Chiang Xiao’s question like that also sounded very strange to the people around her.

"Yeah, aren’t these two families already as close as one?"

"They’ve got a Divine Doctor right there in the Jiang Family and don’t use him, but run off to a foreigner-run hospital? She just fainted—does that really warrant hospitalization?"

"They say it’s because Sixth Young Master abandoned Miss Lu, but Sixth Young Master was being hunted down and could barely protect himself. The Lu Family can’t even understand that much?"

Chiang Xiao added coolly, "Sixth Young Master just got back and they won’t let him rest properly. This Miss Lu staying at the Jiang Family all this time—is she trying to force a marriage? She’s coming on a bit too strong."

"Now that you say it, that does kind of sound right..."

After speaking, Chiang Xiao stepped back out of the crowd.

The Lu Family had always been good at exploiting rumors and public opinion. Her great-grandfather was too upright and honest and had never paid attention to that before.

Looking at it now, it must have been her father who made a move.

Just now, while she was in that group, she’d heard someone deliberately or inadvertently steering the conversation, so she’d quickly gone up to cooperate a bit.

Now they would see how Old Master Lu responded.

And Lu Shuangshuang...

Chiang Xiao’s gaze dimmed.

She truly hated that woman to the extreme.

Chiang Xiao spent the entire day waiting for night to fall.

She didn’t want to appear in front of everyone, so her plan was to sneak into the Jiang Family estate under cover of darkness.

Although coming home for the first time in this way was a bit helpless, it didn’t matter anymore.

These past two days she had already roughly figured out some of the situation in D State, and she had dragged things out until the timing was about right.

At seven-thirty in the evening, it was already completely dark, and soft lights were scattered throughout the Jiang Family’s gardens.

Chiang Xiao avoided the main gate and circled around, unable to help letting out a sigh in her heart—this place really was vast; just running a lap inside would be enough.

Fortunately, Jiang Shiheng had described the Jiang Family gardens to her before, and she had even drawn them out, so she still knew a bit about the estate.

Finding a spot that should be a dark corner, she backed up a few steps for a running start, then moved with extreme agility to climb up the wall and quickly flip over.

For others this height might indeed be too high, but for Chiang Xiao it wasn’t a problem.

She dropped down from the tall wall without making a sound.

She stood up and looked around. As expected, this was a dark corner of the gardens; the lawn was flat, there was a small pond that seemed to have water lilies planted in it, and everything was very quiet.

Only about two hundred meters ahead could one see some dim orange-yellow lights.

Just this one dark corner alone was already this big...

Chiang Xiao pulled the mask on her face into place, pressed down the brim of her cap, and ran toward that patch of light.

In Jiang Shiheng’s study, a middle-aged man was standing in front of the desk, head slightly lowered as he reported something to him.

After listening, Jiang Shiheng smiled faintly. "So it seems I really have met a benefactor—there’s actually someone helping us stir the waters?"

"Yes."

Not only had someone forced Lu Junyou’s men into making that scene at the Foreign-funded hospital at such a critical moment, but when they sent people out to guide the rumors, there were also others who, as if pre-arranged, kept chiming in along their line of thought, and in one stroke reversed more than half of yesterday’s one-sided public opinion.

Now it was actually they who had the upper hand.

"I’ve already spoken to Doctor Chen. Tomorrow, have him do us a favor and casually mention Old Lu’s condition when he’s out. When the time comes, make sure you assign people to protect him well. Doctor Chen is getting on in years; we can’t let anything happen to him," Jiang Shiheng said.

"Yes. Sixth Young Master, the people we sent out have already discovered the movements of the woman you described."