Shen Zhaoshu said: "Compared to what the people in Rongguo Mansion did, although what my sister did was uncomfortable and hateful, it was ultimately just some petty tricks. To you and me, it was just an annoying existence.

She didn't do anything terribly evil.

At first, I helped her because I really wanted to get to the bottom of that confusing account. Later, I helped her because I felt that the Rongguo Mansion was going too far.

Later, the mother thought about it carefully and realized that her dislike for her might be more due to her own unfulfilled desire. In fact, the mother was a little jealous of this half-sister.

I was jealous that she had her father's love since she was a child, but I have never had this kind of care in my life. This lack made the jealousy in my heart gnaw at my heart all the time, and it always hurt.

It's just that the upbringing my mother received since childhood and my own pride made me unwilling to engage in a tasteless fight for a father who doesn't love me.

Now that I'm older, I actually understand in my heart that this has nothing to do with her. It's just that my father doesn't love me.

Although my father seemed to want to love me in the last one or two months of his life, the distance between us was too long and too far.

I am no longer a little kid or girl in my teens or twenties who has any expectations of him.

This belated fatherly love was no longer what I expected because it had been several decades, and there was already too deep a resentment and estrangement between us.

So I have regrets after all. I don’t know if my father has the same regret, but this loss is irreparable for me. After all, I never got it.

What really hurt me was not her provocations, traps and harms towards me, but the fact that no matter how she treated me, my father always sided with her.

It was precisely because of this favoritism that she even formed a habit, thinking that she could always treat me like this.

In fact, what use would her methods be if she left the Yongding Marquis' Mansion and lost her father's protection?

Now I don't hate him anymore. The blow the truth brought to my father was perhaps simply the result of the intertwined chain of events. Although I have regrets, my father did his best to make amends in his final days.

Shen Zhaoshu sighed and said, "What about you? What will happen if I ask you to keep an eye on Dong Rouer?"

Wang Lingyi said, "After Mother found Qian Fucheng, he immediately went to his employer, Dong Rouer, and demanded a large sum of money. Otherwise, he would hand over the many receipts he had left behind from his private accounts to you, Mother."

Shen Zhaoshu asked, "Where did you get this information?"