Jiang Li saw Tong'er and Bai Xue's confused looks, then told the two of them what happened yesterday evening.
The two servant girls did not follow her to the palace feast, thus weren't aware of what took place. After they finished listening to Jiang Li's narration of the entire course of events, each one of them was totally astonished. Actually, Jiang Li didn't tell them how she tricked Jiang Yu'e and just told them that due to an unexpected turn of events, the drugged wine that was meant for her was drank by Jiang Yu'e.
Tong'er was extremely frightened and said alarmingly: "Luckily that drug was drunk by the fifth miss. If it was drunk by miss......." Tong'er simply didn't dare to imagine what Jiang Li would experience then. She put her palms together and prayed towards the heaven, "All these were due to madam's blessing from heaven, continuously and secretly protecting the young lady from harm. Amitabha....."
"Madam's heart is too ruthless," Bai Xue actually frowned and said: "Doing so will not leave the young lady with a way to survive. Looks so gentle and affectionate, but in fact has a snake and scorpion heart. Miss, can't we tell master and let master see her true colors clearly?"
Jiang Li shook her head.
"I have no evidence, it was solely a one-sided statement from my side. Naturally, they will be able to refute. Moreover, for no reason at all, Jiang You Yao's marriage was ruined, father of course would feel ashamed towards her. If his heart is already partial towards her, nobody will believe whatever I say. No matter," Jiang Li said: "Just this turnaround of having her marriage with Zhou Yan Bang cancelled will be sufficient to cause a great injury to the mother and daughter's vitality. Anyhow it doesn't harm me. As for their true colors," Jiang Li smiled slightly, "as long as I still stay in the residence for a day, there will always be an opportunity."
Tong'er and Bai Xue looked at each other in dismay.
Since Jiang Li had said so, they could only drop the subject. Tong'er asked: "Then, what is heir Zhou going to do now? Is he going to marry the fifth miss? I think, master will definitely not let the third miss marry heir Zhou anymore."
Even Tong'er could tell, after going through such a thing, it's impossible for Jiang You Yao to enter Zhou Yan Bang's door. Jiang Yuan Bai will definitely forbid Jiang You Yao to humble herself and insult the Jiang family's reputation.
"It's also impossible for the fifth miss to be the proper wife," Bai Xue picked up: "isn't there still a young lady from the Shen family who was involved with heir Zhou? The status of the Shen family's young miss is much higher than the fifth miss. If they are giving an explanation to the fifth miss, it's even more important for them to give an explanation to the Shen family. Between the Shen family's young miss and the fifth miss, they will certainly accommodate the Shen family's young lady first."
Tong'er nodded vigorously, then immediately looked at Jiang Li and patted her chest. With lingering fears she said: "Heir Zhou had ambiguous relationships with so many ladies, and this happened before he got married....... It seems that this person is really not a good match. It's good that miss and he had cleared the relationships long ago. It's better to just let him be a scourge to other people." Tong'er was extremely glad, thankfully, Jiang Li and Zhou Yan Bang had resolved their engagement long ago. Otherwise, the one who was grieving would not be Jiang You Yao, but the Jiang Li in front of her.
"However," Tong'er recalled something suddenly and asked doubtfully: "It's never been heard that heir Zhou has any relations with the Shen family's young miss before, right? How did they get mixed up together? Is this really an accident?"
The drunk Zhou Yan Bang saw Shen Ruyun by chance, his heart stirred, and it abruptly gave birth to an indecent act, was it like this?
Jiang Li's smile turned a bit colder.
The husband had no feeling, but the concubine had the intention. This wasn't an accident, rather, Shen Ruyun had meticulously arranged this "magnificent feat".
......
The Shen family.
The family's servants lowered their heads and worked earnestly.
Even though the current master served as the secretary and appeared very lenient and benevolent, his mother and his younger sister did not speak as well as Shen Yurong. The two females had a bit of meanness in their nature, especially now that Shen Yurong's official path had become increasingly smooth. The two women's temperament had also grown, as if to make up for the past sufferings, they wanted to vent all the bitterness they'd received.
And the way of venting was naturally by tormenting the people below.
The servants in the Shen residence were all aware of the two female masters' harsh treatment. As a result, they didn't dare to get distracted even when doing tiny teeny little things, and were a hundred percent attentive.
In the house, Shen Ruyun was confronted by Shen Yurong.
