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Yun Jin stretched out her fingers and gently placed them on Yun Heting's wrist.

The pulse under his fingertips seemed to be stable at first glance. Apart from the fact that he had been given a drug that would prevent him from having children and had lost his fertility, he appeared to be normal.

But she didn't rush to withdraw her hand; instead, she used her other wrist to examine it carefully.

A moment later, her fingertips stiffened slightly. Beneath that calm surface, there was a very subtle, unusual pulsation, as if something was lurking deep within her blood, intertwined with the beating of her heart, weak yet persistent.

She straightened up, pondered for a moment, and muttered to herself, "Just as I thought."

"What's wrong with this?" A voice suddenly came from behind.

Yun Jin was startled and turned around abruptly. Xiao Jingyan was already standing in the room, leaning against the window and watching her. She had no idea how long he had been there or how much he had seen.

Yun Jin was startled. When did he arrive? Did he see her entering and leaving the space?

Yun Jin's mind raced through several thoughts, but she merely glared at him and said in a low voice, "When did you get here? You startled me."

"While you were taking his pulse," Xiao Jingyan walked to her side and glanced down at Yun Heting on the bed.

Yun Jin secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but asked calmly, "Didn't you already go back? Why did you come back again?"

"I suddenly remembered something halfway there." Xiao Jingyan's gaze swept around the study, and he lowered his voice, "I was thinking, since Yun Heting knows that man, is it possible that he helped hide him back then? So I thought I'd turn back to see if there was a secret room in his study, but I didn't expect you to be here too."

He withdrew his gaze and looked back at Yun Jin, asking, "You just said 'as expected,' could it be that Yun Heting's pulse is abnormal?"

Yun Jin nodded: "He was afflicted with a kind of Gu. It should be the Heart-to-Heart Gu, a type of love Gu. Once this Gu enters the body, it will reside near the heart meridian, making the host dependent on the person who cast the Gu, and unable to feel affection for any other woman."

Xiao Jingyan's gaze darkened slightly as he asked, "So, his unwavering devotion to Liu Zhixue all these years is because of this Gu poison?"

Yun Jin shook her head: "Not entirely. This kind of Gu can control emotions, but it can't control his nature. All the things he did, letting Liu Zhixue harm my mother, tacitly allowing me to be switched, and even poisoning Lang Ge'er, were all his own choices."

The Gu worm only made him stop loving my mother; his greed, vanity, and cruelty were all manifestations of his own nature.

Xiao Jingyan was silent for a moment, then said, "So he was actually sober, but he couldn't control himself in front of Liu Zhixue?"

Yun Jin shook her head, looking at the sleeping Yun Heting, and said coldly, "The love potion controls his heart, not his mind. He knows what is right and what is wrong, he knows those things shouldn't be done, but he still did them."

He could have resisted, but he didn't. This shows that he was very resistant to relying on his wife's family from the beginning. He naturally felt somewhat inferior in front of my mother, and Liu Zhixue took advantage of this, amplifying his dislike for my mother.

Xiao Jingyan nodded, not continuing the topic, but instead asked, "What do you plan to do? Are you going to remove the curse from him?"

"Why should I untie it for him?" Yun Jin sneered, her tone full of sarcasm. "Perhaps he still thinks he and Liu Zhixue are truly in love. If I untie it for him, I'll only ruin their good match."

Regardless of whether he used witchcraft or not, he probably didn't truly love my mother from the beginning, otherwise why would he have so easily given Liu Zhixue the opportunity to use witchcraft on her?

After she finished speaking, she turned to Xiao Jingyan and said, "Could you help me find a secret room in this study? He might be hiding something he doesn't want anyone to see."

Xiao Jingyan nodded and began to inspect the study.

He tapped along the wall inch by inch, and when he turned to the bookshelf, he searched between the shelves with his fingers, and suddenly felt an unusual bulge on the back of two books.

A thought struck him, and he pressed down hard. With a thud, the bookshelf slowly slid to one side, revealing the dark room behind it.

The two exchanged a glance. Yun Jin quickly walked over, while Xiao Jingyan, holding the lamp, stepped into the dark room first. After confirming there was no danger inside, he turned back to her and whispered, "Come in. Watch your step; there are steps in here."

He held up the lamp and scanned the dark room, then turned to her and said, "Jin'er, check the cabinet for any clues. Let me see if there's a secret passage leading elsewhere."

Yun Jin asked doubtfully, "You doubt that he can get out of here?"

Xiao Jingyan pondered for a moment and said, "Steward Chang only said that Yun Heting would climb out of the window when he came out of your mother's courtyard, but what about the days when he sleeps alone in the study? If he walks over there openly, he will inevitably be discovered, so I suspect that there may be a secret passage here."

Yun Jin nodded and said, "Okay, let's split up and search."

After she finished speaking, she began to inspect the cabinet. The first thing that caught her eye was a scroll of portraits. She picked it up and carefully unfolded it, only to find that it was a portrait of the original owner of the body when she was in Qingping County.

However, the "Yun Jin" in the portrait is quite different from herself. Nourished by the spiritual spring in the space, she is no longer the same person as before. This portrait is completely unrecognizable as the same person as her.

This portrait was obviously sent from Qingping County, and it seems that Yunheting or Liu Zhixue have always had contact with Qingping County.

She put the portrait down and saw several jade ornaments on the cabinet, but she couldn't tell whether they were valuable or not.

There were several ancient calligraphy books on the bookshelf, which looked quite old. She picked them up one by one and flipped through them, and a house deed fell out of one of them.

Yun Jin picked it up and saw that the inscription above it read "A house deep in Huai Shu Lane in the east of the city," and that it was purchased sixteen years ago, before she was even born.

He hid the land deed so well that even Steward Chang didn't know about it, and perhaps even Liu Zhixue didn't know.

Was this house a backup plan for him, or was it a secret he was hiding for Liu Zhixue?

Yun Jin memorized the address on the land deed, then put the things back where they belonged, and turned to ask Xiao Jingyan, "How is it?"

Xiao Jingyan straightened up and shook his head: "There's no passage. Either there was one before, but he sealed it off."

Yun Jin frowned and said, "I've been to Liu Zhixue's courtyard before and searched it carefully, but I couldn't find it. But you're right, maybe it was there before, but they sealed it off."

Xiao Jingyan pondered for a moment and said, "Tomorrow I will have someone ask Steward Chang and Physician Du again to see if Yunheting or Liu Zhixue transported a large amount of bricks, stones and soil into the courtyard back then. If they did, it means there is a secret room; if not, then it has already been destroyed."

Yun Jin nodded and said, "I'll ask Mother later; she should remember this situation."

Xiao Jingyan said "okay," then suddenly added, "By the way, when I left just now, I noticed someone was watching your courtyard. The person was very careful, hiding in the shadows behind the corner of the corridor. If I hadn't taken a second look before leaving, I wouldn't have noticed them."

"Did you see who it was?"