Yuan Yuhan originally intended to turn around, but upon seeing the needle marks on A Ru's body, he froze in place as if his feet were welded to the ground.
He couldn't imagine how much pain an innocent little girl had endured overnight. It was as if the wounds were on her body but the pain was in his heart.
Mu Fengqie also stood there like a statue. When she first saw A Ru, she finally let out a sigh of relief, but never expected there to be so many wounds on A Ru's body.
She was just a young girl who had just come of age. How could Bei Moxue be so cruel? A Ru had never provoked her. Why couldn't she let A Ru go?
A Ru trembled all over in pain and fainted directly on the ground. Mu Fengqie let out a startled cry. Yuan Yuhan immediately stepped forward, picked up A Ru, and rushed out of the thatched cottage.
"Fifth Prince!" Mu Fengqie shouted loudly.
Yuan Yuhan stopped in his tracks and looked back at Mu Fengqie. Mu Fengqie gritted her teeth and said, "I'll leave A Ru to you. Please take good care of her, Fifth Prince."
"Don't worry." With that, Yuan Yuhan ran away.
Le Xue sensed that something was wrong and wanted to sneak away to report to Bei Moxue, but she was caught red - handed by Mu Fengqie and Jing Xunche just as she reached the door.
"Where do you think you're going? Do you think you can leave here alive today?" Mu Fengqie stared at Le Xue with her scarlet eyes.
Although she was just doing things for Bei Moxue, it was indeed she who had laid hands on A Ru. She couldn't be a good person at heart. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many wounds on A Ru's body. Even if she was originally a good person, after following such a master for a long time, she would surely turn bad.
Le Xue became even more nervous. Although she had a bit of martial arts skills and could handle Mu Fengqie easily, Jing Xunche was highly skilled in martial arts and not easy to deal with. She had no way to escape today.
Le Xue kept backing away, shrinking in fear. She trembled as she said, "What are you going to do? Don't mess around. I'm the princess's personal maid. If the princess finds out, you won't have a good time!"
Jing Xunche snorted coldly, curled his lips in disdain, and quickly drew his knife across her arm. "I don't care who you work for. Those who do such things will only end up... dead!"
Mu Fengqie's eyes were extremely cold at this moment. She was never a soft - hearted person and would never spare this executioner. For such ruthless villains, the more lenient you were, the more they would take advantage.
It was really hard to imagine how much pain A Ru had suffered. As a doctor, Mu Fengqie knew how painful it was when a needle was pricked in, not to mention so many needles.
Well, it was really unexpected that Le Xue, at such a young age, had learned the tricks of Rong Momo. If she didn't let Le Xue experience this pain, she wouldn't be Mu Fengqie.
She took out silver needles from her bosom and shot them out quickly. Le Xue was still in shock and didn't come to her senses. By the time she did, the silver needles had all pierced into her body.
The pain from all over her body made Le Xue roll on the ground. Having served the princess for so many years, she had never been injured before. Compared with other maids, she had always lived a privileged life, so her body was more delicate and couldn't bear such great pain.
She began to plead for mercy non - stop. "Please spare me! It was all the princess's order. I really didn't want to do it. It was all the princess's order. Please let me go!"
Mu Fengqie completely ignored Le Xue's pleas. This was what they called "a pitiable person must have something contemptible about them." If she had known this would happen, why had she been so relentless and not given A Ru a way out?
"Spare you? Did you ever think about sparing my sister? Why didn't you think about whether she would feel pain when you laid hands on her? I must let you experience what A Ru went through. Don't worry, you won't die easily." Mu Fengqie said as she tightly pinched Le Xue's chin.
Le Xue kept shaking her head. She knew what would happen if she angered Mu Fengqie. She knew she couldn't escape this disaster today. Instead of being tortured to death, it was better to end it quickly.
With this thought in mind, Le Xue resolutely bit off her own tongue and then tilted her head and fell to the ground. Mu Fengqie didn't expect Le Xue to bite her tongue to commit suicide, but this didn't extinguish her anger at all.
She took out the silver needles unwillingly and stabbed them into Le Xue's body like a madwoman, but Le Xue didn't show any reaction at all.
Jing Xunche frowned and pulled Mu Fengqie, who had lost her senses. "That's enough. She's already dead. Let it go."
Hearing this, Mu Fengqie gradually came to her senses. "Throw the body into Bei Moxue's room and send someone to watch her. Make sure she doesn't escape at any cost."
Mu Fengqie was really at the end of her patience. She had thought that Bei Moxue would be more peaceful after entering the mansion, but instead, she had become even more outrageous. She couldn't bear it any longer.
Bei Moxue seemed to hear a sound in her sleep and woke up with a start. She quickly got up to check. After all, the sound was a loud grunt, which was really strange.
She had told Le Xue not to come back. Usually, the servants in the mansion were the ones she had brought from Beiming. They definitely wouldn't make such a sound at this time. Where did that sound come from?
She lit a candle, held the candle, and opened the door. Only then did she find that there seemed to be an unknown object on the ground. It looked like a human figure.
"Le Xue... Is that you, Le Xue?" Bei Moxue asked tentatively.
Although it was dark, through the dim candlelight, she finally saw the person lying face - down on the ground. The clothes the person was wearing were the same ones Le Xue had worn today. But what on earth had happened to Le Xue? She had told her not to come back, so why had she come back now? And why was Le Xue lying on the ground?
She called out a couple of times but found that Le Xue still didn't respond. She turned Le Xue over curiously, but after just one look, Bei Moxue was so frightened that she dropped the candle in her hand and let out a scream.
Le Xue's eyes were wide open, her face was covered in blood, and her tongue was broken in her mouth. Bei Moxue had never seen such a terrifying scene.
She quickly ran back into the room and gasped for breath. Le Xue was actually dead, and she had died so horribly. Had Mu Fengqie discovered something? What on earth was going on?
Just thinking about it made her back feel cold. In the past, she had only killed people on the battlefield. On the chaotic battlefield, she had never noticed how terrifying a dead person could be. Now that she saw it, it scared her so much that her face turned pale and her whole body trembled.
In the past, she had underestimated Mu Fengqie. She had never expected that Mu Fengqie would find A Ru.