While Shen Yingying was enjoying her meal, the Prime Minister's residence was in an uproar.
"Bring that adulterous couple to me..."
At this moment, Shen Wantong sat in the center of the hall, his anger reaching its peak.
The wife he had painstakingly married turned out to be having an affair with his housekeeper, giving him a huge cuckold's horns.
This is like sitting at home and trouble coming from nowhere.
Shen Wantong obtained a precious item, a glass horse, from a colleague.
He liked the glass horse very much, so he carefully brought it back to the Prime Minister's residence.
He planned to hide the glass horse in his private treasury so he could retrieve it whenever he wanted to play with it.
When he opened his private vault to put the glass horse in, he was dumbfounded...
Shen Wantong stared wide-eyed at the empty room in his private vault, utterly incredulous.
Where is his treasure? Vanished without a trace? How is that possible? There must be a traitor in the Prime Minister's mansion who colluded with him to empty his private treasury while he was away.
So he wanted to ask the housekeeper to have someone investigate what was going on.
When he entered the butler's room, he was surprised to find his wife and the butler sleeping soundly, completely naked and embracing each other.
Shen Wantong felt a surge of anger and shock. He hadn't expected that his wife and the housekeeper were having an affair, and he had caught them in the act.
Shen Wantong immediately wondered if the theft of his private treasury was related to these two individuals.
Are they planning to secretly empty their savings and then elope?
Shen Wantong recalled his wife's past behavior, which was not only arrogant and domineering but also disrespectful to him.
Of course, this disrespect mainly occurred when the former Right Chancellor was still in office.
After the former Right Chancellor suddenly suffered a stroke and died, Shen Wantong's wife has become more restrained.
But after so many years of being arrogant and domineering, he still has some temper.
A short while later, the palace guards carried the Prime Minister's wife and the steward to the hall.
The Prime Minister's wife was still in a daze. What exactly happened? How did her precautions in this matter come to be exposed?
Actually, she and the housekeeper did have something going on, but they usually kept it very well hidden from each other.
The reason the Prime Minister's wife and the steward engaged in such shady dealings was mainly because they were angry with each other.
Since her father passed away, Shen Wantong has stopped being as gentle and attentive to her as before.
The concubines in the household were promoted two times every three years, how could she accept that?
So she had a big argument with Shen Wantong.
However, during the argument, Shen Wantong revealed his true colors.
They told her that she had no one to rely on anymore and that she should behave herself from now on.
How could the Prime Minister's wife accept such treatment?
So he did the first day of the month, and she did the fifteenth.
Both harbored their own ulterior motives, yet they maintained a facade of 'mutual respect' for so many years.
Now that her scheme has come to light, how can she possibly deny it? She needs to think this through carefully…
"You two, tell me the truth. When did you start doing these shameless things?"
If either of you is found to have uttered even half a lie, you shall be executed immediately.
When the Prime Minister's wife heard that he was to be executed immediately, her heart pounded with fear. But after so many years as an official's wife, what kind of situation hadn't she experienced, and what kind of private matters had she not done?
So the Prime Minister's wife began to put on an act, "My lord, the steward and I have been wronged..."
Somehow a thief broke into our mansion. After I knocked her unconscious...
It must be said that the Prime Minister's wife handled this matter very well.
Her half-hearted words did indeed lead Shen Wantong to start overthinking...
Could it be that I have wronged my wife? Has a thief really broken into our house? Does this thief have a grudge against us?
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