Granny Liu's voice carried a sense of urgency, "Your Majesty, what you must investigate is when Lady Hua first appeared in the Cold Palace with a trace of life left. She begged the guards to convey the message that she wasn't dead to you. But why did they ignore it?"
"Were they following someone's orders?"
"What was that person's intention?"
Three consecutive questions, each hitting the crucial points, also pierced the heart of the matron managing the Cold Palace.
Wasn't that matron the one guarding the Cold Palace all these years? She dreaded others mentioning this matter.
But ironically, what she feared came true.
Xiao Lizi said, "Matron, reveal the truth immediately?"
The matron dared not speak, kneeling there, trembling, pleading for her life.
"Pleading for life?" Xiao Lizi sneered, "The princess endured over two years of hardship in the Cold Palace, yet you never reported it, and now you want His Majesty to spare you? How dare you?"
The matron shivered more violently.
