[{"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-253":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},1325294,1760,"Chapter 253 - 253 253 Body Buried Under the Bed","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-253",253,"\u003Cp>253: Chapter 253: Body Buried Under the Bed 253: Chapter 253: Body Buried Under the Bed The night was deep and silent, the candlelight flickered gently in the breeze, casting a ghostly atmosphere in the deserted Li Family mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu lay on the ground, examining the floor tile in front of her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then turned her attention to the clearly loose tile under the bed, pursing her lips slightly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Should she pry it open?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There’s a saying, “Curiosity killed the cat,” and her gut told her that she should leave at this moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, the secret beneath would suffocate her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wufu was like the proverbial cat with nine lives; knowing there was a secret, she probably wouldn’t be able to sleep without taking a glance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a result, she placed the oil lamp under the bed and propped herself up on her elbows, inching further inside.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she reached the tile, she lay on the ground, stretched out her hand, and lifted it easily, without any effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu wasn’t surprised; she had suspected as much when she saw the crack.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After prying away two tiles, she found sand and clay beneath, and a faint musty smell began to waft into her nostrils.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!” Wufu couldn’t help but curse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Her hand moved to disturb the sand above, and after a moment, she softly exclaimed, “Holy shit!”Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As she reflexively jerked upward, her head smacked against the wooden bed base.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu yelped in pain, retreated from under the bed, and sat on the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Grimacing, she rubbed the sore spot on her head, then lowered herself down again to peer into the small pit she had uncovered in the dirt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside it lay the white bones of a human hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t hard to imagine what the secret under the bed was.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though somewhat braced for it, Wufu still felt a bit depressed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t a horror movie, yet she had stumbled upon a body hidden under a bed?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Others transmigrate into romance stories, and you into solving cases,” Wufu muttered sarcastically to herself.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She then put her hands together, bowed toward the space under the bed, and mumbled, “Could you please wait a little longer?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At most, you’ll see the light of day the day after tomorrow.” She needed to confirm more information before reporting this secret to Wen Si; otherwise, alerting the enemy prematurely would be a wasted effort.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having said this, she covered up the exposed earth, returned the tiles to their place, and left the East Wing to check the other areas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu had searched the entire Li Family mansion, and apart from the East Wing, she found nothing else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Coffin Guy was indeed the Flower-Picking Thief as she suspected, then aside from the secret beneath the bed, his other crimes likely wouldn’t occur within this mansion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, this was his home, and he would have more suitable places for wrongdoing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whose body it was under the bed, aside from Madam Zhang, who had run off, Wufu couldn’t think of anyone else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this Madam Zhang, could she be the factor that led to Coffin Guy’s serial crimes?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu found it very likely, as several points in her analysis matched up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Coffin Guy fit the criminal profile she had in mind perfectly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, with the city gates already closed, it was impossible to go to the Mortuary; it would have to wait until tomorrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Mortuary, was it really Coffin Guy’s secret hideout as she anticipated?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wufu was somewhat looking forward to it, almost visualizing the five hundred white specks of Silver flying towards her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had anyone else witnessed the scene, they probably would have heavily criticized her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Other women would have gone mad or, at the very least, reported to the authorities after a solitary night’s investigation and encountering a dead person’s bones.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Wufu, as if she saw nothing at all, could even put the matter aside like it was nothing, waiting to catch everything in one swoop—such endurance was remarkable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was even more outrageous was her thoughts of Silver—the woman truly had a heart of stone!\u003C\u002Fp>",690,"2026-06-05T19:25:17.772Z",1,"novelbin.me","4eca8f453b32d442601bf11d63adfbcb56c96ca5a50674dc267db543cf9e9460","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-254","doted-by-the-regent-king-chapter-252",1685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fdoted-by-the-regent-king-cover.jpg"]