"Dong'er, is this really all right? Qian Ran won't blame us, will he?"
Lan Susu was a little worried, though a trace of anticipation mingled with her worry.
"Hehe. You really don't understand Qian Ran. If he truly didn't like you, we wouldn't do anything to make him angry." At the swimsuit party at home last time, they had realized that Qian Ran had taken a fancy to Cui Yajie and the twin sisters.
Since these three would inevitably join their big family in the future, they were naturally willing to give the boat a push along the current.
That way, even after the three entered the Qian Family, they would have little say in the future.
After all, the three would only have gotten in thanks to their matchmaking. How could Cui Yajie and the others have the nerve to compete with them for anything else afterward?
They were all wonderful, kindhearted people, but once they came to Qian Ran's side, they wanted to establish who stood above whom. It was not a ranking of strength, but of status within the family. That status did not need to be spoken aloud; the women all measured themselves against one another in their hearts and understood where they belonged.
Take Zhou Yi, for instance. Some vaguely felt that she had received more than her family status entitled her to, which had made even the Ice Empress unhappy with her. In this big family, apart from those with high standing such as Tang Ya and Wang Dong'er, anyone who received too much of Qian Ran's affection would provoke discontent among the others.
With so many wolves and so little meat, that was inevitable.
Qian Ran's harem was already relatively peaceful, and all the women were educated and well-mannered, but even the most