Doomed to be Cannon Fodder

Ch 103 - 104

Chapter 103: Searching for the Assailant

Bai Xiangxiu finally took note of her own hand at this moment. Even though it was mostly healed, the dark layer of calluses had yet to peel off and the surrounding skin was blackening. Her forehead was in a similar situation, so she used her bangs to cover it and cloth to encircle it.

She was sure that the moment the covering was removed, any male who saw it would lose their appetite. She contemplated whether to explain the reason behind getting burned, but she was afraid that after speaking of it, the male lead would misunderstand.

Someone already wanted to kill her for revenge after only being in charge of the household for a couple days. In order to give her boss a good impression of her, she could only shake her head and stay in silence. In any case, he would still know the truth sooner or later. There was just a difference in the timing that he would learn it. As for what other people thought of it, she didn’t care.

“This is a wound caused by fire. Furthermore, it has already been a couple of days since you’ve gotten this wound. Why haven’t your letters mentioned it? How did you end up in this state?” Long Heng was palpitating, but seeing that she didn’t want to talk about it, he recognized that the situation must be extremely serious. He yelled to Shu’er, “What are you looking at? Get Long Shuting over here!”

Shu’er hastily ran outside. His master’s expression was too scary-scary enough that he tripped and fell when exiting. The steward is normally quite smart. How come a perfectly fine person was wounded in just a few days? Isn’t this just courting bad luck?

Long Shuting naturally knew that the prince would summon him over sooner or later when he returned home. And so he took a sip of tea and stood up in one smooth motion, running towards Long Heng’s study afterwards.

It seemed that the prince actually treated the fourth madame quite well. He was immediately asking after this matter after his return, and he wasn’t even asking about the third madame. As for why the prince had been able to guess that it was about the fire, simple deduction had made it clear.

If the prince was bothering himself with the third madame’s affairs, he would ask the mamas who worked in the manor or the guards that handled that matter. By the time he questioned the steward, it would at least be a couple hours later. It was a pity that the prince had summoned the steward before he’d returned for even two hours. He evidently was extremely angry about the fire.

Actually, the steward was also disconsolate since he still hadn’t discovered any clues in the past few days. It was still an unknown how he was to respond when the prince asked about it. When he arrived, the table had already been put away. The irritable Prince Li paced back and forth with his hands clasped behind his back.

His hair was loose and not neatly upset. It seemed that the prince had wanted to rest, but hadn’t anticipated that the such a large matter would occur in the royal residence. That exceedingly clever Madame Xiu was now sitting obediently to the side, her head lowered as she played with the hair in front of her chest as though she was feeling greatly wronged.

At first glance, the two gave the impression that nèe Bai was the wife being oppressed, while Prince Li was the one oppressing her. However, she didn’t have any wounds on her body and her clothes were very orderly. It appeared that no matter how angry Prince Li was, the situation of domestic violence wouldn’t occur.

Except, why did Long Shuting have the feeling that Prince Li was the one being maltreated? He couldn’t continue standing after seeing his master. He flourished his sleeves and knelt down, “Long Shuting greets His Highness.”

“Rise. What is the cause of these wounds? Tell this prince the happenings with detail.”

Long Heng was actually quite depressed. Bai Xiangxiu hadn’t responded when he asked her the first time. She turned her head to the side the second time and said quietly, “Won’t you know when the general manager comes?”