"Whether it is or not is not up to you, Mother. This matter must be decided by Father!" Dong Yunzhu said with a smile. "I have already sent someone to invite Father. With such a thing happening at home, I'm sure Father has no mind to stay in the yamen. It would be better for him to come back sooner to deal with this matter and put Mother at ease."

"You little bitch, you're just as treacherous and cunning as your mother, resorting to any means necessary!" Hua was trembling with rage.

She keeps using vulgar language, completely disregarding her dignity as the matriarch of the household.

Dong Yunzhu sneered upon hearing this: "If we're talking about cunning, shamelessness, and depravity, who can compare to Mother? You're the kind of person who dares to keep a wild man in the house; I, your daughter, am ashamed of myself!"

"Bitch...bitch..." Hua rushed over to hit Dong Yunzhu, but was kicked to the ground and fell flat on her back.

Dong Yunzhu had wanted to do this for a long time.

She's wanted to beat this shameless, vicious woman for quite some time now.

I finally got my revenge.

"Let's go," Dong Yunzhu said calmly, looking at the maid beside her.

She wanted to go back and interrogate the maid herself.

No!

It should be that man!

She needed to quickly remove the poison from her grandmother and herself, lest that poisonous woman, Hua, have an opportunity to take advantage of her.

She needs to know the whole truth before her father returns, so that she can remain invincible.

“Let’s go back too!” Ye Xianya, who was standing on the roof watching all this, turned to Qi Chengshuo beside her and said.

After she finished telling everyone's fortunes, she thought of Dong Yunzhu and came over specifically to see her.

When Ye Xianya told Dong Yunzhu's fortune, she discovered that although the girl came from a good family, her life was full of hardships.

Although Dong Yunzhu knows martial arts and has the talisman she gave her, she should be able to resolve today's matter smoothly. However, her stepmother is very vicious, so Ye Xianya was a little worried and went to visit her.

As it turned out, the girl was smarter and more capable than she had imagined; she was someone who knew how to seize opportunities and grasp the key points.

If it weren't for her father's favoritism and complete disregard for his daughter, and her grandmother's advanced age and inability to manage many affairs, Dong Yunzhu, with her intelligence, wouldn't have had to suffer so much.

Ultimately, it was because she had high hopes for her father in the past.

Once she sees through all of this and stops caring about these people, she will naturally be invincible.

"These wealthy families have so many dirty secrets!" Qi Chengshuo couldn't help but shake his head.

Ye Xianya glanced at him upon hearing this.

The way he talks makes it sound like their royal residence is perfectly clean and upright, without a single problem.

Qi Chengshuo felt a little embarrassed by Ye Xianya's gaze and coughed lightly, saying, "My second uncle and aunt are indeed not good people. They always try to steal my title. However... he was dismissed and investigated last year. At that time, the retired emperor was still in power. He demoted my second uncle to a county magistrate in a harsh and cold place. My grandfather also severed ties with my second uncle. Ever since their family moved out of the Prince's Mansion, our Prince Duan's Mansion has indeed been clean and upright, which is the best it could be!"

"Well, you go back to the princess's residence first. I'm going to the palace to keep my mother and father company," Ye Xianya said with a smile.

"I'll go with you. I haven't played chess with Uncle Jiu for a while, so I'll keep him company today!" Qi Chengshuo said quickly.

Ye Xianya nodded and did not refuse. However, before leaving, she took out a talisman from her bosom and cast a small spell, and the talisman disappeared into thin air.

She and Qi Chengshuo had only been gone a short while when Dong Yunzhu returned to the courtyard and felt an invisible force blocking her path.

The next moment, a talisman appeared in front of her.

Dong Yunzhu was slightly taken aback, then reached out and took the talisman.

The moment the talisman landed in her hand, Dong Mingzhu heard Ye Xianya's voice.

"This teleportation talisman can instantly teleport a person to a place hundreds of feet away. It can save lives in critical moments. Just tear the talisman to use it."

"Miss!" The maid standing next to Dong Yunzhu called her several times.

Dong Yunzhu then came to her senses.

After asking the maid, she realized that only she could see the talisman and only she could hear Ye Xianya's voice.

"Princess!" Dong Yunzhu gripped the talisman tightly in her hand, her mood far from what it had been before.

The princess had divined for her, so she naturally knew about these sordid affairs in their household.

The princess must have foreseen everything he had just done.

The princess gave her this life-saving teleportation talisman, did she foresee what was going to happen next?

Could it be that... even after his stepmother did such a thing, his father still favored her?

Would a father kill his daughter in order to favor his stepmother, Hua?

Dong Yunzhu was trembling all over.

If... if her father really does that, then don't blame her for turning against her own family for the greater good.

To save her and her grandmother's lives, she had to prepare for both possibilities.

After returning to the room, Dong Yunzhu quickly summoned several maids and servants, all of whom were her trusted confidantes whom she had cultivated over the years.

After making careful arrangements, Dong Yunzhu went to the backyard to interrogate the Gu Master.

The sorcerer was quite old. After the maids wiped the rouge and powder off his face, a middle-aged man's face was revealed.

Although Dong Yunzhu was a martial arts practitioner, she was, after all, a young lady raised in a secluded mansion and had never seen blood.

Those rough-looking old women, however, were ruthless and vicious. They actually followed Dong Yunzhu's instructions and cut the flesh off the man's legs, one cut after another.

Hearing screams and pleas for mercy coming from inside, Dong Yunzhu tightly gripped the silk handkerchief in her hand, repeatedly telling herself not to be soft-hearted or afraid.

It was her stepmother and this man who conspired to harm them first. If she hadn't been ruthless, she and her grandmother would have been the ones to die.

After being stabbed more than a dozen times, the man could no longer hold on and quickly confessed.

"Miss, this man is named Jin Wenqing. He is a Gu master from the Kingdom of Zhuwu. Half a year ago, Madam spent a lot of money to invite him from the Kingdom of Zhuwu to use Gu poison on the old lady and you. Since he came to our mansion, he has been disguised as a maid in Madam's courtyard and has been living in that side room. He uses the mother Gu in his body to control the child Gu in your body and the old lady, absorbing your blood essence and vital energy."

The young lady was still young and skilled in martial arts, so she could naturally hold on. However, the old lady was advanced in years and soon fell ill.

"Why did the Hua family find him? Did someone secretly act as a go-between? Did he know the Hua family before? We need to find out all of these things." Dong Yunzhu frowned and said.

"Yes," the old woman replied, and went back inside to interrogate her.

The old women were all very powerful, and before long, they tortured the Gu master until he confessed everything.

"Reporting to you...Reporting to you, Miss...Madam and this Gu Master are old acquaintances, they've known each other for over ten years. This Gu Master's family suffered a great calamity, and he escaped from the Kingdom of Zhuwu, sustaining serious injuries. It was Madam who saved him. At that time, Madam...had not yet married Master. This Gu Master helped her poison the late Madam with Gu poison. The Gu worm sucks a person's essence and vital energy. After giving birth to you, the late Madam died due to postpartum weakness."