Chapter 303: Qu Shi's Unprovoked Confession, All the Sins of These Years!

Who let the Zheng Shi and Lou Shi both become pregnant before me?

Who let Aunt Zheng monopolize all of the master's affection...

His heart isn't mine, but fine—I am clearly the mistress of the Jiangjun Fu!!

He doesn't even come to my room once a month.

He isn't even willing to glance at me properly...

Even without marital love, that would be tolerable, but I must bear the eldest legitimate son!

I am the mistress, I am the proper wife of this Jiangjun Fu; everything the Jiangjun Fu will have in the future can only be mine and my child's!

So I had no choice but to strike against you...

Don't blame me, spare my life, please... waa waa waa...

Qu Shi sank into a regretful confession, until a familiar voice called her awake: "San Niang! San Niang??"

Yu Shi fiercely slapped Qu Shi more than ten times, and only then did Qu Shi slowly come to.

She looked at her mother with a face full of snot and tears, utterly bewildered: "Mother, why did you hit me? What... what happened to me? Why are all those children gone?"

Qu Shi fearfully gazed at her bosom—where were those babies' shadows?

Yu Shi's flowered face twisted into a ferocious fright: "It's over... completely over..."

"San Niang, you probably can't become the mistress of this Jiangjun Fu anymore!"

"Look, you just said everything in front of them!"

Yu Shi looked toward everyone before her.

Only then did Qu Shi notice—where were the orange lights?

Clearly, the whole garden was filled with people!

Everyone from the second and third branches.

The elders of the Li family!

Mother-in-law, Luoluo, and even all the servants in the manor!

Qu Shi's face turned pale: "Could it be... could it be that I just had a hallucination?"

And the things she said—every single person there had already heard them all!?

Qu Shi's face turned pale: "No... no... none of this is real..."

"Where is Aunt Zheng? Where are the children?"

"You're the fake ones—this whole thing is fake!"

Qu Shi, unable to accept it, screamed and lunged at the crowd, grabbing Jiang Shi of the second branch and Tan Shi of the third branch, and also seizing a few children and shaking them: "Are you the ones behind this? I clearly saw Aunt Zheng, I clearly saw those children——"

Qu Shi had no idea she would see those hallucinations, all because of that black cat.

She and Yu Shi had both inhaled the hallucinogenic incense, while the black cat's claws held the antidote.

So whoever gets caught becomes the sober one.

Moreover, Li Qingluo never expected Qu Shi would be so vicious as to push out her own birth mother.

After all, how much genuine feeling did Yu Shi have for her?

But according to Li Qingluo's original plan, even if Qu Shi were the sober one, after doing so many evil deeds she would certainly feel guilty, and once Yu Shi saw the hallucinations and revealed her panic, she would quickly expose these truths.

The people from the second and third branches were terrified out of their wits.

The children were even more frightened, wailing loudly.

Jiang Shi and Tan Shi both lunged forward, shoving Qu Shi hard: "You, you're crazy!"

"It's clearly you who did all the wicked deeds, that's why you saw ghosts and blurted out the truth without being hit—what does it have to do with us?!"

"I never expected some people who look gentle and yielding on the surface would act so ruthlessly when they act—your main branch, how many children have you killed?"

"Pah! Disgusting! Even newborns can be struck—no wonder you could do such disgusting things to your own biological daughter; you're not fit to be human."

"This filthy Jiangjun Fu, we don't want to stay here anymore."

"Separate the household, separate the household!"

"Exactly, we don't want to keep getting involved with your main branch's lofty glory that we can't aspire to—let's split!"

The second and third branches started arguing, this time thoroughly shocked by the main branch's sordidness.

Qu Shi, shoved to the ground again, laughed "hahaha" madly, her eyes red as she glared at everyone before her.

"Me vicious? Hahaha... all this, you second and third branch people think you can walk away clean?"

Tan Shi: "What do you mean by that?"

Qu Shi: "What do you mean? Your maternal aunt Deng Shi has been giving me advice all these years on how to handle these inner‑court secrets, and she's been pulling strings in the manor; otherwise you think your days have been improving day by day on their own?!"

Li Chao-hui and Li Chao-an heard this and both changed expression.

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Li Chao-hui's eyes hardened, he pointed at Qu Shi and shouted: "Poisonous woman! You're lying! It's you who did the vile deed of harming the Li lineage, and you still want to blame it on our aunt?"

"If you dare utter another word, I'll kill you!"

Qu Shi: "Kill me? Do you have that guts? I am still the mistress of the Jiangjun Fu!"

Since her most vicious side had been exposed, Qu Shi stopped pretending.

She crawled up, glaring fiercely at everyone before her, convinced they wouldn't dare really do anything to her.

"The Jiangjun Fu is about to collapse, and you don't even know it?"

"The master's generalship back then was ill‑gotten; now someone has a hold on him, and if the eastern window affair ever breaks out, the whole Jiangjun Fu being exterminated wouldn't even be enough to atone!"

"Hahaha, hahaha..."

"When that time comes, everyone will die!"

"Only our Qu clan can save your lives—what else dare you do?"

We must hurry and get me to confess!

