Chapter 581: Who’s The Culprit?
Everyone was trying to deduce who the culprit was. Not many people could assassinate her without being found out.
Suddenly, the group was split in half and a path was formed. Two people ran up to the building. The one at the front was none other than Huangfu Yu. His face was pale and tears welled in his eyes. Everyone felt pity for him when they saw his expression.
Wu’er was his fiancee, and even though they had only spent a short time together, their feelings for each other were deep.
Huangfu Yu howled Wu’er’s name before running into the building. His father, Huangfu Fengyun, was also frowning and quickly followed him. Those with a higher standing in the family followed them inside.
“Big Brother, let’s enter too.” Huangfu Qi pulled him into the building, and no one stopped them even though Long Chen was an outsider.
More than twenty people entered the place.
Long Chen said nothing as he observed Huangfu Yu. He had an idea of what happened, so he was quite surprised to see Huangfu Yu’s reaction. Why is he acting like that? I have a feeling that things are not as simple as they seem. What is he planning?
They reached Wu'er’s room. There were guards stationed outside to control the scene. A middle-aged man saw Huangfu Yu and quickly addressed him, “Young Master Yu, we never touched anything after we secured the building.”
“Search the place! We need to find out who the culprit is! I must torture the person who did it no matter what!” Huangfu Yu snarled.Huangfu Fengyun calmed his son down and took control. “Huangfu Yang, who was the first one to find out that Wu’er had died?”
“It was Wu’er’s personal maid. They found out half an hour ago. I heard her shouting and quickly ran over. Cui’er, come here.” Huangfu Yang called for the maid to come.
Before Huangfu Fengyun said anything, Huangfu Yu walked past them and entered the room. Huangfu Fengyun revealed a pained expression as he said, “Let’s go inside. I want to see who would dare to kill someone from our family in our own house.”
They entered the room together. The room was large enough to fit all twenty high-ranked members of the Huangfu family. There were even some at the Earthly Martial Realm.
Long Chen followed Huangfu Qi inside. Huangfu Qi was an infamous troublemaker in the family, so no one dared to stop her from entering with Long Chen.
“Wu’er!” Long Chen heard a painful sob and saw Huangfu Yu rush to Wu’er’s corpse. Long Chen saw that Wu’er’s face was pale as she kneeled on the ground. Her arms and neck were covered in wounds made from being tied up. It was clear that she had been strangled. More importantly, her clothes were in tatters. Someone had tried to rape her, and she had died when she fought back.
Someone tried to rape her, but she fought back and was killed for it? Long Chen was stunned. He looked at Huangfu Yu and saw that he was reaching for her corpse when
Huangfu Fengyun stopped him. “Little Yu, don’t be rash! Don’t move her yet. We need to search for clues.”
“Dad! I need to find the killer no matter what! They dared to harm my woman. She fought back but was killed! I have to kill that person no matter what!” Huangfu Yu appeared to have lost all sense of reason.
He suddenly locked eyes with Long Chen.
Long Chen had a bad feeling.
He quickly thought back to yesterday.
I saw Huangfu Yu following Wu’er, but his expression was suspicious. It’s clear that they argued. I thought the killer was Huangfu Yu, but it seems that Wu’er was really killed by someone who tried to rape her. She died because she fought back. There’s no reason for her to fight back if they are getting married anyway.
Long Chen didn’t know why, but he had a scary thought when he saw Huangfu Yu lock his gaze on him.
He saw a hint of killing intent in Huangfu Yu’s eyes.
Long Chen knew he was going to be framed!
Long Chen recalled what had happened in the side palace. Huangfu Yu lost to me and Wu’er watched. Huangfu Yu is an arrogant brat with a bad temper, and there was probably already some resentment between him and Wu’er. I think that their marriage was forced by the Huangfu family …
Then … Maybe Wu’er didn’t really love Huangfu Yu. Since Huangfu Yu lost yesterday, he was in a bad mood and probably started arguing with Wu’er. He must’ve accidentally killed her when she refused his advances … And then he tried to cover up his mistake by framing me!
That meant Wu’er’s death was related to Long Chen! Of course, something like this would’ve happened later on no matter what.
Huangfu Yu became crazy and escaped his father’s grasp as he rushed to where Wu’er was. He cried before he suddenly saw something in Wu’er’s hands. “What is this?”
He took it out and saw that it was a piece of cloth that had been ripped from the bed sheet.
“She held onto it so tightly before she died. She must be trying to tell us something!” Huangfu Yu unfurled the cloth to reveal a golden dragon embroidery.
“Dragon? Why is it a dragon?” Huangfu Yu was confused, and Huangfu Fengyun took the cloth. He looked at it before glaring at Long Chen.
“Dragon. Long Chen. This evidence points towards you! Wu’er clutched it tight in her hands so that she could tell us that the culprit was you.”
Huangfu Fengyun’s words shocked everyone in the room. Those around Long Chen quickly surrounded him.
All of them were glaring at him.
They had heard of Long Chen, especially how he had defeated Huangfu Yu.
Huangfu Fengyun chuckled. “You animal. You thought that you could escape, but you must’ve never thought that Wu’er would tell us that before she died. Wu’er had been fine ever since she came here, but you must’ve gotten entranced by her beauty when she danced for you yesterday. So that’s why you tried to assault her yesterday! You dare do such a thing here in the Huangfu family?”
“It’s you! Bastard! I will kill you even if I have to die in the process! You will never get to be reincarnated again!” Huangfu Yu charged towards Long Chen, but he was held back by Huangfu Fengyun.
Before Long Chen could say anything, Huangfu Qi yelled, “Bullshit! Big Brother would never do something like that! He was with me throughout the entire evening and only returned late at midnight. I even went and visited him after four hours!”
“Four hours. Isn’t that enough time for him to do the crime? His room is right on the other side of the pond. He could have rushed over here easily without any issue. Bastard.” Huangfu Fengyun’s aura pressed down on Long Chen.
“I will send you down to hell on behalf of my son and my dead daughter-in-law.”
Long Chen remained calm and said, “You want to kill me over just a single piece of cloth? Anyone who would want to frame me could’ve just torn that cloth from something and placed it in her hands. If you think that I’m the culprit based on the cloth alone, then I have to say that the Huangfu family is very stupid.”
Long Chen knew who the culprit was and pointed at Huangfu Yu. “You can fool them, but you cannot fool me, you bastard. I didn’t think you were capable of putting on an act.”
Everyone except for Huangfu Qi was ready to fight Long Chen. Words were useless here, but Long Chen didn’t mind that. The strongest member of the family, Huangfu Fengchen, was not here yet.
He only needed to make Huangfu Fengchen understand who the real culprit was.
“How dare you spout such lies. You think you can trick the others after you kill someone from the Huangfu family? I don’t care if you are the guest of our Patriarch—you must die today!” Huangfu Fengyun’s Second Earthly Martial Stage essence exploded.
Huangfu Fengyun was the second person in the Huangfu family who reached the Second Earthly Martial Stage. He was also an accomplished cultivator in the Divine Martial Empire. His rank was second only to Huangfu Fengchen’s, so no one thought that it was inappropriate to punish Long Chen.
After all, they had very different standings.
Huangfu Qi tried to stop him. “If you touch my Big Brother, I won’t consider you my uncle anymore!”