The old lady sat on a sandalwood chair, counting the Buddhist beads in her hand very quickly. Madam Xie sat below her, her face pale, while Xie Rou bit her lip, her eyes full of resentment.
"Grandma! Is Big Brother crazy?" Xie Rou finally couldn't help but speak, "How could she treat Chu Qingluan like this? She is the prince's mortal enemy!"
If she hadn't witnessed it with her own eyes just now, who would have thought that her elder brother, who had always been able to plan and win battles from afar, actually had feelings for Chu Qingluan in private, and that the love was deep.
Mrs. Xie couldn't accept this fact at all. She wiped her tears with a handkerchief and said, "Mother, Qi'er has always been calm. How could he suddenly..."
The old lady closed her eyes, finally sighed, and told a despairing fact:
"He didn't suddenly..."
"He had planned this for a long time."
Upon hearing this, Xie Rou looked up suddenly, a look of disbelief on her face.
Mrs. Xie also stopped crying: "Mother means... Qi'er has long been... "
The old lady sneered: "Why do you think he has been working so hard in the past three years? Why did he try to seize the power of the Xie family? Why did he act so cautiously in the court?"
Her old eyes seemed to be filled with endless vicissitudes of life: "He has been waiting for this day!"
Xie Rou gasped; "So, big brother wasn't bewitched by Chu Qingluan at all, but has wanted to get her for a long time?"
"Then my father..."
Xie Rou was so frightened when she thought about it that a chill suddenly ran up her spine and her scalp went numb.
Why?
The Xie family has always been against the royal family, why is the eldest brother so confused? For a woman, he even dared to hurt his own father?
The old lady didn't answer, but her silence said it all.
"Then what should we do next? Are we going to watch our eldest brother destroy the century-old foundation of the Xie family for a woman?"
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