Liang Yunshan angrily rebuked: “The Fifth Prince has already investigated and confirmed it, yet you still dare to argue!”

Liang Zhe countered: “Marquis Pingxi trusts the Fifth Prince so much—are you part of the Fifth Prince’s faction?”

Liang Yunshan’s face immediately flushed red: “You… nonsense!”

As soon as Liang Yunshan finished speaking, Mingcha had already brought several strong servants in. Their uniform footsteps made all the maids in the courtyard turn pale with fear.

Usually, these rough servants couldn’t enter the inner quarters at all.

Liang Zhe looked at that row of orderly, imposing servants and smiled: “Is Marquis Pingxi going to arrest me? On what grounds?”

“Disregarding family rules, spreading rumors and causing trouble—take him to the ancestral hall for the seventh rule of family law!”

Qin Shuying said slowly: “The seventh rule of family law: fifty beatings, no medical treatment or food, and if he doesn’t die within three days, three more days kneeling in the ancestral hall! My lord, are you planning to personally kill Ziyu?”

Liang Yunshan’s fierce eyes glared: “Impudent! When we father and son are speaking, what right do you have to interrupt! Come, tie up this beast!”

Several servants were about to approach when Liang Zhe raised the jade pendant in his hand: “This is bestowed by His Majesty. Seeing this object is like seeing the person—who dares approach!”

Liang Yunshan looked at that jade pendant, knowing it truly belonged to Emperor Delong, and didn’t dare act rashly.

Liang Zhe’s cold gaze swept over Mingcha and the servants who had followed, scolding: “Get out! Without my permission, you dare to trespass into Songtao Residence—I’ll punish each of you!”

Mingcha looked toward Liang Yunshan, awaiting his instructions.

Liang Yunshan’s face was stormy: “I ordered them in. Whose crime are you going to punish? You’ve truly rebelled! Quickly remove His Majesty’s jade pendant and go to the ancestral hall to receive family law!”

Qin Shuying laughed coldly: “I never knew that the Liang family’s ancestral hall was actually built to please the Fifth Prince.”

Liang Yunshan shuddered, seeing Qin Shuying staring at him fearlessly, her dark eyes full of mockery.

A fourteen-year-old girl dared to look at him like this and speak so boldly—utterly audacious.

Rage rose from Liang Yunshan’s heart as he coldly rebuked: “Meixiang said you have no manners, and it seems all true! Is this how the Qin family raises daughters? If I had known earlier, I would never have allowed you through the door!”

Qin Shuying fearlessly contradicted: “My lord, is your rule that while His Majesty still lives, one should join the Fifth Prince’s faction? In my view, your rules need changing, or the hundreds of people in the Liang household will all die by your hand!”

“You…”

Liang Yunshan nearly spat blood in anger. She kept saying “Fifth Prince’s faction”—he, Liang Yunshan, wasn’t part of any damned Fifth Prince’s faction!

These two beasts—did they know the gravity of the situation? In front of so many people, constantly saying “Fifth Prince’s faction”—didn’t they know this could be fatal?

At this moment, Liang Yunshan completely forgot that in the eyes of the capital’s nobility, the Marquis Pingxi’s residence had long been labeled as the Fifth Prince’s faction—a label his daughter-in-law Luo Meixiang had affixed.

Liang Yunshan was beside himself with rage: “Speaking complete nonsense, lacking wifely virtues, disrespecting elders—the Liang family cannot tolerate you!”

Mingcha was covered in cold sweat and wisely led the men outside.

Good heavens, what were they saying? If this got out, it would be catastrophic!

The young master and young madam were truly reckless, each more outrageous than the other!

Qin Shuying was indeed more outrageous, laughing coldly: “I was granted marriage by His Majesty’s edict, yet the Liang family cannot tolerate me—does my lord have His Majesty in his eyes? My lord’s eyes only hold the Fifth Prince!”

In terms of eloquence, Liang Yunshan was no match for Qin Shuying.

Moreover, she was originally planning to divorce Liang Zhe, so she didn’t regard Liang Yunshan as her father-in-law from the bottom of her heart, thus felt no awe. Therefore, she had no reservations when speaking to Liang Yunshan.

Her previous patience was because she wanted to secure a relatively smooth path to succession for Liang Zhe. Now that Liang Jie and Liang Yuan had bullied her, and Liang Yunshan was still so unclear, Qin Shuying didn’t mind enlightening him properly.

“You, you…”

Liang Yunshan was so angry he wanted to slap Qin Shuying too.

But his reason remained, knowing he could hit Liang Zhe but not Qin Shuying.

Qin Shuying met Liang Yunshan’s almost murderous gaze and quickly said: “Ziyu has suffered so many injuries for the Liang family, his life hanging by a thread, yet my lord wants to doom Ziyu to death because of some woman’s few words of instigation! How chilling! Before my lord stormed to Songtao Residence, someone must have repeatedly mentioned the three words ‘Zhao Wanniang’ before you—each mention increasing your anger by one degree! Each mention making you want to strangle Ziyu! Zhao Wanniang, Zhao Wanniang, Zhao Wanniang! What heinous crime did Zhao Wanniang commit that both heaven and earth despise? When the Ministry of Justice executes criminals, they still give them a chance to defend themselves—who among you gave her a chance to defend herself? Did you? Using the three words ‘Zhao Wanniang’ to repeatedly provoke my lord’s anger—such intentions are punishable! My lord repeatedly becoming a puppet to these three words—foolish and laughable!”

“You…”

Liang Yunshan’s eyes nearly split with rage!

His body shook with anger.

He had never been so furious.

In all these years, he had never been this angry!

Zhao Wanniang was his bloody past—who dared mention it?

At this moment, he didn’t think about how Qin Shuying knew these things, whether it was appropriate for a daughter-in-law to mention such matters to her father-in-law, but angrily refuted: “What do you know! That lowly woman Zhao Wanniang—Prince Liang’s love poem fell from her hands…”

Qin Shuying immediately interrupted him, her voice louder than his: “Does that prove it was written for her? Did it have the three words ‘Zhao Wanniang’ written on it? Did Zhao Wanniang personally admit she wrote it? Did Prince Liang say it was written for Zhao Wanniang?”

Liang Yunshan was slightly stunned. Indeed, nothing was written on the handkerchief, and neither Zhao Wanniang nor Prince Liang had said anything, but— “I saw with my own eyes that she was with Prince Liang!”

“How many things my lord saw with his own eyes at the border were true? The transported grain—three thousand stones—was it real? Was there sand and stones mixed in? Thirty thousand enemies slain—was it true? Were they all actually killed? One leaf blocking the view, peering through a tube—my lord, how shrewd you are on the battlefield, why do you become women’s puppet in the inner quarters!”

Liang Yunshan’s eyes reddened with urgency: “Impudent! Who are you talking to?!”

Qin Shuying laughed coldly: “With so many people present, why couldn’t that letter have been written by Prince Liang to someone else? Couldn’t it have been written to a maid? Couldn’t it have been written to the old madam? Why must it have been written to Mother? I’m afraid someone had already complained about Mother to my lord! At that time, my lord was already having an affair with Luo Meixiang. Mother discovered this and mocked my lord. My lord, in shame and anger, then tried every means to find Mother’s faults so she would lose face, and then my lord could rightfully take Luo Meixiang as a concubine!”