Chapter 423: Chapter 425 Threatened
Pei Huaian’s first act upon returning was to investigate the rumors.
Few people knew about Shao He giving birth at Mass Burial Mound; if soone hadn’t deliberately spread the news, it wouldn’t have spread so quickly.
Ah Mo quickly found out that it was the doing of Liang Weishuang.
Liang Weishuang was still fantasizing about how wretched Shao He would be, when, in the next mont, she was caught and brought to the Fifth Prince’s Mansion.
“What are you doing, let go— I am the Lady of the Marquis of Pingnan!”
“The Lady of the Marquis of Pingnan has long been dead,” ca a cold voice, as Pei Huaian approached with brisk steps.
Upon seeing him, Liang Weishuang’s previously arrogant attitude imdiately extinguished, and she recoiled in fear.
“Could it be that you have done sothing guilty? Otherwise, why would you be so afraid to face this Prince?” Pei Huaian said, rubbing his fingers together with a clear, cold voice.
“No, no, I haven’t done anything,” Liang Weishuang swallowed in fear.
At that mont, a woman riddled with wounds was dragged in and thrown before her.
“Miss, save , please save…” the maid weakly reached out a hand, grabbing and shaking the hem of her skirt.
“Ah!” Liang Weishuang scread, backing away continuously.
“Fifth Prince, are you planning to torture her without authority, using extre thods to extract a confession?” Liang Weishuang managed to steady her composure and said.
After all, she was from Marquis Pingnan’s Mansion, and even if the Fifth Prince truly wanted to act against her, he had to consider the consequences.
“Dare not,” Pei Huaian said with contempt, casually sitting down in a chair.
“Then why have you had bound and brought here?” Liang Weishuang mustered her courage to ask.
Pei Huaian slightly lifted his eyes, his gaze piercing and bone-chilling, “It seems Lady Chu still doesn’t understand her situation. Today, I shall enlighten you properly,”
“Lest you keep courting death.”
Pei Huaian picked up a dagger from the table and flung it toward her.
Liang Weishuang stood frozen in place, forgetting to dodge.
“Bang—” The dagger embedded itself in the big tree beside Liang Weishuang.
Liang Weishuang was petrified; the scene was too terrifying. She even suspected that the Fifth Prince may have beco bloodthirsty.
“That was a warning,” Pei Huaian said indifferently, retracting his gaze and continuing to stare at Liang Weishuang.
“There won’t be a next ti. Do not bla this Prince for being heartless,” Pei Huaian said coldly, sending shivers down one’s spine.
Liang Weishuang breathed a sigh of relief; the Fifth Prince’s thods were a hundred tis more brutal than his appearance suggested.
After the group had left, Liang Weishuang slowly raised her head only to find Pei Huaian looking at her with a smile that wasn’t quite a smile, sending a chill down her spine.
Stiffening her neck, Liang Weishuang forced a smile, “Fifth Prince, may I, may I leave now?”
“Do you really think you can just walk away like this?”
At those words, Liang Weishuang’s legs went weak, and she nearly fell to the ground, stamring, “Fifth Prince, what do you an by that?”
Her reaction pleased Pei Huaian, and the curve of his mouth grew deeper.
“I want you to do sothing for . If you do it well and negate your cri of spreading rumors, then so be it. But if you fail, your fate will be the sa as that maidservant’s,” he continued.
“Alright, what would you have do?” Liang Weishuang was silent for a while before finally hissing through clenched teeth.
She had no other option but to follow Pei Huaian’s orders.
She had not expected the Fifth Prince to investigate everything in such a short ti, nor did she expect him to go so far for Shao He.
“I want you to spread a word that ‘Chu Yu personally sent his own wife into another man’s bed,'” said Pei Huaian, raising an eyebrow with a trace of amusent in his eyes.
“This…” Liang Weishuang had not expected Pei Huaian to do such a thing; this would instantly turn the rumors towards Marquis Pingnan’s Mansion.
“It seems Lady Chu is sowhat reluctant, so in that case…”
“Wait a mont.”
After a mont of thought, Liang Weishuang finally nodded, “I will do as you say.”
“Hmm, I hope Lady Chu doesn’t squander the opportunity this Prince has given you, otherwise I will make you wish you could neither live nor die,” Pei Huaian threatened.
“Certainly not,” Liang Weishuang said hurriedly, shaking her head.
Pei Huaian waved his hand, and Liang Weishuang glanced at the maidservant on the ground.
With a smile, Pei Huaian said, “Take her with you as well.”
The maidservant struggled to get up from the ground and followed Liang Weishuang step by step; with each step, a bloody footprint marked the ground.
Once out of the Fifth Prince’s Mansion, Liang Weishuang looked back at the maidservant with repulsion, “You haven’t said anything you shouldn’t have, have you?”
With her head bowed, the maidservant didn’t respond.
Liang Weishuang sighed, realizing that the Fifth Prince’s thods were not simple and not only aid at her.
It must be that the enmity between the Fifth Prince and Marquis Pingnan’s Mansion ran deep. Otherwise, why would the Fifth Prince target Marquis Pingnan’s Mansion so intensely for soone like Shao He?
Liang Weishuang refused to accept that Shao He was important to the Fifth Prince.
She returned to Marquis Pingnan’s Mansion, dejected, and upon entering saw a nanny with a look of disdain.
“The Old Madam wants you to stop by,” said the nanny, ignoring her as she walked ahead.
Liang Weishuang turned back and saw the wounded maidservant, “You may go back and clean yourself up first,” she said.
“Yes,” the maidservant managed, enduring the pain as she walked toward the yard.
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