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Chapter 3920 4.1520 Mu Qingya's Past

The implication was that at the time, the entire family probably went to the underground secret room together, and there likely wasn't time for them to differentiate between direct and collateral branches.

"Oh," Qiao Mu nodded indifferently.

"A hundred or so Mu family members died," Qiao Mu said, her gaze indifferent. "After I observed them, I had the guards burn them."

"Those bodies had a black, putrid appearance on their arms. If they weren't burned, there's an eighty percent chance they would rise as zombies, which would be even more troublesome."

Qiao Mu didn't particularly like trouble. Compared to solving problems, she preferred to relax, drink tea, and eat pastries when she had nothing to do.

Chen Shang suppressed a smile. After interacting so many times, she already knew exactly what kind of person her Young Mistress was.

She found this personality quite good. Compared to Madam's tenacious and unyielding spirit, the Young Mistress seemed a bit more well-rounded than her mother.

Although she usually didn't talk much and seemed aloof, her eyes saw and understood things more clearly than anyone else. She was truly so intelligent that it made people want to praise her.

"I didn't see Mu Qingya's body," Qiao Mu said expressionlessly.

It wasn't that she was cursing Mu Qingya to die, but rather that she had paid more attention to this woman from beginning to end.

With such a sudden night raid on the Mu family, when Qiao Mu saw so many bodies, she naturally looked among them for people she considered more familiar.

Mu Qingya not being among the corpses surprised her, but also gave her some understanding.

After all, she was the former Clan Head's wife. Even if she had no martial power, she surely had protectors by her side.

Mu Jingfeng had fallen from grace, but the woman in charge of the Mu family currently still seemed to be Mu Qingya.

Just from this point, one could tell how formidable this woman's methods must be.

Her husband was already half-crippled, a useless person, yet she could still firmly hold the power over the Mu family's domestic affairs.

Of course, the Mu family's core power could not possibly be handed to her, but at least Mu Qingya's status in the Mu family, whether Mu Jingfeng was present or not, remained solid as the head wife.

Chen Shang couldn't help but twitch her mouth.

Her Young Mistress was becoming more adorable the more she looked at her. How much did she dislike Madam Mu?

It should be said that the little Crown Princess didn't particularly care for anyone in the Mu family, from top to bottom.

"First Madam is the head wife, so she naturally has hidden guards protecting her," Chen Shang said with a smile. "If she were to die, while the Mu family wouldn't suffer a major blow, the domestic affairs would become quite troublesome."

"Oh," Qiao Mu nodded casually. "Although she has no cultivation and is just an ordinary woman, for a regular young lady of the inner chambers to achieve what she has, she's probably unique in all of Dragon Flame City."

Chen Shang nodded. "First Madam is truly very strong and handles matters calmly. She's a model among women."

"This old servant still remembers that not long after Madam had a miscarriage, she rested for less than three days before resuming charge of the Mu family's affairs."

"Alas, these past years, if it weren't for her struggling to hold things together, I don't think the First Branch's life would have been any better."

Qiao Mu put down her porridge spoon, glancing lightly at Chen Shang, catching a key word: "miscarriage?"

"Didn't Mu Qingya only have one daughter, Mu Rouxuan?"

Chen Shang's expression was slightly awkward. "Your father... ever since that time he went to Qingya's courtyard after a drunken stupor and forced himself on her, he regarded her as his woman."