"You've gone too far!" Shen Yurong said.
Shen Ruyun objected and replied: "Elder brother, I'm not the one making the mistake, it was Ningyuan Marquis's Zhou Yan Bang. Why are you blaming me, are you truly my elder brother?"
Shen Yurong, who instead of being angry was actually smiling, looked at Shen Ruyun and asked: "Oh? Did he really make a mistake?"
His gaze was sharp, as if directly piercing into one's mind and thoroughly peering into one's heart. Shen Ruyun shrank all of a sudden, but she hardened her scalp and said: "Correct!"
Shen Yurong fixedly looked at her.
Shen Ruyun had a bit of a guilty conscience.
That evening at the palace feast, everyone saw what happened. Ningyuan Marquis's heir, Zhou Yan Bang, and his fiance's younger sister, Jiang Yu'e, had a private meeting in the palace and had an illicit affair. In addition, he intended to disrespect the secretary's younger sister, Shen Ruyun. Ningyuan Marquis's heir was not at all the elegant nobleman he looked like from the outside. Rather, his lust seemed to cover the sky.
Everyone saw the end, but no one knew the specifics of that evening. To get to the bottom of the matter as to what had actually occurred, even Zhou Yan Bang and Jiang Yu'e were probably not very clear. The one who understood most thoroughly was none other than Shen Ruyun.
That night, she had a chance encounter with Jiang Li while in the garden and found out Zhou Yan Bang's whereabouts. After struggling for a while, in the end, she couldn't help her longing and also headed towards Yu Xiu Pavilion. She planned to "accidentally run into" Zhou Yan Bang and exchange a few sentences with him so he would remember her, to know that here's such a person and no longer be strangers.
Even now, Shen Ruyun was even more rejoicing that she had made this decision.
When she pushed the door of Yu Xiu Pavilion and saw Jiang Yu'e and Zhou Yan Bang pressed against each other in a lingering, shameful situation, she nearly screamed. Anger and envy instantly flooded her. Shen Ruyun almost didn't hesitate to run out and make the scandal known to the world, to ruthlessly retaliate against this man who had broken her heart and this woman who had no honour and shame.
Just before she left, not knowing due to which state of mind, Shen Ruyun retreated. She wanted to ask Zhou Yan Bang why he would do something like this. Previously, she had no choice but to give up and could only look at this man she deeply loved from afar because Zhou Yan Bang and Jiang You Yao were already engaged. But why did the engaged Zhou Yan Bang want to be together with Jiang Yu'e? Could it be that the one he liked was actually Jiang Yu'e?
Shen Ruyun could recognize Jiang Yu'e at a glance. Jiang You Yao's younger sister, a dog had always annoyingly fawned on Jiang You Yao.
Shen Ruyun summoned her courage to question Zhou Yan Bang, but he didn't reply. He seemed to have heard Shen Ruyun speaking, lifted his head and looked in Shen Ruyun's direction. Yet he had a dazed expression on his face, as if he was drunk, carrying an abnormal flush.
Shen Ruyun immediately recalled what Jiang Li said, that Zhou Yan Bang was going to take a rest because he was drunk. Thinking that Zhou Yan Bang was perhaps drunk, her heart gave birth to a fluke feeling. Is it because Zhou Yan Bang is drunk that he unconsciously did this?
She boldly drew nearer, resisting the disgust in her heart and looked at Jiang Yu'e. She then discovered that Jiang Yu'e was just like Zhou Yan Bang, not sober and was in a daze.
But even someone who's drunk should not look like this.
Shen Ruyun faintly had a sense of familiarity, feeling that she had seen this kind of scene before. She caught sight of the half burning incense in the corner of the room, the other half had already turned to ashes and fell to the ground.
Shen Ruyun suddenly realised!
She understood why the scene before her was so familiar, making her think back whether she had seen it somewhere. She finally knew at last, this was exactly the scene when her elder sister-in-law was caught together with a "male adulterer".
Almost an exact copy!
The Xue Fang Fei at that time was also like this, in a daze and not sober, not realising what situation she was in. She was woken up with great difficulty, while the madams similarly stood outside in a circle, wanting to see the scenery.
It was the same sleepy, not sober, two people. Also the same incense, the same thought-provoking smell.
The longer Shen Ruyun stayed in the room, the drier her mouth and tongue felt. A wave of unfamiliar dry heat from inside her body rushed forth.
