Li Mingfu sent his servants to the farm in the countryside of the Li Mansion to bring Li Xuemei and Li Xuelan to the Prime Minister's Mansion, and ordered them to treat them well with fine clothes and delicious food. Not only that, he also specially invited skilled dancers to teach them singing and dancing skills.

The two sisters were ecstatic. After going through so many hardships, they were finally able to return to the Prime Minister's Mansion and transformed into noble ladies.

However, the good times did not last long. A few days later, Li Xuemei decided to personally give her father a bowl of carefully cooked sweet soup to show her filial piety. So, she carefully brought the sweet soup to her father's study, but did not go directly into the house. Instead, she quietly hid by the window, wanting to listen to her father if he needed any help.

However, she didn't expect that Gu Manqing was sitting in the room at that moment, and Li Xuemei heard the entire conversation between Li Mingfu and Gu Manqing.

Gu Manqing asked Li Mingfu in a soft voice, "Master, the immortal once said that twins are born with bad luck and will suppress their parents. Look, their biological mother has been killed! Are you planning to let these two nemesis come back home to murder us? Besides, our Shu'er is going to become the Crown Princess soon. What if she is killed by this pair of sisters?"

Li Mingfu's eyes flashed with cunning light, revealing his full calculations: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is in urgent need of capable military generals to assist him, and we can use these two girls to win over those generals! Whether they are the principal wife or concubine, they will definitely win the hearts of many generals with their stunning looks! After these two girls come of age, I will carefully select suitable husbands for them!"

After hearing these words, Li Xuemei felt cold all over as if she had fallen into an ice cellar, and her heart was filled with grief, anger and despair. This man turned out to be the father that she and her sister had been thinking about and longing for for a long time!

Sisters Li Xuemei and Li Xuelan tearfully found their biological brothers, Li Kun and Li Lin. As soon as they met, Li Xuemei and her sister threw themselves into their brothers' arms, crying and telling them about their father's cruelty and disloyalty.

Li Kun clenched his fists tightly and gritted his teeth as he said, "This man is completely inhumane! If he had been able to stop it a little bit, how could our poor mother have been forced to suffer in the manor by that vicious woman, and eventually died at such a young age?"

Li Lin, who was standing by, also had a gloomy expression on his face. He said indignantly, "It's all my brother and I's fault for not being able to make a name for ourselves. Otherwise, how could we not be able to protect even our own relatives? In my opinion, you should find a chance to quietly escape from this prime minister's residence as soon as possible!"

Li Xuemei had been watching from the sidelines these days, and she had already understood: it turned out that the Li family didn't treat her two brothers as their own family members at all! It made sense, after all, they were just illegitimate sons, but even so, their treatment was not as good as those servants around the legitimate sons, which was really sad!

What's even more hateful is that the woman named Gu Manqing always deliberately obstructs the two brothers from pursuing their bright future. Whenever Li Xuemei thought of this, she would be so angry that she gnashed her teeth and wanted to find that vicious woman to settle the score immediately! But then she thought, I am just a weak woman, what can I do to her? Alas... I can only blame fate!

Li Xuelan was usually silent, but at this moment her eyes were full of anger and unwillingness, as if burning with raging fire. She gnashed her teeth and said, "My sister and I will never leave this place! Because here are not only the culprits who murdered our mother, but also our sworn enemies! If we don't take revenge, we are not gentlemen! Anyway, there is still half a year before our coming-of-age ceremony. During this period, even if there are thorns and mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, we will stay in this prime minister's mansion and give it a try to win a bright future!"

After seeing this, Li Kun and Li Lin hurriedly spoke up to persuade them: "Sisters, with our current strength, we can't compete with that sinister and vicious woman at all!"

However, Li Xuelan replied with a determined look: "Brothers, there is no need to persuade me anymore! I have made up my mind!"

At this moment, Li Xuemei and Li Xuelan heard the conversation between Bing'er and Shuang'er, and instantly realized that the time had come.

Mrs. Zhao hurried back to Zhang's house and went straight to Chu Caiwei's room as soon as she entered. She panted and repeated to Chu Caiwei every word and every detail she had heard when she met Li Jingshu just now.

Chu Caiwei's eyes widened in astonishment, and she seemed to be frozen in place, unable to move. Her thoughts gradually drifted back to many years ago, when Li Jingshu first entered the palace and stepped into Kunning Palace for the first time. The queen specially ordered someone to prepare a plate of exquisite hibiscus cakes for Li Jingshu, but just after the queen left, Chu Caiwei suddenly reached out and overturned the plate in Li Jingshu's hand, and the hibiscus cakes scattered all over the floor seemed to be mocking Li Jingshu.

Chu Caiwei took a step forward and crushed all the hibiscus cakes with her feet! She stared at Li Jingshu arrogantly, and when she saw Li Jingshu's flustered face, she laughed so hard that her body shook!

At that time, Chu Caiwei had said to Li Jingshu coldly: "The lotus cake in this palace is not something that anyone can taste casually!" Now thinking back, Chu Caiwei realized that Li Jingshu had already noticed the distress signal in her jade pendant. However...she knew very well in her heart that Li Jingshu asked Mrs. Zhao to bring this message, which meant that she would never help her!

Chu Caiwei clenched her fists tightly, her heart full of contradictions and pain. On the one hand, she hoped that Li Jingshu would remember their old friendship and help her; on the other hand, she knew that there was already an unbridgeable gap between them. Faced with such a difficult situation, Chu Caiwei felt at a loss and didn't know how to deal with the next crisis.

As night fell, everything was silent. Mrs. Zhao accepted the generous gift from Chu Caiwei with great satisfaction, secretly calculating how much benefit this gift could bring her. As time went by, the night became colder, but Mrs. Zhao gradually relaxed her watch over Chu Caiwei.

At the second watch, Mrs. Zhao couldn't help but yawning loudly. She staggered back to the room, fell on the bed, and soon fell asleep.

At the same time, a thin man in black quietly appeared like a ghost. The man in black tiptoed towards the wall and found the dog hole in the backyard. She lay down without hesitation and quickly got into the yard. She swiftly shuttled through the dark corners of the backyard of Zhang's house, cleverly avoiding all possible risks of being discovered. Finally, she came to the yard where Chu Caiwei was imprisoned.

Relying on her keen intuition and familiarity with the environment, she approached Chu Caiwei's room step by step under the cover of darkness.

When she reached the window, she stopped and looked around cautiously. After confirming that there was nothing unusual, she gently took out a small knife and skillfully pried open the window buckle. Then, she nimbly climbed into the house...

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