First annul the engagement, then sever ties with the empress; the empress reigns supreme.

Wu Alan's eyes lit up. Seeing that Sun's mother was not afraid, she became even more excited.

She sprang up from the ground, rushed towards Sun's mother, and fiercely shoved her to the ground.

"See the officials? Fine, but before that, I'll make you bleed first. You old hag, how dare you call me a slut? Today I'll show you who's really the slut!"

Sun's mother was old and outwardly strong but inwardly weak; she was no match for Wu Alan.

After less than two rounds of fighting, he was beaten to the point of being unable to move, just like Sun Wencai.

Sun's father watched from the side, wanting to offer advice but afraid of being implicated, so he simply took a bowl, ate some leftover food, and put it aside to eat silently.

That's what spineless men are like—good-for-nothings who can't stand up for themselves outside or at home.

If an ordinary person marries into such a family, nine times out of ten they will be devoured, leaving not even a bone fragment.

Gu Junxi, Mu Qingfu, and Mu Lingye watched the entire process from outside the courtyard.

Gu Junxi couldn't help but exhale a breath of stale air.

He thought to himself, "No wonder Mu Qingfu died along with her unborn child in her past life."

Fortunately, Mu Qingfu has learned to see things clearly throughout her life.

Inside the courtyard, Wu Alan finally got tired.

The restaurant owner, who had been waiting nearby, stepped forward with the bill to collect payment.

Despite her serious injuries, Sun's mother paid the bill and discovered that Sun Wencai had gotten married and had spent all the money Mu Lingye had given her.

He also emptied his family's savings, and even so, he still owed the restaurant one hundred taels of silver.

If he were to truly marry Mu Qingfu, this hundred taels of silver would be nothing.

Marrying Mu Qingfu is a phantom, and this hundred taels of silver is like a mountain weighing on his shoulders.

Even if a poor family works themselves to death, it is very difficult to save up one hundred taels of silver in their entire life.

Opening a restaurant is not a good deed, especially since the restaurant manager was instructed by Mu Qingfu.

No matter how much Sun's mother cried and begged, the restaurant owner had someone force Sun Wencai to put his fingerprint on the IOU.

The restaurant owner left with his men, leaving only the Sun family in the courtyard.

Sun Wencai lay on the ground, covered in wounds, his eyes filled with hatred. He shouted angrily, "Mu Qingfu, you slut, why did you play such a trick on me and hurt me?"

The show is over, and now it's time to give the scapegoat a good beating.

Mu Qingfu took the lead and walked into the courtyard, with Gu Junxi and Mu Lingye following behind.

Mu Qingfu stopped in front of Sun Wencai, looking down at him with her whip pointed at him, giving him her final answer: "Of course it's because you're not worthy! You're just a stinking man who lives off women, yet you dare to dream of a toad eating swan meat? Do you think this princess is stupid?"

"What do you mean? If you look down on me, why did you provoke me?" Sun Wencai's eyes were so terrifying that he looked like he wanted to devour someone.

Sun Wencai hated Wu Alan for injuring him, but he hated Mu Qingfu even more for helping him provoke Wu Alan and causing him to be disappointed.

"Did I provoke you? Wasn't it you who coveted my family background first? I was just going along with the mistake." Mu Qingfu stepped on Sun Wencai's fingers and rubbed them lightly, causing Sun Wencai's face to contort in pain.

As the shoe was moved, Mu Qingfu revealed the truth, allowing Sun Wencai to die knowing the truth.

"Do you still remember your younger sister, Sun Xiaohua? When I met her, she had just miscarried because her husband, who was over fifty years old, beat her. Before that, she had already given birth to three daughters, but her husband heard that she was pregnant with another girl, so he forced her to abort the child."

“Before this, she came back to beg you. You said that a married daughter is like water spilled from a bowl. But she clearly didn’t marry willingly; she was forced into it by you.”

"She had only one wish before she died, which was for you, her heartless brother, to be punished. Your biased parents are reaping what you sowed. I, the princess, cannot bear to see people pitiful, so I will grant her last wish."

“Sun Xiaohua? Why would you do this for that slut Sun Xiaohua…” Upon learning the truth, Sun Wencai’s eyes widened, filled with resentment and disbelief.

