Chapter 262 The Third Prince's Backyard Is on Fire

Upon hearing this, Yun Jiaoyue's smile froze, and she shook her head, saying, "...I didn't. It was too sudden at the time, and I didn't have time to think about my mother. Didn't you carry her out?"

With so many people in the Yun family, she had to help His Highness deal with the drug-using people, so how could she possibly remember Wang Shi?

"We didn't either. We thought you would arrange for someone to carry Mother out; she's still inside the estate..."

Mother was burned to death?!

They were burned alive; they were unfilial for letting their mother be burned to death.

"I thought you were going to bring her out. Brother, how can you ignore Mother's life or death?"

"You didn't do anything about it either, did you?..."

He has been troubled lately about whether or not to marry Li Yuying.

He tossed and turned all night, unable to sleep, his mind in a daze. He was already lucky to have escaped on his own; he couldn't care less about others.

"What do we do, Mother? We must go back and save them..."

"Smack!"

Yun Jiaoyue's face was turned to the side by the slap. She turned her head and glared at the person who hit her, "You... Su Wanwan, are you crazy?"

That bitch is still alive!

She raised her hand and slapped him back.

A hand intercepted her wrist in mid-air.

She pulled her arm away, "Let go!"

And Liu Yiyi, how come those two damned bitches are still alive!

"Yun Jiaoyue, you knocked me down and injured my knee, trying to get me killed by the drug-using man. You vicious woman, I'll beat you to death."

Ignoring her leg injury, Su Wanwan let go of Liu Yiyi who was supporting her, pounced on Yun Jiaoyue, and scratched and clawed at her face, slapping her twice more.

Su Wanwan reached out to pull her hair.

Yun Yanzhe, who was standing to the side, reacted and grabbed her wrist.

Yun Jiaoyue's eyes turned cold. She raised her hand and slapped her hard across the face, then slapped her again with her backhand. "Slap! Slap!"

Su Wanwan, who was standing on one leg, was slapped to the ground.

Liu Yiyi didn't come over to help her.

Yun Jiaoyue took half a step forward and tripped her, causing her to fall as well.

She stumbled and fell towards Yun Yanzhe in front of her, "Ah!"

Yun Yanzhe was tackled by him, and the two of them fell to the ground.

Startled, Su Wanwan closed her eyes. A strong arm caught her firmly behind her waist. She instinctively wrapped her arms around the other person's neck and met Zhao Jiu's resolute and rugged handsome face. Her cheeks flushed and her heart pounded.

He saved her again yesterday.

At this moment, Zhao Xuan, who was instructing his men to carry out their tasks, saw his two concubines, one in another man's arms and the other lying on top of another man.

His handsome face darkened, becoming even darker than the deep night.

He gritted his teeth and said, "What are you doing?"

Liu Yiyi lay on top of Yun Yanzhe, and when she tried to open her arms, she found that he was still holding her waist. She hurriedly pried his hands off, her beautiful face turning pale with fright. "You... let me go."

Yun Jiaoyue turned around, her sharp expression instantly transforming into a weak, pitiful, and helpless look. "Your Highness, my two younger sisters are going too far! My mother just passed away, and they even hit me..."

She showed her swollen cheek to the Third Prince so he could see it clearly.

Hearing her accuse the villain first, Su Wanwan cursed, "Shameless! Accusing the villain first! You're clearly only thinking about how to harm others, not caring about your mother's life or death. Your mother being burned to death is your retribution!"

Liu Yiyi desperately tried to explain, "Your Highness, I tripped and fell on him. I did nothing to wrong you."

Su Wanwan pointed at Yun Jiaoyue and said, "Your Highness, she wants to kill me. You must do this for me..."

Zhao Xuan interrupted Su Wanwan sharply, "Enough! Since nothing's wrong, let's leave it at that. Focus on recovering and don't cause any more trouble!"

Su Wanwan was also stubborn, and today she was determined to seek justice for herself. "Your Highness, she wanted to kill me, and you still sided with her. You don't care about my life or death, and you hate me so much. You might as well just divorce me and get rid of me."

She didn't want to be that concubine for even a day longer.

"Sister Wanwan, you have someone you like, so you asked His Highness to divorce you, hoping to be with your lover forever?" Yun Jiaoyue's gaze intentionally or unintentionally swept over Zhao Jiu behind her, with a hidden meaning.

