"Don't listen to this woman's nonsense!" Lord River Drake declared. "I know exactly what happened with Serena Summers! It's nothing like what she's claiming! On the contrary, Lady Serena Xi was persecuted by this girl and her mother, nearly driven to drown herself in the lake—until I rescued her.",
"That's not true!" Chang Gu shouted. "That was just her scheme to seduce you!"
"Shut your mouth!" Lord River Drake raised his hand, unleashing a blast of dragonfire, intent on burning her alive.
However, High Immortal Quinn pulled Chang Gu aside and said, "Lord River Drake, don't be rash! If you kill her like this, people will think you're silencing her to cover up the truth!"
"She's talking complete nonsense!" Lord River Drake insisted.
High Immortal Quinn said, "Actually, this is easy to resolve. Princess Chang Gu is, after all, still a mortal who hasn't ascended."
Hearing this, Lord River Drake realized the point and his expression shifted.
If she's a mortal, then it's easy to tell the truth.
A Red Truth Pill will make her spill everything.
That was exactly High Immortal Quinn's intention. He pulled out a medicine vial, poured out a deep red pill, and walked up to Chang Gu, saying, "Dare to slander Lord River Drake and Lady Serena Xi's reputation—do you know what consequences await you?"
"I... I wasn't slandering anyone! Everything I said is true!"
"I'll give you one last chance," High Immortal Quinn said. "Are you sure... every word you've said is true?"
Chang Gu swallowed hard and glanced at Snow Yuan.
Snow Yuan lifted her chin and said, "Why are you looking at me? I don't know anything about your family's business! I just brought you here to pay respects to your mother for her birthday!"
Chang Gu looked away, swallowed again, and said, "Every word I've said is the truth! I came here just to expose Lady Serena Xi's real face!"
High Immortal Quinn nodded and used magic to feed her the pill.
Then High Immortal Quinn said, "Now that she's swallowed the Red Truth Pill, who would like to question her?"
Before anyone could answer, High Immortal Quinn suddenly looked at Bai Xiaoyu and said, "Let's have High Immortal Bai Xiaoyu do it! You're Lady Serena Xi's niece, so you must know the situation well."
Bai Xiaoyu thought, wow, even the Qilin Divine Lord's people know who I am?
It must be because of Lu Xuanlian... Lianlian took her to the Lumina Realm before.
Bai Xiaoyu nodded and stepped forward.
She asked three questions.
"How did Lady Serena Xi's child die?"
Chang Gu: "My mother bribed the child's wet nurse to poison the baby."
Second question: "How did your royal father die?"
Chang Gu: "He found out Lady Serena Xi had become Lord River Drake's Secondary Consort, panicked, tried to depose my mother, but she poisoned him too. He fell into the city moat and drowned."
The hall was filled with shocked sighs.
Bai Xiaoyu, showing no mercy, asked the third question: "How did you meet Goddess Snow Yuan? Why did you come here?"
Snow Yuan glared at Bai Xiaoyu, her eyes full of anger and resentment.
"I was gossiping about Lady Serena Xi with my friends at a teahouse when she overheard me. She brought me here. Goddess Snow Yuan told me to expose her true face in public."
Bai Xiaoyu nodded, saluted Lord River Drake, Lady Serena Xi, and High Immortal Quinn. "This small immortal has finished questioning."
Smack! A slap rang out.
Snow Yuan slapped Chang Gu across the face, knocking her to the floor. "You wretch, how dare you lie to me!"
The slap seemed to snap Chang Gu back to reality. She looked from High Immortal Quinn to Snow Yuan, her face drained of color.