Forensic Imperial Concubine

Harper smiled slightly and said, "Rumor has it that Luther seldom makes friends with courtiers. But the way he treated us seemed way too hospitable."

"This aroused your suspicion?"

"Wasn't it more than enough?" Harper raised her voice. "If this wasn't a sufficient reason, what else could be? Sending someone to keep a watch on us or deliberately trying to cast a bone between us?"

Her answer amused Matthew. With a smile, he held Harper into his arms and said, "I thought you had no doubts on him. But now I am surprised to know that you began suspecting him right after our first meeting with him."

The moment Harper met Luther, she subconsciously felt that there was a huge gap between Luther's performance and the hearsay. He had been overenthusiastic in front of them. A man who had been promoted step by step based on his military merits would never have spent so much effort to please them. He must have had some other intentions. Now it became evident to them that Luther was just a secret pawn of Francis.

"I have no choice but to admire Francis!" Harper said. "While in the imperial capital, he had pretended to be ill to keep away from all sorts of attacks. But in the dark, he established his own power and plotted against his brothers one by one, including Lucas. Maybe if he hadn't been so ruthless, and with an additional stroke of luck, he would have become the emperor of the Bright Dynasty.

"He would never be the emperor of the Bright Dynasty!" Matthew declared firmly.

"Why?"

Bright Dynasty forever." While he spoke, there was a murderous instinct flashing across his eyes. If Francis only wanted the throne or if he wanted to eliminate all his brothers, Matthew wouldn't have cared much about it. But Francis went too

give a tight slap to Francis on his behalf the moment I saw him. However, it wouldn't

"If you think you'd be lowering your dignity by slapping him, you can let Jack do it. I

day Jack asked me for a poison that could make people beg for death. It seemed that he wants to deal with Francis desperately." Harper suddenly felt pity for Francis. She couldn't imagine the horrors that Francis would encounter if he fell prey to Jack. But she

mind was drowned in grudge and revenge against

this fellow disciple of hers. Right after he assisted Francis' escape, Jason too had disappeared just like that. She asked, "Will he also be in the capital of the

Matthew answered after thinking for a while. "Although Jason had been on good terms with Francis, he is unlikely to collude with the enemy and betray the Bright Dynasty. So my guess is that he has broken up with Francis. But I don't know where he is now. Maybe he too has

higher position in the minds of common people. If Jason really likes beauties, perhaps there isn't any better place for him to go than the South Kingdom," Harper said with a smirk. "I wonder which one of them would be

and something clicked in his mind. "I heard that when you were at the Imperial Palace earlier, you showed the largesse to draw the thirty-six peaches-sharing skills for Jason.

that he was up to something. She anticipated some danger, so she denied without further thinking, "No, no, no. I didn't. I just thought about satirizing Jason through some drawings. I drew nothing that had