I was chased by my sickly junior brother who had two lives

Chen Jia wiped the thin layer of sweat from her temples with a handkerchief. Chen Jue took out the folding fan from his waist and fanned Chen Jia considerately. The brother and sister smiled at each other, as if today was a farce and they were just passers-by watching the show.

The old lady's heart was burning with anger, and her thumb kept stroking the jade ring on her index finger. This was the jade ring that Chen Jia had specially asked the best goldsmith in Daliang to cast for her on her birthday last year. This was Chen Jia's birthday gift to her.

At the beginning, she wore this jade ring to attend the Plum Blossom Banquet. In order to get a ring of similar quality, the wife of the Marquis of Minyang personally went to the goldsmith to cast it. As a result, the goldsmith said that the ring was out of print. The wife was so angry that she fell ill for three months. She was most proud of winning against the wife who had always looked down on her family.

However, she only remembered that she defeated the Lady Dowager, but forgot that this victory was brought to her by Chen Jia.

People are like this sometimes, they are particularly ungrateful.

The old lady took a deep breath and stopped stroking the jade ring. She pointed at Chen Jia and said, "Chen Jia, you unfilial daughter-in-law, how can you sit down when we haven't sat down yet? Do you still have the elders in your eyes, do you still..." She glanced at Chen Shangshu and his wife and found that they didn't react at all. She became bolder instantly and said, "Education?! No wonder she is a wild girl from the countryside, she has no mother to teach her!"

Minister Chen and his wife acted as if they didn't hear anything. In their hearts, this was the prime minister's illegitimate daughter, and they had done their best by helping him raise her for a while. Besides, a daughter who becomes a nun is like water spilled. Chen Jia brought shame to the old prime minister, not to them. Since the old prime minister didn't even come, they didn't want to interfere.

Yang Hui hated Chen Jia for not buying her the Peach Red Liuyue Satin from Jinxiu Fang last month. She now wished she could let Chen Jia know how miserable her future would be if she offended her and her daughter!

Yang Hui raised her chin, rolled her eyes, supported her mother, and said fiercely: "Mom, sister-in-law has always been like this, you know it. She used to pretend to be good, and brother thought she was well-educated. Now, she is really doing anything for that little bit of money."

Chen Jia smiled slightly. The people of the Yang family were all wolves that could not be tamed. They would turn hostile if something was not satisfied. If you associated with them, you would easily get bitten by them.

Chen Jia straightened her sleeves and said slowly, "Some people are really saying all kinds of nasty things for my dowry."

Yang Hui's expression changed instantly, "Who are you talking about?"

Chen Jia raised her head, calmly looking at her with a half-smile, "Whoever is anxious is the one."

Yang Hui wanted to take a step forward, but the old lady held her daughter's hand and shook her head secretly at her. Yang Hui bit her lower lip and rolled her eyes at Chen Jia.

The old lady said unceremoniously: "Your parents have already agreed that you should be divorced, so why are you struggling so hard?"

"This dowry was left to me by my family, not..." Chen Jia pointed at Minister Chen and his wife, "They gave it to me. They have no say over my own things."

Mrs. Chen Shangshu had never had a good impression of Chen Jia. This woman had been causing trouble in her house since she came back from the countryside. She either caused her daughter to fall into the lake or caused her son to lose face in the academy. She was even more favored by Old Madam Chen, and the Chen family always supported her, causing her to become the daughter-in-law with the worst reputation in the Chen family.

Mrs. Chen was going to hold back her anger, after all, she was the prime minister's illegitimate daughter, and there was no need for her to get angry with a little girl and make the prime minister give her husband a hard time. However, Chen Jia was still causing trouble before she got married, and Chen Jia caused her daughter to have a one-sided love for Yang Xiu. If she hadn't suppressed her daughter, I'm afraid her unpromising daughter would have become Yang Xiu's concubine, a legitimate daughter as a concubine, and the more she thought about it, the angrier she got!

Mrs. Chen Shangshu thought that the old prime minister was late in coming because he must have felt that his daughter had embarrassed him and he didn't want to care about it anymore. In that case, she wanted to vent her years of resentment and let this ignorant Chen Jia know the consequences of offending her!

Mrs. Chen Shangshu snorted, looking down on Chen Jia. "You were used to being a bully before you got married, so why are you still bullying after you get married? If your bullying behavior gets out, who would dare to marry you? You can't even marry a second time, how are you going to live in the future?"

Chen Jue blurted out without thinking, "You don't need to care who my sister marries."

Mrs. Chen Shangshu rolled her eyes at Chen Jue. She became even angrier when she talked about Chen Jue. The old prime minister always asked her husband to look after Chen Jue. The young men of the Chen family were willing to play with this illegitimate child, which caused her son to be isolated. It was unknown what kind of magic Chen Jue had to climb up to Wei Lang, a man from a prominent family, and cause the young men of the Chen family to fawn on Chen Jue, just to say a few good words for Chen Jue so that they could also get Wei Lang's recognition.

The more Mrs. Chen thought about it, the angrier she got. She responded rather rudely, "Humph, with a little boy like you as a burden, which man would be interested in your sister? Only General Yang is kind enough to accept you!"

Chen Jue has always been at odds with Mrs. Chen Shangshu. He originally wanted to suppress his temper and let Chen Jia deal with it herself. After all, the anger had to be dealt with by his sister herself. However, he did not expect that Mrs. Chen Shangshu would come to him herself.

Chen Jue stared at Chen Shangshu's wife and smiled brilliantly, "What a pity! With me here, my sister will have a happy life in the future. Unlike you, your family has no capital and you are suffering in the Shangshu Mansion. That's right, you haven't studied for a few years, what can you know?"

Mrs. Chen Shangshu pointed at Chen Jue, her face slightly red with anger, "You!"

Chen Jue looked at Chen Shangshu, "Chen Shangshu, your wife also said that my sister's dowry was not given by you. Have you ever thought about the consequences of being so casual?"

Minister Chen did not take Chen Jue's suggestion seriously, "You should think more about it. At this hour, the consequences have not come as expected."

Chen Jue raised his eyebrows, as if he understood, while Yang Xiu frowned. He always felt that Shangshu Chen and Chen Jue did not seem like father and son, but more like enemies.

The old lady looked at the Yang clan members. She pointed at Chen Jia and her brother, as if she had been wronged. "Look at them! This is not our Xiu'er's fault. Even your mother's family doesn't allow you. How can our Yang family keep such unfilial and disrespectful bastards?"

Yang Hui echoed, "The Yang family is really unlucky to have you."

The head of the Yang family coughed lightly and said, "We dare not keep a daughter-in-law like you who brings bad luck to the family."

"That's right, Xiu'er can't keep something that will ruin your family's feng shui."

"I don't want her to stay here and keep my daughter from getting married."

"My son can't marry a daughter-in-law of good family because of them."

Chen Jia ignored the noises coming from the Yang family. She patted the armrest lightly. The huge airflow made everyone step back. Yang Xiu quickly protected Sima Fei'er in his arms. He had to use his inner strength to resist this wave of airflow.

Sima Fei'er looked at Yang Xiu for a moment, then she looked at Chen Jia provocatively.

Chen Jia glanced at Sima Fei'er's face calmly, and fixed her gaze on Yang Xiu. "No one of you can take my dowry away."