Mu Shuoqian smoked, his eyes cold and terrifying through the haze of smoke.
In these four years, he had only seen Yufei three times. The first time was when he locked her in the dungeon, throwing her a sentence that those who wanted to kill his wife and child would end up like this; the second time, Yufei was self-harming crazily, banging her head against the bars until he had someone modify the bars so that it would hurt but definitely not kill, and it was also then that Yufei told him she had a secret related to his and Gu Qili's future, and her freedom was the price for that secret; the third time was now, Yufei trying to force him to appear by attempting suicide, still intending to trade the secret for her freedom.
The things Yufei did back then were exceptionally discrete, neither he nor Qiu Lan had any inkling, and Mu Shuoqian's suspicions were without substantive evidence, with many conclusions drawn from his own guesses.
