Reborn Daughter: The Young Lady Wants to Make a Trouble

"We have to wait until your father comes back." Duchess Wang Qixing finally said. Her voice was a little choked, but she continued. "He will tell us the situation of the remaining members of the royal family."

"The concubines can be released," Li Chenyang said. "We only need to get rid of the heirs like the prince or princess."

Li Wenmin had been sitting in his chair sulking. This was not his place to speak. He felt like a fool for taking so long to choose a side. He had nothing to contribute to this conversation.

Li Xueyue also fell into deep thought. She wanted to tell the Duchess about Li Minghua, but now she felt it was useless. Li Xueyue had no physical evidence of Li Minghua's existence. Chen Yang's reaction was enough to silence her.

She suppressed a sigh and could only stare out the window, trying her best to listen to the discussion between Chen Yang and Duchess Wang Qixing.

"Xueyue?" Duchess Wang Qixing said. "What are you thinking about?"

Li Xueyue turned her attention away from the night sky. "Uh..." She trailed off and glanced at Chen Yang, who shook his head firmly. It was a small movement that only she noticed.

"I—this is weird," she said. "Who killed the queen? Why would someone knock me out and lock me in her bedroom? It's like someone was trying to frame me for her death."

Duchess Wang Chi-sing nodded in agreement. "Yes, very strange and suspicious, this is what I found on the Queen's body." She reached into her sleeve and pulled out a blood-stained handkerchief.

Seeing the blood, Li Wenmin finally straightened up, and his eyes became as big as the moon outside.

Li Chenyang took a deep breath. "This hydrangea hairpin is not made of Minghua—"

"This is the weapon that killed the queen." Duchess Wang Qixing said gloomily.

"Mom, do you remember the meeting you attended? The meeting that Wen Jinkai attended?" Li Chenyang asked. "Well, my father gave this hairpin to Wen Jinkai and told him that the hairpin was originally in Hecheng, and Minghua brought it with him... It should have disappeared in the fire."

Li Chenyang glanced at Xueyue, his heart full of regret. No matter how much he wanted to believe her, he couldn't believe it. "But later this hairpin was found in the capital, specifically, in the queen's bedroom. I think Wen Jinkai also knows this."

"What?" Duchess Wang Qixing was shocked when she heard this and let out a long sigh. Doesn't this mean that the queen is by the fire? Or her servant is? Otherwise, how could the queen get this hairpin?

"After Wen Jinkai understood our hint, he rushed out of Dad's private study and took away the hairpin and diary." Li Chenyang explained. "You think..." His voice became smaller and smaller, unable to express his conclusion.

Everyone had the same idea. If the hairpin was originally in Wen Jinkai's hand, and it turned out to be the murder weapon...

"Wen Jinkai killed the queen?" Li Wenmin hesitated.

"But that doesn't make sense." Li Xueyue said. "It was Wen Jinkai who sent me home. I heard that he had a good relationship with the queen. If he killed the queen, how could he be so clear-headed today——"

"The thought of murder and death did not bother Wen Jinkai," Li Wenmin said calmly. "As an experienced soldier, he would not even react to her death."

"No." Li Xueyue disagreed. "I know Wen Jinkai didn't kill her, it doesn't make sense. He should at least be heartbroken. When he told me the emperor was dead, it was like he was testing me to see if I could see him. If I was the murderer. "

Duchess Wang Qixing pursed her lips and showed the hairpin to everyone. "Someone wants to frame the entire Li family. The engraving on the hairpin will reveal our identity."

Li Xueyue looked at the carving curiously. "To my Minghua, may your future bloom like a hydrangea."

Li Xueyue glanced at the beautiful cluster of flowers atop the hairpin. The hairpin was undoubtedly one of the most stunning accessories she had ever seen, but what caught her attention was the type of flowers it was shaped into.

Hydrangea...Li Xueyue didn't realize until now that this flower had such great significance. Every day, the Duchess always took care of her flowers. Her main concern was the hydrangea.

Now, Li Xueyue knew the reason.

"If Wen Jinkai is the murderer," Li Chenyang said, "that means he left this hairpin inside the queen's body to frame us. In this way, when the queen's body is found, the examiner can track us down through this hairpin."

"That's right." Duchess Wang Qixing gritted her teeth. "It seems that this person is trying to bring us all down."

Li Xueyue knew that it was either now or never. "Mom, there is something I want to tell you."

Li Chenyang glared at her warningly.

Li Xueyue pretended he didn't exist. She turned to face the Duchess, deciding that the most important details should not be left out. "Before I was knocked unconscious outside the Queen's bedroom, I overheard her conversation with someone inside."

Li Xueyue bit her lower lip. She saw Chen Yang clench his fingers into fists. He was angry that she went against his will. But she had to say it. The Duchess herself said she didn't want to be kept in the dark. It would be unfair not to share this information.

"Since I was caught from behind, the murderer must have an accomplice." Li Xueyue pointed out. "But the most crucial detail is the person the queen talked to for the last time before her death."

