Chapter 197 Because You Deserve to Die
There was a cracking sound, like the sound of a bone breaking, and then there was no more sound from the room.
Prince Rui raised the corners of his lips, a smug look appearing on his face.
After a few seconds, there was still no movement in the room and the door was closed.
Qi Shou felt something was not right, and the smug look on Prince Rui's face turned gloomy, so he asked someone to go over and open the door.
When the door was pushed open, a person was seen standing inside with his neck tilted to one side, looking very strange.
"Junior brother!" Qi Shou was shocked and immediately ran over to check the situation. When he saw the lifeless face, his whole body was trembling. There was a ferocious expression frozen on that face, the eyes were wide open, the pupils were dimmed, and blood was still dripping from the corner of the mouth.
Prince Rui stood at the doorway without entering. When he saw a figure coming out from behind the screen, a flash of panic crossed his face, and then he gave an order:
"Kill him for me!"
Dozens of killers filed in, the dim candlelight reflected the flashes of swords and sabers, and streaks of bright red blood continuously splashed on the doors, windows and the ground, like blood-stained plum blossoms. The room was filled with a strong smell of blood, mixed with the strong aroma of soothing incense. The two smells intertwined together, just like a morgue, a mixture of the smell of corpses and incense.
I don't know how long it was, but when the fighting in the house finally subsided, the door creaked open and someone walked out.
Prince Rui had retreated downstairs, with a large group of guards standing in front of him. Ji Quan stood in front of him, his narrow eyes like knives staring at the person walking out of the door.
Seeing that the person who came out was Qi Wuhan, Prince Rui cursed inwardly, why isn’t he dead yet!
His clothes were stained with dark bloodstains, and his face was also covered with bright red blood drops. One drop fell right into the corner of his rosy eye, making his dark peach blossom eyes look even more seductive and bloodthirsty, like a Shura who had rushed out from hell, and his breath exuded a chilling aura.
When those bloodthirsty peach blossom eyes swept over him, King Rui felt a momentary shudder in his heart.
"What a mad dog!" Prince Rui cursed inwardly, then immediately ordered, "Marquis Jin'an sneaked into the palace to assassinate him, but was executed on the spot by the palace guards. Kill him for me!"
A large group of guards immediately rushed over. Prince Rui led Ji Quan out of the building first, and then asked someone to prepare kerosene. Ji Quan reminded him, "Your Highness, His Majesty is still inside."
"Marquis Jin'an entered the palace to assassinate my father, and unfortunately, my father was killed." Prince Rui's eyes darkened, a sinister smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, and his tone became extremely sinister. "I am seeking revenge for my father. Even if it means destroying myself and the enemy, I will never let the thief go unpunished."
As soon as he finished speaking, a sharp sword was thrown out from the building, shining with a cold light, and came towards King Rui at lightning speed. King Rui was startled, and the next moment he was pulled away by Ji Quan. The cold light of the sword blade passed before their eyes, penetrated the tree trunk, and stabbed into the stone.
The next moment, King Rui felt a burning pain in his ear. He raised his hand and touched it, and found it bleeding.
Ji Quan asked King Rui to go first. King Rui saw that Qi Wuhan had already reached the door, and although he was unwilling, he still left first.
When Qi Wuhan stepped out of the door, he glanced in the direction where King Rui left, then his eyes turned and met Ji Quan's knife-like narrow eyes.
"Please enlighten me, my Lord."
Ji Quan drew the sword from his waist, and the corners of his lips curled up into a vicious dog-like smile.
"Your opponent is not alone."
Qi Wuhan turned his eyes to the side and saw a figure walking out from the darkness.
The dim light shone from the door, illuminating the cold and resolute face.
The guards who came rushing over with buckets of kerosene also saw that face and were all shocked.
"So it's Commander Li," Ji Quan curled his thin lips in a mocking smile, "Where has Commander Li been these days? Why didn't you show up earlier? His Majesty thought you had some ulterior motives and didn't want to come back."
Commander Li said in a deep voice, "Our loyalty to Your Majesty is evident to all!" His cold gaze swept over the guards carrying kerosene. "Your Highness the Third Prince and the Imperial Observatory's Director, Qi Shou, are colluding with each other to usurp the throne. The evidence is irrefutable. Do not be stubborn and aid the tyrant."
After hearing what Commander Li said, everyone began to waver. When one person put down the kerosene barrel in his hand, the others followed suit.
Ji Quan also put away his sword and prepared to leave, because he noticed that Qi Wuhan had already left. As soon as he turned around, he was stopped by Commander Li.
"I have already turned from evil to good, why do you still want to kill me?" Ji Quan said sarcastically with a hint of joking tone.
"You have to stay." Commander Li's tone was cold, leaving no room for compromise.
Ji Quan tutted his words and said, "I'm really unlucky tonight."
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On the other side, Prince Rui hurriedly stopped outside the gate of Fanghua Palace. When he looked up at the plaque on the door, an inexplicable feeling of pessimism surged in his heart, as if he had foreseen his own fate in an instant.
He didn't know how he ended up here, maybe it was an accident, maybe it was destiny...
But he never believed in fate!
After calming himself down, he opened the door and walked in.
The yard was unusually quiet, so quiet that one could hear one's own heartbeat.
He stood alone in the yard, and suddenly some childhood memories surfaced in his mind, causing him to feel a flicker of fear, as if he had foreseen something before his death...
He remembered the mung bean soup his mother had made him, the little rabbit his mother had taught him to draw, how his father always praised the crown prince and the flatterer who was staying at the palace, and how he had once sneaked to the palace to see his fourth brother but was discovered and scolded by his father. He saw his mother crying and secretly vowed to become stronger than anyone else...
"Mother, did I do something wrong?" He asked himself, looking at the silent chamber in front of him, then shook his head. "I didn't do anything wrong. It's Father who's wrong. Just because Fourth Brother was born blind, Father doesn't like you. People in the palace also gossip about us behind our backs. Mother, you're weak-willed and would just swallow your anger even if people looked down on you. But I won't. I'm going to make those who look down on us pay the price!"
"Everyone says the Crown Prince is kind and benevolent, but in reality he is mediocre and incompetent. Yet, Father favors him in every way. Why? Is it because he's the Crown Prince? I must prove to Father that I'm a hundred times, ten thousand times, better than him!"
At this point, he laughed coldly, "But why, why did Father treat me like that? Am I not his son? The drama he put on before was just to prove my crime of treason. Does Father really want to get rid of me?"
"You are nothing more than a whetstone given by the emperor to the prince."
Qi Wuhan's cold voice sounded behind him. King Rui turned around and sneered, "What benefits will you get in the end by helping the crown prince?" He suggested, "Why don't you and I join forces? After we succeed, I can guarantee—"
A cold light flashed, and King Rui's voice stopped abruptly. His pupils suddenly dilated, and he fell forward and fell to the ground, covering his neck with blood. Blood gushed out of his mouth with every word he spoke.
"Why...why..." His head tilted, his face frozen with an expression of unwillingness, mixed with a hint of fear and disbelief, as if he had not expected that he would actually kill.
Qi Wuhan squatted down, looked into those eyes that were still open, and whispered word by word, "Because, you deserve to die."
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