Your Highness, please stop chasing me.

Shi Shu slowly sat down. After listening to Xiao Tao's words, she was filled with emotion. The Sixth Miss was always at odds with the Fifth Miss, but it was the Fifth Miss who saved them.

She thought for a moment and asked, "Xiao Tao, did Fifth Miss ask you about Sixth Miss's situation?"

"No, Miss Wu didn't ask anything. She didn't even ask what I needed the medicine for," Xiao Tao said.

She thought to herself, "My mistress doesn't need to ask; I will naturally tell her the information on my own initiative."

Shi Shu stared at Xiao Tao for a long time. Just when Xiao Tao thought her plan was about to fail, Shi Shu suddenly spoke up: "Xiao Tao, following the Sixth Miss will only lead to a bad end for us sooner or later. If you follow the Fifth Miss, it might be a way out."

"What are you saying, sister? Xiaotao won't leave. I'll stay with you forever!" Xiaotao quickly declared.

What a joke! If we didn't follow you, how would the master find out what tricks Aunt An and Miss Liu had up their sleeves to harm her?

Shi Shu finally felt relieved. At this moment, she wavered. She suddenly felt that following the Sixth Miss might really get her into trouble.

She took Xiao Tao's hand and suddenly said very seriously, "I will find an opportunity to send you to the Fifth Miss's side. That way you will be safer. If you follow the Sixth Miss, I'm afraid neither of us will have a good outcome."

Xiao Tao's eyes flashed; she hadn't expected that Shi Shu would be making plans for her at this moment.

She asked tentatively, "If that's the case, then why doesn't Sister just go and seek refuge with the Fifth Miss? Wouldn't that be better than suffering by the Sixth Miss's side?"

Shi Shu bit her lip until it turned white before she whispered, "Sixth Miss is vicious. My sister Shi Hua and I know too much about her. She won't let us off the hook."

Shishu and Shihua were maids who grew up with Mu Jiaojiao. Everything Mu Jiaojiao did went through their hands. Not only would Mu Jiaojiao not let them go, but even Aunt An would not let them leave the Mu residence alive.

Xiao Tao cautiously asked, "If we all go and seek refuge with Miss Fifth, asking her for protection, would that be enough?"

Looking at the innocent Xiaotao, Shishu sighed and said, "Before, Sister Shihua and I made things difficult for the Fifth Miss quite a bit, and I'm afraid she won't help us. But you're different. You're just a cleaning maid in the Sixth Miss's courtyard, and you don't usually leave the courtyard. The Fifth Miss would never make things difficult for a little girl like you. Besides, I'll tell her a huge secret about the Sixth Miss in exchange, and she'll protect you."

"How could that be, sister? Fifth Miss is a very kind person. Look, she gave me the medicine. She knows we are from Sixth Miss's courtyard, and she didn't make things difficult for us. Why don't we give it a try?" Xiao Tao continued to persuade the maid.

The maid was somewhat moved by what she said. She also thought that in the past few months, the Fifth Miss had indeed not made things difficult for them, the servants.

It was only because the Sixth Miss had been mistreated by the Fifth Miss that she came back to cause trouble for the servants. So, to put it bluntly, the Fifth Miss's anger in their hearts was nothing more than displaced anger.

Upon closer reflection, the Fifth Miss was quite kind to the servants. As long as no one made things difficult for her first, she would always smile kindly.

Seeing Shi Shu's hesitation, Xiao Tao pressed on, "Sister, you've always been the best to me. I can't just watch you get hurt by the Sixth Miss. I'll go to the Fifth Miss and plead with her to save you."

After saying that, she was about to get up.

Shi Shu grabbed her arm, saying with a mix of amusement and exasperation, "Good sister, where are you going to find Fifth Miss? After she left the Mu residence, even someone with the power of Prince Jing's heir couldn't find her. Where are we supposed to look?"

Xiao Tao pretended to scratch her head in difficulty and asked, "Then what do you think we should do now, sister?"

Just then, Shihua walked in and said, "Shishu, Miss, it's just you. Why didn't you bring the rouge you bought to Miss right away?"

When she saw Shishu's red and swollen eyes from crying, she rushed forward, took her hand, and asked anxiously, "Shishu, tell your sister, what happened?"

Shishu and Shihua were originally sisters, but when they were sold into the Mu family, one took their father's surname and the other took their mother's surname. Aunt An saw that the two were both clever and obedient, and they both became the Sixth Miss's personal maids.

No one in the Mu family knew about this.

Now, only Xiao Tao knows this, which shows that the two of them trust Xiao Tao completely.

When Shishu saw her sister, her emotions, which had just calmed down, surged again, and she tearfully recounted her ordeal.

Hearing this, Shi Hua was heartbroken. She wiped away her tears and said fiercely, "That damned Liu Yi, I'll kill him one day!!"

Shi Shu grasped Shi Hua's hand tightly, crying as she said, "Sister, we can't go on like this. Before, Prince Mo only glanced at you, and Sixth Miss almost killed you. If the guards really take me, Miss won't stand up for us. Sister, is there really any hope for us if we follow Sixth Miss like this?"

Xiao Tao remained silent, simply keeping Shi Shu company.

Shi Hua was silent for a moment, then sighed and said to Shi Shu, "From the moment we were bought into this Mu family, this has been our fate."

Xiao Tao whispered from the side, "Are we just going to accept our fate? Shi Shu has suffered so much injustice, are we just going to let it go? Sister Shi Hua, a girl's reputation is so important. If people find out and see this, wouldn't that be the death of Sister Shi Shu?" She added fuel to the fire.

Shi Hua did not blame Xiao Tao, because what she said was all correct.

Hearing Xiao Tao's words, Shi Shu felt even more distressed. She said, "Sister, if we go to the Fifth Miss, she will definitely protect us."

Shi Hua was stunned when she heard this.

She hurriedly interrupted Shishu before she could continue, saying, "Shishu, are you crazy? How could you say such a thing? What will people think if they heard such betrayal of the young lady?!"

"Sister, now that we know so many of the evil deeds that Miss and Aunt An have committed, how can we expect to have a good outcome?" Shi Shu asked.

With reddened eyes, she asked, "Sister, do you know who begged for our lives?"

"What?" Shi Hua didn't understand what she meant.

Xiao Tao happened to speak up from the side, saying, "Those life-saving pills and ointments were obtained by me secretly begging from Miss Wu."

Shi Hua was completely stunned.

She never expected that in the end, it would be the medicine given by the Fifth Miss Mu Xue that saved her and her sister.

She glanced again at her younger sister, whose eyes were red from crying, and thought about what she and her sister had gone through over the years. The balance in her heart increasingly leaned towards the fifth young lady.

Finally, with a determined look in her eyes, she said, "I think I have a way to contact Miss Fifth. None of you should make any rash moves."

Shi Shu and Xiao Tao exchanged a glance, both seeing surprise in each other's eyes.