The prince disliked her, and the legitimate daughter was reborn and married to the regent

At that moment, Xi Yuansi's heart almost stopped beating. He quickly closed his eyes, only to feel a cold and terrifying gaze sweeping over him.

Was it discovered? Or was it not?

He couldn't be sure. This short period of time seemed as long as a lifetime. In the end, Xi Yuanen probably didn't find anything and pushed the door open and walked out.

The dark room was really quiet now, so quiet that only the sound of heartbeats could be heard. I don't know how long it took before Xi Yuansi, who was hiding underneath, suddenly came to his senses, gently pushed open the wooden board and poked his head out.

Half of his body was numb, and a slight tingling sensation made his hair stand on end. He couldn't tell whether it was his body or the terrifying atmosphere in the dark room that was causing the tingling.

The head of the hung woman was so disfigured that it was hard to look at. It was hard to imagine how much strength it took to turn her like that. Was the brother's martial arts power already that strong?

In a trance, cold sweat seemed to slide down. He reached out and touched it. The sticky touch made his hand tremble slightly. It was the blood that had just flowed out, from that woman's body. Was it the child's blood?

Under the dim light of the night pearl, the faint green light made the dark room even more terrifying.

When Xi Yuansi came to his senses, he had returned to his room, standing in front of the blazing brazier. A burning smell came from inside, and the bloodstained clothes gradually turned into ashes.

"Yuan Si?"

He heard his brother's voice coming from behind the door. He turned around with a defiant look.

"Brother, what's the matter?"

The pair of eyes that usually looked gentle now looked like the pupils of a poisonous snake, slowly sweeping across Xi Yuansi's body and face inch by inch, not missing any suspicious places.

"I came to look for you just now, but you were not there. Where did you go?"

The elder of Feiyu Tower, who was known for his kindness and gentleness, looked at his younger brother with a peaceful smile, and asked calmly as if he was a caring relative.

"I just completed a mission and came back. Those stupid guys can mess up even a mere earth-level mission, and they want me to clean up the mess!"

As he spoke, his expression turned furious, and he walked around in circles.

"Damn it! I will teach those guys a lesson and lock them all up in the dungeon. Only the strongest one will be able to survive. Feiyu Tower doesn't need weaklings."

He continued to vent his anger, as if he didn't notice the strange expression on Xi Yuanen's face.

Seeing his brother getting angry, the elder couldn't tell anything from his face, so his eyes fell on the blazing flames. The center of the flames was a ball of black ash, and the shape was no longer clear, just the smell.

He moved his nose and frowned uncomfortably. Just as he was about to ask, Xi Yuansi spoke first.

"And my favorite dress was stained with the disgusting blood of a prostitute."

Hearing this, Xi Yuanen retracted his gaze. He looked at his hot-tempered brother. What the other brother hated most were those fickle women, regardless of whether they were willing or not.

Such a straightforward person would not sneak into his dark room, nor could he be so calm.

Thinking of this, he smiled and patted his brother's shoulder.

"Okay, don't be angry. I'll give you a new one another day. This time the Heaven-level mission has been successfully completed. We still have to consider how to celebrate. We can't always be tense. The people below brought some women here. Make sure they are clean..."

He left a meaningful sentence before closing the door and leaving.

It was not until half a quarter of an hour later that Xi Yuansi fell to the ground as if he had lost his strength, and the clothes on his back were soaked with cold sweat.

……

"So, at that time, Xi Yuanen had already obtained some secret method or witchcraft from ancient books, which required using women born in yin years and yin months as vessels to breed monsters?"

After Yun Nian finished listening to his story, her eyebrows almost twisted together.

"Yes."

Xi Yuansi glanced at her. That strange look made her feel uncomfortable. She glared back at him, and he looked away.

"It wasn't just this time. He tried for a long time afterwards, but it seemed that he never succeeded. His expression was always crazy. The gentler he was, the more terrifying it was."

