Chapter 20

Yunniang had recovered some of her energy, though her face remained pale. When she heard that her mother-in-law was still ill, she brought Chunxiang with her and carried a bowl of calming soup to visit her mother-in-law.

The old lady of the Fan family, Madam Ding, was forty years old this year. Madam Ding had an elongated face, fair skin, and a short stature. Due to her cold constitution, she always wore a headband, without exception even during the hottest days of summer.

From the age of thirty, she had been a widow for ten years now. Being a young widow afraid of gossip, she rarely went out.

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