After arriving home, Xia Ziyu took another nap. It was already evening when Du Chengrong returned.

He didn’t come back alone.

Several people followed behind him.

One of them was Xia Ziyu’s original driver.

There were also two unfamiliar men whom Xia Ziyu didn’t recognize.

However, there was a young woman who stirred Xia Ziyu’s emotions: “Master Du, it’s her!”

This was the young nurse who had added drugs to her medication. After Xia Ziyu’s incident, the nurse had vanished from the hospital as if into thin air. She never expected Du Chengrong would find her.

Du Chengrong sat on the sofa, “Stay calm, listen to them one by one. Since you recognize her, let her speak first.”

These four people appeared uninjured but looked dispirited. Upon entering the house, their legs became unsteady, suggesting they had endured something earlier. At Du Chengrong’s command, the nurse’s legs trembled violently, and she fell to her knees:

“Madam Du, I was wrong. Please spare me! I have parents to support me. Madam Du, please have mercy…”

The nurse cried until tears and mucus mixed, continuously kowtowing. Xia Ziyu wanted to tear her apart right there, having not the slightest intention of forgiving her.

Originally, she had been in the hospital for pregnancy care, with the fetus stable, requiring only two days of rest before discharge.

It was this despicable woman who added drugs to her IV drip, causing her to lose the child – the child who was supposed to be her support for the latter half of her life.

Xia Ziyu glared at Du Chengrong with reddened eyes, “I want her to pay with her life!”

Du Chengrong patted her, “Calm down. Even for a life payment, we need to hear her full story first. You fell into this trap blindly; if you don’t understand how it happened, you won’t be able to avoid it next time.”

Hearing “pay with her life,” the nurse collapsed on the ground, emotionally breaking down completely, unable to utter a word.

Du Chengrong reminded her, “A life for life might be a relief. Sometimes, living can be a hundred times more painful than death. When you want to die then, you won’t be able to. What do you think about that?”

The nurse trembled even more violently.

But she knew Du Chengrong wasn’t joking.

She had already witnessed how terrifying Du Chengrong could be!

She regretted taking money for this deed. The other party had promised to let her flee with the money. She had acted quickly – after adding the drug, she rushed to the airport before anyone could discover what happened. There was money in her account; with it, she could have lived comfortably in Canada. She hadn’t wanted to harm anyone, but after losing money gambling in Macau and owing impossible-to-repay loan shark debts, she had no choice.

“…They said I wouldn’t have to repay my debts… and that I could start a new life in Canada… I was bewitched, Madam Du, I was bewitched. Please forgive me!”

The nurse kowtowed repeatedly.

Her plane had already landed in Canada.

Yet Du Chengrong’s people still brought her back to Hong Kong – how could the nurse not break down?

She wasn’t truly remorseful about violating professional ethics to drug Xia Ziyu. Such people had no conscience; she was merely terrified.

Falling into Du Chengrong’s hands was worse than being in the loan sharks’ clutches!

Du Chengrong kindly reminded her, “Bringing you back to Hong Kong means you can live a few more days. Did you think you could take the money and live freely in Canada?”

How foolish.

Those who dared to eliminate Xia Ziyu wouldn’t allow a nurse to live – the next step would have been silencing her permanently.

While Xia Ziyu wanted to take a knife to kill her, Du Chengrong called for calm.

“Who paid you? Who ordered you to harm me!”

The nurse pointed at the driver, whose body also trembled.

“Be patient, continue listening.”

Du Chengrong didn’t immediately deal with Xia Ziyu’s driver, but instead let the other two men speak first. It turned out they were the troublemakers hiding among the paparazzi that day, also disguised as photographers, intending to cause Xia Ziyu’s miscarriage… They too testified that the driver had recruited them.

These two men were the first ones Du Chengrong caught.

The driver, it was the driver again!

This driver had always been quiet and appeared very honest.

He had been Xia Ziyu’s driver even before she entered the Du family, and regardless of where she went or whom she met, the driver remained tight-lipped. Xia Ziyu had deeply trusted him!

“So, whose man are you? I treated you well. If you had any difficulties, you could have told me! You—”

Du Chengrong wiggled his finger, “Tell us yourself whose man you are. You know I don’t want to hear lies; you’d better think carefully before answering.”

The driver’s lips quivered, and finally, like the nurse, he fell to his knees with a thud.

“I was arranged by the Eldest Young Master to watch over Fifth Concubine. When the Eldest Young Master gave Fifth Concubine to you, he never trusted her, so he ordered me to monitor her every move… Master Du, I alone am responsible for my actions. Please spare my family.”

It was Du Zhaohui’s man!

Indeed, Du Zhaohui.

Hot blood crashed around in her brain, but Xia Ziyu barely maintained some capacity for thought.

This was an intricate plot. They had tried to terminate her pregnancy during the paparazzi ambush, but with her strong constitution, the collision only caused some instability.

If they had managed to end her pregnancy on the spot, the same arrangement awaited her – regardless, the driver would take her to the hospital. Being Du Zhaohui’s man, he would “conveniently choose” that particular hospital, where a nurse drowning in loan shark debt had already been bought.

If she hadn’t been allergic to that drug, with particularly obvious and quick adverse reactions, by the time doctors noticed something wrong, it might have been too late for rescue, and she would have died in the hospital!

This vicious scheme wasn’t particularly clever; even Xia Ziyu could figure it out.

But it had nearly succeeded, proving that a plan didn’t need to be sophisticated, just effective.

While rage nearly burned every drop of blood in Xia Ziyu’s body, Du Chengrong remained calm:

“You want your family to live, yet you’re not telling the truth. That makes things difficult. You deliberately left clues for me to discover you’re Zhaohui’s man. No, I should say you were initially Zhaohui’s man, but later took money from someone else. Spare your family? I know you have a woman in Macau who bore you two sons…”

The driver looked like his throat had been cut, all strength leaving his body.

Xia Ziyu looked between the driver and Du Chengrong.

Du Chengrong had no intention of explaining, waiting for the driver to speak. No wonder one was a boss while the other merely drove for the boss’s concubine. The driver’s psychological fortitude couldn’t match Du Chengrong’s, and he finally spilled everything:

“…It was Fourth Madam.”

Du Chengrong couldn’t be bothered to watch their pathetic state anymore and had them taken away.

These four wouldn’t meet a good end. As Du Chengrong said, there were ways to make living more painful than death. They would eventually kowtow and beg, just for the mercy of death!

Xia Ziyu sat silently on the sofa.

It truly wasn’t Du Zhaohui.

She felt incredibly disappointed.

Why would it be Liu Keying?

Liu Keying was her defeated opponent; dealing with Liu Keying didn’t concern Xia Ziyu at all.

Du Chengrong seemed somewhat puzzled, “Aren’t you curious? Knowing it was Keying, don’t you have anything to say?”

Xia Ziyu smiled coldly, “I am your woman, and Liu Keying is your woman too. Both sides of the hand are flesh. Whether you’ll deal with Liu Keying and how you’ll handle her isn’t for me to decide.”