"You don’t like Shen Shuci?"
"She almost killed before! And then Jiang Jinsang ca over, and I had to apologize to her — I never settled that score with her properly."
"I can help you vent your anger."
"You?" Having benefited from framing soone before, You Shenming knew she had so tricks up her sleeve, but he wasn’t stupid. "Why are you helping ? What do you want?"
Xiang Xiaoyuan wasn’t shy. They were colluding, after all, neither of them good people, so no need to pretend.
She opened her mouth and spoke plainly, "I want to enter high society."
You Shenming laughed, "Deal, as long as this works."
"But I don’t have resources or connections, by myself I probably can’t..."
"Just tell what you need."
...
Then a rumor surfaced again in Beijing:
Old Shen originally wanted to leave all the inheritance to Tang Wan, which displeased Shen Shuci. She deliberately set up a sche to fra and slander, aiming to get rid of Tang Wan.
"I knew it, Tang Wan is the biological granddaughter of the two elders. No matter how close Shen Shuci is, she was adopted; how could the inheritance go to her?"
"No matter how good the relationship, without blood ties, she’s still an outsider."
"If this is true, then isn’t Shen Shuci extrely vicious? The Tang Family hasn’t been unkind to her, yet she’s doing this to Tang Wan?"
"I heard Tang Wan was so upset she almost had a miscarriage."
"Oh my god, wouldn’t Fifth Master go crazy?"
...
Amidst everyone’s gossip, new developnts seed to erge.
"I heard Master Huo is working on a marriage report, and authorities are vetting Shen Shuci. Involved in this kind of situation, the vetting reportedly had issues, so Master Huo went to find Tang Wan."
"Don’t talk nonsense. It wasn’t Master Huo; it was Huo Ran! He charged over to Fifth Master’s house to demand an explanation from Tang Wan and got beaten up."
"Beaten up?"
"Yes, they say he was furious. Wasn’t he very fond of playing with Fourth Master before? Nowadays, he’s talking about breaking ties."
"With the vetting going wrong, Shen Shuci and the Huo Family’s marriage is off. How did things end up like this?"
...
You Shenming didn’t expect Xiang Xiaoyuan to actually be quite capable. If she could ruin Shen Shuci’s marriage to Huo Qinqi, and she lost her support, wouldn’t she be at his rcy?
**
Guantang Villa
At the eye of the storm, Tang Wan was sitting at her workstation, handling tools with one hand, fixing silk threads, and using fine pliers with the other to make cloisonné for a screen.
A retro Bluetooth speaker beside her was playing so sort of prenatal education program.
No matter how the storm raged outside, she remained unmoved, until her phone vibrated. Seeing the caller ID, she picked up the call: "Hello, ’Miss Xiao’?"
"I just got back to Beijing; would it be convenient to et?"
"I’m afraid not convenient recently."
"There might be sothing I can help with." She spoke tactfully.
Tang Wan smiled, "Didn’t expect you to have heard?"
"Mm."
"Thanks for your concern. I can handle this."
"If you need help, just let know."
Tang Wan felt her words were just polite, smiled, agreed, hung up the phone, and didn’t think much of it.
"Take a rest before continuing." Jiang Jinsang opened the door, handing her a cup of ward milk.
"Didn’t you say before that the eastern family wants You Shenming to inherit the family property? He’s the only son in the You Family. By doing this, aren’t we cutting off the family line?"
Jiang Jinsang just smiled, "We still don’t know what the eastern family really wants. We need to make this big, and in the end..."
"Even an immortal can’t save him then."
"Otherwise, with that family’s tactics, if they truly want to protect him, the matter could easily get covered up. Maybe a few years’ sentence, pull so strings, get a reduction, and he wouldn’t be inside for long."
Since we want to get him, let’s do it thoroughly.
...
anwhile, in a house in East City,
"Miss, what do they an by this? Things have escalated so much. Due to their status, the Huo Family can’t intervene, and even Fifth Master won’t co forward? Just letting things get out of hand?"
She just smiled, "Fifth Master Jiang isn’t staying out of it; he’s waiting..."
"Waiting?"
"Waiting for the right mont."
"What do you an?"
She smiled, looked up at the sky, "Lately, the weather’s been so stuffy and restless..."
"I heard a typhoon is passing through in a few days. It’ll be comfortable then."
"Maybe Fifth Master Jiang is waiting for a typhoon day like that too..."
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