuzheng standing in the middle, the Red-haired Blood Clan Member, who had appeared next to her at some point, was watching her with a smirk.

That Red-haired Blood Clan Member wasn’t there just now…

Xia Ci suddenly seemed to realize something.

“Your Highness, how did I do?” the Red-haired Blood Clan Member was seeking Chuzheng’s approval at that moment, intent on overshadowing his own disgraceful old man.

Chuzheng nodded, “Not bad.”

Su Ji revealed two small dimples, “We’ve also caught the person, should we take her out for a walk?”

If identified here, the deed would be done.

Chuzheng had just ordered him to come over and wait, not expecting someone to really fall into their hands.

Chuzheng looked towards Karlo.

Karlo was looking at her, with an unpredictable and gloomy expression, like a shark lurking on the ocean floor, ready to leap out of the water at any moment and bite off a piece from the people standing on the shore.

Chuzheng wrapped her arms around herself.

Truly frightening.

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