After a long while, Qin Wanru finally came to her senses and looked at her daughter nervously: "You know, even Doctor Bao couldn't do anything about it, how can he really cure it? I've never heard of him having medical skills."

“It must have been taught by his former mysterious master,” Chu Chuyan said shyly, glancing at Zu An before answering. “He used acupuncture to guide the cold energy in my body out little by little, and I could feel the changes in my body.”

"Acupuncture?" Qin Wanru's expression changed, and she hurriedly said, "Both Doctor Bao and Doctor Ji mentioned that everyone's internal condition is very different. If an outsider doesn't know this and rashly removes the cold from you, it could easily cause irreparable damage. Stop it now, you're not allowed to do such a dangerous thing!"

“He’s different. He knows about my health.” Chu Chuyan lowered her head shyly, feeling her ears getting hot.

Qin Wanru blinked: "???"

What does it mean that he knows about your physical condition?

Chu Chuyan still couldn't bring herself to admit what happened in the secret realm, so she hurriedly said, "It must be that the method his mysterious master taught him was quite special. Anyway, I can clearly feel my physical condition improving. Mother, you should have noticed that I've been feeling much warmer these past few days."

"Is he really that amazing?" Qin Wanru was skeptical. Suddenly, she thought of something and quickly pulled her daughter aside to ask in a low voice, "You said he guided the cold energy out of you through acupuncture, so... should we take off our clothes?"

Chu Chuyan's face flushed instantly, and she lowered her head, letting out a soft "hmm" in a voice barely audible.

"You took off your clothes?" Qin Wanru was shocked and didn't come to her senses for a long time.

She knew all too well the purpose behind the Chu family's decision to take Zu'an as their son-in-law. In her view, it was nothing more than a marriage in name only, meant to deceive outsiders.

The eldest daughter has always been incredibly proud, and has always been surrounded by various accolades of genius. She has never shown any respect to men.

She found it hard to imagine why her daughter would agree to undress in front of that guy from Zaun.

"Have you...have you already consummated your marriage?" Qin Wanru suddenly thought of a more serious question and hurriedly asked.

"Mother, what are you saying!" Chu Chuyan was still young and it was hard for her to change her long-standing girlish habits. She was too embarrassed to admit these things in front of her mother and sister, so she hurriedly said, "He was just giving me acupuncture on my back. I covered it up with something... to cover up other parts."

Qin Wanru finally breathed a sigh of relief, but even so, she still found it hard to understand why her daughter would agree to do that in front of Zu An.

Suddenly, she remembered something else and quickly lowered her voice to ask, "Did he...do he do anything inappropriate to me last night?"

Thinking about how she was first drugged by her youngest daughter and then acupunctured by her eldest daughter, she felt exhausted.

Chu Chuyan blushed as she recalled how the other person had mistaken her for herself and held her in his arms roughly last night... She quickly said, "No, I covered you with the blanket for you."

She knew her mother was furious, and if she found out what happened last night, she would cause a huge uproar.

Anyway, nothing really happened last night, so I'm not lying, am I?

Chu Chuyan didn't realize that she used to almost never lie, but after meeting Zu An, she started telling all sorts of white lies.

Qin Wanru finally felt a huge weight lifted off her shoulders.

"I'm too lazy to deal with this mess. It's all your fault, you two sisters. You'll have to clean it up yourselves." With that, she snorted and turned to leave.

The thought of her two beloved daughters arguing with her for other men, one drugging her and the other acupuncturing her, made her heart ache.

And the one who started all of this was that guy from Zaun!

Anger from Qin Wanru: +44 +44 +44...

Zuan was speechless for a moment, not expecting that she still harbored such resentment even after she left.

Chu Huanzhao, feeling a little guilty, hurriedly chased after her, trying his best to be cute and attentive: "Mother, I'll take you..."

Chu Chuyan then looked at Zu An: "You don't want to stay in the Chu family anymore?"

Looking into her captivating eyes, as mesmerizing as the starry sky, Zu An felt a little guilty: "It's mainly because your mother often targets me..."

Chu Chuyan shook her head: "My mother can be a bit sharp-tongued. Look, she deliberately dispersed everyone else to teach you a lesson this time, just to save face for you. She only wanted to reprimand you privately, but you actually talked back to her in front of her, making her lose face."

Zuan frowned and said, "We can't keep taking it out on her forever, can we?"

Chu Chuyan said, "Mother isn't as bad to you as you think. For example, if you said those things today, in another family, she would have beaten you to death, which is also allowed by the laws of the Great Zhou Dynasty. But she never did that. And just now, she turned her back and left, and even used me and Xiao Zhao as an excuse to put this matter to rest. Otherwise, the more seriously this matter is pursued, the more confused it will become."

Upon hearing her mention being beaten to death, Zu An thought to himself that live-in sons-in-law in this world really have no human rights.

Of course, if the other party really wants to kill him, he can't just surrender.

However, having such an identity is a ticking time bomb; one never knows when someone might use it against him.

Noticing that his expression was somewhat unpleasant, Chu Chuyan's tone softened:

"You have to understand, Mother hasn't been in a good mood lately. First, something happened to me, which worried her a lot; recently, Prefect Sang Hong has been pressuring her to pay taxes under the imperial decree, so it's no wonder she's a bit anxious. Plus, you don't know how to say anything nice, which is why you've caused such a big commotion, cough cough~"

She couldn't help but cough as she got a little excited.

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