After reading through the journal, Xie Mingyue had only one thought: Madam Yun was insane.
It was not that she had become a raving lunatic, but that her way of thinking and the very pursuits of her life had descended into a state that could only be called "deranged."
The massive disparity in her environment before and after entering the Marquis' Estate had filled Madam Yun with a paralyzing fear of losing favor and of Qi Jinshan failing. When Qi Jinshan had sacrificed his political career to marry her, she hadn’t slept for seven full days, and the journal was covered in frantic markings of cinnabar red. She had prayed to every deity, even turning to illicit cults and crafting hex dolls, all out of a desperate terror that she might lose everything she had acquired.
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