Demoted from wife to concubine? Reborn, the mistress of a noble family plots another high-status mar

Chapter 35

What was more infuriating than her crying and fussing was her cursing the Marquis as shameless.

Shen Yue was so angry that his face turned red, but he couldn't refute it. "Yun Xiyue, don't look down on people. Our Shen family is indeed not as rich as your Yun family, but I will not owe you a single penny."

Despite his poverty, Shen Yue was determined not to be a kept man. "Bring me paper, pen, ink, and inkstone."

Zhui Feng was stunned for a moment, then quickly went to get the Four Treasures of the Study.

Shen Yue picked up a pen and wrote an IOU, then bit his finger and pressed it onto it, saying, "Here you go."

Looking at the IOU, Yun Xiyue's lips curled up. "What's the use of writing an IOU? The Grand Madam and the Old Madam won't acknowledge it. In the end, it's just a piece of waste paper. Why should the Marquis act impulsively?"

“Our Yun family only has money, not the power and influence of your Shen family, so there’s nothing I can do but accept it.”

"My lord, there's no need to argue. I'm already married to you, and this money..."

Shen Yue gritted his teeth and slammed his fist on the table. "I said I would return it to you, and I will never go back on my word."

"..."

"Madam..." Qingmei and Granny Cao were both terrified; the Marquis's eyes were too frightening.

Yun Xiyue looked at the lone IOU on the table and laughed, "How could a hypocritical man like him possibly keep his promise? Let's keep the IOU for now!"

Granny Cao said happily, "Madam is really amazing. The Marquis has written an IOU, so he can't not pay back the money in the future."

“We are husband and wife now. As long as we don’t get divorced, writing an IOU is useless. Shen Yue knew this, which is why he wrote the IOU without hesitation.” Yun Xiyue couldn’t be happy. She had seen how hypocritical Shen Yue was in her previous life. He only wrote the IOU because he was unwilling to tear off his mask of hypocrisy.

Besides, the Shen family wouldn't let her take the IOU to the authorities to file a complaint.

"What should we do then?" Granny Cao and Qingmei immediately stopped laughing.

Writing an IOU is useless; how can we get them to repay this money? Eighteen thousand taels! It's unfair that the Shen family got it so easily.

Yun Xiyue said, "It's not entirely useless. Let's put it away first."

The next day, people from Jin Yu Man Tang and Yu Jin Ge came again.

Shen Yue told Li to figure out a solution herself, since they bought the items on their own initiative, so they should pay for them themselves.

"Mother, what's wrong with my eldest brother? He's the head of the family, can't he just ask Yun Xiyue to pay for it?" Shen Yue was furious; she didn't want to spend her own money.

“Your elder brother went to Zizhu Garden yesterday. Yunxi Yue said she had no money, and your elder brother couldn’t do anything about it.” Madam Li didn’t want to give any money either.

Since Shen Yue doesn't care about this matter, they'll have to pay for it themselves.

Otherwise, offending the owners behind Jin Yu Man Tang and Yu Jin Ge would bring no benefit to the Marquis's mansion.

"Yue'er, take out whatever amount of money you have hidden away! Your older brother is upset right now, so don't bother him."

"We'll find a way to get it back from Yun Xiyue later."

If they don't pay out of their own pockets, the second and third wives won't pay either.

"Madam, the old lady and the others took out their own money and gave it to Jinyu Mantang and Yujin Pavilion."

Yun Xiyue sneered, "Look, aren't they all very rich? When I entered the manor, they all cried poor, as if they thought I was a fool."

"That's right!" Qingmei and Granny Cao were furious, remembering how they had complained about being poor when they first came to the Marquis's mansion.

The mistress's clothes weren't even as good as those of the servants who came with her as part of the dowry.

When they saw Yun Xiyue had something nice, they all looked on with envy and desire, saying that they were bullied and looked down upon because of their shabby clothes when they went out.

The lady was a kind-hearted person. When she first came to the capital, she was naive and could never have imagined that they would be so vicious as to conspire to swindle her money.