Yue Mingxuan met Imperial Consort Zhou's gaze directly, anger lacing his voice as he spoke. "When I left, she was perfectly fine. How is it that after just a few hours, something happened? This is far too coincidental… Someone is clearly using Princess Xie's death to frame me." As he spoke, he knelt heavily to the ground. "I beg Your Majesty to uphold justice for me and not allow me to suffer such an unjust accusation."
With both sides holding firmly to their own accounts, the emperor found himself at a loss for a moment. He turned his head and asked the royal physician, "Have you determined what kind of poison Princess Xie was afflicted with?"
The royal physician replied, "The poison Princess Xie ingested is very unusual. It seems like a mixture of several poisons, yet it also resembles a single compound. The defining characteristic of this poison is that it has no known cure. Someone without a deep understanding of medicine would never have been able to produce it."
