The emperor sat in the imperial study room with a gloomy look on his face, tapping his fingertips on the table.
Eunuch Su stood beside the emperor, not even daring to make a sound. He just lowered his head and tried to reduce his sense of presence.
The guards outside the royal study suddenly announced: "Prince Jing'an has arrived!!"
The emperor's gloomy expression finally relaxed a little. He turned to Eunuch Su beside him and said, "Xuan."
"Yes." Eunuch Su nodded respectfully and said loudly toward the door: "Prince Xuan Jing'an has an audience."
After hearing these words, the guard standing outside the imperial study reached out and pushed open the door of the imperial study, made an "invitation" gesture towards Mo Hanqing and said: "Prince Jing'an, please come in."
"Yes." Mo Hanqing responded lightly, flicked his sleeves and walked straight into the door.
After entering the imperial study room, he stood tall and tall in the center of the study room. He glanced at the emperor who was sitting behind the desk with an unkind expression. He clasped his hands and saluted him and said, "My dear brother, see you, the emperor."
"Excuse me." The emperor waved his hands a little irritably, raised his head, looked at him and said in a dull voice: "Does Han Qing know why I want to announce your presence?"
"My brother, I don't know." Mo Hanqing replied very calmly.
The emperor tapped his fingers on the desk a few more times, then reached out and picked up a piece of paper on the table, threw it to Eunuch Su beside him and said, "Go, show it to him."
"Yes." Eunuch Su respectfully took the paper from the emperor's hand, walked to Mo Hanqing, and presented it to him with both hands.
Mo Hanqing raised his head and glanced at Eunuch Su, stretched out a hand, took the piece of paper from Eunuch Su's hand, then lowered his eyes slightly and looked at the paper.
The handwriting on that piece of paper was immediately obvious to be Master Gu's. It recorded in detail the origin of each human head in the one hundred and fifty-three crystal boxes found in the corridor of the underground palace of the second prince's residence.
This is not because Lord Gu is very efficient, but when the second prince collected the heads of women, he specially engraved the name, family background, and date of birth of each head on the back of the crystal box. It looked a bit similar. It means tombstone.
Mo Hanqing frowned and looked over. These heads ranged from young ladies from powerful families in the capital to wandering women outside the city. They included the top courtesan in a brothel back then, as well as maids from a certain official's palace. Their origins were truly dazzling.
The most important thing is that he saw the name of Lin Yuxiao, the eldest daughter of Lin University's scholar family, Lin Yurou's sister, on the last line of the list.
When the emperor saw that he had read through the list, he knocked on the table angrily and shouted: "This evil boy!! Under my nose, he was so heartless that he killed so many women!! The last time, in the capital, The case of the unknown female corpse was also caused by him! What on earth is he thinking in his head! Ah!? "
"When Academician Lin goes to court every day, he cries to death, insisting that I avenge his daughter. Now, once this list is announced, there will be no idea how many people in the capital will make trouble! "
"I originally thought that he was an unlearned and unskilled prince. Although he was a little unconventional, he was not bad-hearted. But I never expected that this evil son!! How could he be so kind-hearted! ! This is absolutely heartless!!”