[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-doted-by-the-regent-king":3,"chapter-doted-by-the-regent-king-doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-252":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Doted By The Regent King",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1325293,1760,"Chapter 252 - 252 252 A Night Investigation of the Li Family","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-252",252,"\u003Cp>252: Chapter 252: A Night Investigation of the Li Family 252: Chapter 252: A Night Investigation of the Li Family With doubts lingering in her heart, Wufu would not let them stay overnight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As night fell, she got ready, put on the fox mask, dressed in black, and slipped out of the inn like a black cat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before she left, she didn’t forget to pull up the thin quilt for Liu Jin, who had kicked it off while sleeping on the floor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the heat of late summer still lingered, the night brought a deeper chill with heavy dew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Catching a cold would be bad news.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu darted out of the inn nimbly and ran quickly towards West City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had already figured out the most convenient route.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tingting.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night watchman struck his gong to signal the time, indicating it was the second watch of the Hai Hour.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu passed like a gust of wind, evading the Yamen Guards patrolling the streets.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From a distance, she could still hear their complaints.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It seemed that until the Flower-Picking Thief was caught, the Yamen Guards would have no peace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu arrived at the Coffin Guy’s place, deftly flipped over the low wall, and landed silently in the courtyard of the Li Family’s house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By this time, the Li Family was long gone, and the surroundings were pitch-black, so quiet it felt like a haunt for ghosts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu pressed against the wall in the courtyard and listened for a while, making sure there was no one inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she took out her flint and sneaked over to the main hall’s entrance, where a lock hung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This couldn’t stump Wufu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She drew out a hairpin, fiddled with the lock cylinder a few times, and with a click, the lock opened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She gently pushed the door open, and a chill breeze wafted out from inside, making Wufu shudder and tighten her clothes around her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If she hadn’t been indifferent to ghosts and spirits, she might have found the Li Family house to be dreadfully eerie.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The flint lit up, and she looked around.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The main hall was tidy and orderly, with a kang bed in the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu guessed that it was probably Old Madam Li’s or Coffin Guy’s room, which she found quite distasteful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her gaze swept around the room and then she began to search thoroughly, inside and out, but shortly after, she came out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There was nothing in the main hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then went to the East Wing, which had a dressing cabinet with a bronze mirror on top—presumably where Madam Zhang did her makeup.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Interested, Wufu began searching the room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she got to the bed, a brownish patch at the foot of it caught her attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as she was about to bring the lamp closer to inspect, a sharp cry suddenly echoed from afar in the quiet night, disturbingly piercing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu jumped, dropping the flint.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A gust of wind blew, extinguishing the flame, and she stood in the darkness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The wind blew into the room through the open door, ghastly cold, carrying a chill with it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu shivered again, feeling uneasy and uncomfortable in her heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Something was not right about this room.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu stood still in the darkness, feeling the persistent chill, unmoving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the wind, there was no other sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wufu felt there was something odd, anyway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This room just gave her the creeps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She picked up the flint from the ground, lit it again, and saw an oil lamp on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment’s thought, she decided to light it and turned it down low.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She walked around the room with the lamp dimmed, searching like she did in the main hall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She knelt to examine the brown spot at the end of the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She brought the oil lamp close, touched the completely dried color with her finger moistened with saliva, rubbing it; a dark red appeared on her fingertip, and she sniffed it, catching a fishy scent.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was blood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu frowned, stepped back, and observed the bed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she suddenly knelt down again, touched the corner post of the bed, and compared it with another mark.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The bed had been moved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu bent down, moved the lamp towards the underside of the bed to look closer, and when she saw the cracks between the floor tiles, she paused.\u003C\u002Fp>",728,"2026-06-05T19:25:17.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","27995795bfe314d8d7d45f72f6de8005bfc6bfd4917c0fcdabbb9fec2d747f13","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-253","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-251",1685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdoted-by-the-regent-king-cover.jpg"]