The Evil Lord's Wife Has Spirit Blood

After the investigation was complete, the Crown Prince dragged a maid into his office where Michelle was sitting lazily. Her carelessness was unsettling, but his plan was foolproof so he wasn't worried much.

The only thing that worried him was that for some reason, the poisoning happened sooner than he expected, but he brushed that off, thinking that his mistress, the Emperor's Concubine, was the one who told the maid to do it earlier.

"Michelle Grace, you were the one who ordered this maid to poison my father!" he shouted as he entered the office. "You are guilty of regicide!"

But Michelle just smiled and leaned back on the couch. "Come on, Your Highness! Did she tell you that?" she asked lazily, her purple eyes narrowing into beautiful crescents. "Did you decide to believe the words of a mere maid?"

The Crown Prince was about to say something, but Michelle suddenly clapped her hands and the door to the office opened again with Mare entering, dressed in the clothes of a maid from the Imperial Palace. "Did you call for me, Master?" Mare ignored everyone else and bowed her head towards Michelle.

When Mare entered, everyone in the room froze. The single word "Master" was like a bitter food the Crown Prince had to swallow. "Michelle Grace, what is the meaning of this?!" he stared at Michelle, his gaze twisted in rage. "Why is an Imperial Palace's maid addressing you as master?! Did you plant a spy in the Imperial Palace?!" he roared, his fave red with embarrassment.

Mishelle smiled lazily as she crossed her legs. "Yes!" she replied nonchalantly. "Mare is my personal maid and during her time in the Imperial Palace, she found out quite a few interesting things... Say, Your Highness... Do you want to hear it?" Michelle's purple eyes were narrowed into smiling crescents, but deep inside of them lied terrifying coldness.

Seeing the coldness in Michelle's eyes, the Crown Prince gulped, feeling intimidated, but once he realized that he was actually afraid of Michelle, a wave of rage overcame him. "Michelle Grce, how dare you plant a spy in the Imperial Palace?! Did you do it so you could poison His Majesty?!" he roared, his face red with anger and embarrassment. It was utterly shameful for the Crow Prince to not realize that a spy was planted in the Imperial Palace.

Michelle smiled lazily, her expression relaxed, which highly disturbed the Crown Prince. "Mare, do give me the vision stone and the voice stone," she said languidly, her stance elegant even as she was just sitting on the couch carelessly.

"Yes, Master!" Mare reached into her sleeve and took out a green and a yellow stone, handing both to Michelle.

Seeing the two stones, the Crown Prince had a bad feeling. Vision stones and voice stones were stones filed with spiritual energy which were able to record, either only sound or sound and vision too. Basically like a video camera or a voice recorder.

What the Crown Prince feared was that Mare recorded something that would prove Michelle's innocence, and even worse, something that might prove him guilty. But he couldn't do anything. Michelle had already brought up the Archduke once, so if he acted rashly, he would be in real trouble.

And his fears came true.

Michelle took the two stones from Mare and inserted her spirit energy into the voice stone and a very... interesting conversation appeared. First was heard the voice of the Emperor's concubine who was sleeping around with the Crown Prince.

"My Majesty, My King, when will we get rid of that old man?" she asked with a sweet voice. It was a bit strange, because the only one who could be addressed as Majesty was the Emperor, so the people in the room were guessing that she was speaking with the Emperor, but the Crown Prince who knew the truth went pale.

Because the voice that came out next was a wave of shock at the guards standing around. "My Dear, father will die soon. Once the time is right." The Crown Prince's voice appeared from the stone. "The poison is already prepared, so once I send you a signal, tell that Emperor's maid to do it!"

When the Crown Prince's voice sounded, everyone in the room fell silent, the guards staring at the Crown Prince in shock. The Emperor's concubine called the Crown Prince by a title which can only be used to address the Emperor, and the Crown Prince talked about the Emperor dying soon. If that wasn't treason, then nothing was.

But that wasn't the end of the recording. The concubine's voice sounded again. "My Majesty, who will take the blame for the poisoning? If no culprit is found, people will suspect you."

The sound of the Crown Prince scoffing could be heard. "Tell the maid to say that it was Michelle Grace who ordered it. Let the maid say that Michelle Grace threatened her to poison the old man, or that she would kill the maid's siblings and sick mother."

The concubine chuckled. "Consider it done, My Majesty. I shall happily away your coronation."

After that, the sound got cut off and Michelle stopped inserting spirit energy into it. "Well, Your Highness? What do you have to say?" she smiled coldly.

The Crown Prince was red with rage and embarrassment and was clearly about to somehow rebuke Michelle when the door to the office flung open and the Emperor entered, raging.

"Leonard Wajana! How dare you?!" the Emperor shouted in rage. The Crown Prince froze for a moment before turning to look at his father. The moment he looked over, he saw a yellow stone in the Emperor's hand. A voice stone.

"Oh, right..." Michelle smiled a bit. "Your Highness, I forgot to tell you that I ordered Mare to give the same voice stone to His Majesty once His Majesty wakes up. I hope Your Highness is so generous as to forgive me from not saying it earlier."

The Crown Prince was enraged. His foolproof plan that he had been preparing for so long was ruined by the simple fact that he didn't notice Michelle's spy in the Imperial Palace, and he knew that it would cost him dearly.

Knowing that he was backed into a corner, the Crown Prince's mind was clouded with rage. "Michelle Grace!" He roared, and ignoring the enraged Emperor, he grabbed one of the knights' swords and jumped at Michelle.