C367 A Complete and Utter Framing

Bai Liyuv looked at the Empress Dowager, her eyes closed and lips turning blue. She withdrew her hand, realizing there was no point in checking further; the woman had been dead for some time, beyond saving.

If she had only found the Empress Dowager dead here, she might have suspected a typical motive for murder. But now, with her own hairpin lodged in the Empress Dowager's chest