"How did you end up here?" The surprise on Xin He’s face was fleeting. She quickly calmed down, her eyes tinged with coldness. This ragged woman before her did not rouse a hint of sympathy from her.
She had long guessed that Ji Xiulan would come to this pass, therefore, she never interfered in her affairs, nor did she deign to interfere.
Ji Xiulan now looked nothing like the glamorous woman she had once been. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes torn and dirtied by mud. It was a pitiful sight
If it were before, she would have exploded in anger or stormed away upon seeing Xin He’s cold expression. Now, she suddenly fell to her knees in front of Xin He, crying, "Xin He, Xin He, please save me, please save me!"
Xin He looked at the woman before her without much reaction, "What are you talking about? You are the favored concubine of the Sun Family. Everyone in Yangluo Bay envies you. Why would you ask for my help?"
She spoke with a derisive smile at the corner of her mouth, intending to dismiss her.
However, Ji Xiulan desperately clung onto her skirt and pleaded, "But I have nowhere to go, if you won’t help me, I’m afraid I will be driven to death. Xin He, save me, save me! The Sun Family falsely accused me of poisoning Grandpa Sun. That was Sun Yaowen’s trick, no, his concubine’s tricks! I did not conspire with the young master of the Sun family, I don’t know how the dregs of those drugs ended up in my courtyard. Yi Ling is trying to get rid of me. To inherit the Sun’s family fortune, she won’t stop at anything, she’s the most cunning!"
Ji Xiulan didn’t not know why she was divulging all of this to Xin He. Perhaps in her panic, she was reckless with her words and revealed the secrets of the Sun Family.
Xin He paused, then bent down to unlatch Ji Xiulan’s hand from her skirt. "Ji Xiulan, where do you get the audacity to assume I will help you? You mentioned Sun Yaowen’s concubine being ruthless to you, but weren’t you the same to me?"
She forcefully pulled her hand away, flinging Ji Xiulan to the ground behind her. She then proceeded to walk deeper into her manor.
Was Yi Ling not good? Was Ji Xiulan?
Why should Xin He meddle in this dogfight between them?
Ji Xiulan, thrown on the ground, felt more desperate than ever. She tried to follow Xin He into the manor, but was stopped by the doorkeeper. "You better leave! Or else I’ll throw you out!"
Ji Xiulan was infuriated but helpless. She was out of options now. The Sun family was determined to kill her. She had only managed to escape today because she knew she would soon be recaptured if she fled. Thus, she did not dare return to her maternal home and dared not wander about.
With the Sun family wanting her death, and seeing herself as just a lowly concubine, her only hope was Xin He. Xin He had her own business, her status was somewhat special. In Ji Xiulan’s world, only Xin He had the ability to save her!
That’s why she had waited for her here, hoping to plead for her help, she did not expect this woman to be so indifferent!
Ji Xiulan bit her teeth in fury, feeling a wave of despair coming over her. If Xin He wouldn’t help, what could she do?
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Upon entering the manor, Shulan scoffed, "Ji Xiulan really has no shame. She’s forgotten her own actions towards the madam, now that she’s in trouble she wants the madam to help her, but the madam is certainly not a saint!"
Xin He lifted a cool corner of her lips, "She must truly be desperate to come to find me, however, she seems to have overestimated my benevolence."
She had no interest in helping others out of the goodness of her heart.
Especially when these others included Ji Xiulan. Ji Xiulan’s words, true or not, did hold one truth: she had been tricked by Yi Ling.
Xin He had an idea of what was happening with the Sun Family.
"Yi Ling is definitely talented. I heard today that the Sun family’s assets will soon be divided, and the eldest son will be expelled from the family. He is, after all, the eldest legitimate grandson but now he won’t receive anything. The remaining grandchildren are all born of concubines, so the competition is intense. However, I heard that Sun Yaowen seemed to have bribed some of the clan elders and will end up getting most of the Sun family’s assets." Xiaoyu detailed the day’s events regarding the Sun family.
Actually, one did not need to deliberately eavesdrop, as the whole town was speculating about the inheritance dispute of the Sun Family. Since the Sun family was one of the two biggest families in Lian’an Town, their inheritance dispute naturally drew a lot of attention.
Xin He tapped her finger on the table, frowning slightly, and sneered, "Sun Yaowen is quite capable."
"What capabilities could Sun Yaowen have? It all comes down to Yi Ling’s tactics." Xiaoyu expressed her increasingly negative impression of Yi Ling.
Perhaps their previous treatment of her had been too lenient.
Xin He’s face is also not good now. She doesn’t have the interest to adjudicate the mess in the Sun family. However, Yi Ling is flourishing now, if she acquires most of the Sun family’s property, who knows what she could do?
Sun Yaowen is an idiot; he’s completely under Yi Ling’s control. That’s one of the reasons she chose him.
Once Yi Ling takes control of most of the Sun family’s wealth, perhaps the first thing she’ll do is to make trouble for Hua Manlou, whose management had previously tormented and driven her out. Not to mention having to endure realizing she’d been played by Hua Manlou. If Grandpa Sun had not died, she probably would have died many times over.
Given Yi Ling’s malice towards Hua Manlou, Xin He has to keep an eye on her. Yi Ling’s growing power will lead to restless days for Xin He.
Xin He is always forward-looking in her actions. At this point, she had sunk into deep thought.
Seeing Xin He’s face, Xiaoyu vaguely guessed what was going on. "If the madam is worried about future trouble, why not make preparations in advance? It will be better than being passively attacked later on."
Xin He’s eyes sparkled. She looked at Xiaoyu, pondered for a moment, and lightly nodded.
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