Chapter 535 The God of Slaughter, Yan Jin
Feng Yudie still can't believe what's happening right now.
"I'll ask again, where is Uncle Wu?" Yan Jin decided to start with the simple questions.
This time, Feng Yudie didn't dare to pretend to be stupid anymore. She raised her chin, signaling Yan Jin to let go of her mouth.
Yan Jin wasn't afraid of her calling for help and quickly let go of her hand.
Feng Yudie dared not gamble with her life, so after being released, she did not scream and shout recklessly, but endured the pain and revealed Wu Bo's hiding place.
"I hid the man in the woodshed in the southeast corner of the Prince's mansion. That's usually where servants who have made mistakes are imprisoned. Few people go there."
The person was hiding right inside the Prince's mansion! It really is true that the most dangerous place is the safest!
Having received the answer, Yan Jin gave a soft whistle, and two trusted confidants pushed open the door and entered.
"The person is in the woodshed in the southeast corner. Pick two quick-witted men to rescue him and take him to the Qiao residence in the south city."
"yes."
After arranging the rescue, Yan Jin turned his attention back to Feng Yudie.
"You still have one question you haven't answered."
Feng Yudie swallowed hard, and asked with a glimmer of hope, "If I answer, will you let me go?"
Yan Jin smiled cruelly, "You have no chance to bargain!"
As Yan Jin spoke, he casually wiped the dagger in his hand with Feng Yudie's blood-stained white undergarment.
But the next moment, the dagger sliced off a toe from her bent foot.
This time, Feng Yudie lost control and screamed as she fainted.
However, he was soon awakened by excruciating pain.
When she opened her eyes again, Yan Jin had already stuffed a blanket into her mouth.
She looked at Yan Jin in horror, her eyes and heart filled with fear.
This is a vengeful ghost! Why did she provoke him?
At that moment, she regretted it; she shouldn't have provoked him!
How incredibly stupid could she be to think she could win over this murderous god of war after knowing that Yan Jin had killed his mother and father, harmed his siblings, wiped out his savior Su Rongrong's entire family, and then married Su Rongrong without a second thought?
Yan Jin silently watched as Feng Yudie's face gradually lost its color. He swung the dagger again, and several bloody cuts appeared on her smooth, jade-like face.
Feng Yudie trembled all over and tried to back away, but there was a wall behind her, and she had nowhere left to retreat.
Feng Yudie, suppressing her fear and pain, pulled the blanket out of her mouth and said in a trembling and weak voice, "I'll talk, I'll tell you everything. I just beg you to give me a quick death!"
Yan Jin raised his chin slightly, which was taken as an agreement.
Feng Yudie breathed a sigh of relief and quickly said, "The person who told me the news was a young eunuch. He said that the chief eunuch Liu, who serves the Emperor, sent him."
“Eunuch Liu is a man close to Emperor Xiaozhao, and everything he did was at the emperor’s behest. Otherwise, I wouldn’t dare to provoke you like this.”
Yan Jin stared intently at Feng Yudie, "What's that little eunuch's name? What does he look like? Tell me in detail."
Feng Yudie thought for a moment and quickly said, "That little eunuch didn't say what his name was, but I remember he had a small round face and big eyes, but when he smiled, his eyes would squint into slits."
Yan Jin questioned, "Are you sure?"
Feng Yudie nodded. "When that little eunuch left, I gave him a hundred taels of silver. The way he smiled at that time was so unique that I remember it very clearly."
"Besides you, who else did you tell about this?" Yan Jin asked again.
Feng Yudie replied without hesitation, "Besides me, only one of my personal maids knows. Nobody else knows. This is leverage against you; it's worthless if too many people know. So, I haven't told anyone. Really, I'm not lying to you!"
Yan Jin indifferently raised his hand, and the dagger slashed Feng Yudie's neck, giving her a quick death as promised.
Feng Yudie instinctively reached out to cover her neck, but the next moment a strange smile appeared on her lips.
Yan Jin frowned, realizing that this woman probably hadn't told the truth in the end.
She may have already told others the news.
But who are the others? Prince Shun'an? Or Princess Shun'an?
Yan Jin wiped the dagger clean on the quilt, then turned and left the room.
"It was burned down."
After giving instructions to a few trusted confidants, he leaped back to the Earl of Enping's residence.
He bathed, changed his clothes, left the mansion, mounted his horse, and headed straight for the palace.
An hour later, news of the fire at the Shun'an Prince's Mansion reached the palace, and Yan Jin knelt at the feet of Emperor Xiaozhao.
"You did this?" Emperor Xiaozhao looked down at Yan Jin with a blank expression.
Yan Jin stood upright and said in a firm voice, "I dare not deceive Your Majesty. Before entering the palace, I killed the young princess of the Shun'an Prince's Mansion and her servants, and then set a fire on the spot."
Emperor Xiaozhao grabbed the brush washer from his desk and smashed it over his head.
Yan Jin neither dodged nor avoided the blow, and was hit squarely.
After the porcelain brush washer struck Yan Jin's forehead, leaving a bloody gash, it fell to the ground and shattered into pieces.
Yan Jin did not reach out to cover his forehead, letting the blood run down his forehead, fall into his eyes, and stain them red, yet he remained unmoved.
Emperor Xiaozhao gave an almost imperceptible smile, but his words were full of accusation: "You dare to kill and set fires right under my nose? Do you still respect me?"
Yan Jin remained upright: "Feng Yudie has crossed my bottom line. Even if it happened again, I would still kill her."
"But Feng Yudie is also a princess personally appointed by me! You just kill her like that?" Emperor Xiaozhao was genuinely angry.
He didn't see what Yan Jin did in Enping County before, and no one reported it to the authorities. He just let it go.
But now they were in the capital, right under his nose. He thought the man would restrain himself, but to his surprise, he was still acting so recklessly.
He doesn't respect him, the emperor, at all!
"She crossed my line," Yan Jin insisted.
"You..." Emperor Xiaozhao was almost laughing in anger, "Just because she wants to marry you?"
"No! I killed her because she threatened me with my wife!"
Yan Jin paused for a moment, then added, "Not only that, she also tried to sow discord between me and His Majesty, saying that His Majesty had instructed her to do so."
Emperor Xiaozhao narrowed his eyes. "Tell me what exactly happened."
Yan Jin didn't hide anything. He recounted everything from rushing back to the capital after receiving a series of messages, to learning that his wife was being threatened by Feng Yudie, from breaking into the Shun'an Prince's mansion at night to interrogate Feng Yudie, to learning the truth, committing murder and arson, and going to the palace to plead guilty.
When Feng Yudie, in her recounting, said that Liu Xin had sent someone to tell her the news, Emperor Xiaozhao glanced sideways at Liu Xin.
Liu Xin was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat and immediately knelt down.
After Yan Jin finished speaking, Liu Xin was about to kowtow and cry out for justice when Emperor Xiaozhao raised his hand to stop him and turned to look at Yan Jin.
"You've come to the palace not to plead guilty, but to seek confirmation, haven't you?"
Emperor Xiaozhao stared at Yan Jin with a dangerous look in his eyes, his tone chillingly cold, "Are you doubting me?"
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com