"Old Madam, this servant deserves to die!"
"What's done is done. Saying you deserve to die won't wipe the slate clean!"
"I know."
Old Madam Kang said nothing more.
Lord Yang continued questioning the groom:
"Did you see what that woman looked like?"
"When that woman approached me, she had her face covered. All I saw then was her pair of eyes, nothing else.
After taking the two hundred taels of silver, I pretended to leave, but actually hid around the corner.
When the woman saw me leave, she hurried away too. I quietly followed her.
She went into a corner and removed her veil, then went to the Jewelry Shop as though nothing had happened, and then to a rouge shop...
I followed her for a long time. In the end, she returned to No. 50 in Autumn Silk Alley.
Afterward, I asked around Autumn Silk Alley. People said she had a very powerful husband who only visited once every few days. Lately, his visits had become even less frequent. They suspected she was a mistress kept outside his household and had most likely been dumped by her patron."
At these words, Qin Zhize turned deathly pale. Only then did he realize that everything that had happened today had been caused by that fool Qi Shiyun.
She had gone behind his back to harm Kang Yueling, and now she had been found out.
That was why Old Madam Kang had sent Lord Yang to Autumn Silk Alley to arrest her. He had simply been dragged down by that fool.
If not for that fool, they would never have been caught in bed together, and none of what followed would have happened...
Qin Zhize filled in all sorts of details in his mind. He believed everything had been exposed because