The whole family of villains listens to my heart, the Regent Prince treats me dearly.

"Sister! What nonsense are you talking about! I gave this shop to the Second Miss a long time ago! It has nothing to do with the Sun family now!" Fifth Aunt said.

"How can it not be related?" Madam Sun sneered.

"How can you, a concubine's daughter, decide to give away the Sun family's property to others?"

"Don't you even consider whether you're worthy of it!"

She led a group of thugs into the jewelry store.

The guests were frightened by the fierce-looking thugs and hurriedly left Lanyue.

Seeing this, Fifth Aunt was both angry and anxious.

"Why can't I make the decision? This shop is part of my dowry!"

Unexpectedly, Madam Sun covered her mouth and laughed as if she had heard a joke, her expression quite shameless.

“You are a daughter of the Sun family, so your dowry naturally belongs to your maternal family. How to dispose of it is up to me, your elder sister.”

Even with Fifth Aunt's good temper, she was still furious with her.

She looked at Zhai Rongyu apologetically, almost in tears: "Second Miss, it's all my fault, I've caused you so much trouble..."

“It’s alright,” Zhai Rongyu reassured her. “I was bitten by a dog before, and I’m immune now.”

"Who are you calling a dog!" Madam Sun was furious.

She now realizes that this damn second young lady is even more annoying than her half-sister!

"What? Did I hurt you?"

Zhai Rongyu opened her innocent almond-shaped eyes and asked, "Shall I say it again?"

"Hmph," Madam Sun said through gritted teeth with extreme anger, "No matter how sharp your words are, you still have to obediently hand over the jewelry shop, don't you?"

She strolled around Lanyue with an air of nonchalance.

He raised his hand to stroke the gold jewelry, his eyes gleaming with greed.

"What a pity, such a profitable shop will have nothing to do with you anymore!"

"This is the Second Miss's hard work!"

Fifth Concubine angrily said, "Without her, Lanyue wouldn't be as magnificent as it is today! How can you just take it away like that!"

"Haha, then I must thank her."

Madam Sun laughed sarcastically.

Zhai Rongyu didn't tolerate her and continued to spout off:

"Heh, you know to pick up your bowl now that the food smells good? I see you're pretty quick, but how come your brain's been covered in shit for so long and you haven't cleaned it yet?"

"Is this cheap enough to fill your stomach?"

"Still hungry? Want another punch from me?"

Madam Sun trembled slightly with anger and shouted shrilly at the group of thugs:

"What are you all standing there for? Get back to smashing it!!"

"Let's see who dares to move!"

Zhai Rongyu roared, grabbed the unlucky guy closest to her, and threw him out!

Everyone was stunned when they saw the burly man groaning in pain as he was smashed to the ground.

Fifth Aunt's mouth dropped open.

This is this...

This is a muscular man who is eight feet tall!

The second young lady just swung him away with one arm? ? ?

She stared at Zhai Rongyu's thin arms, unable to come to her senses for a long time.

Is this reasonable...?

"What's going on?" Wen Shaoxuan was patrolling the street when he heard the commotion and led a group of men in.

Madam Sun rushed over as if she had seen a savior.

"My lord! My lord, you must do justice for this woman!"

She handed the land deed to Wen Shaoxuan, pointed at Zhai Rongyu and said, "This Miss Zhai has brazenly seized my Sun family's property in broad daylight, and is acting recklessly by relying on the power of the Minister's Mansion. She has absolutely no respect for the law!"

Fifth Aunt hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Sir! You mustn't listen to her nonsense! This shop is my dowry, a gift I gave to Second Miss!"

"The land deed is right here. You think you can just give it away like that?" Madam Sun said dismissively.

Wen Shaoxuan looked at the land deed, then glanced at Zhai Rongyu.

Seeing that she had no reaction, he said to the fifth concubine, "You said this shop was your dowry, so why is the land deed in her hands?"

"This..." Fifth Aunt hesitated.

She didn't know how the land deed ended up in her sister's hands.

Is it...

A certain possibility crossed Fifth Aunt's face, and a trace of pain flashed across her face.

“This land deed is fake,” Zhai Rongyu declared decisively.

"You say it's fake, so it's fake?" Madam Sun's eyes were filled with venom. "It's all in black and white; you have no choice but to believe it!"

