Thirteenth Lady's Comback: Her Everyday Life as a Bystander-Chapter 169 - 9: Scent Unveils the Truth (Part 2)

Yang Liu couldn’t help but want to hit her at this point. What time is it, and she’s still being mysterious?

But she had to admit, when Yang Liu heard Susu joking, her heart, which had been tense all along, relaxed a little. Susu could still tease her, proving that the situation wasn’t too severe.

"The good news is that the Fetal Protection Talisman your mother-in-law sought has no problem. The issue lies in this pocket." Susu’s meaning was clear to Yang Liu. This pocket might not have been made by her mother-in-law, and it wasn’t handed to her personally by her mother-in-law either. Someone might have exploited that.

Yang Liu preferred to believe this hypothesis, at least she didn’t want to consider her mother-in-law - who had been good to her since she got married - as an enemy, and her mother-in-law had no reason to harm her at all.

"Mist Dream mostly exists in powder or pill form. However, the Mist Dream Fragrance on this pocket was emitted from the fabric of the pocket itself. What does this indicate? It indicates that before the silk was woven into fabric, it had already been boiled in water mixed with Mist Dream Fragrance. The fact that the scent lingered for a long time shows that the dye used for the fabric also contained Mist Dream."

Susu thought that the historical palace dramas she watched in her past life weren’t completely useless.

"The bad news is, the person who did it was very cautious and very patient. It’s easy to find out who made this pocket, but no one would investigate who wove the fabric."

The reason Susu sighed with relief was because the person who acted was very cautious and didn’t use Mist Dream directly. Ordinary people couldn’t smell it, and although it affected sleep, the potency wasn’t strong. As long as the source of the fragrance was destroyed, the spirit consumed in dreams could slowly be restored.

However, Susu still broke out in a cold sweat, thankful for the caution and care of the perpetrator. If Mist Dream had been used directly, Yang Liu might have been inhaling it for at least half a month since her pregnancy, slowly depleting her spirit. Now, the fetus might not have survived.

Thinking of this, Susu suddenly raised her head. Perhaps the target from the start was Yang Liu’s unborn child.

Susu thought of what Yang Liu mentioned: Mrs. Huang and Aunt Han had a fight which led to Aunt Han having a difficult childbirth that resulted in the fetus suffocating to death. Thinking of the familiar fragrance she noticed, it was clearly the scent of the Mandala Flower.

Furthermore, Aunt Han had reasons to act against Yang Liu and her unborn child—to take revenge on Mrs. Huang.

"Perhaps you can guess who wants to harm you?" Susu felt she was not really cut out to be a detective; her logical reasoning skills weren’t quite up to par.

Yang Liu mentally reviewed everything. She’d been married into the Huang Family for barely half a year. As a new wife, she wasn’t involved in household management and had no conflicts of interest with anyone.

When she became pregnant, the Huang Family treated her like a treasure. If her pregnancy impeded someone, it could only be the Cousin who was so eager to marry her husband, hoping to keep the union within the family.

But looking at Susu’s expression, it was clear that this "Mist Dream Fragrance" was very special, special enough to shock Susu, who had seen countless exquisite things.

The Cousin from the Huang Family came from a modest background and probably couldn’t even distinguish sandalwood from sinking incense. Yang Liu doubted she could know about and acquire Mist Dream.

However, another person seemed much more likely to be the one behind it.

"Aunt Han!"

At first, Yang Liu was merely suspicious, but when she mentioned the name and saw Susu’s expression, she knew she’d guessed correctly.

Susu, quite unladylike, rubbed her nose and said, "You know, my nose is very sensitive to special scents. I smelled the Mandala Flower scent—the primary ingredient of Mist Dream—on that Han Shi."

Mist Dream Fragrance is very special; its scent lingers without dissipating. That’s why Susu didn’t smell anything on Yang Liu but only discovered the Mist Dream when entering the green gauze cabinet.

This uniqueness was due to the Mandala Flower. That Han could be just a half-baked Incense Maker who, while making incense, touched the Mandala Flower and absorbed its ’lingering without dispersing’ fragrance.

Susu hesitated for a moment but went on, "Mist Dream Fragrance was a forbidden fragrance in the previous dynasty’s palace, known to only a few. I know about it because my mother’s ancestors were Incense Makers who passed down many fragrance recipes and secrets through word of mouth."

Susu was very talented in the art of fragrance-making, and when she was in Yangzhou, even the Old Madam hired famous Incense Makers to teach her for a while. It was the first time Yang Liu knew that Susu had not only talent but also ancestral legacy.

Yang Liu was touched that Susu shared a secret she had never revealed before, and she vowed to keep it forever hidden in her heart. Outwardly, pretending not to care, she changed the subject, asking: "Since Mist Dream is so unique, how could a bridal maid like Han Shi have known about it?"