"How can you talk like that? You're extorting money. That's too harsh..."

Just as Xie Lin was about to retort, Old Madam Xie glared at her: "Alright, we're here to talk things over, why do you have to make everyone look bad?"

Xie Lin stopped talking in dismay.

After Jiang Caiping's anger subsided, Old Madam Xie glanced at Su Zhiyao who was sobbing quietly behind Jiang Caiping, and then she spoke slowly.

"Mother-in-law, although my daughter-in-law's words may not sound good, they are true. It's not for any other reason. Everyone in Kyoto knows that you love Zhiyao the most. How can you bear to delay Zhiyao's marriage for a useless daughter?"

She coughed and said, "This nonsense has really caused our Xie Mansion to lose face and money. How about this? I am not unreasonable. As long as you compensate for the money we used to prepare for the wedding, and give us a sum of money to hold a new wedding, your mansion will come forward and invite more high-ranking families in Beijing to attend."

"Then yesterday's farce is written off. I will still allow Jin Yue and Zhi Yao to marry together."

As soon as these words were spoken, before anyone in the house could react, Xiao Tao at the door was shaking with anger.

"This old lady is so heartless! Not to mention that she was bedridden at the time and relied on the young lady's money and labor, the money for the marriage was taken from the young lady's dowry. We haven't asked them to pay back the money yet, but they have the nerve to come to our door and ask for compensation!"

"I've always seen her being kind and respectful to Buddha, and I thought she would be more compassionate to the young lady, but I didn't expect her to be such an ungrateful person!"

Su Jinyue was not surprised at all. After her experience in her previous life, she knew too well that Old Madam Xie was a person with a hypocritical heart and a sweet mouth.

Fortunately, in order to protect the old lady, she had conflicts with Xie Lin several times. In fact, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were actually one. Xie Lin's seemingly unreasonable demands were just a disguised way of expressing the old lady's inner thoughts.

One of them played the bad cop and the other played the good cop. After Xie Lin made a fuss, the old lady came out and pretended to be a peacemaker. It seemed that she was giving in, but in fact she was forcing people to agree to those unreasonable demands in disguise.

Over the past three years, Su Jinyue has suffered a lot at the hands of these two people.

Old Lady Su immediately realized that something was wrong, "Old Madam Xie, how can it be possible for the husband's family to pay for the wedding?"

She looked at Madam Xie coldly, with a warning tone in her voice.

"Besides, everyone in the capital knew yesterday that Jin Yue had canceled the marriage before she even entered the palace. In theory, this marriage was not valid in the first place. It is your Xie family that should return the money."

These words hit the old lady where it hurts.

Thinking about what happened on the long street yesterday, he couldn't help but hate Su Jinyue even more.

The fuss happened to occur when she was stepping over the fire basin. If she could hold on until she entered the house and worshipped heaven and earth, then she would have escaped unscathed. She could just send Xie Qingxu to the government with a letter of divorce. Why would she have to go there in person to ask for money?

She curled the corners of her mouth and looked at Su Zhiyao meaningfully.

"Yes, the old lady loves her granddaughter and she is not fair in order to protect her. I also know that. But, don't forget that Miss Zhiyao and our Qingxu are married under the order of the emperor. If this marriage fails, it would be a blatant disobedience to the emperor's order!"

Jiang Caiping's face suddenly changed, and she shouted coldly: "Even if that rebellious girl Jin Yue cancels the engagement, just let Xie Qingxu and Zhiyao get married on the spot. It was clearly your Xie family who canceled the marriage, and you still dare to use it to threaten the Marquis' Mansion?!"

Madam Xie also lost her temper and said with a gloomy face.

"Madam, please don't forget that it was your mansion that took the initiative to deceive Su Jinyue and secretly promoted Su Zhiyao to be his second wife. If Su Zhiyao had been allowed to marry into the family as a concubine, how could these scandals have happened?"

"Everyone in Beijing knows that Su Zhiyao's biological parents were lowly servants. How could someone of that status be Qingxu's legal wife?"

She was no longer polite and said directly: "Since it has come to this, I don't need to be polite anymore."

"Su Zhiyao was allowed to marry only after Su Jinyue became the legal wife. Otherwise, if you really want to talk about disobeying the order, it was your mansion that canceled the marriage first!"

"you!"

Jiang Caiping was so angry that she slammed the table and stood up. She opened her mouth but couldn't say a word for a long time.

Seeing that the entire Marquis' Mansion was controlled by a single word from Old Madam Xie, Su Jinyue felt it was extremely absurd.

Who still remembers that she, Su Jinyue, is the real daughter of the Marquis' Mansion? To be honest, Su Zhiyao is just an adopted daughter. If the Marquis' Mansion really doesn't recognize her, what can the Xie family do to the Yongning Marquis' Mansion?

Su Zhiyao, who had been crying quietly behind him, suddenly rushed to the front and bowed deeply to Jiang Caiping.

Her voice was already filled with tears. "In the final analysis, it was Zhiyao's fault. Zhiyao was wrong for not daring to truly love Qingxu. She shouldn't have coveted the love of her parents and brothers and stayed in the Marquis' Mansion. My sister has been jealous of my love since she came back. In order to compete with me, she used all means. But I never thought that she would put the entire Marquis' Mansion in an unjust position just for a moment of anger!"

With just a few words, all the faults were put on Su Jinyue's head.

The person at the center of the controversy was clearly the unjust Su Zhiyao, but now that she started crying, it seemed as if everything was directed by Su Jinyue.

She bowed gracefully, crying like a pear blossom in the rain, "Mother, Zhiyao has been deeply loved by you since she was a child. In Zhiyao's eyes, you are all the most important people to me. As long as it is for you and for the Marquis' Mansion, even if I have to take on all the sins of my sister, I am willing to do it!"

"Whether I have to go to jail or sacrifice my life, Zhiyao will never complain!"

Jiang Caiping loved her the most, and now she felt even more distressed. She quickly knelt down and hugged Zhiyao, and her eyes also turned red.

"My dear girl, what nonsense are you talking about? You are my dearest love, how can I bear to let you suffer!"

"Besides, this matter was originally caused by Su Jinyue. Let her clean up the mess. Mother will definitely give you a grand wedding!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a clear female voice suddenly came from outside the house.

"So Madam Xie also knew that Su Zhiyao was just an adopted daughter of the Marquis's Mansion. What does an adopted daughter committing a crime have to do with the Marquis's Mansion?"

Seeing Su Jinyue walking into the main hall slowly, it was obvious that she had been listening outside for a while.

Madam Xie felt a little guilty for a moment, and stood up with a concerned look: "Child, why don't you just tell me what's on your mind? You came home for no reason and made things worse. What's the point of that?"

As he spoke, he stretched out his hand to pull Su Jinyue, "Come home with me quickly, and pretend that what happened yesterday never happened. I will pick an auspicious day and help you and Qingxu..."

“No need!”