In the ancestral hall, the brother was enjoying himself while the sister was freaking out. But in the major house of Sheng Family, Jinxue House, everyone seemed somber.

“Haven’t Madam Wu pleaded guilty?” Senior Master Sheng asked wearily, “Are you sure it was her? She’s only a daughter of a scholar, at the bottom. And the scholar actually passed away a few years ago. How did a family like that… reach out to the second branch?”

Madam Wu was the woman ...