HRPM – Chapter 493 Still Unwilling to Believe

Jin Luoluo let out a cold laugh.

“Xiao Che, let me tell you honestly. Yang Ruoyao may seem gentle and virtuous in front of you, but that same refined, well-mannered sweetheart of yours dared to come to my door just to provoke me. She deliberately tried to make things difficult for me at the palace banquet. Think about everything she’s said to me during this trip. Every remark was filled with hidden barbs. Do you really think an ordinary, innocent woman could speak like that? Hmph. Her greatest talent is pretending.”

This time, Xiao Che didn’t rush to refute her.

Instead, he carefully recalled everything that had happened.

Ever since Jin Luoluo had appeared, Ruoyao had indeed begun displaying a side of herself that was completely different from before. Time and again, she had behaved in ways that surprised him.

He had once assumed it was because Jin Luoluo made her feel threatened.

Jin Luoluo was such a formidable woman that, if Ruoyao wanted to compete with her, she naturally had to become stronger and sharper herself.

But that change had come far too suddenly.

It hadn’t developed gradually over time. Rather, it had burst forth all at once in a way that was startling, as though it had been hidden beneath the surface for years before suddenly revealing itself.

Especially when Ruoyao spoke to Jin Luoluo with veiled provocations.

There was always a subtle malice hidden beneath her words, and whenever she lost control, she would say things completely at odds with the gentle, compliant personality he had always believed she possessed.

All of it was utterly different from the Yang Ruoyao he thought he knew.

This Yang Ruoyao was a woman he didn’t recognize—a woman capable of schemes and manipulation.

Even so, if someone claimed she had murdered his five princess consorts…

He still couldn’t believe it.

No matter how calculating she might be, could she really commit something so vicious?

Those were five human lives.

“Ruoyao isn’t that ruthless. Besides, she’s only a woman. For her to kill all five of my princess consorts without anyone noticing… it’s simply too unbelievable.”

Suppressing the chill in his heart, Xiao Che still couldn’t bring himself to believe that Yang Ruoyao had anything to do with the deaths of his wives.

She had grown up with him since childhood.

Back then, she had been clever, adorable, and kind, even showing great affection toward small animals.

How could such a woman possess the heart of a venomous serpent and kill so many people?

Jin Luoluo merely shrugged.

“There are plenty of unbelievable things in this world. There are psychopaths who slaughter entire families, from the elderly to little children. Why can’t you imagine that jealousy turned into hatred? That she simply couldn’t tolerate any woman by your side, so she got rid of them one by one. A woman’s heart is a strange thing. Once someone crosses the line she refuses to tolerate, she can become frighteningly irrational. At that point, there’s nothing she wouldn’t do.”

Coming from the modern world, where news and the internet exposed her to bizarre murder cases from all over the globe, she had seen countless crimes driven by motives even more unbelievable than this.

The idea that Yang Ruoyao could have murdered all five princess consorts didn’t strike her as strange in the slightest.