The surrounding candlelight burned holes in the pitch-black underground palace. Tan Sixian stood quietly in front of the memorial tablets of the Xue family's ancestors. He was dressed in a bamboo-green silk robe, like the morning breeze, outstanding and lonely.
When he heard the sound of footsteps coming from the secret passage, he turned around. His signature peach blossom eyes curled up slightly as he revealed his signature smile. "You're here. As expected, as long as Miss Ning is here, there is no place for me to hide. However, I've been waiting for this moment for a long time. Now that I've taken my revenge, my long-cherished wish has been fulfilled. Let's go. "
In the flickering candlelight, Ning Shu's figure was soft and firm. "Eldest Young Master, are you not going to say anything else?"
Tan Sixian sneered. "What's there to say? Since you've found me, it means that you've got something on me. No matter how much I quibble, it'll just be a waste of energy. I'm a businessman. I know that I won't do business that I've lost money on. The only pity is that I only had time to kill Zhu Guangzhao and let the rest of the Zhu family escape this calamity. When we meet in the underworld in the future, I'll definitely take revenge for my Xue family! "
"Eldest Young Master, are you really the murderer?" In the empty and quiet underground palace, Ning Shu's voice was like drops of clear spring water falling on a stone stream, echoing coldly. "Or is it that in this series of cases, you're the only murderer?"
Tan Sixian's calm expression froze. Then he raised his eyebrows and joked, "Lady Ning, what do you mean? Could it be that you can't bear to see me in prison, so you're purposely helping me clear my name? Then I'll have to thank you for your kindness. "
Ning Shu wasn't angered by his deliberate words. Her thoughts were organized and clear as a string. "Yesterday, when Tan Shaoqing was brought into the palace for interrogation by Head Steward Zhao, Madam Tan's words indeed made me very suspicious of you, Eldest Young Master. At one point, I really locked the suspicion on you and mistakenly thought that Tan Shaoqing took the initiative to admit his guilt to protect you, Eldest Young Master. Because in this case, there are too many people lying in order to protect the people they care about. One lie after another, like layers of fog, the truth in front of our eyes was changed beyond recognition. Even I was temporarily blinded by the mixture of truth and falsehood.
Just before the fire broke out last night, I was still thinking that if you were the real culprit, the next target would be the Zhu family. However, on second thought, he immediately rejected the idea. Because if the real culprit is you, you don't have to be in a hurry to make a move. You can wait for the second young master to be convicted by His Majesty and let him take all the blame for you. Then you can use other methods to take revenge on the Zhu family and plan slowly. This way, what's done cannot be undone and no one will suspect you. "
"Oh? It seems that Lady Ning trusts me a lot. "Tan Sixian sighed faintly. Thousands of flickering candlelight dragged out countless chaotic shadows under his feet. It was a kind of calmness towards death." It's a pity that I was seen by a passer-by last night. At that time, the fire had already started and many people had surrounded me. I didn't have time to kill him to silence him. That's why I was caught, so I panicked and hid here. It's really a stroke of luck. The heavens aren't helping me. "
Ning Shu softly said, "Is it really the heavens that aren't helping you, or is it that you have painstakingly planned this?"
Tan Sixian didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "What plan? Lady Ning, the more you say, the more suspicious it is. This Tan is actually confused. Could it be that I am framing myself? "
"Could it be that you aren't?"
With one sentence, the cynicism on Tan Sixian's face was completely broken.
Ning Shu looked deeply at him, her eyes full of pity and helplessness. "Eldest young master, to be honest, you are indeed smarter than the second young master. You deliberately used the same method of murder to create a new case and used this new case to perfectly cover up the old case, attracting everyone's attention to you. The world will naturally think that the other case was also done by you. However, this is not the case.
You are too deliberate. You chose such a time and method to commit the crime, and deliberately made such a big commotion. You simply want to let the whole city know as soon as possible, let the Emperor know, let the world know that this case was done by you! At the same time, it was this deliberate fire that made me fall into a state of contemplation. What kind of person could make you and the second young master risk your lives to protect him? Until I finally understood, there was no other person who could be this person, only — "
Following Ning Shu's analysis, the expression on Tan Sixian's face froze inch by inch. When he was about to blurt out the answer to the riddle, the beautiful and perfect smile on his face that was like spring snow shattered and splashed in all directions, leaving only a ghastly white.
Ning Shu did not not see his pain, but she had no choice today. She was determined to be the villain. She took a deep breath and said word by word, "Only the cousin Xue Qiongwei! She is the real descendant of the Xue family! "
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