Ji the Second's face stiffened.
He looked at Ji Yue, who was standing onstage and supporting the Old Master.
Ji Yue gave him a smug smile.
Then she gently urged the Old Master, "Dad, calm down."
"This family can't do without you."
Ji the Old Master loved hearing that. Before it had been exposed that Ji Yue was not his biological daughter,
he had doted on her greatly as well.
He patted Ji Yue's hand. "None of your brothers is as sensible as you!"
"One after another, all they know is how to make me angry every day!"
Yan Xianjue watched the scene onstage.
Surprised, he thought, [Isn't that the fake heiress who sat around at my house for half the day?]
Honestly, Yan Xianjue still had not figured out what the fake heiress had gone to his house for that day.
She had come to ask for help, yet she had acted so proud. In the end, she had not even stated her purpose.
[But just from this scene, it looks like the fake heiress's alliance with Ji the Second isn't all that solid.]
Yan Xianjue clicked his tongue.
[She really understood how to play the mantis stalking the cicada while the oriole waited behind.]
The Yan Household members nodded along.
They were all old foxes. Who could not see through the little game she was playing?
Clearly, she was planning to climb to the top by stepping on all her brothers.
Yan Xianjue shook his head.
[Unfortunately, she still doesn't understand Ji the Old Master well enough.]
[Ji the Old Master married Ji the Old Madam because she gave birth to a daughter, but deep down, he's still a male chauvinist.]
*[He would never hand the Ji Household over to a daughter, much less Ji Yue, who