Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

The man used the bodies to build stairs in the hope of escaping, but because there were not enough of them, he could only reach the current height.

Seeing that he only needed to jump a few dozen inches to escape, the man jumped again and again, trying to touch the wellhead.

That's how her horrific appearance was seen, scaring those who came to investigate.

When the man saw that Jiang Xue was not frightened to death like the others, he cried out as if asking her for help.

Her voice was very different from that of an ordinary person. Jiang Xue knew immediately that her throat was damaged and her vocal cords were injured.

The murderer was meticulous and thoughtful.

"Xiaochun, find a stick."

Taking the long stick handed to her by Xiaochun, Jiang Xue stretched it towards the skinned man.

With the help of Xiao Zhan, he pulled hard and pulled out the bloody body.

"what."

Seeing the skinned and bloody body, countless screams of terror were heard in the harem.

"This is..." Emperor Beiling was brought to the cold palace by Mo Yan just after he came out of court.

He was shocked when he saw the piles of bloody corpses on the ground.

All of these corpses were bare-skinned, bloody, and lying on the ground in a long line.

Next to the dry well, corpses were still being fished out. The originally desolate cold palace courtyard was now filled with all the concubines, and it was more crowded than ever before.

People from the Imperial Medical Bureau were called by the Empress Dowager to perform an autopsy. It was the first time they saw so many horrific corpses and they were quite shocked.

"Your Majesty, these bodies were fished out of a dry well. The imperial doctors have confirmed that they are all maids from various palaces."

The Queen Mother pointed to the female corpses lined up in the courtyard and said to Emperor Beiling that there were nearly fifty palace maids in total, not including those who had not yet been fished out of the dry well.

Jiang Xue looked at the bloody corpses in front of her and finally understood why the number of palace women had decreased so much. It turned out that they were all here.

But the whole thing was full of doubts. First of all, how could so many palace maids disappear without anyone noticing? This was incredible.

Moreover, skinning is extremely cruel. Judging from the degree of muscle damage on these female corpses, they struggled violently while being skinned, which means that they were skinned alive while being conscious and alive. It is impossible that there was no sound at all during the whole process.

"Your Majesty, this is the confirmed list of palace maids. Those that are visible are all here. As for those that have not been fished out yet, this old minister is doing his best to complete it." An old doctor handed a list to Emperor Beiling.

Opening the booklet, Emperor Beiling carefully checked the names on the list.

Kunyi Palace, Fengming Palace, Qiwu Palace...

Several maids were selected from each palace and courtyard. They were all newly promoted, not valued by their masters, and had no background. Even if these maids disappeared for a while, almost no one would notice.

"Empress, such a large number of palace maids disappeared, didn't you notice anything at all?"

It was understandable that Emperor Beiling blamed the Queen first. After all, the order and personnel management of the harem were the responsibility of the Queen. When such a big thing happened, she was naturally the first to be questioned.

"Your Majesty, these palace maids were selected from various palaces to assist in the ceremony of conferring the title of consort. After they were selected, things went very smoothly. I thought it was the result of their hard work, and I even prepared rewards to reward them after the ceremony. Who knew that they all..."

The ceremony of conferring the title of consort was very onerous and the empress had been extremely busy these past few days. How could she have the energy to pay attention to what so many people were doing?

Anyway, as long as things could go smoothly, everything would be fine, but she never dreamed that these people were all gone.

"The reason why things are going smoothly is that I noticed that there was a shortage of manpower, so I transferred some new hands from the maid's quarters to help. I have never seen the people you transferred, Queen."

Seeing that the preparations in the palace were in a mess, I, an old woman, stepped forward to coordinate. Now I heard that the Queen said that she had already arranged the staff, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but feel suspicious.

If what the queen said was true, then these palace maids were killed immediately after being selected.

The decision to transfer was made by the Queen on the spur of the moment. The person who learned of the Queen's decision so quickly and took action must have known the Queen very well.

"Your Majesty, the order to transfer personnel needs to be sealed and issued orally. The order is still in my hand. If the Queen Mother has any questions, I can show it to everyone."

The Queen Mother's words made her a little flustered. She was afraid that the Queen Mother and Emperor Beiling would misunderstand that she was lying, so she hurried to defend herself.

"Empress Dowager, in Changle's opinion, the Empress's order to transfer palace maids should be true. If the Empress's words were to be transferred, the concubines in each palace would be notified first. If the Empress' words were false, the concubines present would have refuted them long ago."

Jiang Xue looked around and saw that none of the empresses denied what she said. She continued, "It seems that someone took advantage of the time when the empress issued the transfer order and took the person away privately."

"Take him away without permission?" The Queen turned around and looked at Jiang Xue sharply: "Who is it?"

Anger burned in her eyes. She was the queen. If she knew who had the guts to take her people away and almost caused her to be misunderstood by the queen mother and the emperor, she would make that person pay.

"I'm not sure about Changle. But the Queen should be familiar with the news of the transfer order so quickly."

Jiang Xue's words were like a drop of cold water on the queen's head, causing her to suddenly wake up.

Two faces immediately appeared in her mind.

When she gave the order, she was in Kunyi Palace asking Concubine De to help handle affairs. In this way, the most suspicious people were Wu Meifeng and Concubine De.

Concubine De...it must be Concubine De.

In the past few days, Concubine De has not appeared in public and claimed that she was unwell and needed to rest, but no one knows the actual situation. Now it seems that her whereabouts are the most mysterious and she is the most likely person to have done this.

"Where is Concubine De?" The Queen looked around but did not see Concubine De.

All the concubines in the harem were present at such a serious incident, so there was no reason why Concubine De would not know about it.

Her absence at this moment made the Queen even more convinced that Concubine De was the mastermind behind this horrific skinning case.

When the Queen mentioned this, Emperor Beiling and the Queen Mother also discovered that only Concubine De did not show up. Even Wu Meifeng, who had been trying on jewelry in Luanyi Palace before, came.

The two of them became suspicious of Concubine De. After much deliberation, Emperor Beiling brought a large group of people to Kunyi Palace to look for Concubine De.

But before he stepped out of the cold palace gate, a blood-red figure suddenly pounced towards Emperor Beiling.

Emperor Beiling screamed in fear, then drew the sword from the waist of his personal guard and chopped it hard at the bloody neck.

Blood splattered and gushed out.

Jiang Xue was too late to rescue the man and could only watch helplessly as his head and body were separated from the skinned man.

"What is this? A living person?"

When he saw that the beheaded man in front of him was the same as the other corpses, Emperor Beiling realized that he might have cut off an important clue.