Zhou Yulin seemed to find the speaker's voice familiar. Just then, the person outside entered, the curtains were drawn, and the room suddenly lit up.
Zhou Yulin saw Madam Sun at a glance. Madam Sun also saw Zhou Yulin. She was stunned for a moment, then suddenly lunged forward and grabbed Zhou Yulin's ear, asking, "Why is it you? Why is it you?"
Seeing so many people, Zhou Yulin quickly covered himself with the quilt and said, "Make them go, go..."
Madam Sun suppressed her grief and walked to the crowd, saying, "Perhaps there has been a mistake."
"A mistake? Madam Zhou, you swore that the person here was Lord Shen. Now you say it's not Lord Shen. Madam Zhou, you can't just say such things!" Da Feng Xiao Shuo
Looking at Madam Xiao Min's aggressive questioning, Madam Sun's intestines were filled with regret. How could she have known that the person inside was not Lord Shen, but her husband, Zhou Yulin?
"Madam Shi, please understand. This minister's wife merely spoke out of haste and said the wrong thing. Please do not take offense, Madam Shi." Madam Sun apologized with a smile.
Madam Xiao Min was about to make a few more sarcastic remarks when someone tugged at her sleeve. She saw Madam Zhou shaking her head at her. Madam Xiao Min said, "Let's let this go this time. If there's a next time, I will not forgive you lightly."
"Thank you, Madam, for your magnanimity." Madam Sun breathed a sigh of relief.
Madam Xiao Min pulled Madam Zhou out and asked her, "Do you know everything?"
Madam Zhou looked at Madam Xiao Min, and after a long pause, nodded. "Sister, will you blame me?"
"Why would I blame you?" Madam Xiao Min asked, puzzled.
"For not telling you in advance."
Madam Xiao Min smiled. "It's better you didn't tell me. I can't keep secrets. If you had told me beforehand, who knows if I would have blurted it out."
Madam Zhou smiled upon hearing this. "I was afraid you would blame me. Now that you don't blame me, I am very happy."
"Sister, why didn't you add insult to injury just now and forever extinguish Madam Sun's ambitions?" Madam Xiao Min was puzzled why Madam Zhou didn't let her continue speaking.
Madam Zhou heard this and said, "Sister, you don't know, but my sister-in-law is very intelligent. I don't know if she's doing this to retaliate against me or if she's truly considering the Zhou family. If it's for the Zhou family, I'll let her off this time. If not..."
Madam Zhou's gaze lowered, revealing a hint of coldness. "Then I won't show any mercy."
"As long as you've made up your mind, tell me directly if you need my help." Madam Xiao Min said.
"Thank you, Sister." Madam Zhou felt fortunate to know Madam Xiao Min.
On Madam Sun's side, her eyes were filled with malice as she looked at Fan Yunxiu. Fan Yunxiu wanted to cry but had no tears. She couldn't understand why Shen Yunxuan had been replaced by Zhou Yulin.
"Can any of you give me an explanation?" Madam Sun gritted her teeth and said, word by word.
Zhou Yulin felt guilty and merely lowered his head.
Fan Yunxiu cried, "Cousin-in-law, I... I don't know how it became like this. Didn't you say it was Lord Shen? How did it become Cousin?"
Madam Sun looked at Fan Yunxiu crying with pear-like tears. She knew Fan Yunxiu only had eyes for Shen Yunxuan. With this happening, she was afraid...
She looked at Zhou Yulin, grabbed his ear, and shouted, "Zhou Yulin, Zhou Yulin, are you tired of living? How dare you commit adultery with another woman behind my back? Don't you have me in your eyes?"
"Madam, don't be angry, don't be angry, I... I didn't do it on purpose." Of everyone in the family, he feared his wife, Madam Sun, the most.
"You didn't do it on purpose? So it was intentional? Zhou Yulin, you really have guts, don't you?"
"No, Madam, no, Ouch, it hurts! Madam..."
"Who was that person? Even if you had the heart, you wouldn't have the guts, right? Was it Zhou Fenli?" Madam Sun roared.
Zhou Yulin could no longer bear it and said, "Madam already knows?"
Madam Sun released her grip on Zhou Yulin's ear, her face a terrifying mask of rage. "I will not endure this humiliation for nothing. Today's disgrace will be repaid a hundredfold tomorrow."
Madam Fan rushed over upon hearing the news. Seeing the furious Madam Sun, she entered and asked, "What exactly happened? Wasn't everything arranged properly? How could it have gone wrong?"
"Aunt..." Fan Yunxiu cried.
Madam Fan's head ached. "This... What can be done?"
"Aunt, Yunxiu is too ashamed to face anyone," Fan Yunxiu cried sadly.
Madam Fan was at a loss for what to do. She looked at Madam Sun and asked, "Tell me, what should we do?"
Madam Sun glanced at Zhou Yulin, restrained the hatred in her eyes, and said coldly, "Since Yulin has consummated his affair with Cousin, if Yulin cannot take Cousin as his concubine, then Cousin will have nowhere to go back to the mansion and cannot be married."
Upon hearing this, Madam Fan sighed, "Wanyue, you are indeed the most sensible."
Saying that, she looked at Fan Yunxiu and said, "You are now Yulin's concubine. From now on, respect and be filial to your mother-in-law and be devoted to your wife."
At this point, Fan Yunxiu had no choice but to accept her fate.
"Yes, Yunxiu will keep this in mind." Fan Yunxiu bowed.
"Mother, I am not feeling well. I will return to my room to rest." With that, Madam Sun turned and left.
Madam Fan sighed and looked at Fan Yunxiu. "Since you have entered the Zhou family, serve those you should serve well. We will not mistreat you."
"Yes, Yunxiu remembers." Fan Yunxiu said obediently.
Madam Fan took Fan Yunxiu's hand and said, "Since she is not feeling well, you will take her place next."
Madam Sun returned to her room, thinking about it more and more uncomfortably. She called Madam Zhou out. Madam Zhou knew from seeing Madam Sun that Madam Sun was probably going to ask her about Fan Yunxiu.
Madam Sun spoke directly, "You know everything, don't you?"
"What do you mean, sister-in-law? Know what?" Madam Zhou retorted.
Madam Sun smiled, a smile that was not a smile. "Zhou Fenli, your move is truly brilliant. I, Sun Wanyue, concede defeat."
"Sister-in-law, your words make me anxious. What have I done that earns your admiration?"
"Fan Yunxiu's matter." Madam Sun gritted her teeth and squeezed out these words, one by one, from between them.
"Sister-in-law, I ask you to catch what you see and see it with your own eyes. What does it have to do with me?"
"I caught her, and I saw it with my own eyes, but what about what I didn't see?"
"Sister-in-law, you're asking me, but I don't know either. I only found out about brother and Fan Yunxiu's affair just now."
Madam Sun felt as if a heavy blow had landed on cotton, unable to stir up any ripples.
"Zhou Fenli, why won't you admit it? If it's not you, then who is it?"
"Sister-in-law, these words are truly bizarre. I deny it, but you insist it's me. Sister-in-law, aren't you framing an innocent person?"
"Am I framing you? Zhou Fenli, I don't have that much time."