Chapter 707 Did you kill Chu Yanluo?

Inside a luxurious carriage, Liu Nanshi sat with a gloomy expression.

"I don't believe Chu Yanluo would commit suicide! She was clearly a coward who clung to life. Just a few days ago, she kept trying to escape from the brothel and begged those men who were toying with her to redeem her. How could she have committed suicide just a few days later? Impossible!"

Hua Yi said softly, "Miss, it's true. I saw it with my own eyes. Chu Yanluo has already died. There's a very obvious ligature mark on her neck. She hanged herself!"

Liu Nanshi glanced at her, her eyes filled with undisguised disgust.

Originally, she bought Huayi from Shen Wantang at a high price to protect herself, but she didn't expect Huayi to be so pretentious and manipulative, making her feel disgusted every time she spoke.

She really couldn't understand why Xiao Qingyuan would have liked this lowly, cowardly, and pretentious maid so much in his past life, and even made Huayi pregnant with his child.

Suppressing her disgust, she said in a gentle tone, "Huayi, you knew Chu Yanluo and even served under Shen Mingxuan together. You must have some connection with her. Now that she's dead, you should go and see her off on her final journey, right?"

Hua Yi hesitated for a moment: "Miss, do you grant me permission to go to the Chu family to offer condolences?"

"Of course, I know you want to go, so I'm giving you half a day off to go and pay your respects at the funeral."

Hua Yi knelt down with a face full of gratitude: "Thank you for your mercy, Miss. You are truly the most kind and compassionate mistress in the world. It is my good fortune to be able to serve you!"

Liu Nanshi smiled gently: "You know I treat you well, that's enough. As long as you are loyal to me, I will treat you all like my own sisters. Get up, there's no need for such a grand gesture."

"Thank you, Miss!"

"Oh, by the way, when you go to pay your respects, make sure you look carefully to see if the person lying in the coffin is really Chu Yanluo."

"yes."

Before Liu Nanshi could say anything more, the carriage curtain was suddenly lifted, and a figure darted in.

"Xiao Qingyuan?!"

Liu Nanshi was startled, but then said sarcastically, "What are you doing on my carriage? Get off! If someone sees you, I won't be able to explain myself. You're not going to marry me, so why are you getting on my carriage and tarnishing my reputation?"

Xiao Qingyuan's eyes were bloodshot as he stared intently at her: "Tell me, did you kill Chu Yanluo?!"

Liu Nanshi looked at him like he was an idiot: "Are you crazy? Why would I kill her? The people at Wan Hua Lou have already said that she committed suicide, committed suicide, committed suicide! She hanged herself!"

"Impossible! She wrote me a letter yesterday, begging me to save her. Her will to live is extremely strong; it's impossible for her to suddenly commit suicide!"

"Oh dear, Young Master Xiao, from what you're saying, it's clearly you who killed Chu Yanluo! She wrote to you begging for help, but you didn't help her, so she committed suicide in despair, didn't she? And now you're pinning the murder on me? You're quite the scapegoat!"

Xiao Qingyuan roared angrily, "Don't think I don't know that you sold Chu Yanluo into the brothel, that you drove her to the brink of despair! I already killed her once for you in my past life, can't you spare her life this time? Why do you have to be so ruthless? Don't you have even a shred of humanity?!"

Liu Nanshi also became furious, her voice turning shrill: "When I was sold into the brothel, why didn't you speak up for me? Why didn't you ask Chu Yanluo to give me a way out?! Now you're pretending to be a good person? Bah!"

"To exterminate them all? To kill Chu Yanluo? Would I be so kind? What I want is for Chu Yanluo to suffer a fate worse than death, to be the lowest of prostitutes for all eternity, to be humiliated and tormented by men every moment!"

"Death? That's too easy on her! Anyone in this world could be Chu Yanluo's killer, but I'm the only one who can't!"

Xiao Qingyuan was stunned. It turned out that Liu Nanshi was more ruthless than he had imagined!

Killing someone is just a matter of beheading them, but Liu Nanshi wanted to torture Chu Yanluo to the point of wishing she were dead.

"Xiao Qingyuan, what kind of look is that? Why are you looking at me like I'm a demon? Am I wrong to report Chu Yanluo?"

“I didn’t say it was wrong for you to retaliate against her. You sold her to the brothel, and I didn’t say anything about that either. I just wanted to say that you didn’t need to kill her. She has already repaid what she owed you by enduring so much humiliation and torment.”

"What a joke! Her worthless life is no match for mine! Even if she dies, she can't repay what she owes me! Besides, I didn't kill her!"

"You really didn't kill her?"

"Of course not! She always claimed to have the ability to be reborn. What if I kill her and she's reborn? It's better to keep her worthless life and let me torment her for the rest of her life!"

Xiao Qingyuan paused for a moment: "So you were also worried that this kind of thing would happen?"

"also?"

Liu Nanshi frowned: "So, you're also afraid that Chu Yanluo will be reborn again?"

"This... she has indeed been reborn more than once. She probably really has the ability to be reborn. I'm afraid that if she does it again, I won't have the memories of my past and present lives, and I'll be deceived by her again."

Liu Nanshi sneered and mocked, "You were so angry and indignant just now, I thought you were genuinely saddened by Chu Yanluo's death, but it turns out you weren't! You were just afraid she would be reborn!"

Xiao Qingyuan's face flushed red: "I'm not afraid of her being reborn. Like I said, I'm afraid of being deceived by her!"

"She's a shameless liar who never tells the truth. If I didn't have my memories, she would definitely have ripped me off again. I don't want to live that kind of life!"

"You're just making fun of me. Aren't you afraid she'll be reborn? Aren't you afraid that you'll lose your memory again and be completely manipulated by her? Or even be sold into the brothel again?"

Liu Nanshi readily admitted, "Of course I don't want Chu Yanluo to be reborn. This kind of thing is too bizarre. If it didn't happen to me, I would never believe it if someone else told me."

"Such a bizarre thing must be contained at all costs, and the best way to contain it is to prevent Chu Yanluo from dying!"

"So, Prince Xiao, do you now believe that I didn't kill Chu Yanluo?"

Xiao Qingyuan sat there with a stiff face, muttering, "So, Chu Yanluo really committed suicide? She really has the ability to be reborn? She's going to go back to the past and start over? Is time going to reverse? What am I going to do?"

Liu Nanshi ignored him because, after hearing Xiao Qingyuan's words, she became even more certain of her guess—Chu Yanluo was very likely not dead!

If Chu Yanluo truly possessed the miraculous ability of rebirth and could start over repeatedly, she would have committed suicide the moment she was sold into the brothel. Why would she have to endure such humiliation and torment?

The fact that she didn't commit suicide at the beginning shows that she didn't dare to gamble that she could be reborn!