Xiao Yan took Shen Qiyin to Qiying Pavilion.

It was strange that he brought her here in the middle of the night. What was even more puzzling was that when they arrived at Qiying Pavilion, he directly dragged Shen Qiyin to the dark cellar.

Standing at the entrance of the dungeon, Shen Qiyin looked down at the dark, abyss-like place and stopped unconsciously.

Although Xiao Yan also stopped, he looked puzzled: "Yinyin?"

Shen Qiyin hesitated and said, "You brought me here..."

"Are you going to put me on trial?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Yan hit him on the head.

She hissed, frowned slightly, and looked aggrieved: "It hurts."

"It hurts so you'll learn your lesson. Let's see if you'll say nonsense again next time." Xiao Yan said this, but he gently rubbed her skin with his hands: "Does it hurt?"

He didn't use much force, as he didn't want to overdo it.

For this, I can't help but feel some regret.

Unexpectedly, Shen Qiyin replied: "It doesn't hurt, I was just teasing you."

Xiao Yan: “…” Real leather.

He shook his head, his smile full of helplessness and pampering.

The two of them went down to the dungeon together. Before they reached the execution place, Shen Qiyin smelled a strong smell of blood.

Xiao Yan held her hand tightly and asked, "Are you scared?"

"If you are just watching the execution and are not being executed, you won't be afraid."

Just as he finished speaking, there was a sudden "puff" sound from the corner.

When Shen Qiyin heard the voice, she looked and saw Chen Bao with his back turned, his shoulders shaking with laughter.

She raised her eyebrows and asked Xiao Yan silently: What are you laughing at?

"Ignore him." He led her straight to a cell and motioned for her to look inside.

There was a man lying in the cell.

He was hunched over, curled up on the ground, with his hair all over his face, so she couldn't recognize who he was immediately.

But she was not at all unfamiliar with the eunuch's uniform that the other person was wearing.

She turned to look at Xiao Yan, with the suspicion in her eyes undisguised: "Qin Li?!"

Xiao Yan nodded.

"How did you catch him?" He had been keeping a low profile before, but now he suddenly took action. There must be a reason for this.

“If you don’t catch him, he won’t be able to avenge Yinyin.”

"Huh?" What do you mean?

"He was assassinated today. The spy I planted in the Qin family rescued him in time and brought him here."

In fact, ever since Xiao Yan knew that Shen Qiyin and Qin Li had a grudge, he had been sending people to keep an eye on Qin Li.

What we are trying to prevent is that he might die an unnatural death one day.

By then, his in-laws would have no way to take revenge on him!

It was precisely for this reason that he had not taken action against Qin Li. It was not because of the presence of the Imperial Noble Consort, but because he did not know whether Yin Yin had other arrangements for this person.

"The person has been saved, but the person behind the scenes has not yet been found."

Among the assassins, two were killed by secret agents, and the other two committed suicide when they saw no way out.

Judging from the charter, most of them are death warriors.

He had just let Chusi fight with the secret agent and found that the assassin who assassinated Qin Li used the same tactics as the group that assassinated Yin Yin on the fifteenth day.

But that's about it.

Everyone was dead, there was no clue at all.

But what surprised Xiao Yan was that Shen Qiyin said, "Don't bother to investigate further. I know who is behind this."

"Who?"

"The young lady from the second house of the general's mansion, Huo Xiaoyue."

"She?!" Xiao Yan obviously didn't expect this.

"I will explain this to you later." As he spoke, Shen Qiyin turned his head to look at Qin Li in the cell, and a brilliant smile suddenly bloomed on his lips.

Unexpectedly, Huo Xiaoyue was quick.

It seems that this damn "system" has something interesting.

She originally thought that it would be no bad thing if she could use Huo Xiaoyue to get rid of Qin Li.

But after all the twists and turns, the person is in her hands. Maybe everything is arranged by fate, and she just needs to follow the will of heaven.

Xiao Yan looked down at her: "Me? Or do you do it yourself?"

"Um……"

Shen Qiyin looked thoughtful.

She glanced around at the torture instruments he had. They were truly "of many kinds" and "dazzling in appearance". Not to mention seventeen, even twenty-seven would be more than enough.

Shen Qiyin looked at them one by one, fiddling with this, poking at that, and finally said to Xiao Yan in distress: "I have difficulty making choices."

"That's easy, just greet them all."

"That's not good, it's too cruel." Shen Qiyin frowned and shook his head, then changed the subject: "Help me choose, seventeen kinds, the most difficult ones, but not life-threatening ones."

Chen Bao was stunned.

As a member of the Thousand Eagle Guard, he had his own way of torturing people, so he was naturally not scared by the number of punishments mentioned by Shen Qiyin. He was just surprised by her twists and turns.

It happened too suddenly.

But look at the adult in their family again. No matter what Miss Shen said, he always had an expression of "My wife is so cute" on his face, and replied "OK" almost dotingly.

But then again, why are there “seventeen” punishments?

Out of curiosity, Chen Bao also wanted to know whether Shen Qiyin would be afraid later, so he offered to stay and carry out the execution.

According to his past experience, for prisoners like Qin Li who did not need to be interrogated, the first step in torturing them was usually to pull out his tongue.

This way he won't keep yelling and it would be very annoying.

When Chen Bao saw Shen Qiyin watching with expressionless face like rat torture and water torture, he didn't think it was a big deal. But when he saw that he was about to skin Qin Li alive and she was still so calm, he became a little uneasy.

1. Not scared at all?!

Not disgusting either?

Chen Bao felt something strange.

It seems that Qin Li and Miss Shen have some deep hatred, but when you see her watching the execution, she doesn't have the kind of excitement that is almost crazy after revenge.

But to say that there is no hatred or resentment is obviously impossible.

In fact, Xiao Yan also had doubts about this.

He had been paying attention to Shen Qiyin's reaction, and always felt that her eyes were dark and deep, as if she was looking at Qin Li, but also as if she was looking at something else through him.

There were constant "whimpering" sounds in the cell, accompanied by heavy breathing, and it was not difficult to hear Qin Li's torment and pain.

But even if he fainted from the pain, Chen Bao had a way to wake him up so that he could continue to suffer while conscious.

After the seventeen punishments were completed, he thought it was over, but Shen Qiyin suddenly said, "Use corpse-dissolving water to destroy his face."

"Then……"

"Strip him naked and throw him into the street."

Chen Bao: “Yes.”

He didn't understand, but he respected.

Just like before, Shen Qiyin only asked him to dig out one of Qin Li's eyes and cut off one of his ears. He didn't know why, but who cares? He just did it.

Xiao Yan stared at Shen Qiyin's profile intently, and after a moment of silence, he finally asked, "Why are there seventeen punishments?"

"Because using corpse-dissolving water to disfigure one's face is the eighteenth."

"And exposing his most concerning weakness to others is the nineteenth."

Wasn’t the number of punishments in the Qin Mansion in the past just nineteen?

The first eighteen attacks attack the body, and the last one attacks the heart.

She is giving someone a taste of their own medicine.

Xiao Yan had heard of the rules and the 19 punishments set by Qin Li.

He frowned and guessed, "Is there someone you care about who has experienced this in the Qin Mansion?"

Shen Qiyin shook his head gently: "It's not someone else."

"Xiao Yan..." She curled her lips slightly, smiling with tears in her eyes: "It's me."

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