Princess Chen was stunned by the scene before her. The blood-red color stung her face.
Toffee...
Dead?
"ah--"
Before Princess Cheng could react, she heard a sharp cry in her ear: "The Concubine Dowager... someone come, someone come quickly, something happened to the Concubine Dowager, Nanny Jiang killed the Concubine Dowager!!!"
"you…"
Princess Cheng turned her head suddenly and wanted to shout angrily, but she saw the humble servant suddenly rushed towards her with a sharp weapon.
"Princess, be careful!"
Ayane was prepared, and quickly grabbed Princess Cheng and stepped back, sending her to the front of the secret guard sent by the Gu family. She then turned around to block the person who was attacking her, and while fighting with him, she shouted at the secret guard of the Gu family.
"Protect the princess!"
The "maid" collided with Ayane with a bang, and she landed on the ground and dodged quickly before rushing forward again, with a fierce look in her eyes, and went straight towards Princess Chen.
The secret guard of the Gu family raised his foot and kicked. The embroidered cushion beside him flew up and hit the man hard, knocking him back and hitting the door frame hard.
"court death!"
The Gu family's secret guard shouted coldly, followed closely and grabbed the man who was trying to struggle to get up, and threw him heavily back against the door.
When the door collapsed outwards with a crash, the two of them fell to the ground at the same time. The Gu family's secret guard grabbed the dagger she had stabbed out and placed it across the man's neck with his backhand.
"With just this little ability, you still want to kill people?"
She hit the man's stomach hard with her knee, and he immediately vomited blood. His face turned pale, but he suddenly grinned.
Ayane, who had followed, felt something was wrong and shouted hurriedly, "Be careful..."
Before he could finish his words, the man from Prince Cheng's Mansion grabbed the hands of the Gu family's secret guard with both hands and screamed miserably.
"Princess, spare my life!!"
She suddenly straightened her body and stretched her neck forward, grabbed the dagger on her neck and stabbed it into her neck with force. When blood splattered everywhere, the secret guard of the Gu family fell headfirst with blood all over his face. He looked at the dagger that pierced into the man's neck with a dazed expression.
"not good!"
Ayane couldn't help but curse, grabbed Princess Cheng and shouted at the man from the Gu family, "Go!"
The secret guard of Gu family was also awakened. Seeing the lifeless "servant" of Prince Cheng's mansion beneath him, he came to his senses, quickly threw away the dagger in his hand, stood up and wanted to protect Princess Cheng as they walked out. However, at this moment, the courtyard door that had been closed before was suddenly knocked open by someone.
In the midst of the wind and rain, Prince Cheng and his son, along with the palace guards and servants, stood in front of the crane-patterned full-moon gate through the rain, facing the blood-covered Princess Cheng and her two servants with shocked faces.
"Mother..."
Xie Yin looked at the person beside Princess Cheng, who was covered in blood. He looked past the three people and saw the collapsed door over there, and the servant who was lying on the ground and had no breath. His face turned pale: "You?"
King Cheng also asked in surprise: "Rong Yue, what are you doing?"
The people from Prince Cheng's mansion surrounded the few people. Prince Cheng panicked and asked people to come forward to check. After seeing that the person lying in front of the door was dead, he hurriedly walked across the messy house and went into the house. When he came out after a while, his face was full of fear.
"My Lord, the Concubine Dowager, the Concubine Dowager is dead..."
Prince Cheng staggered and nearly fell, then ran quickly towards the house. Xie Yin followed quickly. When he saw the old concubine in the house, whose head and face were covered in blood in a miserable state of death, he froze in place. He suddenly turned his head and looked at Prince Cheng's wife, full of disbelief.
The servants from Prince Cheng's mansion who followed behind also widened their eyes.
The princess actually killed the old concubine?!
"Rong Yue!!" Prince Cheng turned his head with red eyes, looked at Rong Yue who was surrounded in front of the room and said angrily: "Why did you bring people to kill my mother?!"
Xie Yin also trembled and said, "Mother, you are crazy. You...you actually killed my grandmother?!"
"It's not me!"
Princess Cheng's palms were cold. Even though she knew Xie Tianyu would not let her go tonight and knew he would set a trap to harm her, she never thought that he would actually use the old concubine's life to plot against her.
