403 Can I Not Be Beheaded? Please? 66

Avina nearly choked on her air. Who was it spreading the truth? Who was it!

Avina coughed into her fist. "Oh? Is she all better already? I should send my congratulations."

Bai Zhenli smiled. He gave her a meaningful look and said, "My dear Empress, you're focusing on the wrong thing. Your sister, Qin Meirong, was and is not sick."

Avina wasn't willing to let her cover get blown that easily. "My, what malicious slander you heard. Qin Meirong suffered greatly, who would dare spout such a lie?"

'Let me find them and unleash my fury on them!' Avina shouted in her heart. 'He wouldn't have discovered the lie so quickly if not for them.'

However, Avina was stunned for words at his next words. She was forced to place aside her plans to punish the culprit.

"It was your sister, Qin Meirong, who told me," Bai Zhenli revealed with a not-so friendly smile. "It couldn't be that she doesn't know her own conditions better than you?"