Haish...
One man is laughing at his own joke while the other man is molesting my body.
One man is my cousin while the other is my husband.
Question, which one should I kill first?
"Host..."
"I know."
I'm raking my brain, trying to find ways to end this farce faster. I came to know about how the confusion of last night happen. The Prince and my cousin swap their outer robe, so when my cousin was seen leaving my chamber and head out, their hidden informant thought it was the Prince. It was all make plausible when the Prince also lent my cousin a few of his close attendants.
That's the reason why the ambush team manage to get in. It was all a trap from the Prince, my cunningly devilish husband. I don't have to do anything and all have been presented to me in a platter. But I still need to do something, or I won't get rewarded with points.
Ughh.
"Big Brother, please wait a moment. Little Brother have some matters to solve."
My cousin finally cease his laughter upon hearing my tone. It is weird to suddenly talk formally using the palace speech. It is especially hard to concentrate when your husband is rubbing his hand on your inner thigh and tracing your spine with another.
After failing to come up with something, I decided to seek help from my system on how to expose the truth. I want to end her now.
"Zero Three, do you have any truth serum?"
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"Noble Concubine Shen, this Consort have never met you but have suffer tremendously because of you. What do you think this Consort should do about it?
"What- what do you mean?"
The pale concubine goes paler by the minute. She grip her hand tighter on her brother's sleeve, as trying to get him to help her. But that poor man is helpless as well.
"This Consort is not sure about what happen last night, but seeing that this man is close to you, then you must be behind what happen yesterday."
The soul-changed Consort is guiding the fallen concubine to spill the truth. This can be achieved with some help from his system. He uses his hard earned points to purchase a one timed fifteen minutes truth cheat from his system. When the cheat is applied, every single person in this alternate world will speak the truth when they were asked. All except him.
"What- what are you talking about? I know nothing. Nothing!"
"What did you do to me, Noble Concubine Shen? What did you do?"
"I did nothing. Nothing! It was all father's suggestions. He wants to frame you and this man so he can wage war on your kingdom!"
Plop!
The concubine's elder brother fall backwards upon hearing such thing. The concubine finally realized what she have said, gasping in fright, bringing both of her palm to her mouth. The ger let out a small smirk before faking a shock expression, gasping his surprise.
"You what? I thought you just... Big Brother? Xue Er?"
The soul-changed Consort knows that both of these man already know about it, but they are still bidding their time as they have no evidence about it. The ger is simply giving them a way. It's beneficial for both parties, as they finally got their conviction and for him, he finally get to fulfil his task.
"Third Sister. What are you saying? Why would father do such thing?"
Who would have thought, this question is what was needed to drive the ger's plan further as the concubines proceed to tell everything. She tell them how she hate the ger, how she has asked her father to help her when her plan of poisoning the ger via the other concubines failed.
"You are the one responsible for that?"
The gentle looking cousin finally snaps upon hearing this. Standing up, his body is shaking, terribly angry with such thing. If it wasn't for the ger who hold on to his sleeve, he might already give the delirious woman a good beating.
He had never thought that everything that happen to his little cousin is due to the preposterous act of this woman. Even the Prince was shock with such development. He thought that all scheme that fall on his bride before was separate acts from some jealous concubines. Who would have thought that all of it was orchestrated by a single person.
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[Side mission, task four: 14% completed.
Total points gained: Points will be given after the task is 100% completed.
Total points needed to unlock new world: 1000 points.
Points collection: -5/1000 points.]
Negative? Negative?!
My precious points~
If it wasn't for that bloody truth cheat. Fifteen minutes of truth for the cost of 150 points. And I can only use it for one time per world. Wu... am I getting played by my system? My points~ My precious hard earned points~
"..."
Well, it was worth it. I have all the evidence but there are no way for me to present them out. I mean, if this was a modern world I may be able to fake some videos or recording. But here... in this ancient setting?
But!!! The whole... thing didn't even last for fifteen minutes. From the moment it starts until she tell the whole truth, it only took around ten minutes!
"Can I get a refund for the wasted time? If 150 points for fifteen minutes, then it's 50 points for five minutes, right? No questions was asked after that. She was all crying and begging for mercy while being carried away."
"...no."
Sigh... I should have asked more. Maybe even ask the Prince if he really love me, just like he says last time. Wait...
"Zero Three, what level is the Prince's feeling on me right now?"
I know it haven't reach the 'love' segment yet. If not, I'll already get the 500 points.
"The Prince feeling right now have jump from infatuation to adore, closely bordering the 'cherish' segment, host."
Only half? That man is going to meet with Jia Ru in a month. No, scratch that. Based on my calculations, they will meet in another 20 days! Argh!!! What can I do?
"Don't worry, host. You have another 80 days."
Sigh.
Letting out my defeat, I turn my attention to ground the black ink. After the whole fiasco, my Prince and my cousin immediately detain those two siblings and went out to report them to the Emperor. They have been gone for some times now, so me, being bored, was thinking of practicing my writing.
Calligraphy is not my strongest trait, same like this original body. From Jae Hee's memory, I know that he has been trained in the Four Arts, just like any other noble woman. His expertise is in painting. But for me, I can't even draw a cat without making it look like an elephant!
"Err, host."
"What?"
"Truthfully, any talent that the original body got, will be directly transferred to you. So, you don't have to worry about going OCC."
"..."
"The original body sustain its muscle memory so if host wants to draw, your ability will match the original body."
"And you're just telling me now?!"
[Side mission, task five: Semi- Completed.
Total points gained: 50 points.
Total points needed to unlock new world: 1000 points.
Points collection: 45/1000 points.]
Eh!
Does this mean the war is still going to happen?