Not following the expected path? Reborn and unexpectedly married to a demon.

"You are very useful to them. They can control and manipulate you, but they won't harm your mother-in-law. Besides, your people are there to take care of her, and they are not to be trifled with. It won't be easy for them to make a move."

Chu Luo calmed down and realized this as well. Then she looked at Jin Wuchen with some wariness, hesitating to speak.

"A'Luo, what are you still worried about?" Jin Wuchen noticed that Chu Luo's expression was off.

After a long while, Chu Luo slowly spoke. She needed Jin Wuchen to help her make a judgment, and she had to ask, "Do you think Wang Youshi and his group's restoration of the musical score was in cahoots with Feng Zhe?"

Jin Wuchen shook his head directly, "No, Feng Zhe is greedy. If there were really anything good, Wang Youshi and the others would have to hand it all over after going to great lengths to find it. Their cooperation with Feng Zhe is only because the Wang and Xiao families are spineless and they submit to him, not because they are truly loyal."

Chu Luo continued, "The sheet music is important, but if Feng Zhe discovers that they have any connection with me, a pipa player, what if Mr. Mu, to protect himself, the sheet music, and his brother, gives my mother to Feng Zhe? My mother can also play the pipa."

Chu Luo didn't reveal her mother's identity. Feng Zhe searched everywhere for the pipa player from Xunyang, and she finally managed to erase all traces of her past.

However, there is a hidden danger at present, which is that there is still someone who knows that her mother is the Xunyang Pipa Girl. That person is Mr. Mu, who has met the Xunyang Pipa Girl and knows that the Xunyang Pipa Girl eventually married a merchant.

Even her father, Chu Songyuan, didn't know that her mother was the pipa player from Xunyang; Chu Songyuan only knew that her mother was skilled at playing the pipa.

After all, when she met her father, her mother was no longer at her peak. Her father was busy with business and didn't know much about literature and music. He was attracted to her mother's face and good nature.

"Ah Luo, you asked Fangxin to let Mr. Mu help send your mother away. Did Mr. Mu and your mother have some past relationship when they were young?" Jin Wuchen asked, guessing.

Chu Luo nodded.

"Does Mr. Mu know that you and your mother-in-law are mother and daughter?"

Chu Luo shook her head; Yin Shan had no idea she was a woman.

Jin Wuchen knew that Chu Luo wouldn't completely trust others.

"So what is your relationship with him?" Jin Wuchen thought that if Chu Luo didn't fabricate a reliable identity, Mu would probably expose her easily with his intelligence.

"Master and apprentice"

Jin Wuchen pondered for a moment, then stared at Chu Luo and asked a question that caught Chu Luo off guard: "Is your mother-in-law the famous pipa player from Xunyang back then?"

Chu Luowen tensed up, her face froze, and she almost lost her balance and fell down.

"Jin Wuchen, you..." She quickly recovered and controlled her expression, "What nonsense are you talking about? How could my mother be the Pipa Girl of Xunyang?"

But it was too late. Jin Wuchen didn't speak, he just looked at her. Chu Luo's expression had already told him the answer.

Chu Luo got up to leave, but Jin Wuchen pulled her back, looking very seriously into her father's eyes and saying, "A'Luo, I swear, I will never hurt your mother, much less use her to coerce you. I'm not the kind of person who would stoop to such a thing."

Chu Luo had doubts about other things, but she believed Jin Wuchen when he said he disdained to use such methods. His good and bad were both very obvious, and he didn't bother to hide them.

Moreover, he already knew about her pipa skills, and if he wanted to use them for something, he could have taken action as soon as he recognized her.

"That's right, my mother was the pipa player from Xunyang. Did you find out or just guess?"

If he can find out, then others probably can too. Chu Luo hoped he was just guessing.

"I'm guessing. You got to know Wang Youshi and the others because of your superb pipa skills. And you told that your mother-in-law was your teacher. He's not someone to be trifled with. If he believed you, it's probably because your mother-in-law's pipa skills are really superb, or he knew your mother-in-law before."

"My mother-in-law comes from Jiangnan, and she has a daughter as skilled as you; such people are rare..."

Chu Luo was truly impressed by him; thankfully, he didn't want to get back at her.

"A-Luo, don't look at me like that. You managed to keep so many of us in the dark for so long, and I only figured it out today. You're the real expert. We're evenly matched."

Since Jin Wuchen had already guessed, Chu Luo told him about her judgment of Mr. Mu at the time.