If she hadn't gone through Xue Fang Fei's experience, according to Shen Ruyun's not so smart mind, naturally she wouldn't be able to figure out what happened. But since she had gone through this before, this time Shen Ruyun was smart and immediately guessed what happened.
Zhou Yan Bang and Jiang Yu'e were schemed by someone!
The matter was already up to this point, yet Shen Ruyun hesitated.
If Zhou Yan Bang was calculated against, it wasn't his original intention so she naturally didn't need to retaliate. There's no need to call people to come over and watch the scandal. But if she didn't call anyone to come over, after they woke up, would Jiang Yu'e seize the opportunity and use this matter to blame Zhou Yan Bang? The more she pondered about it, the more she thought it was possible. Shen Ruyun even thought, perhaps Jiang Yu'e was the one calculating Zhou Yan Bang.
With this conjecture, Shen Ruyun increasingly felt that her thinking was right. It should be known that with Jiang Yu'e's status, it's impossible for her to marry the son of an official. Moreover if it was with Ningyuan Marquis's heir, who every female in the entire Yanjing adore. Even if she married Ningyuan Marquis's heir as a concubine, Jiang Yu'e could be considered as climbing up.
Thinking as such, Shen Ruyun immediately felt stuffy inside and found Jiang Yu'e to be even more unsightly. If she left at this point, wasn't it as Jiang Yu'e's wish? Letting Jiang Yu'e pick things up in vain, letting her off lightly. That's something Shen Ruyun wasn't willing to see.
Thinking back and forth, Shen Ruyun couldn't think of a good method and became extremely angry. Why wasn't she the one entangled with Zhou Yan Bang? If the one laying on the bed together with Zhou Yan Bang at this time was her, this thing would be much easier to manage. With her identity as the secretary's younger sister, Zhou Yan Bang could just marry her. Both families were well-matched in terms of social status, an extremely appropriate match. Since they had done what a married couple do, no matter how unwilling Jiang You Yao was, her engagement with Zhou Yan Bang would definitely be broken.
The Jiang family would not allow Jiang You Yao to be a flat wife.
Originally it was a random thought, but after thinking back, Shen Ruyun was stunned.
That's right, since if she was entangled together with Zhou Yan Bang, Jiang You Yao would not be able to play any drama, then why not do this?
Anyway, the current Zhou Yan Bang was drugged and unable to recognize people. Even if there's one more person "entangled", Zhou Yan Bang also would not know.
Shen Ruyun was also clear that her current identity was unlike the past. There's also her elder brother as the secretary. What she did was too unsightly. Shen Ruyun's face dimmed, perhaps this might affect Shen Yurong's official career. She couldn't be like Jiang Yu'e, sleeping beside Zhou Yan Bang with her clothes not complete. She's a female and had to worry about her own reputation.
In this matter, Shen Ruyun has probably exhausted all her intelligence in her life to come up with this story of "being disrespected". So, first, she became the victim everyone pitied, but she had skin contact with Zhou Yan Bang which made Zhou Yan Bang responsible for her.
Things progressed very smoothly, even Princess Yongning was standing on her side and speaking up for her. Based on Ningyuan marquis's tone, he was bound to give her an explanation.
Shen Ruyun fell asleep and had a beautiful dream of marrying Zhou Yan Bang and becoming the heir's madam.
What she didn't expect was that her own elder brother, Shen Yurong, would not stand by her side. On the contrary, he criticized her for doing such a thing.
Shen Ruyun was scared by the gaze Shen Yurong fixed on her. She changed the topic and said: "Brother! What do you mean by asking these things now? Ningyuan Marquis already said that he is going to give us an explanation. Now Ningyuan marquis's heir and I are already in this kind of relationship, no other would dare to marry me anymore. Aside from him, I don't have any other way!"
"No other way?" Shen Yurong snorted, "At the time you did this, why didn't you think you won't have a way now!"
Shen Ruyun was shocked. Shen Yurong had guessed it. That's right, based on Shen Yurong's thinking, it would be strange if he couldn't guess.
"I know you like him, but he is the son-in-law of the Jiang family!" Shen Yurong said: "Now the Jiang family could only break off the engagement and you've caused animosity between the Jiang family and Zhou family. Do you think the people in Ningyuan Marquis's residence won't hate you? The Jiang family will also put this on your head!"
