After being reborn, I went on a killing spree in the imperial court.

The next morning, as the first rays of sunlight streamed into the room through the window, Cao Yuan slowly woke up.

She slowly opened her eyes, feeling as if her head had been struck hard by a hammer, the pain unbearable, causing her to sit up in bed.

"Jinzhu...I'm thirsty..." Cao Yuan called out in a hoarse voice.

Before the words were finished, a clear voice, tinged with surprise, rang out: "Your Highness, you're awake!"

A man's voice.

Cao Yuan immediately sobered up. She looked at the man kneeling on the ground not far away, and it was Luo Jiulan, who had poured her wine yesterday.

Luo Jiulan's face was full of concern, and she was holding a bowl of something she didn't know what it was.

"you?"

"You were drunk yesterday, so I carried you back to your room."

As she spoke, Luo Jiulan stood up and walked over to Cao Yuan, picking up the hangover soup from the tray. "Your Highness, this is hangover soup, please drink it!"

"Um... what's your name again?"

Cao Yuan frowned slightly, trying hard to recall, but her mind was blank and she couldn't remember his name.

"Your Highness, my name is Luo Jiulan. You can just call me Alan."

Luo Jiulan answered softly, while carefully bringing a bowl of hangover soup to the bedside.

"Oh, it's Alan," Cao Yuan murmured to herself.

Just then, a vague memory suddenly flooded her mind, snapping her back to reality: "Wait... I think I remember yesterday..."

In an instant, all the fragments flooded back like a tide, including the wine that had been secretly tampered with.

Thinking of this, Cao Yuan's face turned extremely gloomy. She became wary of the person in front of her and, without saying a word, she raised her hand and knocked the hangover soup out of Luo Jiulan's hand.

With a loud crash, the porcelain bowl shattered into countless pieces, splashing soup everywhere and wetting Luo Jiulan's clothes and the ground beneath her feet.

Luo Jiulan was terrified. Her legs went weak, and she knelt down with a thud, trembling and not daring to raise her head.

"Did you drug me yesterday?!" Cao Yuan glared angrily at Luo Jiulan, who was kneeling on the ground.

She clenched her teeth, her heart filled with anger and confusion.

"This servant did not! Even if you gave this servant a hundred times the courage, this servant would not dare to drug Your Highness! Your Highness, please forgive me!"

"After you passed out drunk yesterday, Your Highness, I helped you into your room and did nothing else! I've been here watching over you ever since!"

"Please forgive me, Your Highness! Please forgive me, Your Highness!"

Cao Yuan touched her clothes and found them to be neat and tidy, which put her at ease.

"You stayed up all night for me?"

Luo Jiulan nodded sincerely.

"There's nothing for you here, you can go now!"

"Your Highness, this servant will go and fetch you another bowl of hangover soup."

"No need, go and take a bowl to Fan Qingli!"

"Does Your Highness no longer want your servants to serve you? Please spare my life, Your Highness! Please spare my life, Your Highness!"

"I only asked you to deliver a hangover soup to Fan Qingli, who asked you to take your life!"

baffling!

"Sir Qin said that I can only follow you. If the prince dislikes me, I should find a place to hang myself! The same goes for Rong, the concubine in Lord Fan's room."

Cao Yuan sneered, "Isn't this eyeliner a bit too obvious?"

"Go and fetch me some water so I can wash up."

"Yes! Thank you for sparing my life, Your Highness."

"Wait, where's Jinzhu?"

Only then did she remember that she had asked Jinzhu to stay in the room yesterday.

Why are there only the two of them this morning?

Cao Yuan grabbed Luo Jiulan's collar, "Where's Jinzhu? Where did you put my Jinzhu?"

"Your Highness, I don't know where Jinzhu is. She wasn't in your room when I escorted you back yesterday."

"Impossible!" Cao Yuan grabbed Luo Jiulan by the neck. "Tell your master that if he dares to lay a finger on Jinzhu, I'll make your entire governor's mansion pay with its life!"

Luo Jiulan was thrown to the ground by Cao Yuan. Cao Yuan's imposing manner intimidated him, and he was so frightened that he curled up on the ground, touching his neck.

"Jinzhu!"

Cao Yuan rushed out of the room, calling out, "Jinzhu, Jinzhu!"

"Guards! All of you, come out here!"

Cao Yuan stood in the governor's mansion and shouted loudly, but still couldn't see Jin Zhu. All the women in the other rooms around were awakened by Cao Yuan's noise.

They stood at the doorway watching Cao Yuan, who seemed to have gone mad.

"What's going on here?"

"I don't know, why is it so noisy so early in the morning?"

She recalled the way Qin Sima looked at Jinzhu yesterday, and without saying a word, she rushed into Qin Sima's room, where Qin Sima was sleeping soundly with another girl in his arms.

Cao Yuan pulled Qin Sima straight out of bed. "Get up! Get up!"

"Ah!" The woman next to her saw Cao Yuan and immediately woke up, covering herself with the blanket and screaming.

Cao Yuan glared at her fiercely, and the woman immediately covered her mouth and stopped making a sound.

Qin Sima was sleeping like a log, so Cao Yuan slapped him twice and yelled, "Wake up!"

"Ah, who is it?"

Qin Sima was still a little confused, but when he saw the person standing in front of him, he was struck as if by lightning and instantly became very clear-headed.

He stared at the other person with wide eyes, and asked in astonishment, "Your Highness, how...how did you get into my room?"

However, Cao Yuan had no intention of answering his question at the moment. His eyes were bloodshot, like two raging flames, staring intently at Qin Sima, as if he wanted to devour him whole.

She roared through gritted teeth, "Where's Jinzhu! Tell me right now, where did you take Jinzhu?"

Faced with Cao Yuan's fierce questioning, Qin Sima's heart sank, but he still maintained a calm expression.

He frowned, pondered for a moment, and then said, "Jinzhu? I haven't seen her! Your Highness, could you have misunderstood something?"

"fart!"

Cao Yuan was furious. She took a step forward, grabbed Qin Sima's collar tightly, and cursed viciously, "Stop pretending with me! Yesterday, you clearly did something to Jinzhu while I was away. Do you think I wouldn't know if Jinzhu didn't tell me?!"

"Hand over Jinzhu now, or don't blame me for being impolite!"

She shook Qin Sima's body violently, seemingly trying to force him to reveal Jinzhu's whereabouts.

At this moment, Cao Yuan had fallen into a state of madness and completely lost her reason.

Like an enraged beast, it roared and howled at Qin Sima incessantly, its deafening voice echoing throughout the room and sending chills down one's spine.

"Your Highness, Sima was with me yesterday," the concubine beside him couldn't help but say upon seeing this.

"Yes, yes! I really haven't seen Jinzhu."

Seeing that Qin Sima seemed genuinely unaware, Cao Yuan had no choice but to give up. "Qin, if Jinzhu loses even a single hair, I'll skin you alive."

She walked quickly toward Fan Qingli's room, wanting Fan Qingli to go with her to find Jinzhu, and pushed open the door.

The two people's clothes were scattered everywhere in the room, and when they looked up, they saw a female corpse hanging from the roof beam.

"Fan Qingli!"