After a night of turmoil at the Xie Estate, Xie Mingyue received a message from Qi Jinshan the following day.
"Is he cursing my mother?"
She acutely grasped the source of Xie Zhangxun’s madness. Yet, like the servant woman from the previous night, she was left with a puzzling question. Her mother’s conduct had been the very model of a virtuous mistress; how could she possibly have sparked such deep-seated resentment in Xie Zhangxun?
Chapter 83