"Just a little joke," Ye Xiu said, patting Murong's shoulder. "Tell me the basis for your judgment."
Murong glared at Ye Xiu with a pout, but she still began her analysis. "Zheng Yiwen convinced your father to expel you and your mother from the Ye Family, all so that she, his mistress, could take your mother's place. After she succeeded, her position was secure. Even when you won the Medicine King title ten years ago and returned to the Ye Family, you couldn't have threatened her position. She had plenty of ways to disqualify you from claiming the family inheritance.
"Yet, she chose to destroy your reputation and drive you to ruin. That move was too foolish, because if it failed, the public backlash alone could have destroyed the Ye Family.
"I don't think Zheng Yiwen could have overlooked that, yet she went through with it anyway. She must have had a compelling reason. I suspect someone forced her to do it."
