Your Highness, your wife has had her virginity mark applied and married someone else.

Wei Ziye's deep, dark eyes seemed to see right through a person's soul: "Do you think the miracle doctor will save you?"

Shen Mingshu: "No."

Wei Ziye: "So the Gu in your body didn't come from him, and you said that your right hand was instantly healed because of her touch."

"Between two Gu, the stronger Gu always eats the weaker Gu. You can recover instantly, but she becomes weaker and weaker."

Isn't the answer obvious?

Shen Mingshu's eyes flickered with emotion: "So?"

Wei Ziye raised his hand, his fingertips tracing along her right arm and landing on her tightly clenched palm.

Then, her large, well-defined hand forcefully pried open her palm.

On Shen Mingshu's fair and slender middle finger, the knuckles were twisted, and there was a scratch on it.

Wei Ziye looked at the bloodshot veins gradually appearing in Shen Mingshu's eyes, and spoke softly and slowly.

"Of the ten fingers, only the area where the heart's blood originates will suffer from insufficient blood supply to the owner's body, resulting in the finger bone not being able to fully heal."

"Shen Mingshu, the blood from the cut on your fingertip that day caused by the silver hairpin allowed her to continue healing on her own."

"Now," Wei Ziye's eyes gleamed coldly, "please give me some more."

The stench of blood filled her mouth, and Shen Mingshu gritted her teeth and spat out a single word: "Get out."

Just when she was about to escape from hell, fate would always play a trick on her, causing her to fall back into hell at the last moment!

Why?! Why?!

Why should she be the one to realize what's inside her body so late?

Why should her physical condition be shared with others?

A surge of overwhelming resentment welled up in Shen Mingshu's eyes, as if a raging fire was lurking within them!

Shen Mingshu's refusal was expected, but the extent of her resistance was beyond Wei Ziye's comprehension.

"Shen Mingshu, she's also your elder sister! No matter how deep the hatred between you, she has already been punished!"

"You saved her life today, and I promise that after your grandmother's birthday, I will ensure that she never appears before you again."

"Get out of my way! Wei Ziye, she broke my finger and killed my unborn child! You have no right to ask me to forgive her, and I will never forgive her!"

Shen Mingshu's eyes were filled with a deep red, as if they were filled with resentment that had accumulated for thousands of years.

"She deliberately courted death! She deserved it for messing things up!"

"If you dare let me save her, I'll take her with me!"

Inside the prison, the chains rattled violently as Shen Mingshu struggled.

Shen Mingshu's eyes seemed to be sharpened with piercing cold blades, and the humiliation and resentment accumulated in her chest burned her internal organs.

Wei Ziye hissed, "Shen Mingshu! Don't be so stubborn!"

"You! Dare!"

Shen Mingshu stared intently at him, her eyelashes trembling slightly, not out of fear, but as a physiological reaction to the surging hatred that she could hardly control.

The way she looked at him, as if she wanted to etch him into her heart and hate him for a lifetime, completely froze Wei Ziye's breath.

"Shen Mingshu!"

Wei Ziye roared, his eyes bloodshot, and pinched her cheek hard: "She's my grandfather's savior! Today, you have no choice but to save her!"

With a flash of silver light, Wei Ziye, holding a silver needle between the tips of his left fingers, stabbed it straight into her middle finger.

"No! You mustn't!"

Liu Yi shouted in alarm from behind. Before Wei Ziye could figure out what he meant, he saw Shen Mingshu suddenly bleeding from all seven orifices and spitting out mouthfuls of blood.

"you--!"

Wei Ziye's pupils suddenly shrank to pinpoints. His hand trembled as he tried to cover Shen Mingshu's mouth, only to find that the blood seemed endless, instantly soaking through their clothes.

Shen Mingshu saw the panic on his face and smiled knowingly, "Wei Ziye... cough cough, you should never, ever think about me saving her..."

"Ah Shu!"

"Fifth Sister!"

