It wasn't until the next day that Wan Niang's body was discovered from the ashes.
Nearly half of the huge mansion had been burned. As many people as had gathered for the groundbreaking ceremony now came to collect the remains of the mistress.
Madam Zhou glanced at her daughter-in-law's charred bones, her heart trembling with fear. She kept patting her chest, terrified.
In just a few days, a living person had died.
She wanted to find her son and ask for an explanation, but in the dark room, her son no longer resembled the person she remembered.
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