Forensic Imperial Concubine

While they were on their way to the prison, Rufus was rescued and taken away by somebody. When he was informed of Rufus' escape, Francis merely smiled and didn't say a single word, nor did he order Ken to chase Rufus at once. Ken assumed that Francis didn't really care about it, but he couldn't just let something like this slip. So, he issued an order for Rufus' arrest.

When Rufus finally realized that the person who had rescued him was actually Howard, he instantly flew off the handle. "Howard Chu, you bastard! You said you were going to rescue me when I could not fend for myself, but you just let so many people hunt me down without even lending a hand."

Hearing this, Howard looked at Rufus as though he was looking at an idiot. "If I didn't come to save you, you would have been playing with mice and cockroaches inside the prison right now!"

After thinking about it for a while, Rufus had to agree with Howard deep inside, but he couldn't easily admit that he had done him wrong. "Why didn't you jump out and rescue me when I was being chased?" he asked.

"If I had jumped out to rescue you back then, both of us would have ended up being put into prison," Howard replied. Howard and Rufus had never seen eye to eye when it came to the way Rufus thought about things. In fact, he was wondering why Matthew had such a stupid follower by his side. Obviously, Rufus was different from the other people on Matthew's side. Barry might seem dull and honest, but he was in fact quite insidious; Fred was scheming and evil; and Noah, the steward of Matthew's mansion, was as cunning as a smiling tiger.

Rufus suddenly remembered what had happened moments earlier and decided to hide the fact that he had sold him out. After all, Howard probably would never find out what he had told Francis.

"But you didn't seem to hesitate when you betrayed me in front of Francis," Howard said at that moment.

Rufus' face froze. He hastily tried to explain himself, "I just wanted to distract him so that he wouldn't suspect your sister."

her through torture, insisting that she would confess soon enough because she was so fragile that she couldn't endure being tortured?"

cold sweat dripped from Rufus' forehead. He began to wonder how Howard was able to hear their conversation. "You were there when I said those things?" he asked

others for no reason,

to take it seriously, much less care about it. I only said that because I knew that Francis would never hurt Harper. I wouldn't have said such a thing if I was unsure whether he would actually harm her or not," Rufus hastily said in a humble tone. "Thank you so

"Humph!"

asked me to pass a message to

"What did she say?"

master of another house and not to take action arbitrarily." Rufus delivered Harper's message to Howard word for word. Of course, he had no idea which house Harper

of the Qin Clan would take action themselves, or it could also be that the members of the Qin Clan would be targeted by someone. Either

an instant, he ran away, not caring anymore whether Rufus was going

but click his tongue. Then, he whispered under his

bed. Although she was a petite girl, she still felt very uncomfortable lying on the narrow soft bed for the entire night.

the imperial court session in the morning was adjourned, Francis went directly to the Sleek Palace to have breakfast with Harper. In the meantime, Harper looked spirited as usual and didn't show any sign of being aware of what had happened last night. On the other hand, Francis noticed that Cynthia had

you able to sleep well last night?" Francis asked slowly. "Was it because Rufus came to the Sleek Palace and disturbed you