Chapter 20: What Can You Do to Me? (3)
“Third Sister, as long as you save me, I’ll do anything you ask. I truly will.”
Changge Yuqing had utterly lost her former arrogance.
Changge Yue swept her gaze around the room before finally letting it rest on Biye.
“This matter depends on one thing: keeping one’s mouth shut. I am not one to gossip. Bichu is my maid, while Bihua belongs to you…”
Changge Yuqing froze for a moment. Then a vicious glint crossed her eyes. She picked up the broken sword from the floor and walked toward Biye.
Never had Biye imagined that things would end like this.
“Second Miss, you—you… Third Miss, Third Miss, save me! Save me!” She crawled and stumbled toward Changge Yue. “Third Miss, for the sake of the years I served you, for the sake of… ah… Second… Miss…”
Blood poured from Biye’s mouth. She stared in disbelief at Changge Yuqing, who had stabbed her from behind.
“I…”
“Ah! Biye!” Bichu stared at the scene before her in disbelief. Biye had died just like that. Biye was actually dead.
“Third Miss…” Bichu looked at Changge Yue in panic.
Changge Yue curved her lips slightly. “Second Sister certainly acted quickly.”
In truth, she did not think it was shameful for a maid to strive for a better position. Everyone had the right to pursue what they believed to be happiness. Biye had only herself to blame for ever wanting Changge Yue dead.
Changge Yuqing remained dazed for a long while before finally recovering herself. “What do we do now?”
Changge Yue glanced at Biye’s corpse and said, “Today, after Fifth Sister returned from the Wen household, she went out alone and was attacked. Her maid, Biye, fought to protect her with her life. Fifth Sister was injured by the villains and has fallen unconscious. Second Sister, what do you think of that explanation?”
Changge Yuqing bit her lip. “But Changge Yujiao will wake up. Once she does, she’ll still expose us!”
She glared at Changge Yue through clenched teeth.
“You’re playing me.”
She had known from the beginning that she should never have trusted this fool, Changge Yue.
Someone that ugly could possibly possess what kind of cunning?
How could she have placed her hopes in such a disgusting monster?
Changge Yue ignored her fury and instead walked over to Changge Yujiao. After being whipped and mutilated, Changge Yujiao no longer looked human. She stared at Changge Yue in terror.
“You… What are you going to do? What are you doing?”
Changge Yue drew a silver needle from her waist and swiftly pricked Changge Yujiao, rendering her unconscious. She then inserted several more needles into the vital points on Changge Yujiao’s head.
“Second Sister only needs to take Fifth Sister and Biye out of the estate and leave them somewhere—anywhere will do.”
Changge Yuqing looked at Changge Yue with both suspicion and uncertainty. At last, she gritted her teeth.
“If you dare deceive me, I…”
Meeting Changge Yue’s eyes, which gleamed with amusement, Changge Yuqing swallowed the vicious threat that had risen to her lips.
Changge Yuqing and Bihua carried Changge Yujiao and Biye’s corpse out of Luoyue Pavilion.
Bichu had yet to recover from the shock of Biye’s death. Only after a long while did she ask, “Miss, the entire estate is under Madam’s control. Can Second Miss really get Fifth Miss out? And why has Second Miss suddenly decided to help us?”
Changge Yue slowly tidied the things Changge Yujiao and Changge Yuqing had overturned. Her expression remained calm, without the slightest trace of panic.
“The sale of poison is strictly forbidden in the imperial capital of Jin. Even the purchase of medicines such as arsenic must be registered with the Jingzhao Prefecture. Changge Yuyan is merely a daughter born to a concubine—where could she have obtained such a vicious poison? The fact that she had a way to acquire it proves that she is no ordinary person. Would the Zhuge clan leave such a concubine, one harboring ambitions of her own, to run wild within the estate?”
The Zhuge family’s principle was simple: better to kill the wrong person than to let the guilty escape.