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Chapter 352 The Consequence of a Love Affair
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2024-10-29 19:42:56Junior Concubine Xu was dead. This tactful woman of the Lord Protector's Manor ended up to be thrown to an old graveyard outside the city, wrapping in a worn matting. A concubine who tried to frame the master of the manor would end no better than an ordinary servant.
As she had made such a trouble, the marquis had already shown mercy for not holding her family accountable. Who would care about her life and death? Qing'er had been in Junior Concubine Xu's courtyard and watching what was happening for a while. When she found that the situation had changed after hearing that her sister tried to plot against the marquis, she said nothing and immediately ran to Bright Frost Garden quietly with a pale face.
As for her sister's situation, she also turned a deaf ear to it.
The other people in the courtyard had already dispersed, and the things in the room were in a mess. Looking at the pendant in his hand, Ning Zu'an's face was livid under the candleli
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