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Since then, Prince Gong's character became extremely twisted. The thing he hated most in his life was that he was powerless in the face of all kinds of beauties, so he came up with all kinds of ways to torture women.

The women in the backyard of Prince Gong's mansion were miserable.

Emperor Jingzhang, however, was extremely tolerant of his younger brother because of his contribution in saving the emperor. Many daughters of officials had met with troubles at his hands, but in the end, the matter was resolved thanks to Emperor Jingzhang's intervention.

Precisely because he is inhumane, no one would gossip about him even when he entered the harem.

Prince Gong seemed to have noticed Li Shuangwan's gaze and calmly pulled up his cloak.

He raised his eyes and looked at Li Shuangwan, and his eyes lit up.

Although Li Shuangwan looked disheveled at this moment, with a few strands of hair hanging in front of his forehead and even mud on his face, and was extremely thin because his martial arts skills had been completely wasted, he stood straight with a solemn and heroic look between his brows.

In Prince Gong's eyes, she was a real sickly beauty with a unique charm.

He had played with countless women, but never one like this one.

So the look he gave Li Shuangwan was somewhat frivolous. He touched his lips with his tongue and gave her a wicked smile.

Li Shuangwan turned his head away in disgust.

Ling Heng assisted the tyrant in his evil deeds. In his previous life, not long after he ascended the throne, he released Prince Gong, who was imprisoned in the palace, and restored his title.

Three years later, Prince Gong brought Ling Heng's imperial edict and executed the entire Li family.

It was he who cut off his father's head with a single blow of his sword.

Li Shuangwan used a lot of strength to force himself not to chop him with the knife.

When Concubine Wan Shu saw Prince Gong come out in one piece, she was so angry that she tore the handkerchief in her hand.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, and she put all her anger on Li Shuangwan. She would never let this little bitch go.

"Oh, she looks like a little maid." Prince Gong circled Qinglian's body twice, stroking his chin, "Brother, if I'm not mistaken, this maid seems to be from the Fourth Master's mansion, right? She seems to be the Fourth Master's concubine? A maid?"

Ling Heng's face was extremely embarrassed, and he quickly stole a glance at Li Shuangwan. Given her infatuation with him, she must be extremely angry and might even start a quarrel with him regardless of the occasion.

Ling Heng was blaming Prince Gong for his outspokenness and was racking his brains over how to respond. But when he looked over, Li Shuangwan seemed to not care at all. He stood there quietly, looking calmly at Qinglian's body on the ground without even giving him a glance.

Ling Heng suddenly felt a little angry.

But think about it, the person is dead, why should Li Shuangwan be jealous? It would be a good thing not to make a scene in the palace and not embarrass him.

Thinking of this, Ling Heng's expression relaxed: "Little Uncle Wang, you are joking. Qinglian only served in my nephew's courtyard for a period of time. She is not a concubine. She is still an innocent girl."

Prince Gong took a step forward, lifted the clothes on Qinglian's arm, and when he saw the toad's blood, he said, "Tsk tsk, you are really wasting a gift, Old Fourth, you only make such a pretty girl a maid and don't even take her to bed."

Seeing that he was talking more and more outrageous, and that there were concubines and other women around him, Emperor Jingzhang frowned and said, "Alright, let Zheng Xinjiang have someone investigate this matter. Let's go."

"Hey, that's not right, Princess Heng, where is the little palace maid who just followed you out? Why are you here alone? If that little palace maid was with you, there would be no need to spend so much time asking you to prove your innocence. Your Majesty, don't you think so?" Concubine Wan Shu asked loudly, as if she had just realized something.

Her shout drew everyone's attention to Li Shuangwan again.

Li Shuangwan had naturally discovered it long ago. The little palace maid had not appeared for such a long time, and she must have met with an accident.

It is not known whether she was killed by Concubine Wan Shu's people, or whether she was killed like Qinglian after witnessing the affair between Prince Gong and Concubine Duan.

