Severing ties with family to marry the young marshal, his whole family chases me to the crematorium.

Shen Qingyao put the small pill under her nose and smelled it, her gloomy face revealing a hint of murderous intent.

"Who asked you to come?"

When the young nurse heard Shen Qingyao's question, a hint of guilt flashed in her eyes, but she quickly calmed down.

"I don't know what you're talking about, Mrs. Marshal. I'm here to bring you medicine to treat your internal injuries, following Dr. Sun's orders. If you don't believe me, go ask Dr. Sun if this is the medicine he prescribed for you. His prescription is still at the pharmacy."

Shen Qingyao couldn't help but look at her with newfound respect; she was quite composed to be able to calm down so quickly.

But when she met herself, it was destined that even the most meticulous plans would end in failure.

"Your father was imprisoned for murder, your mother remarried, and you should also have an eighty-year-old grandmother and a younger brother and sister, right? Are they in school?"

Shen Qingyao played with the small pill, her murderous intent undisguised. The nurse turned pale upon hearing Shen Qingyao's words.

"Young Marshal's wife, what are you doing? This has nothing to do with them, you can't hurt them!"

The nurse struggled frantically again, completely losing her composure after just moments before.

Shen Qingyao did not soften her heart because of this. She never wanted to threaten other people's families, but she was not a saint.

This nurse wanted to kill her and take her life, so why should she be soft-hearted towards her?

"They reap the benefits of your harming others. Do you really think they are completely innocent?"

Shen Qingyao parted her thin lips slightly, lazily looking at the nurse, her eyes so cold they sent chills down one's spine.

"Young Marshal's wife, they really don't know anything! Please, please let them go, I beg you!"

At this moment, the nurse truly began to feel afraid, crying and begging for mercy, but she couldn't move Shen Qingyao in the slightest.

Does the life of her grandmother and younger siblings matter, but the lives of others don't matter?

"Who sent you here? I want to hear the truth. If I find out that it's not the truth, your younger brother and sister's severed limbs will appear before you."

Shen Qingyao's cold gaze made the nurse tremble all over, her heart filled with fear.

“I’ll talk…I’ll talk…I don’t know who made me do this. Someone put the note and pills in my pocket and told me to use these pills to replace the medicine that Dr. Sun prescribed for you.”

The nurse was crying as she explained, and Shen Qingyao signaled the soldier to let her go. Immediately afterwards, the nurse took out a piece of paper from her pocket.

The note said that she would receive twenty silver dollars as a reward for replacing Shen Qingyao's medicine.

This nurse, for twenty silver dollars, chose to switch the patients' medications at the hospital. It's terrifying that someone like that can still work at a hospital.

"At first I didn't believe it either, but the second time ten silver dollars appeared in my pocket, and I was convinced that I could really get another ten silver dollars by doing this."

“I also considered taking the ten silver dollars for nothing and not doing this heinous thing, but then I thought that if this mysterious person could put the item in my pocket silently, he could also kill me easily, so I had no choice but to do it.”

"Young Marshal's wife, I was wrong! I really know I was wrong, please forgive me!"

The nurse, sobbing uncontrollably, clung to Shen Qingyao's legs, but after Shen Qingyao kicked her away, she kept kowtowing and begging for mercy.

"Why did this mysterious person choose you? You weren't the only one who treated me, so you weren't the only one who could replace my medication. Why did that person choose you?"

Shen Qingyao did not believe that she was completely coerced; at least part of the reason was her greed.

As soon as Shen Qingyao voiced her question, the nurse's expression became somewhat unnatural, her eyes filled with guilt.

“Nurse Chen also… also received such a note, but she thought it was a prank and threw it in the trash. I… I…”

By the end, Shen Qingyao understood the whole story, and her eyes grew even colder.

"You're hoping it might be true, and you'll get twenty silver dollars, right?"

"……Yes."

The young nurse nodded with tears in her eyes, her eyes filled with fear.

"So, the mysterious person didn't give you the medicine the first time. He only gave it to you because he saw you left a note, right?"

"……Yes."

Shen Qingyao felt even less that she was innocent; she believed that her current predicament was entirely due to her greed.

"Madam, what should we do now?"

The soldiers guarding Shen Qingyao were all shocked by her methods.

Even they couldn't find anything wrong with the nurse and let her in, but their young marshal's wife saw through her immediately, which made them admire her.

"Take her back and lock her up first; I still have a use for her."

The nurse was about to beg for mercy again, but when she met Shen Qingyao's murderous gaze, all the words of pleading she was about to say were swallowed back down.

After the person was taken away, Shen Qingyao began to study these deadly pills.

Although she was not an expert in medicine, this particular pill happened to be one she recognized.

This pill is extremely toxic; just one is enough to be fatal. It is also very expensive and not available in ordinary pharmacies. It is a controlled drug and can sell for at least ten silver dollars on the black market.

She had three of them. The person who wanted her dead was really willing to go to great lengths. They were afraid that one wouldn't be enough to kill her, so they got three.

When Si Jingnian learned that someone had poisoned Shen Qingyao, he immediately rushed to the hospital.

He only truly breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Shen Qingyao completely unharmed.

"Are you OK?"

Si Jingnian's eyes were full of concern, and his tense expression was impossible for Shen Qingyao to ignore.

"I'm fine, why are you here?"

Shen Qingyao had a vague suspicion that Si Jingnian had rushed over because he knew she had been poisoned, but she was still somewhat uncertain.

Si Jingnian had no idea what Shen Qingyao was thinking. He was about to tell the truth, but then, as if possessed, he made up an excuse.

"I...I'm just...I'm not too busy, so I came to check. Is there anything you need? If you need anything, just arrange for the people at the door. They work in shifts, so there are people around 24 hours a day. Don't worry."

Upon hearing Si Jingnian's words, Shen Qingyao felt a strange mix of relief and disappointment.

Shen Qingyao nodded, unsure of what to say, feeling that anything she said would be presumptuous.

When Si Jingnian saw that Shen Qingyao didn't say anything, he thought she was angry and immediately wanted to slap himself a few times.

"The nurse who poisoned you has been locked up. You can see her anytime, just let me know."

Shen Qingyao nodded again upon hearing this, remaining silent and not intending to speak, which left Si Jingnian at a loss for words to break the atmosphere.