Luo Weijin was dead?
Qian Gongyu only realized then that the corpse belonged to someone she knew. Although Luo Weijin had never gotten along with her, their relationship had not reached the point of hating each other to the bone. After Jiang Shi punched him, and after Qian Gongyu came to know Jie Yuanshao and Shang Xin Lei, Luo Weijin had voluntarily avoided them. The balance of offense and defense had clearly shifted, and now Qian Gongyu was the villainous character he could no longer afford to provoke.
Qian Gongyu had originally planned to find him after coming out today, show off properly, and vent her frustrations. After all, life needed a few clowns to highlight one's own superiority. But seeing how brutally he had died, Qian Gongyu felt not the slightest joy. She felt only a strange discomfort and a surge of shared outrage—how could a scion of a great clan be so cruelly slaughtered?
But when she heard Lu Wangji say that Jiang Shi had once appeared near the Luo family's carriage and demand to inspect Jiang Shi's saber, she froze. Then, like a mother cat whose fur had stood on end, she pulled Jiang Shi behind her and shouted, "Impossible! Jiang Shi would never do such a thing! She was with me the entire night!"
"Lu Xiaoqi, setting aside whether Jiang Shi's saber matches the wounds on the corpse, even if it does, that proves nothing." Jie Yuanshao raised a hand to block Jiang Shi and said, "Jiang Shi's saber is merely a standard straight blade. There is nothing unusual about the real culprit using a similar weapon."
"It is not for comparing the wounds, but for checking whether the blade has ever been stained with the victim's blood." Lu Wangji took a covered bronze mirror from