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After all these years of marriage, their bond had worn thin. Keeping her around was merely out of concern for Gu Yanran, who was married to the Second Prince, Pei Zhirui. However, this was a crucial time in his career, and he still needed to rely on Gu Yanran to whisper sweet nothings into her husband’s ear. If Li Ruofeng were to disappear, Gu Yanran would surely cause an uproar upon discovering it.
“Old servant has searched everywhere but hasn’t seen the lady,” Granny Li explained hurriedly. She had scoured every corner of the estate with a few small servants and had searched for quite some time, yet there was no trace of Li Ruofeng. No one knew where she could have gone.
“Have you checked Fengyaxuan?” Gu Siyuan pondered for a moment before asking. Fengyaxuan was the courtyard where Gu Yuxuan had lived. Ever since his passing, Li Ruofeng, who had developed hysteria, often sneaked away to that place, pretending as if Gu Yuxuan were still alive.
Granny Li hugged the soft pillow tightly in her arms. “I only found the soft pillow that the lady often held in Young Master Xuan’s room; I did not see her there.”
Li Ruofeng usually wouldn’t wander about aimlessly. When she grew tired from playing, she would lie down alone on Young Master Xuan’s bed and quietly fall asleep. But tonight, there was no sign of her in Fengyaxuan; only the soft pillow remained, and Granny Li thought that if she found the lady, she would definitely take it back.
After searching several times without finding anyone in the estate, Granny Li was at her wit's end and had no choice but to seek out Gu Siyuan in Chen Die’s courtyard, only to be told he was on his way here.
“Useless! Hurry up and find someone! Search every corner of the estate until you find the lady!” Gu Siyuan’s head throbbed at the thought of Li Ruofeng’s deranged state.
Veins bulged on his forehead as anger surged through him like a raging fire that couldn’t be contained. He kicked out at Granny Li with force, sending her flying a meter away.
Granny Li dared not express her anger; she felt as if her old bones were about to fall apart. She struggled to suppress the taste of blood rising in her throat as she painfully got up, hunched over, and staggered out.
Seeing that Gu Waning was already gone, Gu Siyuan ordered some servants to search for Li Ruofeng while leaving others to put out the fire before he strode away from Xuezhuyuan. To him, as long as Gu Waning was missing, the cause of the fire became less significant. It seemed plausible that what the little servant said was true: with dry weather conditions, it wasn’t impossible for Gu Waning to have accidentally knocked over a candle.
After finally getting a day of rest, he had been preparing to engage in some intimate encounters with Chen Die but was interrupted by someone calling him to check on the fire scene, leaving him with no outlet for his pent-up frustration.
Thinking about that delicate waist and those alluring cherry lips made him wish he could fly back quickly to his little courtyard.
Half an hour later, after Gu Siyuan had left, the fire at Xuezhuyuan was finally extinguished. The servants still hadn’t found Li Ruofeng and were clueless about where she might have run off to.
As dawn broke over Xuezhuyuan, which had suffered a great fire, debris lay scattered everywhere, making it difficult to navigate.
Gu Siyuan had taken a day off today after yesterday's chaos and was still lost in sleep when he was startled awake by someone’s arrival. He hurriedly rushed back toward Xuezhuyuan early in the morning.
Upon entering the courtyard, he looked down and saw a charred corpse on a stretcher—its lower half burned beyond recognition—causing his face to pale as he staggered back several steps before steadying himself.
“Madam! How could you leave me like this?” Granny Li collapsed onto the ground, crying out in despair.
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