Someone answered him: "Just as the governor expected, the mansion has been surrounded..."
The man smiled coldly and said, "Cheng Lang is too sceptical. We have to be on guard against him."
Yi Ning froze. Why was it Lu Jiaxue? His voice was very familiar to Yi Ning, there was no way she was mistaking it. But why was he in the Duke of Ying's mansion?
And what he mentioned in his words was... the death of the eldest prince!
Yining recalled that in the winter of the 13th year of Chengping, Lu Jiaxue had shot and killed the eldest prince in the hunting grounds. The emperor in the palace had died suddenly and inexplicably shortly after the eldest prince's death. Soon after, Lu Jiaxue supported the crown prince to ascend the throne, and the new emperor conferred on Lu Jiaxue the title of General Xuanwei, a first-rank official.
Lu Jiaxue should have just returned from the hunting ground.
She actually ran into it at this critical juncture!
Even though Zhenzhu was knowledgeable, she was only a maid in the inner chambers. Hearing this, she was already sweating profusely. She looked at Yining, anxious but afraid to speak. Yining, however, was calmer than she'd expected. She shook her head at Zhenzhu, telling her not to worry. She was Wei Ling's daughter, and Lu Jiaxue had a close relationship with Wei Ling. He wouldn't harm Wei Ling's only daughter.
Although this is a reasonable conclusion, Yining felt her palms turn cold when she thought about how Lu Jiaxue could be so cruel that he could even kill her.
She heard the voice getting closer and closer. It was the attendant again: "Commander-in-Chief, you are injured after all. Do you want to bandage it..."
"No need." Lu Jiaxue said in a deep voice, "Come with me to the warm room."
The warm room is located to the south and the study to the north, so they should be far away. Pearl heaved a sigh of relief when she heard this. As she let go of her hand, she suddenly knocked over the pen holder on the long table. With a loud noise, the pen holder fell over.
Yi Ning's heart skipped a beat. Zhenzhu knew she had gotten into trouble, and she was so stiff that she didn't know what to do! Lu Jiaxue seemed to have heard the voice as well. Yi Ning heard his footsteps pause, and then he came over here. Maybe it was her illusion, she even heard Lu Jiaxue's breathing, and then the curtain of the study was swung open. Yi Ning looked up and saw Lu Jiaxue. He was wearing a black Chengzi robe with a Qilin pattern embroidered on the cuffs, and holding a sword in his hand. The tall figure looked cold and ruthless. This scene was really too familiar.
That's how he walked into the Lu family holding a bloody sword, and that's how he killed Lu Jiaran.
Lu Jiaxue also instantly spotted Yi Ning. The girl, leaning against the long table, was only as tall as her shoulders. Her cyan satin jacket made her look very slender.
Before Yining could say anything, he suddenly grabbed her. This time, he pinched her neck mercilessly and asked in a low voice, "What did you hear?"
Yining was held tightly in his arms and could even feel the heat from his chest.
She grabbed his sleeve and tried to pull him away, looking at him angrily. She recalled the events of her past life, the love and hatred. How he had cherished and flattered her, and how he had killed her. It all overlapped with the scene before her. She said coldly, "What are you going to do? I'm the daughter of the Duke of England... If you dare to do anything, I'm afraid today's incident will be unseen!"
"You've been the one to do it twice and three times..." Lu Jiaxue looked at her, smiled, and said, "If it weren't for the fact that you're Wei Ling's daughter, I would have killed you long ago."
She was still not smart enough. If he really intended to kill her, he wouldn't have said a word to her.
"Now it seems you heard everything." Lu Jiaxue approached her and said in a cold tone, "You don't have a grudge against me, do you? I let you hear everything."
Seeing him like this, Yi Ning even wanted to blurt out "Lu Jiaxue!" to see how he would react.
He looked at Yi Ning's stubborn eyes and sneered. He tightened his grip slightly, just to scare her. But he saw Yi Ning frowning tightly, her fingers clutching his sleeves, looking very fragile. Because of the difficulty in breathing, she was a little confused and said intermittently: "Lu Jiaxue... It hurts..."
Lu Jiaxue was stunned when he heard this. Then he heard Wei Ling's urgent voice behind him: "Lu Jiaxue, what are you doing!"
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