But apart from him, it seemed that no one else noticed.

But if Yun Nian remembered correctly, Lin Zhu also had Xi Yuanen's child. Her eyes moved over involuntarily and saw the woman staggering a step, grabbing Xi Yu's hand, her voice trembling,

"I am also born in a yin year and yin month. Besides that, it is also a yin hour and yin day..."

Lin Zhu felt a chill in her heart. She thought Xi Yuanen had some feelings for her after all. Maybe the child was not what he wanted, so he did such a thing.

But now it seems that the other party may have done this to the child on purpose.

"Don't you know that very well?"

The middle-aged man changed his posture, sat in a somewhat unruly manner, and spoke provocatively,

"You still have to thank me. If I hadn't drugged you, you wouldn't know what kind of monster you would have given birth to. He didn't let you go out or get in touch with the sun. Even if it wasn't house arrest, it was almost the same. Only stupid women like you, who were blinded by love, didn't notice such an obvious trap."

"How can it be."

She covered her face, and a sound of pain came from under her hands.

"Ahem, he actually lied to me from the beginning to the end."

It's not that she was nostalgic, but Lin Zhu didn't expect that the sudden love was just a disguise. Twenty years, a full twenty years, she didn't expect that a person could pretend to this extent, it was simply creepy,

No wonder Xi Yuanen kept chasing after her, it turned out that he wanted to use her body to give birth to a monster. Her martial arts skills were not inferior to his, and she was also wary of everything. That was why Xi Yuanen didn't find the opportunity.

"Your Highness, have a large number of women disappeared in recent years?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Nian immediately turned his head to look at Wei Qingjue. Xi Yuanen must have kidnapped many women, otherwise he would not have created such a horrible monster. The nails of Feiyu Tower buried in small towns, Jingshui Temple, Dongling Nanyan, etc., would be difficult to pull out without full strength.

"When the late emperor was alive, wars broke out frequently. Outside Luochuan City, people were living in poverty and many people disappeared. Those women were probably among them. After the late emperor passed away, many of the cases piled up in the government had been destroyed. I handed over the remaining ones to the candidates."

Yun Shuo nodded. In addition to editing ancient books, he also often helped deal with cases submitted by the Dali Temple.

"Four years ago, although a woman disappeared, there was no mention of the Yin year and Yin month, so I'm afraid there is no way to verify it. But since the regent took the throne..."

He paused, looked at Wei Qingjue's expression, and then spoke,

"Your Highness ordered that the case be treated with caution. According to the memorials sent to the government office, there were 14,623 cases of missing women, and about 13,000 cases of women who were lost, kidnapped by bandits, eloped, or killed for love or revenge."

Apart from these, the remaining more than a thousand cases were all unsolved cases, but those timid officials still wanted to fool them, but they didn't expect that all of them were discovered by Yun Shuo.

"I investigated the life stories of these women. The most disappeared were in Nanyan, followed by Dongling. Their families all said that they disappeared at night. The time was special, and many people were unwilling to talk about it in detail, fearing that it would ruin the family's reputation."

"Why are you still paying attention to the family tradition when the people are gone?"

The girl said this angrily. Yun Shuo looked at his sister helplessly.

"There are already many restrictions on women in this world, and the women of officials are taught to be docile and virtuous, just like the same vases."

"It's just that Daddy and Mommy love you and don't want to restrict you."

He seemed to want to say something else, but he held back his words.

"In short, every time I tried to investigate, the clues would suddenly be cut off. I was worried that the mastermind had an affair with an important official in the court, so I deliberately disguised myself to get close to him."

"what!"

Yun Nian exclaimed,

"So that time at Jingshui Temple!"

It turned out that my brother was already investigating at that time.

"All the clues put together are basically consistent with what Xi Yuansi said."

The mastermind behind the scenes is none other than the Grand Elder of Feiyu Tower, Xi Yuanen!