Shen Ruyun most hated to be reminded of the Jiang family. Although now she was currently the younger sister of the secretary, when compared, she was not as noble as the daughter of the chief assistant. She couldn't help ridiculing: "Jiang family, Jiang family, you only know the Jiang family. In the final analysis, you only care about your official career. Now Her Majesty the princess is siding our Shen family, there's no need for you to fear the Jiang family, you——"
"Pa", when that sounded, Shen Ruyun's voice stopped with a halt.
The reason was because Shen Yurong slapped her.
Shen Ruyun's body slanted from the slap, nearly tumbling down. Shen Yurong's eyes were red, his palms trembled. Looking at Shen Ruyun, his gaze gloomy as he said: "Pay attention to your words."
Shen Ruyun was so scared she couldn't even cry.
She knew this elder brother of hers was clever and he had been studying well since childhood. The teachers in the private school all said that sooner or later, their Shen family would produce a top scorer. Afterwards, Shen Yurong really became the top scorer.
Shen Yurong treated mother Shen and Shen Ruyun very well, but if Shen Ruyun truly offended him, when Shen Yurong got angry, Shen Ruyun was also afraid. It was unknown since when, perhaps after Xue Fang Fei died, Shen Ruyun felt that her older brother had increasingly turned gloomier and become more unfamiliar. Such as now, she was extremely afraid and didn't know what Shen Yurong would do.
Mother Shen, who heard the commotion inside, rushed in, opening the door and entering the room. Once she entered, she immediately saw Shen Ruyun covering her face, her eyes teary. She hastily went over and pushed Shen Ruyun's hand aside. Seeing the bruise on her face, she immediately said with anger: "Yurong, how could you hit your younger sister!"
When Shen Yurong saw mother Shen entering, he immediately pressed his forehead helplessly and said: "Mother, don't get involved in this matter."
"How can I not get involved!" Mother Shen said: "I'm your mother! Ruyun was subjected to such a huge grievance last night, what did she do wrong? She is your younger sister! I know you have great ability and I can't control you now. If you feel that Ruyun and I are a burden and dislike us,ashamed that we are your family, tell me now. Ruyun and I will pack up our stuff and return to the countryside, not daring to provoke you, this master top scorer!" When she finally finished speaking, she directly sat on the ground and cried loudly: "All blame the master for passing away early, leaving behind such a terrible mess. With great difficulty raised the son until big, but now he didn't want to recognize his mother, truly a sin......."
Shen Ruyun at once followed her mother and crouched on the ground. Both the mother and daughter cried on each other's shoulders.
The servants outside were even more frightened by the atmosphere and didn't dare to come out, pretending not to have seen anything, staying far away. This kind of scene was not strange in the Shen residence. Whenever mother Shen couldn't deal with Shen Yurong, she would always use this vulgar move of crying and bawling to force Shen Yurong to compromise.
As expected, Shen Yurong was defeated at once. He said: "Mother, when did I say that I don't care about the two of you. It's this son that's not good, this son is unfilial, this son's mistake. Ruyun, I'll take a trip to Ningyuan Marquis's residence in the afternoon. In this matter, you shouldn't be wronged, Zhou Yan Bang....... Just wait at home with ease."
Shen Ruyun was secretly happy but she still sobbed as she said: "Don't cheat me, elder brother; also don't think that younger sister is unwilling to forgive. At this time, if Ningyuan Marquis residence doesn't give an explanation, I really don't have any other place and could only hang my hair and be a Buddhist nun. How the people in Yanjing treat unclean women, you are also aware......." She abruptly held her tongue, and anxiously glanced at Shen Yurong.
Shen Yurong didn't allow anyone to mention any sentence about Xue Fang Fei in the residence. Everyone surmised that it was as if admitting that he wore a green hat. In the final analysis, having his wife engaged in an illicit affair with other people, was a humiliating matter as a husband.
Shen Yurong's glabella jumped slightly. He didn't get angry, merely quieted down suddenly. His expression also turned indifferent and he said: "I understand. Just wait at home, I'll go out first." After speaking, he no longer paid attention to Shen Ruyun and mother Shen before directly going out.
This time, mother Shen didn't cry out anymore. After Shen Yurong walked out, she raised her palm and slapped Shen Ruyun's back, grumbling: "Everything was perfectly fine, but why did you mention that matter? You look at your elder brother, feeling uncomfortable again."
