Chapter 1493: 1488: Utilization and Entrapment

Chapter 1493: Chapter 1488: Utilization and Entrapment

Mu Qianya let down her long hair, removed a strand, and asked him to help her remove her bracelet. She opened the bracelet, and inside the red silk thread, there hid a small lock of hair.

While she worked, Mu Qianya spoke, “This strand of hair is yours, picked off you that day. Now I’ll weave it together with my hair. Hold this for me.”

Chasing Shadow didn’t understand what she was doing, but still did as she asked, holding the red string, allowing her to weave the two strands of hair together. Then she wrapped them with the red string, forming a tiny double happiness knot, and wore it back on her wrist.

“Why do this?” Chasing Shadow watched her busy herself and did not understand the meaning of her actions.

Mu Qianya’s face blushed slightly, she looked up at him shyly, then lowered her head and softly said, “Joining hair signifies husband and wife, bonded in unbreakable love. I tied our hair together first…”

As for today’s wedding, she just regarded it as marrying him!

Chasing Shadow’s lips tightened, his heart stirred intensely, a nameless trembling making him at a loss. His eyes intensely fixed on the person in front of him, seemingly unsure of what to say, but his mere gazing embarassed Mu Qianya immensely.

Su Miaoyan’s carriage returning to Jiang Du City had already smoothly departed from Yangzhou City, but after leaving the city, the carriage broke down, its wheel failing halfway.

Madam Yin could only find a nearby inn to rest, asking the coachman and the guards to go repair the carriage.

She was worried about Su Miaoyan, took a room to stay together with her. Su Miaoyan was holding something in her hands, unwilling to show it to others, nor put it down.

Madam Yin urged her to have some food, but Su Miaoyan just shook her head and collapsed onto the bed.

Madam Yin sighed helplessly, thinking of finding a place to make her soup. Just as she stepped out, someone tampered with the door to her room.

In the middle of the night, a massive fire erupted at the inn.

Madam Yin rushed in fearing the worst and, with the help of the guards, managed to rescue Su Miaoyan. Her body had already caught fire sparks, burning a red mark on her.

Yet, she seemed oblivious to pain, her expression numb.

Madam Yin’s eyes reddened, “Miaoyan, why didn’t you run out? If I had been a bit slower going back in, you could have been badly burnt!”

Su Miaoyan remained silent, not telling Madam Yin that just before the fire, she had seen a figure at the door.

She recognized him; it was Mu Nanfeng.

But she was not dead, so she continued to clutch the marriage certificate, crouching in a corner, waiting for someone to come and carry her away like a marionette.

Throughout this entire ordeal, she had not spoken a single word.

The news of the fire at Su Miaoyan’s inn quickly reached Xiao Yu, who flew into a rage, punishing the guards assigned to protect Su Miaoyan, “Are you all dead? Is she injured? Why weren’t you immediately by her side!”

The guards, beaten, dared not speak.

Only one, a slightly robust man, was punished with thirty lashes and gaspingly reported, “Master… commanded us not to approach, to not reveal any traces, we could only follow from a distance, we went as soon as the fire started, the fire was extinguished, madam was not injured! She has already continued on her way!”

“Why did the inn catch fire, go investigate! Find the mastermind and kill him!”

Xiao Yu ordered sharply without asking for any reasons.

His brutality startled Mu Qianya standing by the door.

As she walked out, she met Chasing Shadow, “Is Miaoyan truly unharmed?”

Chasing Shadow nodded, “Yes, but the fire was set deliberately.”

After he told Mu Qianya and went back to report to Xiao Yu, Xiao Yu had already ordered to capture the mastermind, sparing no one.

Mu Qianya felt there was something amiss, waiting for Chasing Shadow to come out, then pulled him aside, “When you inspected the inn’s fire site, did you find any traces of the Mu Family?”

Chasing Shadow frowned slightly, “We captured a person, but haven’t interrogated him yet.”

I still don’t know who sent him here, nor do I know what he will say.

Mu Qianya pursed her lips, “Where is he being held? I want to go see.”

Chasing Shadow told her the location, and it was not until he went to see Xiao Yu again that he realized something, he should not have told Mu Qianya, since he was under orders from Xiao Yu. Such behavior was equivalent to betraying Xiao Yu.

But he… couldn’t go against his own heart.

Telling Mu Qianya, his heart felt somewhat at ease.

When Mu Qianya saw the imprisoned person, she gasped in shock, “It really is Mu Nanfeng!”

Feng Ling saw that person, someone she knew, originally an overseer in the Mu Family’s yard, he was Mu Qianya’s man!

He plotted against Su Miaoyan… What if Xiao Yu finds out?

Xiao Yu would surely tear Mu Qianya into pieces!

“Mu Nanfeng, he indeed played a clever game. Creating all that disturbance at the wedding, wanting me to lose face, and now using my yard’s man to pursue and kill Miaoyan, trying to have Xiao Yu kill me by his hands, so that Father would be devastated, and he could rightfully inherit the family property!”

Mu Qianya gnashed her teeth in anger.

If she endured this humiliation, she’d just be waiting for death.

Xiao Yu, in a fit of rage, did not question reasons before killing, she must act before Mu Nanfeng!

A dark gleam flashed in Mu Qianya’s eyes.

Mu Nanfeng, originally at home waiting for news of Mu Qianya’s death, thought delightedly, with Xiao Yu’s current violent temperament, even if he didn’t kill Mu Qianya, he would surely drive her out of the Xiao family.

Just married to Xiao Yu and already driven out as a concubine, how could Mu Qianya continue to live?

The elders in the Mu family would discuss expelling Mu Qianya from the family, to avoid the shame, not to mention their father, the Mu family would not allow her to disgrace their honor.

However, he waited for a day, and there was no movement from the Xiao family. After waiting another day, he was unexpectedly bagged over the head, knocked unconscious, and dragged away.

As soon as he disappeared, Master Mu began to worry, “Neither my son nor daughter gives me peace, they’re going to be the death of me!”

He sent a letter to Mu Qianya, asking her to help find Mu Nanfeng, after all, Yangzhou City was Xiao family’s territory, nobody could find a person faster or more conveniently than the Xiao family.

Mu Qianya burned her father’s letter, then dressed up meticulously with her Flying Swallow Bun and went to find Xiao Yu.

Xiao Yu was in the basement.

His deep, self-made basement was as dark and damp as the cells in the government office, suffocating.

Originally, the amnesiac Miaoyan had witnessed Xiao Yu kill Zhang Daniu here, which left her deeply traumatized.

Now, the one tied in the basement was Mu Nanfeng.

“Don’t… Xiao Yu! It wasn’t me, really it wasn’t!”

Mu Nanfeng screamed miserably, his body bearing holes seared by fire, his arms already burnt, and now the embers began to fall toward his chest.

When Mu Qianya arrived, Chasing Shadow’s fire rod had just burnt another hole.

“Sizzle—”

The sound of flesh being scorched by fire was especially harsh.

The screams of Mu Nanfeng were excruciatingly agonizing.

He was already nearly unconscious, but upon seeing the beautiful Mu Qianya approaching, he widened his eyes, “Sister! Sister, save me quickly!”

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