"Did you get the items back?"
That night, a bodyguard dressed in black stood beside Lan Tingche.
Lan Yi knelt on one knee, sealing the envelope with both hands and said...
"It's back, Master."
Marquis of the Southwest nodded. The noble young man stood by the window, bathed in moonlight, looking somewhat lonely, his eyes lifeless. If one had to discern anything about him, it would be the layers of scheming he was involved in.
Lan Tingche felt terrible every time he thought about his parents.
"Just leave it there."
"yes."
With physical evidence and witness testimony almost all gathered, can he really overturn his parents' case?
Won't that cause another uproar in the capital?
Long'er dislikes dead people the most.
"I think he's still obsessed with you, his eyes are practically glued to you. It's all in the past, how can he be so shameless, hanging around the Prince's mansion every day?"
Zhou Ning'an, a man named Zhihua, sat in front of the woman, looking like a wronged wife, and said.
The three sisters next to me were cracking sunflower seeds with a clattering sound, just like squirrels.
"Who is it, brother-in-law? Who's got designs on my sister? I'll go find him and have a chat with him tomorrow," Huo Xiaolong said while eating melon seeds.
“Yes, brother-in-law, don’t worry, all three of us will go. If we can reach an agreement, that’s fine; if not, we can take action,” Hou Xiangxiang chimed in.
“Yes, we can use our power to bully others.” Da Ni’er also thought this method could work, so she nodded.
Long'er nudged the dark-skinned girl and said...
“Ni’er, bullying others by relying on one’s power is not a good thing.”
"But you are abusing your power, that's a fact."
As Zhihua watched the girls chattering away, with the man next to her pouring out his troubles, she felt a certain happiness in the scene.
“That’s my ex-fiancé. We were betrothed before our family was raided. He saw me when he came to the brothel the other day, so he’s been coming to see me every day. I wonder what he wants to say to me.”
"What? Is Young Master Zhou jealous?"
Zhou Ning'an always felt somewhat inferior in front of the screen.
What is Zhihua?
He was his dream when he was young, someone he could never reach.
Later, Zhihua married him.
Zhou Ning'an was as happy as if he were dreaming; this was truly a dream come true.
He worked hard to earn money, not to maintain that so-called male pride, but because he genuinely wanted to give Zhihua a good life, even though his wife might not need it.
But if you take just one more step forward, you'll get a little closer to Zhihua.
When he and she stood together, he also hoped that others would say they were a perfect match.
Actually, Zhou Ning'an is quite good-looking; it's just that Zhihua's starting point was too high.
The daughter of the Grand Secretary of the capital.
"Yeah, I felt uneasy when he came to see you. And the way he looked at you was weird, like he wanted to rekindle the old flame."
Zhou Ning'an spoke quite firmly, but for some reason his tone was somewhat timid and even a little ingratiating.
"Then I'll go see him tomorrow and explain things to him, and tell him not to come looking for me, okay?"
Zhihua was essentially teaching the young girls a textbook way to woo men, and the three sisters ate their melon seeds even more enthusiastically.
My brother-in-law is no good either. He's such a respectable person when he's out working, but when he comes home, he's just like any other man in a brothel.
Huo Xiaolong really wanted to learn how he could say the toughest things in the most aggrieved tone.
Although Zhou Ning'an was jealous and looked aggrieved, he didn't stop working, grinding ink for his wife.
Anyway, these brothers-in-law have taken over most of the work that the maids used to do.
"What? This isn't good enough?" Zhihua asked in a slightly serious tone.
"It's not that it's impossible, it's just... I don't want you to see him alone."
Tsk tsk tsk, Huo Xiaolong looked at him with disdain. Why is he so arrogant, brother-in-law? Can't you just say you want to go with my sister?
Then she can go to her ex-fiancé and show off her dominance, and see how pathetic he is.
"Then I'll take you with me."
"good."
The confidant was also present and understood the whole story.
Back when the two sisters hadn't fallen on hard times and ended up in brothels, they were the daughters of the Hua family, the Grand Secretary of the capital. Her elder sister was named Hua Fanhua, and she was named Hua Fanyin.
At that time, Zhihua had a fiancé to whom she was betrothed since childhood, but what happened later?
It seems that her family was implicated in the Crown Prince and Crown Princess affair, and the Emperor purged her family a few years after ascending the throne.
When Zhihua's ex-fiancé learned that the two sisters were going to be sent to the brothel, he didn't utter a sound.
That's it?
And it might even make her brother-in-law jealous!
The kindred spirits didn't quite understand.
But she can watch the excitement.
Outside the Prince of Zhenbei's mansion, that young master was loitering at the gate again.
In fact, Zhou Ning'an had told him this at least three times.
"She is now my wife, brother, you should go back."
But the man acted as if he couldn't hear him, which made Zhou Ning'an so angry that he wanted to fight him in the street.
After glancing at the plaque of the Prince of Zhenbei's Mansion behind him, Young Master Zhou swallowed his words again.
He and Zhihua didn't have children because he was terrified by the screams of women giving birth, and he didn't dare let Zhihua give birth. Besides, Huo Xiaolong was young at the time.
He kept calling his brother-in-law "brother-in-law" all the time, so Zhou Ning'an thought, it doesn't matter whether we have a child or not, we can just raise Huo Xiaolong as our daughter.
So, apart from Master Miao who takes care of the children, Zhou Ning'an cherishes her the most.
The rarest behavior is shown by giving money as a bribe.
When starting a business, it's better to bribe people with a large sum of money than to offer them small tokens of kindness.
Therefore, Brother-in-law Zhou felt that he couldn't let his sister-in-law down.
But things are different now. The man took Zhihua's hand and strode towards her ex-fiancé.
When her ex-husband saw Zhihua come out, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly went to greet her.
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