A Flash Marriage Can Be A Treasure novel Chapter 374

But John looks hostile. "Jonathan, I didn't say that you did it. What are you so nervous?"

"I'm not." Jonathan leans against the sofa and smiles faintly. "I just can't stand your menacing face. I'm not the murderer."

Burnell interrupts them. "Alright, can't you shut up and wait for the doctor?"

Then he turns to look at Lily and finds that her face is a little pale. "You really freaked out. I'll have someone tidy up a room. You could go up and rest for a while."

Lily shakes her head and declines. "Thank you, Mr. Burnell. I'm fine. I want to be here with you."

So Burnell doesn't say anything else.

About ten minutes later, the doctor arrives. He wants to greet Burnell and the others when he comes in. But Burnell just waves his hand and asks him to go check Martha first.

The doctor goes upstairs and they continue to wait.

After another five minutes, the doctor comes downstairs and reports back with a solemn expression. "That dress has been soaked in deadly venom. If someone touches it, her body will begin to rot. The poison will spread throughout her body and she will die in several seconds."

Burnell asks Lily, "Did you wear that dress today?"

"I put it aside after I went back to my room and got changed." Lily gets into the detail. "I woke up at noon today. After taking a bath, I went downstairs for lunch. Then I went to see you in the study with Colbert. I went back to my room at 3 pm. I took a nap and got up at half past seven. Then I came down for dinner with Colbert."

After Lily says everything, Burnell calls a servant over and asks her, "You and Martha cleaned Ms. Lily's bedroom today?"

"Yes." The servant keeps her head down while replying, "After Ms. Lily came out of the bedroom at noon, we went to clean it. Then we went again around seven o'clock in the evening."

"Go get all the servants who went upstairs in here today!" Burnell instructs with a sullen face.

Soon, eight servants come in. They have been upstairs today.

Everyone says what they were doing their own thing at that time. There is no surveillance on the second floor. It seems that they could not find the murderer.

Burnell gets enraged and glares at the servants. "How dare you poison my daughter-in-law under my nose!"

Lily is quite surprised.

Burnell didn't like her yesterday, but now he calls her as his daughter-in-law.

All the servants rush to defend themselves.

But Burnell only says coldly, "You all said that you are not the murderer, but you all went upstairs at that time. So, you are all suspects and I'll send you to prison. Nobody could harm a Krislier. I would not let the murderer get away with it!"

"Dad, they've been working here for about eight years," Jonathan says, "If you send them to prison, people will say that we abuse our servants."

John says mockingly, "But I remembered a servant stained your suit. You broke her legs and fired her. You've abused our servants before."

"And it was even more terrible today. Someone put poison on the dress and tried to murder my girlfriend, but you speak for these servants? I really suspect you."

Jonathan looks at John. "I was going to visit my mom's grave in that suit. That servant stained it and told others my mom was a pathetic nobody. I caught her on the spot. I punished that bitch because I had evidence. But now we don't have any. Sending them to prison would only damage our reputation."

After a pause, Jonathan glances at Lily. "And the murderer may not be a servant. Perhaps someone planned it to gain sympathy so that she can marry into our family."