Chapter 26 - It was a reckoning

Mei Xing had grown up with the whispers. The hushed murmurs about a mysterious scandal that shook the Li Mansion nearly two decades ago. It was a tale buried deep in the annals of family history, dismissed as ancient gossip, yet fragments of it lingered in her mind like loose threads of a forgotten tapestry. Over the years, those scattered memories had faded into the background—until now. Now, they struck her with the force of a revelation, as if the missing pieces were finally sliding into place, and what she saw left her breathless.