He couldn't believe that his lifelong shrewdness would be ruined by his sister, whom he had always treated as a servant and a tool for advancement.

Sun's mother was the same; she cursed and swore, wishing she could drag Sun Xiaohua out of the grave and whip her corpse: "That little slut, a good-for-nothing, she brought no wealth to the family while she was alive, and she still brings harm to our whole family after she's dead. If I had known, I should have drowned her at birth."

Even after retribution has come, she still shows no remorse. Such a foolish woman will probably never realize her mistake.

Even though Mu Qingfu didn't tell her the whole story, Gu Junxi had already pieced together the general outline from the conversation.

Mu Qingfu insisted on marrying Sun Wencai in order to avenge Sun Xiaohua.

This was meant to make Sun Wencai experience the pain of going from having something to having nothing, and the devastation of hope.

The scheme was designed to ensure that Sun Wencai, a villain, would be punished by the villains, and from then on, he would live under Wu Alan's fists and feet.

Gu Junxi couldn't stand it, and also to vent her anger for Mu Qingfu in her previous life, she stepped forward and decisively slapped Sun's mother.

"Shut up! You keep calling me a slut and a good-for-nothing. Aren't you a woman? The worst thing your mother could have done was to drown you when you were born."

Gu Junxi used ninety percent of her strength in that slap, and Sun's mother's head was turned to the side, blood flowed from the corner of her mouth, and she couldn't utter another word.

Looking at the chaotic and messy courtyard, Gu Junxi hugged Mu Qingfu's arm: "Cousin, the Sun family got what they deserved. Let's go. My brother must be getting impatient."

"Let him wait a little longer. I have somewhere else to go before I go to the Left Prime Minister's residence." Mu Qingfu already had a plan in mind.

After leaving the Sun family, Mu Qingfu led Gu Junxi and the others to the cemetery to visit Sun Xiaohua.

Standing before Sun Xiaohua's grave, Mu Qingfu, with her back to Gu Junxi and Gu Junxi, said sadly, "Actually, Sun Xiaohua was the sweetheart of one of my vanguard generals. That vanguard general died not long ago while suppressing bandits. Before he died, he had only one wish: to save Sun Xiaohua from her suffering. But when I went to find her, it was too late."

Mu Qingfu placed her hand on Sun Xiaohua's cold tombstone, sighed softly, and said gently, "Sun Xiaohua, rest in peace. The Sun family has all received their retribution!"

In the video, a woman who looks old but is only a teenager with a weathered face and eyes full of sorrow stumbles out of the yard.

Because she was running so fast, she lost one of her embroidered shoes, and the road she came from was covered with fresh blood from her miscarriage.

When she collapsed into her arms, the woman was barely clinging to life.

Even as he breathed his last, his face was still streaked with tears.

At that moment, the woman who had been lying in her arms suddenly opened her eyes, her sorrow gone, replaced by a smile. She softly said to her, "Thank you!"

Mu Qingfu opened her eyes, and the breath that had been stuck in her chest finally dissipated.

In fact, Mu Qingfu did not deliberately set up a trap for Sun Wencai. She was not lying; Sun Wencai simply stumbled into it all on his own.

She really was just going with the flow and making the best of a bad situation.

They met on the street once, and he accidentally bumped into Sun Wencai, who then pretended to be injured.

She demanded compensation, but Sun Wencai deliberately kept her hanging and refused to accept it.

Subsequently, wherever she was, Sun Wencai could always be seen.

The marriage wouldn't have been scheduled to proceed so quickly originally; it was Zuo Chengfeng's accidental intervention that catalyzed the outcome.

The reason for not telling Gu Junxi and Mu Lingye the truth beforehand was not because they didn't trust him, but because they wanted to kill two birds with one stone: to test Zuo Chengfeng's sincerity and put some pressure on him.

The man Mu Qingfu wanted was someone who either always cowered in fear or looked down on her.

She won't force it.

Everything turned out exactly as she had predicted.

After bidding a final farewell to Sun Xiaohua, Mu Qingfu felt a sense of relief. Turning around, her face beaming with a bright and cheerful smile, she said, "Let's go to the Left Prime Minister's residence and see that fool!"