Chapter 248 He is Huo Yunzhan
Shen Qingci continued to threaten Old Madam Huo, her voice like a death knell from the depths of hell, each word striking her heart with deliberate force.
"Huo Yunzhan, and the entire Huo family."
“Madam,” her eyes were filled with coldness and cruelty, “you can only choose one.”
Upon hearing this, Old Madam Huo shook her head violently, her face, which had long since lost all color, filled with endless resistance and fear: "No, don't!"
Shen Qingci looked at Huo Yunzhan, who was bleeding heavily from being stabbed and was pale, yet still struggling wildly and agitated on the ground. A wicked smile slowly crept onto her lips.
"Actually, there's nothing to consider."
"Huo Yunzhan," her voice was light and airy, yet filled with a deadly chill, "is going to die soon anyway."
"To others, dying now or dying later makes no difference."
“But for me,” her eyes held an undisguised madness and glee, “it makes a big difference whether I die by your hand or by the executioner.”
“Madam,” she looked at her, her eyes filled with an undeniable authority, “you should think it over carefully.”
She placed the still-dripping blood sword into Old Madam Huo's hand, then looked at her with a smile, urging her on.
She was certain that Old Madam Huo would take action!
Because she thought the Huo Yunzhan in front of her was a fake.
Old Madam Huo's hands trembled violently!
She struggled for a long time, but finally slowly raised the sword in her hand!
She closed her eyes and suddenly stabbed the man on the ground, who was already terrified!
The tip of the sword pierced Huo Yunzhan's chest!
Huo Yunzhan screamed "Ah ah!" His voice was shrill and desperate!
Tears streamed uncontrollably down his face from his eyes, which had long since lost all their luster!
A very strange feeling welled up in Madam Huo's heart instantly!
But she didn't think much of it!
She could only desperately try to comfort herself in her heart—
Zhan'er has already left the capital; this is false!
She suddenly drew her sword again!
Blood gushed out instantly, splattering all over her body and face!
Huo Yunzhan's body jerked violently, then he collapsed to the ground, motionless.
Yuanbao stepped forward and checked his breath.
“Your Highness,” his voice was devoid of any warmth, “you are still breathing.”
Shen Qingci raised an eyebrow, a hint of sarcasm in his eyes: "You're quite resilient."
"It seems the old lady showed mercy."
Old Madam Huo clenched her teeth tightly. Although she knew perfectly well that it wasn't Zhan'er, how could she bring herself to hurt such a face?
Shen Qingci smiled.
She slowly picked up the blood-stained longsword from the ground.
She walked step by step toward Huo Yunzhan, who was already on his deathbed.
"The three of us," her voice was as soft as a lover's whisper, yet filled with a deadly chill, "each of us with a sword, to send you to your death. You should be very happy, shouldn't you?"
"How wonderful."
“The three of us are the three most important women in your life. You should be content to die at our hands.”
"You really deserve to die."
"They should be buried with my unjustly deceased parents and brothers!"
Her gaze turned cold in an instant!
Without hesitation, he thrust the longsword in his hand down fiercely!
Huo Yunzhan's body jerked violently!
His eyes, which had long since lost focus, were fixed on her, filled with endless resentment and unwillingness!
Yuanbao stepped forward again and examined it carefully.
“The princess,” he bowed and reported, “is dead.”
"Hmm." Shen Qingci nodded, her eyes crinkling as she looked at Liu Ruolan and Old Madam Huo behind her, who were already ashen-faced with fear but seemed to have breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.
"Yuanbao," she instructed in a light voice, "send someone to take Miss Liu back first."
“I,” she said, her eyes filled with calculation, “have some things I’d like to discuss with the old lady.”
Yuanbao immediately arranged for someone to take Liu Ruolan, who had already lost her soul, away.
Old Madam Huo looked at her warily: "You've already done as you asked! What else do you want to do?!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci laughed. Her laughter was clear and melodious, but it made Old Madam Huo feel as if she had fallen into an ice cave!
"Madam," she looked at her and said, enunciating each word clearly, "you acted so swiftly because you believed that the real Huo Yunzhan had already been rescued by His Majesty and sent away from the capital, didn't you?"
"You think the person in front of you is a fake Huo Yunzhan? I've been fooled."
"You did this on purpose to put my mind at ease?"
Madam Huo's eyes instantly filled with disbelief and terror!
Her heart skipped a beat!
How...how could she know?
Shen Qingci burst into laughter!
"Are you curious how I knew?"
"Of course it's because," she said, her face a mixture of madness and glee, "that the person you just stabbed with your own hand, the person you watched die, was indeed your son!"
"He is the real Huo Yunzhan!"
Old Madam Huo's heart was pounding!
Her gaze suddenly swept to the already cold corpse on the ground!
He looked at Huo Yunzhan's neck and ears several times!
She forced down her panic and unease, her voice filled with a final struggle: "I don't know what you're talking about!"
"What do you mean fake? What do you mean by sending them away? What do you mean by real? I don't understand."
"Didn't you force me to stab you?"
Shen Qingci's eyebrows curved into a smile, her voice filled with endless sarcasm: "Are you looking at the mole on his body?"
Shen Qingci stepped forward with a smile, took out a brocade handkerchief from her sleeve, and gently wiped the neck and ears of the already cold corpse.
The mole that had been hidden was suddenly revealed!
She wiped the area below her ear again.
The painted mole has also disappeared.
Old Madam Huo stared at her movements, completely stunned!
After a long while, she suddenly let out a shrill scream and rushed toward the corpse without regard for anything else!
"Zhan'er—!"
As if she had gone mad, Old Madam Huo scrambled to her feet and rushed to Huo Yunzhan's body!
She stretched out her hands, which were already trembling violently with fear, and first, like a madwoman, began to rub his face, which had already lost all color!
She tried to find even the slightest trace of a human skin mask on that face!
But...no!
There's nothing there!
The cold skin, the familiar contours, the already stiff touch... all clearly told her—
This face is real!
Her heart sank!
Trembling, she pulled open his clothes, which were already soaked in blood, and her hands frantically groped his cold body!
She touched the small bone of his left shin, the protrusion left from a fall from a horse when he was young, which had long since become one with the bone!
She touched his right hand, which he used to hold a gun all year round, and the knuckles of his fingers, which were several degrees thicker than those of an average person!
Every single item was a mark she knew all too well!
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