Liu Rushuang could see that something was not right from Liu Rushuang's expression, and asked puzzledly, "What's wrong, Mother?"
Coming to her senses then, Liu Rushuang quickly entered the study, avoiding the bloodstains to reach Elder Meng. She flinched when she found the pool of blood on his chest, and reached out with a trembling hand to feel if the old man was breathing.
He wasn't.
"Mother, why is there so much blood on the floor?" Longyuan could not help asking, having noticed the bloodstains on the floor then and was left dumbstruck as well.
"What is that you're holding, Yuan'er?" Liu Rushuang asked, quivering at the sight of the stick dripping with blood.
"Eh?"
Longyuan was clearly shocked, and he looked down to see that he really was holding that small stick, which Elder Meng had struck him with.
"Qiu Yue, ask for his majesty to come! Now!"
