Before he knew it, Li Yuanying was sweating all over his neck.

She was really feeling guilty now, and didn't even dare to look at Ji Zhen. She just kept wiping her sweat with her handkerchief and fanning herself. But she couldn't hold back her irritation, and kicked the guard next to her, cursing:

"Can't you see that I'm in heat? You're still standing here causing me trouble. Get out of here!"

Ji Zhen stood up, took the handkerchief handed over by Ye Feng and wiped his hands, looking coldly at Li Yuanying's anger without raising an eyebrow. He turned and walked to the torture instruments in the torture hall, picked up the whip again, held it in his hand, and politely bowed to Li Yuanzhen and Li Yuanying:

"It's getting late, so I'll start the trial."

Li Yuanzhen nodded slightly to Ji Zhen with dignity, while Li Yuanying's eyes fell on the tail of the whip, which was a suspicious dark red.

Ji Zhen naturally knew what she was looking at, and very kindly shook the whip open with a snap. The thin whip hung on the ground, and the dark red, mottled piece attached to the whip looked like a swimming snake tongue, shocking.

Li Yuanzhen shrank back and looked away. Ji Zhen stood in front of the rack again, holding the whip.

The man on the rack had become unusually quiet since Li Yuanzhen and Li Yuanying entered the torture chamber. Ji Zhen stood in front of him, poked his face with the black handle of the whip, and asked with a very friendly smile:

"Why, you stood for too long and fell asleep?"

The black handle of the whip in Ji Zhen's hand seemed to be gently pinched, and she only poked the man's face. In fact, she used three-tenths of her true strength. A deep red mark immediately appeared on the man's face, and he frowned in pain.

"Little man...little man..."

The man opened his mouth subconsciously, but was suddenly pinned there by a fierce cold light. He only said two words in a sentence, and after a long time of tossing and turning, he couldn't finish it.

"what happened to you?"

Ji Zhen walked forward patiently, but the man shut his mouth tightly and refused to speak anymore.

"You're not going to say it anymore? Or have you rested for too long and forgotten what you said before?"

Ji Zhen slowly dragged the whip over and suddenly swung it on the ground, hitting the man's half-hanging instep. He gasped in pain and almost screamed.

The man clenched his teeth tightly and glanced secretly at Li Yuanzhen, only to find that she was looking at him gloomily. The coldness in her eyes was exactly the same as the one she had directed at him before.

That's the look one gives to a dead thing.

The man suddenly turned pale, and he lowered his head as if he had lost his life.

Ji Zhen, who was standing beside him, naturally did not let go of his little trick. The second whip went straight to his knees. He didn't wait until the man couldn't bear it anymore and cried out. Then he rolled up the whip and said coldly:

"Just now you said that you had a grievance and wanted to appeal to Her Royal Highness the Princess and His Majesty the Emperor. Now Her Royal Highness the Princess is here, and His Royal Highness Xian Yao is here too. It's the perfect time for you to appeal. Do you want to tell me your grievances again?"

Ji Zhen spoke very softly, and even smiled as she looked at the man. But the man seemed to be frightened by something, his face turned pale, and he murmured:

"No, I have no grievances."

"Really?"

Ji Zhen paused, turned his gaze to Li Yuanying who was drinking tea, and said with a faint smile:

"So, someone from Princess Xianyao's mansion brought the rough draft of my Northwest Defense Map, gave you a large sum of money, and asked you to draw it according to it, is that right?"

"Yes."

Poof—Li Yuanying didn't swallow the tea in her mouth and it all sprayed onto the ground.

The man nodded subconsciously, and suddenly thought of something, shook his head quickly, and denied it repeatedly:

"no no!"

"No?" Ji Zhen raised an eyebrow.

However, before she could continue, she heard a bang, and Li Yuanying raised her hand and smashed the teacup in her hand at the man tied to the rack, cursing:

"Who the hell are you? How dare you speak nonsense here? Why would I want the Northwest Defense Map? Why would I..."

Li Yuanying was halfway through her words when she suddenly realized that something seemed to be wrong with what she said. How could she be so stupid? She said she wanted to get the Northwest Defense Map?

He stole a glance at Ji Zhen and Li Yuanzhen's expressions and found that neither of them was abnormal. He paused, rolled his eyes, and came up with a plan. He slapped the table and said angrily:

"You are asking for trouble. All the defense maps of South Vietnam are stored in the Ministry of War. The Ministry of War is managed by Her Royal Highness. You slandered me for giving you the Northwest Defense Map. Do you mean that Her Royal Highness gave me the Northwest Defense Map?"

The man was stunned by this turn of words before he reacted. He immediately denied it subconsciously:

"No, I didn't say that."

"You didn't say that, did I? How dare you!"

Li Yuanying slammed the table and stood up, angrily saying:

"It's fine if you slandered me, but you even dared to slander Her Royal Highness the Crown Princess! You are such a traitor! Come here! Drag this traitor out and chop him off."

Naturally, no one from the guards in the dungeon responded to Li Yuanying.

Ji Zhen looked at Li Yuanying's furious expression and couldn't help but secretly shook his head:

Why can't this guy learn his lesson? He is so anxious to get rid of people, is he afraid that others can't see it? Do you want to kill people to silence them? And he did it in front of her, Ji Zhen, and used her people.

With this IQ and temper, it’s no wonder that no matter how much the empress likes you, she won’t make you a consort!

However, as the owner of this dungeon, Ji Zhen decided to give Li Yuanying some face.

Ji Zhen turned around and waved to the guards around him, then said to Li Yuanying:

"Your Highness Xian Yao, please calm down. I have this man's confession here. No matter how eloquent he is, he can't escape the truth."

After saying that, he winked at Ye Feng, and Ye Feng came up with a signed confession.

Li Yuanying originally just wanted to take advantage of the chaos to muddy the waters, but she didn't expect Ji Zhen to produce a confession. This was completely beyond her expectations. How could Ji Zhen have the time to interrogate this person and even make him sign a statement in such a short period of time? So she immediately questioned:

"What kind of confession is this? Who examined it?"

Ye Feng held the confession in his hand and said respectfully to Li Yuanying:

"Your Highness, General Yu ordered the soldiers from the East Camp to capture this man and interrogate him on the spot."

"People from Dongdaying? Why would the Yu family get involved in such a thing?"

Li Yuanying picked up the confession with doubts and turned to the last page. As expected, she saw Yu Bojun's seal. She looked up at Li Yuanzhen, who was reading the transcript that Ji Zhen handed to her.

After reading it, Li Yuanzhen's face was not very good. She set her eyes on Li Yuanying and said coldly:

"Xian Yao, the confession says that someone from your mansion went to look for the Northwest Defense Map drawn by Tian Fugui. How do you explain that?"

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