Chapter 160: Watching a Play Unfold

Everyone present could not help but erupt into an uproar. Chi Nie wanted to cut open Yun Zui's stomach?!

Had they heard wrong?!

Dou Saiqi, Yun Shang, and Yun Yao were all utterly shocked, but in the next instant, they regained their composure.

Although disembowelment was extremely bloody, Yun Zui had indeed eaten the exact same food as them this morning. So what if they sliced her open?

Besides, turning Yun Zui into an incomplete corpse with a slashed abdomen was a rather good idea.

They even hoped Yun Zui could be torn apart by five horses; that would be even more satisfying!

Daring to fight them would ultimately lead to ending up without a complete corpse—haha!

The three of them immediately sneered coldly in their hearts.

Furthermore, wasn't Yun Zui's ability supposed to be extraordinary? She could be reborn from the dead—let's see how she manages to be reborn this time!

With her body no longer intact, she could try being reborn all she wanted—reborn my foot!

"What is going on here? Why must it come to disembowelment?" A somewhat lazy voice cut into the conversation.

For a fleeting moment, Dou Saiqi, Yun Yao, and Yun Shang felt a chill run down their spines.

Wasn't Yun Zui already dead? Why was there still a voice?

And it was Yun Zui's voice...?!

With some disbelief, they turned their heads and saw Yun Zui, dressed in men's attire, standing at the entrance of Prince Nie's Manor.

She looked rather languid, lazily twirling a folding fan with her fingers, giving off a somewhat ruffian-like aura.

Yun Zui!

Dou Saiqi, Yun Shang, Yun Yao, and even the people from the Court of Judicial Review widened their eyes. Why was Yun Zui standing over there?

Then, whose corpse was that?!

Or did Yun Zui possess some special magic, allowing her to manifest another body after death?

"Why are you all staring at me like that?" Yun Zui acted as though she found it baffling, though she vaguely understood some of it.

This morning, a maidservant had brought her meals. Yun Zui had already been on high alert, so she had sensitively and discreetly sniffed the scent of the food. She hadn't felt anything unusual, and besides, she figured the people of the Prime Minister's Estate wouldn't be foolish enough to poison her directly inside the estate.

Therefore, Yun Zui ate it, but while eating, she bit into a pastry stuffed with a slip of paper.

Opening the paper to read it, she found the message: "At noon, come to Prince Nie's Manor to watch a good show."

Yun Zui recognized the handwriting—it belonged to Chi Nie!

There were many poems and paintings personally written and drawn by Chi Nie inside his manor, so Yun Zui recognized it at a single glance.

In the end, Yun Zui nonchalantly tucked the slip of paper away and continued eating.

However, just as she planned to go to the courtyard to swing on the swing, another maidservant arrived, demanding that she immediately go to Prince Nie's Manor.

Yun Zui could not help but frown, a seed of doubt sprouting in her heart.

After heading out onto the main street, she noticed someone tailing her, so she stepped into a clothing store to change her outfit. To her surprise, a woman walked in—and that woman turned out to be the very maidservant who had delivered her meal.

The maidservant explained that someone was plotting to harm Yun Zui, and she was willing to die in Yun Zui's stead, so the two of them exchanged clothes.

Having long been accustomed to dodging bullets and cheating death, Yun Zui remained unfazed by changing circumstances.

Thus, she went to the Xiao Estate and first settled the matter of establishing the Beggar Sect. When noon arrived, she hurried to Prince Nie's Manor, only to run right into this scene...

If this was supposed to be a show, she honestly had no idea what act this was supposed to be!

"Imperial Concubine?" It was the people from the Court of Judicial Review who first spoke up with uncertainty.

Yun Zui raised an eyebrow and then remarked, "Dressed as a man just once, and you don't recognize me anymore?"

Yun Zui felt it was all rather absurd, and the surrounding scene was utterly bizarre. Her gaze then drifted toward the figure lying on the ground.

That was the exact set of clothes she, Yun Zui, had been wearing!

Yet the person wearing her clothes appeared to be dead!

So she really had died in her place!