When Third Aunt was taken away, she screamed for justice, her eyes red.
Duke Su did not give her any opportunity to defend or explain, directly ordering someone to gag her mouth.
Su Yaoqi was the son he had painstakingly nurtured for eighteen years. Anything involving Little Four, not to mention a mere concubine, even if his own parents came, they'd have to stand aside.
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The matter of people from the Duke Mansion rushing to the Imperial Hospital overnight to request Dean Wang quickly reached Empress Su's ears. She asked the spy, "Who in the Su Family had an accident?"
The spy replied, "Reporting to Your Majesty, there was a fire at the main hall of the Su Family, and Fourth Young Master was burned."
"What?" Empress Su's face turned very gloomy.
She had long lost the naive ignorance of her early days in the palace. For some things, she didn't even need to investigate to guess eight or nine parts out of ten.
