Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 141 - 22: Aftermath

When Xiang Lian entered the manor, "Mr. Bai" did not pay attention to her. Seeing that no one else noticed, he swaggered away. In his eyes, such people deserve to be bullied.

After Xiang Lian succeeded, Gao Yue had to clean up the mess. Originally, he intended for Xiang Lian to die and be done with it. However, at that time Prince Gong was causing trouble for him, and he was busy dealing with his own affairs. He could only have "Mr. Bai" hide for a while. Even if Xiang Lian gave people away, "Mr. Bai" had already disappeared without a trace.

It was only then that "Mr. Bai" remembered that besides Xiang Lian knowing him, his cheap mother-in-law had also met him, which led to the disaster for Xiang Lian’s parents.

To be honest, Xiang Lian’s parents and siblings were unjustly implicated. Xiang Lian’s mother used to be an embroideress, but she couldn’t do embroidery due to poor eyesight and was made a menial servant by Second Madam. Although they weren’t too far away at the time, she didn’t clearly see what "Mr. Bai" looked like.

When Xiang Lian decided to "deal with" Susu, she was afraid her family would be implicated if the plan was exposed. Therefore, she gave some silver that "Mr. Bai" had given her to her parents, telling them to return to the countryside and start a small business.

Xiang Lian’s mother saw the amount of silver and feared her domineering daughter. She kept everything to herself, and the family left with their belongings, only to encounter "Mr. Bai" and others trying to kill them to silence them.

It was also a case of Xiang Lian’s parents’ luck not running out. At that time, warriors hired by the Princely Heir of Gao Family happened to arrive in the Capital for their first task, wanting to showcase their abilities. After staying at Gao Family for a few days, they received Gao Yue’s orders to kill and silenced people. Then they informed the Princely Heir, coincidentally saving Xiang Lian’s parents and brother, and capturing "Mr. Bai" alive.

Susu also heard about these events when the Princely Heir reported them to Old Madam, and the interrogation did not continue that day.

"Mr. Bai" was someone Gao Yue spent money to hire. Although Gao Yue did not show up, "Mr. Bai," who had been mingling in the Capital for twenty years, quickly traced the clues back to the main family. He originally did not want to offend the Song Family, but Gao Yue, in an attempt to win back the heart of his niece, was gentle and attentive to his wife, gaining his wife’s dowry and promising "Mr. Bai" a large sum of silver.

"Mr. Bai" heard that the task was merely to teach a maid a lesson, thinking it was a typical case of jealousy between women, and agreed to it. Little did he know he was boarding a pirate ship.

Running away was one thing; he didn’t expect to have to kill people to silence them. This truly was an unprovoked disaster! To save his own life, he confessed everything without waiting for the "Hero" with martial arts skills to interrogate him, and even made a statement about having elderly and young ones to care for. He merely practiced "the beauty trap," why was it so difficult?

Gao Yue emerged, and Fifth Miss had nowhere to escape. Bisha, unable to withstand the questioning, eventually confessed that she saw Nanny Zhao at Doctor Zhao’s place and discovered the medicine boy burying medicine dregs, and she stole some of the dregs. Then, their master and servant thought they had leverage, intending to strike Susu a heavy blow!

Old Madam Song could not understand how it was that, among the girls brought up by her side, the ones who suffered great grievances from their Legitimate Mother, Third Girl and Fourth Girl, did not develop twisted personalities, but rather, the Fifth Girl, who had not suffered much, adamantly followed a path to destruction.

Not to mention how ridiculous it is for a wealthy young lady to be jealous of a maid, just the care Susu had given her previously, how could she insist on confronting Susu?

Old Madam could not understand, and neither could Susu, but with things the way they were, there was nothing more to say. Xiang Lian was not sold off but instead assigned by Old Madam to a rural estate with a partner, fulfilling the saying "heart higher than the sky, life thinner than paper."

As for Bisha, Old Madam had someone send her back to Fifth Miss, who did not protest with tears or argue unwillingly but had her luggage packed and personally had Fifth Young Master escort Fifth Miss back to Yangzhou.

Fifth Miss begged the maid, begged the servant, begged her sisters, and begged her siblings, but this time was different from the last; now with Susu’s reputation being a minor detail, Gao Yue could commit murder and hire assassins. One fears that one day the Song Family will truly be influenced by him because of Fifth Miss!

On the day of departure, Fifth Miss dressed unusually lavish, begged Fifth Young Master to let her kowtow to her grandmother once more before leaving. Upon reaching Sui’an Hall, Old Madam finally saw her.