Shen Ruyun also regretted. This knot, she also didn't wish to provoke Shen Yurong's anger. But her mouth was still relentless. She said: "What's actually wrong with elder brother? Still putting on that kind of attitude when that person is mentioned. He would not still have the person constantly in his mind right?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Mother Shen promptly said: "Your elder brother and that woman already had no relationships since earlier! She made your elder brother become the joke in the entire Yanjing. In the whole world, which man could tolerate other people stealing his wife. It's good that she died, if she was still here, she would implicate your elder brother. How would your elder brother have the current good prospects?!"
Listening to mother Shen's strict voice, Shen Ruyun also didn't dare to retort. After a while, she said: "Mother, will elder brother really go to Ningyuan Marquis's residence for my matter?"
"Of course he will!" Mother Shen held Shen Ruyun's hand, a trace of sharpness flashed in her eyes. "Even if your elder brother didn't step in, in front of so many people, Ningyuan Marquis's residence had insulted your innocence. Naturally they have to give you an answer. If it's not possible, just let the princess lend a hand....... In short, absolutely must not let you suffer this grievance!"
Shen Ruyun was a little lacking in confidence. This matter of her scheming Zhou Yan Bang, apart from Shen Yurong having guessed it, even mother Shen was not aware. If the Ningyuan Marquis' residence found out the truth, they certainly would not leave the matter at that. However, after looking at Zhou Yan Bang's circumstances, it's unlikely for them to find out.
In this way, the matter should be flawless and she could smoothly marry into Ningyuan Marquis's residence.
She finally got her desire fulfilled.
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At this time, in the Ningyuan Marquis residence, the sound of a woman's weeping could be heard from the main hall.
"Master, stop hitting, stop hitting! Yan Bang cannot bear so many beatings, quickly stop!" With lightning speed, Ningyuan Marchioness was about to forcibly take away the whip in Ningyuan Marquis's hand, but was pushed onto the ground by Ningyuan Marquis. She looked on helplessly as the jet-black, glossy whip fell on Zhou Yan Bang's back. Zhou Yan Bang immediately let out a blood-curdling scream.
The servants in the hall, the other members of Ningyuan Marquis's residence, all didn't dare to plead for leniency for Zhou Yan Bang. Zhou Yan Bang knelt on the ground, intending to evade his father's beating, but he was whipped even more fiercely.
His back was right away filled with red scars that swelled up. Because normally he was raised well, he had smooth and tender skin, thus the scars looked completely frightening.
While beating, Ningyuan Marquis severely reprimanded: "Preposterous son!"
No matter how, Ningyuan Marchioness was unable to dissuade Ningyuan Marquis. She could only stare blankly until Ningyuan Marquis was tired, threw the whip in his hand away, snorted, and left without turning back.
Ningyuan Marchioness pounced forward at once. Seeing Zhou Yan Bang's dying appearance, her tears flowed down continuously, unable to stop. The servant beside her worriedly shouted: "Quickly invite the doctor!"
The doctor arrived very quickly and wrote several herbs for a concoction for Zhou Yan Bang. Ningyuan Marchioness immediately called someone to get the herbal medicine and pan fry it in the kitchen. Then she personally applied ointment on Zhou Yan Bang's back.
After a while, Zhou Yan Bang, who had slowly regained his consciousness, turned around and called out: "Mother."
Ningyuan Marchioness's tears fell on the back of her hand, her heart mourning for his misfortune, unable to get angry. She wished she could beat Zhou Yan Bang a few times, yet she couldn't. So she merely said: "What are you actually doing?"
Zhou Yan Bang couldn't explain it either.
What was he doing? From last night until now, he was dizzy and wasn't clear about anything.
Ningyuan Marchioness continued: "Forget about Jiang Yu'e and you mixing together, anyway she is just a shu daughter. If it really won't do, bringing her in as a noble concubine is already too much. But you are really, why did you go and provoke Shen Ruyun? That's the secretary's younger sister, nowadays, the emperor regards Shen Yurong as someone important. You provoked the Shen family, the emperor is bound to be unhappy with you and also giving birth to discontent with our Ningyuan Marquis residence. That's why your father is this angry."
Zhou Yan Bang had a headache after listening. When did he provoke Shen Ruyun? He wasn't even clear what Shen Ruyun looked like. The secretary's younger sister met with a mishap last night. When she was accusing while shedding tears, it was the first time Zhou Yan Bang saw this person's appearance clearly. Towards this unfamiliar woman, how could he be frivolous? Zhou Yan Bang himself was puzzled.
