Su Xuqing took a deep breath and gave Su Miner a brilliant smile.

The next moment, she raised her hand and slapped Su Miner hard on the face, "Your brother Jin is nothing!"

She was the legitimate daughter of the Duke's Mansion. Although her mother died early, Duke Su, out of consideration for her reputation and etiquette, found a nanny to teach her etiquette since she was a child. This sentence could be regarded as the most unpleasant thing Su Xuqing had ever said in her life.

As soon as these words were spoken, Zhao and Su Min'er both changed their expressions.

Before they could react, Su Xuqing had already taken off the jade bracelet.

The movements were rough and stiff, and the nails scratched a red mark on Su Miner's wrist.

By the time Su Miner reacted, Su Xuqing had already put the jade bracelet back on her wrist.

Su Xuqing snatched back the things she had managed to get with great difficulty. Su Min'er screamed and rushed over to grab Su Xuqing's sleeve and started to snatch them away. "Su Xuqing, what qualifications do you have to snatch things from me? This should have been mine!"

Along with her scream, there was also the sound of cloth tearing.

The unfinished dress finally tore apart.

At the same time as the accident, Shen Xuanheng and his group also rushed over after receiving the news about Chunhua.

"Asshole!" Duke Su saw this scene as soon as he arrived, and felt ashamed. He turned his head away and scolded, "You knew you were going to go back home today, but you didn't dress properly. Look at what you are wearing. Why don't you change quickly!"

The moment a group of people who were supposed to be in the front yard rushed into the backyard, Su Min'er's anger turned into surprise, and she burst into tears when she was scolded. She completely forgot that Shen Xuanheng was still standing in the crowd, and immediately accused Su Xuqing of wrongdoing, "No, Daddy, I originally bought a set of clothes to go home, but my sister insisted on snatching my clothes, so..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Su Xuqing spoke in a cold voice, "Su Min'er, you are talking nonsense now without even considering whether the real owner is in front of you, right?"

"The one you bought was the door plaque that Nishang Pavilion hung at the door of the shop. You spent three hundred taels of silver to buy it. The people from Zhennan Palace and Nishang Pavilion can all testify to that. And the one I'm wearing was specially made for me by my husband's tailor. How can it be that I stole it from you?"

Su Min'er cried and refused to admit it even after being exposed. "Sis likes my things, so as a younger sister, I naturally don't dare to snatch them from her. But it's also true that she doesn't want to wear them and doesn't want to return them to me. I don't want her to compensate me, but... I just hope that she can admit her mistake and apologize to me."

"Su Xuqing!" Duke Su was furious when he heard this. He turned around and scolded Su Xuqing without any hesitation, "You are really getting more and more outrageous. Why don't you apologize to your sister quickly and return the clothes to her?"

Su Xuqing sneered, crossed her arms and looked coldly at Su Min'er who was covering her body with her hands, "Did father believe just a few words? Father, don't you think about it, I have my own clothes, why should I take Su Min'er's?"

"You have liked to snatch your sister since you were a child. Don't I know you?" Duke Su looked as if he was really angry. Not only did he glare at Su Xuqing with a frown, he also kept urging her to apologize to Su Miner quickly.

"I think the one who should apologize should be Su Min'er, right?" Shen Xuanheng, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke up at this moment, "Based on the way my father-in-law judged the case, I feel that my wife has suffered a lot in the Duke's Mansion over the past few years."

No one expected Shen Xuanheng to speak at this time. Duke Su was stunned for a while, and then he spoke again cautiously after a long time, "What do you mean, my dear son-in-law?"

The maid had already brought a cloak for Su Min'er to wear. Seeing that there was nothing to be cautious about, Shen Xuanheng strode into the house and protected Su Xuqing behind him. "Not to mention that the dress Madam is wearing was made for Madam by the tailor of Nishang Pavilion. It is worth more than ten times the dress of Su Min'er. She has no need and no desire to snatch Su Min'er's dress."

"Just this morning, my wife and I saw Su Min'er was not dressed properly. My wife was kind enough to remind her to change her clothes, but she was afraid that she would not have enough time to prepare new clothes, so she gave her other clothes to Su Min'er."

"As for why Madam has another one—" Shen Xuanheng deliberately prolonged the tone, looking sideways at Su Min'er who was trembling slightly beside him, his eyes full of mockery, "Didn't Su Min'er send someone to deliver it early in the morning, and also said that we were going to return home together, so it's better not to wear the same color clothes to avoid collision."

"I don't know how Duke Su raised his daughter. Even if they can't have the same color, how can a younger sister be chosen before an older sister, or a niece-in-law be chosen before an aunt?"

Su Miner's lips trembled violently. Feeling Shen Xuanheng's gaze on her, she just raised her head cautiously, took a look, and then quickly lowered her head, not daring to look at Shen Xuanheng again.

That gaze was like a sharp blade, almost skinning her alive and exposing her naked in front of everyone.

Su Miner felt her whole body flushed. She stammered for a long time but couldn't squeeze out a word from between her teeth.

Duke Su had not expected things to turn out like this. Even though he loved Su Min'er so much, he knew what was right and what was wrong when he saw Su Min'er's current appearance.

Before he could find an awkward way to smooth things over, Shen Xuanheng spoke again, "According to your father-in-law's way of thinking, I'm sure you must have wronged him a lot before you got married."

The cold words pierced Duke Su's back, "No, it's not like that, my dear son-in-law, you misunderstood..."

Although he is a duke, he is just an empty title with no real power. In the past, Su Xuqing's biological mother was in charge of the Su family, and with the dowry she brought from the Gu family, she was able to barely keep the Su family looking good.

Now that Su Xuqing's biological mother is no longer with us and her dowry has been taken back by the Gu family, Duke Su has become a complete figurehead, far less noble than Shen Xuanheng, the youngest son of Prince Zhennan.

Therefore, although he was the father-in-law, he could not raise his head in front of his son-in-law Shen Xuanheng.

His explanation sounded so pale in Shen Xuanheng's ears, "Father-in-law, this dress was easily torn into pieces, and my sister gave it to my wife on purpose. Can I assume that my sister deliberately framed my wife and wanted to make her look bad in public?"

Su Miner's dirty little thoughts were exposed by Shen Xuanheng in just a few words. She felt like she was hit on the head with a stick. She raised her head suddenly and wanted to say something, but she didn't know how to say it. She could only open her mouth blankly, looking at her father, her mother, and then at Shen Chejin.

But Shen Chejin said nothing, his eyes remained on Su Xuqing who was protected by Shen Xuanheng behind him.

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