A Fine Performance, Part Two

At first, Aunt Xue had only listened at the wall to determine whether the widowed woman having an affair next door was the person she suspected.

But once she pressed her ear to the wall, how could she possibly choose what she heard?

Who knew how much time had passed? By the time Aunt Xue came back to her senses, the room beyond the wall had long since been emptied.

Slowly supporting herself against the wall as she straightened up, feeling the aching numbness in her limbs, Aunt Xue moved her hands and feet in a daze. To her surprise, a great deal of snow came rustling down from her shoulders.

Thinking that she had actually spent so long eavesdropping in the heavy snow, Aunt Xue found it utterly absurd.

She hurriedly brushed the snow off herself and ducked into a nearby covered corridor.

At the same time, another question began to haunt her: who exactly had the two lovers been?

The woman was easy enough to guess. There was a seventy or eighty percent chance that it had been Li Wan—aside from herself, Li Wan was the only widow in the household.

As for the man...

From beginning to end, Aunt Xue had failed to make out his accent. Even the clearest cries of "sister-in-law" had been filled with too much suppressed emotion for anyone to identify.

If they were discussing suspects, the first would naturally be Sun Shaozong, the master of this estate. After all, this was his residence; if he wanted to avoid others while having an affair, it would be most convenient.

But Sun Shaozong and Li Wan did not seem to have had much contact. If anything, his connection with Li Wan was probably less than his entanglement with Aunt Xue herself.

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