Chapter 442

It was the best he could do to keep his voice from shaking.

"I know." Giovanni said this, took the coffee, blew it on his lips, and pretended to drink it.

Donnie looked at Giovanni's every move and his eyes almost popped out.

At this moment, Giovanni put down the coffee as if he suddenly remembered something.

"By the way, Donnie, did you put sugar in this cup of coffee?"

"Ah... I should let it go."

"I didn't smell it. Please take it down and add some more to me."

"Uh, father, why don't you take a sip first and see if it tastes right?" Donnie said softly.

"..." Giovanni fell silent. He raised his head and stared directly at Donnie.

That look in his eyes, as if he could directly see through whatever was going on in Downey's mind.

"Donny, tell me the truth." After looking at each other for a while, Giovanni said.

"What?" Danny asked confused.

"Did you really want me to drink this cup of coffee just now?"

"Father, what do you mean?" Donnie was completely panicked now. Could it be that Giovanni saw something from his actions?

"Did you poison the coffee?!" At this time, Giovanni slapped the table and stood up.

"Father...Father, you...why do you say that?" Downey was so frightened that he took two steps back, leaned against the door, and stared at Giovanni in fear.

"Don't you know why I said that?!" Giovanni crossed the desk and took the cup of coffee with him.

"If this cup of coffee is not poisonous, come on, drink it for me!" He handed the coffee directly to Donnie.

Donnie couldn't hold on to the cup of coffee. The quilt fell to the ground and turned into crumbs.

"What? You can't even hold a cup of coffee? You still want to inherit my position like this?"

The scene that appeared in front of him was something that Zenit had never told Downey before, but it was indeed the most difficult situation Downey had ever faced.

Once his father gets angry, in front of him, he is like a child who cannot resist, even if he is now an adult, even if he is strong enough to resist his father.

"Yes... I'm sorry, father, I let you down..." Downey's body trembled, and he lowered his head and couldn't stop apologizing.

"I...I didn't mean it, I, someone just told me so, so I..."

"Is that you? Do you think you are doing everything right?" Giovanni looked at Downey with wide eyes, stretched out his hand and slapped him.

The crisp sound echoed in the study.

"Thankfully I thought you were getting better before, but in the end you are still like this. You are still a child who has not grown up in front of me, a loser who cannot hold up a wall. No matter how I teach you!" Giovanni returned to his room angrily. Beside the desk.

"It's not that I don't know where you have been running around these days. I have sent people to get rid of the person who was helping you behind your back. From now on, you can't trust anyone." Giovanni Said with his hands behind his back.

Downey was in shock at this time.

It turned out that Giovanni had already known about Mr. Zenit.

"I can tolerate you being obsessed with ghosts for a while, but you have to remember that we are on the same boat. Even if I die, you will still not have a good ending. What do you think you did for me? After my death, the royal family will Don’t you want to settle old scores?”

"In this era, only fists are the last word." Giovanni said this, warning his children.

"If there is a next time, I won't care about the blood relationship between you and me."

"Go away." After Giovanni said these last words, Donnie left the study as if he was running away.

Chapter 77: It’s actually him?

Downey returned to his room in despair.

Growing up, he had always lived in the shadow of Giovanni. He had to do whatever Giovanni asked him to do, otherwise he would be beaten and scolded.

If you listen to your father, you will be rewarded, and you can become the most dazzling person among your peers around you. If you don't listen to your father, you will gain nothing, but you will lose a lot.

This is the value he has established since childhood.

The first breakdown of values ​​was when he followed his father's orders to sow discord between Leeteuk and Orson. At that time, he thought that the little cleverness he learned from his father could successfully drive a wedge between the two brothers. However, in the end, he was defeated by Orson, and he lost the opportunity to continue studying at the Imperial Academy.

But that didn't matter. After returning, Donnie was arranged by Giovanni to enter the best university in the Duchy of Naples to continue his studies. During his time at the Imperial College, his midday followers also transferred to another school. Come here, you are still the arrogant young master you once were.

Until the Duke of Antica and the royal family launched an attack on their own family, this trust in their father was broken again.

Even a person like him knew that it was impossible for the Duchy of Naples to defeat the coalition forces of the royal family and Antica, and his father had not been able to turn the tide of the war during this period.

If you believe your father again, your end will obviously be to be sanctioned by the coalition forces together with him, and even your life may not be saved by then.

In order to maintain his current life, Downey had no choice but to find another way out, choosing to listen to Zenit's method and break away from his father.

However, now it seems that every move he makes is still under the nose of his father, and the conspiracy he thinks he has has been in front of Giovanni for a long time.

He sat on his sofa and rested his head on his hands.

What just happened is still too much information.

First of all, the matter between him and Zenit has been discovered by Giovanni. Maybe at the beginning when Zenit was his confidant, Giovanni had already noticed it, and everything that followed was to test Tang. Ni, let’s see if Downey will take action against his biological father for his own benefit.

The result is obvious, Downey really wants to poison Giovanni for his own benefit.

