Time Travel: Pampered by the Aloof Prince
Chapter 330: Bring This Person to Princess Qi

Chapter 330: Chapter 330: Bring This Person to Princess Qi

In the Jianghu, the Xuanji Sect had always been famous for its qinggong, thus, both Liu Wensheng and Feng Yue excelled in it by a notch above the rest.

Soon, the white figure was caught.

Feng Yue grabbed her by the collar, forcing the person to lift their head, and upon seeing that face, his expression slightly froze.

Wasn’t this the same girl they had seen in the yard during their first night raid at the Grandmaster Residence, the one holding the colored glaze lamp?

Liu Wensheng also recognized her, his voice cold as he asked, "Who are you?"

After being caught, her lips trembled, and after a long while, she finally stammered out a few words, "I... my name is Cuiyu."

"Cuiyu?" Liu Wensheng repeated the name softly, his brow slightly furrowed.

In his memory, there was no one named Cuiyu at the Grandmaster Residence.

However, he had left the Grandmaster Residence a long time ago, and it was very possible that she had arrived after his departure.

Feng Yue released her collar, Cuiyu’s legs softened, and she immediately collapsed to the ground, looking up at them with a face full of fear, "You... who are you?"

Feng Yue did not answer, he was not much of a talker to begin with, and there was no need to reveal his identity to a suspicious woman.

Liu Wensheng then gave her a cold glance, not wasting words with her, lifted his hand, and struck towards her neck, knocking Cuiyu unconscious with a palm strike.

Then, he turned to Feng Yue and said, "Take this person to Princess Qi Yu."

Feng Yue had no choice but to pick up the unconscious Cuiyu, and the two of them avoided the guards of the Grandmaster Residence, making their way to the chamber where Qi Yu and Li Mingjue were staying.

The location had already been communicated to them by someone sent by Qi Yu, and with Liu Wensheng being fairly familiar with the Grandmaster Residence, finding it was not very difficult.

After the two entered the room, Feng Yue put Cuiyu down on the ground.

Seeing that they had brought someone with them, Qi Yu’s brow twitched and she asked, "Who is this?"

Liu Wensheng briefly explained what had just happened, and Qi Yu rubbed her temples, trying to make sense of it, "So you mean to say, you found her figure outside the yard and then knocked her unconscious and brought her here to me?"

"Yes," Liu Wensheng nodded slightly, agreeing with her statement.

Qi Yu looked at the person slumped on the ground, feeling exasperated, and complained, "Couldn’t you have just muffled her mouth and brought her over? Right now, we don’t even know when she might wake up."

At these words, Liu Wensheng and Feng Yue both glanced at her, the meaning was clear, they couldn’t.

Qi Yu was already speechless about the rough methods of these two men, she crouched down, took a silver needle from her sleeve, and pricked Cuiyu’s nape.

A moment later, Cuiyu slowly regained consciousness, and opened her eyes.

Qi Yu put away the silver needle, sat on a chair, and met Cuiyu’s bewildered gaze, scaring her so much that she shuddered violently.

It was then Cuiyu realized, there were four people standing in front of her.

Two of them, she had seen just before; they were the culprits who had knocked her unconscious.

The other two were even more familiar, they were the Prince and Princess who had turned the Grandmaster Residence upside down.

She struggled to get up and knelt on the ground, turning towards Qi Yu who was closest to her, and said, "Please spare me, Princess!"

Qi Yu found her reaction quite amusing.

She scoffed softly, leaning slightly forward, and stared into Cuiyu’s eyes, her voice calm, "If you have done nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear when ghosts knock at your door. What exactly have you done to ask for my mercy right off the bat?"

Cuiyu’s face turned pale at her words, and timidly replied, "Madam, I have not done anything wrong."

Qi Yu poured herself a cup of tea, her tone leisurely, "Is that so? Then why were you roaming around the backyard in the dead of night instead of sleeping?"

Cuiyu’s tone faltered as she defended herself, "I... I just got lost for a moment."

Qi Yu sipped her tea and continued to watch her blatantly making things up.

Lost?

Was there a worse excuse than that?

Qi Yu could still believe her somewhat if she had said it was out of curiosity.

Cuiyu barely dared to lift her head to look at her, pondering how to cover up the incident.

At that moment, Liu Wensheng suddenly spoke up, "You’re lying!"

His cold gaze landed directly on Cuiyu, and he said indifferently, "A few days ago, you ran into that courtyard and looked into the well several times."

Cuiyu abruptly lifted her head, looking at him incredulously and muttered, "How...how did you know?"

Liu Wensheng chuckled darkly, his tone chilly, "Because that night, I was also in that courtyard."

Cuiyu’s pupils shrank sharply, pointing at him, her face filled with terror, "The strange noises I heard that night were made by you."

Liu Wensheng did not deny it, "Yes."

Cuiyu’s face turned pale, a faint, powerless smile appeared on her face, and her lips lost all color, "So that’s how it is."

She finally understood why the Prince and the Princess, upon their arrival at the Grandmaster Residence, were able to precisely locate the bodies at the bottom of the well.

It turned out that someone had already investigated for them.

Looking at the four people in the room, what else did she not understand?

This was merely a trap.

Cuiyu gave a miserable smile, filled with desolation. Her tone was light, yet carried an oppressed sense of relief, "Finally, justice is served."

Qi Yu, seeing her reaction, knew that the maid must know some inside information.

She asked quietly, "How did you know there were bodies hidden in the well?"

Unlike before, Cuiyu was not spouting lies. She spoke in an extremely calm tone, "Because I personally witnessed them throwing the bodies down there."

Qi Yu slightly raised her eyebrows, "Who did this?"

This time, Cuiyu did not immediately answer and fell silent for a while. Then, as if she had made up her mind, she clenched her teeth and said, "It was done by people from the east wing."

"East wing?" Qi Yu pondered and frowned.

At this moment, Liu Wensheng timely added, "The east wing is where Madam Jiang resides."

"So it was her." Qi Yu nodded thoughtfully, not surprised by this answer.

After all, a woman capable of raising an Empress with such a venomous heart could not be simple.

But she was curious, "If it was the people from the east wing, why throw the bodies into the well instead of disposing of them outside the residence, where they could be dealt with cleanly?"

Cuiyu said somewhat indignantly, "It’s because those people were guilty as thieves! Initially, the Madam had instructed them to dispose of the bodies outside the residence, but those people didn’t dare to let anyone notice, so they had to sneak the bodies into that dry well and buried them with a bit of sand, thinking that would conceal them."

Qi Yu took another sip of her tea, thinking their actions were foolish to the extreme.

But it wasn’t surprising; a woman as ignorant as Madam Jiang couldn’t come up with a better plan.

Moreover, she didn’t have the Empress’s means and only dared to stealthily instruct her own people to handle those bodies.

Her subordinates were just as foolish as she was.

Ironically, Madam Jiang might not have expected that her own people set a mine for her.