Those words still rang in their ears, deafeningly loud.
Barely a moment had passed, and news of deaths had already arrived-three people dead at once!
"Get someone who knows what happened over here to explain!"
Madam Gao shouted sternly, "Everyone else, stay put! Not a sound! And... no one from the Gao Lineage is to take so much as half a step outside the old residence! Effective immediately, people may enter, but no one may leave!"
"Xinyu!" Madam Gao called to her eldest son. "You will oversee this. If anyone dares go out without permission, punish them severely, whatever their reasons. Better to punish the innocent than let anyone slip through! Whoever it is, break their legs on the spot!"
"Yes, Mother."
Gao Xinyu answered and walked out.
A moment later, a middle-aged man covered in wounds came in. "...The three young masters were drinking at First Splendor. Apparently, some out-of-towners were next door... then, somehow, one of the hostesses went over to their room... and the three young masters weren't happy about it, so they and the other party..."
"...They argued back and forth, then came to blows. The other party was especially ruthless... in just one move... the three young masters' heads... were, were..."
"Were what?"
"...They twisted their heads off..."
The middle-aged man's face was deathly pale, blood spilling from his mouth as he spoke. "We were at the door... by the time we realized something was wrong and tried to help, it was already too late..."
Madam Gao swayed and gritted her teeth. "Do you know who they were?"
"No... there were only two of them. After it happened, they knocked all of us to the ground, vomiting blood, with just one move... then, then they left. By the time we chased outside, they were already