Who is spreading rumors that my filial piety towards them has changed?

Order the servants to spit on his head!

This was his big day, his special day, but everyone else was happy, including his father, but he was not!

Because his father controlled everything in the East Mansion, even his wife was under his father's control, he would be punished even if he spoke a few more words to Keqing.

Those scenes flashed through his mind, and now, he was the owner of those clothes!

He is now the clan leader, and he controls everything in the Eastern Prefecture!

Cui Rong tore up the paintings on the wall in the room, grabbed a chair, and smashed his father's bed.

His eyes were bloodshot, and he roared furiously, veins bulging.

"Where is my daughter-in-law! Where is my daughter-in-law?!"

He smashed and roared like a mad beast.

"I want to sleep with my son's personal maid! I want to sleep with my son's wife! I want to throw my son into the latrine!"

"From now on, everything in this East Mansion is mine!"

"Anyone who resists will be crippled!"

No one can disobey me!

In the blink of an eye, Cui Jiazhen's patriarch's bedroom was in ruins.

Choi Yong suddenly calmed down, as if he wasn't the one who had just gone mad.

Now, he is a man befitting the status of this garment, and getting angry is nothing more than making a fool of himself for others.

His expression, demeanor, and mannerisms unconsciously imitated Choi Gap-jin.

The deceased clan chief seemed to have come back to life, living on in Cui Rong.

He muttered to himself:

"No, I don't have a son yet, so where would a daughter-in-law come from? I need a son first before I can have a maid or a daughter-in-law. I need a son first!! Where is my wife? Where is Feng Keqing?"

Cui Rong summoned the trembling maid and inquired about Feng Keqing's whereabouts.

"Grandma Keqing... just finished mourning for the master and is preparing to return to the Chu Prince's Mansion with Grandma Gu..."

Cui Rong slammed his hand on the armrest of the chair, startling the maid.

"Feng Keqing is from the East Mansion, she's my wife. What is she doing in someone else's mansion? Is she trying to rebel? Go and call her back!"

"Yes, Young Master Rong..."

"Wait! Come back! What did you just call me?" Cui Rong slapped the maid across the face, swelling half of her cheek. "Call me Master. I am the Master of the East Mansion, understand?"

"This servant knows she was wrong!"

Feng Keqing was woken up in the middle of the night by servants from the Cui family, who said that the master had died and that she had to go and accompany them to collect the body. With no other choice, she had to go back to the Cui family with Sister-in-law Gu.

They were all daughters-in-law of the Cui family; there was no escaping it, it was something that had to be overcome.

After a long and tiring night, the old lady said she could rest now. Feng Keqing was relieved and prepared to leave with Sister Gu, but was stopped by a maid from the East Mansion who said that Master Rong wanted her to go back.

"Keqing, don't go back. We've already made arrangements with the old lady. We'll go back in a few days."

Gu Jungui pulled the bewildered Feng Keqing back to the Chu Prince's Mansion.

But not long after, Cui Rong led his servants into the Chu King's mansion to arrest people.

"What are you doing? This is the Chu Prince's residence!" Gu Jungui protected Ke Qing.

"Get out of my way! I can't control who you are from the West Mansion, but it's perfectly justified for me to take my wife back with me. What is the Chu Prince's Mansion compared to this? Nobody can stop me!"

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PS: Fourth update (17/40)

P.S.: I haven't written this kind of conflict-driven plot much before, so I lack experience. I mostly write about everyday squabbles. I anticipate that some people will be dissatisfied, but if the author doesn't try to write it, this ability will never improve. Avoidance is not the solution.

If you're not used to it, you can stop reading for a day. I should be able to finish this part of the story by tomorrow. I'll mark it in the chapter title, so you can just skip to the next one when you see the table of contents.

I'm going to have a little drink to perk myself up; I'll update another chapter later.

Please forgive me, thank you for your understanding~

Chapter 44 The Cui Family Changes Hands (Part 2)

Chu Mingkong woke up very early. Cultivators don't really need sleep unless it's after a fierce battle. They usually just close their eyes to rest and meditate.