Emperor Jingzhang looked at her again.

Li Shuangwan was about to speak when he heard the sound of messy footsteps running towards him.

The man ran out of breath, and when he arrived in front of Emperor Jingzhang, he knelt down and said, "Your Majesty, I found a female corpse in the dry well of Bixi Palace. It looks like a palace maid from Qiyun Palace."

Li Shuangwan looked at the eunuch. There was a mutton-fat jade pendant hanging on the left side of his waist. The tassels dragged down, and the tip was a little dirty. At this moment, it was shaking slightly due to his violent breathing. Who else could it be but the eunuch who pushed her to the edge of the pond two quarters of an hour ago.

A palace maid died, but he, a eunuch in Huayang Palace, did not report it to his master, nor to Concubine Lin, let alone to General Zheng. Instead, he bypassed them and reported it directly to the emperor. Isn't it obvious what he was planning? Emperor Jingzhang looked very unhappy: "Did you see it clearly?"

"I see clearly, I see clearly, it's the palace maid who followed Princess Heng out to look for someone."

"Xiao Dezi, what did you say? Your Majesty, this is so terrible. Two lives were lost in just half an hour, and they were both related to Princess Heng." Concubine Wan Shu looked at Li Shuangwan in disbelief.

It was almost like saying that Li Shuangwan was a disaster that caused deaths and should not have anything to do with anyone in the royal family.

Two palace maids died in succession, and both were related to Princess Heng. This matter cannot be handled simply.

By the time everyone arrived at the Bixi Palace, the body of the little palace maid had been pulled out of the dry well.

When Concubine Lin saw this, her face turned as pale as paper.

Emperor Jingzhang asked her, "Is she from your palace?"

"Yes, she is a maid from Qiyun Palace, her name is Kexia, and she did follow Awan out to look for Qinglian."

Emperor Jingzhang asked Zheng Xinjiang again: "What was the cause of death?"

"Your Majesty, he was also forced into the water by someone who held his neck and drowned him, and then his body was thrown into a dry well."

There is no water in the dry well.

At first glance, the two cases are very similar.

Li Shuangwan glanced at Prince Gong calmly, and saw a flash of doubt on his face, and even a frown.

Li Shuangwan understood at once that Qinglian was indeed killed by Prince Gong. The people in Huayang Palace wanted to lead her to find the body, but they did not expect her to choose that long way, so they had to fish Qinglian out of the dry well and throw her into the pond.

But she did not play by the rules. After clearing herself from the blame, she passed the blame to Zheng Xinjiang.

In order to expose the scandal of Prince Gong and Concubine Duan, they had to repeat Qinglian's death on Kexia, forcing Li Shuangwan to find out the truth about Kexia's death and achieve their goal.

Concubine Wan Shu didn't have the brains to do that. The only one who arranged all this in such a short time was her son, Ling Yan.

Ke Xia was led to the Bixi Palace by the figure that flashed by. At that time, Prince Gong and Concubine Duan had already left, so the person who killed her was from Huayang Palace.

Li Shuangwan's gaze paused on Xiao Dezi for a moment, and the corners of his mouth curled up.

His hair had obviously been re-styled, but if you looked closely you could find something in his hair that was only found in the Bixi Palace: green-calyx plum petals.

The clothes were changed in such a hurry that the last button was out of place.

He had changed his shoes, but unfortunately his socks were not changed. There was a small piece of dead leaf left on them, but this was not enough to be used as evidence.

Bixi Palace was the palace of Concubine Dong, the favorite concubine of the late emperor. Green-calyx plum blossoms were planted all over the palace. It was said that she was extremely favored by the late emperor. Unfortunately, God was jealous of her beauty and Concubine Dong died during childbirth.

The late emperor dismissed the court for a hundred days, and later ordered the closure of the Bixi Palace. Now it has become an abandoned palace. Of the green-calyx plum blossoms that once filled the palace, only this last one remains in the entire palace.