The sky quickly darkened, and I spent the whole day with my second sister-in-law. Master Wang naturally didn't come to manage the affairs of the main house.

Young Master Wang was having a conversation with Lord Li from the capital, so he didn't come over.

He just sent a servant to deliver a message, saying that the lady of the house rarely gets to meet her younger sister from her natal family, so there's no need to go to the Buddhist hall tonight.

Although Young Master Wang doesn't hold an official position, he has several friends in the official circles. My second sister-in-law told me that.

But that didn't concern us.

"If he doesn't come, we'll be even more at ease." I tied a sachet to my second sister-in-law's waist.

My second sister-in-law, being weak, quickly fell asleep in the night, but I couldn't sleep and tossed and turned. I looked at the hourglass on the bedside, and it was almost midnight.

Suddenly, faint whispers came from outside the window, but I couldn't hear them clearly through the door and windows.

I quietly got out of bed, put on my shoes, and made a small hole in the window paper to look outside.

I saw two servants sneaking past the front gate of the courtyard.

I quickly opened the door and followed them.

Fortunately, my clothes were dark, so they didn't stand out in the darkness. I followed the servants through several corridors.

In the blink of an eye, the servants disappeared without a trace. I felt somewhat unwilling, but I didn't dare to search for them recklessly, so I had to retrace my steps.

Just as I was about to turn back, a scent of incense drifted over. I looked over and saw a small house hidden behind the main buildings, with several pine trees planted beside it.

I approached quietly, and the shape of the house gradually revealed itself before me. It was a finely designed ancestral hall, but it was obscured by other buildings of the Wang residence and concealed among the pine trees, making it inconspicuous. The scent of incense was emanating from here.

Could this be the ancestral hall of the Wang residence? I furrowed my brows but quickly dismissed the idea. Ancestral halls have always been sacred places for ancestral worship. How could it be in such a location?

Suddenly, I thought of my second sister-in-law's daily Buddhist rituals. This was probably the Buddhist hall she frequented.

It was unexpectedly effortless. I had been wanting to see what exactly was written in that Buddhist scripture.

The Buddhist hall was unattended, and it wasn't even locked. Perhaps it needed to be accessed daily, so locking it would be troublesome.

In this generation, no one else lived here. Under the cover of night, it appeared particularly tranquil.

I gently pushed open the door and found the interior arranged as a Buddhist hall. Candles were lit on both sides, casting flickering shadows. In the middle, there seemed to be a tablet, but it was unclear.

I closed the door and stepped closer to the tablet. The writing on the tablet gradually became clear to me.

However, the moment I read the words, I was completely stunned.

It clearly wrote: "[Position of the beloved child of the Wang family's heir.]"

I took a step back in shock—

Young Master Wang is already dead?

Then who is the one here now?

And who is the one married to my second sister-in-law?

A chill ran down my spine, and I felt a rush of coldness from the ground up. My legs went weak, and I fell to the floor.

I stared at the words on the tablet, no longer caring about anything else, only wanting to get up and leave quickly.

Suddenly, the door was pushed open from the outside. The moonlight, pale and eerie, seeped in through the door, making the words on the tablet even clearer.

I froze in place, trembling, and slowly turned around.

Young Master Wang was standing at the doorway, looking down at me from above.