Chapter 356 Bloodbath at the Princess's Residence? We Must Capture Them Alive!
"Yu'er!"
Zongzheng Wuheng, who had just stepped through the door, saw this scene and his expression changed drastically. He immediately rushed towards her anxiously.
He caught Princess Qinyu's slumping body in his arms, crying, "Yu'er, Yu'er."
Ku Lianqiao, who was following closely behind, quickly gave her a pill.
"Your Highness? Princess?"
Qinyu gradually recovered.
But the pain coursing through her body and the lingering, stifling anger in her heart filled her eyes with a chilling, overwhelming hatred: "No matter which ghost it is—tonight, I will capture her and grind her to dust!!"
Zongzheng Wuheng: "Yu'er, do you even know who caused trouble in your princess's residence tonight?"
Princess Qinyu gave a silent, bitter smile: "Sixth Brother, I have always been an upright and honest person, and I have not made any enemies or grudges with anyone in Daliang. When these people hear the name 'Princess Qinyu,' who doesn't respect and love me to some extent?"
"Only Li Qingluo..."
"I now have an irreconcilable blood feud with her!"
Princess Qinyu couldn't help but grit her teeth at the mention of Li Qingluo.
This Li Qingluo first seduced Duan Rongshi, and then deceived herself by appearing foolish.
I kindly offered her a way out, but she was so ungrateful that she ruined Chunyanlou, the culmination of my years of hard work!
After the Lisboa Casino was destroyed, this Spring Banquet Pavilion became her last treasury. If even that is gone, how will she bail out the Crown Prince in the future?
The crown prince will only become more and more indifferent and distant towards her.
How could Qinyu not hate?
This is the culmination of her years of hard work and dedication!
Her maids had been lost one after another... and now there were none left.
I won't mention the other thugs, pimps, and maids.
But the losses that Li Qingluo caused him this time were absolutely immeasurable and irreparably devastating!
"Could it really be her...?"
Judging from the incident at Chunyanlou, she did have the means to damage these places, but how exactly did she do it?
Could it be that Prince Su, Duan Rongshi, is helping her behind the scenes again?
She wondered why Duan Rongshi had suddenly come to the princess's residence to see her yesterday.
She simply didn't have the energy to confront him and continue the act, so she used the excuse of being sick and unable to see anyone to brush him off.
But something happened in the palace today, so it's impossible for Duan Rongshi to be in two places at once and still come to the princess's residence to help her stir things up, right?
Zongzheng Wuheng suddenly spoke up: "Actually... it might not be her."
Princess Qinyu quickly looked up, her sharp gaze fixed on her brother.
"What did you say?"
"Is there something you're hiding from me?"
She sensed something was wrong.
Zongzheng Wuheng and Zuliya did not confess to Qinyu.
The two exchanged a glance, almost imperceptibly.
Although she knew that Qin Ling had been captured, she could not know that Qin Ling had been used by Zongzheng Wuheng.
Zongzheng Wuheng first carried Princess Qinyu back to the bed and laid her down, then crossed his arms and said coldly, "Sixth brother is just trying to help you, do you really doubt me?"
"I used some tricks on her a few days ago. She probably can't even find her own identity now, so how could she possibly have the ability to scheme against you like this?"
Zongzheng Wuheng, of course, wouldn't explain it too clearly.
Having said that Zongzheng Wuheng's bribery and manipulation of her trusted confidants would inevitably become a thorn in Qinyu's side, making it much harder for Zongzheng Wuheng to use this younger sister again.
Moreover, Zongzheng Wuheng is now quite aware of Qinyu's ambitions.
She thought that Zuliya was sincerely helping her to succeed, but little did she know that Zuliya's initial intention to help her obtain the Pei family's military treatise was not for her sake, but for the sake of the Crown Prince of Liang.
Zuliya, in the end, is still a person of their Great Chu.
Who is like his sister?
Two hearts!
Zongzheng Wuheng knew that Qinyu still wanted to become the Empress of Liang.
How could he possibly let her know that he was now eyeing the underground city defense map of Jinling City?
At this moment, the three people in Qinyu's bedroom each harbored hundreds of secrets, and none of them were truly honest with each other.
Qinyu didn't want to argue with Zongzheng Wuheng, knowing that her princess residence was in grave danger and that there were other hidden dangers.
Even though he was already certain that the man in Jinling had ulterior motives.
But exposing him would definitely not do me any good.
She could only swallow her anger and say, "Sixth Brother, you have to help me now!"
"If you hadn't interfered at the Spring Banquet Pavilion that day, Li Qingluo would have died at my hands long ago. That's what you owe me."
"So no matter who this ghost is tonight, you must help me catch her...!"
Zongzheng Wuheng and Zuliya walked out of Qinyu's bedchamber together.
The outside is a complete mess.
The servants' faces were filled with panic.
The guards were also filled with anxiety, wondering if they would be the next to be wiped out.
Although some were angry, it seemed as if an invisible hand was constantly preparing to seize them in the darkness.
Zongzheng Wuheng had no choice but to step forward and take charge of the situation.
Patrols and guards, soldiers and guards, each performed their duties, patrolling and guarding strictly.
Soon, under Zongzheng Wuheng's orders, the chaotic situation was finally brought back to order.
Strangely, the "ghost fire" near the princess's bedchamber suddenly disappeared completely, and there was no further movement.
The entire princess's residence was turned upside down, but no suspicious traces were found.
"Is there really someone in Jinling City who can fly to the sky and dive to the ground in the blink of an eye?"
Zongzheng Wuheng stood on high ground and murmured softly.
