"Wait."
Cui Ji stopped the proceedings, stepped out of the carriage, and retrieved a delicate porcelain bottle from his sleeve.
He poured the liquid inside the bottle over the corpses of the six servants. In an instant, the bodies dissolved into pools of blood.
Cui Ji calmly put away the bottle. "Rain will fall in the latter half of the night. Once the rain washes away the bloodstains, no one will know what happened here."
Shen Yinning rested her chin on her hand, observing him curiously. "You've grown bolder."
"So long as it's for the Commandery Princess, Cui Ji dares to do anything."
The two of them took the carriage back to Shen Garden, where Shen Yan had already been detained in the North Garden.
Shen Yinning had set up a shrine and memorial tablets for her parents and elder brother here. At this moment, Shen Yan had been tied up with his hands behind his back and thrown into the courtyard outside the shrine. He had long since sobered up from his drunken state.
