My reborn husband and son are thinking about how to kill me every day.

Despite being covered in blood, Diao Zhao did not beg for mercy. Instead, he looked at Prince Duan with an even more crazed gaze and cursed him as an incompetent coward who was only lucky to be born into the royal family. Otherwise, how could he have the right to compete with him for his cousin?

Prince Duan wouldn't listen to him and drew his sword to cut off his neck.

An Yi hurriedly stopped him, saying, "Your Highness, he's trying to provoke you. Don't fall for his trick. Let me interrogate him and see if anyone is behind this."

"Come on! Kill me!" Diao Zhao laughed wildly. "You incompetent coward."

An Yi kicked him hard and advised again, "Your Highness, don't fall for his trick. From the moment he came in, he's been trying to provoke you and is eager to die. He's probably afraid that he won't be able to withstand the torture and will reveal who's behind it all."

Prince Duan took a deep breath and gritted his teeth, saying, "Take him to the dungeon and interrogate him thoroughly. You must pry his mouth open."

The dungeon in the Prince's Palace was specifically used to detain and interrogate certain special prisoners, and the fire did not affect the dungeon.

An Yi took the man to the dungeon and subjected him to severe torture.

On the other side, after Ji Yunshuang and Zhao Haisheng went to the government office to finalize the contract, she gave him a sum of gold to pay for the purchase of the estate and shops, and then found an inn to stay in.

She didn't leave the city for two reasons: firstly, the queues for leaving the city were too long, and secondly, she planned to explore the major families of Ningcheng again that night.

However, it's not dark yet, so it's not advisable to take action for the time being.

After settling into the inn, Ji Yunshuang closed the door and entered her spatial dimension.

She cleaned out several wards, placed some furniture that had been moved from the Prince Duan's mansion in the rooms, and decorated several rooms with an antique style.

Then, Ning Shi, the baby, and the servants from Yuexin Courtyard were moved to separate rooms.

Ning was still unconscious, but the baby had woken up sometime earlier. Perhaps because the space was so comfortable, he didn't cry.

Ji Yunshuang had no experience taking care of babies, but she had at least raised Tianrui before. She found a baby bottle, mixed some milk, and fed him.

As soon as the pacifier was put in her mouth, she drank it in big gulps.

The baby was born not long ago and didn't have a big appetite. He only drank a little bit of the milk that Ji Yunshuang prepared.

“It’s quite cute.”

Just as Ji Yunshuang finished her exclamation, she smelled a foul odor.

The baby also started to cry.

Ji Yunshuang: "..."

Ok!

She took back what she had just said.

Not cute at all.

This is much more troublesome than raising a tiger cub.

She lifted the baby's feet to look and, sure enough, saw yellowish excrement.

Ji Yunshuang: "..."

She definitely won't wash it for him.

Just as she was about to go to the next room to wake up the unconscious servant, Ning made a faint sound.

"I...am not dead?"

“Yes, you’re not dead, because I saved you.” Ji Yunshuang abandoned the baby and turned to look at Ning Shi.

Ning frowned and said weakly, "Thank you."

She darted her eyes around, scrutinizing the baby lying in the cradle beside her, and asked anxiously, "How is the baby? Is he hurt?"

"The child is fine," Ji Yunshuang said. "He was crying... probably just because he defecated and it wasn't cleaned up..."

Hearing that the child was alright, Ning breathed a sigh of relief and thanked Ji Yunshuang again for saving them.

Ji Yunshuang said, "Don't rush to thank me. I won't save someone for nothing."

"I still want to thank you. If it weren't for you, my son and I would have died." Ning said with tears in her eyes, "It would have been better if I had died, but poor child, he has only just come into this world and he has to suffer with me."

Whether it was the mother's connection with her child, or because the baby heard Ning's voice, or because he had been crying for a while and no one paid attention to him, the baby quieted down.

Ji Yunshuang said, "If you really want to thank me, then tell me why you're so afraid of that worm in the guard's hand? What is that worm?"

"Were you there at the time?" Ning asked, a look of surprise on her face.

Ji Yunshuang said, "If I weren't here, how could I have happened to save you?"

Ning thought about it and realized it made sense. There was such a big fire at the time, and she was seriously injured. If she hadn't been there, how could she have saved her and her child in time?

But the palace was heavily guarded, so how did she manage to rescue the mother and child?

She couldn't figure out how she had rescued them. But one thing was certain: she was a very capable person to have managed to rescue them from the palace.

She said, "That's a heart-eating worm. Once it enters a person's body, it will parasitize the body, gnawing at the person's internal organs and flesh, causing the person to suffer countless torments until death."

"There are actually such things in this world?" Ji Yunshuang felt nauseous. She immediately thought of the mutated insects in the apocalypse.

Some insects parasitize the human body, then mimic human behavior and mannerisms, blending into the crowd and devouring more humans.

She never expected that there would be something like mutated insects in this world.

Ning said, "Those are raised by the witches of the witch clan. They are secret weapons in the hands of the secret guards. They use those insects to interrogate prisoners. No one can withstand the torture of those insects, and in the end they will confess everything."

Ji Yunshuang asked, "Do they have a lot of those insects?"

Ning gasped for breath weakly and said, "I don't know either."

After feeding her a cup of glucose water, Ji Yunshuang asked, "Have you ever seen the witch of that witch clan?"

Ning said, "I've heard that the witches of the Wu tribe live their entire lives in Wushan and never come down from the mountain. Ordinary people can't see them."

Ji Yunshuang asked, "Where did the Heart-Eating Worm in the hands of the secret guards come from?"

Ning couldn't answer, so Ji Yunshuang asked her again how she knew about the Heart-Eating Worm.

“One time, when I was staying in the prince’s room, a guard came to report. He thought I was asleep, so he talked to the guard like that. I overheard some of it, and afterwards I started to pay more attention…”

Then I discovered that there was a dungeon beneath the Prince's mansion, and anyone who disobeyed the Prince would be taken to the dungeon for severe interrogation…

Thinking back to those days, Ning felt a sense of dread. In reality, she and her cousin would…

It was also related to her accidentally learning about Prince Duan's secrets.

She was terrified.

She used to be able to suppress her disgust and try to please that old man.

But ever since she learned his secrets, she felt afraid whenever she got close to him.

Her cousin was trying to comfort her...

Thinking of her cousin, she suddenly panicked.

“You were there, you must have heard our conversation! I know I'm an unfaithful woman, I deserve to die. But cousin… I can't hurt her… Could you…”

Ning said with some shame, "I know my request is excessive. I'm not asking you to save him, I just want you to find out if he's alright, if he's been arrested. Is that alright?"