Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"FIRE!"

"There's fire in Madam Qu's Quarter!"

"WATER! WHERE'S WATER?"

"We need more water!"

"Water!"

Screams began to spread in all direction. It was nighttime and most of the servants were already sleeping. How could they move so quickly under that condition? By the time most servants arrived, the fire had already spread and burned down the building where Madam Qu was staying.

Fortunately, the maidservants around Madam Qu was very quick in their response as they dragged Madam Qu out. That way, they managed to keep their lives.

The disheveled Madam Qu was looking at her quarter with dumbfounded expression. She was very angry and felt that everything never went on her way at all lately. Now, someone even tried to take her life?

"Put out the fire!"

"What is this mess?" Nan Shu Cheng was annoyed. He had just received a blow from having his child killed even before he or she was born. Now there was another problem in the household?

"Someone wants to kill me!" Madam Qu was angry. She cried and clung towards Nan Shu Cheng, but the maidservants around Nan Shu Cheng stopped her from getting close. Right now, she was really not in the best state to get close to him at all.

In fact, Nan Shu Cheng really didn't want to touch Madam Qu when he saw the soot around her body. Even though he had seen her in other situation, he was growing to dislike Madam Qu even more right now.

This made him unwilling to even get close to her at all.

Nan Shu Cheng waved his hand and a man appeared behind him. "What happened?"

"Replying to Master, there are a few servants walking around the area not long ago. This one didn't pay attention because I thought that they will only pass by. When I noticed again, their body had been engulfed in flame and they're heading to Madam Qu's building inside her quarter."

"Inside her quarter?" Nan Shu Cheng frowned. The door and the gate should be locked at night. Those who could come in were only her servants. "Call all the servants and check if there are anyone missing."

At this time, Nan Hou Xiang had already arrived. He was still dressed lightly because it was night time and he was planning to rest after the commotion. But seeing that the one who got burned was his mother's quarter, his throat felt tight.

He looked around and saw Nan Hua walked in their direction. She looked at the building with confused eyes but her expression remained rather steadfast and indifferent.

Nan Hou Xiang had a bad feeling.

The other concubines had also arrived. Concubine Mei was leading her daughter as she looked at the mess in front of her. She felt her heart tightened in fear because she didn't want anything to happen to her daughter.

"Mom…"

"It's fine."

Nan Xin pursed her lips and looked at the mess in front of her. For some reasons, she felt really annoyed right now. Even though she was happy that Madam Qu got into trouble, her own problems hadn't been settled.

With her face and appearance like this, how could she get married in two years' time?

It was still something worth worrying about.

"We didn't do anything wrong." Concubine Mei didn't ask the servants anything and had been trying to keep a low profile lately. All she did was to ask for some doctors to examine her daughters in order to find a method to restore her face.

There was no way she would want to make her daughter live her entire life with ruined face like this. Even if the hope was faint, there was no way she would not take the chance.

Hope.

That was all that she needed.

At the side, Concubine Mu and the others had also arrived. They looked at the mess and silently wondered whether they had something to do with it nor not. After all, they hadn't asked the servants to do anything.

"Did you ask them to do something?" Concubine Yu asked worriedly.

Concubine Mu shook her head. She naturally knew that creating trouble at this juncture was stupid. There were already so many problems that appeared because of Nan Xin and then Concubine Su.

She was not so stupid so as to challenge Nan Shu Cheng's bottom like.

Seeing Concubine Mu's reaction, Concubine Yu was sure that Concubine Mu hadn't done anything. But then… who would want to destroy Madam Qu's Quarter like this?

They were confused.

Nan Hua merely stared at the mess in front of her with an indifferent face. She watched as a manservant walked towards Nan Shu Cheng and whispered something to him. After that, Nan Shu Cheng turned his head to look at his second son.

Seeing that Nan Hua lowered her eyes slightly.

"Nan Hou Xiang, they're your servants, right?" Nan Shu Cheng asked in a cold tone. From all the people in the entire residence, the person he least suspected was Nan Hou Xiang.

Nan Hou Xiang's heart dropped to the ground when he heard his father's cold voice. He opened his mouth, wanting to refute everything. But he found out that he was unable to do so.

Could he say that he was actually planning on burning Nan Hua's quarter rather than his mother?

"How could you?"

Hearing this voice, Nan Hou Xiang's body trembled. He raised his head and saw his mother looking in his direction with utter disbelief and anger. She looked like she had been betrayed by the person whom she trusted the most.

After she had lost her husband's favor, the only person Madam Qu trusted would be her son. There was no way her son would do anything to harm her.

But reality slapped her hard.

"What did I do wrong to you, Hou Xiang? How dare you do this to your mother?"

"I didn't…"

"What do you mean that you didn't?" Madam Qu went hysterical once more. She pointed at Nan Hou Xiang. "You're such an unfilial child!"

Seeing his own mother not believing him, Nan Hou Xiang's heart turned cold. The very person he was trying to help all this time, ended up pointing her fingers towards him even before he was given the chance to explain anything?

Nan Hou Xiang felt his world crumbled.