The person in charge of Dali Temple answered, "Your Majesty, according to the autopsy by the coroner, Count Le Hua was killed by a green jade hairpin which pierced through his throat directly. There was no other injury on his body and he was also not being poisoned to death.

Besides, two other guards and two maids were killed in the garden by the same method. The way the murderer killed them was fast, efficient, but very cruel. It seemed like it was done by a very experience a.s.sa.s.sin."

Tian Jiyue looked at Gu Xijiu and asked the Emperor, "Does Miss Gu look like an experienced murderer to you?"