Chapter 535 This Isn’t Your Daughter’s Birth Date, Is It?

Daxisipo fixed her gaze on the maid named Feng Ran.

The maid kept her eyes downcast, her appearance completely unremarkable—the kind that would easily vanish in a crowd.

But Daxisipo suddenly stepped forward, grabbed Feng Ran’s arm, and shoved her sleeve up!

The exposed arm had half of it covered in festering sores shrouded in faint black energy!

The sores were horrifying, with flesh torn open and grotesquely exposed, yet not a drop of blood oozed. Anyone could tell something was terribly wrong!

Those present paled in horror, their expressions twisting in shock!

Jiao Shi shrieked, "What is this?!"

"This is the malignant sores formed when disaster energy invades the body," Daxisipo said calmly.

Jiao Shi gasped, "So she’s the one who destroyed the Fate-Changing Tower?!"

Feng Ran, likely realizing she couldn’t deny it, dropped wordlessly to her knees.

One could say the Duke’s household stood stunned.

Why would this person destroy the Fate-Changing Tower of the Jiping Commandery Prince’s daughter?

Before anyone could process this, Yu Mingzhu uttered, voice shaking with disbelief and panic, "Feng Ran? It was you? How could it be you?"

She sobbed anew, "How could you do this?! You once told me you admired Second Brother, and I even advised you to let go since he and Second Miss Wei are mutually devoted... I never imagined you—you would... Feng Ran, how foolish! How could you do such a thing?!"

In just a few words, Yu Mingzhu laid bare Feng Ran’s motive for tampering with the Fate-Changing Tower.

Yu Chongen walked in on these words.

His eyes immediately reddened with fury, his sight blurred with rage. Striding forward, he kicked Feng Ran sprawling.

Blinded by anger, Yu Chongen put all his strength into the kick. Feng Ran rolled several times before stopping, spitting blood, her face instantly drained of color.

Yu Mingzhu was so startled her face turned ashen.

Yu Chongjie hurriedly restrained Yu Chongen, "Second Brother, control yourself!"

It wasn’t out of concern for Feng Ran’s life—Yu Chongjie simply didn’t want his brother to have blood on his hands.

But Yu Chongen was past reasoning, his eyes bloodshot as he struggled to break free, snarling, "You wretch—wretched woman!"

Feng Ran wiped the blood from her lips and mechanically pushed herself upright, kneeling again.

"It was this servant’s delusion. I used my leave to visit family to investigate the location of Second Miss Wei’s Fate-Changing Tower," Feng Ran said in a toneless monotone, admitting her guilt. "I only wanted to teach Second Miss Wei a lesson, so I threw the tower’s pinnacle aside. The blame is mine alone."

Jiao Shi pressed a hand to her chest, struggling to breathe, utterly dumbfounded. "Absurd! For—for this?!"

How was she supposed to explain this to the Jiping Commandery Prince’s household?!

The one who nearly wiped out the entire Jiping Commandery Prince’s household was just a lowly maid from her own estate?

And the reason? Because this maid was infatuated with her second son and, out of jealousy, sought to punish Wei Shuangyan?

This is madness!

"Let me go!" Yu Chongen was going crazy, struggling against his elder brother's restraint. "I'll kill her! I'll kill her!"

He simply couldn’t accept it!

Daxisipo, however, let out a cold scoff.

Did they truly believe that an unremarkable low-ranking maid, out of jealousy for a future second young mistress whose marriage wasn't even finalized, would commit such a deranged and morally bankrupt act?

To put it bluntly, she might as well have tried seducing him!

Yu Shanglian’s face darkened as he asked Daxisipo, "Divine Physician, the evildoer you mentioned earlier—the one who brought ill-omened energy and harmed my mother—is this maid before us, isn’t she? If we take her away, will my mother wake up?"

Daxisipo glanced at Yu Shanglian. "This maid is indeed the evildoer, but your mother has already been affected. It won’t be so easy for her to wake up."

Imperial Physician Liu also nodded. "The best solution would be to have someone of great fortune stay by the Dowager Duchess of Xin’s side, using their auspicious energy to counteract the calamitous energy. That is the proper method."

Great fortune...

Hearing this, Jiao Shi’s eyes lit up, and she immediately grabbed Yu Mingzhu’s hand. "My Zhuzhu’s birth chart has always been praised as exceptionally fortunate by anyone who sees it. With her accompanying Mother, she's sure to recover."

Upon hearing this, Imperial Physician Liu carefully examined Yu Mingzhu’s face. He was about to agree, but Daxisipo sneered and said, "Take another look."

Imperial Physician Liu’s expression turned serious, and he scrutinized her more carefully.

Upon closer inspection, he indeed noticed something unusual.

It was the kind of thing one wouldn’t realize unless they looked carefully—but once they did, it was startling.

The prized jewel of the Duke of Xinguo’s household, at first glance, did appear to have a face of great fortune. But upon deeper examination, the layer of auspicious energy in her features was like the moon reflected in water or flowers in a mirror—without foundation and slightly ominous.

Imperial Physician Liu became more and more puzzled.

Seeing his sudden silence, Jiao Shi felt inexplicably uneasy.

Yu Mingzhu’s smile stiffened slightly.

It was Yu Chongjie who asked, "Imperial Physician Liu, what do you think?"

Imperial Physician Liu tactfully replied, "...The young lady of the household might not be suitable."

Jiao Shi grew anxious again. "...If even Zhuzhu's fortune isn't enough, then who should we look for?"

Imperial Physician Liu found Jiao Shi’s words somewhat strange. Why was the Duchess of Xinguo so confident about her daughter’s birth chart?

But seeing Daxisipo’s mocking smile, he hesitated before finally asking, "Might I inquire about the young lady’s birth chart?"

As an imperial physician, Liu held an extraordinary status, above worldly matters. Jiao Shi had no reason to distrust him and whispered Yu Mingzhu’s birth details to him.

Imperial Physician Liu pinched his fingers, calculating carefully.

The more he calculated, the more strange his expression grew.

"Madam, are you certain of this?" Imperial Physician Liu frowned deeply. "This can’t be the young lady’s birth chart."

The birth chart was indeed exceptionally fortunate, with fortune like auspicious clouds, endless and unbroken.

But looking at the young lady before him...

To put it bluntly, how could her looks possibly match such a birth chart?

Jiao Shi was flabbergasted, suddenly recalling Daxisipo's firm assertion that Yu Mingzhu was not born during the hour of Yin (3-5 AM).

Now it had been proven that Daxisipo was no fraud but a genuine mystic.

Then it hit her...

Jiao Shi's face instantly paled.

When she had gone through the agonizing labor to give birth to her daughter, she remembered every detail clearly—this astrological time was undoubtedly her daughter's.

Yet two masters had now told her that this birth hour did not belong to her Zhu Zhu—

That's impossible!