Chapter 284 - In Desperate Danger, Blood-Stained Dress (2/2)

Her hand trembled and the sword almost slipped out. If she hadn’t risen from the ashes and gone through life and death, she would have pa.s.sed out.

Mo Xuetong didn’t know how to name the feeling she was going through. She could only tell herself again and again: Don’t be afraid. Now you need to get out of here as soon as possible. It isn’t over yet.

Just now, she was hoping that someone would come; now, she thought differently. She hoped that people would come as late as possible so that she could find a way out of here.

However, things always went contrary. She clearly heard people’s voices ring again outside in the yard.

There was more than one man, instead, several men’s voices rang. Mo Xuetong’s face instantly became ashen. She couldn’t escape from this room. Furthermore, a maidservant died in the room, and she couldn’t get away with the bloodstain on her body, head, and face. Mo Xuetong knew that this time, she might really fail to survive.

She kept her eyes open and breathed heavily to suppress the surging emotion in the chest because of the blood smell. She forced herself not to look at Yirong’s open eyes and crawled out from under the bed. She pointed the sword in her hand at Feng Yulei on the bed. “If Father is destined to become his enemy… if Father is destined to die by his hand…”

Then, she might as well finish him and then kill herself!

The scene was already in chaos. If three of them in the room all died, and with her being a delicate girl who showed up here for no reason, people would only think Feng Yulei had abducted her here, and things ended up like this only because she refused to be contaminated and would rather die. Emperor Zongwen was a great emperor and should not get angry at Father because of this.

Having decided, she stabbed the short sword in her hand toward Feng Yulei…

The door was forcibly pushed open. They were a group of young masters who usually hung out with Feng Yulei. The leading one said in a drunk tone. “Quickly, I want to see His Highness. Something… big happened!”

Being drunk, he stuttered and his words sounded m.u.f.fled. However, he looked anxious because he forcibly pushed aside the few maidservants aside who were slow to open the door.

Yirong was searching in the yard with her people. Hearing the noises, she hurried to stop them. “May I ask why you want our master? His Highness just went to sleep.”

The young master was very anxious. “Well, please… Sister, please fetch His Highness for me. Something, something big happened.” Though his words were polite, he pushed Yiyun aside to barge in. Then, those behind him also followed. Yiyun was good at kung fu, nonetheless, she could not publicly show it. At this moment, she could only act like a normal maidservant and stagger out of the room.

She supported herself by clutching a young maidservant. “Young masters, please hold on…” She wanted to say something more, but several people had already rushed in. They looked like they must see His Highness today.

The young masters usually a.s.sociated with Feng Yulei, and Yiyun had seen them before. That being said, she never saw them so rude. They should barge into His Highness’s inner room. How impertinent they were!

Thinking that Yirong, who was more dexterous than her, was still in the inner room so she could stop them from startling His Highness, Yiyun just followed behind them and pretended to be anxious, shouting, “Young masters, His Highness is drunk and sleeping. No one should disturb him.”

She was signaling at Yirong in the room, however, the one in the room couldn’t have been deader.

There was no one else in the room. Previously, Yirong implied to Yiyun that Her Highness Han might be up to something. To stop others from knowing, she directly sent all the people away. Just now, some shadow flashed across the yard, and she didn’t know if they were an a.s.sa.s.sin or not. If Her Highness Han was really up to something, after Yirong stabbed her to death, it would be easier for Yirong to find an excuse to cover it up.

Nevertheless, she never expected such a situation. At that time, several people all rushed in.

Those young masters had all been drinking and got drunk. They were startled and even forgot about the usual manners. They should be bold enough to dash into Feng Yulei’s inner room. They rudely lifted the jade green curtain made of pearl and gauze and noisily jostled into the room.

The leading young master grumbled. “Your Highness, wake up. Those people are rude. They should block the gate with soldiers and get in our way. They said even if Your Highness came, you couldn’t get out. Who are they to treat you in this way? Your Highness, please get up. You should let them know you’re not someone to be trifled with. They can’t be sure who will take the throne now…”

His words were a little out of line. Behind him, a relatively sober young master pushed him with force. “Don’t talk nonsense. Do you want to die or something?”

He was trying to warn the person in front of him not to talk nonsense. It was a significant matter concerning the royal rivalry for supremacy. Before it was settled, anyone who gossiped about it should be killed. Both the talker and the listener were guilty.

However, being drunk, he couldn’t control his force and pushed a little harder. The leading one just entered the inner room; before he turned at the part.i.tion, he staggered and leaned sideways because of the push. He heavily b.u.mped into the part.i.tion and made the eight-fold part.i.tion waver and fall backward.

Bam! The noise almost deafened them. The crowd all closed their eyes at the noise. A few of them who stood before the part.i.tion couldn’t even dodge it. They fell together with the part.i.tion. At that instant, screams and flops rang together. Yiyun who followed them contemptuously sneered.

“A bunch of weaklings. Yirong must have made those noises to stop them from going in. They fretted like that just because of such noises. Useless!”

However, the next second, everything quieted down. Something sluggish seemed to have frozen. A kind of uneasiness was brewing. Yiyun suddenly had a bad hunch. She was at the door, far from the inner room. She ran to the room but heard screams ring in terror before she got in.

“Your Highness, Your Highness.”

“Quickly, someone a.s.sa.s.sinated His Highness.”

“Somebody, help, someone a.s.sa.s.sinated His Highness…”

Yiyun was running and stumbled in shock hearing that, almost knocking over a nearby two-handled green jade vase. Her face suddenly turned as white as snow. “Something, something happened to His Highness…”

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