Fourth Prince: "Master, we clearly saw them come here. Why are there no signs of them?"

Lin Kong also felt very strange and said: "Yeah! The street is empty; where could they have hidden?"

Xuexue and Long Rui hid in the space, watching them search back and forth on the street.

Long Rui, while watching outside, said: "Dear, why did we come in? I can beat them until they’re looking for their teeth on the ground."

Xuexue: "I know you’re powerful, but today let’s let them go first. We’ll settle accounts with them slowly later."

The Fourth Prince and Lin Kong searched for a while but didn’t see anyone, then gradually walked away. From a distance, they could faintly hear the Fourth Prince’s indignant voice......

"I’m so angry, they actually got away. Tonight was truly humiliating, harmed so miserably, and still don’t know who they are? This makes me furious."

"Disciple, do you feel this woman’s voice sounds a bit familiar?"

"Yes, somewhat, but I can’t think of who it sounds like right away."

"Miss Situ." 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

"Impossible, this is the black market. She’s the War Prince’s woman; how could she possibly come here at the Third Watch of the Night!"

"I’m not sure either, just felt a little similar."

"Stop feeling, it definitely isn’t her."

Gradually, the voice grew fainter, presumably as they walked further away.

Long Rui and Xuexue emerged again from the space...

"Dear, they suspect you!"

"It’s okay, let them suspect. Anyway, they have no evidence."

Earlier, at the appraisal conference, Xuexue deliberately altered her voice to make it slightly deeper than usual. Unexpectedly, Lin Kong still suspected her, but without evidence, let’s just let them suspect.

The next day, in the early morning.

The Fourth Prince had just gotten up not long ago when he saw the steward rushing in frantically...

"Fourth Prince, it’s bad."

"What is it now?"

The Fourth Prince was growing increasingly annoyed with the steward; if not for him, the Prince’s Mansion wouldn’t have become the focus of the Capital, making it increasingly difficult for him to act freely now. If not for fear of suspicion, he’d have wanted to kill him on the spot.

"Outside... outside...!"

The steward was stammering, and the Fourth Prince grew impatient: "What exactly happened?"

"For some reason, early this morning, the whole Capital is spreading... spreading...."

"Spreading what?"

"Saying... saying... saying the Fourth Prince is a murderous demon."

"What...?" The Fourth Prince was startled, and the teacup in his hand slipped to the ground, shattering.

The steward looked at the Fourth Prince glaring at him, felt a chill down his spine, and quickly said: "This servant doesn’t know what’s happening. Overnight, the streets and alleys are filled with the news."

"What are they all saying?"

"The general idea is that so many corpses were found in the Prince’s Mansion, they can’t possibly have been killed by outsiders. It doesn’t make sense or reason. If outsiders came in to kill, taking out a few servants might be understandable, but with over a hundred bodies appearing in the Prince’s Mansion, there’s only one possibility—the problem is with the Master of the Mansion. It might even be the Fourth Prince himself who is the mute murderous demon." The steward said, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

The Fourth Prince turned around, with fierce eyes glaring at the steward, and said through gritted teeth: "Look at the trouble you’ve caused for this Prince."

"This servant deserves to die. This servant couldn’t foresee the situation spiraling out of control." The steward was so frightened he fell to his knees with a thud, feeling miserable inside. Didn’t he just report a case? How did it stir up so much trouble!