The more cowardly a person is, the more wild they are; I've driven the villainous minister craz

Winter nights come quickly and are cold.

Shen reheated the food twice, but seeing that it was completely dark outside, she still hadn't seen Yu Wan return.

She was so anxious her heart was pounding, and Yunxi was also uneasy.

"Mother, do you think something might have happened to my sister-in-law?"

A look of panic flashed in Shen's eyes as she clasped her hands together and said, "May all the gods and Buddhas protect us. The child's words were inappropriate; please forgive him."

He turned to Yunxi and scolded her, "Don't say such unlucky things."

Yunxi pursed her lips and said nothing more.

But I couldn't calm down.

If it weren't for the incident of Wang Cuicui and her husband falling off the cliff, they might not have been so worried.

But after the incident of falling off the cliff, both of them couldn't help but worry that Yu Wan might also have an accident.

The room was quiet for a moment.

Madam Shen paced back and forth anxiously, as if speaking to Yunxi, or perhaps talking to herself.

"Let's wait a little longer, maybe Yu Niang is just held up by something."

But in reality, they knew the truth.

Yu Wan is only going to change her household registration today; she should be home in half a day at most.

Yunxi lowered her eyes, something flashing in them, and she suddenly spoke, "Mother, will my sister-in-law... leave?"

Shen froze on the spot.

She opened her lips, but for a moment no sound came out.

Seeing this, Yunxi understood.

Shen had also had this suspicion.

"No, no way." Shen's voice was hesitant, as if she were refuting Yunxi, or perhaps trying to convince herself.

"Why would Yu Niang leave the Yun family for no reason?"

Madam Shen kept shaking her head, "She must have been held up by something, Xi'er, let's wait a little longer."

Yunxi also hoped that things weren't as she thought, and nodded.

However, this wait lasted until the second watch of the night.

The food on the table had gone completely cold, but Ms. Shen had no appetite whatsoever.

The sound of the night watchman's clapper rang out outside. Madam Shen suddenly stood up and instructed Yunxi, "Xi'er, I'll go and ask Aunt Qiuhua to come and keep you company. You stay home and take good care of yourself. I'm going to find Yu Niang."

Yunxi was taken aback and quickly tried to pull Shen Shi away, "Mother, where are you going to find my sister-in-law so late?"

Shen was adamant, “I don’t believe Yu Niang would leave without a word. I’m going to find her.”

Before Yunxi could say anything, Madam Shen had already put on her cotton-padded coat and gone out.

She went to find Aunt Qiuhua to take care of Yunxi, and then she went to find Sun Dazhuang, the village's oxcart driver.

Sun Dazhuang was around thirty years old, in his prime, and a warm-hearted man.

Upon hearing Shen's words, he agreed without hesitation.

Soon, the two men set off in an oxcart, carrying lanterns, towards Huicheng County.

However, they did not see Yu Wan along the way.

We arrived at the entrance to the county town.

Huicheng County was a key trading hub, and no curfew was enforced; the city gates remained open all night.

The oxcart entered the city, and Sun Dazhuang asked, "Aunt Yun, where do we go to look now?"

Shen was in a state of utter confusion and didn't know what to do.

She gripped the hem of her dress tightly with both hands, her eyes red, and after hesitating for a long time, she said, "Go to Bailu Academy and ask Yunshang to help us look."

……

When Yun Shang was woken up by the head of the academy, his eyes were full of exhaustion.

"Yun Shang, your mother has arrived."

Although he was annoyed at being woken up in the middle of the night, the dormitory head did not show it at all in front of the dean and disciples of Bailu Academy.

The drowsiness in Yun Shang's eyes vanished instantly. He thanked the dormitory head and strode towards the entrance of the academy.

Along the way, Yun Shang pondered countless possibilities for why the Shen family had come here late at night.

The most frequent incident was that Yunxi got into trouble.

Shen paced anxiously at the door. Seeing Yun Shang in the distance, she practically ran over, grabbed his hand, and said in a trembling voice:

"Shang'er, Yu Niang is missing!"

