The Marquis' Wife
A strong guess pointed at Liang Chenyue

"Lu Shan's. I heard your sister-in-law's shop is on fire?" Jun Shi asked worriedly.

"Sak Adel's shop is on fire?!! How come!! I have to see it!!" Lu Shan was very surprised and immediately wanted to go home.

Jun Shi's lips pulsed speechless because Lu Shan didn't know. "You don't know? What about Lu Cheng? Lu Cheng!! Did you know De Xiang's shop was on fire?!".

Jun Shi immediately approached Lu Cheng. That guy's smarter than his friend maybe he knows.

"Yes. Only the right wall was burned. The inside of the tidar also burned because the staff of Adel's brother moved quickly to extinguish the fire".

"Lu Cheng!! Why didn't you tell me?".

Lu Cheng was silent for a moment then replied quietly. "I forgot".

That short answer irritated Lu Shan, and he stomped his feet. "How could you forget that important thing!!".

"The problem is over. What did I tell you for?".

"For me to know!!".

"Now I've told you. Go back to your seat. I want to focus on reading".

Lu Shan let out a long sigh then walked to his seat in annoyance, he felt anxious towards Adelia. What if her brother became ill after knowing the bad news.

Sheng Xiaobao saw his friend sitting reading but his finger did not move from the same sentence in some time, he let out a long sigh. He sat on the side and patted his friend on the shoulder. "All will be well Lu Cheng. Don't worry, isn't there still Brother Lu Xiang who will solve the problem? Leave everything to your brother and now you just have to focus on your lessons so as not to make your brother and Adel's brother worry more".

Lu Cheng was stunned by the advice of his friend, he turned his head and looked at Sheng Xiaobao long ago. Just this time there was a friend who advised him and made his heart calm and a friend who he did not expect would say the golden advice came from Sheng Xiaobao, a chatty man who always made him sultry.

"Thank you" Lu Cheng said softly.

"Are you moved to hear that advice? That's the advice my mom always says to me whenever there's a problem, although I know it's true but I'm upset that I always hear the same thing but I didn't expect that it would work on you. Are you moved by Lu Cheng? You must be moved".

Lu Cheng's lips pulsed speechless. He pulled what he said just now, Sheng Xiaobao was Sheng Xiaobao, he was a chatty friend who made him sultry and annoyed. He rolled his eyeballs and refocused on the reading but his lips lifted slightly as the mood began to improve.

Sheng Xiaobao looked at it and smiled happily.

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Two days later after investigating the arson case but still has no results and clues as to who did it. Prefect Zhong had his wife ask Liang Chenyue if she had nothing to do with the matter as she got the information from the lady's personal servant that his wife's nephew had left secretly on the night of three days before events.

A strong guess pointed at Liang Chenyue but having no evidence Prefect Zhong could not inquire directly.

"What do you mean ask that question to my husband Chenyue?" Liang Shu did not understand what the fire had to do with his nephew.

"I got the information that Liang Chenyue went to see someone secretly that night. You better ask her if she's really crazy to the point of doing that!".

"Cannot be. Chenyue couldn't have done that". Liang Shu repeatedly refuted even though her heart was unsure.

"Heh~ you don't know your nephew. He acts indefinitely because you spoiled him. From this moment on you don't solve the problem that the woman is doing, she's already a member of the Zheng family, it's got nothing to do with you".

Liang Shu saw the departure of her husband. Ever since the matter of the recipe, the relationship with her husband had become increasingly tenuous, her mind was raging especially when looking at that damn concubine who was showing off and became arrogant due to the affection of Prefect Zhong.

Liang Shu increasingly disliked his nephew who was the mastermind of all this. He asked frankly and was surprised by Liang Chenyue's agitated reaction.

"Don't bil...".

"I didn't do that auntie!! I'm not the one!!" Liang Chenyue tried to defend herself by shouting loudly.

