Chapter 246 I'll Take Your Life
The next morning, when Shen Qingci woke up, there was no one beside her; Chu Jichen was not there.
As soon as she sat up, Yuanbao appeared hurriedly outside the bedroom.
"Your Highness!" His voice carried an barely suppressed gravity, "Last night, there was a prison break!"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci felt a chill run down her spine!
She quickly asked, "What's the situation? Did they kidnap Huo Yunzhan?"
Yuanbao nodded heavily, but a hint of relief appeared on his face: "Fortunately, because Your Highness had just left, the people we left to keep watch in the prison hadn't completely withdrawn yet. They discovered the prison break immediately and notified the people in the prison right away!"
"Those who broke into the prison were clearly all suicide soldiers! After being discovered, they resisted for a while, but when they realized they couldn't break through the encirclement, they all committed suicide by poisoning themselves. Not a single one of them survived."
Shen Qingci narrowed her eyes slightly.
Could it be that the venomous gaze she felt last night in the prison, the one fixed on her, was... that of the people who were planning to break her out of prison?
They're all dead?
Shen Qingci nodded, her voice completely calm: "That's good."
"We can't... let them take that 'Huo Yunzhan' from the prison too soon. If he's taken away and it's discovered that he's a fake, things... will become much more complicated."
Fortunately, nothing else went wrong.
Before they knew it, the day Huo Yunzhan was to be executed had arrived.
Huo Yunzhan's execution was scheduled for the afternoon.
Shen Qingci arrived early in the morning at the secret room where the real Huo Yunzhan was being held.
Huo Yunzhan was still dazed. He slowly opened his eyes and immediately saw Shen Qingci standing quietly by the bed, looking down at him!
He shuddered violently, and his eyes, which had long since lost all their luster, instantly flashed with intense hatred!
He glanced around at the cold stone walls, then his gaze returned to Shen Qingci, and he asked in a hoarse voice, "Why am I here? Where is this place?"
Shouldn't he have already been taken away by His Majesty's men and sent to the border?
Shen Qingci knew what he was thinking, but... slowly, she smiled.
“I don’t know this person,” she looked at him, her eyes filled with endless mockery and pity, “Do you…do you still know him?”
She clapped her hands gently.
A figure dressed in the attire of a palace attendant slowly entered from outside the door.
It was none other than the one who personally went to the Huo residence to deliver the imperial decree and personally "rescued" him from the imperial prison, "Eunuch Zhu"!
Eunuch Zhu stood respectfully beside Shen Qingci, then, with a smile, slowly removed the lifelike human skin mask from his face.
Huo Yunzhan's pupils suddenly contracted!
His eyes widened, he pointed at Yuanbao, and stammered, "You...you you..."
His heart skipped a beat, and he abruptly turned his head, staring intently at Shen Qingci, his voice filled with disbelief and terror: "What...what exactly do you want to do?"
Upon hearing this, Shen Qingci smiled.
The laughter was crisp and melodious, yet it was filled with endless chill and cruelty.
“What can I do?” She looked at him with the same gaze she had for prey caught in a spider’s web, unable to escape. “Of course… I’ll take your life.”
"General Huo," her voice was light and airy, yet every word was like a knife, "perhaps you don't know what day it is today?"
“But I can tell you,” a bloodthirsty smile played on her lips, “that today is the day you… will be dragged out of the Meridian Gate to be executed.”
"However, your dear mother still believes that you have already been sent away by His Majesty's men to the border. She has already begun to dream that you will make meritorious contributions on the border, then return home in glory, return to the court, and revitalize the Yongning Marquis's mansion."
Little did I know, you had already fallen into my hands.
Shen Qingci's eyebrows curved into a smile, her voice filled with delight: "I've arranged quite a show for you today."
She winked at Yuanbao.
Yuanbao immediately stepped forward, roughly pried open Huo Yunzhan's mouth, and poured a bowl of pitch-black medicine down his throat!
Huo Yunzhan's eyes widened as he struggled desperately, his voice filled with terror: "Wh...what is that?!"
Shen Qingci smiled, a smile that was bright and harmless, but her eyes flashed with a terrifying cold light: "Something that will make you unable to speak from now on."
"Why are you doing this to me?" Huo Yunzhan was frantic. He struggled to his feet, his voice filled with a final struggle, "I... I still have many secrets about the Shen family matter that I haven't told you yet! Don't you... don't you want to know?!"
"If you let me go, I can tell you everything!"
Shen Qingci's expression, however, was utterly indifferent.
"I really... don't really want to know."
“Besides,” her voice was completely flat, “it doesn’t really matter anymore.”
"Anyway, I won't let anyone involved in this matter go. You're just the first one."
"As for what happened back then, the truth and the details are no longer important."
“After all,” her eyes were filled with utter coldness and resolve, “even if I knew the details and the truth, my loved ones could never come back to life.”
Huo Yunzhan opened his mouth and cried out "Ah ah," but he could no longer make any sound!
Shen Qingci's eyes crinkled into a smile, her voice filled with glee: "I've found the perfect executioner for you. I've even found an audience for you."
Shen Qingci clapped her hands gently.
Immediately, someone stepped forward and carefully covered the moles on Huo Yunzhan's neck and ears. Then, they placed a new mole below his ear.
Soon, Liu Ruolan and Madam Huo, whose eyes had already been blindfolded, were brought up.
The blindfold was ripped off!
Liu Ruolan and Old Madam Huo both saw the scene before them at the same time!
Before that, Liu Ruolan had been taken to the Heavenly Prison by Shen Qingci, where she met "Huo Yunzhan" once and promised Shen Qingci that she would personally deal with Huo Yunzhan.
At this moment, there was no surprise on her face.
When Old Madam Huo saw the man who was being held down on the ground and looked exactly like Huo Yunzhan, she instantly became agitated and screamed!
"Zhan...Zhan'er? How...how could you be here?!" She looked at him in disbelief, then suddenly turned her head, staring intently at Shen Qingci, and screamed hysterically, "Shen Qingci! You bitch! What...what have you done?"
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