Chapter 442 Everyone Returns to Their Places, Li Qingluo Meets Consort Yue!

"Pearl, save us—"

"Help us, Pearl—"

“We are your own grandparents and parents! We are the ones who gave you this life of immense wealth and privilege, and yet you haven’t even had a chance to repay us, instead dragging us down to suffer this death sentence—”

"Pearl—"

The piercing screams all fell silent after the rope was put around their necks.

Because their pearls were powerless to help.

Soon, he and the others were all hanged on the rack.

That day, the execution grounds at the west gate were filled with corpses.

They all died on the seventh seven-day period after Li Qingluo's death.

This is truly a fine offering that Duan Rongshi has given himself.

Strangely, despite being the souls of the dead, he couldn't see the souls of those who had been executed.

Even during Li Qingluo's wanderings throughout Jinling these past few days, he didn't encounter a single other ghost.

Why am I the only one still wandering in this world?

She stood at the entrance of the market, and although she was a ghost, she felt a chill run through her body.

Li Qingluo clearly felt her body becoming increasingly transparent.

She wondered if it was time for her to disappear from this world completely if she could no longer even see herself.

Fortunately, the general's family's handling of the matter did not implicate my grandmother.

Although Li Qingluo didn't understand what Duan Rongshi had done, it was certain that her grandmother had not appeared.

Li Qingluo was relieved.

As for the Liu family, only one member remains alive.

It was Sui'er, sitting in the carriage, sobbing uncontrollably.

She was secretly taken away from Jinling by a caravan.

The entire Liu family, including Liu Jinzhi, who married into a butcher's family in Jinling, was implicated and hanged.

Only Liu Sui'er, who had ended up in a brothel, was suddenly redeemed and taken away from this place of trouble.

It's better to leave like this; let's start a new life.

Li Qingluo followed Duan Rongshi around all day.

Because she discovered that ever since he went to the General's Mansion on the seventh day after her death and had Qingyangzi perform a ritual, she had been unable to leave him for too long.

If the distance exceeds 100 meters, an invisible force will immediately pull him back to his side.

So she could only follow Duan Rongshi around all day, going wherever he went.

Watch him solve cases.

I accompanied him on his travels.

She accompanied him into the palace.

I accompanied him through the Dali Temple prison and sat in his study in a daze.

Li Qingluo gradually didn't want to leave either.

Aside from automatically keeping his distance when Duan Rongshi takes a bath, he even lies down next to his bed when he sleeps.

He would sleep on the innermost part of the bed every day, leaving most of the space outside exposed.

What's even stranger is that he sets an extra pair of chopsticks and bowls when he eats.

Then fill the bowls and chopsticks with Li Qingluo's food.

A stick of incense was also lit inside the room.

Only after Li Qingluo could feel the fullness of the food filling her stomach did she realize that all the food was dedicated to her.

He has been mourning her all along.

Besides continuing to receive his offerings, she also received a constant stream of food every day, and even new clothes that were burned.

She watched him do everything quietly.

Watching him guard a coffin, muttering to himself all day long.

The coffin was parked in Guiyuan.

He never returned to the Prince Su's residence.

Li Qingluo didn't even dare to look at the skeleton in the coffin.

She knew it was hers.

It is said that Duan Rongshi went mad and suddenly ran into the mountains the day before he returned to this world.

He somehow found out where his body had been dumped.

So he personally prepared her body for her.

Her remains had long been gnawed beyond recognition.

It's incredibly difficult to piece together a complete skeleton.

But he still carefully wrapped them all up without any hesitation and took them home.

Not only that, but he, a person with such obsessive-compulsive disorder, endured the stench every day just to talk to her.

"Luo'er, I will settle accounts with all those who have bullied you."

"Now that you've seen it, do you feel any better?"

Li Qingluo, standing to the side, said, "I feel great."

"Thank you, Shi."

However, aside from what he did each day, what he said most often was still: "Luo'er, come back..."

"Did you hear that, Luo'er?"

"I will always wait for you, wait for you to come back..."

From then on, he would go home every night and talk to the skeletons.

During the day, he would go out and wreak havoc in all directions.

He first destroyed all of Princess Qinyu's Lotus Sect strongholds.

Then the collusion between the Crown Prince and Qinyu was exposed to the world.

Then, with lightning speed, they turned the Pei family's conspiracy upside down.

Even Emperor Yan was stunned.

He knew some of these details, but not others.

Before Emperor Yan could react, and before he could even dismiss Duan Rongshi from his post again, he had already begun a killing spree.

This threw the entire Daliang region into utter chaos...

Emperor Yan thought he had gone mad.

In a fit of rage, he finally decided to hold him accountable.

However, Duan Rongshi brought the empty imperial edict left by Consort Yue to the palace, and Emperor Yan never paid any attention to him again.

...

Li Qingluo knew that if things continued like this, he was afraid he would really go crazy.

So when she saw her body becoming more and more transparent, she actually breathed a sigh of relief.

If I were to leave completely, he should be able to sense it, right?

Therefore, he should let go of his obsession with himself...

Until this day, after the West Gate vegetable market was filled with corpses, Duan Rongshi suddenly took Li Qingluo out of the city.