The image of Li Qingluo's ugly face flashed through his mind.
Is it really her?
Although he genuinely looked down on young women like Li Qingluo, if she really possessed the underground city defense map, then even if she did have some skill and usefulness.
Now that Qin Ling has been arrested, it's unknown whether she will reveal any secrets concerning her.
"How many of the men sent to Prince Su's residence have returned?"
Zongzheng Wuheng lowered his eyes and looked at Zuliya behind him, asking a question.
Zuliya: "Your Highness, not a single one has returned."
They certainly wanted to retrieve the Qin Mausoleum.
If they couldn't get him out, they were determined to silence him.
But I never expected that it would be so difficult to enter the Prince Su's mansion.
None of the men they sent out survived.
Zongzheng Wuheng's face turned extremely ugly.
"My foreign cousin is quite a formidable character."
"Do you think his sudden visit to the princess's residence yesterday was because he suspected my whereabouts?"
Zuliya suffered greatly at the hands of Duan Rongshi.
If she hadn't been forced into a corner, she wouldn't have been able to use the body of the bitter forsythia so quickly to escape.
Zuliya said bitterly, "This man is definitely a huge stumbling block on our path in Daliang. Sixth Prince, we must kill him!"
Zongzheng Wuheng recalled that day at the Spring Banquet Pavilion.
Although that person was also masked, Yu'er later said that he was Duan Rongshi.
If it weren't for his appearance, he would have easily deceived the Li family girl.
Zongzheng Wuheng's handsome face also revealed a sinister look without any attempt to hide it: "Killing him is imperative!"
His cold gaze fell on the dimly lit Prince Su's mansion next door.
Despite the commotion at the Princess's residence tonight, they remained completely silent.
It seems that, just as he had guessed, all the speculations about Prince Su and Zongzheng Yu'er were simply false rumors.
Prince Su looked down on Zongzheng Yu'er.
Zongzheng Wuheng: "By the way, is that poison you've been refining for five years about to take effect on that Li family daughter?"
Zulya: "Yes. Two more days at most. This time, I'll make her suffer terribly!"
Zongzheng Wuheng: "If it weren't for that idiot Qin Ling taking it upon himself to let her go down the mountain, this woman would already be in my hands."
Have you found any trace of her?
"Be careful, if you find her, don't actually kill her. She's still very useful to me!"
Zuliya hesitated for a moment before replying, "Sixth Prince, although with Qin Ling's abilities, this Li Qingluo should not only have her face and voice changed, but even the closest people in the world would not recognize her."
"But... the Xiuli General's residence has indeed been acting strangely these past two days."
Zongzheng Wuheng raised an eyebrow: "Oh? What's unusual about this?"
"Ever since Li Qingluo was captured by the princess, the entire manor has been searching for her."
"Although they had the help of the Prince Su's mansion, and the two mansions did indeed have closer ties, two days ago, they suddenly stopped their search for people."
Zongzheng Wuheng: "You suspect that this woman has already gone home with a face that no one in the world recognizes?"
"Heh, Zuliya, you don't know this yet. I had Qinling build a woman who looks exactly like the real Li Qingluo, with the same figure and appearance. She had a stunning reunion with Prince Su at the foot of Qishan Mountain."
“If Prince Su does not keep a mistress in a golden house, he will naturally send her back to General Xiuli’s mansion.”
"Now that they have found the person, it is not surprising that they have taken over the search force."
However, in Zuliya's mind, Li Qingluo was an ugly woman with two big dark circles under her eyes and a big mole on her face. Even though she knew that was her disguise, she really couldn't imagine how beautiful she really looked.
It is quite normal that Prince Su did not keep a mistress in a golden house.
Zulya was truly unaware of this matter.
When I saw Qin Ling that day, I was in such a hurry that I didn't even get to say a word before the people from Prince Su's mansion arrived.
"So, did the Prince Su's mansion arrest Qin Ling because the fake Li Qingluo gave himself away?"
Zongzheng Wuheng couldn't be so sure either, so he could only say, "Since you're so suspicious, I'll leave this matter to you to verify personally and see whether the person who returned from General Xiuli's mansion is real or fake..."
Before the words were finished, another commotion broke out in the princess's residence.
"Assassin spotted—assassin here—"
"Catch the assassin—"
"Chase--"
"Catch them!"
Several dark figures darted quickly through the princess's residence, leaping onto the rooftops in the blink of an eye, and then descending from the rooftops into the dark courtyard.
However, now that they had been discovered, aside from leaving a few guards to continue guarding the area around the princess's bedchamber, almost everyone else mobilized to chase the assassin throughout the entire courtyard.
But the shadowy figure was as slippery as an eel, appearing and disappearing like a real ghost, keeping everyone completely bewildered.
However, the people in the princess's residence were not truly vegetarians.
They did the opposite, using fire to force the assassins to reveal themselves.
Then, overwhelmed by the force of the crowd, all the guards rushed forward and surrounded him, and the two sides began to fight.
Two dark figures actually carved a bloody path through a sea of people, and no one within a radius could truly get close.
Their skills surprised even Zongzheng Wuheng.
"Just who is he? He's so powerful!"
"Looks like we need to capture someone alive!"
Zongzheng Wuheng let out a cold snort, and with a light tap of his toes, he dashed toward the dark figure.
Since Zuliya didn't have any light-footed skills, he could only immediately turn around and run down the stairs.
Not long after the two had left the highest point of the princess's residence, two more dark figures silently climbed up from below.
The newcomers were none other than Li Qingluo and Sha Yi.
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