So, did I fail in my father's trial?

Donnie lowered his head and pondered.

At this moment, he had no time to worry about Zenit's affairs.

At this moment, he suddenly remembered that Zenit had left him a letter before, saying that he opened it when he was confused.

Zenit was his confidant, and he believed that Zenit's actions were for his own good. Otherwise, he would not have risked his own life to persuade him to poison his father and gain power.

Moreover, according to what his father said just now, Zenit should be dead by now.

When a man is about to die, he can also speak well. Let's take a look at what Zenit said to him.

With this thought, Donnie opened the envelope.

Read it carefully.

…

On the other side, the city of Saint Laurent.

No one witnessed the moment of the assassination that night. According to the testimony of the witness who first discovered the scene of the assassination, Francois was already dead when he arrived at the scene.

No one in Francois's escort survived.

It is conceivable that there should be no such thing as a mole in the escort team.

Then, it’s the external forces.

According to the information collected from the scene, several important things were missing from Francois's body.

The first is the family's emblem. As a symbol that can prove the noble status, the emblem was taken away, probably because the assassin wanted to prove his achievements to the client when making a report.

What disappears next is more interesting.

"We have examined the body of Duke Francois. Indeed, he suffered such fatal injuries, such exaggerated wounds appeared on his body, and his heart disappeared." Within the task force, a member of the task force reported that he had just been diagnosed by a doctor. Read the result again.

"I know." Elsa nodded, then looked at the others.

"Everyone, based on the current intelligence, do you have any ideas?"

Except for Orson, all the members of the task force are extremely professional people. Some are even famous detectives who have solved many major cases in the empire. However, when they heard this limited information, they still shook their heads. .

"I have a guess." At this time, Orson raised his hand.

"The heart can be said to be one of the most important organs of the human body. The other party only took away the heart of Duke Francois. Is it possible that he wanted to use the Duke's heart to perform some evil rituals?"

As soon as these words came out, the whole room was in an uproar.

"... To be honest, this is very possible. After all, the power of noble blood has always been a relatively mysterious existence. Maybe the nobles really have a special physique and are suitable to be sacrifices for evil sacrifices." A detective agreed with Orson's point. guess.

"Then, this incident is not just a political assassination of the Duke, it may also have a demonic background." Elsa said.

"After all, we haven't discovered the association that can transform living people into demons before."

"It turns out that these cases are connected in series?"

"Is that related to Naples?"

"But if we put the suspicion on Napoli at this time, will the family of the deceased think that we are deflecting the conflict?"

"In short, this is the only possibility now, right?"

"Report!" At this moment, a man broke into the conference room and said hurriedly: "We found... we... found the emblem of the Tulus family!"

"What!?" Everyone present was shocked, and then Elsa quickly stood up. "Where did you find it?"

"Now the breakthrough has been found."

"It is illegal to cast a family emblem privately, especially for the Duke family. It is very difficult to make, which means that this family emblem must be real..."

"I thought it was done by Naples, but I didn't expect that it was actually a local?"

"Don't make a conclusion so early. What if there is Napoli's background?"

"That's right..."

While everyone was discussing, Orson, who had just started the conversation, deliberately fell into silence, lowering his sense of presence.

It was at this time that the messenger took a break and said, "I found it at a casino owner."

He then revealed the address of the casino.

Elsa quickly took out the materials to check based on the address.

After discovering the person behind it, she was stunned.

The materials in his hands instantly fell to the table and scattered in all directions.

The detective next to him looked over and exclaimed.

"What? It's His Royal Highness?!"

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I went out to dinner with my classmates today (a party kind of thing), so I didn’t have time to update it. I will make up for it more tomorrow.

Chapter 78: Reborn (3K)

"Don't make this public yet!" After Elsa recovered from her shock, she hurriedly instructed the people around her.

Then, she looked at the person who came to report the news.

"Tell the investigation team that the investigation will continue, but no news can be released to the public, otherwise you will be the only ones to blame!"

"Yes! I understand!" After saying this, the man nodded and quickly left the meeting room.

"At present, the possibility of framing cannot be ruled out..." A detective spoke up to defend Arthas.

"Yes, that's true."

"But how do we explain the family emblem of the Toulouse family?"

The people present discussed it again.

In the final analysis, before there is enough evidence, the detective's only way to solve the case is to make a guess and assumption based on past experience.

Elsa couldn't care about these things at the moment. She looked around the crowd and then saw Orson who didn't say a word.

She walked to Orson and asked quietly:

"Orson, what do you think about this?"

"My opinion is the same as theirs. I think this is very likely a frame-up, but why the prince was chosen, I don't know."

"Do you really think so?"

"Well, Princess, don't think I'm too smart." Orson said this and smiled at Elsa.

"Don't expect too much from me, otherwise you will be disappointed."

Elsa stared at Orson for a while, then looked away.

Now she can't dwell on Orson. Instead, she needs to fix the big trouble caused by her brother.