Chapter 286
Early the next morning, I woke in my hotel bed.
Everything that had happened and been said in my dream flooded back into my mind.
Cold sweat broke out across my body as I remembered the Ninth Concubine being dragged away in iron chains.
That red phantom… I had vaguely seen a human shape, but never clearly. Could that red phantom have been the Red Lotus Ancestor?
The Ninth Concubine had been taken away by the Red Lotus Ancestor. I feared she was headed for a grim fate.
I carefully recalled every conversation in the dream. After spending a long time sorting through all the clues, I had a general understanding of everything that happened back then.
It was still a story of revenge, but one threaded with helplessness and tragedy.
Certain details were now clear. The only remaining mystery was that monster, the creature even the Ninth Concubine had been unable to identify.
I wondered whether that same monster was responsible for the later killings.