"Ah! A ghost! A ghost!" Yehe Shi cried out in terror through the thin gauze curtains, looking towards the window. A white figure had clearly appeared at the window just moments before, but now it was gone.

"Master, there's nothing there. Master, please calm down." Yuhen had been serving Yehe Shi these past few days, and she herself had become mentally scattered. In addition, she had also seen that "ghost," and like Yehe Shi, she had become a frightened bird.

"I saw her just now, I really saw her!" Yehe Shi said to Yuhen, her almond-shaped eyes wide open, as if to say, "You have to believe me."

"Princess, please calm down. Yu Lu has already gone to inform the concubine; we need to see a doctor." Yu Hen's spirit was also on the verge of collapse; she felt she could no longer endure such torment. As for Ye He Shi, she was already trapped in a quagmire of despair.

"What do you want with her? She wishes I were dead right now. We need to find a sorcerer to exorcise the ghost!" Yehe said anxiously.

"Give me back my life!"

"Give me back my life!"

Before the two could stop, they heard another strange "ghostly" sound coming from outside the window.

“Listen, she’s here, she’s here again,” Yehe said, plugging her ears and shaking her head.

Yuhen was also quite frightened. She looked out the window, and although she could hear the sound, she couldn't see the white figure. So she mustered up her courage, stood up from Yehe's bedside, and slowly walked towards the window to see what was going on.

Suddenly, a gust of cold wind made the wooden windows creak. Yuhen was startled and took a few steps back, while Yeheshi pulled the covers over her head. The candles in the room were extinguished by the cold wind outside.

"Give me back my life!"

"Give me back my life!"

The sound was incredibly shrill, and with all the candles in the room extinguished, leaving the room pitch black, the terrifying noise terrified the two women in the darkness, making them feel as if their souls had left their bodies.

"Don't come looking for me, don't come looking for me!" Yehe Shi cried out, trembling violently under the covers.

"Why did you kill me? Why did you kill me?!" the "ghost" demanded from outside the window.

Yuhen hid in the corner of the table, not daring to look outside, while Yeheshi hid under the covers, also not daring to come out.

“You were sent by the Fujin to spy on me. You shouldn’t be asking about things you shouldn’t be asking about,” Yehe said, trembling.

“You used that kind of thing to control your master; you’re even more ruthless than the Fujin,” the ghost continued.

"Which woman in this inner quarters doesn't vie for the emperor's favor? If I don't use that thing, how can I compete with the women in the South Courtyard? You're just a maid; why should you concern yourself with these things? The one who harmed you is the Fujin (principal wife); go find them," said Yehe Shi.

"You heartless woman, you'd even resort to such despicable means to win favor," the ghost continued.

"When it comes to being ruthless, the Fujin is the most ruthless. She'll use anything to eliminate dissidents. At that chrysanthemum banquet, she first used opium to control me and make me work for her. It wasn't accidental for the warrior to bump into Niohuru, and that protruding stone was also prepared in advance. To get rid of Niohuru and to guard against Nian, she even went to the trouble of having someone design that exquisite bracelet. If I didn't obey her orders, I would have no chance of gaining the master's favor," Yehe murmured in the quilt.

"Don't put all the blame on the Fujin. If you weren't so wicked, how could you have been controlled by her?" The ghost outside the window had regained a little bit of its male voice, but by this time, the Yehe clan's mistress and servants were so terrified that they couldn't recognize it at all.

"In this inner court, who doesn't vie for favor? It's just a matter of different methods. If Niohuru didn't vie for favor, then why has she been the sole recipient of his affections until now? I just wanted to receive more favor, what's wrong with that?" Yehe continued.

"So, after you learned that I might reveal your secret, you cruelly killed me and then staged my suicide to make it look like I hanged myself, so that you could frame me for stealing jewelry and committing suicide out of guilt." Cui Da's voice gradually returned to normal.

Yuhen, who was hiding under the table, began to sense something was wrong and quickly said, "Princess, listen, why does her voice sound like it doesn't sound like a woman's?"

"You're right, I'm not a female ghost, so how could I have a woman's voice?" The white figure outside the window chuckled. It turned out that Cui Da and Cui Er had climbed up a large tree next to Ye He's bed, and then used ropes to suspend themselves. One of them was swinging in front of Ye He's window, while the other hid in the tree and controlled the ropes.

Just then, the door was suddenly opened. Lanqin and Fourth Master entered together, followed by Cui Niang and others carrying lantern beads.

After recognizing the person who had entered, Yehe quickly got out of bed. She hadn't seen the Fourth Prince for quite some time, and seeing him staring at her coldly, she trembled.

Yuhen also crawled out from under the table, and upon seeing who had come, he immediately understood.

"Yehe Clan, did you kill Peach Blossom? To win favor, you actually put that kind of aphrodisiac in my tea. You really have a lot of nerve," the Fourth Prince said coldly.

"My lord, I didn't! Please don't believe other people's nonsense. I absolutely did not poison anyone." Yehe Shi naturally couldn't admit it, so she could only desperately deny it.

"Didn't you just confess to Peach Blossom's soul? What, are you going to call Doctor Lin to thoroughly examine your room?" Lanqin said.

"Shut up! If you weren't monopolizing Fourth Master, how could all the women in this inner quarters be like this? You must have instigated him to come, right?" Yehe's mental state was still somewhat extreme, even though she already knew that the ghost outside the window might be a person in disguise.

"Shut up! You vile woman of the Yehe clan, of immoral character and ruthless heart, are hereby given a cup of arsenic. Your servant Yuhen, for aiding and abetting evil, is to be dragged out and beaten to death. Yulu, give her fifty strokes of the cane and throw her out. Hexiang and Hehua are to be returned to the head nanny and reassigned." The Fourth Prince had completely lost all affection for this woman. He had only favored her because of the Fujin's matchmaking, and she had been controlled by drugs afterwards, so he showed her no mercy now.

"Hahaha, hahaha, even if I become a ghost, I will not let you go." Yehe Shi howled unwillingly. Her mental state was on the verge of collapse. After hearing the Fourth Prince's decision, she seemed not to care at all. Instead, she still stared at Lanqin and refused to let go.

"Don't worry, you can't become a ghost. Because someone like you who is willing to sacrifice other people's lives to achieve their own goals will go to the eighteenth level of hell. King Yama won't let you out to harm people," Lanqin said firmly.