A vicious female is trapped in a beastly hell.

Chapter 203 Catching the Real Culprit
[Okay, now using the deduction ability [The Truth Revealed] on the host] —

A screen of light appeared before Shen Tang's eyes.

The scene begins with the moment the two were assassinated yesterday.

Then, the events were deduced in reverse.

—The assassins received a secret order to ambush them.

—The secret order came from the palace.

The scene continues forward.

—In a secluded forest outside the palace, Sivar waited anxiously alone.

A moment later, a mysterious figure dressed in a gray robe appeared in the scene and secretly handed something to Shivar through the loose, drooping sleeves.

Shen Tang couldn't see it very clearly, but it seemed to be... a box?
The scene shifts again, back to yesterday afternoon.

After the assassination attempt failed, Sivar found the box from that day and took out a doll from it.

The doll looked exactly like Jialan!
Immediately afterwards, Sivar's face turned sinister, a cruel smile curling at the corner of his lips, and he plunged a silver needle into the doll's head!

The scene quickly shifts back to Jialan, who screams in pain as the doll is pierced in the head by a silver needle, and goes berserk and out of control.

After reading the reasoning behind the incident, Shen Tang fell into deep thought. He hadn't expected that the assassination was related to the Hai Kingdom's rear guard. Where did he get that kind of evil witchcraft doll?

She couldn't tell Jialan the truth directly or express her guesses to him.

Jialan had also suspected in her heart that it was Xivar. If there was anyone in the harem who hated his return the most, it would be Xivar and Jialin, father and son.

He just didn't expect that the father and son would dare to take action so brazenly, completely disregarding the law!
Shen Tang said, "No matter how much we speculate, we don't have any evidence right now. Let's not alert them. We can secretly send people to investigate slowly."

"Heh, no need for all that trouble. If you dare to plot against me and you, I'll go and arrest you right now!"

Jialan couldn't bear it any longer and immediately took Shen Tang to the palace where Xiwar lived.

The servants at the door were shocked and bewildered when they saw the prince charging in with such a menacing air.

Everyone in the world knows that Prince Jialan and the Empress Dowager have a bad relationship. Prince Jialan has never paid his respects to the Empress Dowager since childhood, and he has never taken the initiative to visit the Empress Dowager's palace in eight hundred years.

"No, Your Highness, what brings you here?" The guard stepped forward, trembling with fear.

Jialan shouted angrily, "Bring Xivar out here to me!"

"This... Your Highness, I'm sorry, the Empress and Princess Jialin just went out not long ago and haven't returned yet. If Your Highness has any instructions, please let us know, and we will definitely convey them to the Empress when she returns."

Shen Tang checked the system map and confirmed that Xivar was indeed not in the palace. These guards wouldn't dare to lie to Jialan.

Jialan sneered and strode into the palace.

The guards were terrified and rushed to stop him.

"Your Highness! This! This is unacceptable! This is the rear palace. Without the rear palace's order, even if you are a prince, you cannot enter or leave at will—ah!"

Jialan blasted the person blocking her way to the ground with a single palm strike.

"Get out of here, all of you! Let's see who dares to stop me today!" Jia Lan's voice was as cold as ice, and her seventh-level pressure knocked down a large group of orcs.

The remaining guards were terrified and retreated in fear, none daring to block their way.

This was the first time Shen Tang had ever seen Jia Lan so full of murderous intent. She was slightly taken aback, realizing that he was truly enraged this time.

She snapped out of her daze and quickly followed.

Nasir was clearly a cautious old man; Garan searched the entire palace from top to bottom but found no evidence.

Shen Tang thought for a moment. No matter how careful he was, he couldn't be completely foolproof. Everything else was fine, but that puppet was his trump card against Jia Lan. It definitely hadn't been destroyed and was still hidden in the palace!
Shen Tang opened the system's detection map and quickly discovered a spot on the wall opposite the window emitting black energy.

This is an unusual energy fluctuation. Shen Tang quickly walked over, feeling around on the wall, her eyes lighting up as she turned to Jia Lan and said, "There's a hidden compartment here!"

Jialan quickly followed and searched with her.

After searching for a long time, the two finally found the hidden compartment switch.

Open the hidden compartment.

The jade box was found.

Upon opening the box, the doll lay quietly inside. Upon closer inspection, it resembled a real person even more closely, which gave one a slight chill.

The thick, long silver needle was still stuck in the doll's head, and the doll was showing shocking tears of blood.

Seeing this, Jialan's face turned ashen, and her whole body emanated a chilling aura!
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As soon as Sivar and Galin returned from outside, they were surrounded by a group of guards.

Jialin looked terrified. "What are you doing? Are you trying to rebel?!"

Sivar narrowed his alluring eyes and roared, "A bunch of lowly slaves, how dare you! Who sent you here? I am the Imperial Rear Guard, all of you, get out of my way!"

"Heh, a rat that secretly harms people dares to talk so big? It's truly pathetic, but I wonder if you two will still be so arrogant later."

The sound of clapping was accompanied by a clear and melodious female voice.

Sivar and Jialin looked on in astonishment.

Shen Tang and Jia Lan walked out of the crowd.

Jialin's eyes blazed with fury as she pointed at the two and cursed, "So it was you, you slut and this bastard, who were behind this! What are you two trying to do? Are you plotting a rebellion?!"

Shen Tang's eyes turned slightly cold upon hearing the insults he uttered.

The priest clan sacrificed their lives for the sea, and Jialan was innocently cursed by the family. These orcs, protected by the priests, not only showed no gratitude but also called her a bastard, which is infuriating.

When Jialan heard Jialin dare to call Shen Tang a slut, her face turned cold. She took a few steps forward and kicked him to the ground. "Say that again, and I'll skin you alive right now!"

"Ah!" Jialin's face slammed into the ground, letting out a shrill scream.

His once handsome face was now bruised and swollen, with blood streaming from his nose, leaving him in a sorry state.

Sivar took two steps back, clenched his fists, and said with a grim expression, "What exactly do you want?"

"Your Highness, can't you guess? Heaven is watching what people do, and secrets can't be kept forever. The despicable things you've done in secret will one day come back to haunt you."

Shen Tang looked up at him and said calmly, "If I remember correctly, in any country, murdering a prince is a serious crime."

"And your sinister intentions and attempts to murder the princes on more than one occasion are unforgivable!"

Upon hearing these words, Sivar's ominous premonition came true, and a rare look of panic appeared on her elegant and alluring face.

Immediately, his expression turned even colder, and he said angrily, "A mere foreign female dares to sow discord in my Sea Kingdom? I think there are others with truly malicious intentions!"

Jialin, clutching her swollen face, scrambled to her feet, her eyes blazing with fury, desperately trying to defend herself, "You despicable...you vile foreigner, don't make baseless accusations! You can't even produce any evidence, yet you try to frame us with empty words! Your intentions are despicable!"

Seeing that their scheme had been exposed, the father and son were afraid, but they were also fearless.

Even if the two knew it was them who secretly plotted it, so what? Without evidence, don't try to pin the blame on them.

Sivar was confident in his impeccable conduct; he had thoroughly covered up all traces, and the two would have absolutely no evidence to find! It was merely a deliberate intimidation tactic; as long as he didn't give himself away, there was nothing they could do about it!

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