22 One is alive and the other dead (1/2)

After going to the secret chamber under her room, Jiao Yu went upstairs to get change while Bai Chen and Jing Chu went out to get the meals ready for dinner.

Changing out from her all-black dress full of Mui Gu's blood, she felt light headed and found herself going towards the joint room to clean her body.

The countless bodies and souls that she'd severed, took a lot of toll on her body and mentality. She can't remember anymore how long and many time she'd killed. Normally, she would only kill someone whenever she was ordered to by the organization yet now, she's probably going to have to kill people occasionally to avoid trouble uprising.

A knock was heard from the bamboo screen, ”Young lady, do you want to heat the dishes after one had taken a bath already?”

Jiao Yu rests her head to the sides of the wooden bath tub and said, ”Let it be, it's still edible even without reheating it.”

After a few more minutes, Jiao Yu's eyes was close and her breathing was steady. One did not know why but today, she felt so nice and relaxed even after doing something so evil, making her fell asleep faster than usual.

Inside the courtyard of the Second Furen, Hui Shi was not at all in a good mood. Earlier, when she was about to go out to meet the other furens, she found out that all her favorite jewelries and some other ornaments were long gone from her jewelry box. The amount of jewelries stolen were not that many however, it was still valuable and some of it were part of her dowry when she married over to the Liu family.

She did not know where or who took it and only heard that Mui Gu was also missing the same day her jewelries was missing.

Anger was seething out from her as she shouted, ”Find that Mui Gu maid immediately and make sure she's captured to be presented to me!!”

”I'll let her know what a big sin it is for stealing from me.”

The second household servants knew that something had angered their mistress and have to obey her or else, the one that will bear the brunt of iron. Immediately, the servants from the Second household ran around to look for the missing maid and jewelries, and anxiously went to report back that they have not found anything, the maid nor the jewelries that was stolen.

Hui Shi cursed under her breath and threw things inside her room, making a shattering noise as jars and jade pots was thrown to the floor.

”What's happening here!?” A loud roar sounded in the room.

Hui Shi looked up to see her husband, Liu Buwei standing across her with a furrowed brow. The man in front her was in his early forties and compared to the scholarly look his brothers, Liu Sheng Xiao and Liu Yao Han had, her husband face was handsome with a rough and robust looking. Wearing a blue court official uniform and sporting a growing beard.

During their marriage, Liu Buwei did not have any plan to like the woman he married and he could only show courtesy and respect as the woman he truly loves is someone who can no longer be his. And because of that he pampered Hui Shi to satisfy his guilt for loving another woman.