Chapter 579 He really wanted to harm her.

Shu Yu walked out of the kitchen, and Aunt Xue came in just then.

She glanced at Shu Yu, seemingly wanting to say something but hesitating, her eyes becoming pitiful. Shu Yu, however, walked past her expressionlessly, leaving Aunt Xue with no choice but to take the ingredients into the kitchen to cook.

Shu Yu pretended to go back to her room to get something, but when no one was paying attention, she turned a corner and came to the back of the courtyard, standing outside the window of the eldest girl's room.

The Shu family members were all busy with their own things and no one noticed her.

When the eldest and second daughters were arguing, the fourth daughter would also chime in with insults.

The second daughter was getting impatient with the scolding, but she was now all alone and had no one on her side.

Seeing that the two were scolding her more and more harshly, even to the point of not letting her eat dinner, the second girl finally couldn't help but speak up, "Do you think I'm doing this for myself? Aren't I doing this for all of us?"

The young woman paused noticeably, then sneered, "For us? Do you think I'd believe that?"

"You...don't you want to kill that bitch?" Even as her anger surged, the second young lady still lowered her voice and said, "Do you think I would find that Master Lan for no reason? On the first day we arrived, I discovered that Master Lan had designs on that bitch. Later, I tried to make contact with Master Lan, and he told me personally that as long as I helped him, he would help us get rid of that bitch."

The eldest and fourth daughters paused, then looked at each other in bewilderment.

Of course they knew who the second young lady was referring to as a "bitch," and now the only person they hated was Shu Yu.

The young woman was naturally tempted, and the Shu family had been burning with resentment because of her all along the way.

Moreover, the experience of being beaten a couple of days ago made them even more eager to kill her.

But……

The eldest girl said with a stern face, "Even so, you can't switch to working at the music school and drag the rest of us sisters down with you. I'm warning you, if you dare to have that thought again, don't blame us for being ruthless."

Shu Yu, who was outside the window, quietly retreated, a mocking smile on her face.

Sure enough, the second young lady's target was her.

She knew it. How could someone who was so ruthless to herself and could cause trouble on the road to exile be so well-behaved after she had hit them?

Her wariness of the second daughter was indeed correct.

Back in the kitchen, Madam Hou had already prepared the meal. Besides Aunt Xue, Madam Li and the Second Madam were also in the kitchen at that moment.

They disliked each other so much that Hou simply took the food and went back to her room.

Shu Yu had already eaten, so she simply ate a little and then stopped.

She listened intently as the young woman and her companions left the room across the hall, then whispered, "The second brother is a menace."

Hou paused in her hand holding the dried sweet potato, then looked up at her.

"What the Third Sister means is..."

Shu Yu asked her with a smile, "What is Aunt Hou thinking?"

Hou could roughly guess what Shu Yu meant. She went out for a while and came back saying such things, which meant that the second young lady had some kind of conspiracy.

Hou naturally disliked the second daughter, especially after hearing that she had bribed the officials to deliberately startle the horse in an attempt to harm her sixth daughter, and that the seventh daughter might even be pushed into the water by her. Hou found this person extremely terrifying.

These kinds of people are fine if they can't cause trouble, but once they gain power, they'll be the first ones targeted.

She dared not imagine what she would do if Sixth Sister was harmed by her.

(End of this chapter)