I believed in ghosts and gods, in the Eight Trigrams, and in Mountain, Medicine, Destiny, Physiognomy, and Divination.
But I didn't believe in traveling through time.
I knew I definitely hadn't traveled through time. I remembered that before I woke up, Seventh Master and I had fallen into a deep pit, and then I'd passed out...
So I was definitely still in that pit.
Everything before my eyes was just an illusion. This might be a more advanced form of Ghost Wall.
If I believed I'd traveled through time, I might end up trapped here forever.
Footsteps soon sounded outside the door, receding into the distance. It seemed the two children outside had run off.
Those two children were probably Luo Xiuzhu's older or younger brothers, also Master Luo's offspring.
But from what I'd just heard them say, Luo Xiuzhu... didn't seem to be the child of Seventh Concubine and Master Luo.
Had Seventh Concubine had an affair and given birth to Luo Xiuzhu by another man...?
If that had really happened, in those days, it was an offense punishable by being drowned in a pig cage. People would condemn her behind her back.
But wealthy households cared about their reputations. They wouldn't let something like that spread and make themselves a laughingstock, so only the people in the Luo Residence knew about Seventh Concubine's affair.
That might be why she'd been so unwelcome in the Luo Residence.
And since Luo Xiuzhu wasn't Master Luo's child, her status would have made people look down on her in those days too, so she'd also suffered bullying and humiliation from the others in the Luo Residence.
It seemed there really was something wrong with the information Boss Lin had given us. The truth might not be what those documents said.
I opened