Upon hearing this, everyone from the second and third branches turned pale with shock and fear.

They had already sensed something amiss in the Jiangjun Fu for some time—could it be that everything she said is true?

Pei Lao Furen finally pointed at Qu Shi and snapped, "Hurry up and seize this madwoman!"

Several mamas stepped forward, quickly subdued Qu Shi, and brought her to kneel before Pei Lao Furen.

Slap her mouth!

Pei Lao Furen will not show her any mercy.

Zhang Mama stepped forward and slapped Qu Shi several times.

Qu Shi screamed in agony from the blows.

"Mother-in-law, I really didn't say anything wrong… ah——"

Ever since the second and third branches were sent to the manor, Elder Aunt Deng has been longing to return……

So after I married into the Jiangjun Fu, she has secretly been sending me messages and giving me advice——

The first children of Lady Lou and Aunt Zheng were both aborted thanks to her getting me the medicine——

All those sordid schemes are her doing! Even Aunt Zheng's twins were her idea——

Ah!!

I, the daughter-in-law, dare not speak a false word! Mother-in-law—Elder Aunt Deng is the real murderer of those children—ah!

Please see clearly, down to the finest detail——

Qu Shi's cutting words made the faces of the second and third branches turn livid with anger.

Li Chaohai is a filial son and refuses to believe these words.

He was about to lose his temper and rush forward to personally reprimand Qu Shi when a familiar angry voice rang out: "Third Aunt Qu, you're lying——!"

I really did send you a message, hoping to befriend you and get a chance to bring the children back to the Jiangjun Fu……

But those children you killed were clearly your own wish to be rid of, to clear the path for yourself and your own bloodline—yet you had no one to help you, so you asked me to give you the idea!

Qu Shi, you want to turn black into white and dump all this filth on me alone—that's unacceptable!

Elder Aunt Deng came forth, trembling and unsteady.

Seeing her, the second and third branches gasped, "Aunt?"

"Grandma Aunt?"

Li Chaohai: "Aunt, did you really do these things?"

You helped a tyrant, aiding him in killing so many of the eldest brother's children!? Mother, is all this really true!?

Li Chaohai seemed unable to accept it.

He had always believed Aunt Deng was innocent and misunderstood, but now it seems her dark deeds in the Jiangjun Fu are indeed many.

Li Chaohai staggered back heavily.

His wife, Jiang Shi, and Li Qingya finally managed to support him with difficulty.

Li Cha'an also shouted: "Aunt, you're so confused!!"

Elder Aunt Deng, face bitter, looked at her two sons' families, tears streaming as she shook her head: "I was wrong, I truly made a mistake……"

Elder Aunt Deng turned and knelt heavily before Pei Lao Furen: "Madam, I have committed a grave fault; this time I dare not make any excuses. Whether beating or killing, Madam, please punish me—I dare not utter a single complaint."

But please, Madam, spare Hai'er and An'er—they truly know nothing and have done nothing wrong against the Jiangjun Fu——

Madam, please, please——

Before Pei Lao Furen could speak, Li Qingluo stepped forward: "By what right do you have a house full of children and grandchildren, while my grandmother's descendants are nearly all killed by your poisonous scheming?"

Elder Aunt Deng's lips trembled; she dared not utter another word in rebuttal.

Li Qingluo: "However, since you admit guilt, that means my half-brothers and half-sisters, and all the children in the manor whose number my father doesn't even know, were all killed thanks to your plotting with Qu Shi—you can't deny this!"

Qu Shi still shouted: "Luò'er, no, the truth is absolutely not like that; believe your mother—it's all this old woman's scheming, it's really her——"

"Luò'er, believe your mother, I am truly your mother——"

Li Qingluo didn't even glance at her.

Instead, she fixed her stare on Elder Aunt Deng.

Elder Aunt Deng lowered her head and admitted: "Yes… it was I, together with the Jiangjun Fu's matriarch Qu Shi, who caused the deaths of those children—both born and unborn……"

Li Chaohai collapsed face-first to the ground.

Mother!!

He let out a painful cry.

Qu Shi turned deathly pale: "No… no!! Luo'er, why must you treat Mother this way? I am your mother!!"

Li Qingluo: "Do you know that your own birth mother watched helplessly as I was swapped identities by Zhao Shi, and even concealed the truth from you for seventeen years?"

Not everyone in this world loves their own children.

Just like your mother, and like my mother.

And I have suffered bitterly since birth, all because of the wicked deeds you once committed!

Qu Shi went completely limp.

She turned her head in disbelief toward Lady You beside her.

Lady You had long dared not shout loudly; upon hearing that Li Qingluo had actually known this all along and still exposed this to Qu Shi.

She naturally would not admit it!

Your little hoof, all this is your nonsense! If I had known the truth back then, how could I not have stopped this?

Don't come here stirring up trouble between me and Third Aunt……

Li Qingluo: "It was your Qu family who poisoned my grandmother, intending to take her life—wasn't it you, this vicious dead old woman, who did the deed?"

Lady Yu immediately and urgently rebutted: "Of course not! It's clearly the grandaunt of San Niang, Lady He——"