So what if she's a fake heiress? She's being pampered by a powerful figure in Beijing'

Thinking of this, she lost her appetite and stared intently at Xie Junfei, who was sitting in the main seat.

The fourth wife naturally noticed her niece's little schemes, but did not stop her. She simply lowered her eyes and continued eating.

She wanted to make this girl hostile towards Xie Junfei, otherwise how could they compete?

Sure enough, as soon as lunch ended and Huo Shen and Xie Junfei got up to leave, the niece shook off the fourth madam and the servants and left first.

The fourth madam returned to her room at a leisurely pace, and as soon as she entered the courtyard, she heard a deafening sound of things being smashed.

The matron immediately opened the door and saw her niece pointing at a pretty little girl and starting to hurl insults:

"Are you trying to scald me to death by serving me such scalding hot tea? Don't you know how to serve people? If not, get out!"

"Look at you, all dressed up like a seductive vixen, always loitering around the yard. Are you trying to climb the social ladder by hooking up with some rich guy?"

"What are you looking at? I'm in a bad mood right now. Pack your things and get out!"

After catching her breath, the niece began to make veiled accusations:

"What a shameless slut from a humble background! She just takes advantage of her pretty face to seduce men!"

"I'll wait until you're old and your looks have faded, and see how men will abandon you!"

After she finished speaking, the fourth madam's smiling voice came from outside the door:

"Wait until she gets old and loses her beauty? You'd be waiting forever."

Upon hearing this, the niece turned around and saw that it was her aunt. Her arrogant demeanor immediately vanished, and she stood dejectedly in the courtyard.

The fourth madam stepped forward slowly, first giving the young maid dressed in red and green a sharp look:

"What are you looking at? Get out of here and listen to Miss Biao!"

"If I don't keep an eye on you for even a day, all your little schemes will be exposed!"

"Who do you think you are, dreaming of seducing the young master! If word gets out, the whole old mansion will laugh at our fourth branch!"

After speaking, her gaze softened as she looked at her niece.

“Good boy, your aunt will get revenge for you. I’ll kick this arrogant brat out right now.”

"Let's go inside and talk."

After saying this, the fourth wife led her niece back to her room.

Unlike the fifth wife, who was obsessed with antiques and squandered most of her family fortune, the fourth wife had been working hard in the Huo Group for years. Moreover, the fourth wife came from a prominent local family and her family was one of the wealthiest among the four wives. Even the interior decoration of the fourth wife's house was top-notch.

The fourth madam picked up the tea served by the maid, took a small sip with elegant grace, and then smiled as she looked at the dejected girl opposite her.

Her dear niece had completely lost her former pride and smugness, wilting like a dried-out scallion.

"Aunt, with Xie Junfei's looks and demeanor, I have absolutely no chance of winning!"

"Besides, as you've seen, Huo Shen and she have such a good relationship! There's absolutely no chance for me to interfere!"

After saying that, she said dejectedly:

"Maybe we should just forget about it. I'll go home after the New Year. I don't want to marry Huo Shen."

"Anyway, my father has already arranged a marriage for me, and he's a young man from a good family. So be it."

As soon as she finished speaking, she was about to get up when the head housekeeper standing behind the fourth madam pulled her back!

She looked at her aunt with some surprise, but only saw the Fourth Madam calmly sipping her tea.

The head maid, who was holding her hand, sneered and said meaningfully:

“Miss, you don’t really think that the business marriage your father arranged for you is as good as you say.”

After saying that, the stewardess took out a thick stack of documents from the table behind her and threw them in front of her.

She opened it with some skepticism, and the information that met her eyes was truly shocking.

Not to mention that the young master participated in promiscuous parties during his studies abroad, eventually contracting HPV and genital warts, and had to go to the hospital for treatment.

Even after the young master finished studying in France, he brought back a child of mixed Chinese and African descent, claiming that the child was his own.

The young master's family was furious and refused to believe it, insisting on genetic testing. The results were very clear: it was indeed the young master's child.

The niece was terrified when she read all these documents.

After a long pause, she hesitantly spoke:

"But this is different from what Father said..."

Upon hearing this, the Fourth Madam immediately burst out laughing:

“My dear niece, you don’t still believe what your father said, do you?”

"You've lived in our family for so many years, haven't you ever had even the slightest suspicion about those men who are the beneficiaries?"

Upon hearing this, the niece's heart skipped a beat, and she gripped the corner of the table tightly.

Yes, she was taking a chance.

Her family is not as glamorous as outsiders think.

The family is extremely patriarchal, with men inheriting all the property and women being used as tools for business marriages.

The reason why the fourth wife of the previous generation was able to marry in style with a large dowry was because her mother was powerful. She managed to overpower the master and get rid of the arranged family marriage. She had an affair with the fourth master in the Huo family and made the fourth wife pregnant before marriage, thus escaping a disaster.

She was the only girl from the Fourth Madam's generation to escape this fate; all the others were traded away as resources.

Now, after more than a decade, the Fourth Madam has established herself in the Huo family and is treated the same as men when she returns to her parents' home.

She herself grew up spoiled by her father and brother, and even fantasized that she was different from other girls in the clan.

Little did they know, what good is being pampered and spoiled? It's nothing more than handouts from those in power.

When it really touches on the vital interests of those in power, they will discard you faster than anyone else.

But years of pampering from her family still made her disbelieve it, and she stared intently at the document, muttering to herself:

"No, this must be fake, I don't believe it!"

"My dad and brother wouldn't do this to me!"

Seeing that she still refused to accept reality, the fourth madam sneered and gave the steward behind her a look.

The supervising mother understood immediately and took out her phone to play an audio file.

The sound rang out; it was the Fourth Madam talking to her father.

Amidst the casual conversation, the fourth wife inadvertently inquired about her marriage, and her father quickly revealed the name of the young master from that family.

Immediately, the fourth wife said, as if it were a casual remark:

"But I heard that young master doesn't have a very good reputation. He even brought back a mixed-race bastard from his studies abroad."

"You cherish my niece so much, but does she even like that?"

To her surprise, her father scoffed and didn't seem to care at all.

"In this day and age, which man doesn't go out and have a couple of funs? What's a child?"

"Besides, it's a family marriage; why would we need a mere girl's consent?"

"We feed and care for her at home, just so she can go out and marry into a wealthy family and create value! Otherwise, who would be so bored as to give this money-losing girl money to waste!"

Upon hearing this, the niece sitting in front of the fourth wife's eyes turned completely red.

I never expected that my father, who has always doted on me, would think this way.

But she was heartbroken too soon.

The fourth madam chuckled, picked up her teacup, took a sip, and then dropped an even bigger bombshell:

"Wipe your tears, this isn't the worst part."

"The worst part is that the young master you're supposed to marry has been diagnosed with AIDS just three days ago during a medical check-up."