Shi Qingxue blinked her eyes and secretly made a decision. She looked helpless and shy, as if she were forced to the point where she had no other ways.
She had to tell the truth, "Your Majesty, it was all my fault. Don't blame Baoning! It was me who asked Baoning to tell Yanyan those words."
"Why?" Ling Ruiyin was shocked.
Shi Qingxue's small face looked a bit pitiful. She wept softly, "Because I was in competition with Yanyan before. I was worried that she would embarrass me with painting which she was good at, so I made Baoning tell her those words, in order to make her give up that kind of thoughts. Boning would have been desperate to hide such a shameful thing if it had been true. Why did she announce it to the public?"
Qin Yanyan thought that they really planned together to fool h
