Beast King'S Crippled Mate

Chapter 210: Chapter 210: The Gray Mammoth Tusk (III)

"Poisoned ginger tea?!"

"Y-yes. Rock said that he smelled something else other than tea leaves and ginger inside the teapot, so he gave me this pendant to make sure I can protect myself while he's not around," Long Xiurong replied.

'Has he always been that kind?' Swan pondered. 'Gale told me that most werewolves don't care about others who are not from their pack. Is Long Xiurong a special case for Rock? Or is he...'

Swan curled her lips as she was also holding back her giggle. She imagined Rock and Long Xiurong together and then found herself getting even more excited. She was very curious but decided to focus on the matter at hand first.

Suppressing her excitement, she responded, "That's nice of him. Why don't you demonstrate its ability to detect poison?"

Long Xiurong nodded. She stood up and walked towards the breakfast tray.

Everything still looked the same as the last time she saw them, except that all the food had gone cold.

"I think I should start with the tea. Since I was almost poisoned with ginger tea before," Long Xiurong said as she opened the teapot lid, and dipped the gray mammoth tusk inside. Swan watched as the gray-colored tusk entered the teapot, and when Long Xiurong fished it out, it had changed in color to purple. "Rock told me the tusk will change in color if it gets in contact with any type of poison. All I need to do is to wipe it, and it will return to its natural color. As you can see, Princess, this tea has been poisoned."

Swan was fully focused as she seemed to have a few theories. She pointed at the white rice in a bowl and said, "Try dipping the tusk into that white rice. I want to make sure it's not just the tusk reacting to water."

Long Xiurong dipped the tusk into the white rice, and just like before, it changed color to purple.

"Princess, the type of poison made to harm me must be one of a kind, because I cannot see or smell any trace of it," Long Xiurong said. "Rock also said the same, and he also told me the only one who can make such unique poison is—"

"Lady Jade," Swan murmured. "She's a master of herbologist. She's the only one in this entire kingdom who can create that kind of odorless and colorless poison."

Long Xiurong was relieved that Princess Swan had long suspected Lady Jade, so she didn't need to waste her time trying to convince her that Lady Jade was an immediate threat that needed to be eliminated as soon as possible.

"I don't know why Lady Jade wants to kill me, since I don't think I've done anything wrong, nor am I close to His Majesty to receive her wrath. And she's not working alone, Princess. She has an underling who has been serving me poisonous food and drink for a whole week," Long Xiurong paused for a moment before she dropped another name. "The culprit is my attendant, a bunny maid named Alice."

"A bunny maid?!" Swan was reminded of the bunny maid who attended her during the coldest night. That bunny maid introduced herself as Alice, so couldn't be mistaken.

Swan remembered how she ate and drank the food served by Alice in the cave, and felt nothing afterwards. It was obvious that the bunny maid colluded with Lady Jade and specifically targeted Long Xiurong.

"Yes, she is the one who actively

urges me to eat anything she prepares don't want to die, but I also can't tell you immediately because you're busy, so I've been gorging myself on the banquet, because that bunny maid cannot poison the entire banquet food."

Swan nodded, "Nobody has been reported sick for a whole week during the banquet, so the amount of poison that bunny maid carries must be of little amount, maybe around the size of a small bottle."

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"I think so too, Princess. It's a very advanced poison. It's almost impossible to make odorless and colorless poison, so Lady Jade must've been using a lot of unique herbs to concoct this poison," Long Xiurong theorized.

Swan nodded again, but now she had a question plaguing her mind, "Why would they target you? It will make more sense for them to target me, right? Lady Jade hates my guts, and has been trying to poison me for a while now."

Naturally, Long Xiurong refused to tell Princess Swan about Alice feeding her false gossip, which ended up making her act like a

clown in front of the Beast King. It

was so shameful that she wanted to

bury herself whenever she

remembered about it.

Thus, she replied, "They might have planned to kill me first as a test subject, Princess. After all, I am still officially His Majesty's second wife. Once they successfully get rid of me, they can move on to the main target-you."

Swan gulped nervously.

She knew she had to do something if she wanted to save both her and Long Xiurong's lives.

"You're right. I cannot waste any more time. I keep that bunny maid and Lady Jade running around, who knows what other scheme they will pull to kill us both," Swan agreed. She stared at the breakfast tray for a white, before calling the cat maids who were guarding outside.

"May we help you, Princess?" Maya asked as they finished their bows to their Princess.

"I want you two to find Alice, a bunny maid who works as Lady Long's attendant.

Bring her here, right this instant," Swan ordered decisively.

The cat maids were confused. They could tell that something bad had just happened, judging from Princess Swan's solemn expression.

"Is there something wrong, Princess? She is probably in the kitchen right now."

"I will explain to you two later after I make that bunny admit what she did," Swan said as she glanced at the breakfast tray. "Bring her in, seize her if she tries to resist."noveldrama

"Understood, Princess!"