I was reborn after cheating on the aloof and powerful man.

Chapter 205 A Different Kind of Mural

As soon as Physician Shang finished speaking, Consort Yun suddenly started coughing violently. She instinctively clutched her stomach, and the coughing intensified, as if she were about to cough up her entire lungs.

Her body trembled, teetering on the verge of collapse, but those around her simply stood by and watched, completely unmoved.

Once she had caught her breath, her ashen face revealed a deathly resolve in her eyes.

"It was I who attempted to confuse the royal bloodline. Sister Liu only agreed to help me because I coerced her."

"No, you don't want to."

The monk's gentle voice, like the whisper of a demon, seemed to know everything a person most wanted to hide in their heart:

"If you really wanted to confuse the bloodline, you wouldn't have let Mu Yao give you a hard push from behind."

"You don't want this child. Are you really afraid of implicating your good sisters, or are you afraid that if things come to light, you want to protect that male lover named 'Xiao Wu'?"

"Let him go!" Overwhelmed with fear and terror, Consort Yun shouted uncontrollably.

"Ok."

The monk remained unaffected, smiled slightly, and nodded in agreement. He looked at the kneeling imperial physician before him and gently instructed him:

"Imperial Physician Shang, remember this: from now on, only Consort Yun will be said to be more than a month pregnant. Do you understand?"

"Understood!" The gentle voice sounded like a death knell. Doctor Shang was sweating profusely and dared not say no. He kowtowed repeatedly to show that he was obedient.

After the monk raised his hand to indicate that he could leave, Physician Shang immediately ran away as if someone was chasing and kicking his butt.

"What exactly do you want?" Consort Yun didn't believe the monk in front of her would be so kind. There were originally twenty-four of them, but because of a single sentence from the other party, they all had to kill their roommates to survive and arrive at this cannibalistic palace.

This monk is a demon!

The monk stood up with a slight smile, completely ignoring the tense hostility on Consort Yun's face, and innocently took out a sachet and handed it to her:

"You can rest assured and focus on your pregnancy. You don't need to worry about anything. When the time comes, I want to see this child born into this world safe and sound."

Upon seeing the sachet, Consort Yun's body trembled slightly:

Is he alright?

"Things are good for now. Monks don't lie. If you listen, your family of three will be reunited one day."

Consort Yun touched the white crane wings embroidered on the sachet, and lowered her head without saying a word.

The monk stopped looking at her and shifted his gaze to Liu Yingxue, who was standing by the door, not daring to say a word.

"Have you taken care of the task I assigned you? Does Vatti like the gift you sent?"

"When I left, His Majesty was laughing continuously, so he must have been very satisfied."

"That's good."

The monk stood up with a smile on his face.

The next second, Liu Yingxue knelt on the ground with a pained expression, clenched her fists, and gritted her teeth. Unable to bear the pain she was experiencing, she collapsed to the ground and rolled around in agony.

"Master... I... I was wrong... please... forgive... me..."

"Where did you go wrong?" The monk's smile deepened.

"No, I...don't know...please...Master...show me...I was wrong, forgive me!!!"

The pitiful screams, mixed with sobbing and wailing, echoed throughout the entire Baohua Palace.

“May Buddha have mercy and pity you. If you ever again take it upon yourself to arrange for someone to frame Prince Rui, I will send you to reunite with your good sister.”

"Waaaaah, I know I was wrong, I won't do it again..."

Just as the monk was about to say something, his expression suddenly changed. Without leaving a word, he used his light-footed skill to leap onto the roof.

He hadn't run two steps before he jumped into a secluded dead-end alley.

As his figure disappeared into the darkness, the entire alley became as quiet as if no one had ever been there.

……

After Gu Mingfeng had made arrangements for everyone, it was already late at night.

He was just getting ready to go to bed, being served by his servants.

He dismissed the servants and lay down on the bed with his eyes closed.

Suddenly, he opened his eyes wide.

In the otherwise empty, pitch-black sky, a breath suddenly appeared out of nowhere.

Just as Gu Mingfeng's hand touched the dagger by the bedside, a familiar hand, carrying the scent of sandalwood, covered his mouth with one hand and pressed down on his wrist that was gripping the dagger with the other.

"It's me! Nobody has time, so I'll get straight to the point."