She didn't care about Xie Tianyu, but Xie Yin's terrified look made it difficult for her to remain calm.
"Ayin, it was your father who killed me. When I came here, the concubine was already dead..."
"What are you talking about?" Xie Yin was shocked. "My father was with me before, and he advised me not to get angry with you. It was only when the servants told me that my grandmother had woken up that he called me over."
They came here together and met the old butler and his men on the way. Before they got close, they heard screams from inside and someone shouting "Princess, spare my life". They then hurriedly broke open the gate and saw a person covered in blood following Princess Cheng.
The old butler stood aside and trembled, "Why did the princess want to wrongly harm the prince?"
"Someone from the concubine's courtyard came to me earlier and said that they heard Nanny Jiang and the concubine arguing inside, and the prince was not in the courtyard, so I hurriedly brought people here and met the prince outside."
"I know you blame the prince for deceiving you before, and you are not on good terms with the Concubine Dowager, but she is your mother-in-law, the prince's mother, how could you kill her?"
In full view of everyone, Prince Cheng and his son came from outside, but Princess Cheng walked out of the Dowager Concubine's room with people covered in blood.
The body of the man who was killed in front of the door was still warm, the old concubine in the room died with her eyes open, and there was also Nanny Jiang lying inside who no one knew. Anyone would think that she was the one who killed the old concubine.
With tears in his eyes, Prince Chen said in a hoarse voice: "I believe I have treated you well. Although I have deceived you, I have never hurt you. I want to make peace with you. Even if you don't want to get close to me after returning home, I will tolerate and indulge you everywhere. But why did you kill my mother?"
"Thank! Tian! Yu!!"
Princess Cheng was so angry that she was shaking all over. She had never expected him to be so shameless. She turned her head and looked at Xie Yin and said, "It was your father who harmed me tonight. He was also the one who killed the Concubine Dowager and put the blame on me. I have never hurt the Concubine Dowager. He and Nanny Jiang conspired together..."
Xie Yin just thought Princess Cheng's words were ridiculous: "So many people saw it with their own eyes, and you still want to quibble? Father would never harm Grandmother, but you have always disliked Grandmother."
Princess Cheng staggered and looked at Xie Yin in disbelief.
This is her son.
It was the son she had loved for seventeen years!
Princess Chen felt that she had lived a joke all these years, her face was pale and she was about to collapse. Prince Chen did not even give them a chance to say anything, fearing that the night would be too long and he just pretended to be sad, angry and grief-stricken and hoarsely spoke.
"Capture the princess, and anyone around her who dared to murder the princess, capture them all!"
The people gathered around and came forward, swords drawn.
clang——
Sparks flew, and Ayane flicked her wrist and a soft whip flew out of the air, instantly knocking away the attacking long sword. The secret guards of the Gu family also hurriedly protected Princess Chen, and they pulled out short blades from their sleeves and fought with the servants of the Chen Palace who rushed over.
The two men were both good fighters, they were very brave and fierce in their attacks. Princess Cheng was protected behind them. Although there were only two of them, they made it difficult for the people from Prince Cheng's mansion to get close to them.
In the heavy rain, the smell of blood was getting heavier, and seeing that he couldn't defeat them for a long time, King Cheng felt a chill on his face.
What happens tonight must not be delayed, and they must not be given a chance to speak.
He glanced behind him and saw several people holding crossbows and pointing them at the crowd. The crossbows were shining with cold light and arrows were cutting through the air.
"careful!!"
Ayane's face changed, and she turned around and knocked Princess Cheng to the ground.
Just when those people in the dark were about to pull the trigger of the crossbow for the second time, they suddenly heard a sound of breaking air. One of them screamed suddenly, and the hand that was originally holding the crossbow was broken at the wrist and fell to the ground with a "bang".
"Privately hoarding military crossbows, is Prince Cheng's Mansion planning a rebellion?"
Several dark shadows emerged from all directions, like ghosts appearing silently in the yard in the dark night.
Xiao Yan stood on the wall with an umbrella in his hand, in his arms Song Tangning, who was holding onto his waist tightly because she was afraid of heights. On the other side, the gate in front of the courtyard, which was already sloping, was slammed open by someone.
Gu Helian kicked away the broken wood blocking the door, stepped inside and said coldly: "Let's see who dares to touch Rong Yue!"