"Although Shen Ci said that, he was still worried and had Meng Chuyue instruct Erhu to go check on Su Xiufeng while also having someone watch her.
His thought was, if Su Xiufeng behaved herself this time, then fine, but if she hatched any conspiracies, he would have her stay in prison.
During this time, Lin Fangwei had already been bailed out of detention by the Li Family.
It cost a good deal of money.
Mainly to the Lee Family and Yun Family to get them to drop the charges.
Between money and having the already disgraced Lin Fangwei go to jail, both the Lee Family and the Yun Family wisely chose the money.
Once Lin Fangwei was out, she was scolded by everyone in the Li Family except Li Feng as if drenched in dog blood.
Some even suggested sending her abroad.
Had Lin Fangwei not still been hopeful about Shen Ci, she might have followed that decision.
But she hadn’t given up hope yet; seeing Li Feng disagree with this decision, she immediately knelt down to apologize, made promises never to do such foolish things again, told them she had been expelled from school and didn’t need to go out, and said she was willing to stay at home and focus on growing herbs and making medicine.
What she said was almost like being grounded. Li Feng was the first to agree, and everyone else expressed satisfaction, so she temporarily got through the crisis.
By now, the infamy of ’Lin Fangwei’ poisoning someone had destroyed her reputation and future prospects.
However, Lin Fangwei knew she still had a way out, which was to develop a new medicine.
As long as the medicine developed was good, what did this stain amount to?
As for whether she could smoothly produce what she wanted?
She didn’t think it was difficult because the day before yesterday when she was clearing poison pills in Lin Fangwei’s study, she accidentally triggered a mechanism behind the desk which revealed a booklet of ancient beauty secrets of the Li Family, containing all sorts of beauty secrets including pills to be taken internally, medicinal diets, and external use balms and pastes.
She had just returned under the pretext of going to the bathroom to look at it—the thing was still there...
She could completely turn her life around with this.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t immediately bring it out and had to pretend to research it for a while.
Starting the next day, Lin Fangwei gathered all the beauty-related prescriptions and books available at home and secluded herself in a pharmacy room to focus on her research.
To Li Feng and the family elders’ surprise that she suddenly took an interest in this field, they asked her, ’Why do you suddenly want to develop this?’
’Because I love Shen Ci, I want to defeat Meng Chuyue. Meng Chuyue’s best creation is the Scar Removal Pills, and I want to surpass her in this field.’
Lin Fangwei had thought it through, her reputation for poisoning could not be salvaged, so she might as well declare her motives to the world—in doing so, she might even earn a wave of sympathy.
Indeed, upon hearing her say this, everyone in the Li Family collectively gasped, but said nothing. They all shook their heads and left, Li Feng included.
Of course, Li Feng wanted to dissuade her but felt that she was too agitated at the moment. It wasn’t the time to provoke her; he thought to wait a few days and then talk slowly.
The Li Family wasn’t short of gossips.
Lin Fangwei’s statement spread quickly throughout the upper circles of the Imperial, and, as she hoped, the disdain for her lessened somewhat.
Though everyone said that no matter what, her act of poisoning was wrong, they also lamented over her infatuation.
But she didn’t know that her statement had infuriated Shen Ci himself.
Disgusted, he immediately had Meng Chuyue send Erhu to ’monitor her progress closely. I want to see if she really has the capability.’
Erhu didn’t have much difficulty discovering the secret of Lin Fangwei’s medical book.
However, since Lin Fangwei had already memorized and destroyed the original book, there was nothing he could do for now.
Fortunately, everyone was indifferent: just let Erhu keep an eye on her.
Since she was also stealing someone else’s work, they couldn’t blame them if they intercepted it later.
At most, they would take all the profits and them to charity."