After I was reborn, I was scumbag

Murong Xing's icy tone of voice sounded like a thunderbolt in Shao Guan's ears.

"What did you say? Qi Yuanxiu..."

"Your Highness, why do you have to pretend to be stupid?" Murong stared mockingly in his eyes, took out a jade pendant from his sleeve and threw it on the table.

The jade pendant brought as tribute from the far frontier is clear in color and engraved with the octopus pattern. It is an accessory that only the prince of the Eastern Palace is qualified to use.

Without Murong Xing's words, Shao Guan understood what he meant.

"Your Majesty is saying that this jade pendant is a lonely friend with a murderer, and he was asked to kill Qi Yuanxiu?" Shao Guan's eyes touched Murong Xing's cold and hard face with faint anger, and he could hardly form words.

"This jade pendant is His Highness's personal possession. If His Highness hadn't handed it over to someone else, would anyone be able to forge an imperial gift?"

"How this jade pendant fell into the hands of the murderer, I don't know for the time being. But Qi Yuanxiu told Gu yesterday that he wanted to present the piano score, but Gu refused. I don't know where the news of the son came from?"

Murong Xing sneered: "Naturally, Qi Yuanxiu personally visited the Marquis's Mansion last night, and I forced him to speak out."

The tone was a bit pity.

As soon as Shao Guan felt the pain in his heart, Murong Xing stared at him and continued calmly.

"I know that Your Highness has many capable people under his command, so I will let Qi Yuanxiu live in the Marquis Mansion forever. If something happens to him, I don't mind reporting it to the higher authorities."

"...The prince wants to convict Gu with just a jade pendant?"

Hearing the undisguised suspicion and threat in Murong Xing's words, Shao Guan's voice was almost hoarse.

"Qi Yuanxiu has no grievances with His Highness. He is dressed in white. If there is no truth, why should he slander His Highness?"

Murong Xing ignored the eagerness in Shao Guan's eyes, and even looked away, as if he was afraid of dirtying his eyes.

"However, Your Highness can rest assured that for the sake of Daliang, I will still be your Highness's companion. As long as Qi Yuanxiu is safe, I will not tell anyone about this matter."

Shao Guan really wanted to say, so what if you told me, this was not something he did in the first place, why should he suffer such slander for nothing.

But now the murderer has disappeared, leaving only a jade pendant in the East Palace... If Qi Yuanxiu refuses to tell the truth, how can he find out the truth of the matter?

"...The son trusts Qi Yuanxiu so much, and doesn't trust Gu so much? Except for this jade pendant, it's all Qi Yuanxiu's one-sided words. Isn't the son suspicious?"

Hearing this, Murong Xing's face, which was already indifferent like the snow on the top of a mountain, suddenly turned gloomy and terrifying.

He picked up the jade pendant and played with it repeatedly, but the force was so strong that even the slightly protruding blue veins on his slender hands could be clearly seen.

"Your Highness asked this question, it seems that if you don't hit the south wall, you won't look back."

Shao Guan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized that Yang Ling's spies were all over the East Palace, his expression changed suddenly.

"Yesterday, I heard a cry for help outside the gate of the Hou's Mansion. After bringing Qi Yuanxiu into the Hou's Mansion, he was bitten to death as an ordinary enemy's revenge. If I hadn't forced him, he would never have told the truth."

"Your Highness, why don't you guess what he and his ministers said at the end?"

A chill crawled up Shao Guan's back covered in cold sweat, the boy's hands were clenched tightly into fists, but he couldn't speak a single word.

"He said that he tore off the murderer's face scarf when he resisted, and described his face to the minister. After the minister led people to block the nearby streets and alleys, he really found the murderer who had no time to escape."

"Although I have only been your Highness's companion for the past few days, I can still tell who the guards in the East Palace are. What does Your Highness say?"

Shao Guan's peach-blossom eyes were out of focus, and he managed to stabilize his body only by resting his hands on the table.

In his previous life, he was assisted by Murong Xing and supported by the Houfu, but he was still reduced to a prisoner.

What about now?

Even Murong Xing regards him as a cruel and ruthless person. Yang Ling's minions have been able to frame him at will, so what capital does he have to fight with them?

There was silence in the hall for a while, until Dong Jiu came in to report with the prepared gift list.

"I have seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, I have seen the Prince—the gift list for the Pingxihou Mansion has been prepared, please have a look at it, Your Highness."

Before the gift list was handed over to Shao Guan, Murong Xing stopped the things first.

"Your Highness, this..."

"...You go back first."

Murong Xing flipped through the gift list expressionlessly, but his gaze finally fell on the smiling Maitreya Buddha in the corner of the table.

"I can't tell, His Highness is paying homage to the Buddha."

The gilded gift list was torn to pieces very slowly by the young man.

Murong Xing seemed very satisfied to see the complicated expression on Shao Guan's face when he heard the sound of paper being torn.

"Your Highness knows that if a musician loses his hands, his whole life will be ruined? Doesn't Your Highness think it's ridiculous to do such a thing and pay respects to the Buddha?"

No...he has never done such a thing, he carved this woodcarving originally to make Murong Xing happy...

Shao Guan watched as Murong Xing picked up the wood carving and put it in his hands.

The tiny bloody cuts made by the carving knife last night, because of the young man's restless mood, blood seeped out again, stained the wood carving, and blurred out bright red lines.

In the previous life, the young man who would feel sorry for him because of such a small wound, and put medicine on him, now doesn't even notice the wound dripping on his fingertips for whom.

Or maybe I actually saw it, but my heart couldn't make any waves.

Murong Xing's indifferent voice became somewhat indistinct as the boy left.

"The grandma of the minister can't bear such a great gift from His Highness. Today, the minister of the Imperial College has asked the Taifu for leave, and the minister resigned."

Shao Guan watched Murong Xing's upright figure disappear behind the unclosed palace door in a daze, and the heavy sadness in his heart made him almost out of breath.

The wood carving in his hand gradually became unrecognizable under the smudge of the young man's blood, and his kind smile gradually became a little ferocious.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, what's the matter with you?"

Dong Jiu saw Shao Guan's dead face from a distance, his pale complexion almost lost all vitality, he was shocked, and hurriedly sent someone to call the imperial physician.

"Go and check, in the palace yesterday, has anyone seen that jade pendant?"

Hearing Shao Guan's dry voice, Dong Jiu quickly poured a cup of tea and handed it over: "I will send someone to investigate, Your Highness, what's wrong?"

"Go and investigate this matter yourself, don't let others handle it, understand?"

"Your servant understands, Your Highness should have a sip of tea first, your voice is hoarse..."

Shao Guan lowered his head and took a sip of tea, his eyes turned red: "Dong Jiu, tell me, isn't Gu too naive?"

After innocence is reborn, everything will only be better than before.

But he never thought that he was the only one who remembered the past, the young man who coaxed him not to cry because of him, who was covered in blood because of him, had long since disappeared.