Severing ties with family to marry the young marshal, his whole family chases me to the crematorium.

Undeterred, Shen Yuanyuan turned the entire jewelry box inside out, but still couldn't find what she wanted.

She looked up at Shen Qingyao and met her teasing gaze. She instantly realized that Shen Qingyao had discovered the bracelet and moved it.

But how did she find out? She had kept it so secret that no one knew.

Shen Qingyao clearly doesn't like wearing jewelry and rarely opens her jewelry, so how could she know that she put the bracelet in here?

Shen Yanming searched high and low but found no suspicious traces. He breathed a sigh of relief but was also somewhat embarrassed.

"Yuanyuan, perhaps..."

"Third brother, I told you long ago that it couldn't have been your sister who took it, but you wouldn't listen to me. Now that things have turned out like this, it proves that you really wronged your sister and hurt her feelings. What do you suggest we do now?"

Shen Yanming was about to speak when Shen Yuanyuan spoke first. Her tone, half reproachful and half coquettish, left Shen Yanming speechless.

Thinking back on the process, it seems that he had been insisting on searching Shen Qingyao's room, while she had been trying to stop him.

But his attitude wasn't like that at first. He didn't want to search Shen Qingyao's room before, so why did he insist on searching it later?

"sorry!"

Like a defeated rooster, Shen Yanming dejectedly apologized to Shen Qingyao.

"This apology isn't enough. You two need to apologize to me in front of the entire Shen family and admit that you deliberately slandered me. Is a simple 'sorry' all you're going to do now?"

Shen Qingyao was not satisfied with Shen Yanming's apology. She wondered what punishment she would have faced if they had found the bracelet instead of destroying it.

“Little sister, your third brother has already apologized to you, what more do you want? Do you really want to be so aggressive? Your third brother is only doing this for your own good; he's worried that you'll go astray.”

"If you're still not satisfied, then... then blame me. It's all because I lost the Shen family heirloom bracelet that Mom gave me that all these misunderstandings have happened. It's all my fault. I just beg you not to hold a grudge against Third Brother. I apologize to you, okay?"

Shen Yuanyuan looked resolute and unyielding, but tears fell easily, which made Shen Yanming feel extremely distressed, and at the same time, he felt a little more resentful towards Shen Qingyao.

"Shen Qingyao, are you going to be so unforgiving? Fine! I'll admit defeat and apologize to you, but this has nothing to do with Yuanyuan, so don't make things difficult for her."

Shen Yanming shielded Shen Yuanyuan behind him, looking at Shen Qingyao with indignation, as if Shen Qingyao had done something heinous.

Shen Yuanyuan, who had just been crying her eyes out, now cried much less, and the anxiety in her eyes had also subsided considerably.

"Third Brother, all of this is because I lost the bracelet. I'm willing to take the blame for you."

Shen Yuanyuan's actions deeply moved Shen Yanming, making him even more determined to protect her.

Shen Qingyao looked at Shen Yanming, who was almost completely fooled by Shen Yuanyuan, and couldn't stand his stupidity. She shook her head in disgust.

Everything started because of Shen Yuanyuan's scheme and misleading, which led Shen Yanming to cause trouble for her. It was also because of Shen Yuanyuan's instigation that Shen Yanming insisted on searching her room.

She initially said she wanted the two of them to apologize publicly together, but Shen Yuanyuan twisted it into her saying she was willing to take the punishment for Shen Yanming, and Shen Yanming was incredibly moved.

She had lived two lives and had never seen such a foolish person, being bought and then counting money for the seller.

"Have you two finished acting? I've had enough. Shen Yuanyuan, it was both of you who searched my room, and you did too. Don't try to pin it all on Shen Yanming alone."

"And I said from the beginning that I wanted both of you to apologize to me publicly, so there's no need for you two to be polite to each other here."

Shen Yuanyuan was surprised that Shen Qingyao, who had always acted as if she didn't have a mouth, would suddenly expose all her little tricks, and her face turned very ugly for a moment.

"Shut up, you idiot!"

When Shen Yanming saw that Shen Qingyao had almost made his beloved younger sister cry, he impulsively wanted to scold her, but before he could even open his mouth, Shen Qingyao had already retorted.

What he found even more unbelievable was that Shen Qingyao not only told him to shut up, but also called him an idiot, something that had never happened before.

"Little sister, how could you curse your third brother like that? He's your own third brother! You're being so rude! We're family, and family members should get along well. Why are you so insistent on holding a grudge and even verbally abusing your third brother?"

When Shen Yuanyuan saw that Shen Qingyao dared to scold Shen Yanming like that, she immediately spoke up and righteously rebuked Shen Qingyao. However, in addition to surprise, she was also pleasantly surprised.

Shen Qingyao's arrogance only served to highlight her gentleness, thoughtfulness, and understanding. Although she didn't understand why Shen Qingyao had suddenly changed so much, she couldn't wait for Shen Qingyao to act even more eccentrically.

What she wanted was for Shen Yanming and the Shen family to hate Shen Qingyao more and more, and ideally, to kick her out of the Shen family.

"Shut up, you're so noisy."

Shen Yuanyuan originally thought that Shen Qingyao would at least say something in her defense, but she didn't expect that Shen Qingyao would dismiss her with just a few words, without showing the anxious emotion she usually did.

After realizing that Shen Qingyao had scolded him, Shen Yanming was about to speak when he heard her scold Shen Yuanyuan, and a strange sense of balance rose in his heart.

“Shen Qingyao, you are a girl, how could you…”

Before Shen Yanming could finish speaking, Shen Qingyao slammed the door shut with a loud bang, startling the two of them.

"Third brother, don't blame your sister. She's just young and doesn't understand things yet. She'll be better when she grows up."

Seeing Shen Yanming's displeased expression, Shen Yuanyuan immediately seized the opportunity to show her sensible and considerate side, seemingly trying to exonerate Shen Qingyao, but in reality, she was pinning another crime on Shen Qingyao.

Shen Yanming was stunned by the many things that had changed his understanding of the world in a single day. Shen Qingyao had completely changed and was no longer the Shen Qingyao he knew before. This made him feel strange and also a little bit of unknown fear.

Shen Yuanyuan was somewhat dissatisfied when Shen Yanming didn't praise her for being sensible for the first time and instead compared her to Shen Qingyao, but she still suppressed her temper and acted coquettishly.

"Third brother, what are you thinking about?"

Shen Yanming's thoughts were interrupted, and for the first time in his life, he felt a little impatient with Shen Yuanyuan, but he hid it very well.

"It's alright, let's go, let's go back first and talk about it."

"All right……"

Shen Yuanyuan was extremely unwilling to accept that Shen Qingyao had not been convicted of theft, and Shen Yanming did not show much anger towards Shen Qingyao, which made her even more upset.

The thought of Shen Qingyao demanding that they admit in front of everyone in the Shen family that they had framed and wronged her made Shen Yuanyuan want to strangle Shen Qingyao immediately.