"Master, Master!" A maid dressed in green rushed in.

Hesheli, who was in a good mood and looking at herself in the dressing mirror, seemed to have lost some weight. She turned around and scolded the maid who had disturbed her good mood.

"What's the matter with this panic? Have you no manners? If you have no reason," she sneered, her eyes turning cold.

The maid wasn't afraid of being scolded. She really had something to report and wasn't afraid. "Master, I really have something important to tell you and need your advice."

"Oh!" Hesheli raised an eyebrow, intrigued. Feeling uncomfortable talking with her neck turned like that, she simply turned around and asked, "What is it?"

The maidservant quickly said loudly, "Didn't you instruct me last time to have our palace staff..."

"Shut up!" Hesheli glared angrily at the ignorant maid, then craned her neck like a thief to look at the doorway, and then at the two doors and windows.

After looking at it, I felt that my actions were a bit silly, and more importantly, they were useless. It would be more reliable to send someone outside to keep an eye on things.

After thinking it over, Hesheli gestured to another maid waiting inside to go outside and keep watch, before turning her gaze back to the green-clad maid who had been speaking loudly and without any restraint.

The maid went out and looked around. Seeing no one, she breathed a sigh of relief, but she didn't notice that a tree branch was swaying even when there was no wind.

Inside the room, after the maid who had been checking indicated that no one was there, Hesheli spoke.

"Alright, you can speak now, but remember to keep your voice down." She was still worried that this maid was naive and simple-minded, so she reminded her again.

"I understand," the maid replied softly, then continued what she had just been saying, "Didn't you instruct me last time to have our people in the palace find a sure thing that wouldn't be discovered?"

Before she could finish listening, Hesheli became anxious, "What's wrong? Can't you find an opportunity?"

“Found it,” the maid shook her head, then added a twist, “but we’ve been discovered, so we have to stop.”

Upon hearing this, Hesheli realized something was wrong and her face turned pale.

The maid who was speaking noticed that her mistress's expression was off. Even if she was oblivious, she knew that her mistress was worried that things would be exposed and the consequences would be severe. After all, that was also the first thought that came to her mind when she heard the news.

The maid in green immediately comforted her, "My lady, please don't worry, the consequences haven't reached that point yet."

Upon hearing this, Hesheli's expression improved somewhat, but she was still worried and stared intently at the maid who had spoken.

The maid in green dared not keep her mistress in suspense and quickly said, "The person who discovered it did not report it or spread the word. We heard from our people that after they were discovered, they investigated and found that the other party—well, not just one party, but several parties—discovered it. However, these parties worked together to cover up our tracks."

After recounting all this in one breath, the maid paused, and finally summarized, "That's roughly how things are. People from the palace have come to ask if you wish to continue, Master."

"Is that so? Let me think about it and then I'll say it." As she spoke, Hesheli lowered her eyes to think, and when she felt that her thoughts were not going well, she stood up somewhat annoyed and paced back and forth in the room.

They discovered that their side was about to take action, yet they still helped to cover it up. It can be guessed that the people behind those parties must also have ill intentions towards the Niohuru clan.

Who would value a mere fourth-rank official's daughter so much? Recalling the recent rumors in the palace, there have been people targeting the Niohuru clan, which means that someone knows the Niohuru clan's importance, or even their future.

Then, considering that I have returned to my former self, I wonder if there are others who have also returned to their former selves.

Thinking about it this way, she immediately identified several people whose life trajectories were quite different from her previous life. For example, the Fujin (Prince Honghui) was alive; Jiaming (Jiaming) didn't exist in her previous life; and Li Shi (Li Shi) also seemed a bit off. In her previous life, she was a secondary Fujin, and she had even had contact with her. She was definitely not like this person now.

Hmm, also, the Wang woman at the Eighth Prince's residence is different and suspicious; Wanyan…

Wait, now is not the time to think about that. Let's solve the current problem first.

As mentioned before, those parties—well, those who might have returned to the past—are also deeply wary of Niohuru and, like herself, want to deal with her. So, could she also use them? After all, they share a common goal.

Suddenly, she stopped, gritted her teeth, and seemed to have made up her mind.

He looked up, his body tense, and stared intently at the maid in green, asking, "Do you know the background of those groups?"

She needed a clue to confirm her guess.

When her master asked her this question, the maid finally remembered what she had just forgotten. Her heart skipped a beat, and her face turned pale instantly.

Oh no, she had let slip some important information. The frightened maid stammered, "We only roughly, roughly found out that one side seems to have the shadow of Consort Li from the manor." As she spoke, her body trembled slightly.

There really is something wrong with the Li family!

Hershey's tense nerves relaxed instantly, and she stopped staring at the maid.

Seeing that her master didn't seem to mind her carelessness, the maid breathed a sigh of relief, her complexion improved, and she stopped trembling with fear.

Hesheli had no time to care about the maid's reaction; she was busy refining her plan.

Because of Li's emergence, she became even more certain of her guess: there were others in and outside the mansion who, like her, had received the blessings of the gods and Buddhas and returned to their former lives.

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