Chapter 1 A Mouthful of Dog Food

You Xingchen's face darkened as he was forced to swallow a mouthful of dog food right in front of his face.

"In any case, take care of yourself. I heard you went to Penglin District. What's the situation there? Do you need reinforcements?"

"Uncle Xingchen, Penglin…"

"…"

Seeing that he was just twitching his face and didn't object, Fang Yue continued, "In Penglin District, the leader of the Black Moon organization rebellion has been eliminated. The remaining remnants are being dealt with by the arriving [Lan Shan] Lan Guards. Although the battlefield was extremely tragic, there shouldn't be a need to send more reinforcements now."

You Xingchen nodded, indicating he understood, and after asking a few more questions, he left in a hurry.

As soon as You Xingchen left, You Sisi's tense body immediately relaxed, and she breathed a sigh of relief.

"You seem to be quite afraid of him?"

"Besides grandpa, Uncle Xingchen handles almost all the affairs of the You family. My parents died early, and I was disciplined by Uncle Xingchen as well when I was little. He's very… strict with me."

You Sisi tried to be brief, but judging from her tone, it wasn't just ordinary strictness.

Geniuses sometimes aren't just about talent, but also about extraordinary effort and teaching resources.

Obviously, You Xingchen had contributed greatly to You Sisi's ability to stand out among her peers, but the relationship between the two seemed strained.

"Actually, Uncle Xingchen didn't teach me for very long, and after a certain period of time, he suddenly let go and handed me over to others to teach me martial arts. At that time, I was very puzzled. It was clear that Uncle Xingchen didn't have any other urgent matters, so why did he suddenly change teachers? I always thought I had done something to upset him, but later I vaguely realized that all of this was because I was a girl."

Fang Yue was taken aback, "What do you mean?"

"I'm going to get married!" You Sisi rolled her eyes at him.

If girls from large families don't make a name for themselves and change the concept of men and women, then in all likelihood, their final fate will be a political marriage.

Perhaps at that time, the upper echelons of the You family, including her grandfather, had already secretly decided her fate.

That's why You Xingchen withdrew and didn't waste any more time on this girl who was destined to become a tool for political marriage.

Even so, You Sisi still achieved her current accomplishments with her outstanding talent and diligent efforts.

Although she couldn't be compared with monsters like Fang Yue, or monstrous geniuses like [Weiba] or [Mu Liu].

But compared to normal peers, she was already outstanding and worthy of pride.

Unfortunately, in the end, she still didn't get the family's approval and couldn't escape the fate of a political marriage.

This was the limit of her stubborn efforts, but it was just a farce in the eyes of those people in the family.

"What are you thinking about?" Fang Yue asked curiously, seeing You Sisi in a daze.

But You Sisi just shook her head and smiled sweetly, "It's nothing."

As soon as she finished speaking, You Xingchen, who had just left, actually returned, and his face was as gloomy as water.

Clearly seeing the two of them, he passed by without stopping, leaving only one sentence that left them both dumbfounded.

"The latest news from the front lines is that the Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince died in the Seventh Prince's residence. The situation has spiraled out of control. You are not allowed to leave the house for half a step in the near future."

The 'you' here naturally referred to You Sisi.

After You Xingchen left and joined You Xu, Uncle Xu immediately widened his eyes, his mind buzzing, blank, and he subconsciously glanced in You Sisi's direction.

The Seventh Prince… is dead?

Then the You family's political marriage… is ruined?

Even Uncle Xu, who trusted You Sisi so much, had the possibility of You Sisi being the culprit flash through his mind at this moment.

But at this moment, You Sisi and Fang Yue hadn't reacted yet, and were still immersed in this shocking news.

"The Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince are dead? They both died in the Seventh Prince's residence?"

"How could this happen? Could it be the Fifth Princess? No, judging from her reaction at the time, although she wanted to deal with the Seventh Prince, she was wary and didn't intend to do it herself. In that case, the deaths of these two princes are very suspicious."

The Fourth Prince had already been killed by the Fifth Princess, and now with the deaths of the Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince.

Three of the nine princes had died at once.

The changes in the capital's situation were far more violent and rapid than he had imagined.

While Fang Yue was still immersed in the news of the two princes' deaths, in the training ground, Lin Ling felt the violent surge of power within his body. The power that had been hidden in his body for a long time with his eyeballs, the power belonging to Lord Han, was faintly about to burst out.

"Just a little bit more, just a little bit more!!"

…

Seventh Prince's Residence.

It hadn't been a few days since he last entered the Seventh Prince's residence, but he didn't expect that entering here again would be like this hellish scene before him.

Although the scene had already been cleaned up to a certain extent, the shocking corpses all over the ground, and the blood-stained ground where blood flowed into rivers, made people feel a burst of discomfort.

On the way, Fang Yue also saw some familiar people, all of whom were servants who had met him a few times when he lived in the Seventh Prince's residence.

But now, these people had all turned into corpses, lying motionless on the ground.

"Uncle Xingchen, do you know who did it?"

Fang Yue asked in confusion.

At this moment, Fang Yue was alone, following You Xingchen and the others from the Azure Department.

After all, in terms of official position, he was still a Red Cloak of the Azure Department, and following You Xingchen to the scene was considered official business.

As for You Sisi, it wasn't so convenient. She was basically under house arrest.

She wasn't allowed to go out temporarily except for the You residence.

With even princes being killed, nowhere in the capital could be said to be safe. It was better to stay in the You residence first and be protected.

As for the Seventh Prince's marriage, they could only wait for His Majesty to return before making a decision.

"When the incident happened, someone escaped alive from the Seventh Prince's residence and said that many shadow-like oddities emerged from the residence. They pounced on the Sixth Prince and the Seventh Prince and killed them together."

Fang Yue frowned, "This is too absurd, and how come there's no reaction at all when oddities enter the capital? The same goes for the previous Black Moon organization, and now the shadow oddities."

Logically speaking, the capital's formation for detecting oddities is the strongest in Qing State.

"Actually, in a sense, the capital's detection methods for oddities are lagging behind other towns, because when it was built, the most advanced detection formation at the time was used, and a massive amount of resources were invested.

Later, technology developed, and formation technology was innovated, but it would take too much time and effort to update the capital's formation. After repeated delays, it became a historical legacy issue. At most, the formation is checked periodically for problems, and a certain amount is added to gradually transform parts of the formation regionally."

After a pause, You Xingchen said, "As for the Seventh Prince's incident, I'm also puzzled. Although the two princes aren't as powerful as the elders of the four great families, their strength has always been strong, but they just don't often make a move. How could they be killed by a mere dozen or so shadow oddities of unknown origin… Could it be that each of those shadow oddities has a power close to or above the Li level?"