"Get out!"
Steward Chen grabbed the overturned table and hurled it outside.
Both children froze in fright, and his little grandson burst into loud sobs.
Madam Chen held her little grandson and soothed him. "There, there, be good. Don't cry. Grandpa wasn't trying to scare you. Don't cry!"
Only when her little grandson's sobs quieted did Madam Chen turn and say, "Why waste your anger on her? I told you long ago, she's a white-eyed wolf who'll never learn gratitude, no matter how you raise her. Anything you say to her is wasted breath."
"Take your seal and the other things to the Government Office now."
Steward Chen asked in confusion, "What for?"
"Aren't we cutting ties? Empty words prove nothing. Go to the Government Office and make it official, then spread the word that Chen Haitang has nothing to do with us anymore. Anyone who wants to pull strings for her or lend her money does so on their own account. It has nothing whatsoever to do with us."
"Yes, you're right! Unless we make a clean break, all those troubles will come back to us."
Madam Chen said, "If she had any sense, she'd entrust her two daughters to us and go sit in prison with that useless husband of hers."
"There's no controlling her. None at all."
Steward Chen summoned a sedan chair, took what he needed, and immediately went to attend to the matter.
In his heart, His Highness Prince Huai came before everything else, followed by his family, with himself last.
No one was allowed to run wild outside under His Highness Prince Huai's name!
Madam Chen did not sit idle either. There were still a few parasites in the residence that had to be rooted out.
Three days later, Lan Ruoyue returned from