Annie didn't care what the two senior brothers planned to do with the spirit stones. For the time being, she simply continued going back and forth between the Divine Capital and Rongguo Mansion, eating when she was hungry, drinking when she was thirsty, sleeping when she was tired, and occasionally stopping by to see the new garden the Ning and Rong Mansions were building.
Word was that Yuanchun, the eldest daughter of the Rongguo Mansion who had entered the palace years ago, had been selected as a consort and was about to return for a visit. So the Ning and Rong Mansions had joined forces to build a garden for her. It was apparently called the Grand View Garden?
But Annie wasn't concerned with the exact timing or any of the details, and she didn't ask. She only made sure that the avatars of Lin Daiyu and the others were behaving themselves.
Meanwhile, over the past half month, Lin Daiyu, Tanchun, Zijuan, and Xueyan had been working together along the coastal region of Lianghuai in Jiangnan, carrying out a spree of murders against certain targets—the blood-soaked slaughter of the people Daiyu considered her father's enemies.
Yes, slaughter!
Or...
Could it be called revenge?
In any case, after the Yangzhou prefect, Cao Bancheng, Liu Sandao, and more than a dozen other important targets had died, even more people perished over the next half month. There were hundreds of them, possibly even more!
Since Lin Daiyu and Tanchun had been striking frequently at night, people who enjoyed gossip had taken to calling the events of that period the "Bloody Fourteen Nights."
First Night: Zhenhai Sect.
This local immortal sect had dominated the seas east of the coast for centuries. In the name of "defending the coast," it had once demanded "spirit permits"