Chapter 385: Chapter 385: The Abused Female Lead Awakens (61)

"Go back, being able to spare her life is already a blessing."

"Let her stay in the pigsty for two months, in the future she should behave well in the Cheng Family, only then can she redeem herself."

Mrs. Cheng suddenly collapsed on the ground: "Can she be sent to the nunnery?"

"If you’re not afraid she’ll suddenly die, then sure."

Mrs. Cheng’s lips trembled, her eyes filled with despair, staring at that back devoid of any human compassion, her heart left with only regret. Finally, her gaze dimmed, slowly crawling up from the ground, staggering out.

"Ha!"

"A naive and foolish woman."

"Now she remembers her daughter."

...

The sky gradually darkened, Qiann Yan saw the servant carrying a quilt to her: "Put it over there."

The servant hurriedly put the things down and dashed off.

As night fell, Qiann Yan continued sitting on the steps. Ashui stayed by her side all along, never asking why.

Until the latter part of the night, Qiann Yan moved.

"Ashui, let’s go."

Ashui didn’t ask where to go, lightly following beside Qiann Yan. When Ashui was wondering where they were headed, he suddenly discovered Qiann Yan leaping onto the roof, without thinking much, he followed her up.

It was known that the County Master’s martial arts were exceptional, but it was the first time she displayed them, indeed remarkable.

Qiann Yan stood atop Cheng Jiren’s study, seeing many guards outside the study, her eyes darkening. She took out a bottle of medicine from her sleeve and covered her mouth and nose with a handkerchief. Seeing Ashui still in a daze, she asked, "Do you have a handkerchief?"

"I don’t need that," Ashui replied.

Qiann Yan took out a handkerchief and handed it to Ashui: "Cover your mouth and nose."

Ashui’s hands trembled slightly as he took the handkerchief, a bit reluctant to use it to cover his mouth and nose.

"Is it too small?" Qiann Yan took out several more handkerchiefs and handed them to him, "I bought quite a few."

Ashui: "..." So they were wholesale?

Seeing Ashui had already covered his mouth and nose, Qiann Yan opened the medicine bottle, pouring out the powder, pushing it with Inner Strength to make it fall into every corner surrounding the study. Seeing this, Ashui also helped, using Inner Strength to make the powder spread farther.

The people guarding the study started to slowly fall asleep after smelling the powder, and the two floated into the study.

"Help me find any secret compartments or rooms."

The reason she brought Ashui back was precisely for this; the other party has a keen sense of smell, able to discern the various scents inside the study, recognizing any differences definitely means something is amiss.

Sure enough, Ashui quickly found a secret room. This secret room was on the ground, with a mechanism under the desk’s bottom.

Although the secret room was tiny, it contained a wealth of things: gold, silver, jewelry, and some correspondence with Chen Country, along with some disguise masks.

"I didn’t expect... it was like this." Qiann Yan quickly finished reading the letters, finally understanding why Cheng Jiren cared nothing about his only daughter, it turned out this way.

She had previously reviewed the original owner’s memories, already discovering some traces, just suspecting Cheng Jiren had betrayed Great Zhou.

However, it was unclear why, or when he had betrayed.

Through analyzing the clues from the memories, Qiann Yan deduced that the meeting between the original owner and Jing Yunzhou was entirely orchestrated by Cheng Jiren.

Jing Lingyu was unaware of Cheng Jiren’s identity, one could say Cheng Jiren was more deeply embedded as a traitor compared to Jing Lingyu. If not for possessing the original owner’s memory, she wouldn’t have known he had betrayed the country.

No, according to the information in the letters, Cheng Jiren shouldn’t be called a traitor, he should be termed a spy, one hidden so deeply, no one had anticipated.