So what if she's a fake heiress? She's being pampered by a powerful figure in Beijing'

Upon hearing this, Huo Shen stood up, quickly walked to the door, unlocked it, and let the butler in.

Xie Junfei put on a robe and sat at the dressing table, listening to the housekeeper explain the details while tying her hair up.

The housekeeper helped Xie Junfei with her outer clothes while hurriedly explaining:

"...Miss left suddenly at the time. I chased after her to the outside of the courtyard and made her change her clothes. I was scolded by her for it."

“The young lady refused to change her clothes because she thought it was cold, so I let her go as instructed by the young mistress.”

"Who knew that tonight, Miss Biao would suddenly rush out of the house shouting that Fourth Madam had fallen ill and was suffocating!"

"The ambulance has already taken the person to the hospital. Right now, all the departments are in an uproar in the council hall, waiting for you and the young master to make a decision!"

The ladies and young women of wealthy families are most afraid of exposing their weaknesses.

The fact that the fourth wife has allergic asthma is so well-known that even her private doctor signed a confidentiality agreement, let alone ordinary people.

Therefore, the Huo family knew very little about this, only that the fourth madam disliked the fragrance of flowers and plants, and never placed any flowers or plants in the house.

However, the private hospital that the Huo family frequents every year belongs to Huo Holdings, and Huo Shen, as the boss, naturally knows about the fourth wife's situation.

The symptoms the Fourth Madam is currently exhibiting are clearly an asthma attack caused by pollen allergy.

Xie Junfei and Huo Shen exchanged a glance, both understanding each other's thoughts.

I never expected that this Miss Cousin would be such a person of action.

They're already thinking of using someone else to do their dirty work and diverting the trouble elsewhere.

When soldiers come, generals will block them; when water comes, earth will dam it. Xie Junfei changed his clothes and hurriedly followed Huo Shen to the council hall.

Inside the council chamber, the four branches of the family were in complete disarray, looking like a leaderless bunch.

The young lady sat down next to me, weeping pitifully, her face streaked with tears.

Only the Fourth Master remained expressionless, as if his wife's life hanging by a thread had nothing to do with him.

However, the young maid in her early twenties standing behind him had a smug look on her face.

Xie Junfei glanced at the Fourth Master, then looked away.

The fact that the Fourth Master could put on such a show suggests that he probably didn't interfere in this matter.

After all, the fact that he and his wife didn't get along was something that almost everyone in the Huo family knew.

Now that the Fourth Madam is in trouble, the Fourth Master still acts as if he is innocent and even gloating, which shows that the Fourth Master is truly innocent.

It was practically an open secret that the Fourth Master liked gentle and considerate women.

When the Fourth Madam first married into the Huo family, she and the Fourth Master did indeed enjoy a period of harmonious marriage.

However, her good fortune did not last long. After giving birth to the eldest son of the fourth wife, the fourth wife revealed her greedy and power-hungry nature.

She even caused a car accident that left the fourth master bedridden for more than half a year.

When the Fourth Master returned from recuperating, he discovered that his wife had completely sidelined him in the Huo Group.

Enraged, he confronted the fourth wife, but to his surprise, she threatened him by bringing up his past misconduct, including killing a mother and daughter in a car accident, which she claimed was suppressed. She said that if he continued to cause trouble, she would send him to jail.

The fourth master was furious, but he had no way to deal with the fourth mistress.

After all, he knew that the Fourth Madam's family had connections in politics and business, and he dared not gamble.

The couple became bitter enemies, and even the second son of the fourth wife was conceived through in vitro fertilization.

It is precisely because of this that the young master, who was raised by the fourth master from childhood, is not favored by the fourth madam. On the contrary, the second young master, who was conceived through in vitro fertilization, is spoiled by the fourth madam from childhood.

Thinking of this, Xie Junfei looked up at Huo Ming, the eldest son of the fourth branch of the family, only to see that the man looked grief-stricken and anxious.

The sincerity in his expression seemed genuine.

Upon seeing Huo Shen and Xie Junfei arrive, everyone in the room stood up and watched the two walk to the main seat.

Huo Shen looked coldly at the tearful Miss Biao and said:

"what is going on?"

"How come the Fourth Madam has been living well in the Huo family for so many years, and you only stayed for two or three days before sending her to the ICU?"

These words were very impolite, and Miss Biao was startled, immediately swallowing back the tears that were about to flow.

With Huo Shen's public display of authority as the bad cop, Xie Junfei, who was playing the good cop, quickly took over the role.

In front of everyone in the family, she gave Huo Shen a reproachful look and said softly:

"Miss, you are a guest after all, so please speak more politely."

