Chapter 202 - Capture the Murderer

Shi Qingxue didn’t hear Xia Mang’s low voice.

She clenched her fists and restrained her anger, gazing at Mo Junyang with her beautiful eyes.

She didn’t beat around the bush but asked directly, “Why do you kick me out?”

Mo Junyang’s expression didn’t change, but he felt Shi Qingxue’s anger and couldn’t bear to hurt her feelings.

He softened his tone and advised again, “You have nothing to do with this case and don’t need to get involved.”

There was worry hidden in his last words.

Shi Qingxue noticed it but ignored him.

She opened her eyes wide and snorted at Mo Junyang. “This is my personal affair, and even my father doesn’t interfere. Why do you stop me? Why?”

She was aggressive.

It appeared that Shi Qingxue kept her distance from him, but only she knew that she wanted an answer from him.

An answer about the relationship between her and him.

Mo Junyang avoided meeting Shi Qingxue’s eyes and seemed not to understand her hidden meaning. Then he said to Qu Yuebai, “Arrange it for His Highness. If we want the colorful phenix to tell the life and death, maybe only His Highness can do it because he took care of the phenix for the longest.”

Mo Junyu hurriedly nodded. “Thanks, Junyang.”

Mo Junyang gave a nod and entered the room directly without looking at Shi Qingxue.

Shi Qingxue was unable to say a word.

Since childhood, it was her first time to be neglected completely.

“My Lady, are you all right?” Xia Mang asked worriedly.

She didn’t dare to speak loudly as she was afraid that she might irritate Shi Qingxue whose face turned pale and red occasionally.

Shi Qingxue suddenly laughed, but no smile could be seen in her eyes.

She expressed coldly, “Great! Great!

“Mo Junyang, when I wanted to keep away from you, you appeared to be unwilling to part with me to distract me. Now I try my best to help you, but you insist on keeping your distance from me…”

While speaking, she felt wronged and then couldn’t continue.

So she swore in her heart, “I am not under your control.

“If you don’t like me, I will abandon you. I don’t give you a thought!”

Because of Mo Junyang’s cold attitude, Shi Qingxue was not in the mood to watch a show.

She waved her sleeves and turned to leave.

Xia Mang realized that something bad would happen, so she hoped that Mo Junyang could change his mind, but he didn’t say anything till Shi Qingxue walked out of the gate of Love Xue House.

She sighed and walked quickly to catch up with Shi Qingxue. “My Lady, wait for me.”

Qu Yuexuan watched such a good play from beginning to end.

In the beginning, he laughed secretly and thought that he had no regret as he finally saw that Mo Junyang was frustrated.

But in the end, seeing that Shi Qingxue and Mo Junyang seemed to break up, he couldn’t laugh anymore.

Till Shi Qingxue disappeared, Mo Junyang didn’t speak a word but stood straight like a statue.

Qu Yuexuan couldn’t help but joke, “Junyang, why? You love her so much but behave like this intentionally. It’s not like your style.”

He wouldn’t believe that Mo Junyang did it for a purpose.

Mo Junyang was so overbearing. Even if he did it for Shi Qingxue’s good, he would never push her away.

Mo Junyang raised his brows and showed an unexplainable expression. “What’s like my style?”

Qu Yuexuan was unable to reply.

In his opinion, Mo Junyang would only pull her into his arms and stay with her even if they died.

Mo Junyang would never leave her for her sake.

“Enough!” Qu Yuexuan couldn’t control himself and lectured Mo Junyang, “I know that you get annoyed because Shi Qingxue lost the memory about you and her, but why do you always push her away?”

Mo Junyang kept silent for quite a while.

When Qu Yuexuan almost thought that Mo Junyang would be stubborn and reluctant to admit, the latter stated in a low voice, “She is not ‘her’ anymore.”

Mo Junyang knew that he shouldn’t think in this way, but Shi Qingxue couldn’t remember what happened in the previous life. When he looked at her pure and beautiful eyes, he thought there was a gulf between them.

Even though he would be affected sometimes because of Shi Qingxue, the gulf couldn’t disappear.

Perhaps, in the beginning, the one who attracted him was this pure, beautiful and fascinating lady from the Shi family.

But the one he loved and missed for two lives was Shi Qingxue who was not perfect, and she was not even pure anymore.

Sometimes, he even thought that he was nice to Lady Qingxue, which meant that he betrayed Shi Qingxue.

Because Lady Qingxue deprived Shi Qingxue of her chance to reborn.

It was unreasonable, but he could do nothing, and he couldn’t stop himself from thinking in this way.

Qu Yuexuan was confused by Mo Junyang’s words. “What? She is not her? Even though Shi Qingxue lost her memory of one year, it is not that serious, right?”

It was more than one year’s memory. She forgot their past.

The previous life was his painful memory which he couldn’t forget.

Qu Yuexuan thought Mo Junyang’s emotion was unusual, but he didn’t know why.

He had to comfort Mo Junyang. “If you really care about the fact that Shi Qingxue lost her memory, it is fine that you part with her temporarily.”

Then he couldn’t help but remind, “But she will be able to remember what happened in the past. I am going to see what you will do then.”

If Shi Qingxue came to get back at him then, it would be fun.

Qu Yuexuan thought secretly.

Mo Junyang smiled bitterly and talked to himself, “No. She won’t come back again.”

But he didn’t want to share this sadness with anybody. Even though it was Qu Yuexuan, Mo Junyang didn’t want to say more.

He pushed Qu Yuexuan out. “Go to help your brother. Whether we can succeed will be revealed tonight.”

Qu Yuexuan was not as confident as Mo Junyang and complained indifferently, “It happened just two or three days ago. Why are you anxious? How can you be sure that the murderer can be captured tonight?”

