"..." Li Anqi stared intently at Eunuch Fan and nodded.

After Eunuch Fan got off the carriage.

Li Anqi immediately instructed Xiao Shunzi: "Go to the Wu residence, quickly!"

Seeing Li Anqi's tense expression, Xiao Shunzi immediately perked up and spurred his horse to Wu's residence.

Only Eunuch Fan was left behind, stamping his feet and shouting, "Your Highness! This isn't the way back to Prince Xiao's residence! Where are you going? Oh dear!"

Ignoring Eunuch Fan's shouts, Li Anqi stared sharply out the window.

The gates of the Wu residence were wide open, and there was a splatter of blood on the door panel.

The gatekeeper who had greeted her was lying in a pool of blood with a terrified expression, seemingly not yet understanding what had happened, before his throat was slit.

Hearing the pitiful screams from inside the mansion, Li Anqi waded through the blood-soaked front yard and arrived at the back yard of the Wu mansion, only to find rows of cold corpses.

No one, regardless of age or gender, escaped the clutches of death.

Li Anqi felt a chill run down his spine, as if he were in hell.

The intense sense of rupture between the two eras made her dizzy and she couldn't help but feel nauseous.

"Help! Help!"

Despite his physical discomfort, Li Anqi looked in the direction of the sound.

Yu screamed and ran up the corridor, followed by a gambling den employee.

The blood-stained blade in the gambling den's hand whistled through the air like a gust of wind.

In her panic, Ms. You accidentally stepped on her skirt and stumbled forward, falling to the ground.

Facing the gambling den clerk, she tore off her clothes, revealing her bare shoulders, and begged desperately while casting a seductive spell.

"Please! Don't kill me! I'll do anything you want! Please don't kill me!"

The gambling den staff gradually approached.

As You shrank back, she quickly unbuttoned her clothes, seemingly trying to buy her way out of poverty.

The gambling den worker remained unfazed, gripped the knife handle tightly, and plunged the knife into You's chest.

"Ugh! Pfft!" You Shi's face contorted in horror as he spat out a mouthful of blood.

Before she could react, the gambling den worker suddenly pulled out a knife and, with extremely slow speed, stabbed her in the chest more than a dozen times until she lay down as a bloody, mangled corpse before stopping.

"I'm sorry, but His Highness ordered that you not die too easily," the gambling den employee said coldly.

Li Anqi stood frozen in place, his hands and feet ice-cold as he watched the scene unfold before him.

The gambling den worker caught sight of a living person out of the corner of his eye and turned his head to look in the direction where Li Anqi was.

Upon seeing that the man was Li Anqi, he couldn't help but suppress the murderous glint in his eyes. He gripped the hilt of his sword with the blade facing down and clasped his hands in a gesture of respect to Li Anqi.

"I have met the concubine."

Li Anqi frowned, and asked in a trembling voice, "Who else besides her was specifically instructed by the Prince?"

"And the old woman from the Wu family... The prince said that anyone who offends the Empress should not be allowed to die too easily."

Li Anqi nodded slightly.

Is Ling Luo standing up for me?

Why would he do that?!

He treated Li Baoqin so coldly when she had her miscarriage, and even ordered me to "atone" for my sins with Li Baoqin!

Now, what is his reason for doing this?

Li Anqi couldn't figure it out.

She paused for a moment, then got up and hurried to Madam Wu's residence.

Corpses littered the Wu family's surroundings, including the old lady's residence.

The bedroom door was wide open, and Li Anqi immediately saw Old Madam Wu lying on the floor with her eyes open.

Madam Wu's face turned purple, as if she had been poisoned. There was a shallow cut on the side of her neck, from which a small stream of blood was flowing.

She was completely limp, knowing that her life was slowly slipping away, but she was powerless to do anything about it.

She will only die completely once she has bled to death. How painful it is to be conscious during this period is something only she knows.

Li Anqi stepped over Madam Wu and entered the inner room of the bedroom, where he began to rummage through the drawers and cabinets.

Finally, she found a letter written by Li Anxiu to Li An in a drawer.

It turns out that Li Anxiu had been concerned about Li Anshu's recent situation.

He tried several times to visit An Shu at the Wu family, but was stopped by Old Madam Wu for various reasons. Helpless, he could only write a letter to inquire about her well-being, but unexpectedly, the letter ended up in Old Madam Wu's hands by chance.

Li Baoqin suffered a miscarriage, and Li Anqi was framed and punished as a result.

He originally told Li Anshu about this, hoping that Li Anshu would comfort Li Anqi, but unexpectedly, the letter was intercepted by Old Madam Wu.

It seems that it was only by accident that Old Madam Wu knew the inside story of Prince Xiao's mansion.

Li Anqi put away the letter and was about to leave when the person on the ground grabbed his clothes.

Madam Wu strained to look up at Li Anqi, as if begging him to give her a quick death.

Li Anqi slowly squatted down, hugged his knees, and quietly looked at her.

"As I said, tender grass fears frost, and frost fears the sun; the wicked will be punished by the wicked. This is your retribution."

Suddenly, Madam Wu's eyes widened, filled with hatred, as if to say: I will haunt you even as a ghost!

Li Anqi didn't care and looked at her blood-stained skirt.

Following her gaze, Old Madam Wu looked at the dark red patch, her eyes suddenly filled with terror. She nervously opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

Li Anqi remained expressionless, and then, as if possessed, said, "That's right, this is your son Wu Gong's blood."

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