Mu Zhongqing and Lady Du returned to the inn with heavy hearts, just as their daughter Cai Wei had perfected the recipe for sandwich cookies. Upon seeing her parents, she hurriedly brought out a plate of cookies and presented them to her parents.
Just as she approached them, she noticed that her mother's eyes were deep red and her elegant face was slightly swollen. She was taken aback, asking, "What on earth happened?"
Lady Du, upon hearing her daughter's question, could not hold back her tears. She told her daughter everything that had transpired at Duke An's Mansion.
Finishing her story with tears streaming down her face, she lamented, "I'm incapable of rescuing your maternal grandmother from that wolf's den, but I can't bear to see you falling into it either. Now in a dilemma, it's truly tormenting me!"