Chapitre 54: Chapter 54

In truth, rescuing the hostages was very simple, but she was not able to make the move.

The vague sound of the Crown Prince's harsh laughter could be heard from the roof of the building, his voice sharp as a blade. "Where is Father Emperor? Father Emperor did not come to see me? How heartless to his own son? Refusing to see me…"

With a dull thud, a figure fell from the pagoda roof and crunched against the ground, brain matter spilling every which way. All the onlookers turned in shock, and only after a long examination determined that the corpse was not the Shao Ning Princess, but an Imperial servant girl.

The Crown Prince's laughter grew more and more ghastly. "Father Emperor will not come? Then every quarter of an hour I will toss another person; this servant girl was from Shao Ning's palace, and the next one… the one following that … perhaps it will be his beloved little daughter. If he does not come, I will send Shao Ning's ghost to see him!"