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Chapter 755: Chapter 368 All the Truth_3
Li Jue looked suspicious: "Not Prince Chu?"
"It’s my eighth brother, Prince Wei." Zhao Yao said proudly, "My eighth brother is very capable, his influence is immense in Jinling, and even throughout Jiangnan."
Hearing this, many things flashed through Li Jue’s mind. He finally understood everything now, "It turned out to be Prince Wei!"
"You’ve been tricked by my eighth brother." Zhao Yao said with a grin, "Don’t be upset, you weren’t the only one fooled, the Crown Prince and Duke Zhen were deceived too."
"No wonder..." Li Jue had never taken Prince Wei seriously, only to find out his schemes were so deeply hidden.
"I told you before, don’t underestimate us princes, each of us has many tricks up our sleeves, and every one of us hides our true talents, do you believe it now?"
Li Jue stayed silent with a serious expression.
Zhao Yao patiently asked, "Is there anything else you want to know?"
"How did you capture me?" Li Jue still couldn’t figure out how Zhao Yao managed to catch him.
"Oh, some of my special friends helped."
"Special friends?"
"Animal friends. Before you lost consciousness, didn’t you feel something bite you?"
"Not a poisoned needle?" Li Jue thought he had been struck by a poisoned needle and passed out.
"No, it was a little bug. I asked them to bite you, and everyone in your mansion, so I could openly take you away." What people couldn’t accomplish, he asked his animal friends to help with.
"What kind of bug?"
"A very small venomous bug, when people are bitten by them, they faint but aren’t poisoned." Zhao Yao had many animal friends, not limited to cats, dogs, and birds, but other animals too.
Li Jue’s face darkened because he recalled when he captured Zhao Yao, Zhao Yao deliberately pretended to be poisoned and stayed in the secret chamber.
"Anything else you want to know?"
"How do you intend to kill me?" Li Jue knew that Zhao Yao was unwilling to use him, leaving death as his only result.
"Aren’t you curious about the affairs of Suzhou Prefecture and Runzhou Prefecture?"
Li Jue mocked, "Jinling was arranged by the emperor, so Suzhou and Runzhou are the same, what else is there to ask?"
"True that." The noble families of Suzhou Prefecture and the people of the Cao Group and Salt Gang were also confiscated. "I won’t kill you."
"You’re not going to kill me?" Li Jue looked utterly incredulous.
"That’s right, I won’t kill you directly." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "As long as you can escape from this secret chamber, you are free. Of course, if you can’t escape, you’ll just die here."
Li Jue’s face remained dark as he kept silent.
"Rest assured, from today on, I won’t poison you anymore."
"Would you be so kind?"
"Not out of kindness, but confidence in the secret chamber I’ve set up." Zhao Yao beamed brilliantly at Li Jue, "Even ten of you wouldn’t escape my secret chamber."
"If I get out, I will never let you go." Li Jue harbored great confidence in his ability to escape.
"Alright, I’ll be waiting for you in Yangzhou." Zhao Yao looked at Li Jue with a gentle smile, "I’ll let you ask one last question."
Li Jue cast a deep gaze at Zhao Yao, then asked, "What role do you play in all of this?"
"I don’t play any role, I’m just the tenth prince."
"You just said the emperor wants you to subdue me, you..." Li Jue finally realized a crucial point and exclaimed, "You are not without the emperor’s favor, you are the one who is truly hiding in the depths."
Zhao Yao stood up and said, "That was your last question, I should leave now." Zhao Yao didn’t respond to Li Jue’s previous words, "Take care of yourself."
"I will come to Yangzhou to find you."
"That depends on whether you have the ability." Zhao Yao waved to Li Jue and then left the secret chamber with Tong Xi. Before leaving, he kindly prepared a final meal for Li Jue, very sumptuous, including fish, meat, and his favorite wine.
"Your Highness, are you really going to leave Li Jue alone?"
"Leave him, he won’t escape anyway." Left inside the chamber, Li Jue had two fates. One was to starve to death, and the other was to commit suicide. Regardless of the outcome, the end result was death. "We must hurry back to Yangzhou, otherwise, if my eighth brother arrives in Yangzhou and finds me not there, I’ll be exposed."
Prince Wei’s injuries had improved significantly. In a while, Prince Wei would set off back to the capital. Before returning to the capital, he would go to Yangzhou to visit Zhao Yao.
"Rest assured, Your Highness, everything is arranged, we can set off for Yangzhou tonight."
"That’s good." He had stayed in Jinling for quite some time. If he didn’t return to Yangzhou soon, his maternal grandparents would start to worry.
"Your Highness, will Lord Wei face any issues when he returns to the capital?"
"Certainly, but there’s no danger to his life." Zhao Yao mused, "Father should dismiss him from his duties, placing him under house arrest in the Prince Wei Mansion, like the Crown Prince."
"Will Duke Zhen and his allies target Lord Wei secretly because he failed in his mission?"
"No, my eighth brother still holds value for them." Zhao Yao wasn’t worried about Prince Wei’s safety, "Even if they want to deal with my eighth brother, they aren’t his match."
"True." Tong Xi felt reassured.
"Fourth brother is about to reach the capital, I wonder what turmoil he will stir up?"