After Prince of Zhennan's heir, Zi Azha, was struck by the flying needles, his brain finally came online. He realized Jian Ruonan had been making a monkey of him.
Zi Azha flew into a rage, berated Jian Chuyun until she was drenched in a torrent of abuse, and moved out of the Jinyang Marquis's Residence that very day.
After Zi Azha's scolding, Jian Chuyun cried at home for several days, leaving Young Shi-shi aching for her.
"My child, refusing food and drink and weeping your heart out like this hurts your body and breaks your mother's heart!" Young Shi-shi said. "What exactly happened? Tell your mother!"
Between sobs, Jian Chuyun recounted what had happened. "It's all Fifth Miss's fault. Not only did she seduce the heir, she stuck needles into him at random, too. Now he blames me..."
"Fifth Miss again?!" Young Shi-shi's brow furrowed. "Why does she have to stick her nose into everything?!"
An heir was such a fine son-in-law. She couldn't let Fifth Miss ruin this marriage.
"Chen Pozi, Granny Wu, Granny Bai, come here!" Young Shi-shi planned to take the sharpest-tongued old servants and concubines in her courtyard over to Fifth Miss's courtyard to settle the score for her daughter.
"Mother, sending the old servants won't help," Jian Chuyun said.
Even the sharpest-tongued old servants in her courtyard couldn't last a single round against Fifth Miss.
"Even Granny Wang can't outargue her?" Shi-shi asked.
Granny Wang was the village's most formidable gossip.
"Never mind Granny Wang," Jian Chuyun sobbed. "Chen Pozi, Granny Zhang, and Granny Li can't last a single round against her, either."
Young Shi-shi: !!??
How could Fifth Miss be so terrifying?!
Young Shi-shi was utterly stunned, but when she saw who was coming through the courtyard entrance, a smug smile returned to her