The girls in the courtyard and the maid guarding the door all had strange expressions on their faces and lowered their heads upon seeing Ling Wei.
Ling Wei hadn’t even reached the bedroom door when she heard a teasing voice from inside, "You serve the master well. Perhaps tomorrow the master will talk to the mistress about promoting you to be a concubine?"
Ling Wei felt her blood boil and was about to enter when she stopped herself, standing by the door to listen.
Inside, a woman’s voice could be heard, "Master, don’t fool . The second mistress seems like a formidable person. I fear she won’t easily agree."
Jiang Han said, "It’s only natural for a man to take wives and concubines. Whether she agrees or not, she has to."
"Co here, give the master a kiss."
Then ca the laughter and moaning of the woman.
Ling Wei could no longer bear it and pushed the bamboo curtain aside to enter.
She saw Jiang Han and a woman entangled on the big bed that she had brought with her as part of her dowry.
It was sumr, and they were already wearing little. At this mont, both Jiang Han and the woman had their clothes half off, the scene utterly indecent.
Hearing the commotion, Jiang Han turned around and was startled to see it was Ling Wei, "Didn’t you go back to your family ho?"
Ling Wei rushed over and gave Jiang Han a heavy slap, then started tearing at him while crying out, "Jiang Han, you dog! You have no sha! It’s only the second day of our marriage. I just left, and you’re already ssing around with a maid, on the bed I brought with ! What do you take , Ling Wei, for?"
Jiang Han, caught by Ling Wei, felt sowhat guilty at first.
He didn’t expect Ling Wei would co back unannounced!
Yet, after being shoved a few tis by Ling Wei, he too beca angry.
Being pampered for eighteen years, he was never one to take things lying down.
He forcefully pushed Ling Wei away, "What’s wrong with the master playing with a few won? Why are you making a scene?"
Ling Wei staggered back a few steps after being pushed. Luckily, a maid supported her, preventing her from falling.
She looked at Jiang Han in a daze, tears streaming down her face.
Before marriage, she knew Jiang Han was incompetent. There were always rumors about him snatching won at pleasure houses.
She had beco numb to it, as she wasn’t marrying for him but for the position of the Princely Heir’s wife.
After Jiang Han lost his position as the Princely Heir, her family intended to call off the engagent, but they couldn’t find a suitable reason and feared being labeled as opportunistic.
As the wedding approached, her family originally planned to provoke Duke Mansion to call off the engagent, but then Aunt Su visited the Changping Marquis Mansion. Whatever benefits she offered her parents, they no longer ntioned breaking off the engagent.
What choice did she have? She could only marry him.
She didn’t expect to live a loving life with Jiang Han, but to be humiliated by both in-laws and husband on the second day of marriage was too hard to accept.
At this mont, the maid on the bed hurriedly gathered her clothes and slipped away. Ling Wei ignored her and clenched her teeth, saying to Jiang Han, "Get out!"
Jiang Han snorted, adjusted his robe, and walked out.
Ling Wei looked at the bamboo mat, pillows, and silk quilt on the bed and coldly said, "Take it all out and throw it away!"
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In the afternoon, Jiang Zhongxing, who was at the governnt office of the Beijing Military Departnt, suddenly received an official docunt from above, ordering the Military Departnt to imdiately ransack the Su Mansion in the Capital City.
The Military Departnt often handled arrests of officials, serving as a blade in the emperor’s hands.
Upon receiving the docunt, Jiang Zhongxing first dispatched five hundred n to the Su family’s shops, then personally led five hundred n, quickly riding towards the Su Mansion in the Capital City.
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