"However, your mother… she rejected the idea. Rejected me growing up and marrying you. Back then, I was thinking, if she died… If she died, then there would be no one obstructing me from becoming the young lady of the Mu family.
"Too bad I was too young, I did not know how to tie up the loose ends well. I did not know how to get rid of the evidence and your father finally managed to find some flaws. My mother knew that it was I who had poisoned your mother. She also knew that Old Master Mu loved your mother a lot. My mother could not bear to let me die, so she accepted the punishment on my behalf.
"Hahaha, Mu Ling, you never would have known that the person who had given birth to your children and educated them was the enemy who had killed your mother! You took in your enemy who killed your mother as your concubine! You have greatly wronged the Mu family, hahaha!"
She had originally planned to keep this matter a secret for life. However, Xi'er was now dead.