After discussion, Xia Chunyu started to take actions and went out with Housekeeper Zhao. Ye Jiayao also wrote a letter for Song Qi to send to Helian Mansion.
Having completed these tasks, Chunfeng returned with Little Ya.
Little Ya's face was pale, and a pair of willow bent eyebrows were tightly puckering. It was a painful look, but she did not cry and her eyes were calm. When she returned to the princess, she hadn't expected to leave her alive.
She served the princess at an early age and saw countless maids being disposed of by the princess, killed in a rod, hanged in a hanging rod, or tortured in various ways. She stabbed these people with thin needles, filled them with boiling water, or ordered them to eat a whole basin of red pepper, and died of vomiting blood....