Having suffered a great calamity, the Xie family felt they should die knowing why, so they begged the officials to help them inquire. Finally, a constable who had received favors from the Xie family brought a manager before they set off.

The steward, not content with the Xie family's already miserable fate, further plundered them. Amidst their sorrowful expressions, he uttered a final question: "Did you feel any remorse for mistreating the top scholar back then?"

The Xie family was dumbfounded. How could they have Chen Sinian? Chen Hehua refused to believe it and insisted on seeing her nephew. But she never saw him again.

Instead, she heard that Chen Sinian had used his power to have Chenjia Village swallow Xiejia Village. Later, after the Xie clan members died one by one on the road to exile, she completely broke down and committed suicide.

Xie Chunlin, having already learned the truth in prison, committed suicide by running into a pillar. Xie Ming, orphaned and ostracized by his family, also failed to reach his place of exile.

Xie Ming arrived just as Chen Sinian was about to go to the city to study at a private school, and Chen Hehua was secretly selling his safety lock. The original plot was that Chen Hehua, fearing being exposed, preemptively accused her son of losing the safety lock.

She thought that Xie Ming was, after all, a descendant of the Xie family, and the family would at most punish him and then let it go.

Xie Chunlin did just that. He blamed his son for being careless and for losing his grandmother's belongings, so he punished him by making him reflect on his mistake in the woodshed.

Unexpectedly, the woodshed was dilapidated and leaked at night. Xie Ming was soaked all night and developed a persistent high fever, eventually turning from a bright child into a dull-witted person. His son's mental disability was one of the reasons Chen Hehua was determined to support Chen Si with all her might.

Xie Ming had no intention of letting Chen Hehua off the hook. If this woman hadn't taken it upon herself to bring him to the Xie family and then provided him with unscrupulous support, thus inflating her nephew's appetite, the Xie family wouldn't have suffered such a devastating blow, and the entire clan wouldn't have been so badly beaten and unable to recover.

As for Xie Chunlin, Xie Ming can only say that he should take responsibility for the idiot he spoiled.

After awakening the memories of the others, Xie Ming sat in the woodshed and began to ponder the path ahead.