As Shen Wan stepped through the door, she saw Miss Cheng hanging on a white silk cloth through the jade beaded curtain, her face pale.

She rushed as fast as she could, but she was still late.

"Chen Feng, hurry and save them!"

Chen Feng disregarded the traditional separation between men and women and rushed forward to rescue Miss Cheng.

The steward was terrified, not understanding why their eldest daughter of the Right Prime Minister's residence would suddenly attempt suicide. Only after Chen Feng rescued her and saw the unconscious Miss Cheng did the steward react, shouting, "Someone! Quickly, fetch a doctor!"

Doctor Tao was carrying his medicine chest when he arrived at the Prime Minister's residence a little later than Shen Wan. When Shen Wan sent her maid to invite him, Doctor Tao was not in the Prince's pharmacy, but in the third courtyard behind the Prince's residence. Shen Wan could only be certain that the eldest daughter of the Prince's family did not die suddenly from a serious illness, but she could not guess how she committed suicide. All she could do was bring Doctor Tao with her and do her best.

Upon hearing the call for a doctor, Dr. Tao quickened his pace and entered the room in a few steps. He saw Miss Cheng lying unconscious on the ground. Dr. Tao rushed forward, put his medicine box on the ground, and reached out to check her breath and carotid artery to see if there was still a pulse.

The pulse had become so weak that it was almost imperceptible.

Doctor Tao took out his silver needles and quickly began to treat the person.

Meanwhile, the Right Chancellor and his wife were quite surprised to hear that Shen Wan had suddenly come to see their daughter. Fearing something was wrong, they rushed over. Just as they reached the courtyard gate, a maidservant ran out, pale-faced and with red eyes, saying, "Master, Madam, the eldest daughter has hanged herself..."

These words were undoubtedly a bolt from the blue for the Right Chancellor and his wife.

They knew their daughter had been depressed for the past two days and had barely eaten anything. They were worried, but they had taken her to the imperial physician and gotten her medicine. How could she possibly be so suicidal?!

The Prime Minister's face turned pale, and his wife almost lost her balance. The two couldn't believe that their obedient daughter would abandon them to commit suicide, so they quickly went into the courtyard.

When they entered the house, they saw their daughter lying on the ground, with white silk hanging from the rafters. The white silk was like vines, tightly wrapped around their hearts, suffocating them.

"Yao'er!"

The Prime Minister's wife was heartbroken; she would have fallen to the ground if not for her maid supporting her.

The Prime Minister's vision was also blurred. He wanted to go forward, but he was afraid of disturbing Doctor Tao in saving their daughter, so he could only stand there.

Dr. Tao had used almost all his skills, and just when he was about to give up, a cough came from Miss Cheng's mouth.

The cough sounds unpleasant.

But to the people in the room, it sounded like heavenly music.

There is no sound in the world more beautiful than that cough.

"He's alive! He's alive!"

"The girl is alive!"

For people who have hanged themselves or drowned, a single cough means their life has been saved.

Dr. Tao was covered in sweat, partly from anxiety and partly from exhaustion. He kept exclaiming, "I'm truly blessed with good fortune and a long life..."

If he had been a little later in rescuing her from the white silk ribbon, or if he had arrived even a little later, the life of the Right Chancellor's daughter would have been beyond saving.

Doctor Tao stood up, and the Right Chancellor's wife hugged her daughter who was slowly waking up, crying, "If you have something you can't figure out, why can't you tell your parents? If you choose to die, how can you bear to let your parents, who are old and gray, bury their child?!"

Miss Cheng hugged the Right Chancellor's wife and wept.

She cried for a short while, then fainted again. Doctor Tao quickly took her pulse, and then it was another ordeal.

The Right Chancellor stood aside and watched. He knew his own daughter's temperament; she would never be someone who would easily seek death. He wanted to know what had happened that made his daughter so heartless as to abandon them.

