Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 577

Lady Linyuan was sent back to her parents' home. Her family went to great lengths to fabricate a story, saying that she had suddenly fallen ill while returning home and had been recuperating at home for the past few days. Because it was contagious, they dared not make it public. In short, they barely managed to deceive the Earl of Linyuan.

She gradually regained her voice and her battered body healed, but those days in the brothel left her with a huge psychological scar.

For a long time, she stayed indoors, not wanting to see anyone, especially men. She vomited everything she ate and was awakened by nightmares countless times at night.

It was fortunate that the Earl of Linyuan had previously doted on her and genuinely believed that she was just seriously ill, without noticing anything unusual.

With things calming down at the Marquis of Linyuan's residence, Shen Lingjun was finally able to have some peace and quiet.

She has completely cured Qin Chuyao of the Lianxin Powder poison. Now she is focusing all her energy on the research of the Three Thousand Troubles Dust, and has made some progress.

It cannot completely replicate the effects of the Three Thousand Afflictions. The Three Thousand Afflictions can make a person irritable, confused, easily angered, and unable to control themselves.

The technology developed by Shen Lingjun, theoretically, would also drastically change a person's personality, but in a different way. It would cause them to become nervous, overthink, worry, fear, and anxious.

The problem with this drug is that verifying its efficacy is extremely time-consuming. Because it's a slow-acting poison, it takes a very long time to see any effect, and the condition of the poisoned person must be constantly monitored to determine if it has taken effect.

Shen Lingjun gave the semi-finished product to Mo Zhonggui, asking her to find someone to test its effects during the political struggle.

Nowadays, the factions of the Fourth Prince and the Third Prince are fighting like roosters. As for "Huo Jinghuai," although his reputation is growing and he is receiving more and more attention, no one is optimistic about him.

He was born to Fang Kui, a general who served Xie Qingmo back then. This background determined that Huo Tingsheng would never consider him.

Mo Zhonggui outwardly sided with the Fourth Prince, using the power struggle between the Fourth Prince and the Third Prince as cover to continuously gather and cultivate his own power.

Xie Qingmo and the Xie family had extensive connections in Western Qi and many other families in Ancheng. After Huo Tingsheng destroyed the Xie family, all these officials from aristocratic families who had been close to the Xie family were either demoted or transferred to distant places. In short, they were suppressed in various ways and almost all of them were pushed to the margins of the regime.

Using Huo Jinghuai's identity and leveraging Fang Kui's past relationship with Xie Qingmo, Mo Chonggui rekindled connections with these families one by one. Most importantly, he sought to promote them again, cultivate new talent within the families, and secretly weave his own network of influence.

Originally all alone, the seventh prince, Huo Jinghuai, gradually built up a rich network of connections in the Western Qi court, gaining many people who could be of use to him.

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Changchun Palace.

Xu Jingniang disguised herself as a palace maid again and secretly entered the palace to deliver a new mask and wig to Jiang Yunwan.

The mask nowadays can no longer be called a mask, but rather a wig. It also has a full wig on it, which Xu Jingniang carefully made from real human hair, exactly the same as Jiang Yunwan's former long, black, and shiny hair.

The Fourth Prince searched for every famous doctor and prescription he could find for Jiang Yunwan, but her face still didn't get better and continued to fester day by day, becoming even more severe than before.

Because Jiang Yunwan had a disguise mask, once she put it on, she couldn't bear to take it off.

With the mask on, she still has that young and beautiful face; but once she takes it off, she becomes a horrifying monster, unrecognizable and repulsive to look at.

Such a stark contrast made it impossible for her to face her true self. She wore a mask almost all day long, knowing that covering her face would only make it worse, but she refused to take it off.