"She hasn't returned all day. I've been searching for her with your Uncle Zhuang, but we haven't found her anywhere. Shang'er, Yu Niang couldn't have left without saying goodbye. Something must have happened to her!"

Yun Shang was stunned.

"Yu Wan is missing?"

He repeated it in a low, hoarse voice.

Shen had held back her tears all the way, but now they finally fell. "Shang'er, you must find Yu Niang. Something must have happened to her."

She already regarded Yu Wan as her second daughter.

In their recent interactions, she could feel Yu Wan's sincerity towards her even more.

Therefore, the Shen family absolutely did not believe that Yu Wan would leave without saying goodbye.

Recalling the events of today, Yun Shang's gaze darkened slightly. She spoke first to comfort Madam Shen, "Mother, calm down. I'll find some classmates to help us search for the person."

Madam Shen wiped away her tears with trembling hands and nodded repeatedly, "Don't delay, ask someone to go find it right away."

She was very flustered.

I have a feeling that something must have happened to Yu Niang.

The crescent moon hung high in the sky, and the solidified frost wrapped around it like a white ribbon, as if foreshadowing misfortune.

The backyard of the county government office.

Inside the pavilion, a figure huddled in a corner.

Her eyes were tightly closed, her body was trembling, and cold sweat kept sliding down her forehead.

Yu Wan did not completely lose consciousness.

During the day, she originally planned to sneak away, but before she could make up her mind, she felt weak and all her strength seemed to be drained away in an instant.

She collapsed to the ground, trying to call for help, but when she looked up, she met the gaze of an old woman.

The old woman showed no surprise at seeing her lying on the ground; instead, she seemed to have come specifically to check on her condition.

Only then did Yu Wan belatedly realize that there was something unclean in the pavilion.

The book "Torture and Love" contains all sorts of strange drugs. Given her condition, Yu Wan felt that she had most likely been drugged with something like "soft bone powder".

During this time, no one approached the pavilion.

The effects of the medicine have lasted on her until now.

To make matters worse, she was exposed to the wind all day and tragically developed a high fever at night.

The effects of the cartilage-softening powder hadn't worn off, and she developed a high fever again. Yu Wan felt that if no one came to save her, she would most likely die here.

Despite her best efforts to guard against Yun Shang, she inexplicably fell for a completely unknown person.

Yu Wan racked her brains but still couldn't figure out who wanted to kill her.

Leaning against the corner of the wall, Yu Wan struggled to open her eyes a crack, looking at the cold moonlight, and Yun Shang's face flashed through her mind for a moment.

If she had known she would fall so inexplicably, she should have slept with Yun Shang!

It wasn't in vain that she transmigrated into the book.

Yu Wan gave a bitter laugh to herself, feeling her head throbbing more and more, and the moonlight before her eyes growing dimmer and blurrier.

...She won't really just die like this, will she?

As her eyelids drooped lower and lower, her vision gradually darkened. Yu Wan endured the stabbing headache and, in a daze, felt as if she saw a familiar figure walking towards her.

In the midst of the dizzying spin, I seemed to hear a familiar voice.

"Yu Wan—"

Yu Wanxin wanted to drink; she really did want to sleep with Yun Shang, even in her last moments before fainting, she was thinking of him…

Meanwhile, in a magnificent and exquisite side room in the backyard of the county government office.

The maid with her hair in twin buns stood by the beaded curtain and whispered a few words. The stunningly beautiful girl, who had been lazily sitting on the soft couch embroidering a purse, suddenly sat up, her clear voice filled with excitement.

"Really? He really came?"

The maid nodded, "They've arrived. They brought several classmates and stormed into the county government office. Magistrate Yang couldn't stop them."

Upon hearing this, the girl's voice suddenly turned cold, filled with displeasure. "He's actually so worried about that Yu Shi? She's just a servant girl, is she worth him being so worried about?"