The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 1508

Chapter 1508: Behind the Scenes Culprit (First Update)

Wang Xu stared at Gu Jiao, dumbfounded, "What are you doing sticking needles in him?"

"Coercing a confession," Gu Jiao said.

"You can coerce a confession with just one needle?" Wang Xu expressed disbelief.

Gu Jiao didn’t tell him it was a hallucinogen, to avoid him overthinking and assuming that Gu Jiao was manipulating the killer’s confession.

Gu Jiao watched the killer lying on the ground, his tense body gradually relaxing, understanding that he was experiencing hallucinations.

She couldn’t let him go too deep; otherwise, if he completely lost contact with the outside world, he wouldn’t hear any exterior sounds.

Gu Jiao tapped his shoulder with a rolling pin, and said sternly, "If you don’t want to suffer more, speak quickly. Who exactly is the killer?"

Gu Jiao had knocked the man unconscious long ago, and had only waited for Wang Xu to come over so that he could hear the killer’s name firsthand.

The killer didn’t struggle much and confessed honestly.

However, the name he gave was not the person Gu Jiao and Gu Changqing had in mind.

"Who is Li Ping?" Gu Jiao asked Wang Xu.

Wang Xu thought for a moment, "He probably didn’t mean Li Ping; he meant Li Pin, one of the ladies in the palace."

To confirm his guess, Wang Xu asked him a few more details about how Li Pin had instructed him.

Right now, the killer was in a muddled state, and would disclose everything he remembered without holding back.

From the confessions, it seemed indeed that it was the imperial harem’s Li Pin who had ordered him to assassinate Shangguan Yun.

Li Pin never told him why she wanted Shangguan Yun dead. Li Pin had no interactions with him, it was just that he happened upon an affair he had with a palace maid by chance.

In the Dayan Imperial Palace, eunuchs and palace maids having relations was forbidden, discovery meant a death sentence.

Li Pin blackmailed him with this, making him agree to help her get rid of Shangguan Yun.

"Does Li Pin have any grudges against Shangguan Yun?" Gu Jiao asked.

Wang Xu fell silent.

Li Pin had only entered the palace a few years ago, while Shangguan Yun had been confined in the Imperial Mausoleum more than a decade earlier; the two had no interaction whatsoever.

It wasn’t possible that they would have a grudge.

But Wang Xu’s silence wasn’t due to this, but rather because... Li Pin was very close to a certain empress in the Imperial Harem.

Gu Jiao looked at Wang Xu, "Who?"