Just as Pei Tai and Zhao Baiping were about to argue, the onlookers spoke up first, "Grandma Fu, you don't need to remind us. The whole of Beijing knows that the Fu siblings are not the Pei family's biological children. The Pei family can't use filial piety and morality to coerce them. As for the arranged marriage you mentioned, we have plenty of enthusiastic people to report it."

Old Mrs. Fu was unhappy with the Pei and Cui families, so she was happy to ruin their reputations. "That's great! I hate arranged marriages the most. My heartless nephew almost sold me to a remote mountain village to die. If it weren't for the Pei family spoiling Cui Hailu and indulging the Cui family, I wouldn't have been abandoned by everyone."

"Don't underestimate me just because I'm a country bumpkin. I've seen a lot of things and know a lot of secrets about the compound. The fact that the Gu family's real and fake heiresses are no big secret in our village."

The Pei family is furious with Old Madam Fu. She's a complete troublemaker. She can shift the blame for all the messes she and the Cui family made onto the Pei family. I'm truly speechless!

It's too late to say anything now. Of course, the Pei family will blame everyone but themselves. They will resent Gu Wanwan and Fu Jingchen for hiding something. If they had revealed their identities earlier, they wouldn't have needed to fawn over the Du family and try so hard to arrange a marriage between the Pei and Du families.

Now look what's happened; the marriage alliance is over, and they've offended the Gu family instead.

If they knew Gu Wanwan's identity, they would be too busy treating her with utmost respect to possibly humiliate her.

Given the current situation, Du Lixue knew that if she didn't marry Pei Guangzong, the matter wouldn't end well. Filled with resentment and anger, she couldn't vent her frustration on the Gu siblings, so she turned her anger towards Shi Zhenxiang. "Shi Zhenxiang, you're really useless. Did the Du family hire you to eat? Your second branch of the Gu family is all show and no substance. What lucky daughter? Bah! If you were truly lucky, your husband wouldn't be an adopted son, and your sister-in-law Gu Qiulin wouldn't be a switched bastard."

"You can't help the Du family, you've dragged them down with you. If you're incompetent, don't brag. All the top five families know the secret of your second branch. Who will take you seriously? Useless trash..."

Even now, Shi Zhenxiang still maintains her airs, saying, "You dare to scold me? I am, after all, the mistress of the Gu family."

Du Lixue spat fiercely, "The Gu siblings have come to settle accounts with your second branch and Gu Qiulin. With the return of the Gu family's founding father, there is no place for your second branch. Even if you have a lucky daughter, she will still be kicked out of the house."

"If I weren't incompetent, how could I have been forced to marry Pei Guangzong? You ruined my life's happiness, it's all your fault, you exacerbated the Gu family's dissatisfaction with the Du family..."

She has no choice but to marry now. She doesn't even have a last trump card to save herself. If even her family abandons her, what support will she have left?

After this incident, she was no longer her parents' beloved daughter; she was a woman without her family's support, like a lost soul.

Her reputation is ruined. After today, the whole of Beijing will know her as Du Lixue, who is arrogant and openly competes with the Gu family's princess for a boyfriend, making her the laughingstock of her friends and sisters in the industry.

Shi Zhenxiang was furious. "The Du family, you just let your daughter talk back to me?"

Madam Du used to respect Shi Zhenxiang because her husband was the head of the family. But now that she had been told about the scandalous affair between the second branch of the Gu family and Gu Qiulin, she naturally didn't take Shi Zhenxiang seriously anymore. "An adopted son's wife is no good. Without the direct line of the Gu family, you, Shi Zhenxiang, are nothing. You've come to our Du family to freeload, treating us like suckers. We paid you to do things, and you messed them up. How dare you complain?"