Chapter 2 Maid 2
Fifteen minutes later, Lu Jinghuai arrived.
He knew that Nan Yue'er was returning to the capital today, and he also knew that she was returning to become the Crown Princess.
He and Nan Yue'er were childhood sweethearts, deeply in love. However, she was the Crown Princess appointed by the Emperor, and unless she died, she would remain the Crown Princess.
They were destined to be apart.
After Nan Yue'er returned to the capital, he wanted to keep his distance from her, so he had few opportunities to speak with her. Therefore, he secretly left the city with a few guards.
But to his utter surprise, when he arrived there, he found a group of guards' corpses.
All the guards who escorted Nan Yue'er back to the capital died.
There were still very obvious signs of a fight and the bodies of more than a dozen assassins. There was nothing distinctive about the assassins, and no one knew who sent them.
However, the bodies of Nan Yue'er and her maid were not found here. Lu Jinghuai held onto a sliver of hope that Nan Yue'er was alive.
However, his men discovered Nan Yue'er's body not far ahead.
Lu Jinghuai strode over there.
He looked at Nan Yue'er, who lay lifeless on the ground with her eyes closed. Trembling, he knelt down, embraced her, and cried out in anguish, "Yue'er!"
"Who is it? Who on earth is it?"
"check."
"Yes, General."
After a while, a guard saw some words on the ground not far ahead, the words being covered by a wisp of weeds.
"General, there are words here."
Lu Jinghuai: !!!
He carried Nan Yue'er to the carriage, then walked over there, staring at the words on the ground with a gloomy expression.
The Prime Minister's wife...
It really was her.
He had suspected it was her all along.
The death of Yue'er is most beneficial to the Prime Minister's wife.
Because Nan Yue'er is the prime minister's legitimate daughter and the crown prince's fiancée.
Now, the Crown Prince is essentially tied to the Prime Minister's residence. Therefore, the Crown Princess will definitely come from the Prime Minister's residence.
The current Prime Minister's wife is the Prime Minister's second wife, and her daughter is a year younger than Nan Yue'er. The Prime Minister's wife spoils her. Most importantly, Nan Xi'er is in love with the Crown Prince.
If Nan Yue'er dies, then the position of Crown Princess can only belong to Nan Xi'er. After all, besides Nan Yue'er, only Nan Xi'er is a legitimate daughter.
Luo Xi wrote these words casually while running.
When she saw the assassins, she already knew who had sent them.
She is the Prime Minister's wife, and also Nan Yue'er's stepmother.
Whoever comes here and sees Nan Yue'er's body, they will eventually realize that one person is missing—her.
Therefore, she would become the key to this assassination.
Whether she is alive or dead, they will come looking for her.
If she were still alive, then some people would think she knew something and want her to be a witness to accuse the murderer, like Lu Jinghuai.
However, some people, like the Prime Minister's wife, were afraid that she knew something and wanted to eliminate her completely.
Luo Xi was betting that Lu Jinghuai would arrive first. After all, as Nan Yue'er's personal maid, she understood Lu Jinghuai's personality. He would definitely come out to "greet" Nan Yue'er ahead of time.
Now, she directly wrote the name of the person who bribed the assassin on the ground, believing that Lu Jinghuai would believe it.
If he believed it, then he would send someone to keep an eye on the Prime Minister's wife. And the Prime Minister's wife's people should not be pushovers either. As long as the Prime Minister's wife knows that someone is watching her, then she will not act rashly.
She will be less in danger.
However, she couldn't go to Lu Jinghuai either.
She knew very well how much he liked Nan Yue'er.
Now, Nan Yue'er is dead, and she, a mere maid, is still alive. Who knows if he'll overthink it? He definitely will. He'll definitely know that she abandoned Nan Yue'er and ran away on her own.
In Lu Jinghuai's mind, she should think that since she was a maid, she should sacrifice herself to help Nan Yue'er draw away the assassins and save Nan Yue'er's life; it would be right for her to die.
Once she loses her value, she's doomed. Lu Jinghuai won't let her live.
Now, if Lu Jinghuai devotes some of his energy and time to the Prime Minister's wife, the chances of him finding her will be smaller, and her chances of survival will be greater...
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