Wang Meiyuan, sporting black and purple panda eyes, her pupils filled with terror.
"Mother, I'm most afraid of rats! Why are those rats still outside? Why don't you drive them away? Why don't you kill them?!" Wang Meiyuan, disregarding her mother's words, clutched Wang夫人 tightly and asked urgently.
Wang夫人 was at her wit's end. "Meiyuan, we've already driven away some of those rats, but the ones that remain, no matter how we try, cannot be driven away."
"How can this be? Impossible! Burn them with fire, splash them with water, sprinkle them with medicine that makes them keep away!" Fierceness flashed in Wang Meiyuan's terrified eyes.
She couldn't bear to see rats!
Seeing rats would drive her mad!
Yun Shu, perched on the roof, witnessed this scene and suddenly recalled from the original host's memories that Wang Meiyuan's greatest fear was rats.
Upon seeing rats, Wang Meiyuan lost the ability to think calmly.
She was even incapable of doing anything.
She never imagined that Yun Xiao Jing, by sheer accident, had perfectly fulfilled Wang Meiyuan's deepest fear.
Original host, oh original host, look at those who once harmed you. They have now all received their punishment. You can rest in peace now!
"We've tried everything, and nothing works. Alas, Meiyuan, calm down first and tell your mother, what happened to you and Miss Li and the others? Didn't you go to the General's mansion to see Yun Shu? How is it that after leaving the General's mansion, you all..." Wang夫人 couldn't finish her sentence.
After all, this was her beloved daughter, doted on like a treasure.
Thinking of the unspeakable gossip outside, how could her always proud daughter endure it?
Wang Meiyuan suddenly sobered up. Ignoring the rats still crawling on the window, she said with immense hatred, "It's Yun Shu! It must be Yun Shu who poisoned us!"
"Yun Shu? Poisoning? The doctor said you weren't poisoned." Wang夫人 frowned deeply. In her memory, Yun Shu was always the silly girl who was toyed with by her daughter; how could she possibly harm Meiyuan?
No matter how she thought about it, it seemed unlikely.
"It was her! It must have been her!" Wang Meiyuan unexpectedly caught sight of her face in the bronze mirror.
Seeing it, she was terrified.
"Ah! This isn't me, it's definitely not me!"
The woman in the bronze mirror had a face as red as an apple, her eyes were darkened around the edges, and her eyelids were tinged with purple and blue. Her lips were purplish-blue, and her cheeks were frighteningly red, as if smeared with the most vibrant red rouge.
It was more terrifying than Yun Shu's former heavy makeup!
But Yun Shu's was genuine heavy makeup.
Hers was not!
"Meiyuan, calm down, calm down," Wang夫人 urged.
Wang Meiyuan couldn't calm down. Her face!
Would her face never be presentable again?
Suddenly, her body went limp, and she collapsed onto the bed.
"Ah! Yun Shu!" Wang Meiyuan stared at the roof. Through the gap in the tiles, she saw a fleeting figure in the faint breeze!
That figure was Yun Shu!
"What? Yun Shu?" Wang夫人 exclaimed in surprise.
She followed Wang Meiyuan's gaze.
All she saw was a sliver of moonlight shining through the roof.
Wang Meiyuan, as if driven mad, ran out.
She paid no mind to the scurrying rats at the door.
But.
When she reached the outside.
And looked up at the roof.
There was nothing on the roof.
Only the cold moonlight cast upon the glazed tiles.
Wang Meiyuan's body went limp, and she sat on the ground. "It must be Yun Shu, it must be her getting revenge on us! It's definitely her!"
Not far away.
Yun Shu watched Wang Meiyuan, who was slumped on the ground, repeatedly calling her name.
She curved her lips.
And let out a soft laugh.
She couldn't be bothered to glance again.
"Let's go."
A moment later.
On Zhu Luo Street.
The sounds of clashing cold steel.
Looking out, a carriage was being attacked by over a dozen people.