Mu Daying woke up from the soft bed.

The layout of the room is just like when Mu Daying was a child, which was her happiest time.

All the materials in the room were selected and arranged by my mother herself, and they are all exquisite and of excellent taste.

Mother Cai Ninglian was born into a wealthy family and her vision is beyond the reach of ordinary girls. Her two children have been living in luxury since birth, and naturally have the best food, clothing and other necessities.

Mu Daiying has been innocent since she was a child. There was no threat around her. Even though Mu Yingfeng didn't like her mother very much, he was very good to their two children, so no one had the courage to hurt her.

She lived in a dream woven by adults and at one point she didn't want to wake up.

This room made her feel extremely safe. As long as she stayed in it, no one could hurt her. But before long, her room was filled with the smell of incense.

The smell became stronger and stronger as time went by. It was no longer the light fragrance it had at the beginning. Despite the help of incense, she would still toss and turn in bed, awakened by nightmares countless nights, and then look at the familiar layout in the room and close her eyes again, continuing the endless vortex of nightmares. She knew that she would never be able to break free in this lifetime.

Duan Luchong brought a basin of water from outside the door. He was surprised for a moment to see that Mu Daying had woken up, but his movements were steady, without any pause, and he placed the basin beside Mu Daying's bed.

His eyebrows and eyes were covered by his glasses, so she couldn't see the details clearly, but she could still feel the difference in his attitude towards her, the kind of closeness and tenderness that came from the physical body.

"woke up?"

Duan Lu Chong moved the backrest to the head of Mu Daying's bed, then skillfully reached out to support her back and placed the pillow behind her.

Mu Daying glanced at him and lowered her eyelashes. "You shouldn't waste your time on me. It's not worth it. You know I will never get over it in my lifetime."

Duan Luchong soaked the towel in the water, then took it out and wrung it dry. "Then go do what you like," he said as he held the towel in his hand and slowly approached Mu Daying's unhealthy and even pale face. "You know I will help you."

Mu Daying did not refuse. It was as if they had formed a tacit understanding over the years. Every time they talked about this topic, Duan Lu Chong always supported her very firmly, as if he would help her unconditionally no matter what she did.

Every time, the words on the tip of her tongue were hard to bring out.

Let's just leave it like that. Maybe things will get better after tonight.

Duan Luchong wiped her face and looked at her face carefully, "Are you feeling better?"

"You know, it's the same old thing. Let's not talk about this. How are they?" Mu Daying threw the towel back into the basin, causing some water to splash onto the sheets, but she didn't care.

Duan Lu Chong saw that she had really recovered some of her spirits before he said, "Mu Guichao and Mu Yanchen chatted in the study for more than ten minutes, and then Mu Guichao was poisoned. He refused any "antidote."

Mu Daiying's eyes moved, her gaze was obscure, "Does Mu Yanchen know something?"

"It should be, but I don't think he has guessed it about you yet. After all, you have been a victim for so many years."

"What about you?" Mu Daying rarely showed a worried look on her face. Most of the time she was in a cowardly and almost insane state. Such normal emotions as now would only shock outsiders.

"I guess I guessed it."

"Does that mean Mu Guichao already knows that you betrayed him?"

"It's okay. The poison has already taken effect. Besides, the chronic poison he has been taking for the past six months will only give him the most fatal blow tonight. He can't hurt me at all."

Duan Lu Chongwei said with some confidence.

He has been lurking beside Mu Guichao for so many years, from a nobody to his current position as his right-hand man. Naturally, he has done everything with all his heart, and Mu Guichao also thinks that he is the one who cares about him the most. So when he seized Ji Zhengxuan's power, Mu Guichao foolishly thought that he had cleared out the surrounding bandits for him.

This test also verified Duan Luchong's thoughts. Mu Guichao placed him in the most core position, and for what happened next, this trust was extremely important.

But Mu Guichao could not have expected that he had actually belonged to someone else from the very beginning.

He collected his thoughts, and almost couldn't suppress the sense of success and satisfaction after accomplishing something. He waited quietly for Mu Daying's next words.

Sure enough, she asked anyway.

"What about that person?"

There was a flash of pain in Duan Luchong's eyes, but he concealed it well and didn't reveal anything.

Mu Daiying didn't even dare to mention his name...

"He's going to announce his successor, who do you think it will be?"

Mu Daying turned around and looked at the scenery outside the window beside the bed. The manor outside the window was quiet, without even a light. Only in the moonlight could she see a few naughty nightingales on the treetops. She curled up the corners of her mouth.

It was very secretive, but Duan Lu Chong could still see a bit of madness in it.

Yes, the goal is almost achieved. Tonight, all the men of the Mu family will be buried in this mansion. That will be their grave.

Even Mu Sheng, who was the least poisoned, was no exception, because Duan Lu Chong had added several herbs into the wine tonight, which would activate the toxicity in anyone who was poisoned, but nothing would happen to ordinary people if they drank it, and even the taste would not change.

"Let's go check it out, that woman. My eyelids keep twitching. Is something bad going to happen?"

"How is that possible!" Duan Lu Chong was full of confidence. He was the one who drugged Shen Zhao, so he naturally knew the severity of the drug. Even if her man died tonight, that woman could only struggle on the bed!

"You'd better go and have a look. No one will come here."

Seeing Mu Daiying's worried expression, Duan Luchong didn't want to add to her psychological burden. He walked to the door and turned around, his eyes full of tenderness and affection, "Then take care of yourself. You haven't been able to take care of yourself since you were a child. It's good for me to be at ease."

Mu Daying pursed her lips and turned away her eyes. She didn't dare to look at Duan Lu Chong at this moment. After that incident, she could no longer give him a future.

Duan Luchong thought it was normal for her not to respond to him. On this topic, Mu Daying always avoided it and she never dared to face him head on. He sighed and closed the door for her.

After the door was closed, Mu Daying stared at the direction of the door in a trance. A smile uglier than crying appeared on her face. She laughed softly, and then the hot tears slid down from the corners of her eyes.

She also looked forward to a future with Duan Lu Chong. Even though Duan Lu Chong was several years younger than her, she had been a princess since she was a child and there was nothing she couldn't get. What's more, Duan Lu Chong loved her more than she thought.

But everything was broken. From the moment Mu Yingfeng allowed Song Si to take action against their eldest wife, everything began to change.

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