Chen Tingfeng had always been such a person. If someone didn't matter to him, he wouldn't even spare them a glance.
He had saved Liu Yihe's life, and now it was her turn to repay him.
Fu Zhen pondered for a moment. Thoughts raced through her mind as she carefully recalled all the ins and outs related to her in the previous life. For some reason, she suddenly thought of the incident when she had taken action against her.
Many things were seen from the perspective of "Fu Zhen," but the facts of the Hundred Flowers Banquet had proven that what she had seen might only be the surface.
Why had she seen Chen Tingfeng bring Liu Yihe back to the mansion and then suddenly go crazy?
At that time, she had only thought it was due to her inner uneasiness. After all, she had obtained the position of the heir's wife in an unseemly way. But then she suddenly thought that since Chen Tingfeng had already blocked the news, who had spread the rumor about her drugging him to gain the position?
The queen?
She frowned and shared this speculation with Chen Tingfeng. His expression turned cold. "I also guessed it was her."
The queen's move had been aimed at binding them together. In the previous life, "Fu Zhen" had mistakenly thought that it was because of her drugging that Chen Tingfeng had looked so ugly. Now it seemed that he must have known that there was something fishy behind this and that it couldn't be hidden, which was why his face had turned ashen.
"But you were always so cold to me afterwards," Fu Zhen said.
Chen Tingfeng hadn't expected her to bring up the old scores from the previous life. He had to bear the blame for the previous life's Chen Tingfeng!
His face stiffened, and he secretly cursed the previous life's Chen Tingfeng for being ungrateful. "I... maybe he went crazy."
He didn't spare himself any mercy when scolding.
Fu Zhen didn't really want to pursue this issue. For her, the Chen Tingfeng she had fallen in love with was always the one in this life who had gone to great lengths for her.
She was just a bit indignant.
But now wasn't the time to discuss this. She just wondered - why in the previous life had she acted like a madwoman and done many things that seemed unreasonable to her now.
She knew her own character very well. If she wanted to take action, she would surely do it secretly and wouldn't let others notice.
This was completely different from the straightforward and noticeable way she had drugged Liu Yihe in the previous life.
It was as if she had become a different person.
An idea was about to emerge in her mind, but it was like there was a veil over it, preventing her from getting to the root.
"I was poisoned and died in great pain in the previous life. It was the queen's doing," Fu Zhen pondered. "But since it was poison, it must have been administered to me through a certain channel. After I married you in the previous life, people outside laughed at me, and I didn't like to go out of the mansion. Except for some unavoidable social interactions during festivals, I didn't usually go out for socializing. I had never even seen the queen, and you didn't even take me to palace banquets. In such a situation, how do you think she managed to poison me?"
"A person," Chen Tingfeng replied without hesitation.
Then, he hugged her tightly with heartache. "The Chen Tingfeng in the previous life was a scoundrel, but I won't be. I will surely make people outside envy you and let you only hear praises when you go out."
Fu Zhen's heart skipped a beat, and she gave him a sidelong glance. "Who said anything about this?"
"Then, does it mean there is someone from the queen in this mansion?"
She didn't even mention Xie Guang because before, Chen Tingfeng had almost uprooted all of Xie Guang's people in the mansion.
But it was different with the queen. Her people were always in the dark. Moreover, at that time, the Song family had been powerful, and it was very possible that they had planted a spy in their mansion.
Such a person had lived in the marquis's mansion for a long time and had shown no abnormalities in their actions. Besides, since the Song family had fallen, there was no longer a need to use this sleeper agent.
This kind of person was the most difficult to detect, and usually, no problems could be found.
Chen Tingfeng seemed to be lost in thought. After a while, he frowned and said, "I carefully selected the people in your courtyard in this life. There shouldn't be any major problems. Although there are many people in my courtyard, there are also many capable ones, so it's impossible to insert a sleeper agent. If there is one, it can only be in the main courtyard."
Fu Zhen often went to the main courtyard. If the sleeper agent wanted to drug her, it would be very easy.
"Early on, father wasn't often at home, and mother was in charge of everything. She was very busy and couldn't check every personnel transfer. She basically left it all to Nanny Li," he thought out loud. "I trust Nanny Li's work, but after all, she is a servant, and sometimes it's difficult for her to detect such a sleeper agent. Do you have any suspects?"
Fu Zhen thought for a while and hesitated. "There really is one."
Yuanyang.
Among all the people in the main courtyard, she had suddenly stood out and attracted attention. Now she had gone to Concubine Su's side... Wait, Concubine Su?
She grabbed Chen Tingfeng's hand. The veil that had always been unclear was instantly torn apart. Her eyes trembled slightly as she looked at Chen Tingfeng. "If I'm not wrong... Concubine Su was also involved in poisoning me."
He was stunned. Almost instantly, he remembered what Chen Luobing had said to them, "Be careful of Concubine Su."
"Concubine Su may have always hated me, hated me for taking Luobing's place," Fu Zhen's eyes were heavy. "Even though Chen Luobing had passed away before she had grown up in the previous life, in her mind, there was only her daughter as the young lady in this marquis's mansion."
So, she found Fu Zhen, this cousin who had come later, taken her daughter's position in the family ranking, and was extremely loved by the master and mistress, extremely eye - catching. Sometimes, hatred was planted like this. Even if it was just a small seed, it might not be impossible to grow into a towering tree later.
Perhaps, Chen Luobing's death was a hurdle that she could never get over in her heart, her reverse scale. It was like a lioness guarding her dead cub. Anyone who touched it would die.
Chen Tingfeng was furious. "An innocent victim! How dare she?!"
Fu Zhen grabbed him, and there was a cold glint in her eyes.
The human heart was the most difficult to fathom and the easiest to change.
No one could have imagined that Concubine Su, who had always been silent and transparent, would actually be involved in this.
But in the end, this matter should have been caused by that Yuanyang. "Cousin, what's Yuanyang's background?"
Chen Tingfeng narrowed his eyes. "I don't really interfere with the personnel in the main courtyard. But the people who can pass mother's inspection should have a clean background on the surface. I'll ask Yuanbao to investigate right away."
Yuanbao was the steward in his courtyard. His father was also a steward in the mansion. There was no one more suitable for this job than him.
Yuanbao stood at the door, listening to the order. He bowed and immediately went to investigate.
He always had a smiling face, but now that there was a suspected sleeper agent in the mansion, his face instantly turned cold. He even looked a bit like Chen Tingfeng, cold and intimidating.
Yuanyang had gone to Concubine Su's side. Presumably, these two had been in contact for a long time. She thought for a moment and suddenly said, "When we went to see Sister Luobing before, Concubine Su's carriage was at the back. I didn't know about this before. It was only later that Biyu casually mentioned it and said that Yuanyang had sprained her ankle at that time and got into Concubine Su's carriage."
Now that she thought about it, it was probably fake that she had sprained her ankle, and the real purpose was to get close to Concubine Su.
She was really good at choosing. She had picked such a silent and seemingly honest person that everyone in the mansion thought she was honest.