Forensic Imperial Concubine by Erika Black

The emperor was pleased to hear that and said, "Hodge, it is served by Felix, my dear son. It must be

true."

But to everyone's surprise, Hodge Su suddenly knelt on the ground and said, "Your Majesty, a grave

injustice has happened.

Please uphold justice for me."

Everyone wondered why he was making a weird request to the emperor, after confirming that it was

indeed the Longevity Pill.

Would it be that the pill was developed by Hodge Su, and was snatched by Felix? They were all

curious.

The emperor was confused. "Hodge, what's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, the Longevity Pill was made by my master, Scott. He had sent me a letter about this and

said that he was going to

finish the pill refining. He invited me to witness it. Since I was caught up with something else, I had to

delay my journey by one

day. When I reached my master's mansion, his whole family had been slaughtered and his mansion

was completely burned to

the ground!"

"What?" Everyone, including Felix, was shocked. He wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and turned

to look at Walden. The

latter never expected that there would be someone who knew that the Longevity Pill was made by

Scott. He was also shocked to

learn that one of Scott's disciples was an imperial physician.

"Felix, what's all this?"

"Father, I don't know anything."

"Your Highness, you said you didn't know?" Hodge Su trembled with anger. "You killed all the people of

my master's mansion to

get the Longevity Pill, including a five-year-old kid. You even burnt his mansion and ruined their bodies.

Despite doing all this,

how could you not know?" "Nonsense!" the empress snapped. "Hodge, when you make an accusation,

there must be evidence to back it. When has my son ever done such terrible things? Show me the

evidence!" Hodge Su looked at the emperor and said, "Your Majesty, I was also part of the research on

Longevity Pill. I know exactly what kinds of materials are used. I'm certain that this was developed by

my master. As soon as my master made the Longevity Pill, his clan was exterminated, and now, the pill

is in the custody of His Highness. Isn't that too coincidental?" He flew into a rage, turned to Felix and

demanded, "Your Highness, please give us a reasonable explanation for this. How did you get the

Longevity Pill?"

"What? Well..." Felix didn't know what to say to defend himself. The pill was from Walden, since he had

entrusted him to get it for him. Although Walden mentioned about using some tricks, Felix didn't expect

that he would murder people for the pill. "It's my people who found the pill," Felix said. It was true,

because Walden was one of his people. Anyway, he was never going to admit the crime of killing

people for the pills. "Your Majesty, my master had even planned to give the pill to you, through me,

after it was refined. But before I could get the pill, all the people of my master's mansion had been

exterminated, and the pill had disappeared. Now, the same pill is in the hands of His Highness, and he

must have something to do with the slaughter. Your Majesty, please uphold justice for me." Hodge Su

knew that the emperor needed the Longevity Pill, but he couldn't allow his master to die with regret.

"It's so funny," Walden said with a smile. "Hodge, it cost Felix a huge sum of money to get the pill from

someone else. As for how

that person got it, that was something impossible for Felix to know."

Hodge Su was speechless. Although Felix had the pill, it might be someone else who had killed Scott

to rob the pill. Maybe,

there was someone else who had killed Scott and then sold the pill on purpose to Felix, so as to frame

him.

"Yes, I bought it at a very hefty price."

"Since the killer had killed so many people for snatching the medicine, how could he be willing to sell

such a wonderful pill to someone else?" Maxwell said slowly. He was also present. Since his wife, Ivy

was sick, he attended the banquet unaccompanied. In fact, Ivy was badly ill that she couldn't even get

out of her bed, and he had to put an all-out effort to take care of her. He also received a lot of praise for

his efforts. "Who knows?" Walden said slowly. "Maybe he was trying to play up to Felix."

"Wasn't it better to offer the Longevity Pill directly to His Majesty?" Matthew finally broke his silence.

"Does the murderer think

that Felix is in a higher position than His Majesty?"

There was pin drop silence as Matthew finished his words. Felix's face was pale and Walden's was no

better. The empress

looked blue out of horror. Matthew's words implied that Felix was disloyal to the emperor.

"Matthew, please be careful with your words," the empress reminded.

"Father, I truly don't know the origin of the Longevity Pill. All I know was about the rumors that it could

prolong one's life, so I sent

someone to buy the pill with a large sum of money. I'm not the one who snatched it," Felix asserted. "If I

knew that the Longevity

Pill was developed by one of our own imperial physician's master, and he was going to give it to you, I

wouldn't have asked for

the pill. Please judge with discretion."

"Yes, Father, Felix must have been framed by someone." Walden was a little bit worried. Fortunately for

him, all the members of

Scott's mansion were exterminated. He did not leave any evidence either. As long as they refused to

admit it, no one could

charge against them.

The emperor looked at Walden, but didn't say anything. Hodge Su said anxiously, "Since His Highness

claims that he is

innocent, does he dare to confront the witness face to face?"

Felix snorted, "Of course, I dare. I haven't done any wrong. I'm not afraid of it at all."

However, Walden was shocked to hear it. 'What? Could it be that someone from Scott's mansion that

has escaped? That's

impossible. All the people of his mansion were killed and even his mansion was burned into ashes.

There can't be any living

people left!'