"Didn't you say that you are fond of Jiang family's second miss, Jiang Li, before? Since you like her, why did you look for Jiang fifth miss and Shen Ruyun? Yan Bang? What is actually in your mind? How could you do such a muddled thing?"
Jiang Li? Zhou Yan Bang was stunned; the pain left behind by the flogging was ignored for a split second. Zhou Yan Bang recalled, last night, the person he clearly arranged a meeting with at Yu Xiu Pavilion was Jiang Li. How did it change to Jiang Yu'e? At that time, he personally saw the person coming to Yu Xiu Pavilion and thought it was Jiang Li who kept the appointment. He couldn't contain his joy and was unable to restrain his emotion. Could it be, the person who came was actually Jiang Yu'e?
Seeing Zhou Yan Bang looking dumbstruck and not saying a word, Ningyuan Marchioness asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Zhou Yan Bang came out of his daze and said perfunctorily: "Nothing." Yet his mind was chaotic and he wasn't at peace at all.
Jiang Li turning into Jiang Yu'e, what happened here? He asked someone to deliver the slip of paper into Jiang Li's hand. The returning person also said clearly that Jiang Li had received the paper. Such an important thing, Jiang Li definitely would not carelessly throw it away and let other people pick it up.
Zhou Yan Bang also remembered, after Shen Ruyun attracted the crowd last night, Jiang Li was also there, standing within the crowd. Her gaze as she looked at him didn't have any trace of surprise, calm and chilling.
She already knew.
Just like a basin of cold water poured onto him, Zhou Yan Bang felt he was shaking from head to toe from the cold. The colder his body was, the flame of hate and anger in his heart and his head actually grew bigger, more and more flourishing.
Jiang Li didn't wish to go to his invitation and simply set up a trap for him with Jiang Yu'e. A Jiang Yu'e wanted to marry into the Ningyuan Marquis's residence by every possible means. Jiang Li must have known about this matter since earlier and gave the slip of paper to Jiang Yu'e.
In this way, she could stand in the crowd and coldly looked at his disgraceful situation.
Zhou Yan Bang's heart produced a beastly wrath.
Even if he was foolish, he was also aware that after last night's matter, his official career could be considered to be destroyed. As a student of the Imperial College, the first important thing was precisely morality and conduct. His morality and conduct was inspected under many people and had become a joke. Hong Xiao emperor was not happy, he wouldn't have an opportunity in his official career to show his hands and feet.
All of this was given by Jiang Yu'e and Jiang Li.
Zhou Yan Bang hated Jiang Yu'e, but hated Jiang Li even more. It's fine if Jiang Li didn't keep the appointment, yet she still used such a way that brought dishonour to a person. She ignored his sincere heart and still discarded it like a worn out shoe. Using such a method, destroying his whole life.
This is a vicious woman!
Seeing Zhou Yan Bang seemed to be trembling all over, Ningyuan Marchioness was a bit anxious and asked: "Is there any discomfort? Let the doctor come and take a look?"
"No need." Zhou Yan Bang resisted the pain on his back and the ice in his heart as he said: "Mother, what should be done next? The current me and Jiang fifth miss, Shen family's miss, are all implicated. What should I do?" He pulled the corner of his mouth, "and the marriage with Jiang You Yao should be impossible, right?!"
Ningyuan Marchioness was silent for a while. She shook her head, "Early this morning, the Jiang family dispatched someone to come over." Her tone was unknown, angry or regretful, "the marriage with Jiang You Yao, just treat it as if it never happened."
Zhou Yan bang said: "No matter, my marriage with Jiang You Yao was originally something that should not happen."
Ningyuan Marchioness felt that there's something strange in his speech and couldn't help looking at him.
However, he thought in his heart, originally, her marriage with Jiang You Yao was a replacement of his and Jiang Li's. Now that Jiang You Yao had left. It could be considered as returning to the beginning.
But his relationship with the Jiang family didn't appear to be totally severed.
"What about Jiang Yu'e?" Zhou Yan Bang asked: "Seems I have to arrange a status for her. Mother, how about making her a concubine?"
"This is the best." Ningyuan Marchioness snorted: "Not taking a look at her own identity. If she wasn't satisfied with this, she better dispel the idea of entering the Ningyuan Marquis residence."