The Chu Lineage were now imperial relatives, so their members naturally enjoyed high status.
After reading the message, Chu Ruoyan immediately told Li Sining and Jiang Rong. Jiang Rong felt a headache coming on. In business, harmony brought prosperity. How had an imperial clansman come to cause trouble when they had only just opened?
Even the Imperial Guards had turned up, which suggested that the troublemaker held considerable status.
Li Sining, however, looked entirely unbothered as she said, "So what if he's an imperial clansman? Who here isn't? I'd like to see which royal bastard dared to cause trouble."
She had been about to call him a "son of a bitch," but then realized that he apparently belonged to the Imperial Clan too. If she called him that, wouldn't she be calling herself one as well? So she changed her wording.
Li Sining was angry because she had invested in the hotpot restaurant. This was her first business venture, and she was actually taking it quite seriously, waiting for her share of the profits.
If it went well, she might even earn some praise from Li Chen.
Now that an imperial clansman had come to cause trouble, she immediately wanted to beat his face into a pig's head.
Just as the three of them were about to leave the palace, they ran into Li Chen on his way back.
Seeing her emperor brother, Li Sining wasn't particularly keen to tell him about it. She wanted to handle it herself.
But Li Chen stopped them outright and said, "I know what you're going to do, but go back, all of you."
His words sent all three women's minds racing.
Chu Ruoyan thought, *Does His Majesty not want to see a conflict between the women of the Imperial Harem and the Imperial