Hua Yujue was no fool. At the Grand Princess's banquet, she heard Commandery Princess Luoshui's inner thoughts, just as she had hoped.
Judging by Commandery Princess Luoshui's thoughts, her marriage match with the Left Chancellor's Fifth Young Master was a very good one.
The only wild card was Lü Anniang, who fancied herself loved.
After learning this, Hua Yujue went home and recounted everything she had heard to her mother, leaving nothing out.
Her mother was the military strategist at her father's side, after all. Her intelligence was beyond question.
The Hua family would hardly concern themselves with a woman who did not even qualify as a kept mistress.
But knowing that she would someday crash their daughter's engagement banquet and cause a scene made this no small matter.
The Hua family laid a trap, letting the Left Chancellor learn of Lü Anniang's existence and sending someone to draw her out until she spilled all her private thoughts.
To give her credit, though Lü Anniang was love-brained, she was a love-brained woman with ambition.
She fell into the trap and publicly voiced her beautiful fantasy of marrying into the Left Chancellor's Residence and inheriting the Left Chancellor's Family's entire fortune with her husband.
After learning what she had in mind, the Left Chancellor's family all turned teasing looks on their fifth son.
By the rules, even if the Left Chancellor's eldest son suddenly died, the fifth son would still be nowhere near next in line to inherit the residence.
Who knew how Lü Anniang's mind was wired?
With thunderous resolve, the Left Chancellor drove this woman who sowed discord among his sons out of Capital City and gave his fifth son a stern warning.
Because of this incident, the engagement banquet between the Left Chancellor's Residence and the general's residence