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Chapter 4071: Unveiling the Truth

"Do you know that Madam Mu, for your mother's sake, even resorted to using curse arts to curse Long Shouxin, the Long family head?"

"How could she be the Heaven's Will Hall Master you speak of, how could she help the Long family escape the capital city?"

"Crown Princess, you deeply misunderstand Madam Mu," Granny Qiu said in a low voice.

"This old servant knows that it's impossible to make you understand in a short while. But please believe one thing: Madam Mu harbors absolutely no ill will towards your deceased birth mother, or towards you!"

"Keep acting, keep acting," Qiao Mu's lips curved into a subtle arc, as if her mouth had split open, smiling eerily.

"Mu Qingya, why don't we string together all the things you've done, one by one? Let's start with Shi Huixin becoming your scapegoat, how about that?"

Madam Mu slowly raised her head, as gentle and graceful as ever.

Although a blade was at her neck, her shoulder clothing was partially torn, and her hair was somewhat disheveled.

Yet, her eyes were clear at this moment. She still looked like the Madam Mu who stood composed in the back hall of the Mu family residence, the capable head of the entire household.

Qiao Mu's eyes flickered slightly, and she couldn't help but subtly applaud her elegant demeanor.

"Mu Qingya, you probably never imagined that a small village child from the Lower Star Domain would, at some unknown point, break free from your control."

"When you discovered it, you suddenly felt that everything was out of control, deviating from its original course, and there was no way to set things right again," Qiao Mu tilted her head, a hint of a smile in her eyes, as she looked at her and said word by word, "I, Qiao Mu! I'm back in the Divine Land."

The Mu family disciples' gazes were fixed on the little Crown Princess, staring intently, feeling a sense of speechless awe for a moment.

"From the very first day I set foot in the Divine Land, you began plotting against me."

"It's not what you think. Qiao Qiao, you truly have a deep, deep misunderstanding of me." Mu Qingya wiped the corner of her eye with a handkerchief, trying to argue, but Qiao Mu interrupted her.

"I have no misunderstanding. When I learned that you were the elusive, famous yet unseen, Hall Master of Heaven's Will's Soaring Heaven Hall."

Qiao Mu turned around and suddenly gave Mu Qingya a radiant smile, her smile slowly blossoming like a sudden burst of an ice-and-snow jade lotus, cold and exquisite, making it almost impossible to look away.

"I retroactively reviewed every single event, one by one, in my mind... I went over them," she pointed to her chest, slowly speaking. "You are truly formidable! Before, I suspected you more than once! But each time, you managed to perfectly extricate yourself."

"You gave me the impression of such a perfect person."

"Gentle, skillful, noble, and even... without the slightest flaw."

"You were too perfect, so perfect... that it felt a little terrifying to me."

Mu Qingya watched her with tears, one after another falling, as she reached out to cover her chest.

"It's not what you think."

"Both you and I know Shi Huixin's identity," Qiao Mu looked deeply at her. "To orchestrate so many small schemes under the nose of the household head who has managed the Mu family for so many years, the probability of that is almost zero."