Has Lord Ren gone mad?

[In the original timeline, the first person to suffer was also this Wan family member, because Ren Lingshan's courtyard before her marriage was taken over by her daughter. Although Ren Lingshan was pregnant with a posthumous child, she didn't want to give birth, so she aborted the child and blamed it on the Wan family mother and daughter.]

This is truly an eye-opener.

[She was the one whose arms and legs were broken and who was thrown into a cesspool to drown. Her daughter also suffered a terrible fate; she was trafficked to a mountain village.]

Fang Ruotang looked at the woman in her early thirties in front of her with teary eyes. Like most ladies in the capital, she was dignified and virtuous.

But I never expected it to end so badly.

"Madam Ren, I am the Imperial Advisor, and I can read faces, as you know, right?"

"Hmm." Madam Wan gritted her teeth, not daring to make a sound, for fear that she would burst into tears or go crazy.

“A jinx entered your household yesterday. If you don’t want any trouble in your home, you’d better send this jinx away far away.”

"How could that be? Even if we divorced her, we still couldn't get rid of Ren Lingshan." The little mirror shattered Fang Ruotang's naive words.

The Prime Minister's Mansion dotes on Fang Ruotang because she is sickly but obedient and lovable, deserving the love of the entire household. However, the Left Censor-in-Chief's Mansion seems to have no limits when it comes to doting on Ren Lingshan.

The reason why the Left Censor-in-Chief's family had no daughters for three generations was that Ren Lingshan was a girl they had been hoping for for a long time, and who had given birth to five sons.

But if we're talking about liking girls, it's quite surreal that Wan's daughter isn't loved. Everyone in the family gives their love to Ren Lingshan, yet they don't properly raise her.

It made her lose her temper and become selfish.

"Uh, or you can ask for a divorce yourself! Take your daughter with you, otherwise you will die, your daughter will be sold, and your entire family will be implicated and executed. You... think about it yourself."

Fang Ruotang told Wan Shi frankly.

Wan took a deep breath and suddenly knelt down in front of Fang Ruotang. Fang Ruotang was so frightened that she took a step back, but immediately stepped forward and bent down to help her up.

Wan held Fang Ruotang's small hand, her eyes red with tears, and said, "Thank you, Grand Preceptor. Your kindness and virtue will never be forgotten."

"No need, no need. Just take care of your own life." Fang Ruotang said with sympathy as she helped the person up.

Upon receiving this news, Madam Wan was in a daze. Seeing her leave in such a state, Madam Cui was also worried and specifically instructed the maids and servants accompanying her to protect her well on her way back to the mansion.

Even after they left, they were still a little dazed.

Thinking of Ren Lingshan from the Left Censor-in-Chief's Office, Madam Shu said incredulously, "I used to think she was a nice little girl, so innocent and naive."

Shu and Ren Lingshan were quite far apart in age and never played together, but when Ren Lingshan reached marriageable age, Shu had met the young girl.

She still remembered that the little girl was very pleasing to the eye, with her eyes crinkling when she smiled and a pair of dimples. She never expected that her true nature would be so terrible.

"Isn't that right? Back then, my family wanted my younger brother to be her matchmaker," Cui Shi replied, still feeling a bit scared.

Shu said, "My family is the same."

Ren Lingshan had a good reputation in her early years. Her family was of high social standing, and her five older brothers were also outstanding. She was the first choice for many families of equal social standing.

"Luckily, the marriage didn't happen. Anyone who marries someone with that ability to cause trouble is doomed." Cui said with a look of relief, "I have to write a letter to my mother and let her know about this."

“I’ll also send a letter to my family.” Madam Shu exchanged a glance with her, also feeling that they should reply.

Ren Lingshan, a widow in her early twenties, is making a fuss about going back to her parents' home. She must be planning to remarry. Otherwise, with a child already in the family, why isn't she staying at her husband's house?

They couldn't let their mother be fooled. Although there were no eligible young men in the family, they were afraid that their mother would be too eager to act as matchmakers, which would only harm others.

“Then I’ll write one too!” Lei Pingting joined in the fun.

Her family wasn't in the capital, so it was impossible for her to marry Ren Lingshan. But her mother liked to join in the fun, so it would be fine to let her mother hear the gossip.

"Then I'll tell my older sisters." Fang Ruotang's family is her own sisters, so she must share this kind of news.

The four of them did not expect that once the news spread, the matter would escalate so much. The main credit did not go to them, but rather to Lady Wan, who was scolded by Lord Ren after returning to the mansion.

She dodged the slap, but not the accusations from her family. She went crazy on the spot and blurted out all of Fang Ruotang's words that Ren Lingshan was a jinx.

What woman, knowing she's in such a terrible state and that her entire family has been wiped out, could remain calm and not go insane?

The other four sisters-in-law initially tried to persuade her, but when Wan mentioned their fates as well—none of them met a good end—it stirred up a hornet's nest.

“Your Ren family is rotten to the core. Yesterday, when I returned to the manor, I ran into the Grand Preceptor and the Crown Prince. Afraid of being punished, and too ashamed to plead for them, you asked me to apologize.”

"When I went to apologize, I listened to Ren Lingshan's few words of instigation and thought that it was because I couldn't tolerate her returning home that I had to go to the Prime Minister's residence to apologize. How can you be so capable?"

Wan picked up a vase from the hall and smashed it at the feet of the Ren family members.

"And you, you've been a troublemaker since you were little. Ever since I married into your Ren family, I've suffered so much from you. Even when I was pregnant with my first child, you deliberately caused me to lose it. Instead of teaching her a lesson, your Ren family blamed me for not being able to protect the child."

"That's true, I only lost a child, but she was so frightened! How pitiful, how tragic!" Wan said sarcastically.

The other four sisters-in-law were united in their hatred of the enemy.

Apart from the fifth sister-in-law, she married into the Ren family after Ren Lingshan got married. She had heard the four sisters-in-law talk about her sister-in-law's bad reputation in private, but they had never clashed.

Yesterday was the first time Ren Lingshan returned to the manor. She immediately felt that the other party was difficult to get along with. Her third sister-in-law had just given birth and should not be exposed to the wind, which was why she did not come out of the manor to greet her. Yet, she was able to shed tears in the wind at the gate and ask her third sister-in-law if she was not welcome back home, and that she would leave.

In the end, the matter was only resolved when the third sister-in-law, still recovering from childbirth, came to invite her into the mansion. Even then, the third sister-in-law didn't get any credit and was criticized several times by her third brother and family members.

"You're pregnant, but instead of thinking about giving birth properly, you didn't even tell us. You're just planning to abort the child and blame it on me, right? For the sake of that courtyard you had before you got married, don't you even consider how many years you've been married and how many people are in our household? If we weren't really short of space, who would occupy your courtyard?"

Ren Lingshan's courtyard is the best in the mansion, but now that there are too many people in the mansion, it is not enough to accommodate everyone. Her daughter is also getting older, so she only moved there a couple of years ago.

It had been vacant and uninhabited for a long time because of Ren Lingshan.

Unexpectedly, this became Ren Lingshan's reason for harming people; it's truly terrifying.

"I'm putting my words here today: either the Ren family sends this jinx away, or I'll divorce him and go home." Madam Wan was filled with hatred and dared not stay with such a cancer any longer.

Ren Lingshan sneered, "If you want to get out, then get out now. Do you think anyone will keep you here? Who do you think you are, trying to kick me out of my house?"

Ren Lingshan looked at Wan Shi with her head held high and said arrogantly, "Brother, divorce her. She wants a divorce, but I won't let her have her way."