NCCnovel Chapter 214: Fire in the Secret Chamber
Chapter 214: Fire in the Secret Chamber
Yue Tianci couldn't remember when they left.
I squatted for too long and my legs lost feeling. I was also so frightened by the big news I just heard that my whole body was cold and my mind couldn't function.
He saw Lou Xiao open the sarcophagus and walk out. He didn't even have the strength to ask for help.
Yue Tianci lowered his head and pounded his legs hard, holding down the dark blue and purple jade with both hands and barely crawling out.
Because his legs were numb, he was unable to stand and fell in front of the sarcophagus.
Lou Xiao turned around and happened to see this scene, so she walked back, squatted down, and helped Yue Tianci up with one hand.
Yue Tianci held her arm and stammered "thank you", but he didn't dare to look up or face her.
His family made a big mistake.
And the person in front of them will be the one who brings them a catastrophe.
Lou Xiao said nothing, helped the man to stand up and let go.
Yue Tianci shook his body and tried to catch her, but he could only watch her leave.
She stepped to the place where his relatives had just sat, and stroked the wall, looking for something.
Yue Tianci stood there precariously, praying that she would not find the account book, but at the same time he knew that it would not happen as he wished.
In these few short breaths, she was looking for the lives of his entire family.
Finally, Lou Xiao found a secret compartment, removed the brick, and saw a thick account book in front of him.
She took it out, flipped through it casually, then walked out with it rolled up in her hand.
When Yue Tianci saw the thick account book, he closed his eyes in despair and tears started to flow down his cheeks.
He took a step forward and fell to the ground again. When Lou Xiao came over to help him, he grabbed the corner of her clothes and begged with sobs.
"No... not everyone knows about this. My sister knows nothing... she is innocent...
The court will... forgive her, right?"
Could you please not implicate his elder sister, Yue Pengyu, who is devoted to the moral principles of the underworld and has no idea what is happening at home?
Lou Xiao was somewhat moved. She pulled down his hand that was grabbing the corner of his clothes, but did not say how she would deal with the Yue family.
Yue Tianci cried even harder and held her tightly, but he could not give any other reason. His tears just fell and wet the ground in front of him.
Lou Xiao was about to comfort her when she heard another noise outside the secret room.
Holding the account book in hand, Lou Xiao had no scruples anymore. He was not prepared to hide anymore and faced the Yue family members head on.
Just as he was waiting for the Yue family to open the secret room, he smelled an unusual smell.
She took a quick look and saw liquid seeping in from the crack of the secret room door. She also smelled something strange.
It turned out that someone had poured kerosene into her body, intending to burn her to death.
Lou Xiao was almost amused by the Yue family's boldness.
Yue Tianci also noticed something was wrong, and a flash of fear flashed across his red face.
At this moment, even his numb legs could not stop him from getting up. He staggered against the door and punched it with his fists.
"Let me out! I'm Yue Tianci! Are you crazy?"
Outside the secret room, a servant whispered to the person who was personally supervising the door, and the person in front of him was none other than Yue Zhanchi from the Yue family.
"It seems to be the young master's voice... This..."
Although the servants had done a lot of dirty work, the one inside was Yue Pengyu's younger brother, the young master of Hengjian Villa!
Although the old owner doesn't like him, but - if something happens to him, what will Yue Pengyu say when he comes back? After all, he is the blood of the old owner!
"You heard nothing."
Yue Zhanchi stared at the servant and said without question, then turned around and ordered the servant who was still pouring the kerosene,
"What are you standing there for?! There is a thief in the study of Hengjian Villa. What's wrong with us killing him in self-defense?!"
There is definitely more than just Yue Tianci in the secret room!
When he walked out, he realized that there must be someone else in the secret room!
The broken porcelain on the ground indicated that someone had entered the secret room without their knowledge, and Yue Tianci's careless nature could definitely not hide it!
Therefore, he must have had someone's help to be able to listen to the important secrets they were discussing quietly.
Even if there was no one holding him hostage - even if it was just Yue Tianci, he would not allow any possibility of the secret being leaked at this critical juncture.
Yue Tianci is the type of person who can’t keep secrets, he’ll tell them sooner or later!
He was just a son that his father didn't care about, so what if he died? !
It is better to kill by mistake than to let go.
Not only Lou Xiao and Yue Tianci in the secret room were shocked, but even the servants outside the secret room felt a chill all over their bodies, frightened by Yue Zhanchi who lied so blatantly.
But he had to obey the order. Although he was afraid in his heart, his hands did not slow down.
Yue Tianci was completely stunned.
The crying stopped and he stared blankly at the cold stone door. It was hard for him to imagine that right outside the door, his own blood relatives had ordered him to be burned alive.
He was unpopular, disliked by his father, and not close to his brothers and sisters.
But no matter how unfamiliar we are, we are still blood relatives——
Why? Why?
With kerosene under his feet, Yue Tianci thought of Lou Xiao behind him holding the account book that could destroy Hengjian Villa, and he actually had the idea that "it might as well be that I die like this."
But will she accept her fate?
Yue Tianci burst into tears, turned around and looked at Lou Xiao who looked calm, and felt completely hopeless.
Everything is death, forward and backward.
"Come here." Lou Xiao said the first words they met in the secret room.
Yue Zhanchi outside the door also vaguely heard the sound, but he was not afraid at all, instead he became even more excited.
The Duke of Zhenguo! She came in person!
In this case, we can't let her walk out alive!
A master with extraordinary martial arts skills and a high and mighty official in the imperial court!
He who had lived a mediocre life could kill such a person with his own hands.
The Duke of Zhenguo, who was flattered by everyone in the capital, was flattered by his father in Hengjian Villa, and was feared by that adult.
He would burn her to death in a secret room silently and cowardly.
He ended his life with his own hands -
Yue Zhanchi felt his whole body getting hot and he couldn't wait to snatch the candlestick from the waiter's hand and throw it down.
He wanted to hear the woman in gorgeous clothes and a pearl crown screaming and crying inside, and to hear her begging for mercy from above him. That would be an unforgettable sound from heaven.
What a pity, it would have been much better if the royal King Ziyoushan was here too.
He saw with his own eyes the flames enter through the crack in the stone door, and slowly retreat, ignoring the servants' obstruction, wanting to get closer to listen to the cries he had longed for.
The flames were so hot that even he felt hot all over.
Yue Tianci, you can't blame me.
Zhenguogong, you deserve to die too—
The corners of Yue Zhanchi's mouth curled up, as if he had already heard the roar, and he imagined what kind of expression his father would have when he told him about the matter.
Fear? Horror? Or admiration?
But in the end he was disappointed.
The stone door that Yue Zhanchi thought was indestructible suddenly shattered with a loud bang.
Flying pieces of rubble hit his head and face, and blood from his forehead flowed into his eyes, blurring his vision.
Amidst the blood and flames, a figure carrying Yue Tianci walked out step by step like a vengeful ghost.