Ye Chuchu was also quite puzzled: [Zhazha, my father seems to have found out.]
[Could it be that he already knew about this long ago?]
Zhazha: [Little Chuchu, it looks like your father really did know.]
Lady Chen crawled forward and grabbed the hem of Ye Changlin’s robes: “Master, what on earth is wrong with you?”
“Why must you…”
Slap!
Ye Changlin swung his hand and slapped Lady Chen across the face, cutting off the words she was about to say.
This slap was delivered with immense force, causing half of Lady Chen’s face to swell up instantly.
“Ye Changlin, what exactly do you mean by this?”
Lady Chen lost her temper too!
Ye Changlin strode forward and sat down, his bone-chilling gaze resting on Lady Chen’s face as he remained entirely silent.
Ye Jinmo’s hand was already resting on his scabbard, the killing intent in his eyes surging out like a torrent.
Lady Chen swallowed hard. For some unknown reason, these two had changed so abruptly, and they actually harbored killing intent toward her?
Ye Mengzhi, who had wanted to plead for her mother a bit more, was also dumbfounded. She knelt frozen in place, not knowing what to say.
Ye Chuchu bit her lip: [Zhazha, my mother died a horribly unjust death.]
[I want Lady Chen to go to the underworld to kowtow and apologize to my mother.]
[However, her current crime of lewdness isn’t enough to make my father and big brother kill her.]
[Zhazha, help me check if Lady Chen left behind any incriminating evidence back then?]
Zhazha: [Little Chuchu, wait a moment, let me check the files.]
The eight maids from the Hibiscus Courtyard who had been dragged away for bodily examinations were now stripped of their outer tunics and forced to kneel before Ye Changlin.
They wore women’s makeup and maids’ hairpieces, but their bare upper bodies clearly revealed male torsos.
One of the men trembled violently from head to toe with fear. He had already crawled to Ye Changlin’s feet, kowtowing forcefully: “My Lord, it was your Madam who forced this lowly one!”
“This lowly one had already saved up enough money and intended to fly far away with the woman I love. But Madam took a fancy to this lowly one’s looks, took me by brute force, and used the life of my beloved to compel this lowly one to stay in her Hibiscus Courtyard cross-dressed as a maid.”
“Whenever My Lord was away, Madam would find every possible way to indulge in the pleasures of rain and water with us.”
“My Lord, Madam still holds the life of this lowly one’s beloved in her hands right now.”
“We beg My Lord to seek justice for this lowly one.”
This male escort wept so movingly, looking incredibly pitiful.
Ye Changlin was just about to raise his foot and kick this male escort when he suddenly heard his rebellious daughter’s inner voice.
Ye Chuchu: [This person is so pitiful!]
Zhazha: [Little Chuchu, do you want to know who this person’s beloved is?]
Hearing that there was more gossip, Ye Chuchu nodded hurriedly: [Yes, yes, yes! Tell me quick!]
Zhazha let out a low giggle: [This person’s beloved has quite a monumental background!]
Ye Chuchu: [Alright, stop keeping me in suspense, speak up.]
At this moment, both Ye Changlin and Ye Jinmo pricked up their ears.
Under Ye Jinmo’s silent gesture, his personal guard, Wufeng, quietly tapped the mute acupoints of Lady Chen and Ye Mengzhi.
They absolutely could not let these two disrupt their little sister’s inner thoughts; they also wanted to know who on earth this male escort’s beloved was.
Zhazha: [This male escort’s beloved is the Fifth Princess!]
[Two years ago, the Princess accompanied the Empress Dowager to Anfu Temple to pray for blessings. They were ambushed on the way, and the Fifth Princess was struck by an arrow and fell off a cliff. She was saved by this very male escort.]
[Pity that the Fifth Princess suffered amnesia and couldn’t remember who she was at all.]
[Under this male escort’s meticulous care, affection gradually blossomed between the two of them.]
[This male escort’s looks are quite fine, and he had saved up enough silver to buy out his contract, never expecting to catch Lady Chen’s eye.]