Qu Yuexuan thought that the murderer would not be so stupid or get the news so soon.

“He will,” Mo Junyang responded with certainty.

Meeting Qu Yuexuan’s doubtful eyes, he pursed his lips and explained, “The East Palace is not a secret place, and…Qingxue went there in such a big way today. Even if ‘he’ didn’t believe it in the beginning, he must know it now.”

Of course “he” was the murderer.

Qu Yuexuan finally knew why Shi Qingxue suddenly went to the East Palace to confirm the murderer’s way to poison the colorful phenix and made it widely known.

But as he understood, he rolled his eyes at Mo Junyang and judged accurately, “Asshole.”

Mo Junyang accepted it silently.

He didn’t retort and just kicked Qu Yuexuan. “Get out.”

Probably it was Qu Yuexuan’s first time to see his boss so arrogant. He was resentful and wanted to beat others, but he could do nothing to his master.

He had to do as Mo Junyang ordered.

At night, there was a grand “evocation” in King Rui’s mansion. Que Yuebai named it accurately as he looked at the scene with people singing and shouting like calling up supposed supernatural forces by spells. The bird cage with the colorful phenix’s dead body was sent back to a room which was heavily guarded.

It was said that twenty-four hours later after the evocation, they could see what happened before the colorful phenix’s death from its glaze eyes.

King Rui’s mansion was armed at all points and the soldiers coming and going surrounded the mansion and especially the Love Xue House, in case that the murderer came to ruin the carcass and destroy the evidence.

“Hey, do you think the murderer would come tonight?” a soldier guarding at the door asked his colleague standing across from him.

He had stood for one night but didn’t even see a bird, let alone the murderer. He just fed the mosquitoes his blood.

The man opposite him stamped his numb foot and replied crossly, “Who knows? I think he doesn’t dare to come. After all, we have so many people guarding here. If he comes, wouldn’t he fall into the trap? The murderer wouldn’t be so foolish!”

The first one nodded approvingly and was about to speak when he felt the pain on the back of his neck suddenly, and then he fell on the ground.

“Bro, what’s wrong with you?” The man opposite him hurriedly moved forward to help him, but the first one sank into a coma, and nobody knew if he was dead.

He realized that an enemy came to attack them, so he wanted to cry for help, but he felt his neck was chilly, and he didn’t know what would happen later.

Outside the room, a masked man in black withdrew his dagger silently and wiped the blood stains away from it, sneering, “You just sent two underlings to guard the door? Mo Junyang, do you think that nothing will happen as you have the mansion surrounded?”

He said that but didn’t dare to be careless. Then he quickly helped the two soldiers get back to their original positions.

In darkness at night, the two dead guards appeared to remain at their posts.

The masked man in black took out a silver needle and gently opened the lock on the door before slowly pushing it open.

The bird cage was in the room, and he even saw the colorful phenix’s dead body in the cage.

However, he didn’t enter the room in a hurry but watched his step with caution.

As expected, a tiny and long line was on the top of the threshold.

As long as he stepped on it if he didn’t pay attention, he would touch some device.

“Gee, can this small trick baffle me?” The masked man in black snorted.

He raised his foot and crossed the long line rapidly and carefully.

After he stepped into the room, he closed the door quickly, in case that the patrolling soldiers found him later.

The colorful phenix was close at hand, but the masked man didn’t take actions against it anxiously. Instead, he looked around carefully.

After confirming that there was nobody in the room, he approached the colorful phenix cautiously step by step.

When the colorful phenix was close to him and he could get it at once, the man’s eyes lit up. He couldn’t wait to reach out his hands.

“A respected guest comes from afar. I am sorry that I didn’t welcome you.”

A cold voice came from a corner all of a sudden and scared the masked man.

He withdrew his hands abruptly and looked around with his bright eyes.

He didn’t see anybody like before.

Was there a ghost?

The masked man pondered in doubt and looked around with caution again, to see nothing.

He just saw the walls.

And the voice had some effect and seemed to come from a wall.

The wall!

While thinking, the masked man trembled.

But soon he thought of the purpose of his arrival and gritted his teeth, reaching out to the colorful phenix again.

When his hands were about to touch the cage door, the room became bright at once.

The masked man was stimulated by the light and closed his eyes suddenly. Before he reacted, he felt a chill on his neck.

He immediately realized that it was a sharp weapon.

It could take his life at any time.

No matter how conceited the masked man was, he didn’t dare to act rashly.

He opened his eyes but was frightened by what he saw.

He didn’t know since when the originally empty room where only he had been was full of people.

The leader was naturally the crown prince Mo Junyu, and Qu Yuebai and Qu Yuexuan stood next to him. Guards surrounded them, and the one who put a sword on his neck was Mo Junyang’s guard, Wei Zichao.

These people seemed to show up from nowhere quietly, which was scary.

The masked man subconsciously wanted to move, but Mo Junyu warned first, “Don’t move randomly. If you are injured, don’t blame me. I have reminded you in advance.”

The cold voice was like the voice which appeared earlier, and there was complacency in it.

He was certain to win and the enemy was in his hands. Wasn’t it something worth being complacent?

As expected, the masked man was so scared that he didn’t dare to move.

But Mo Junyu didn’t let him go. He waved at Wei Zichao and ordered, “Take off his mask. I want to see who dares to break into King Rui’s mansion at night.”

Even though all people knew the masked man’s identity, Mo Junyu still said that.

The masked man got nervous and stared at Mo Junyu. His eyes were ruthless, as if he would eat Mo Junyu.

Mo Junyu was not affected but urged loudly, “Zichao, why don’t you take actions?”

Wei Zichao didn’t do anything in the beginning but looked at Mo Junyang standing in the corner silently, seeing that his master had no reaction.

So he withdrew his sword and stepped forward, trying to take off the man’s mask.