Who is in Chapter 41?
At this moment, the death row cell was engulfed in flames, and it was easy to see that the fire must have started here. Inside the cell, a young girl in the prime of her life was surrounded by the flames.
This must be the scapegoat Gu Yingxue found!
Under the cover of night, they took Chunyan away, then switched her with a woman of similar age and placed her in Chunyan's cell. Finally, they set the cell on fire, burning down the cell and killing all those who knew the truth.
Once everyone has turned to ashes, the plan to substitute one thing for another will be perfectly accomplished.
It must be said that Gu Yingxue's plan was perfect and ruthless; once it was implemented, it would never give anyone a chance to survive.
Unfortunately, Gu Shuyan, who had just been squatting outside the jail, had already guessed all of this.
"Young lady, are you alright?"
Seeing the girl being approached by the fire, Gu Shuyan quickly stepped forward and called out to her.
But the girl didn't answer her question; she just chuckled and gave her a silly laugh.
Seeing this, Gu Shuyan finally understood why she didn't run away even though the death row door was open; it turned out this girl had something wrong with her head.
Seeing that the silly girl had no idea what awaited her, Gu Shuyan steeled her heart and rushed inside.
"Hurry up, get out of here quickly."
Gu Shuyan called out and reached out to pull the silly girl, but the silly girl, seeing Gu Shuyan's outstretched hand and her anxious expression, instead grinned and smiled.
Seeing this, Gu Shuyan cursed under her breath and grabbed her, trying to pull her away. But although the girl was simple-minded, she was surprisingly strong. She just stood there, and no matter how hard Gu Shuyan pulled, she couldn't budge her.
As the fire grew larger and larger, just when Gu Shuyan was at her wit's end and was about to give up on the girl, she suddenly remembered the pastries that Mingyu had stuffed into her arms before she left.
Using the pastries, Gu Shuyan finally managed to get the silly girl out. Looking at the billowing smoke in front of her, Gu Shuyan wiped the sweat from her brow and silently disappeared into the night.
A fire broke out in the Shuntian Prefecture prison. The lookout tower in the capital quickly reported the incident, and firefighters soon assembled and rushed over.
Yun Yichen, who was in charge of the security of the capital, rushed over as soon as he received the news. When he saw the prisoners who had just been brought back to the prison, Yun Yichen's face turned as black as the bottom of a pot.
"Tell me, who let you out?"
As intelligent as Yun Yichen was, he didn't believe that with such a huge fire, no one could have opened the prison doors and the prisoners could have escaped.
Since someone was able to release the prisoners beforehand, the fire must have been deliberately set. However, he hadn't yet figured out whether this person was targeting the Shuntian Prefecture or him.
"I...we...we were released by the yamen runners."
The prisoner trembled under Yun Yichen's intense gaze when he questioned him, but even so, he did not reveal Gu Shuyan's identity.
Since they had promised Gu Shuyan they would never betray her, they naturally wouldn't betray their savior. Although none of them were good people before, they were loyal to one thing.
"Are you sure it was a yamen runner and not someone else?"
Yun Yichen was clearly dissatisfied with this answer; it was full of obvious flaws, but he wasn't in a hurry to expose him.
“It’s…it really is…it’s a yamen runner, absolutely…it’s true.”
Under the oppressive aura emanating from Yun Yichen, the man trembled like a leaf, sweat dripping from his face onto the ground, yet he remained stubbornly silent, refusing to reveal Gu Shuyan's identity.
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