Li Qingluo drifted and floated to Qingsong Temple.

She finally saw her grandmother again!

Ever since she returned, she had wanted to visit Qingsong Temple.

But Duan Rongshi doesn't come, and she can't even leave Jinling.

Although her grandmother in this life had never even seen her.

They have no feelings for themselves.

But in Li Qingluo's heart, no matter which world she was in, she was still her most beloved grandmother.

Duan Rongshi did not go to Madam Pei's courtyard.

But upon arriving at Qingsong Temple, Li Qingluo suddenly managed to escape.

So she was very happy and went directly to Madam Pei's place.

Grandmother was sitting in the courtyard, with Granny Zhang and Granny Deng standing beside her!

Seeing that Granny Deng was still alive, Li Qinglu smiled through her tears.

At least, in the original world, Granny Deng is still alive and well.

So it's not necessarily a bad thing, and she can accept it less and less.

"Madam, over there... the executions are all over..."

"We need to arrange for people, but instead we've already buried them all?"

With a sorrowful expression, Madam Pei closed her eyes, holding the document authorizing her to leave the clan in her hand: "Go."

After Zhang Mama returned with the instructions, Madam Pei sighed heavily again.

"What do you think Prince Su really means?"

"Since the General's Mansion has committed the heinous crime of confiscating property and exterminating the entire clan, why would he single out this old woman for leniency?"

“They also sent someone to deliver the document authorizing me to leave the clan and family.”

"He deliberately wanted to release me and sever my ties with the entire Li family."

What exactly does he want to do?

Even Madam Pei couldn't figure it out, so how could the old maids possibly know?

Li Qingluo could only stand aside and murmur, "Because he knows that if you, Grandmother, had seen Luo'er, you would love Luo'er..."

“Grandmother, it was my fault in the previous life that I didn’t come to pay my respects to you first.”

"If you were here, Luo'er wouldn't have ended up like this."

"However, I am relieved to see that you are safe and sound."

"Grandmother, you must live to be a hundred years old. Leave Jinling and go to the world of martial arts. The sky is vast and the sea is wide, you can go anywhere."

"Grandmother, if there is an afterlife..."

"Luo'er will still be your granddaughter..."

After saying this, Li Qingluo suddenly realized that she was becoming lighter and lighter, and more and more transparent.

Once again, she was unable to control herself as she was dragged along by a force.

This time, however, she was not pulled back to Duan Rongshi's side.

Instead, it 'whooshed' back to Guiyuan.

It fell into the skeleton inside the coffin.

In an instant, Li Qingluo was once again plunged into endless darkness...

Meanwhile, Duan Rongshi, who was still at Qingsong Temple, was talking to Qingyangzi when the copper bell that Qingyangzi had placed on the table suddenly exploded with a 'bang'.

Duan Rongshi felt a sudden dizziness and collapsed...

Half an hour later, when Duan Rongshi woke up again, his eyes had changed.

Looking at the Taoist altar filled with talismans, Prince Su pinched his forehead hard.

"They've all been evacuated."

Qingyangzi exclaimed in disbelief, "Your Highness?"

"You wouldn't happen to... be back?"

Zhuiyu was startled.

"Come back? What do you mean, come back?"

"Could it be that these past few days, it really wasn't our prince?"

Qingyangzi looked at Duan Rongshi with a complicated expression.

Duan Rongshi: "Naturally, it is this king."

However, it is not entirely myself.

He knew perfectly well what had happened these past few days.

She also realized that there was another version of herself who had taken over her body.

Because of Qin Yu's experience, Duan Rongshi did not find it so difficult to accept.

He simply watched his other self go mad, and his anger gradually turned into indifference.

Gradually, he began to understand those feelings of 'himself'.

A heart-wrenching, excruciating loss.

Memories filled with joy, anger, sorrow, and happiness.

Even now, he felt a pang of envy.

It turns out, he originally had the chance to have such a day too...

Looking at the mess that had been turned upside down in Jinling, Prince Su's brows furrowed again.

Upon returning to Jinling, he first buried Li Qingluo.

"May I be reborn into a good family in my next life."

Li Qingluo vaguely heard those words, and then she heard someone calling her name.

"Luo'er..."

"Luo'er?"

"Luo'er, wake up—"

The voice was as gentle as a spring breeze.

It landed warmly and gently on Li Qingluo's heart.

She struggled to open her eyes and saw a familiar face.

"Ashi!"

She jumped up in surprise and rushed into his arms.

But she soon realized something was wrong.

Duan Rongshi would not have such soft breasts.

Moreover, the Ashi in front of me looks even more gentle and beautiful.

she is……

Li Qingluo instantly regained her senses: "You are Consort Yue?"

Zongzheng Qingyue smiled faintly.

That smile was truly breathtaking.

It turns out that Duan Rongshi's beauty was only eight-tenths of hers.

Zongzheng Qingyue was truly the most beautiful woman in the world.

He saw her staring at him intently.

Zongzheng Qingyue gently tapped her forehead with her slender fingers: "Silly Luo'er, haven't you remembered everything yet?"