"I. I went to an information broker. Yep!! Indeed I admit that I hate Adelia and De Xiang's shop but I'm not that crazy to the point of daring to tell others to burn down someone else's shop!!! Why are you suspicious of me auntie?! Is it because I'm not part of the Liang family anymore?!!" Liang Chenyue turned to blame her aunt, she was so frustrated that her hands shook.

"I.abibi... Haa~ you've become Zheng's family so you need to be independent and solve your own problems so that you can live quietly in Zheng's family".

Liang Shu felt guilty but because of her husband's warning, she had to do this. The relationship with her husband deteriorated further and she did not want the relationship to become more and more fractured as she did not heed the words of Prefect Zhong. Liang Shu apologized to Liang Chenyue that this was all he could do to maintain his household.

Liang Shu's guilt disappears when he remembers that the source of his household troubles is his own nephew.

"Auntie!! How could you do that to me?!! You...you want to dump me?!!".

"Cheny! Aunty's relationship with you still remains as usual, you just need to stop using the surname Zhong to look for trouble. That's all!! Please understand, if you really love auntie stop doing that because uncle would not like it".

Liang Shu goes from the living room to drive away her nephew's subtlety, which she should focus on right now is mending the relationship with her husband.

Liang Chenyue came home in despair. She did not expect that her aunt broke off her relationship with her!! Why is all this happening? Since meeting Adelia, nothing has gone smoothly in the life of Liang Chenyue. A cold and murderous look was created in his eyes, he desperately wanted to eliminate that damn woman!!!.

Liang Chenyue then recalled her aunt's question that she went quietly at night to meet someone. His eyes glittered sharply.

Looks like there's a rotten rat creeping into his house?!! No one knew that he had gone quietly other than the maid in the main house.

Liang Chenyue went home angrily and told the guards to arrest the 5 maids including her two personal servants headed to the back house that was uninhabited by anyone. He didn't want his son to know what he was doing.

"Nyo-nyonya. What the hell is going on? Why did you arrest us?" .

All the servants prostrated with trembling bodies.

"God! You pretend you don't know!! I want to catch the rat bastard who dares to leak my activities to others!! Guards hit them!! I want to see which rat dares bite me!!".

The guards were initially hesitant but Liang Chenyue's horrifying face made them unwillingly have to do so.

Two guards tied their hands and covered the mouth of a servant, then struck them with a large piece of wood.

The scream muffled by the cloth made the other servants' bodies tremble even more violently.

"Mrs. Servant didn't do it madam!! Please, believe me. Servants never betray!!".

Private young maid Liang Chenyue turned deathly pale, her teeth trembling with great fear, she did not expect that it would be discovered. He also wanted to beg for mercy but an expression of fear and guilt was caught by Liang Chenyue who continued to look at the look on his servant's face.

"Haha!!! You're a fucking whore!! You dare to be the little mouse of the Zhong family?!!" Liang Chenyue slapped hard on the young maid's face countless times until her face was battered and swollen.

"Mrs.not the servant who did it!! Servant never did it madam. Please believe...".

"Guard at 20 this goddamn slave and sell him to the lowest house of Banmei. I want to see who dares to betray me again!!".

"Mrs!!! Madam!! Servant please have mercy on your servant madam!! I apologize and will not repeat it, madam!! Madam!! Lady aarrghh!!!".

The young maid cried out in pain with a heart-wrenching voice but no one was willing to help her, as the loud punch that floated into her body slowly her gaze twisted until she closed her eyes for good.

"Nyo-nyonya. This waiter died mistress" The guard reported carefully. The expressionless cold look at his personal servant in torment made the guard even more afraid of Liang Chenyue.

"Dump him at the mass funeral" He then looked at the other servant for a moment with cold eyes.

"This is a consequence for those of you who want to betray me! Catch that!!". Liang Chenyue left the servant who was prostrating trembling.

The other guards loyal to the Zheng family saw Liang Chenyue's departure and hoped that the great master would return home soon. Great master Zheng had already 3 months of traveling to another kingdom by sea to conduct a cloth transaction. Ever since the great master's departure, Madam Zheng had been acting arbitrarily and no longer showed such a generous mistress as she had shown before her husband.