Inside Lu clan's palace!
"Your Ladyship."
"Something terrible has happened."
"Big Sister Lu Dong... she, she..."
A palace maid hurried in, dropped to her knees before Lu clan, and stammered.
"What happened to Lu Dong?" Lu clan frowned and asked with displeasure.
Within the Eastern Palace.
This was the place under her control. How could anything possibly happen?
"She... she was beaten to death on Young Master Zhu Yunteng's orders." The palace maid knelt on the ground, her voice trembling.
Hearing this.
Lu clan's expression changed, and she abruptly rose to her feet. "What did you say?"
"Your Ladyship."
"Y-you should go out and see for yourself." The palace maid did not dare say anything more and answered uneasily.
At those words!
A sense of dread welled up in Lu clan's heart. She slowly walked out of the hall, but when she saw the scene outside, her face instantly turned deathly pale.
"Dong'er."
Lu clan hurried over to Lu Dong's battered, blood-soaked corpse, panic filling her heart.
Once she confirmed that Lu Dong no longer showed any sign of life.
"W-what happened?"
"Who did this?"
Lu clan raised her head, swept her gaze across the surrounding palace maids and eunuchs, and demanded hoarsely.
"It was... Young Master Zhu Yunteng."
"He... he ordered his guards to beat Lu Dong to death with clubs." A eunuch responsible for delivering the body lowered his head and answered in a trembling voice.
"Zhu Yunteng?"
Hearing this, Lu clan looked doubtful and disbelieving. "How dare he lay hands on my personal palace maid?"
After all.
Lu clan knew Zhu Yunteng's temperament all too well. He did not have that kind of nerve.
"Your Ladyship."
"It really... really was Young Master Yunteng."
"He... he said Miss Lu Dong failed to bow when she saw him and