"Don't go to the palace anytime soon. If you can't avoid it, just go to Physician Shang and pretend to be sick. If you want to go for the Mid-Autumn Festival, wait until I get back. Wei Daoren, you brought up the matter of taking your leave again. Don't get involved."

"It would be best if you stayed in the manor and didn't go anywhere or worry about anything until I returned."

"What do you mean?! Why should I listen to you?!"

The visitor in the darkness sighed.

"I would never harm you, please trust me this once. He told me before he left that he smelled something unpleasant, and now it seems that it wasn't unfounded."

As the visitor spoke, he reached out and touched Gu Mingfeng's neck, grabbing a large pearl that Gu Mingfeng had worn since childhood and pulling it into his hand.

"What about him? What are you doing!"

Feeling that his belongings had been stolen, Gu Mingfeng suddenly jumped up and pounced on the visitor.

But to everyone's surprise, the person who had just been in his bed vanished into thin air, leaving behind only a sentence that infuriated him:

"I'll borrow your things for a bit. Don't be stingy. Even if it costs me my life, I'll make sure you get what you want."

"Get out of here! You've been stealing my things since we were little, and you always pretend to be pitiful in front of Mother, saying I'm stingy. It's clearly you who's addicted to stealing! You say you won't hurt me, but I don't believe you for a second! You big liar, you're so wicked!"

Unable to catch the person, Gu Mingfeng angrily shouted and cursed.

The commotion startled the servants outside the door, who all thought an assassin had broken in, but they saw their young master alone, with tears in his eyes, pounding the bed and cursing.

That night, everyone in Prince Rui's mansion knew that their young master had nightmares and was even crying from fright.

……

Fei Xi returned to the front hall, dejected and distraught.

Her face was grim, and her expression, both solemn and tinged with fear, weighed heavily on the hearts of those lying on the ground.

"Senior Sister, what's wrong? Are all the people in this temple really dead?" Mu Qingfeng raised her head with difficulty, her anxious question revealing a hint of fear that could be heard through her.

During the time Fei Xi was away, Boss Qiu quickly brought La Pei back to her senses with just a few words.

From La Pei's mouth, everyone learned that she had seen a group of charred corpses in the back hall.

"Princess, besides seeing those charred corpses, have you found a way to get everyone out of here?" Boss Qiu had no interest in the corpses; the feeling of being unable to move and at the mercy of others was too unbearable.

Fei Xi walked up to her junior sister and replied without looking up:

"The answer has always been right beside you, Boss Qiu, why do you need to ask me?"

Fei Xi's words drew everyone's attention to Boss Qiu.

Who is being referred to as "beside Boss Qiu"? Is it the dancer La Pei?

"Prince Yaro, now that you're awake, is there anything you'd like to say?" Fei Xi patted her junior sister's head reassuringly, then looked up at the person pretending to be unconscious beside Boss Qiu.

Prince Yaro lay motionless in the far corner, seemingly unconscious, so everyone had almost forgotten about him.

"I……"

"When did you wake up? That's right! How could I forget? This temple is where your Kingdom of Us holds its music and dance festival. Others may not know, but as a prince, you must know what this hall is all about!"

The simple-minded Prince Yarrow could no longer remain calm after Fei Xi exposed his pretense of being asleep.

Now, with so many eyes fixed on him, almost all of them ruthless individuals, he was momentarily overwhelmed and wanted to spill everything he knew:

“Don’t look at me! I don’t know either. Every year, the High Priest presides over the music and dance festival, and my father and I are just here to go through the motions.”

"Hmph, sweet talk! Prince Yaro, you'd better think carefully before you speak. If my men find out that I haven't returned, what will happen to the entire Kingdom of Us? I'm afraid it will be a scene you don't want to see." Even though he couldn't move, Yu Heng's arrogant attitude remained unchanged.

"You!" Prince Yaro clenched his fists in anger, veins bulging, but he dared not say anything.

Weak-willed, he racked his brains trying to figure out what to do, and in doing so, he came to a strange thought:

“This hall… I remember it wasn’t like this when I was a child. I was very young then and didn’t want to watch the goddesses dance. So I secretly took the offerings meant for the goddess and gave them to a little girl, hiding behind that pillar.”

Prince Yaro moved his finger with difficulty, pointing to the mural behind the pillar on Yu Heng's side:

"The murals here were quite scary back then, not like they are now. My little sister was so frightened when she saw them that she cried."