coobybook Chapter 108 The man behind the scenes
Chapter 108 The man behind the scenes
The girl inside was terrified and kept begging for mercy, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, please."
"please."
Liu Yunzhu bent down, picked up the clothes from the ground, and handed them to the girl.
He looked down at him, his voice low and deep, "I'm asking you, do you know a woman named Hua Muyan?"
The girl huddled in the corner, looking at the corpse lying beside her, her body trembling uncontrollably.
Even as she looked at the clothes Liu Yunzhu handed her, she was still afraid.
"Is that young lady living in this mansion?" he pressed.
The woman nodded in fear, grabbed her clothes, and hurriedly put them on.
"Yes, her name is Yan'er..."
"She's dead..."
"Dead?" Liu Yunzhu gripped her hand tightly, asking again in disbelief, "She's dead?"
“Yes,” the woman said through clenched teeth. “She’s dead.”
"She was tortured to death by Prince Chu himself, and afterwards, the several vile men in his mansion did the same to her. In the end, she was thrown into a mass grave..."
Her words struck me like a thunderbolt, as if a lightning bolt had flashed overhead, and my heart pounded like a drum.
Liu Yunzhu's hand trembled slightly. "Do you know what she looks like?"
He still didn't believe it and wanted to confirm it again.
"Yan'er is very beautiful," the woman said, her voice trembling.
She thought for a moment, "She has a mole under her eye, a high nose bridge, and big eyes; it's a very pretty face."
Liu Yunzhu's body trembled, his lips were dry, and his tongue felt as if it were stuck to his palate, making it impossible for him to speak.
The woman on the ground had tears welling up in her eyes.
"Young master, since you're already here, why don't you kill everyone from Prince Chu's mansion?"
"Sir..."
"They're all no good..."
"Please, young master, save me from here."
"I beg you......"
Even if she hadn't said anything, Liu Yunzhu would have saved her anyway, because Hua Muyan had told him that she didn't want him to kill innocent people indiscriminately. But as Gu Yuan's bodyguard, how could his hands not be stained with blood?
Let's consider this his final act of kindness.
Meanwhile, Prince Chu, who was fast asleep, was woken up by the guards and became somewhat impatient.
"Your Highness, someone has trespassed into the Prince's residence."
"Your Majesty."
The Prince of Chu roared, "Kill them! Do I need to teach you that?"
After a moment, Prince Chu came to his senses and spoke again.
"Who dares to trespass into my Prince Chu's residence? Are they tired of living?"
"They're probably Doctor Hua's men, looking for his daughter," the guard said.
"The people who came in killed five of our brothers."
Upon hearing this, a look of shock flashed across Prince Chu's face.
He pushed the woman off him, sat up, and pulled back the bed curtains.
"A bunch of trash!"
"If he comes again, kill him without mercy. Did you get a good look at his face?"
"It was too dark to see clearly, but he was highly skilled in martial arts," the guard said, shaking his head.
Prince Chu snorted coldly, a hint of disgust flashing in his eyes, "If you're still this powerful, do you think you can kill me?"
"Impossible."
He flicked his sleeves, turned back, and embraced the beauty again as they slept.
-
Holding a tinderbox, Liu Yunzhu groped his way slowly toward the mass grave in the dark.
In the pitch-black night, trudging along the muddy path, he finally arrived at the mass grave.
The mass grave had no tombstones, only scattered withered trees and weeds, connected to countless unknown skeletons, and the air was filled with the smell of decaying earth.
The faint firelight slightly blurred Liu Yunzhu's vision, and at the same time, he felt uneasy.
He couldn't believe that Hua Muyan had really died in this place.
He stood there, scanning the surrounding corpses, searching for her body.
Liu Yunzhu squatted down and turned over the surrounding corpses, but some of them were already rotten and difficult to identify.
He searched for an unknown amount of time, and just when he was at a loss, he finally saw something familiar on the ground that was stained black with blood.
He strode forward, and in front of him was a butterfly-wing bracelet.
The bracelet is carved with lifelike butterflies, which seem to be dancing in the firelight.
He recognized the bracelet; it was the birthday gift he had given to Hua Muyan. He just hadn't expected to see it in the mass grave.
Liu Yunzhu went completely mad, turning over one corpse after another. Finally, near the riverbank, he saw a familiar silhouette.
A fleeting pain flashed in the man's eyes as he looked at the woman, whose face was now deathly pale... He puffed out his cheeks and took a step back in disbelief.
"Yan'er..."
"you......"
Liu Yunzhu knelt down in front of the corpse with a "plop," and at the same time, a loud "boom" of thunder came from not far away.
Her torn clothes were completely soaked by the rain, and her small body was covered with wounds.
He used to love her smile; it was innocent and bright. Now, however, it had lost all its warmth.
Liu Yunzhu knelt on the ground, looking at her body without legs. He embraced her and then burst into tears as if he were going crazy.
"Yan'er," Liu Yunzhu said, trembling all over, "does it hurt?"
"I'm taking you home, I've come to take you home..."
He knew she was in so much pain, so he came to take her back.
In the dark mass grave, Jiang Zhi followed not far away.
Then they heard the man's heart-wrenching cries from ahead.
The heavy rain had not stopped; instead, it became even more torrential, washing away the bloodstains in the mass grave.
-
Jiang Zhi returned to the Prince's Mansion with a complicated expression.
She tiptoed and hung the cloak on the clothes rack.
"Did you come back so late to keep watch over me?" Gu Liang asked, lying on her side in bed.
He sat up and stared at Jiang Zhi.
Jiang Zhi was about to blurt out that she had something to do, but changed his mind and asked, "Aren't you asleep yet?"
"What's wrong?" Gu Liang asked softly. "What happened?"
He noticed that something was wrong with her expression.
Jiang Zhi looked up, her eyes brimming with tears, but still filled with confusion.
“When you lie, your eyes blink twice first,” Gu Liang explained slowly.
"Gu Liang," Jiang Zhi said with a hint of grievance, "I feel like I did something wrong."
Now, why is Gu Liang so heartbroken?
“Life is unpredictable,” Gu Liang said. “Perhaps this isn’t what you think.”
Jiang Zhi was somewhat surprised; it seemed he knew.
"You know?" she asked.
“I know you will investigate him, and I also suspect there might be someone behind it.”
When she heard that Gu Liang's words matched her own expectations, she immediately stopped crying.
She looked up and asked, "Do you have anyone you suspect?"
Gu Liang chuckled, "That's it?"
Jiang Zhi snorted, "I am Jiang Zhi, how could I be defeated so quickly? So who do you think it was?"
Gu Liang frowned slightly. "Difficult to pinpoint."
"This person is both near and far from us, as if he is pushing us."
"What we can be certain of is that it wasn't him. He wouldn't do something that would harm his own interests, after all, this matter involves too many people, so..."