……

The Lu residence.

As soon as Lu Mingqi returned, he went to Lu Yanzhi's study.

"In other words, is the supervisor you found reliable? Why didn't the officials from the Ministry of Personnel find him when they came today?"

Lu Yanzhi paused, pen in hand. He looked up, his face cold: "Where is Wei Yuan?"

Lu Mingqi asked, puzzled, "What does this have to do with him? Hasn't he always been at the academy?"

Something happened...

Lu Yanzhi jumped up and hurried outside. When he reached the door, he realized something and suddenly stopped.

"Father, I need a shadow guard."

Lu Mingqi's expression instantly turned serious: "What is it?"

Lu Yanzhi: "Find someone."

"That supervisor?" Lu Mingqi's brows furrowed solemnly. "In other words, do you know where our Lu family's shadow guards come from?"

Lu Yanzhi certainly knew.

The Shen family was once the fourth of the four major families in the capital.

After their homes were raided and they were put into hiding, most of the shadow guards were taken over by the emperor.

If it weren't for the need for a family to rise quickly to counterbalance the Wei family, the Lu family wouldn't be able to enter the ranks of the four great families based solely on their official positions and prestige.

However, just as the emperor could give something, he could also take it back out of fear.

The way that would put the emperor at ease the most was to allow only the shadow guards to represent the Lu family, thus demonstrating their absolute loyalty to the emperor.

However, Lu Yanzhi did not bring this up impulsively.

"Father, given the current situation of the Wei family, the most turbulent time has passed. However, if we still don't have any leverage to give to the Emperor, he will not feel at ease."

Serving a ruler is like serving a tiger; the ruler's heart is unpredictable. Both absolute treachery and absolute loyalty are wrong.

Only moderation is the right path.

Although Lu Mingqi agreed, he was still uneasy: "So, this is the first time shadow guards have been used here. Is this supervisor worthy of the title?"

If I were to transfer people arbitrarily, it would be difficult to appease your heart.

Lu Yanzhi was silent for two seconds before saying, "She is actually a woman."

"What?!"

Lu Mingqi exclaimed in surprise. Looking at Lu Yanzhi's serious expression, he paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter.

"Good, good, good!" Three "good"s in a row were enough to show his satisfaction with this "handle".

"Don't worry, Father will explain to the Emperor for you."

Lu Mingqi laughed heartily and then asked, "Recently, your mother arranged a marriage for the Empress's family, and the Empress was very pleased. Why don't you take this opportunity, Father, to ask the Emperor to grant you a marriage?"

"Father..." Lu Yanzhi said helplessly, "It's not even close to being settled yet, I'm leaving now."

Lu Mingqi then remembered that Lu Yanzhi was going to find his wife, and hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes! Go quickly, and take more people with you!"

"it is good."

……

Qingyun Academy.

The guards sensed something was wrong and came to report.

"Master, the Fifth Miss was taken to prison, and she didn't use the bone whistle at all. I'm worried that she might not know she has the bone whistle with her?"

Wei Yuan paused, then belatedly realized a possibility and immediately stood up.

"The bone whistle is in her arms; she can sense it while sleeping at night. Was anyone allowed into her room on the first day?"

The guard's heart sank: "The young master bathed the fifth young lady that night, and then left in the carriage less than a quarter of an hour later."

"Take a bath?" Wei Yuan slammed the book in his hand onto the guard's head, suppressing his anger and gritting his teeth as he retorted, "Why didn't you report something so important!"

The guard immediately knelt down and explained, "Miss Lu stayed here that night. I informed her through Mingzhu's name, and she said she would relay the message to you."

"..."

That night, Lu Youyou suddenly ran away from home, saying that she was unwilling to kneel in the ancestral hall and would rather die than return home.

He only let her stay for one day because he was soft-hearted, and he missed such an important thing!

Wei Yuan kicked the wooden stool away angrily: "Where is he?!"

Bodyguard: "Linyun Town."