I am the Holy Poisoner, the Empress advised me to calm down

"What did you say? You said the person who assassinated me might be the princess? This... this is impossible..."

Lin Chen was so surprised that he could hardly speak. He looked at Zhang Xun hurriedly and asked.

Zhang Xun said that it was possible that the princess was one of the candidates to assassinate him, which was really hard for Lin Chen to accept.

After all, I have helped the princess so much, so logically speaking, it is impossible...

"Well...sir, don't be impatient. I didn't say that the person who assassinated you was 100% the princess. I just said it could be the princess or the prince!"

Zhang Xun said to calm Lin Chen down.

"You said the person who assassinated me might be the princess. How do you say that? How did you come to this conclusion?"

Lin Chen looked at Zhang Xun in front of him and asked.

"Well, this is pretty easy to judge. Look, in this capital, I guess the only people who have greeted each other are the princess and the prince! And, sir, have you ever heard of a word?"

Lin Chen moved closer and said while looking at Lin Chen.

"Word? What word?"

Lin Chen shook his head, indicating that he didn't know.

"It's very simple. The word means your achievements are so great that they surpass your master. Young Master, you have gained the princess's trust in such a short time. This shows how strong you are. Your abilities must have surpassed the princess, or the people around her. So I said that the princess might want to kill you. It doesn't necessarily have to be the princess, but it might be someone around her. Of course, this is only the first scenario. The second scenario is that the prince wants to kill you. Young Master, you must have disrupted the prince's deployment several times, so the prince hates you to the core. So, young master, do you think it's more likely that the princess will kill you, or that the prince will?"

"........"

Lin Chen fell into deep thought. Clearly, this question wasn't easy to answer. He needed to calm down and analyze it slowly...

Lin Chen felt that it was impossible for the prince to attack him at this time. After all, he had heard the conversation between the prince and others. They would come to eliminate him when a severe drought broke out in the northwest of Qin in a few days.

So they would not act rashly. He knew the Crown Prince was someone who would not easily change his mind once he made up his mind. So, assassinating him was not something the Crown Prince could do...

That is the princess. Of course, Lin Chen still believes in the princess. After all, he has been with the princess for so long, and he is quite clear about what kind of person the princess is.

Since both the princess and the prince have been eliminated by me, the only ones left are those around the prince and the princess.

The people around the prince and the princess are most likely to assassinate him.

If the reason why the people around the princess wanted to assassinate him was very simple, the people around the princess might be jealous that he had become a big shot around the princess in a short period of time, and he felt unbalanced. This made him think of Liu Qin, who had always been dissatisfied with him and wanted to find his shortcomings everywhere so as to suppress him.

This is a key suspect.

The second possibility might be someone around the prince. Last time when I came to the restaurant to eat, I happened to hear the conversation between the prince and the counselor beside him. At that time, I sighed and said that the counselor beside the prince really had good means!

That person once made Lin Chen feel frightened. Such a person being by the prince's side was undoubtedly a huge potential threat to him, so he had to be extremely wary of such a person. Otherwise, with the intelligence of such a person, he might not even know how he was plotted to death in the end.

But if we have to choose a more credible situation between these two situations, Lin Chen believes that the first situation is the most credible, and the possibility of the second situation is relatively small.

Why do I say that? Because it is impossible for the prince to take action against himself now, and the counselor beside him should also know the limits and wait for me. Now they should focus all their attention on the severe drought in the northwest of Qin in a few days. They predict that the princess and himself will definitely go to the northwest of Qin to control the drought, so they plan to wipe out all of them in that place. By that time, the prince's position as the prince will be stable, and no one will threaten the stability of his position as the prince!

However, it seems that setting up such a large-scale plan in the northwest of Qin State must take a lot of effort, and require a lot of financial, human, and material resources!

Therefore, their attention should be on this matter, and they will not think about eliminating Lin Chen for the time being.

If the second possibility is ruled out by myself, then the only possibility left is the last one, which is that the person who attempted to assassinate me this time was Liu Qin in the Princess's Mansion.

In fact, Lin Chen had long noticed that something was wrong with Liu Qin. Every time he went to the princess's mansion, Liu Qin would stare at him with malicious eyes, which made Lin Chen feel very disgusted.

It can be seen that Liu Qin has no good intentions towards him, and the most likely person to assassinate him this time is probably Liu Qin.

When he thought of this, Lin Chen felt surprised. Liu Qin seemed to be just an ordinary subordinate of the princess, but he could find such a powerful killer to assassinate him. It was obvious that he wanted to kill him as soon as possible, or to kill him once and for all to eliminate the trouble forever. It was really a good method!

Lin Chen felt a pang of fear in his heart. He was working for the princess, and in the end, he might not be killed by the prince's men, but by his own people...

When Lin Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but feel ridiculous. He could defeat the prince, but he couldn't defeat his own people. What was going on?

"Sir? Sir? Sir, what's wrong with you?"

Zhang Xun looked at Lin Chen, who was in a daze and motionless for a long time, pushed Lin Chen's shoulder with his hand and called out softly.

After a while, Lin Chen's body trembled, and his expression came back to his senses. Looking at Zhang Xun in front of him, Lin Chen said:

"Zhang Xun, thank you for your reminder. I think I know who is the murderer behind this incident..."