Cold-faced Empress

Unsure, Li handed the paper to Fu Siying. Before Fu Siying could even look at it, her second aunt said, "Oh, Siying, you're already in trouble, yet you still have so many things to worry about? What, can you really decide Yunzhi and Rongchen's marriage? Heh, you should probably take care of yourself first."

Fu Siying paused, remained silent for a moment, and without looking at the paper, calmly said, "Second Aunt is right. I really have no right to interfere in my sister and brother's marriage anymore. I'll have to rely on Second Aunt to take care of it."

Madam Fu chuckled.

Madam Li and Prime Minister Fu exchanged a glance. Their attitude towards the Second Madam had been poor since earlier, and now, to indebted to her, they had to change their attitude, which was undoubtedly embarrassing.

Li forced a smile and said, "Thank you very much, second sister-in-law. Your elder brother and I will discuss which family would be the best match for marriage."

"Ah."

Madam Fu raised an eyebrow haughtily in response, flicked her handkerchief, and walked away with a smug air.

As soon as the person left, Fu Siying immediately took the paper from her mother's hand and examined it carefully. The more she looked, the more gloomy her expression became.

After reading it all, Fu Siying slammed the paper on the table and gritted her teeth: "Kicking someone when they're down, shameless!"

Mrs. Li asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

Prime Minister Fu was also puzzled: "Father knows these families. Although they are not the most prestigious families, they all have a strong family tradition and have never heard of anything bad about them."

Fu Siying shook her head, pointing at the paper: "The Xue family's third young master has a limp in his right leg and frequents brothels. The Jiang family's eldest son is still unmarried and is a homosexual. The Su family has a seventh young lady who is born mentally challenged and has a face as ugly as a ghost. The Wang family's eldest daughter was spoiled from a young age, constantly beating and scolding the servants, and even killed her own wet nurse..."

Fu Siying went through the list of families compiled by the Second Madam one by one, and each one had extremely wicked young masters and ladies. Needless to say, if it were a marriage alliance, Yunzhi and Rongchen would definitely marry into these families!

"Second Aunt is so clever! She only wrote down the name of the family and household, but not the specific young lady or gentleman. What does this mean? Is she waiting to trick us later?"

If one family alone has something fishy going on, that's one thing, but every single one of them is like this. Second Aunt's intentions are self-evident!

Prime Minister Fu and Lady Li were both greatly alarmed.

Li hurriedly picked up the paper again and looked at it. Some of the papers she had heard of, and some she did not know, but the ones she had heard of undoubtedly corresponded to what Fu Siying had said.

A moment later, Li was trembling with anger and turned to Prime Minister Fu: "Husband, how could my second sister-in-law be so heartless, yet she pretends to help us? I... I wish I could strangle her!"

Madam Fu the Second wasn't helping Yunzhi and Rongchen at all; she was selling them off as a favor. One can imagine how grateful these powerful families would be to Madam Fu the Second for securing Yunzhi and Rongchen's marriages.

As for the prime minister's family? Aren't they just a bunch of fools?

Prime Minister Fu's face turned ashen; he never expected his own family to be so shameless and cold-blooded.

After her anger subsided, Fu Siying narrowed her eyes and said, "Father, Mother, this matter should not be made public. These next few days, you should act close to Second Aunt and let her mistakenly believe that we are seriously considering the candidate."

"What are you going to do?"

Fu Siying's eyes flashed with sarcasm: "I don't intend to do anything, I just want my second aunt to experience for herself just how good the 'good family' she talks about really is."

While in Pingcheng, Fu Fangwei deliberately revealed to Ji Xiangrong the debt of breaking off the engagement. Before she could settle accounts with Fu Fangwei, her second aunt boldly came to provoke her again.

If she swallowed this insult, she wouldn't be surnamed Fu!