After hurriedly passing through the bamboo forest, Ye Yunniang intended to take a detour to leave.
A pair of strong, large hands lifted her up, and she leaped into the bamboo house.
Amidst Ye Yunniang's astonished gaze, she opened the mechanism and quietly entered the hidden space of the bamboo house.
Calling it a secret room might not be accurate, as the space is no more than two feet wide, and there is a row of cabinets taking up space along the side.
The two people could only stand close together in the closed room.
Ye Yunniang was held tightly in the arms of the man behind her.
Feeling the man's burning heat behind her, Ye Yunniang's heart pounded like a drum.
"Second Master, let me go." Ye Yunniang had already recognized who the man who led her into the secret room was.
"Shh, if you don't want to reveal your whereabouts, don't make any rash moves," Jiang Mingzhe whispered, while covering Ye Yunniang's mouth.
"Look outside."
The door was pushed open, and a man and a woman came in.
The two intruders startled Ye Yunniang so much that she gaped in surprise.
How could it be them?
The woman, no, the young girl, Ye Yunniang recognized, was Jiang Mingyue, the fifth daughter of the Jiang family.
The man, no, he should be a boy, whom Ye Yunniang had seen twice before, was the sixth master of the Jiang family—Jiang Mingshu.
They are half-siblings!
"Jiang Mingshu is not the old man's biological son."
Jiang Mingshu's birth mother was Concubine Bai in the manor. Bai Yurong's first man was the head of the Jiang family manor.
Bai Yurong was married to him for seven years without getting pregnant, and was subsequently divorced.
That day, the old master went to the estate for a stroll. He took a liking to Bai Yurong, a woman of striking beauty, and had her carried into the mansion in a small sedan chair, becoming his concubine. A month after Bai Yurong entered the mansion, the doctor diagnosed her as two months pregnant.
Jiang Mingzhe whispered in Ye Yunniang's ear, "Once she entered the mansion, the old master accepted the child in her womb. He named him Jiang Mingshu."
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