Crazy or What? The Gloomy Prince Kisses Me to Tears Every Night!-Chapter 131 - 121: Faking Death and Fleeing

When they heard Li Cheng’s words, the eunuchs and palace maids in Consort Li’s palace couldn’t help but shiver and collapse onto the ground.

Seeing this, Li Cheng coldly glanced at them, "Already thinking of dying, huh? Get up and fetch water to put out the fire!"

A bunch of useless waste, and now they are scared?

When you left Consort Li in the palace, did you forget about your heads?

But, for a palace to catch fire in broad daylight with people coming and going, something’s definitely wrong!

I just don’t know who is behind this scheme.

Squinting at the steam-twisted air not far away, Li Cheng’s mind was filled with guesses.

...

It wasn’t until evening that the palace, burned to rubble, finally stopped smoldering, leaving ashes everywhere.

Upon seeing this, Li Cheng instructed a few young eunuchs, "Go in immediately to search for Lady Li. Alive, see the person; dead, see the corpse!"

"Yes!"

People quickly entered the ruins to search for Consort Li’s body.

Not long afterwards, they discovered a charred corpse in the bedroom area.

Due to the gold ornament Consort Li wore today being seen around the head, it was quickly decided to be her.

The coroner soon arrived to determine the bone age and finally confirmed Consort Li’s death.

Upon hearing this, Feng Qingyang erupted in fury.

"A palace fire in broad daylight, what are the people in Consort Li’s palace doing? Investigate thoroughly!" He refused to believe it was merely an accident.

I just don’t know who is targeting Consort Li.

...

The news of the palace fire quickly spread.

When Feng Changge heard, his heart skipped.

He then asked his subordinate, "Are you sure Consort Li is dead?"

A fire during the daytime, who wouldn’t find it eerie?

That’s a palace regularly patrolled by the Golden Scale Guards!

It’s understandable if the fire happened at night when most people are asleep.

But for it to catch fire during the day and spread like this is truly strange.

However, for him, Consort Li’s death was actually good news.

This way, the matters between them would never be uncovered.

Feng Changge’s subordinate firmly nodded.

"It’s true. The corpse has been found. But oddly, when Consort Li died, she was all alone. It seems she deliberately drove away the eunuchs and palace maids around her." the subordinate said.

Hearing this, Feng Changge squinted and pondered profoundly.

After a moment, he said, "Consort Li has always been bold. She must have had a purpose in driving the people away, but now she’s gone, who knows what she intended to do then?"

This woman dared to neglect ethics by seducing him, the emperor’s son, not to mention other things.

He suspected Consort Li had more than one lover.

Deliberately sending away people at that time might just be to meet with her lover.

Yet somehow an accident happened that got her killed.

Tsk!

If his guess is correct, then it’s just self-inflicted misery.

...

What Feng Changge and the others didn’t know was that Consort Li wasn’t dead at all.

Under Jiaolan Palace’s ruins was a secret passage leading outward. At the start of the fire, after leaving a substitute behind, she entered the passage, crawling out through the narrow corridor.

As for Jiaolan Palace’s fire, she had set it herself.

Because she had received news that someone had sold her out and divulged how Feng Qiwu went mad!

Plus, her master was urging her to evacuate, so she quickly set fire to Jiaolan Palace, faked her death to escape.

After enduring the dusty smell for a while, Consort Li finally felt a breeze.

She couldn’t help but be wildly joyful and hastened her speed.

Once she returned, she’d be a trusted aide of her master, far better than being a concubine to an impotent man like Feng Qingyang!

After a while, a glimmer appeared before Consort Li.

Consort Li quickly crawled toward the opening.

But she never expected a rope would loop around her neck just as she crawled out.

"Finally caught you coming out." A masked man in black holding the rope said.

Then he squatted down in front of Consort Li at the cave entrance, abruptly reached out, and dislocated her jaw to prevent her from committing suicide.

Then, like hauling a dead dog, he forcibly dragged Consort Li’s body out,

before taking out a dagger to swiftly and precisely sever the tendons of her limbs.

Consort Li hadn’t even reacted before being completely crippled.

She couldn’t help but stare at him in horror, "Who... who are you? How did you know I’d be here?"

This secret passage was supposed to be known only to her and the master.

The man in black lightly replied, "You can ask the master when you get back." Then he took out a ribbon and rudely blindfolded Consort Li.

Upon hearing this, Consort Li widened her eyes.

Master?

Could this person actually be sent by the master?

The master urged her to leave and truly intended to silence her?

Suddenly, countless chaotic thoughts emerged in Consort Li’s mind, making her feel extremely terrified and uneasy.

The man in black couldn’t be bothered to say more to Consort Li and directly threw her body into a prepared dilapidated cart, then left with the group swaying away.

When Consort Li’s ribbon blindfold was removed again, she found herself in a dark cell.

Then, someone hoisted her up and tied her on a cross, hanging her there.

Seeing this, Consort Li couldn’t help but say, "Where’s the master? I want to see the master! I’ve been loyal to him for years, he can’t do this to me!"

Since childhood, she was raised on secret potions, existing to attract men.

The master said she was his most perfect creation and no man could resist her allure.

Originally, she was meant to seduce Feng Qiwu.

Yet who knew why Feng Qiwu developed a phobia toward women, not to mention seducing him, even touching his clothes would get her killed.

Though she had a thousand tricks, they were useless.

Eventually, the master had to settle for less, sending her as an undercover agent by Feng Qingyang.

Before leaving, the master promised her she’d have a place once the task was done.

But now he broke his promise!

How foolish she was to believe the master’s lies.

As Consort Li regretted deeply, the Punishment Hall’s people in the dark cell quickly exchanged glances.

Did Consort Li mistake them for the subordinates of her backstage manipulator?

Thinking of this, a man swiftly sneered, "You think you’re worthy to see the master now?"

Upon hearing this, Consort Li immediately shrieked, "Why am I not worthy? The master clearly said that if I completed the task, he’d make me his maid!"

"Now you’re finding me dirty? He clearly wanted me to seduce the Feng Family father and son back then!"