"I don't have a lover, so don't even think about smearing me. Can't I go back to my parents' home? Hmm."

Yun Jiaoyue said, "Jiangnan is about to be captured by the rebels. You can never go back to Jiangnan."

Every exchange was detrimental to Su Wanwan.

Her family was from Jiangnan, but Jiangnan was captured by rebels, and all the wealthy merchants were robbed, so she was no longer of any use.

The sudden desire for a divorce stems from infidelity.

Zhao Xuan didn't care who was right or wrong. "Enough! I'll stop here. Yue'er, I accidentally bumped into you, and you hit her. What more do you want? Do you want me to kill her before you're satisfied?"

He knew Yun Jiaoyue was doing it on purpose, but he admired her ruthlessness and decisiveness even more. Those who achieve great things do not concern themselves with trifles.

She's stupid and useless, and she got schemed against. Who can she blame but herself?

Su Wanwan's eyes reddened with anger, but she still refused to admit defeat. She stubbornly questioned, "She wanted to harm me, is it wrong for me to want her to pay the price?"

Liu Yiyi tugged at her arm, "Wanwan, stop talking, don't make His Highness angry."

Zhao Xuan's face darkened. "Someone, take her down to find a doctor."

The maidservant stepped forward and carried the person away.

"Don't pull me, let go of me..." The maid was Yun Jiaoyue's person, and her movements were rough. Her injured leg dragged on the ground, causing Yun Jiaoyue's delicate eyebrows to furrow and her face to contort in pain. "No, don't pull me, it hurts!"

"Wanwan..." Liu Yiyi chased after her.

Zhao Xuan: "Stop! Mind your own business!"

"Yes, Your Highness." Liu Yiyi dared not disobey and froze in place.

Yun Jiaoyue gave her a deliberately provocative look.

Yun Yanzhe leaned closer to her again and whispered, "Yue'er, Mother... could His Highness send a few guards to rescue Mother?"

The fire was too big; he dared not go in. Guards were worthless; if they died, they died.

Just as Yun Jiaoyue was about to ask Zhao Xuan for a favor, she realized that he wouldn't even look at her, pretending not to hear, clearly indicating that he didn't want to.

If she speaks up, it will only put both sides in an awkward position.

She glanced again at the fire at the manor, which had almost turned half the sky red; it was definitely beyond saving. Sending the guards to rescue people would be tantamount to sending them to their deaths.

We've already lost a lot of guards and secret agents tonight. If a few more die, we'll have no one left to use.

She pointed over there and said to Yun Yanzhe, "Brother, look at the fire over there at the manor. Mother is probably in grave danger. Tomorrow I will go to the temple to ask someone to perform a ritual for her and get her an everlasting lamp so that she can rest in peace in the afterlife."

A dead person cannot be brought back to life.

Having lived a second life, she has become indifferent to life and death.

“But she is our mother after all. Even if she is dead, we must find her remains and bury her. If you won’t save her, I will.” Yun Yanzhe gritted his teeth and turned around, asking several members of the Yun family to go back with him to save her.

Yun Jiaoyue tried to call out to him, "Brother, come back. There are drugged people over there. It's dangerous. You'll only be throwing your life away if you go."

Yun Yanzhe ignored him and continued running in that direction.

She grabbed Zhao Xuan's arm urgently, "Your Highness, what should we do? My elder brother..."

She will become empress in the future, and she cannot do without her family members in the court to support her.

He was her elder brother, born of the same mother, and he couldn't die yet.

"They won't die. The guards just reported that those drug users died in the security department."

It's not surprising that the medicine figures that caught fire died; what's strange is that those that didn't catch fire also suddenly collapsed.

He guessed that those medicine people had been afflicted with some kind of evil spirit, such as the "Life-Sharing Gu".

Some people's families fell behind and got separated from the group, and they were too afraid to go looking for them. They heard that the medicine man had died.

They asked him again, "Your Highness, are all those medicine-using people really dead?"

"What the guard said is absolutely true, but there may be some who slipped through the net."

"Never mind, my daughter is missing, I have to go back and look for her."

Dozens of people went back to look for the person.

Yun Yanzhe was in front of Wang's house and noticed that the fire was not big. Just as he was about to rush in to save people, a figure suddenly floated in front of him. "Ze'er, what are you going to do?"