A lot must have happened on the night things went wrong at the Luo Residence.
But speculation was still speculation. We needed more corroborating evidence to support it.
The letter mentioning Seven Deaths for a Life had a specific date on it. We could actually use that date to make a judgment.
Had the letter been sent before Xiuzhu died, or after?
If it was before, then Seven Deaths for a Life was very likely intended to resurrect Seventh Concubine. If it was after Xiuzhu's death, then it might have been intended to resurrect Xiuzhu.
If it was before, that would also support the possibility that Ninth Concubine and Seventh Concubine were sisters.
Unfortunately, we only knew the date of the letter, not the exact dates of the other events, such as the year, month, and day Xiuzhu died, or the year, month, and day Ninth Concubine married into the Luo Residence.
Without those dates, we had no way to judge.
"Xu Xiu was Ninth Concubine's name, and that Xu Changming was also surnamed Xu."
"Those two were very likely relatives," Seventh Master said. "Two people surnamed Xu were both targeting the Luo Residence. That could also indirectly support the idea that Seventh Concubine's surname was Xu."
I nodded, ready to search the other rooms with Seventh Master for more clues.
But the moment we pulled the door open, a pair of eyes without pupils... was staring straight at us.
The eyes belonged to a man in his forties or fifties, dressed in luxurious clothes, his skin grayish-white and his face expressionless.
Seventh Master and I shuddered in fright on the spot, staring at him in terror.
This man... looked like Master Luo!
What made my scalp prickle was that he seemed able to see us!
For a moment, neither