bestfiction Chapter 328 The Assassin of Plum Garden
Chapter 328 The Assassin of Plum Garden
In an instant, muffled groans of fighting came from outside the window.
Yu Wan didn't dare to breathe loudly, and cautiously approached the window, peering out through the crack.
Under the moonlight, Yun Shang's figure was like a ghost, graceful yet powerful. Every move he made was precise and ruthless, and the two men could only parry him.
Just as Yu Wan breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Yun Shang could easily deal with these two uninvited guests, an unexpected change occurred.
Three more men darted out from the corner, their footsteps hurried, and rushed straight toward the door.
Yu Wan instantly realized that these people were after her inside the house!
Yu Wan didn't have time to think much. She quickly looked around, her eyes anxiously searching for a place to hide.
Finally, she discovered the narrow gap between the bed and the wall, rushed over, curled up inside, and tightly gripped the hairpin in her hand.
With a loud bang, the door was suddenly kicked open from the outside.
The loud noise made Yu Wan's heart skip a beat.
Soon, the three men began searching the room.
Yun Shang, who was outside, noticed the commotion, but the two people fighting him seemed to be deliberately entangled with him in order to hold him back!
Yun Shang's eyes darkened, and the hand that had been holding back two measures went straight for the vital points of the two men.
The room had been searched almost thoroughly. Yu Wan watched as the men approached, clutching the hairpin tightly.
Several shadows were cast on the ground, getting closer and closer to her.
Her heart was in her throat, and she gripped the hairpin in her hand even tighter.
Just as Yu Wan was about to take the initiative, one of the shadows suddenly flew backwards towards the wall like a kite with a broken string!
Immediately, a cold figure appeared in Yu Wan's field of vision.
Yun Shang strode forward and, while the other two men were still stunned, grabbed one of them by the collar and slammed him to the ground in one swift motion.
His voice was as cold as ice as he asked, enunciating each word clearly: "Who sent you?"
Two of them were thrown around in a daze, while the other seemed completely unconcerned about Yun Shang and rushed straight towards Yu Wan's location. However, his expression changed slightly the moment he saw Yu Wan's appearance.
Yu Wan faced him directly and clearly saw a look of surprise flash across his eyes.
Just then, the man seemed to suddenly realize something and quickly turned around and ran away.
They're planning to run away?!
Yu Wan was completely bewildered by this series of actions.
What do you mean?
Did these people contact the wrong person?
Wasn't she the one they wanted to kill?
Yun Shang had no intention of chasing after him. He coldly glanced at the man in black who was lying on the ground and unable to get up, and then his gaze fell on Yu Wan.
His gaze softened. "Are you alright?"
Yu Wan emerged from the shadows, met Yun Shang's worried gaze, and shook her head. "I'm fine."
"What's wrong with these people?" She looked at the men, frowning. "At first, I thought they were after you, then they rushed into the house, and I thought they were after me, but just now that man saw me and ran away..."
She really couldn't understand it.
"Who exactly are these people targeting?"
A barely perceptible killing intent flashed in Yun Shang's dark eyes.
If these people are after Yu Wan, they deserve to die.
If they weren't after Yu Wan, they deserve to die.
He finally managed to stay quietly by her side, but some clueless people still came to bother him.
"Who they're after will be clear in one interrogation," Yun Shang said coldly, his voice as sharp as ice. "No matter who they're after, anyone who dares to send someone to Plum Garden in broad daylight to assassinate someone must be someone of high status."
After he finished speaking, he looked at Yu Wan, his gaze softening for a moment, "I'll handle these people, you continue to rest."
Yu Wan shook her head and refused without much hesitation.
She wasn't sleepy to begin with, and now that she'd drunk the ginger soup and taken the medicine to dispel the cold, she didn't feel cold anymore.
“I’m with you; I also want to find out what happened.”
The commotion here did not alert anyone in the plum garden, so no one came to inquire about the situation.
Yun Shang strode straight to the two men lying in the room, stomped hard on their wrists with her toes, and the man screamed in pain like a pig being slaughtered.
"Who sent you?"
Yun Shang's voice was deep and cold, as if it came from the deepest hell.
The man was in so much pain that he was sweating profusely, his face as pale as paper. He stammered, "I...we don't know either. Someone gave us a portrait and said that as long as we caught the person in the portrait, there would be a great reward."
Yun Shang frowned. "Who is it?"
The man gritted his teeth, hesitated for a moment, and seemed to still harbor a glimmer of hope.
Yun Shang's eyes turned cold, and he suddenly exerted force with his foot. A crisp "crack" came from the man's wrist, and his hand bone broke.
A scream of agony rang out.
Yu Wan felt a pang of pity watching this.
I silently mourned for him for two seconds.
The male lead is indeed ruthless.
The man screamed repeatedly, finally breaking down, crying out, "No... please stop torturing me! I don't know who it is. He was wearing a veil, so I couldn't see his face, but his voice was high-pitched, and his figure was thin and frail; he looked like a eunuch from the palace..."
"He gave us brothers fifty taels of gold and told us to kill the person in the portrait. He said the person was an orphan girl, and even if we killed her, we wouldn't get into trouble..."
Upon hearing this, Yu Wan immediately thought of Su Qingchan.
An orphan girl, killing her won't cause any trouble, isn't that exactly what Su Qingchan is talking about?
"When did you sneak into the plum garden?" Yu Wan asked.
The man grimaced in pain, took a few deep breaths, and said, "Just an hour ago, he gave us silver and told us to change into the clothes of the servants here, and told us we could come in through the small door on the west side."
"He also said that the woman we were going to kill lived in this courtyard, so we..."
At this point, the man, enduring the pain, kowtowed to Yun Shang, pleading, "Honorable sir, please spare our lives! We mistook you for someone else and had no intention of offending you. We beg you to spare our lives!"
Yun Shang coldly stared at the man kneeling and begging for mercy, unmoved.
Yu Wan asked, "Did that person say why he insisted on taking that orphan's life?"
The man shook his head hastily: "He didn't say anything, he really didn't! He just gave us the portrait and the money, and told us to do it..."
An hour ago, a eunuch came from the palace...
Yu Wan pondered the connection between them and was almost certain that this matter was inextricably linked to Consort De.
Xiao Huanyan left the plum garden after about an hour, which must have made her suspicious because of Su Qingchan's words.
She rushed to the palace to confirm with Consort De, who learned from Xiao Huanyan that Su Qingchan was so restless, so she ordered someone to take action against Su Qingchan.
Is Consort De determined to kill the entire Su family?
It seems that someone in this plum garden has been bribed by Consort De, otherwise Consort De's people wouldn't know that Su Qingchan was in this courtyard before.
However, Su Qingchan had been taken away by Prince Yong earlier.
If Consort De knew that it was her own son who ruined her plans, her expression would certainly be quite something.