The maidservant tugged her mistress' sleeves softly with trembling hands and asked in a gentle whisper, "Mistress, what should we do?" She made sure that no one would hear her even for people who were sensitive to voice. It showed that she had gotten used to doing bad deeds such as this.

However, Yao Ling was able to hear her voice clearly. 'Catch you!' She thought to herself.

Did they think it was easy to cover up their crimes?! She sighed when she looked briefly at the culprits and wondered what they did wrong so that person so bent on killing both her and Yao Ying. She bit her lower lip in disappointment, but she didn't expose them right away despite her anger.

After all, she still needed proof to apprehend them. She would get it no matter what happened!

The maidservant didn't hear an answer from her mistress and started to feel afraid. What was the meaning of this?! Did her mistress plan to sacrifice her? She was an extremely selfish person and she had gotten used to having the privilege of a first-rank maidservant... She would only do something that could gain her a benefit, so their relations.h.i.+p wasn't based on loyalty at all.

She would choose a master which brought her the most benefits.

The maidservant didn't want to be sacrificed and decide to give her mistress a hint... they were in this together. If she sold her out, she would do the same as well!

"Mistress, what should WE do?" She repeated the question and emphasizing the 'we' part. She didn't believe that her mistress didn't understand the meaning. We... as they were in this together! If she had said 'what should I do', it meant that she would take the blame for herself. Why should she do that?!

"Don't worry! Everything would be fine! They are just bluffing... there is no way to check the residue!" Her mistress answered confidently and it made the maidservant sighed in relief. In truth, the former was just lying so that the maidservant would shut her mouth before the other found out.

The mistress looked around carefully, checking whether someone was currently paying attention at her or not. She didn't know that whatever she did, it wouldn't escape Yao Ling's eyes who was beside her. Whenever she looked around carefully, Yao Ling always seemed to be focused on Concubine Xi's corpse and there was a terrified expression on her face. She sneered when she looked at the weak Yao Ling and confident that the latter wouldn't notice anything.

The mistress pulled out a small needle from her sleeve when she saw that the maidservant had relaxed her vigilance and paid no attention to her. She was going to stab her fatal point with the needle so that she would be dead --- a dead person couldn't talk so it would be safer to kill her first. Even if they found the residue on her hands, so what? They couldn't connect it to her anyway.

Her hand was trembling but it was better than to let w.a.n.g Luo Hai know her deeds! No! She would survive again this time! She had never killed people before but she didn't mind to do it for the first time as long as she could be free from the suspicion.

Yao Ling knew she had to prevent her from killing the maidservant, otherwise, she would miss a good show later. Thus, she tugged at the mistress' sleeve and asked in a soft voice, "Are you okay? Why do you look so pale?"

The mistress jumped up in surprise because she didn't think that Yao Ling would talk to her all of a sudden. They weren't even close enough to each other! Why did she pretend to be a good girl at this point?! The way Yao Ling looked so worried and it made the other party's speechless.

Fortunately, the needle was still covered by her sleeve so she didn't think Yao Ling could see what she was doing. She hid the needle back to its original place as soon as possible with her still-trembling hand and forced a smile, "I'm fine... No need to worry about me."

Yao Ling nodded her head and smiled at her.

The mistress sighed in relief when she found that nothing was amiss from Yao Ling's expression. She gritted her teeth, needing to find another chance to kill the maidservant before the shadow guard came back while bringing the water in.

It would be the end of her of that happened!

Yao Ling pretended to look at another thing, but every time the mistress was going to pull out the needle, she kept interfering and it made the mistress really want to throttle Yao Ling so that the latter could shut her mouth and let her do the killing as soon as possible!

"Why are your hands trembling if you are not afraid? Come on! Let me hold your hand so that you can calm down!"

Yao Ling said that when she was going to stab the needle and it almost touched the maidservant's fatal point. Not only that, but she also took her hand and held it tightly. Fortunately, it wasn't the hand that was holding the needle all along.

"I'm sorry that I'm talking too much... At least, it will reduce my fear!"

Yao Ling smiled at her when she said that and it made her want to slap the annoying smiling face.

"Where are you going?"

Yao Ling said that when she was going to find a good chance to get closer to the maidservant because she had to stand closer to Yao Ling due to the latter's nagging.

"Are you really okay?"

And so on.

And so on.

Those were some things that Yao Ling had said. The woman was so angry because Yao Ling kept gluing herself to her and making her miss several good chances --- she was sweating so badly because of her fear and anger!

All in all, Yao Ling was annoying her to death!

The matriarch heard their interactions but she didn't prevent them from happening, after all, it was good if their talk could calm Yao Ling's nerves --- she was thinking for the baby's sake and didn't feel that their behavior was suspicious.

Only Yao Ying knew the truth and he really wanted to laugh when he saw the anger in the mistress' expression. He really wanted to applaud Yao Ling for her quick thinking...

When the mistress knew that the shadow guard was almost there, she became even more agitated because she hadn't solved the maidservant yet! She wondered why did the plan go wrong?! She had calculated everything!

She knew the weakness of the poison from the person that sold it to her --- it was easy to prove who used it because of the residue, but she had thought because it was hard to be determined what kind of poison it was when the target had been killed, no one would be able to find out the poison's name and she would easily escape the responsibilities. Who knew that the master had a poison master as a shadow guard?!

This was called unlucky! Not only that but she had chosen a pig teammate which wanted to sell her out the first time they met trouble like this!

However, it was too late to regret it!