Then, one by one, their gazes shifted to Mu Anxiao’s face.
After looking at each of them, Mu Anxiao turned her attention to the fourth servant. "Tell me, her past." As she spoke, she adopted a serious expression.
The fourth servant’s expression visibly stiffened upon hearing Mu Anxiao's words. He said, "I truly don't know about that."
"You don't know..."
"Isn't that right? You seemed to have a pretty good relationship with that girl."
Hearing the first servant's words, Mu Anxiao's eyes lit up, and she fixed her gaze intently on the fourth servant's face.
The fourth servant frowned as Mu Anxiao stared at him. "Don't listen to his nonsense. I only spoke two sentences to Shu’er."
"Two sentences?" Mu Anxiao repeated his words casually.
The fourth servant stated seriously, "From the moment I first saw her until now, I've only spoken two sentences to her. Even," he lowered his head slightly, "I don't even know her name."
"You don't know her name?" Mu Anxiao was surprised. She vaguely recalled the man Shu’er had mentioned, and it was him.
"I really don't know. She never spoke to me when she saw me."
"I know, you've been secretly liking her all along," the first servant exclaimed excitedly.
The fourth servant lowered his head.
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao immediately turned to the first servant, who was so interested in gossip, and said, "Do you know something?"
"Why do you ask me that?" the first servant retorted, no longer agitated.
Mu Anxiao got straight to the point. "I see you're quite invested in his affairs. Tell me, are his words true?" She knew she couldn't waste any more time.
The first servant was taken aback.
Hearing this, the fourth servant immediately looked up at Mu Anxiao and asked, "What do you mean by that?"
Mu Anxiao took a deep breath and looked at the fourth servant, saying, "As far as I know, you seem to have had an unusual relationship with that deceased girl, haven't you?"
"I..."
However, before the fourth servant could utter a single word, the servant who had delivered the message for Feng Qishi suddenly interrupted, "Their relationship was indeed unusual."
Upon hearing this, Mu Anxiao slowly shifted her gaze to the messenger servant's face. "You were the first one to discover that girl, weren't you?"
"Yes." The messenger servant had become steady.
Mu Anxiao smiled. "You answer so quickly. It seems you're very clear about their matters."
The fourth servant froze.
The messenger servant calmly continued, "I felt their relationship was unusual because, every time there was Shu..." Halfway through, the messenger servant cleared his throat to cover the last word he had uttered, and continued, "Because every time that girl was present, he would also be there." He glanced at the fourth servant. xxs1
Unexpectedly, they all heard the last word spoken by the messenger servant.
Then, before Mu Anxiao could speak, the second servant asked, "Do you know that girl's name?"
"I don't know," the messenger servant replied, completely unfazed.
Mu Anxiao had no reason to suspect the messenger servant. Instead, she continued to stare at the fourth servant, who was much more handsome than the others, and said, "Do you really not know her name?"
"Are you suspecting me?" The fourth servant understood Mu Anxiao's meaning.
Mu Anxiao's expression stiffened. "I'm not."
"You say you're not, but your gaze towards me from the doorway was already off. Just tell me the truth," the fourth servant said, seeing through everything and becoming direct. "Are you suspecting me?"
"..." Mu Anxiao stared at the fourth servant for a few seconds. "That's right, I suspect you had something to do with that girl."
"You..."
"You really do like her," the messenger servant said.
Mu Anxiao glanced at the messenger servant, not thinking much of it. "You spoke more than two sentences to her, didn't you?" At this moment, she wanted to learn about Shu’er's situation before her death from the fourth servant.
The fourth servant said helplessly, "She never even looked at me. I only know that she was usually alone. Although she was lively in front of others, deep down, she was lonelier than anyone else."
"You seem to understand her quite thoroughly," Mu Anxiao said deliberately.
"I was always observing her," the fourth servant said in a low voice. "These," Mu Anxiao said sarcastically, "shouldn't she have told you herself?" she sneered.
The fourth servant looked calmly at Mu Anxiao's strange expression. "You shouldn't say such things casually. I had no interaction with her; I just wanted to like her silently. Who knew," he lowered his gaze, "that she would die just like that."
"..." Mu Anxiao deeply felt the fourth servant's 'humility' and frowned. After one of his sentences, she recalled what Shu’er had told her.
Seeing Mu Anxiao remain silent, the others also fell silent.
The messenger servant looked at Mu Anxiao and asked, "What's wrong?"
"..." Mu Anxiao did not reply, continuing to ponder.
They looked at each other, not daring to make a sound.
The fourth servant was lost in his emotions, clenching his fists, unable to extricate himself.
Suddenly, Mu Anxiao remembered that Shu’er hadn't mentioned who that person was. Instead, Shu’er had said that the man was among them. Thinking of Shu’er's words, she looked at the fourth servant again, thinking that this fellow, with his dashing looks, was actually a devoted lover.
With that thought, she sighed and asked, "How much do you know about her?"
"I only know that she was pretending to be strong," the fourth servant said without lifting his head, tears falling onto the back of his hand.
Mu Anxiao looked down at the tear drops on the back of the fourth servant's hand, her eyes darkening. "It wasn't intentional, you..."
"She was a good girl, but her only flaw was her lack of assertiveness," the fourth servant said, raising his hand to wipe away the tears from his face. "If she had even a little bit of assertiveness, she wouldn't have been bullied by them." As he spoke, he looked up at them.
From the fourth servant's words, Mu Anxiao sensed his understanding of Shu’er. It was at that moment she thought, if Shu’er had met him, perhaps things wouldn't have turned out this way?
The messenger servant said, "As if you didn't bully her. I remember once, you followed him," he pointed to the first servant, "and together you ordered her to sweep the floor."
"It wasn't intentional," the fourth servant said, glancing at the first servant. "I just didn't want you to see my feelings."
"Just keep pretending," the messenger servant said without any regard for the fourth servant's feelings. "Don't act so pure here; you're no different from them."
"You..." the fourth servant started to speak but stopped, as he admitted his powerlessness in certain matters. Thus, he lowered his head once more.
The messenger servant glared at the fourth servant.
Meanwhile, Mu Anxiao shifted her focus, her gaze fixed on the messenger servant's face, thinking, strange, why is he so worked up?