Chapter 142: Chapter 79 – Cutting the Grass Without Removing the Roots
“Gu Changsheng, think about Zhou Mu. He’s one of the Commandery Princes, present at the Imperial Court. You’ll implicate him…” With no way out and pinned against the corridor column, Xiao Chengwen desperately continued to struggle to the end.
Gu Changsheng paused, blood slowly dripped down her sleeve, and in a blink, it disappeared into the dust, leaving a dark red stain…
“So what? I started this, and I killed these people. What has it to do with him?” Gu Changsheng continued, holding the bloody scalpel as she slowly took a step closer.
“Gu Changsheng, you disregard the Court, and you’ve provoked the Emperor’s wrath. Nobody will end up well. You might as well hand me over to the Court for judgement…” Being at the mercy of the Court still left him a thread of hope, but now, it was truly a matter of life and death. Xiao Chengwen’s heart was clenched with fear. He was genuinely afraid of the woman before him, a woman who, clad in a gorgeous exterior, killed like a demon—she wasn’t human!
“Xiao Chengwen, after all your plotting, I want you to have a life to calculate and plan, but no life to enjoy your wealth and glory!”
“I beg you, spare me. It was Prince Liang! It was Prince Liang who forced me to do this…” As Gu Changsheng stood before him in her bloodied clothes with the sickening smell of blood, Xiao Chengwen’s last thread of control snapped, and he turned over to kneel on the ground, relentlessly kowtowing.
“What about Prince Liang? If he dares face me one day, I will avenge today’s hatred! But you!”
“One hundred and thirty-seven assassins, sparing no expense to target me, my family of elderly, women, and children, my son nearly losing his life to their cold arrows, my maid hanging by a thread, almost dead!”
“Xiao Chengwen, I’ll say it again. Those who harm me, I demand your life! Those who harm my family, I’ll slaughter your entire house!”
As soon as Gu Changsheng finished speaking, her figure darted forward, and in a flash, Xiao Chengwen toppled over, his eyes still round with unresolved resentment…
“Lady…” Yuan Bao approached with tears in his voice, looking at the person lying on the ground. He was killed, truly killed, and he was a full-fledged official of the Court…
Gu Changsheng glanced at Mo Wu, who was quivering in fear to one side, holding back the searing pain in her back and articulating each word like ice, “City Lord’s Mansion, not a single person is to be spared, man or servant. Kill them all!”
Kill! Had Lady Changsheng become possessed by a killing god?
Eunuch Yuan Bao, wiping cold sweat, stammered, “Lady, are you really going to slaughter the entire household?”
“If the roots are not removed, troubles will persist. Not a single one spared! Don’t make me say it a third time!” Gu Changsheng finished her statement and turned to leave the mansion.
She was not a person of indiscriminate killing, but she had her untouchable scales.
Her family members were those untouchable scales.
Those who touched her scales, she killed without mercy!
“They’re really going to pursue the slaughter…” Yuan Bao watched the red figure disappear outside the gate, looking around for help.
“Her mind is made up. If you refuse to comply, give it a try. I’ve seen her little knife. It’s very sharp…” Yue Xilou, who had followed all the while, leaned against the doorway, fanning himself casually, his presence dazzling.
“What’s it got to do with you? Get out of here, you rotten Peach Blossom!” Eunuch Yuan Bao, upon seeing a fair face again and recalling that he came with Lady Changsheng, immediately lost his temper.
The presence of a man by Lady Changsheng’s side, especially one as enchantingly beautiful as this one, was undoubtedly a crisis!
“I am her lifesaver, you know…” Yue Xilou casually pointed to the still figure of Changsheng in the distance, smiling charmingly, making the moon and flowers lose their luster.
Yuan Bao was about to curse again when he stopped short. Ah, well, the man was Lady Changsheng’s lifesaver; he’d better endure…
“What are you dawdling for? Didn’t you hear the Lady’s order? Not one to be spared. Kill!” So what if it was slaughtering the household? There was the tall one to take the blame, and if all else failed, there was still the County Prince to consider; he’d just follow orders!
Seeing this, everyone got busy and sprang into action.
The City Lord’s Mansion instantly turned into a slaughterhouse, with screams and cries echoing back and forth, chilling the hearts of those who heard them.
“Miss, you must not come out, remember, you must not come out…”
An old nanny dropped a bundle down a dry well, her tears flowing as she couldn’t stop herself from repeatedly instructing.
“Nurse…” A faint call came from the bottom of the well, accompanied by the sounds of sobbing.
“Miss, your servant is going now!”
The old nanny took one last look into the well. She had no children of her own and had always cherished the young lady as the apple of her eye.
Shortly after, the people who were searching the yard arrived at the small courtyard of this servant.
Several screams followed, and in an instant, the courtyard returned to silence, yet the dry well in the centre of the yard remained unheeded…
“Lady, the search is over, and there’s not a soul left alive in the mansion.” Diao Chan, dressed in battle attire and blood-stained clothes, reported with an air of determination as she walked up to Gu Changsheng outside the gates of the City Lord’s Mansion.
“They’ve all been killed…” Gu Changsheng murmured softly, a pang hitting her heart.