Chapter 1: The Treasure of Yi De, Crossing the Deep...

  "Speak! Who is your paramour?" Liang Xin didn't beat around the bush and directly asked the main question.

  Qiao Guifei shook her head and said: "I... I don't know."

  "Don't you know?" Liang Xin sat down on a small stool that Dian Yu had brought for him, the knife in his hand shaking back and forth as he said: "It seems you don't want your nose anymore. Fine, I'll let you experience the prowess of my master Chen Yudian's legitimate disciple. Wait a minute, first I'll cut off your nose, then use silver needles to seal off your Eight Extraordinary Meridians so that you won't bleed too much and die."

  Then I'll give you some more of the legendary number one aphrodisiac, I love a piece of firewood. Finally, I'll throw you into the Imperial Horse Yard and feed those public horses some more of my beloved firewood. Believe me, by then...

  "You... you, you're not human, you're a devil, you're a devil!" Consort Zhao was shocked by Liang Yu's vicious and unbelievable idea, and she couldn't think of how evil someone had to be to come up with such a cruel trick.

  "Hmph! You're right, I'm not human. I'm just a eunuch with a crippled body." Liang Xin stood up with the knife in hand and walked step by step towards Empress Qiao.

  Qiao Guifei was so frightened that her whole body trembled, and when Liang Xinyang raised his knife, Qiao Guifei finally spoke up and said: "I'll say it, I'll say it..."

  Li Wei's mouth corners quietly hooked out a hint of a smile. Although he said something fierce, in fact, he didn't dare to do anything to Princess Qiao. After all, he still wanted to live, after all, he was afraid that if he died, he would not be able to continue crossing over and just die like that.

  Liang Xian sat in his original position, and Qiao Gui Fei finally let out a sigh of relief: "I don't know who he is..."

  "You're playing me, right?" Liang Xin suddenly stood up, this time she was really angry.

  "No, I didn't deceive you." Zhen Guifei said: "I've been with him for a year now. At first, he rushed into my palace with his face covered and forced me... Then two or three days later, he came again for the second time. I told him that I wanted to see what he looked like, and I said I wouldn't blame him. Only then did he reveal his true appearance."

  This year I've been with him many times, but I never asked what he did or his name. He also didn't tell me these things, probably because he was afraid of the current situation too."

  "Damn it!" Liang Xin was really depressed this time. A noble imperial concubine actually had a fling with a man whose identity and name she didn't even know. And the beginning of this whole thing was even triggered by a forced kiss. This really was something I had guessed the process of, knew the ending of, but hadn't guessed the beginning of.

  Liang Xinjing calmed down and carefully analyzed it, he had to admit that Qiao Guifei's words were highly credible, because after putting himself in the role of the adulterous husband, he found that he would also do the same. Without mentioning status or names, just taking advantage of the situation.

  Liang Xin thought for a moment and suddenly had an idea in his heart, he smiled and said: "No name, no identity is fine, as long as you've seen that scoundrel's face."

  Liang Xin called over the jailer and gave him some instructions, after which the jailer left with a confused look on his face. Before long, the jailer returned with a stack of white paper and a sharpened wooden charcoal pencil.

  Liang Xin carefully drew on the white paper with charcoal for about two hours. Liang Xin drew dozens of sheets of white paper, and then he slowly cut them open. After doing all this, Liang Xin let out a sigh and tidied up the white papers.

  Li Xiangdao said: "Qiao Guifei, you said you know the appearance of the adulterous couple. Now I'll show you some things and hope you can answer truthfully. Later, I will ask Jin Yu again about what you say, if there is any inconsistency between your two testimonies... Hehe, Princess, you are familiar with my methods."

  "I know, I know. I must answer truthfully, answer truthfully." Zhen Guifei was indeed intimidated by Liang Xin's words and quickly expressed her stance.

  Li Xian nodded slightly and first took out the first stack of white paper, spreading it open: "You take a look first, there are more than thirty types of faces here. Take a look at that man's face type and see which one is more consistent?"

  Qiao Guifei was slightly stunned, looked down and saw that there were more than 30 types of faces drawn in front of her, covering most of the face shapes in this world. Qiao Guifei raised her head to look at Liang Xin with some surprise, Liang Xin said in a low voice: "What are you looking at? Hurry up and choose!"

  "Oh." Imperial Concubine Qiao was completely frightened and carefully observed before hastily picking one out to hand over to Liang Xin.

  Then Liang Xin asked Qiao Gui Fei to choose the man's eyebrows, nose, mouth, ears and so on. According to Qiao Gui Fei's selection, Liang Xin drew a new portrait for her.

  At the moment when Liang Xin showed the portrait to Qiao Gui Fei, Qiao Gui Fei suddenly pointed at the portrait and let out a cry of surprise. A sudden sound pierced through the air, causing Liang Xin's hair to stand on end as he instinctively pounced forward, embracing Qiao Gui Fei and dodging the arrow.

  The arrow flew past Qiao Gui Fei's head, and Liang Xin pulled her into the cell, saying: "Someone wants to kill you to silence you, be careful yourself, wait a bit and I'll definitely take care of it."

  "Does he want to kill me? Does he want to kill me?" Consort Zhao muttered to herself, her eyes wide with fear. After calling out twice, she suddenly knelt down and said: "He once said that he would love me for all eternity, but I never thought that he would want to kill me..."

  "What's wrong with you? It's already this late and you're still here spouting this nonsense. You actually believe these lies that deceive young girls?"

  Liang Xin said as he peeked out to see the six masked men in black clothes quickly knock down several prison guards and rush over. Liang Xin gritted his teeth and said, "You be careful!" Then, holding the short knife in his hand, he rushed out.

  As soon as they met, Liang Xin dodged a knife that a man in black clothes slashed down at an angle, then immediately countered with a diagonal cut of his own, severing the black-clad man's neck.

  "Whoosh!" Fresh blood splattered onto Liang Xin's face, but he didn't pause for a moment. He turned around and stabbed another black-clad man in the abdomen with his backhand.

  "May you have good luck and safe journey!"

  A black-clad man with a longbow slung over his shoulder and holding a long sword saw two black-clad men killed by Liang Xiao in an instant, and was both shocked and enraged. The black-clad man pointed with his long sword and said in a deep voice: "Kill! Kill this dog eunuch to avenge Yunyang and Fei'an!"

  The short knife in Liang Xin's hand was stuck in the black-clad man's abdomen and couldn't be pulled out, at which point three long knives came chopping over. In a moment of desperation, Liang Xin kicked out with his toes, sending a corpse on the ground flying, then rolled on the ground and picked up a long knife.

  Li Xian's long knife flew back and forth, his entire body shining with the light of the blade, not a single flaw exposed. The black-clad man slinging a longbow saw that killing Li Xian was now impossible, and time was pressing, so he shouted: "Don't bother with that eunuch anymore, go to the prison cell and kill that woman first!"

  "Ah!!!!!" Concubine Qiao let out a sharp cry as soon as she heard the black-clad man's words, and Liang Xin immediately became anxious and flipped his knife to chop down one person despite the danger of getting hurt himself.

  "Whoa!" Liang Xin sucked in a breath of cool air as a black-clad figure behind him was slashed open from head to toe.

  Liang Xin kicked away the black-clad man who was about to chop him down, and just as he was about to rush into the cell, Liang Xin suddenly heard Qiao Gui Fei let out a blood-curdling scream...