The Right Prime Minister wanted to ask, but his daughter had just woken up, and with so many people in the room, he held back. He looked at Shen Wan and asked, "Why did Princess Ling come to my Right Prime Minister's residence, and even bring Doctor Tao with her to save my daughter's life?"

His voice trembled, and although there was doubt on his face, there was even more gratitude.

Shen Wan said, "It seems that the Right Chancellor and his wife know nothing yet."

What should they know?

The Right Chancellor felt a sudden unease rising in his heart for no apparent reason.

Shen Wan only said this much before glancing at the maids in the room. The Right Prime Minister glanced at the steward, who then dismissed the maids and servants and left himself as well.

After everyone had left, Shen Wan said, "The Right Prime Minister must have heard that someone in the Yun family can predict things that haven't happened yet, right?"

The Right Chancellor nodded, "I have indeed heard about it."

Shen Wan said, "We actually knew about the matter of the Prince of Yanping killing the son of the Princess of Huyang a long time ago, but we didn't know what caused their conflict. We could only repeatedly remind the Prince of Yanping to stay away from the son of the Princess of Huyang. Unfortunately, it was impossible to guard against, and in the end, we still couldn't avoid this disaster."

"At the same time I learned about this, I also learned that the eldest daughter of the family had suddenly fallen ill and died on the day the Prince of Yanping was sentenced to beheading. None of us had considered the connection between the eldest daughter of the Cheng family and the Prince of Yanping killing the son of the Princess of Huyang. It wasn't until just now, when the Prince of Ling's men found out that the son of the Princess of Huyang went to the Long Bridge at Liuzhuang to see the eldest daughter of the Cheng family, that we realized that the eldest daughter of the Cheng family's sudden illness was most likely a suicide, and we rushed over to try to stop him—"

"Fortunately, we're not too late..."

The Right Chancellor was ashen-faced. He felt that the Crown Prince of Yanping was sentenced to beheading and that the Crown Prince of Yanping did not deserve to die. However, the Crown Prince of Yanping had no witnesses, and the person he killed was the Emperor's own nephew. He could only pay with his life. But the Right Chancellor did not expect that his daughter would be involved in the case of the Crown Prince of Yanping killing the son of Princess Huyang.

In order to help the eldest prince compete for the position of crown prince, the Empress Dowager wanted to win him over through marriage. However, he did not want to participate in the struggle for the crown prince position, and he also looked down on the son of Princess Huyang, who was spoiled. Therefore, he politely declined the Empress Dowager's marriage proposal.

Princess Huyang's son is looking for Yao'er... This is highly likely to happen...

He looked at the Right Chancellor's wife, "Did Yao'er go to the Long Bridge at Willow Village that day?"

The Prime Minister's wife shook her head. "I don't know. Yao'er did go out that day. She said she was going out to clear her head, so I let her go. She came back feeling down. I asked the maid, and she said Yao'er went to Huguo Temple to burn incense..."

She shouldn't be so depressed after returning from offering incense at Huguo Temple. The Right Chancellor's wife suspects that the maidservant lied to her, and that what Shen Wan said is the truth.

The Right Chancellor's wife feared that the death of Princess Huyang's son was indeed related to her daughter, but since her daughter had committed suicide, she had to find out the truth.

The head maid, Meixiang, accompanied her daughter out of the manor that day. The Right Prime Minister's wife called Meixiang in, and Meixiang looked uneasy. The Right Prime Minister's wife asked, "Tell me honestly, did the young lady go to Huguo Temple or Liuzhuang Changqiao when she left the manor that day?"

Meixiang knelt down with a thud and said, "It was this servant who lied to Madam. Miss did not go to Huguo Temple that day..."

The Prime Minister's wife, whose face was already pale, turned even paler. She glanced at the Prime Minister before saying, "Tell me and the Prime Minister everything that happened after you went to the Long Bridge at Willow Village. Don't hide a single word."