[Lady Chen is too ruthless of a woman. On the very first night, she forced herself upon him by brute strength.]
Ye Chuchu swallowed her saliva: [Then what… what did Lady Chen do to the Fifth Princess?]
Zhazha: [She sold the Fifth Princess to the Yingchun Brothel.]
Ye Changlin suddenly rolled his eyes, his head spinning as dizziness overcame him. He felt as though a black and a white imp had materialized before him and wrapped iron chains around his neck!
He was going to die!
No, his entire family was going to be finished!
Ye Jinmo’s breathing grew incredibly heavy.
Ye Chuchu felt a chilling cold around her own neck as she asked with twitching lips: [Did the Fifth Princess receive customers?]
Zhazha: [She did! The madam of the brothel even gave the Fifth Princess a highly poetic name called Hongdou.]
Ye Chuchu felt her breath hitch: [We’re finished, our heads are going to be chopped off.]
Zhazha giggled: [Little Chuchu, isn’t this script I selected for you thrilling?]
Ye Chuchu twitched her lips: [I truly thank your entire family.]
Zhazha: [No need for politeness, no need! My entire family consists of only you and me anyway.]
[But this isn’t a completely dead end either. Although the Fifth Princess receives customers, she sells her talents, not her body.]
Ye Chuchu patted her chest: [Thank goodness she didn’t sell her body. This Lady Chen is trying to annihilate the entire Ye Estate by her own sole efforts!]
[What a vile woman who deserves an accursed lineage!]
[We must have Father divorce Lady Chen to sever all ties completely and cleanly.]
[We also need Big Brother to quickly go and fetch the Fifth Princess out from the Yingchun Brothel.]
[How should I tell the two of them about this?]
Ye Jinmo knew that everything his little sister and that Zhazha said was true.
After all, the things his little sister had mentioned had already been verified one by one.
Ye Jinmo turned to Wufeng and ordered, “Go to the Yingchun Brothel and fetch Miss Hongdou to the estate.”
“Yes!” Wufeng was also able to hear Ye Chuchu’s inner thoughts. At this moment, his steps moved like the wind, terrified that if he arrived a second too late, the Fifth Princess would be defiled by some customer…
Ye Chuchu was startled: [Holy moly, my brother is pretty awesome. Could it be that he already investigated all of this long ago?]
Zhazha: [From the looks of it, he indeed investigated it. As expected of a young general laden with military merits.]
Receiving his sister’s praise, Ye Jinmo let out a bitter smile, his emotions exceptionally complicated at this moment.
If the Emperor flew into a rage and ordered the execution of their entire clan, he would still protect his little sister’s safety no matter what.
The servant standing behind Ye Changlin was dazed for a good while before snapping out of it. Seeing his master rolling his eyes, he immediately pinched his philtrum.
After a good while, Ye Changlin finally recovered.
He cast a glance at Ye Jinmo, knowing that his eldest son could also hear Ye Chuchu’s inner thoughts.
For now, they could only bring the Fifth Princess to the estate first, and then deliberate further.
Ye Changlin suddenly stood up, slamming his hand furiously on the table: “Chen, you venomous woman, this Master is going to divorce you!”
Lady Chen shook her head, tears streaming down from her eyes one by one, but her mute acupoint had been tapped, leaving her unable to utter a single word.
“Men, prepare the brush, ink, paper, and inkstone.”
He needed to sever relations with this venomous woman immediately.
Originally, he had wanted to kill this venomous woman with his own hands to avenge his beloved first wife.
But now that the matter of the Fifth Princess was involved, he could only sever ties first, apprehend this venomous woman, and present her before the Emperor for His Majesty to handle.
The kneeling male escort was also entirely dazed at this moment.
He had also heard Ye Chuchu’s inner thoughts and learned that the girl he had saved was actually the Fifth Princess!
Since she was the Fifth Princess, it was absolutely impossible between him and her.
Harboring such thoughts toward a princess, the head on his neck was highly likely to be lost.