On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

The servant's low call brought Su Sui'an back to his senses.

Looking up at the three large characters "Shou Kang Tang" painted with gold powder, Su Sui'an curled up the corner of his mouth into a sneer.

In the previous life, it was not until the second branch had been uprooted for a long time that Su Sui'an found out that Liang was not a concubine promoted to the main wife as the mansion said, but she appeared as the old marquis's childhood sweetheart a year after his death and took over the position by angering the old marquis's wife to death.

At that time, Su Kang was just a young man of sixteen or seventeen years old. When Liang came to him, he had already joined the army under Su Qishun's constant persuasion.

The old marquis's wife, Mrs. Jiang, had been bedridden for many years. She had finally managed to arrange Su Qishun's marriage despite her illness. The appearance of Mrs. Liang with the old marquis's personal jade pendant dealt a fatal blow to Mrs. Jiang, who had been bedridden for a long time.

Jiang and the old marquis lived in love for their entire lives. Their backyard was clean and their home was peaceful. However, such a dirty thing happened when they were old. Jiang, who had always been strong-willed, was angered to death. Before her death, she even threatened that she would not be buried with the old marquis.

As a "filial son", Su Qishun naturally followed his "mother's" advice and did not bury the old marquis with Jiang.

Jiang's death was sudden, and Su Kang, who was fighting the enemy at the border, didn't even get to see Jiang for the last time.

Not long after Jiang was buried, Su Qishun welcomed Liang into his house, saying that he was following his father's last wish to honor the girl he had betrayed in his youth as his mother. He made up a lot of melodramatic love stories to change Liang's image, and portrayed Jiang, the legally married wife, as a scheming, vicious woman in order to break up the lovers. Poor Liang had to remain faithful to love for most of her life.

Finally, as Jiang's legitimate son, he openly confessed to Liang and asked Liang to forgive Jiang.

Su Kang rushed back from the border exhausted and resented Liang, but Su Qishun scolded him for being an adopted son of the Marquisate and not being able to interfere with his parents' feelings...

Thinking of this, Su Sui'an felt his fists harden.

Qingling's eyes swept over the other people sitting in the main hall one by one.

As she expected, except for the three-year-old Su Jinhao, Su Qishun's concubine and two illegitimate daughters, Liang, Su Qishun and his wife, and Su Jincheng rolled their eyes when they looked at Su Sui'an.

"Su Sui'an, you saw that your grandmother didn't greet you. Have you learned all the rules?"

Su Qishun saw that Su Sui'an's expression was no longer as respectful as before when he entered Shoukang Hall, and he could not help but scold him, "Also, you said you were going to ask for dream interpretation together, but when you came back, you didn't take your entourage with you and left your cousin in the middle of a busy city. Why is that?"

It seemed as if he would not give up until Su Sui'an explained everything clearly.

Su Sui'an glanced coldly at Zhao Qingwan, who was crying on Liang's lap with her messy hair and hadn't even changed her clothes. She clenched her hands tightly, her nails digging into her palms, and it was only with great effort that the sharp pain brought her back to her senses, which were about to go out of control.

Under the threatening gazes of Su Qishun and Liang, she returned her face to normal and sneered, "Uncle, what are you talking about? Didn't my cousin come back safely? And all the servants saw it with their own eyes. It was my cousin who said she had something to do and had to go ahead. It wasn't me who asked her not to go with me.

What, she was busy releasing her charm everywhere, but ended up hitting a wall, and now she blames me?"

Upon hearing this, the faces of the people in Shoukang Hall changed.

Zhao Qingwan, who had been lying on Liang's legs and crying for a long time without shedding a single tear, instantly had her eyes red when Su Sui'an said that.

"I...I didn't..."

The little white flower swaying in the wind and rain looked so pitiful.

"You don't have anything? Didn't you make a scene to leave? Or didn't you look at others with those stringy eyes?"

Su Sui'an didn't give Zhao Qingwan a chance to continue speaking.

"Even though I wasn't there, I knew roughly what was going on. Aren't there just those flirtatious people coming and going? Don't think I don't know anything. I told you a long time ago that your eyesight is not good. Looking around everywhere can easily lead to misunderstandings. But you refused to listen, and now you've been misunderstood."

"I don't..."

Zhao Qingwan hurriedly wanted to interrupt Su Sui'an.

Su Sui'an didn't give her a chance and took back the conversation, "I know you didn't mean it, but don't you think about it? There are so many people on the street, why didn't those hooligans tease you, but teased you? Sometimes you have to look for the reason in yourself, okay.

You came back in such a dishonorable state, and everyone in the mansion knew about it. Are you afraid that others won't know that the reputation of the adopted daughter of the Marquis of Changping has been ruined?

Although the older cousin is only nineteen and the younger cousin is only three, people will probably just laugh for a while and it won't necessarily affect their future marriage or education.

But our mansion is a century-old foundation after all. The longer the reputation is, the harder it is to maintain. If there is any disturbance, the good reputation that your uncle has worked so hard to maintain in the court will be destroyed in an instant. How can you be so ignorant?"

"I do not..."

"Okay, I know you've been unlucky lately. Not only do you have nightmares every day, but you've also been molested by a scoundrel and had your clothes torn to pieces. But the root of all problems is your own immorality. I suggest that if things really don't work out, don't expect to be blessed by gods and Buddhas just by praying to them.

Why not just stay in the temple for a long time? Wouldn't it be better to come back when my cousin stops having nightmares?"

Throughout the whole process, Su Sui'an didn't even let Zhao Qingwan finish her speech. She had a lot of words in her heart to taunt Su Sui'an and throw dirty water on him, but Su Sui'an predicted her prediction and blocked all her escape routes.

For a moment, tears welled up in her eyes and even her cheeks turned red.

"Su Sui'an, why don't you let Wanwan speak?" Su Jincheng on the side became anxious.

"Why do you blame Wan Wan? After all, isn't it because you didn't help Wan Wan that she is in such a mess?"

"Oh, then you should blame me for having nothing better to do and accompanying her to interpret dreams and seek talismans?" Su Sui'an retorted mercilessly, "Or should you blame me for not ruining my reputation together with Zhao Qingwan so that the Duke Gu's Mansion would come to cancel the engagement?"

When everyone present heard Su Sui'an say the word "break off the engagement", their hearts instantly tightened - did she know something?

Before, even if Su Sui'an was angry and aggrieved, he never said these two words, but now he blurted them out in anger...

This is not like the Su Sui'an of the past.

"elder brother..."