After speaking, her expression softened considerably when she turned to the young lady.

"Miss, don't listen to Huo Shen."

"When the Fourth Madam fell ill, only you and the maidservant were in the room. Tell me, what exactly happened?"

With Xie Junfei's comforting words, the young lady gradually calmed down, her voice trembling with sobs.

Although her narration was fragmented, Xie Junfei quickly extracted the key information.

Just as she expected, all her efforts to create opportunities for Miss Biao were worthwhile; this matter was indeed aimed at Xie Junfei.

According to Miss Biao's account.

During the day, she accepted Xie Junfei's invitation to arrange flowers in Huo Shen's room.

When they returned, they found that the fourth madam had been hurriedly summoned away. When she came back, she was so tired that she could not even speak and fell asleep on the sofa.

Fearing that the Fourth Madam might catch a cold, she covered her with the cloak.

As a result, the fourth wife felt short of breath while sleeping and suffocated, collapsing onto the carpet.

At that time, Miss Biao was brewing tea in the next room. When she came out, Madam Si's face turned purple.

She immediately called 120 and summoned the people from each room.

After she finished speaking, Miss Biao cried even harder:

"I really don't know anything! As soon as I came out, my aunt fainted on the ground!"

“There are security cameras in the house. When it happened, I was really making tea in the next room. The sound of the water boiling was so loud that I didn’t hear my aunt’s cries for help.”

"Blame me if you must! It's all my fault for not being there for my aunt. Otherwise, I would have saved her immediately. It's all my fault!"

Miss Biao cried so hard that tears streamed down her face, deeply moving everyone present.

Huo Ming, the eldest son of the fourth branch of the family, immediately helped up the cousin, who was almost dehydrated from crying, and said gently:

"Don't worry, little sister. Mother's sudden illness is definitely not your fault. Don't blame yourself."

Hearing this, the already haggard wife of the second young master of the fourth wife immediately lost her temper, smashing the teacup in her hand and lashing out at Huo Ming in a fit of rage:

"If it's not her problem, whose is it?!"

"She must have poisoned my mother, otherwise why would she be in the ICU at such a critical moment?!"

Seeing his second daughter-in-law's anxious expression, Xie Junfei subtly curved the corners of his mouth into a smile.

Others might not know why the second daughter-in-law was so anxious about the fourth wife, but she and Huo Shen knew.

Now that the Fourth Madam has fallen, it benefits everyone except the Second Young Master's family.

Since Miss Biao refused to change her clothes in Huo Shen's courtyard, Huo Shen had relayed the news that the Second Young Master had been arrested by the police in Shenzhen for rape to the Fourth Madam.

Now is a critical juncture in the power struggle within the old family mansion, and the Fourth Madam absolutely cannot leave Shanxi.

So she had no choice but to run around contacting people and remotely directing them to rescue her son.

It was only because Huo Shen had given prior notice that rescuing him was extremely difficult.

All day long, the fourth wife and the second daughter-in-law were exhausted from dealing with this matter. Just when things were starting to look promising, the fourth wife had only been back in her room for less than half an hour when she was rushed to the hospital due to an asthma attack.

Because the incident wasn't discovered in time, news just came from the hospital that the fourth wife's brain damage is very serious, and she won't wake up for a while.

Without his mother's protection, this was a fatal blow to the second young master, a spoiled brat.

But with the fourth wife and the second young master gone, who will ultimately benefit from the fourth wife's assets?

Thinking of this, Xie Junfei slowly raised her head and looked at Huo Ming, the eldest son of the fourth branch of the family, who was looking grief-stricken but trying to appear calm.

The second daughter-in-law wasn't stupid; she naturally knew this, and her words were like knives, aimed directly at Huo Ming:

"Some people should stop pretending!"

"If you ask me, with Mother and us falling from power, everyone knows in their hearts who benefits the most from the four branches of the family!"

Upon hearing this, everyone immediately looked at Huo Ming with knowing glances.

Those who can scheme and plot in the old house all have some means of gathering intelligence.

Furthermore, since the events of the day involved her most beloved second son, the fourth wife was so concerned that she forgot about keeping the news under wraps.

She had barely left the old house to cultivate connections when news spread throughout the entire old house that the second son of the fourth wife had been arrested in Shenzhen.

The women spent the entire afternoon watching the spectacle.

Seeing everyone's attention focused on Huo Ming, the daughter-in-law immediately seized the opportunity and shouted:

"Huo Ming, what are you pretending to be, a dutiful son and grandson? If you've got the guts, call the police! Let them investigate!"