"Hongxiu!!!" The one who roared hoarsely was Sun Chan. "Shut up! Shut up!"

She was being held up by two servants, struggling desperately, filled with fear and dread.

The city lord and his wife were initially stunned, but after seeing Sun Chan's reaction, their doubts wavered.

The city lord glared angrily and roared, "Sun Chan! What does Hongxiu mean? Isn't Wuyou Huaisong's biological son?"

His gaze kept shifting between Sun Chan and Wuyou.

Wuyou was no longer as fierce as before. He endured the pain, propped himself up, and stared in Sun Chan's direction.

"No...no, it's not like that..." Under questioning, Sun Chan suppressed her anger and shook her head in fear, too guilty to look others in the eye.

The city lord swayed and turned to look at Jiang Huaisong, only to find that Jiang Huaisong also had an angry expression on his face.

"You shameless woman! You really did cheat on me with another man! You even had a son with another man behind my back!"

Sun Chan burst into tears. Everyone's eyes were on her, and for the first time, she felt utterly ashamed.

But Hongxiu said lightly, "Second Young Master, don't worry. Although Young Master Wuyou is not your child, he is not the Second Madam's child either. He was born to a peasant woman outside the city."

Sun Chan was completely flustered, repeatedly muttering, "Shut up...shut up..."

At this moment, the city lord's wife had no time to pay attention to Sun Chan's appearance. She opened her mouth wide and felt a wave of dizziness: "What did you say?"

Hongxiu lowered her head and slowly recounted: "After the Second Madam entered the manor, the Second Young Master treated her very coldly. Without a child to rely on, she felt that she could not gain a foothold in the City Lord's manor. However, she was helpless because she could not conceive. So she had to take a risk and find a way to bring in a child from outside and pretend that it was born to her and the Second Young Master."

"You're talking nonsense! That's not true! You're slandering me!" Sun Chan weakly retorted.

Hongxiu seemed to have known all along that Sun Chan would deny it, so she continued:

"Second Madam, verifying this matter is extremely simple; there's no need for a blood test. The doctor who helped you during your pregnancy, the midwife who delivered you, the maid who served you, and the servant who brought the child from outside the city into the City Lord's mansion are all still in Qingfeng City. Just ask them, and we'll know everything."

Sun Chan's face turned ashen, as if the sky had collapsed in an instant. She asked in a daze, "Didn't you say you dealt with it?"

"It has been dealt with. You asked me to send all these people to their graves, but I am kind-hearted and just couldn't bring myself to do it. So I gave them a sum of money to keep this secret for the rest of their lives. But now, if the city lord wants to know the truth of what happened back then, he can force them to ask more questions and find out the truth."

Sun Chan trembled and sat weakly on the ground, staring blankly at Hong Xiu: "It was you...it was you who suggested this plan to me back then. You said that having a child by my side would make me invincible in the City Lord's Mansion. You said you would handle the aftermath and that this matter would be foolproof...it was all your doing..."

Hongxiu put on a wronged look: "Second Madam, how could I, a mere maid, possibly come up with these methods? I was just following your instructions."

"Back then, when the First Madam was pregnant, you lost your bet with her and failed to move into the small building. So you've always disliked the First Madam and thought you had to have a child to suppress her arrogance."

"It's your jealousy that's causing this, your unwillingness to be subordinate to others, your desire to establish yourself in the City Lord's Mansion, and your resentment that the Second Young Master can't get you pregnant, so you came up with such a dangerous plan and had me do everything for you."

"Although I am unwilling, you are my master, and I cannot disobey your orders in anything, which is why I have gone astray all this way."

"Today, in front of the city lord and his wife, I should tell the truth and not let you and Young Master Wuyou continue to make mistakes."

Hongxiu looked righteous and awe-inspiring, as if she had suddenly transformed into a messenger of justice.

Gu Jiangli sat calmly in the corner, enjoying the farce.

Jiang Huaizhi, who was standing next to her, was already beaming with excitement.

He had been anticipating this farce for a long time, and now it had finally begun.

Sun Chan was already exhausted. Even if she was slow-witted, she could figure out who the mastermind behind Hongxiu was.

But now, all she could do was watch Gu Jiangli and Jiang Huaizhi with resentment, unable to do anything about it.

The expressions on the faces of Jiang Huaisong, the city lord, and his wife were quite remarkable.

Jiang Huaisong's lips trembled, his face tense, wanting to vent his anger but not knowing who to vent it on. The anger he was holding back made his chest heave violently, and he took several steps back.

The city lord and his wife were pale, still surrounded by doubt, panic, and disbelief.

"Isn't Wuyou my Jiang family's grandson?" the city lord's wife asked in a trembling voice.

Hongxiu answered firmly: "Yes, I handled everything back then. I saw with my own eyes that after Young Master Wuyou was born in the farmer's house, he was brought into the city lord's mansion through the back door by the servants. During the ten months that the second madam was pregnant, she still had menstruation every month, and I personally hid it for her."

“Young Master Wuyou has never been a member of the City Lord’s bloodline. He was a tool used by the Second Madam for power struggles, to save face, and to gain status.”

The city lord's wife swayed as she plopped down on a stool, her face ashen, shaking her head repeatedly: "How could that be? How could Wuyou not be Huaisong's child? I love him so much, I spoil him so much, how could he not be Huaisong's child?"

She asked the same question again and again, her gaze fixed on Wuyou.

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