Chap 9: The man in the dark

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The Wei state court session was about to end when the king's eunuch Ding Fuyu came towards the king and whispered something into his ear.

He said "Your majesty someone came in and testified to be the real Chu murderer but unexpectedly vanished after."

Li Kang's expression looked neither surprised nor shocked. "Let Chu Lanlan go." The emperor Li Kang told eunuch Ding who looked surprised.

Lanlan was very confused when she was released and even more confused when she learnt that the killer was found but less shocked about his disappearance.

After getting released from prison, Lanlan went to Chu manor to find out some clues but found when every tile and brick was replaced even the flowers.

Lanlan found it useless since everything had been changed. She looked at the garden and thought of Lian Xi. She suddenly heard a familiar voice from behind say, "you're out."

Lanlan turned around and saw Chu Jianling who smiled at her warmly. He was nice to her but never to the extent of believing her so much. This led Lanlan to suspect his intentions.

Chu Jianling approached Lanlan and said gently as he patted her head "You must be disappointed by how this place turned out, Lanlan you're my only remaining family so take good care."

Lanlan looked at Chu Jianling for a while but couldn't surpress her emotions anymore. She raised her voice at him and said quickly I know how you feel when you see me, you feel like killing this little bitch but you just know that you can do it after you've gained her trust in order to make her suffer much."

Chu Jianling looked at Lanlan and said "Do you want to know why I believe you didn't do it?"

Before Lanlan could answer anything Li Shuo came rushing towards them.

"Chu Jianling is an obstacle to my goal since he knows my truth." Li Shuo thought and asked Lanlan to talk with him.

Li Shuo took Lanlan out of the house into the forest.

"What do you want?" Lanlan asked in a cold voice.

Li Shuo's face went blank "Well... I..." He looked like somebody who had something of importance to say but couldn't.

He remembered the words that the fate god had told him "The best way for her trial to be successful is to break her heart and for that she has to fall for you deeply."

Li Shuo took a deep breath. Lanlan then said impatiently "If you have nothing to say I'm leaving."

When Lanlan was about to leave Li Shuo grabbed her by the wrist, pulled her slowly and kissed her. Lanlan's eyes widened in shock which made her push Li Shuo away and slap him.

Lanlan pointed a finger at him her eyes filled with fury. "How. Dare. You..!" She closed her eyes and calmed her nerves down.

Lanlan couldn't fall asleep that night as she was thinking about what Li Shuo had done. She then concluded that it was impossible for him to like her.

Lanlan was sleeping soundly when a man appeared from smoke in her room. The man enchanted her sleeping body which went into her inner self. Lanlan's inner self was a pitch black place with red rays and her soul lay frozen in a frost coffin. The aura around her body was red.

The man used a spell to defreeze the body. Afterwards her eyes opened as her lips curled into an evil smile.