The study.

The Wen Family Dowager sank into a brief silence before saying, “I don’t know very much about your mother, Ye Yufei. I just heard a few rumors in passing.”

Su Yi sat leisurely across from her and nodded. “Just say it."

“Thirteen years ago, on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, your father suddenly ordered that your mother was to be stripped of her status as a proper wife, and furthermore, that she was to be confined to the Raincloud Hut for the rest of her life, never to take so much as a single step outside.

A look of reminiscence arose in the dowager’s gaze. “Back then, everyone at all levels of the Su Family was stunned, including me. This was because, before that day, your parents’ relationship was excellent. People even described them as a pair of immortal lovers….

“The family head never said why he suddenly decided to strip your mother of her status, much less why he placed her under permanent house arrest as if she were a criminal.

“But ever since, a rumor has spread throughout the Su Family. They say that your father realized that your mother was actually the agent of a mysterious...