Cai Wei's smile was chilling as she began tallying up on her fingers, "Back in the day, the old madam spent three thousand taels to bribe a distant cousin of my grandmother in our old home. Claiming to be an old sweetheart, she staged a grand scheme of death, bringing about my grandmother's downfall from grace. The old madam even spent one thousand taels to have the midwife murder the twin sons my mother's surrogate mother was carrying in her womb. She also used five hundred taels to poison a concubine's rouge, destroying her beauty and even once..."
Her words, a detailed record of the sins Lady Wang had committed, sent chills down Lady Wang's spine.
These incidents, each and every one of them, were true and all deeds she had done. Yet, she had hidden them so well that they had remained undiscovered for so many years. She had thought these actions had been long forgotten, even by herself. But now that they had resurfaced, and in such detail, it was no wonder she was alarmed!