Li Chenyang gritted his teeth and glared at the ground. He was also angry with himself because he wanted his mother to forget this. He couldn’t control it. The melancholy she experienced after Minghua’s death was unforgettable. The Duchess had never been so depressed in her life.

Li Chenyang didn't want his mother to be hurt by the truth or such speculation. There might be hundreds of girls named Minghua. Xueyue also had no solid evidence to prove that she was talking about Li Minghua.

"The queen was arguing angrily in her bedroom," Li Xueyue said. "She uh... called another woman named Minghua. Then she talked about some kind of fire, and then-"

"You mean, my Minghua is still alive?" Duchess Wang Qixing asked hoarsely. Thinking of such a miracle, she couldn't help but burst into tears. "My dear Minghua didn't die in that fire?"

"We can't be too sure yet." Li Xueyue said. "But this is what I heard in the palace. When I wanted to peek, it was too late. I was caught from behind. The strange thing is that Wen Jinkai actually killed the queen."

"What do you mean?" Duchess Wang Qixing asked.

Li Xueyue bit her lower lip. "Well, I told Wen Jinkai the same guess - Li Minghua might still be alive. He was very shocked by the news."

She rubbed her chin. "This only means that Wen Jinkai did not meet the woman in the Queen's bedroom. Since there was a woman talking to the Queen before she died, if Wen Jinkai was also near the Queen Mother, wouldn't he have seen or heard something?" Was it the Queen's corridor when I was there?"

She tilted her head. “If he really did, and I guessed correctly that the woman in the queen’s room was Li Minghua, then he wouldn’t have been so surprised when I told him that Minghua might still be alive. At the very least, it means Wen Jinkai wasn’t the one who knocked me out and then framed me for the queen’s murder.”

Duchess Wang Qixing nodded slowly. "I know where you came from, but this hairpin was given to Wen Jinkai, and then it pierced the queen. Who else would have this hairpin?"

Li Xueyue felt that her mother was right. She bit her lower lip and slumped in the chair, not knowing what to do.

Duchess Wang Qixing sighed. "I think we can't draw the right conclusion without Wen Jinkai. Now, we need to be careful. Someone is against us and may have the motive to bring down the Li family."

"We always have enemies," Li Chenyang said. "But no one is brave enough to try to bring us down like this."

Duchess Wang Qixing nodded. "Yes, this one is more serious than the others."

Suddenly, there was a violent knock on the door.

"Please come in." Duchess Wang Qixing said, but found that she had locked the door from the inside.

"I'll get it," Li Wenmin said. He stood up and opened the door, revealing the eunuch in the house.

Seeing the eunuch's pale face, Li Wenmin was puzzled. He almost felt like he had seen a ghost.

"Master." The eunuch bowed. He swallowed and said, "Master has returned home."

Duchess Wang Qixing perked up. "Let's go and greet your father, shall we? He's very tired after a long day's work," she said as everyone stood up from their chairs.

"He, there is a woman beside him." the eunuch suddenly said.

"Who? Mistress?" Li Wenmin joked. He got angry at the thought of his father being with another woman.

"Guests?" Duchess Wang Qixing said. "Well, don't keep them waiting."

Not long after, the family left the private study.

Duchess Wang Qixing confirmed that the door was locked before she hurriedly joined the rest of the family. Now that Prince Li Chenyang had finally returned home, they could get to the bottom of the matter.

"Mom." Li Wenmin said. "Don't worry, if the woman Dad brought home was a mistress, I would strongly oppose their marriage.???

Li Chenyang rolled his eyes. What a kiss scene. "Do you think Daddy will take a new concubine at this critical moment? Are you stupid?"

"You are the fool." Li Wenmin snorted.

"You guys are too noisy." Duchess Wang Qixing sighed. "I think this will make the family more lively."

"Noisy? It seems like they are the noisiest ones in the house." Li Xueyue glanced at the quarreling twins and didn't understand what the ladies were saying at all.

Li Xueyue breathed a sigh of relief; it was the twins who broke the tension, otherwise the walk to the front of the house would have been filled with awkward silence.

Li Xueyue wondered if she should just shut up about Minghua. No one seemed to believe her, but she couldn’t blame them. If someone had told her that a woman who had been dead for two and a half years had suddenly been found in the palace, she wouldn’t have believed it.

But Xueyue didn’t deliberately lie to the Li family… She suppressed a sigh.

When the twins saw their father in front of the Li Mansion, they finally stopped arguing. What calmed them down was not the figure of their father, but the appearance of a strange woman wearing a veil.

Li Xueyue knew who the servant was, and so did Li Wenmin. "Dad," she said. "That's the second prince's servant."

"Yes." Li Wenmin agreed. "She is a rude little thing. She didn't even greet me when I was near the guest palace last time. What on earth is she doing here?"

"Well, I see you haven't changed much in the past two years," the woman said.

Li Wenmin's heart suddenly sank into his stomach. That voice...! Even though the voice was drowned out by the crowd, he knew it was her.

The servant removed the veil from her face, revealing her true identity.

no doubt.

Standing in front of the entire Li family was Li Minghua, who was still alive.