Transmigration: Lady Chi Woos The Ice cold Professor Jun
Chapter 625: The worst mistake emperor’s made

"Hey, not T4, why am I paying for information that is not from your world?"

The system did not respond, disappearing conveniently as if nothing had been said, however when she called T4’s name, even he remained silent. It seemed, the central system was holding T4 hostage and he would not be liberated until she paid a ransom.

Not having T4 was something that made her restless and anxious, the system was like a drug she was addicted to. She relied on T4 for so much that he was her partner in almost everything. It was a given that she would pay the thieving system.

"Agreed." she said.

"Thank you for your patronage." A mechanical voice said and the ten points were deducted immediately.

"T4," she called, slightly worried that he was still gone.

"I am here host, I was temporarily muted." the system pet responded.

"What happened?" she asked.

"There was a glitch in the system." he said.

Like she would buy that, Chi Lian snorted in a manner that mocked. "Tell me what you found out about the butler."

"Host, do you remember after we shared the post about the princess’s gown and the one with white caused an issue. Later, Muyang’s grandfather said that if the people wanted traditions to be strict than they should start with making all the emperor’s male servants in the palace eunuchs as it used to be."

"I remember," she slapped the bed when he said this, and it was because the old madam added that in that case, all the female servants in the palace would be the emperor’s women. The emperor could have as many wives as he wanted and blood would follow due to the struggle for the crown.

Muyang had then said that the worst mistake emperor’s and kings made was ending the eunuch tradition. This conversation was so clear in Chi Lian’s mind, she could remember it as if it had just taken place yesterday.

At the time, little monk had a cold and she had been wiping his nose so she never asked him to elaborate on his words. All she remembered thinking was that the people who served the emperor directly as butlers and guards were required to remain celibate and unmarried like catholic priests. They were not even allowed to father children, they had to be devoted completely to the emperor.

"What about it?" she asked T4.

"The royal butler has a secret family." T4 announced and she gasped.

"Wow! really?"

"Yes," T4 sent the pictures he acquired from Quai Chi’s computer along with other details and identities of the woman and her son. In addition to that, T4 sent her the financial transactions between the woman and the butler.

She read through everything that T4 sent and after five minutes, she raised her head and said, "But, it looks like the child was fathered before he became a royal butler. He has kept in contact with the mother of his son but...do they have no other child?"

"Not that I have discovered so far."

"That means it’s possible that the relationship is not sexual, they could be communicating for the sake of the child." It looked like their communication was not regular and he saw the woman not more than three times a year. Mostly, he sent money to her monthly, he had not skipped a single month.

T4 put the picture of the son on the virtual screen and he asked her, "Does this grown adult resemble a child to you?"

"So, maybe he loves her." she amended.

"And that makes her his weakness, both the mother and son are a danger to the emperor by simply existing. Do you understand this host? Anybody that wants the harm the emperor can simply go through the royal butler by using mother and son against him. Muyang was right as always, that eunuch tradition of your emperors should have been continued."

Chi Lian folded her arms for a few seconds as she let T4’s declaration sink in and thought about things for a few seconds.

Then, she fell back on the bed and spread her arms out wide and sighed, loudly. The emperor had been right in keeping the royal butler out of all their lastest plans. She wondereed if perhaps the emeperor had suspected the man of betraying him.

"Is there any proof that the royal butler is communicating with anyone secretly?"

"He is one of the few we have not been keeping an eye on since he is always close to the emperor and you thought he was the emperor’s man." T4 told her.

She moved her eyes ledt and right, with her pursed lips moving from side to side as well. She eliminated the butler rom her list of suspects because of the Da Hong pao mother tree incident. And he always delivered secret messages from the emperor.

She had no reason to suspect him, in fact she would have suspected the crown prince or third prince before the royal butler because most power struggles for the throne according to history were internal. A son trying to overthrow a father, a nephew trying to overthrow an uncle or a brother overthrowing brother.

Even the Qi Lin beast new empire rebellion was in house because he was a member of the royal family.

"Start surveilling him, I will send a message to the emperor and warn him."

"You should sit on that information for a while, if the butler’s only crime is fathering a child in his youthful days then he might be killed for nothing." The system pet advised.

"This information was found on the computer of a man who worked with the company and Aoi organization which was headed by the emperor’s uncle. He also sold sensitive information on the side which he gathered by hacking into devices of powerful people and organizations in the empire. We do not know who has accessed this information or what they have used it for or intend to use it for. Even if the royal butler is innocent of colluding with the rebels it’s possible that he has been compromised in some other way already or he will be in future. This decision is not ours to make but the emperor’s." She was not in agreement with T4’s suggestion, the presence of evidence or it’s absence was not a guarantee of anything. But, maybe she could talk to the old master about this first, he might know better than her how to proceed.

She picked up her phone and called him, and then she left that decision in his hands.