He received a message from the Prince of Qin's residence early this morning. He hadn't even had breakfast yet, and he was already looking forward to it. Finally, his youngest daughter was coming back.

He frowned as soon as he saw her, his eyes scanning his daughter up and down, confirming that she had lost weight.

She not only lost weight, but also looked rather haggard.

Shen Mingjiang suppressed his eagerness to ask questions and casually invited Xue Shen into the room.

Shen Mingjiang walked ahead, with guards pushing Xue Shen through the door, and Shen Youying walking beside him. Shen Mingjiang glanced back and felt that they were mismatched no matter how he looked at them, and his brows furrowed as he felt even more sorry for his daughter.

He said nothing, chatted with Xue Shen in the flower hall for a while, and then sent Shen Youying to the backyard to talk with Madam Fang. Soon after, he also found an excuse to have Shen Huaizhou accompany Xue Shen to drink tea in the flower hall while he went to the backyard to look for his daughter.

In the backyard, Shen Youying naturally had nothing to say to Fang Shi and Shen Muyu.

But the two men clearly had a lot of complaints to vent to her.

As soon as Shen Youying sat down, Madam Fang grabbed her hand and began to cry: "Your father actually wants to sell this old house and move to an estate in the suburbs of Beijing. Ever since the incident at home, the Shen family has become the talk of the town. If he sells the house too, not only will we be laughed at, but even the princess will be ridiculed when she goes out!"

"Is Father getting senile?" Shen Muyu complained. "How can anyone live in a manor on the outskirts of Beijing? Even if the Shen family has fallen on hard times, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. If we really sell the house and move to the outskirts of Beijing, we can forget about coming back!"

She tugged at Shen Youying's sleeve and, unusually, addressed her as "Second Sister" without any sarcasm: "Father listens to you the most, go and persuade him!"

Shen Youying wasn't too surprised, having heard her father mention selling the house before. She said softly, "Father has his reasons for doing this. Since we don't understand, we should just follow his arrangements. If the house can be sold, we can buy it back later."

Upon hearing this, Shen Muyu couldn't contain her anger and sneered, "Buy it back? What can we use to buy it back? My eldest brother defected to Xixia, and my father and second brother were implicated and dismissed from their posts, their future careers are over. If we really sell the house, even if we want to come back in the future, we can only go to Tianshui Lane, where all sorts of people gather, not Xuanping Ward, where the powerful and wealthy gather!"

She had clearly harbored resentment for a long time, her chest heaving like firecrackers as she blurted out, "You married into the Qin Prince's mansion and became a princess, you have wealth and honor, but you should also care about our lives!"