C12

"Thank you for seeing me out."

Outside the palace gates, Xiao Xiao faced Gonggong Li with a faint smile as she thanked him.

"This is something a servant should do, my king … Please go back! " Eunuch Li smiled and made a gesture of invitation.

Xiao Qian walked along the long path by herself. When she first arrived, Eunuch Li had personally come to pick her up. Since she couldn't bring a servant into the palace, she could only walk back to the estate. There were basically no people walking on the path of the palace. They had to walk through a long path to enter the busy city.

As soon as he passed by the palace entrance, Liu Feng's voice was heard.

"Miss, something happened in the manor. Are you alright?"

"I'm fine. Do you know what happened in the manor?" Xiaoxiao coldly asked. She felt that she had already guessed what was going on. She just didn't know why Bai Yuting would be so ruthless as to harm her own child.

"It's Green Branch. She hid a money bag in your room after you entered the palace. After the housekeeper brought someone here, she also came to tell you the truth." If he did not see it with his own eyes, he would also think that it was the little miss who was ruthless and merciless!

"Child... It's really gone? " She hesitated for a moment before asking.

"Yes, at that time, Madame Bai lost a lot of blood …" No matter how much he had experienced, he could not bear to see a life that he had not even had the time to see again before it was killed by his mother.

"Hehe, Liu Feng, look at how vicious the human heart is. For the sake of power and status, you even want to kill your own child." Slightly mocking, he said.

"Right, Liu Feng, you go and inform Mr. Huo that I'm going to Jiangnan tomorrow at noon. I'll have him send Liu Yue and Liu Qing to follow us."

"Yes sir!" Liu Feng replied, after hesitating for a moment, he asked, "Miss, are you going to Jiangnan?"

"Yes, I will write to Mr. Huo about the specific situation. You will know what's going on when you come with me." As they walked, they said, "Hurry up and go!"

"This subordinate will take his leave. Miss, you must be careful!" With that, Liu Feng left. From start to finish, only the sound of his voice could be heard.

Xiao Qian walked alone in the direction of the Wang Mansion. Even though there were so many people clamoring around her, she didn't change her direction. She decided to walk the same path for the rest of her life.

At the entrance to Duke Ling's mansion.

Bai Yu Ting had already fainted and was carried back to her mansion. The pool of blood in front of her door had frozen, but the people around her had yet to disperse. They were still discussing and pointing.

"This wangfei is too malicious! When the Prince left this morning, she immediately sent the two madams away. It was only afternoon, yet she had already taken away the Prince's child. This is truly the most venomous of women! " Passerby A shook his head and sighed.

"This is even called an imperial concubine! This is clearly a wicked woman!" Didn't you see? The puddle of blood on the ground was made by Madame Bai after she lost her child! " Passerby B fiercely said that he hated this kind of woman the most. Last year, the wife of the nephew of the son of the eldest uncle of his Third Aunt's sixth wife's eldest uncle's son had been like this, forcing out a son who was eight months old from being a concubine.

"She's not really a wangfei at all. Since the prince hasn't married off yet, she can at most be considered a wangfei! And he's a vicious, abandoned concubine! " Passerby C continued with what the first two said.

"Your Highness really has foresight …"

"Look!" "She's back …"

"He's here, he's here..."

Step by step, she walked towards the prince's mansion. The commoners surrounding the gate naturally made way for her. She walked at a leisurely pace. She knew that everyone held an opinion on her, so she had to walk with a proper bearing.

"Look at her arrogant attitude!" The bystander pointed at Xiao Xiao as he spoke.

"That's right, that's right. She's clearly an abandoned concubine. Even if she's the Prime Minister's daughter, she shouldn't be so arrogant!" The people around him chimed in. The imperial edict had just been passed down, and the news of him breaking off relations with the Prime Minister's estate had not yet spread. Thus, the crowd still believed that Qian Chao was relying on the Prime Minister's power.)

When he heard this, he stopped and turned around. He glanced at the people around him and said,

"I, Xiao Qian, don't need to rely on the palace, not the Prime Minister's palace. I can still live a wonderful life!" The shallow eyes looked at them sharply.

"Everyone, have you seen with your own eyes that I have sent the two ladies away? Did you see me harm Madame Bai with your own eyes? You all only saw Madame Bai kneeling here! " He pointed at the pool of blood.

"Even seeing is believing, what's more hearing? To be spreading rumors here without any proof, that was a slander! I advise everyone to say that disaster will arise from the mouth! "

After he had finished speaking, he stepped into the palace. There were a few words that should have been said the moment he touched the floor.

The crowd quietly listened to their conversation. They looked at each other for a long time before they left. Some people didn't dare to offend others when they had power, and they might not be able to offend others when they lost power.

She had more important things to prepare. Her enemy had never been Madame Bai, but a woman who went crazy for power and status. She couldn't help but despise him from the bottom of her heart.

Xiao Xiao returned to the Coldrain Courtyard. The entire courtyard was a mass of wolves, and Greenwood was nowhere to be seen.

He then returned to his room and wrote down what he needed to tell Mr. Huo...

— —

It was night at the Cold Rain Courtyard.

"Miss!"

"Miss!"

"Miss!"

Liu Feng, Liu Yue, and Liu Qing descended from the eaves and entered the room to greet Qian Chao.

"You are all here," Drifting Water had just finished writing his letter. "It just so happens that I have something to give you to do."

"Liu Feng, this is what I want to give to Mr. Huo. If you give it to him, he will understand."

"Liu Qing, this is the medicinal material that I want. Go and capture it for me."

"Liu Yue, take this silver to the blacksmith at the corner of Fortune Street. Tell him that the sun will rise tonight and he will give it to you."

"Yes sir!" After a short discussion, the three of them replied in unison.

The three of them waved their hands, indicating that they could go handle things. Then, the three of them flew in different directions.

"Drip. Drip."

After the three of them left, the room instantly quieted down, so the sound of a drop of water falling was especially abrupt.

He looked towards the source of the sound and saw that the thing dripping from the roof was blood.

"Who?" she asked in a loud voice.

"Pata."

Before the shallow voice had even finished, a black mass had already fallen in front of his eyes.

"Hey!" "If you're not dead, then say something!" Asked Qian Chao as she walked around the pile of things. Seeing that the person didn't make a single sound, she went forward and pushed him.

He still did not move, only reaching out his hand to take off his mask.

"Don't move, if you move, I'll kill you!" The moment his shallow hand touched the person's mask, it was grabbed. The person's eyes were tightly shut, but the strength needed to grasp the shallow hand was extremely strong. Even the way he spoke was not weak.

Hearing him say such things, she couldn't help but laugh …

"Heh heh... Sight … You must have suffered from internal injuries and poisoning, right? Do you think. With your current situation, you can touch me even a little? " Slight ridicule. You truly have no good intentions to repay your kindness!]

"Then take off my mask and try." The man in black replied with his eyes still closed.

"I don't care, I don't want to pick it now. I just want to wait until you die from the poison before picking it. The results are still the same." Ye Zichen shrugged and said indifferently.

As soon as he finished speaking, the room fell silent …

She looked as though she were quietly waiting for the man to die. The man looked as though he had been tormented by poison until he couldn't move.

After a long time …

"My name is Dark Night."