At the time, she felt that Mr. Mu paid a lot of attention to her mother, the pipa player from Xunyang. His worried expression and tone were sincere, which made her feel that there must have been a past between the two of them.

Chu Luo asked her mother, but her mother had been unhappy in the Chu family and her memory had deteriorated. The past of the Xunyang pipa player was like a distant memory to her, and she could not remember it at all. She also did not remember Mr. Mu.

When she was young, her mother was so charming that she could bring Chu Songyuan, who was terrified of his wife, into the mansion despite his powerful mother and father-in-law. It was no wonder that she attracted the attention of men.

Hearing Chu Luo's words, Jin Wuchen also felt that they made a lot of sense.

He met Chu Luo's mother when he rescued her. Although she had been tormented in the Chu family's inner quarters for many years, her appearance was enough to make the vicious Madam Chu wary of her for so many years, which was not unreasonable.

Moreover, in terms of attracting the affections of frail scholars, the mother-in-law was probably indeed more adept than Chu Luo in her youth.

Both mother and daughter were beautiful, but they didn't look alike, and their personalities were also very different.

Chu Luo is extremely beautiful, but she always deliberately keeps her presence low, so that people only get a general impression at first glance. But if you pay attention a second time, you will be amazed by her appearance.

She was stunned, leaving one only to sigh in admiration. The undisguised heroic spirit and aloofness in her eyes sent a chill down one's spine, giving off a sense of unapproachability.

Even if someone tries their best to get close to her, all they will see is her politeness; they can't get into her heart.

Her mother, a gentle and beautiful woman from the traditional Jiangnan water towns, was talented and proud in her youth, but her circumstances were often beyond her control, making her pitiable and endearing, much like those frustrated scholars.

Scholars and poets adored and favored her, but none of them planned for her future; in the end, she was merely an embellishment in their poems.

It's hard to see the coldness of people's hearts in the midst of the hustle and bustle, but the coldness after the hustle and bustle is even more frightening. A skill is not enough to protect oneself, and one is helpless and alone.

At this point, beauty becomes a knife turned against oneself, coveted by those with ill intentions, who devise elaborate and seemingly sincere deceptions to exploit it.

Jin Wuchen sighed with regret, for his mother-in-law's helplessness and bad luck in marrying the wrong person, and also for Chu Luo's circumstances since childhood.

If he had a different family environment, his A Luo would have lived a bright and flamboyant life instead of living so cautiously. His mother-in-law instilled in him from a young age that beauty was a sin, a punishment from heaven, and he had to cover up and deceive her at every turn. He had hardly ever seen Chu Luo smile.

Thinking of this, even though Jin Wuchen knew that the past could not be undone, he still felt very heartbroken. If he had met her earlier, if he could really start over as Chu Luo said, he would have let her grow up properly.

Chu Luo pondered in her heart why she had believed what Mr. Mu had said in the first place.

It is because when she became famous for playing the pipa under the name of Yinshan and stood out from the crowd, there were still people who remembered the pipa girl from Xunyang who had disappeared for many years.

These thoughts remained only in Chu Luo's mind; she did not let Jin Wuchen know that the Hidden Mountain Prince was actually her in disguise.

In literature, there is no first place; in martial arts, there is no second. When the skill of playing the pipa reaches a certain level, it is impossible to say who is the best; the difference lies only in style.

Given Mr. Mu's age, he must have seen Lu Yifu in her youth, a woman of stunning beauty, whose pipa music stirred the river breeze and rippled the lake, captivating all who beheld her.

Everyone knows Xunyang Pipa Girl, but few people know that her real name is Lu Yifu.

Mr. Ke Mu knew.

Jin Wuchen sorted it out. His people had investigated her many times, and Wang Youshi and his group probably had investigated her quite a bit as well, but they probably hadn't gotten any useful information.

He knew beforehand that his mother-in-law could play the pipa.

Wang Youshi and the others knew that her teacher was the Pipa Girl of Xunyang.

Mr. Mu knew that the Xunyang Pipa Girl had married a merchant, and he also knew what she looked like and her name. However, he did not know that Chu Luo and the Xunyang Pipa Girl were actually mother and daughter.

Jin Wuchen thought about Chu Luo's previous disguise, which was difficult to distinguish from the real thing, and couldn't help but smile helplessly.

They didn't even know if Chu Luo was Chu Luo in front of them, or even if she was male or female.

Only by combining all their information can we obtain the complete relationship between Xunyang Pipa Girl and Chu Luo.

It's quite remarkable that Jin Wuchen could guess that his mother-in-law was the pipa player from Xunyang.