I don't know if it was Liang Jingru who gave him the courage, but Helian, in a fit of rage, stubbornly resisted the sinister smile of his own son's seemingly kind father.

"Deng!" She turned her fluffy little head in a flash, burying her face in Helian Nie's arms. Her soft, babyish voice sounded surprisingly firm at that moment.

"I won't drink, I won't drink, Sisi just won't drink, waaaaah~!"

"Dong." That was the sound of something falling.

"Hiccup?" It was Helian Mousi's bitter hiccup filled with doubt.

Sisi, who had intended to bury her head in the sand with her child, suddenly sensed something was amiss.

What she feared most was the sudden silence. Helian Si's curled eyelashes fluttered, and she finally mustered up the courage to peek out from her son's arms.

You won't believe it until you see it, and what you find will shock you.

All that could be seen was his son's handsome face, now terrifyingly sinister, his narrow, almond-shaped eyes slightly narrowed.

He stared intently at the bowl of calming soup in his hand, his eyes so sharp they seemed to want to bore a hole through it.

Inside the hall, Consort Lian and a group of palace servants were all staring at the bowl of calming soup, their faces filled with shock, horror, and fear.

Especially Yue'er, whose legs went weak and she knelt down on the ground.

"What's wrong with your body?"

Of all the people in the hall, only Helian Mou Sisi was completely baffled.

Seeing everyone staring at the bowl of calming soup their child was holding, Helian Si followed their gaze.

Upon seeing this, Helian Mou Sisi felt even more guilty, because there was a beautiful hairpin in the bowl of calming soup.

That beautiful hairpin—wasn't it the one she was wearing in her hair? She looked closer.

"Wait a minute, why has the pretty hairpin turned black?"

"Oh, this is a beautiful hairpin given to me by the Master. So, the Master is so stingy?"

The pretty hairpin I gave to Sisi turned out to be fake, right? It's just that the surface is plated with shiny silver, but the inside is actually just dark iron, right?

Oh dear, so the Master is also a poor man like Sisi. If I had known this earlier...

Then Sisi wouldn't accept those pretty hairpins that the teacher gave her; the teacher doesn't earn money easily!

No need to be so polite with Sisi. After all, Sisi has been smitten with Master's stunning good looks for a long time!

Helian Mousi hadn't yet realized the seriousness of the silver hairpin flower turning black.

The little one was still shaking his head and sighing, his little head filled with the old belief that his teacher was very, very poor.

"Peng!!!"

The bowl of calming soup was smashed away by Helian Nie, the sound of the shattering porcelain bowl particularly jarring in the hall.

The calming soup splashed everywhere, splattering onto several palace servants, but no one dared to make a sound. With a thud, even Consort Lian was splashed...

In an instant, everyone in Yongqing Palace knelt down, their bodies trembling violently beneath their robes, and their foreheads were covered in a dense layer of cold sweat.

"You'd better give me a reason not to kill you."

Helian Nie's sinister gaze swept over the people kneeling on the floor below the hall. His terrifying and violent voice, filled with a strong aura of tyranny, sent chills down everyone's spine.

Helian Mou Sisi finally realized what was happening, looking at the bowl of calming soup that his son had thrown away.

The little one swallowed hard, her tiny hands clutching her baby's clothes, a hint of fear creeping into her heart.

So, so, so Sisi almost said goodbye to this beautiful world just now, right?