Xie Jin'an approached, and at the sight before him, he hardly dared to breathe.
He glanced at Xu Xinbo and Madam Li nearby. An Imperial Guard had just come to tell them that his mother had been caught eloping with her lover.
An explosive suspicion formed in his mind.
Could it be...
His mother had eloped with his wife's brother...
No sooner had the thought surfaced than Marquis Jing'an slapped Madam Li across the face. "You shameless bitch! You actually eloped with another man! Tell me, where is your lover?"
Madam Li covered her face, great tears rolling down her cheeks. The pain in her cheek was nothing compared to the agony in her heart.
She stared at Marquis Jing'an with reddened eyes. "Yes, I've long since wanted to stop living with you. Xinbo is gentle and considerate, strong and vigorous. He's never hit me. And you? You aren't even one ten-thousandth of the man he is!"
"Xinbo?"
Marquis Jing'an turned to look at the Xu Family's eldest son standing nearby, feeling as though lightning had struck him!
It was him! Someone from the Xu Family he had supported for so many years!
When he first took care of them, Xinbo had only been a knee-high child who sweetly called him Uncle and obediently called Madam Li Auntie.
And now.
The boy had grown up to become Madam Li's lover, planting an enormous cuckold's cap on his head!
Her lover was someone the two of them had raised from childhood!
Madam Li actually liked raising her own lover!
It was even more shocking than he had imagined! Even more impossible to accept!
Every drop of blood in Marquis Jing'an's body seethed with fury. He drew his saber, intent on killing Xu Xinbo.
"**You adulterous bastard! I fed and supported your