A man in black hiding in the corner of the outer wall listened to the sounds inside. He felt that the time was almost right. He covered his face and turned to fly towards the Hall of Mental Cultivation.
Before he entered the Hall of Mental Cultivation, he placed a letter he had already written at the entrance of the Hall of Mental Cultivation. The letter was blown inside by the wind.
Seeing this, the man in black turned and left.
Gu Yefeng, who had been staying in the palace for many days, was summoned by Emperor Nan Rongqi that night. The emperor had a nightmare and felt uneasy, so he summoned Gu Yefeng to cast a divination for him.
As the Director of the Imperial Observatory, Yang, he naturally possessed the skill of observing celestial phenomena. Fortunately, he had learned some from the books his sister had given him, and he did not reveal any flaws in front of Nan Rongqi.
As he walked out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, a letter was stepped on by him. He looked around, saw no one, and then bent down to pick up the letter and open it.
Gu Yefeng was shocked. He never expected that the letter would be about his younger sister, Gu Qianying, and that the content of the letter was so direct and explicit.
"Qianying!"
Clenching the letter tightly in his hand, Gu Yefeng's eyes turned fierce. Enraged, he leaped lightly, his feet as if treading on the wind, and ran towards Jiuhua Palace.
Following the rooftops along the outer wall, he reached Jiuhua Palace at the fastest speed, kicked open the palace door, and walked inside quickly.
"Little sister!"
What met his eyes were naked people, and the ground was in disarray. A large piece of pink clothing was torn off, and the woman's figure was not visible, but her sobbing could be heard.
"A bunch of scoundrels!"
Gu Yefeng was furious. He held his long sword and pierced the throat of one of the men, who fell to the ground instantly, his life extinguished.
The remaining five men, seeing this, hurriedly put on their clothes. When one of them met Gu Yefeng's angry eyes, he was so frightened that he immediately knelt down and begged for mercy. But Gu Qianying would not give these scumbags a chance to breathe.
Under the flash of swords and blades, Gu Yefeng slew all the naked men.
As he cut off the last man's head, blood splattered all over his face.
He held the sword dripping with blood, and red blood covered half of his face. He didn't bother to wipe it off and walked towards the woman curled up in the corner, head bowed, crying and hugging her arms.
The woman's clothes were tattered, and her exposed feet and calves were stained with blood.
Gu Yefeng walked forward, took off his outer robe, and draped it over the woman's shoulders, covering the glimpses of her exposed skin.
"Qianying, don't be afraid, your brother is here. I'll take you away from here, far away."
Gu Yefeng extended his trembling right hand and hugged the woman.
As their bodies came into close contact, the woman, frightened, slapped Gu Yefeng's hand away and cowered in the corner, saying, "Don't touch me, go away!"
Gu Yefeng was suddenly startled.
This voice... it wasn't his younger sister Gu Qianying at all!
Since it wasn't his younger sister Gu Qianying, Gu Yefeng didn't pay any more attention. He didn't look to see who the woman was. He opened the window and climbed out. However, as he left, the jade pendant attached to his robe accidentally fell off.
When Gu Qianying returned with Lu Zhu, she saw six corpses lying on the ground, all naked. The clothes on the ground were scattered everywhere, and among the eunuchs' robes were women's clothes.
Gu Qianying was shocked and looked up, noticing the figure hiding in the corner.
Looking at the naked corpses on the ground and the mess in the room, how could Gu Qianying not guess what had happened before she entered?
She moved closer to the woman hiding in the corner: "Are you...?"
Hearing Gu Qianying's voice, the woman suddenly raised her head. The moment she saw Gu Qianying, the woman burst into tears.
"Nangong Xuanning, how could it be you?"
Gu Qianying was also very surprised.
She never expected that the person who was "raped" by several men was the current princess, Nangong Xuanning!
"What happened? Who did this?"
Gu Qianying stepped forward, squatted down, and hugged Nangong Xuanning.
Her voice was very cold, as cold as ice. She was angry.
Nangong Xuanning cried sadly on Gu Qianying's shoulder.
At this moment, the palace maid Xizhu rushed back.
"Princess, what's wrong? Who bullied you?"
Xizhu also cried. She was flustered and scared, but her face showed no concern for her mistress that a servant should have.
Gu Qianying glanced at her, said nothing more, and comforted Nangong Xuanning. After a while, Nangong Xuanning stopped crying.
Frightened and almost collapsing, Nangong Xuanning could not explain the whole story. Her body was weak, and she slumped into Gu Qianying's arms, fainting.
Gu Qianying placed Nangong Xuanning on the bed and dismissed the maids serving in the room. When she was alone, she examined Nangong Xuanning's body. After the examination, she was relieved. Fortunately, Nangong Xuanning was still a virgin.
However, the people around her had suffered such treatment. She could not pretend that nothing had happened! Absolutely not!
"Investigate, investigate thoroughly. I want to see who is so eager to die!"
After asking Xizhu a few questions, Gu Qianying learned that Nangong Xuanning had come to drink with her that night, but unexpectedly encountered the current situation. After discovering the aphrodisiacs in the bodies of the deceased men, Gu Qianying concluded that someone had plotted against her, and Nangong Xuanning had taken her place by mistake.
With fierce anger burning in her eyes, Gu Qianying mobilized the hidden guards around her within Jiuhua Palace.
She had them assist Lu Zhu in investigating the matter, and the results came quickly.
Gu Qianying looked coldly at the man in black kneeling at her feet: "Speak! Whose subordinate are you!"
This man was caught by Lu Zhu around the Hall of Mental Cultivation. He seemed to have come from the Hall of Mental Cultivation. Because the palace was too large, he got lost after wandering around for a while and was caught by Lu Zhu.
When Gu Qianying removed the scarf from the man's face, she recognized him at a glance. She had seen him on the road to the Empress Dowager's palace that day.
But even though she had seen him, she didn't know who he was.
Who wanted to harm her?
Consort Shu Gu Mingyue? Nangong Zhen'er? The Empress Dowager?
Who was it?
The man in black was stubborn and refused to speak.
Seeing his stubbornness, Gu Qianying walked over, took out a silver needle, and pricked the man's Baihui acupoint, which was the most painful.
The man in black cried out in pain, and finally, unable to bear the pain, he confessed everything.
A moment later, Gu Qianying sat at the desk, her cold eyes filled with killing intent.
Lu Zhu had already prepared ink and paper, and Gu Qianying picked up her brush to write a letter.
No one knew the content of the letter. After sealing the finished letter with red wax, she handed the envelope to Lu Zhu and asked her to deliver the letter under the cover of darkness.
That night, Lu Zhu appeared at the Poisonous Doctor's Sacred Pavilion.
That same night, several eunuchs in the palace died mysteriously.
And the place where the most deaths occurred was Chaoyang Pavilion, where the current Consort Shu resided.
The next day.
Consort Shu Gu Mingyue lay on a chaise lounge. Two maids beside her knelt and massaged her legs, while one stood behind her and massaged her shoulders. Several women who had just been promoted to concubines in the hall were chatting and laughing nearby.
Bang!
The door of the hall was kicked open from the outside.
Consort Shu Gu Mingyue frowned and ordered her personal maid, Huanbi, to go out and see. Huanbi obeyed, but as soon as she left the hall, she was kicked flying back in by the newcomer and landed on the ground, spitting out a mouthful of blood.
The women on Consort Shu's side all stood up after hearing the commotion and looked outside. They were all stunned by what they saw.