Chapter 434: She Died from Poison!

Zhao Shi saw that pitch‑black gu worm and her hair bristled.

She shouted hurriedly:

"Yun Sui Feng, she died from poison!"

Poisoned?

Ye Qingran narrowed her eyes.

Her gaze instantly became razor‑sharp.

When Yun Sui Feng passed away, Ye Qingran was not yet ten.

Her memories of the past were already hazy, and with Zhao Shi's deliberate concealment, she knew little about what had happened.

"What poison?"

Zhao Shi shook her head, "I don't know! I really don't know!"

"You don't know? Then how do you know she died from poison?" Ye Qingran's tone dropped sharply as she warned, "Zhao Shi, I advise you to tell the truth, or you'll die a terrible death!"

Zhao Shi trembled all over like a sieve.

"I really don't know what poison it was. Someone gave me the toxin..."

Ye Qingran stared intently at Zhao Shi, feeling that Zhao Shi's words didn't sound like a lie.

"Who gave you the poison?"

"A mysterious figure in black wearing a black bamboo hat; I couldn't see their face."

Zhao Shi recalled something and said, "That night, I accidentally saw a person in black go into Yun Sui Feng's Courtyard. Soon Yun Sui Feng followed that figure out. I first thought she was secretly meeting another man, but then I realized the person in black was a woman!"

Woman?

Person in black?

Ye Qingran's eyes flashed.

Who exactly was that woman in black?

"And then?"

"Not long after, Yun Sui Feng returned, badly wounded. When I saw her, I was about to leave, but on the way back I was stopped by that same woman in black, and she gave me the poison!"

Ye Qingran's brows twitched slightly.

Could that mysterious woman in black be Yun Lan?

If she truly is Yun Lan, wouldn't that imply Yun Sui Feng is very likely the missing prodigy Yun Ling of the Yunfu on Nan Yin Zhou?

At that time, Yun Lan had already discovered that Yun Sui Feng was the Yun Ling of Yunfu on Nan Yin Zhou?

But Yun Lan and Yun Ling are blood sisters; why would Yun Lan poison Yun Ling?

Could it be, as Yun Zhi said, that she cannot tolerate a second lady in Yunfu, trying to snatch the unique princess position in Nan Yin Zhou's Yunfu?

Then why does Yun Ling choose to flee far away and not return to Yunfu?

"You say, that night, my mother returned and was injured?"

"Yes!"

Zhao Shi nodded repeatedly.

Ye Qingran thought that Yun Sui Feng's injuries must have been caused by that woman in black.

But with Yun Sui Feng's strength, she shouldn't have been defeated by Yun Lan.

For a moment, Ye Qingran felt a sense of helplessness.

She realized many details had yet to surface.

The clues among them clearly couldn't be drawn from Zhao Shi.

It seems that now only Yun Lan knows the truth.

"So, you poisoned her?"

Zhao Shi, trembling, said, "I was forced too. She said if I didn't comply, she'd kill me!"

Ye Qingran gave a cold smile, "Zhao Yi Niang, you're lying."

Zhao Shi was startled, staring at Ye Qingran in horror.

"She didn't force you; all this was your own choice, right?"

Ye Qingran smiled confidently.

Because of the Yun Family bloodline curse, if Yun Lan truly forced Zhao Shi to poison, Yun Lan would certainly suffer the backlash of that curse.

Yun Lan could not do that.

At most, she would gently coax, using Zhao Shi's ambition for the Ye Family matriarch's position, gradually leading her to assist.

Zhao Shi hadn't expected Ye Qingran to know even such details.

For a moment, she trembled all over.