The group stared at the bedside, where the clothes of the Chunhuilou waiter were scattered. One side of the bed curtain was lowered while the other was still tied.
In the middle, a woman with disheveled clothes sat there, covering her face and sobbing.
A person was lying inside, barely visible.
Liu Huan helped Su Wan up, "Sister..."
Chu Wan stood up with bloodshot eyes, stormed towards the bedside, and yanked open the curtain.
"Ah..." The woman on the bed clutched the blanket to cover herself, her arms covered in bruises and her hair disheveled.
Liu Huan recognized her face; it was the girl who had bumped into the young lady that time.
Seeing so many people, she got up from the bed in shame and anger, wrapped herself in her clothes, and rammed her head against a pillar.
The shopkeeper stopped her abruptly, "Sun Xiaoju, what are you doing?"
“I am a virgin, and my body has been defiled. How can I face living on?”
Sun Xiaoju sat on the ground and cried loudly, as if she had suffered all kinds of grievances.
Su Wan turned around, picked up the teapot on the table, and poured it all over Guan Chang's face.
Guan Changyou woke up slowly in bed. "What happened?"
After fully waking up, Su Wan saw a teapot by the bedside and asked in confusion, "Madam, what are you doing?"
Su Wan looked at him, seemingly about to cry but saying nothing.
The second he stood up, Su Yi turned Liu Huan around before walking to the bedside.
"Brother-in-law, do you know what happened?"
Guan Chang was completely bewildered. He rubbed his aching temples and was about to say he didn't know when he realized that his clothes were disheveled and a large part of his chest was exposed.
What's wrong with me?
His memory only extends to drinking with several big business owners in the capital; he remembers nothing else.
"Why are you here?"
Two lines of tears streamed down Su Wan's face. Without saying a word, she turned and ran out. Liu Huan told her maid to hurry up and follow her.
Seeing that Su Wan had left, Guan Chang quickly got out of bed and saw a woman on the ground with disheveled clothes.
He took a step back and slumped to the ground. "What happened?"
"You're the one I should be asking, brother-in-law."
Hearing the rustling sound of clothes being put on, Liu Huan turned around.
"I didn't do anything." Guan Chang said without thinking. Hearing this, Sun Xiaoju, who was on the ground, pretended to bang her head against the wall again.
Liu Huan stopped her and sternly rebuked her: "Calm down."
She didn't know who was right and who was wrong. She didn't want to speculate maliciously. Sun Xiaoju was a servant who had signed a contract, not a death contract. She couldn't be beaten, scolded, or sold off. If she died, it would be even more troublesome.
Sun Xiaoju was just putting on an act. She was pulled back to sit on the ground by her. "My boss did that to me, but he won't admit it. What's the point of me living?"
Guan Chang walked up to him and asked, "What did I do to you? Why are you framing me?"
Sun Xiaoju didn't speak, she just sobbed softly.
Guan Chang hurriedly explained, "I really didn't touch her. Don't I know my own body?"
Sun Xiaoju said, "Master, you're drunk, so naturally you won't remember anything. My mother was right, all men are the same."
She stumbled to her feet and said, “I’m going to report this to the authorities right now. I want the officials to do justice for me and give me a fair trial. Even if your brother-in-law is the top scholar in the imperial examination, and even if you are extremely wealthy, you cannot treat people like this.”
Although Guan Chang was certain that he hadn't touched her at all, nothing he said would make a difference now.
"Qiu Rong, take Miss Sun back and serve her well. We can talk about everything else tomorrow."
Sun Xiaoju was a little scared. "I'm telling you, don't even think about harming me. If I don't go back tomorrow, my mother will report it to the police."
Liu Huan was furious. She said, "Don't worry, no one wants to kill you."
After Qiu Rong took her away, Liu Huan immediately instructed Chang Bai to settle her in another small courtyard.
The shopkeeper was also sent out. Liu Huan walked to the bedside and lifted the quilt. "Look, there's nothing there."
Guan Chang didn't realize what was going on for a moment, but Su Yi pulled her over and said with a dark face, "What are you looking at? Can't you do it? I'll do it."
Su Yizai checked carefully and found nothing. She probably didn't even know that a woman's first time should result in bleeding.
Looking at how tidy the bed was, if there were anything wrong, it wouldn't look like that at all.
"I really didn't touch her, how could I..."
Considering that Liu Huan was both a young woman and his sister-in-law, there were some things he couldn't bring himself to say.
Liu Huan sighed, "Brother-in-law, it's not a matter of whether you acknowledge her or not, but that she's trying to cling to you. If things get out of hand, we don't know how we'll handle it. We need to think of a solution."
Su Yi opened the door: "It's too late, let's go back first. Brother-in-law, you should go back and explain things to my sister properly."
"I know"
He couldn't even imagine how angry Su Wan would be.
After spending the entire night explaining, Su Wan finally managed to believe his explanation. "What if she wants to be your concubine?"
Guan Chang held her hand and promised, "When I married you, I said that I only wanted you for the rest of my life, and that was enough for our family. If she doesn't appreciate it, don't blame me."
Su Wan punched him, feeling extremely upset as she thought about what had just happened. "You always say things like that. If she were really that good, how could you have let her climb into your bed?"
"I……"
Guan Chang knew he was in the wrong. He was usually very talkative when he was with others, but he couldn't say a word at this moment.
When the servants outside said the water was ready, Su Wan nudged her, "Go wash up, it stinks. You don't need to come inside tonight, go sleep in the study."
Guan Chang squeezed her hand. "Okay, you should get some rest."
After he left, Su Wan was about to go to bed when the door was quietly opened. "Sister, sleep with me tonight, I'm scared."
Su Wan knew that Liu Huan wanted to comfort her, so she said, "You little girl, I've never seen you scared before."
He put on his outer robe and turned off the lights, saying, "Let's go."
The two sisters whispered to each other like they did when they were little. Liu Huan assured her, "Sister, I checked behind the bed. There was nothing on the bed. She said she was a virgin but hadn't bled, so she just wanted to cling to your husband. Don't give her that chance."
When Su Wan heard that her sister had checked this, she reached out and slapped her hand, scolding her, "What do you need so much knowledge for, you're a young lady. Don't do it again next time."
Liu Huan affectionately nuzzled her shoulder: "I just wanted to make you not sad. It's not worth getting angry over such a petty person. Your brother-in-law will handle it."
"Okay, I'm not angry anymore. Let's go to sleep, it's late."
"Hmm~"
The next morning, Liu Huan was woken up by people outside and found that the people next to her had already gotten up.
She finished dressing, and Qiu Rong came in with toiletries. She asked, "What's going on outside?"
"It was that girl from last night who came with people demanding a formal status. She said she wanted the young master to take her as a concubine, or she would report him to the authorities."
Liu Huan didn't expect her to be so shameless as to actually come to her door, but after thinking about it carefully, if they could do such a thing, what else couldn't they do?
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