If anything happened to Aunt Chun's unborn child at this moment, she would hardly escape with her life once the investigation reached her.
Yet Lu Rou relied on the Marquis's favor and exercised vicious methods; if Cui'er failed to obey, she probably wouldn't survive either.
It was precisely at this time that the Marchioness happened to be away from the estate. Had she known, her intervention surely would have changed things.
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