Zhai Rongyu ignored her and only said to Wen Shaoxuan:

"Young Master Wen, the real land deed is in my house, but it's been a while, so we'll have to look for it carefully."

"I implore Young Master Wen to do me justice today and temporarily close my shop."

She glanced at Madam Sun.

No matter what, we can't let it fall into the hands of this fat monk.

“Tomorrow, I will definitely come back with the real land deed to take back the shop.”

Fifth Aunt stepped forward anxiously, grabbed Zhai Rongyu's sleeve, and whispered, "Second Miss, this land deed..."

Zhai Rongyu pressed down on her hand and interrupted her with her eyes.

He even nodded slightly.

Fifth Aunt was stunned.

Does the Second Miss perhaps have some solution?

But the land deed in the sister's hand should be genuine. Where are they going to find another "real" land deed?

Seeing the Fifth Concubine's flustered expression, Madam Sun curled her lips and said, "Don't think I don't know what you're plotting."

"Isn't your goal just to buy time so you can forge another land deed?"

"I'm telling you, that's impossible!"

She pointed to the official seal on the land deed and said to Wen Shaoxuan, "My lord, please look, this land deed of mine bears the official seal from a hundred years ago!"

Wen Shaoxuan looked down and saw that the land deed did not seem to be fake.

He glanced at Zhai Rongyu again.

Her expression was cold and stern, and her dark almond-shaped eyes shone with indifference.

Wen Shaoxuan's heart skipped a beat.

He said to Madam Sun, "Since your land deed is genuine, what harm is there in waiting for another day?"

"Guards, seal off the shop!"

The city patrol troops lined up in an orderly fashion and quickly cleared the store of its inhabitants.

Madam Sun stood outside the door, staring at the seal on the door and then at the "Lan Yue" signboard, gritting her teeth inwardly.

Fine! She'll wait one day!

Let's see what tricks Zhai Rongyu can pull!

"Thank you." Zhai Rongyu thanked Wen Shaoxuan and then took the Fifth Concubine back to the Minister's Mansion.

Wen Shaoxuan watched the departing carriage, a hidden undercurrent in his eyes.

Shangshu Mansion.

As soon as Zhai Rongyu returned to the mansion, she saw Minister Zhai sitting in the front hall drinking tea.

"Father, have you finished court?"

Zhai Rongyu walked over and bowed to Minister Zhai to pay her respects.

"Hmm," he said, looking at the fifth concubine who was following behind Zhai Rongyu with a solemn expression, somewhat puzzled.

"Where did you all go so early in the morning?"

"Why are you looking so sad?"

Fifth Aunt then told Minister Zhai what had happened that morning.

Minister Zhai slammed down his teacup in a fit of rage: "Absurd!"

"How could the Sun family raise such a shameless daughter!"

Fifth Aunt shrank back, not daring to speak.

She was also a daughter of the Sun family...

"Dad, calm down."

Zhai Rong stepped forward and gently patted Minister Zhai's back to help him catch his breath.

He then turned to Fifth Aunt and asked, "Aunt, what's the deal with that land deed?"

Fifth Aunt was stunned for a long time before she clutched her handkerchief and shed tears.

"It's my mother..."

“A few days ago, my parents sent someone to ask me to go back to my parents' home, saying that my sister was seriously ill. I thought that this was all my fault, so I decided to go back and see her. Who would have thought…”

Fifth Aunt raised her handkerchief to wipe away her tears.

"Who would have thought that my mother told me that she gave me so much dowry because she thought I could do something for the Minister's mansion and help the family."

“But my sister told Mother that I have lost the master’s favor and that it would be a waste to leave so much money and property with me.”

"Why not take it back and use it to help the Sun family?"

"Mother also said that my sister has been divorced, and instead of helping her, I, as her younger sister, am ganging up with outsiders to bully her. I'm heartless and ungrateful, having eaten the Sun family's food for so many years for nothing..."

Fifth Aunt's tears fell like beads from a broken string.

"In a fit of pique, I brought over my dowry chest and let them take most of it."

"I never imagined that the land deed for Lanyue would be inside."

"It was my oversight. Please punish me, Master and Second Miss."

As she spoke, she knelt down, sobbing uncontrollably.