When they returned to the little courtyard house, Wu Qingyuan found a box and carefully put away everything Chu Zhaohua had left behind, one item at a time.
Throughout this, she said nothing more, remaining silent for a long, long time.
Knowing how much she was hurting, Chu Youning asked everyone to give her some space, then told them everything Chu Zhaohua had done from beginning to end.
With the whole truth laid bare, disbelief filled everyone's eyes.
"Wait... Chu Zhaohua, pfft... just what is that great-aunt of mine's brain made of? How can she be so utterly bizarre?"
Xie Ciyan clawed wildly at his head, utterly bewildered.
Because she had caused the imperial family so much trouble over the years, and because of what had happened to Little Fairy and his aunt, he had cursed her plenty in private.
Yet at this moment, he inexplicably felt that perhaps he had cursed her too harshly, and his conscience began to prick at him.
"She..." Jiang Wanrong was quiet for a long while before finally saying slowly, "If only she had been a man. Perhaps... if she had become a monarch, the Yu Kingdom would have seen a new golden age."
As for forgiveness, Jiang Wanrong could not offer it.
She would not forgive Chu Zhaohua for the trouble she had caused her and her younger sister, but she would also admire her tumultuous life.
There was no contradiction between the two.
"Oh, right, Sister, she left something for you. She said it was a small token of compensation. Take a good look at it later."
As she spoke, Chu Youning took a book from inside her robes and presented it with both hands.
*[I couldn't resist flipping through a few pages earlier. It's full of records of Jialan's venomous insects,