Chapter 6

Fu Siyao looked a little like her mother, but her bearing was gentle and graceful. She had a mild temperament and was nowhere near as stern as Chen Muyu.

Fu Siyao was Fu Huaiyan's younger sister and the older sister of the Fu Family's other children. In the plot, she had little interaction with Su Wanqiao.

However, Fu Siyao was exceptionally poised, a textbook daughter of a distinguished family, and Chen Muyu used her etiquette as a yardstick against the original owner.

Anyone who saw their own daughter looking so perfect while their daughter-in-law had no refinement at all would find the latter more and more displeasing.

Su Wanqiao was happy to be ignored. She casually took an inconspicuous seat and quietly drank her tea.

Suddenly, a wealthy society wife brought up the marriage alliance between the Gu Family and the Fu Family with Chen Muyu.

The intended couple was the Fu Family's eldest daughter, Fu Siyao, and the Gu Family's eldest son, Gu Minghan.

Everyone was laughing and chatting about the subject when one voice suddenly shifted the conversation to Su Wanqiao.

"Madam Fu, your daughter-in-law has beauty but no refinement. What a pity. If only she had even half of Siyao's poise and quiet grace."

Chen Muyu's expression soured, but there was nothing she could correct. Su Wanqiao really did lack refinement, and she had no grounds even to retort.

She could only offer a few perfunctory remarks, hoping to steer the conversation back to Fu Siyao's marriage, and said with a smile,

"Madam of the Gu Family's son is such a fine-looking young man. With his talent and our Siyao's beauty, they're an excellent match. I'm sure that once they marry, they'll be a match made in heaven."

The other ladies smiled and chimed in. This marriage alliance had indeed become a celebrated story in high society, and the union of the two families would make for a highly successful partnership. Everyone could only look on in envy.

Yet amid this atmosphere, the Madam of the Gu Family's smile did not reach her eyes.

Just then, however, Chen Muyu and Fu Siyao suddenly widened their eyes.

They suddenly saw something like a chat box appear above Su Wanqiao's head. Even more horrifying than the sight itself was the text inside.

[What a joke. A match made in heaven? With the Gu Family's eldest son's situation, marrying him would mean falling into a bottomless pit. Seriously, why is Madam Fu pushing her daughter into a fire pit?]

[But they really don't know. The Gu Family's eldest son, Gu Minghan, is actually gay. He won't marry Fu Siyao. He runs away on the wedding night, and the Gu Family just finds some random man to drug Miss Fu unconscious and consummate the marriage in Young Master Gu's place. They even take videos and photos of the whole thing. Poor Eldest Miss Fu gets ruined just like that.]

"..."

!!!

By the time she had read everything, Fu Siyao's pretty face was paler than paper.

Dazed, Chen Muyu let the cup in her hand fall to the floor.

With a crack, it shattered.

Chapter 6

After the cup fell, everything suddenly went deathly silent.

The wealthy wives present all jumped, and some even cried out in alarm.

Everyone noticed that Chen Muyu had been perfectly fine a moment ago, laughing and chatting with them, only for her expression to darken suddenly for some unknown reason.

Even Fu Siyao, seated beside her, looked upset. The respect in her gaze as she looked at the Madam of the Gu Family was gone.

The atmosphere, which had been so

relaxed,

suddenly became somewhat suffocating.

No one dared ask what had happened. They simply could not fathom why the Fu Family's mother and daughter had abruptly changed their expressions when everything had been perfectly fine.

At that moment, Chen Muyu and Fu Siyao suddenly turned sharp gazes on the Madam of the Gu Family.

Their gazes were cold, complicated, and held other unfathomable emotions. In short, the venom in their eyes was like a blade, enough to make one's scalp prickle just looking at them.

None of the ladies present were simple characters. Anyone who was not a fool could certainly guess that something had happened, but no one took the initiative to ask and invite Chen Muyu's displeasure.

Chen Muyu's and Fu Siyao's emotions were far too complicated at that moment. Their first reaction was shock at what they had seen, followed by bone-chilling horror at the possible fate awaiting them through this calculated marriage alliance.

Still, their first instinct was to look at everyone else's expressions. They found that the others were not looking at Su Wanqiao in any particularly unusual way, nor were they shocked by the words above her head. Instead, they seemed not to have noticed anything at all, so the two guessed that the others could not see Su Wanqiao's inner thoughts. In other words, only they could see this content.

At that moment, there was no scientific explanation for the strange phenomenon of the text in the chat box above Su Wanqiao's head, but they would rather believe it existed than dismiss it. All the more so when it concerned marriage, such a major event in life: one wrong step led to another. If the Gu Family's eldest son really was like this, it would ruin Fu Siyao's entire life.

At the thought of her precious daughter suffering such treatment, Chen Muyu wished she could skin the Madam of the Gu Family alive on the spot.

Her long, slender nails dug into her flesh as she forced herself to calm down. They had not investigated the matter yet, so it would not do to openly fall out with the Gu Family. If it really was true, the Fu Family would never let them off.

They actually dared to scheme against the Fu Family's daughter.

They would see just how much nerve the Gu Family had to withstand the Fu Family's wrath.

Only after silently reciting the Great Compassion Mantra several hundred times did Chen Muyu calm down. Fu Siyao, however, could not calm down so easily. This was utterly outrageous. She had known that daughters of wealthy families like them could not decide their own marriages, but she had never expected her intended partner's circumstances to be like this. They had gone far too far. No matter what, this marriage alliance had to be canceled.

She thought about how, without the warning in the text above her sister-in-law's head, she would still have been kept in the dark by the Gu Family, married into their family without knowing a thing, and ultimately been threatened with photographs. As the eldest daughter of the Fu Family, a wealthy family worth hundreds of billions, she would face utter disgrace and ruin.

The more Fu Siyao thought about it, the angrier she became, until she could not help her eyes reddening. She simply could not swallow this insult.

Su Wanqiao was unaffected by the atmosphere. In fact, she was more at ease than anyone else. She merely found it strange that everyone had suddenly stopped talking when they had been chatting so happily.

She swept her gaze around, but in the end, her gossip-hungry eyes settled on Madam Gu again, gleaming brightly.