Dongsheng succinctly explained Jixue’s death.
Jixue had accidentally learned that Qiuju and Dongkui were Taoniang’s biological daughters and worried it would affect the Sixth Miss. So, on her own initiative, she bought poison and deceived Xiaoye. Xiaoye mistakenly believed everything was done on the Sixth Miss’s orders, which led to the misunderstanding of the Sixth Miss…
Now that the matter was exposed, Jixue realized her foolish actions had implicated the Sixth Miss. Unable to face the Sixth Miss…
She left behind a “confession letter” and hanged herself.
Sheng Yong skimmed through the “confession letter,” quickly made a decision, and concluded: Today’s incident was all because of Jixue and had nothing to do with Sheng Mingzhu.
When Sheng Minmin heard the news of Jixue’s death, her heart skipped a beat. The next moment, she understood this was Sheng Yong’s arrangement.
She should have thought of it sooner. There was no way Sheng Yong would let Magistrate Jiang come to the residence to investigate the case, nor would he let Sheng Mingzhu bear the charge of murder—
No matter what, Sheng Yong would pull Sheng Mingzhu out of this, even if the rescue wasn’t entirely clean, even if the method wasn’t very clever, and even if no one in this room believed Jixue was the mastermind…
But as long as it was superficially acceptable and the case was closed, that was enough for Sheng Yong.
For a moment, Sheng Minmin’s feelings were complicated.
In her past life, there was no such person as Jixue in the Sheng residence.
In this life, based on the intelligence she had gathered, Jixue’s character couldn’t be considered kind-hearted. After all, someone who could secure the position of top-tier maid beside Sheng Mingzhu couldn’t lack cunning, scheming, ruthlessness, or perceptiveness.
But Jixue hadn’t done anything particularly heinous, and now, a human life was gone just like that…
Although Sheng Yong was the one who essentially killed her, Sheng Minmin also felt she had Jixue’s blood on her hands!
She took a deep breath.
On the path of revenge she was going to walk, more innocent people would inevitably be caught up in the future.
More people would be injured or die because of her plans, but Sheng Minmin would not stop in her tracks!
All she could do was try to minimize unnecessary casualties, but if she couldn’t afford to care for others, she still wouldn’t stop.
In this life, Sheng Minmin would never give up on revenge!
“Princess—”
Yuanyuan was tugging at Duanmu Rui’s sleeve again. Duanmu Rui snapped back to reality, realizing it was time for her to leave.
Having witnessed this “grand spectacle” today, Duanmu Rui felt the Sheng family was even more chaotic than she had imagined. Two maids dead and one poisoned within a little over an hour…
This Sheng family was truly terrifying, but also a bit thrilling, wasn’t it?
Fortunately, the Dong family’s wedding banquet would be held soon, and she would get to see Little Seven again then.
So Duanmu Rui rose to take her leave. Before leaving, she thoughtfully “invited” Lin Zhijing to leave as well. What remained were the Sheng family’s internal affairs, which she couldn’t listen to, and Lin Zhijing, as an outsider, shouldn’t meddle either.
After the two left, the atmosphere in the room instantly became rigid, as if the temperature had dropped a few degrees.
On a normal day, Sheng Yong might have said a few pompous words, given another warning, and disciplined the servants. But at this moment, Sheng Yong said nothing and wanted to do nothing.
He was somewhat disappointed in Mingzhu. If Mingzhu’s methods were only this much, she probably wouldn’t be able to help the family much in the future.
So, he wanted to see to what extent Master Dale would go for Mingzhu, and then assess Mingzhu’s value based on that.
Therefore, Sheng Yong instructed everyone to return to their own courtyards and left first.
Sheng Minmin also left decisively.
What remained was Huang Yaning, her face full of sarcasm, watching the three Sheng brothers comfort the pale-faced Sheng Mingzhu.
“Qingtian, go outside and buy a decent coffin. That girl Jixue is truly pitiful…”
Huang Yaning called out to Qingtian, who was just walking in.
Earlier, the servants hadn’t dared to stay in the room and had gone out long ago, walking far away, afraid of hearing something they shouldn’t.
The only ones in the entire room were the maids the Princess had brought, and Qingying and Dongsheng who had entered later.
Before Dongsheng entered the room, he had already told everyone in the residence that Jixue had taken it upon herself to order Xiaoye around, causing Xiaoye to misunderstand the Sixth Miss.
So by now, all the servants in the residence knew Jixue had “implicated” the Sixth Miss and was a guilty party.
Now, the Miss wanting to buy a coffin for the “guilty” Jixue was clearly meant to slap the Sixth Miss in the face…
Qingtian’s eyes darted around for a moment, then she said.
“Understood, Miss. How about I also hire a monk to perform rites for Jixue’s soul?”
“Mm, good!” Huang Yaning nodded with a smile.
Huang Yaning’s words infuriated the four siblings nearby once again.
Sheng Mingjian pressed his lips together, his gaze icy cold, but he didn’t speak again. He had to kneel in the ancestral hall tonight and had lost several priceless paintings!
He felt the wild girl was bad luck for him and didn’t want to clash with her again.
As for Sheng Mingyi, his body was outwardly strong but inwardly weak, and now that things were settled, he was in low spirits and didn’t want to waste mental energy arguing with Huang Yaning either.
As for Sheng Mingbo, after that whipping five years ago, he had become somewhat afraid of Huang Yaning. Actually, he didn’t know that if he hadn’t been consuming things that damaged his foundation day after day over the years, his martial arts skills would have become very good.
When a person does something they love and excels at it, they naturally become more confident, daring, and proactive. Conversely, they become increasingly listless and inferior.
Over the years, he had consumed too many bad things, his martial arts were mediocre, so he had become timid and hesitant. Just now, he had even been frightened by Dongkui’s appearance, a far cry from the proud, confident youth of his past life.
Therefore, although these three felt Huang Yaning was bullying others, none of them wanted to cause trouble for her.
Sheng Mingzhu, surrounded by her brothers in the middle, was so angry her vision kept darkening and her body felt cold!
Jixue was dead, her name was cleared, but Sheng Mingzhu couldn’t be happy at all.
Because both dead people were from her Hibiscus Court, and the remaining poisoned maid, Dongkui, was still her own elder sister…
If this got out, even a three-year-old child wouldn’t believe she had nothing to do with today’s incident.
But in reality, she really hadn’t done anything—
If she had actually done something, she wouldn’t be this angry—
Sheng Mingzhu felt as if she had been doused from head to toe with a bucket of filthy water in broad daylight.
So dirty, so very dirty, dirty beyond ever being clean again.
This whole mess must have been orchestrated by that little wretch and the old wretch working together!
Those two bitches just wanted to harm her!
“Sixth Sister, look at you—”
Huang Yaning spoke again, her smile radiant.
“Ever since the Feng family found out you were their real granddaughter, their house was burned down, their money was stolen, and they ended up with broken hands and limps—
“Your three biological sisters, although their lives were a bit hard before, at least their identities were clear, they weren’t slaves, and they certainly weren’t nearly poisoned to death—
“Your personal senior maid is dead too—
“Everyone around you: some suffer, some are tragic, some are crippled, some are poisoned, and two have died—
“I wonder which blind bastard dog earlier spread the word that you were a lucky star. In my opinion, shouldn’t you be a jinx instead?”
Jinx…?
Sheng Mingzhu’s body could no longer take it, and she collapsed face-first to the ground.
