At first, no one took those words to heart.
Even after Su Mianmian used the Su Family's influence to help the Jin Household, prompting its head to expel that branch from the household, nothing unexpected happened. Aside from Su Mianmian becoming a little drowsy.
During that time, several people who had once helped the Lu Household and Liu Household make trouble for the Jin Household even came to apologize.
All they wanted was for the Jin Household not to report the matter to the Azure Tide Sect.
This only left Jin Chen more bewildered.
They could no longer make sense of these lineages' moves.
First they bullied them, then they apologized? And now they wanted them to keep quiet? What exactly had happened?
Though the Lu Household and Liu Household, which had been so vocal before, never came to apologize, they stayed as quiet as chickens for a long stretch. They even handed the concubine who had caused Jin Xiu's death over to the Jin Household to deal with as it pleased.
The head of the Jin Household had long known that a powerful hand was steering things behind the scenes, but now that person's actions truly defied understanding.
Before long, the matter ended, as though nothing had ever happened.
Only after everything was over did Jin Chen finally realize something was wrong with Su Mianmian.
He had planned to take her back to the sect the next day, but to his shock, Su Mianmian never woke up that morning.
Jin Chen had rushed back by Sword Control, carrying Su Mianmian in his arms.
As soon as they returned, they sought out those in the sect who practiced medicine. Unfortunately, none could identify the problem.
Only when Chu Mojin returned to the sect a quarter of an hour earlier had