"You..."
Yao Yun'er did not know why Song Huaichuan said this. A sense of dread gripped her heart, wondering if he had discovered something.
"This matter has nothing to do with me."
"That is for the best."
Song Huaichuan did not press her further, which brought Yao Yun'er a brief moment of relief. Seeing that he was unmoved and impenetrable, she said nothing more, terrified that if she spoke, he might utter something even more chilling. She turned and headed back to her courtyard to find Song Mingjian and Song Cheng to devise a plan.
However, before they could come to any consensus, the Ministry of Justice had already tightly surrounded the Marquis's Estate.
Song Huaichuan had somehow managed to locate an elder from a branch of the Yun family. With his authority, he opened Yun Feiwan's coffin. The Ministry of Justice officials, accompanied by a coroner, discovered that Yun Feiwan had not died from fire or a grave illness, but from a potent poison. Her body contained three types of toxins: one chronic, present for over a year; another that had caused her to fall ill over the past month; and the final one, a lethal dose ingested on the day she died.
Chapter 248