From Ji Wu Jiu’s reaction ever since she entered the room, most probably he will pretend to not know. Ye Zhen Zhen holding to a slight chance looked at him and ask, “Your majesty, do you have anything you want to say?”
“This sentence I also want to ask you, you don’t have anything else you want to say?”
Looks like he really wants to be an observer only. Ye Zhen Zhen scoffed and said “I currently do not have anything to say”
“that means you admit the crime?” the empress dowager was abit anxious.
“Something that I have not done, I would not admit forever. But because the criminal is well prepared, and want to frame me, and I cant find the loop hole in such short notice, and I ask for a few days, I will thoroughly investigate this case”
“If so, I will give you 3 days, after 3 days I want an explanation for the death of the emperor’s child”
“5 days”
“5 day then”
Ye Zhen Zhen returned to Kun Ning Palace in deep thoughts, thinking about the case all along, and who would most probably be the criminal. Ji Wu Jiu goes the same direction as her, so the both of them were walking together, but did not converse a single word. Ye Zhen Zhen wanted to bid farewell with him in front of Kun Ning Palace, but didn’t know he will follow her into Kun Ning Palace, and ordered everyone else out.
“Congratulations to the emperor, looking at me fighting alone is it very fun?” Ye Zhen Zhen said.
Ji Wu Jiu though did not answer what was asked, looking straight into her eyes he asked “you like your cousin brother, correct or not?”
Note: I personally feel that the whole time, he was actually not worried about his child, but more to how Ye Zhen Zhen will react and if she will say out her cousin’s name for the gun instead. He is still angry/jealous from the kite scene.