With an excuse in hand, the gossip-hungry crowd lifted Dantai Mo's wheelchair with heads held high and spirits soaring, carrying him to the Outer Study's door as though he were in a sedan chair.
One of the men carrying the wheelchair was the very fellow whose gout had left him sweating cold.
The gout-stricken gossip enthusiast had been grimacing in agony, but the moment there was gossip to feast on, he became positively invigorated.
He could even carry a wheelchair now!
[A medical miracle! Feasting on gossip cures every ailment!]
Dantai Mo: "..."
Inside the study, adhering to the principle that a family's dirty laundry should never be aired in public, most of the people from Marquis Wuyang's Residence had more or less reached an agreement.
In the entire room, only the Marquise refused to let the matter rest. "Xu'er, are you even a man?!"
"You're just going to let this go?!"
The Marquise stared at her son, her expression stern.
The heir glanced at the crayfish clinging to life on the floor, then at Gao Shan and Marquis Wuyang.
To outsiders, his parents were a loving couple and their family lived in harmony.
He had heard the romantic tale of his father's courtship of his mother from a very young age.
Only as he grew older did he discover that reality was nothing of the sort. In private, his father frequented prostitutes and indulged in debauchery, disregarded all moral boundaries, and even laid hands on his mother... This had also contributed to his weak character and the change in his sexual orientation...
"Mother, today's matter ends here."
The sordid absurdity of it was too shameful to expose to outsiders.
Besides, Marquis Wuyang had three sons. In theory, the title should pass to the eldest legitimate son, but that