The Imperial Court Heard My Thoughts—and Everyone Lost It!
Chapter 52

Outrageous Relatives Came Knocking

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[Salty Fish System: Oh, right, your emperor has been auditing the accounts lately. Assistant Minister Li's family also owes the Imperial Treasury nearly two hundred thousand taels. They'll make Li Huairou pay that, too.] [Then there's Li Huairou's eldest brother. Whenever he eats out with his friends, he never pays. He has everything put on a tab, then sends the creditors to the shops under Li Huairou's name at the end of the month to collect the money from their managers.] [Li Huairou's eldest uncle loves buying antiques, paintings, and calligraphy, and he never asks the price. Whenever he runs short of money, he goes to the shops under Li Huairou's name to withdraw more. Her father also spends Li Huairou's money when he entertains people outside.]

The system listed these matters one by one. Even a system with hardly any relatives thought these people had gone too far, yet Li Huairou herself showed no reaction at all.

Wenren Luoshui picked up her milk tea, deliberately sipping up the pearls inside. They were pretty good-chewy without making her jaw work too hard.

On the stage below, the play had reached the scene where Miss Plain Porridge told her adoptive mother that her adoptive family offered her no warmth at all, while Brother Hammer would cook plain porridge for her with his own hands.

Looking again at Li Huairou, who sat perfectly composed at the table, she had to admit that the girl shared quite a few similarities with Miss Plain Porridge.

[Outsiders can't wake someone like her up. Let's just hope her mother left her enough assets to let her live comfortably and safely into old age.]

Yunjian propped her head on her hand and turned to watch the play, saying nothing more.

The girl herself thought it

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