The legitimate daughter returns to the capital and embarks on a splendid life, tearing apart the fak

After Dongxue left, Yunjin bolted the door and slipped into the space.

She started tinkering with her bottles and jars. She picked some loofahs from her space, cut them in half, tied them with ropes and hung them up, using a porcelain basin underneath to collect the loofah water for making skincare product ingredients.

She then took some almonds, Job's tears, and poria cocos that she had prepared beforehand, ground them into powder, and used them as raw materials for making skincare products.

With the honey, lard, and pearl powder she had prepared beforehand, she had basically got all the ingredients for her skincare products, and was just waiting for Lan Qi to deliver the bottles to her.

After finishing all that, she lay on the bed in the space and went through the recent events in her mind.

The steward's confession, the love potion at Yunhe Pavilion, the truth about the mother being tricked by the incense, the elusive master behind Liu Zhixue, Mu Yanqing's hiding place in the Cold Palace, the secret of the child swap between Consort Shu and Liu Zhixue, Yun Lang's unknown biological father, Zhou Qing's unknown "master"...

These clues, like a fine net, completely enveloped her.

She originally thought that as long as she waited until Yunxiu and the Fifth Prince got married, and then exposed Yunxiu's identity as a concubine's daughter, she could shatter the Fifth Prince's dream of becoming emperor and Yunheting's dream of becoming the emperor's father-in-law at the same time.

But now, things are getting more and more complicated, and the Southern Frontier has been dragged into the mix, making her and Yun Lang's illegitimate daughters again.

She felt her brain wasn't working properly; the more she thought about it, the more her head ached. Furious, she yelled at the void, "Tuoba Hui! You liar! You said she was just an outsider... Aaaaaah!"

After venting her frustrations, she felt a little better, lay down on the bed, and drifted off to sleep.

She didn't know how much time had passed when she found herself standing in a gray fog, with no solid ground beneath her feet, no sky above her, and all around her so quiet that only the sound of her own breathing could be heard.

Then the fog suddenly parted a corner, and a figure walked out from inside.

Upon closer inspection, Yun Jin realized it was none other than Tuoba Hui, that scoundrel. When he saw Yun Jin, he cupped his hands in greeting and said with a smile, "Greetings, Princess Ninghai."

Yun Jin was furious when she saw his smug face, and couldn't help but curse:

"You bastard Tuoba Hui, you've really screwed me over! You let me reclaim my identity and rewrite the fate of the General's Mansion, but you didn't tell me Yun Jin's background was so complicated! Look at all the information you gave me, which piece of information is even useful?"

Tuoba Hui awkwardly touched his nose, forcing a smile and saying somewhat guiltily:

"This... was indeed an accident. The original owner's background was quite simple according to the records. If you hadn't come, we wouldn't have discovered so many twists and turns hidden inside. Princess, please calm down!"

Yun Jin retorted angrily, "Calm down? How can I calm down? I'm asking you now, how am I supposed to reclaim my identity? How am I supposed to reclaim my identity as an illegitimate daughter?"

Tuoba Hui said matter-of-factly, "Princess, there's no need to be angry. Yun Heting would never dare to admit what he did back then, and his status as an illegitimate daughter will not be exposed. You only need to expose Yun Xiu's status as an illegitimate daughter and regain her status as the eldest legitimate daughter of the Yun family."

Yun Jin laughed in exasperation: "Are you kidding me? I'm asking you, how am I supposed to expose you? Who will vouch for me? Yun Heting? I'm afraid in his heart, I'm not even as good as Yun Xiu, that illegitimate daughter. Would he be willing to acknowledge me as the legitimate daughter? And you want me to regain my status? How am I supposed to get past that? Do you expect me to kneel before him and beg him to acknowledge me?"

Tuoba Hui replied matter-of-factly, "With your intelligence, you'll surely come up with a solution."

Yun Jin muttered angrily, "Then I might as well just kill him. Yes, and kill Yun Xiu too. Then, the Yun family will be under my and my mother's control. Whoever my mother says is the legitimate daughter will be the legitimate daughter."

Tuoba Hui's expression changed, and he quickly waved his hand to stop her: "Grandma, you mustn't! I only came to warn you because I saw you poison him twice."

Yun Heting is still your father in name only. If you kill him with your own hands, that would be patricide. A patricide will only go to hell after death.

Then Yun Jin heard him mutter in a low voice, "Even if you've been a virtuous person for nine lifetimes, it won't work."

Yun Jin immediately pressed, "What did you say? What do you mean, a nine-lifetime virtuous person?"

Tuoba Hui was startled and quickly waved his hands in denial: "It's nothing, it's nothing."

He quickly changed the subject, "Princess, please don't have such thoughts. Um, the poison you gave Yun Heting won't kill him, will it?"

"If you don't court death, you won't die." Yun Jin looked at him coldly and said, then asked in confusion, "I see other people who transmigrate and encounter this situation can kill it, so why can't I?"

Tuoba Hui earnestly advised, "Grandma, no one else directly killed their father. They all set up schemes to make the other party suffer the consequences of their actions, take the right path, and legally and compliantly send the bad guy to prison."

Yun Jin took a step back and said irritably, "Fine, then I won't touch Yun Heting. How about I kill Liu Zhixue? How about I kill Yun Xiu? I have no blood relation to them. One is my enemy, and the other is my enemy's daughter. Killing them doesn't count as patricide, does it?"

Tuoba Hui said with a troubled expression, "Grandma, listen to my advice. Too much killing will make things difficult in the underworld after death. If you don't believe me, I'll show you other people's cases later. Those who took advantage of their transmigration to go on a killing spree are still at the bottom of the eighteenth level of hell. Do you want to be their neighbor?"

Yun Jin was utterly speechless. She stared at Tuoba Hui for a long while, then asked helplessly, "If this won't work and that won't work, then tell me, what can I possibly do?"

Tuoba Hui stroked his beard and said slowly, "What you need to do is find out the truth. Whether it's Liu Zhixue, Consort Shu, or the Eldest Princess, there's a huge conspiracy behind them all."

"And you are in this situation, the only one who can untangle it. If you die, no one will be able to untangle it, and the entire General's Mansion, the entire Chu family, will be implicated. Then it won't just be one or two people dying, but hundreds or thousands of lives."

Yun Jin was utterly speechless. She wailed, "Can't you just tell me the answer directly? I'm not here to investigate a case; I don't have the brains for that! Aren't you making things difficult for me?"

Tuoba Hui touched his nose and suddenly smiled mysteriously: "Isn't there Xiao Jingyan too? With the two of you working together, there's no situation in this world that can't be broken."

Yun Jin immediately pressed on, alert: "So... you arranged for A-Yan? You were the one who put him by my side from the very beginning?"

Tuoba Hui quickly waved his hand in denial: "That's really not true! It's just a coincidence. The original owner did save him in Qingping County. Your meeting here is purely fate, it has nothing to do with me. I can only say that fate is a truly mysterious thing."