Before dawn, Chu Mingkong got up to make breakfast for Shangguan Rong. He remembered her dietary preferences clearly.

When he was licking her hard before, he cooked her a lot of delicious food. At that time, Chu Mingkong had not yet purchased cooking skills from the Silver Thief System, but he had seen a lot in his previous life.

Every time Chu Mingkong delivered the prepared meals to her room, Shangguan Rong would put on a stern face, indicating that she wasn't interested and pretending to be indifferent. However, when Chu Mingkong returned to her room after leaving for a while, there would usually only be empty plates left.

He had just finished making breakfast when he sensed someone breaking into his palace.

"Damn it, they even dare to storm my house?" Chu Mingkong couldn't help but curse out loud.

After placing breakfast on the table, Chu Mingkong walked to the bedside.

While he was away having breakfast, Shangguan Rong turned her back to him, as lying flat was tiring.

However, after being stared at by Chu Mingkong for a while, she cautiously lay back down.

"I've made breakfast for you."

Shangguan Rong sat up, pulled the blanket over her fair and rosy body; her clothes had mysteriously disappeared while she was sleeping.

"where are you going?"

"Going back to the Prince's mansion, it seems someone is tired of living."

Shangguan Rong glanced at the breakfast on the table. There were clearly two portions, so he made his own.

"So you're not going to eat it?"

"Eat up, you take a nap first, I'll be back soon. Just think of it as going out for a morning workout, and when I come back to have breakfast with you, it'll still be warm."

"Arrogant fool... then, then come back soon." She wasn't good at speaking tenderly, and the last part of her sentence grew softer and softer.

Chu Mingkong wanted to tease her some more, but time was running out.

He ran out of the library and happened to run into a school teacher riding a fine horse, who was holding a book.

Chu Mingkong leaped and pushed him off his horse, snatched the reins, and said, "Your horse is quite lustrous. Let me ride it for a bit, then I'll give it back to you."

The teacher was so angry her face turned pale: "You brat, which class are you in?!"

Riding his horse, Chu Mingkong galloped out of the academy's grotto and rushed back to the palace. When he was almost within his shooting range, he took out his longbow, aimed it at the direction of his palace, and adjusted his position using his senses within the palace.

"It should be time for court now. If I kill another new patriarch of the Cui family, will I be summoned to court again? Forget it, let's give Old Master Cui some face and only target your small head, not your big head."

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The Chu King's Palace.

When Feng Keqing saw that her sister-in-law had been pushed hard by Cui Rong and almost fell, she did not continue to hide behind her.

Although he was physically weak, he still walked up to Gu Jungui without backing down and bravely met Cui Rong's gaze.

Her gaze made Cui Rong feel humiliated, because Feng Keqing had never had the courage to look Cui Jiazhen in the eye when facing the previous clan chief, who was also his father, Cui Jiazhen.

Why does she dare to look at him like that now? Does she think his position as clan leader is fake?

"What are you looking at?" Cui Rong asked, enunciating each word clearly, glaring at her. "What are you still doing standing here! This is Chu Mingkong's mansion, not your home. You shameless thing, you've got your eye on him, haven't you!"

Some people, after being oppressed for a long time, learn to sympathize with those who have had similar experiences. Others, having been oppressed, will seize any opportunity to take the place of their former oppressors and oppress others, and they only dare to oppress those weaker than themselves.

Choi Yong was the latter.

Feng Keqing pursed her lips, not avoiding her husband's fierce gaze, and asked calmly:

"Cui Rong, does your current imposing aura come from your clothes, or from your father-in-law's passing?"

"What do you mean? You're still thinking about my father now that he's dead? I knew you two used to have an affair! Adulterers! Sluts! Whores!" Cui Rong roared, his emotions running high.

It was already early morning, and the sky was just beginning to brighten. However, because of the attack on the Cui family, many wealthy and influential families in the vicinity were also unable to get a good night's sleep, fearing that their homes would also be attacked.

The commotion at the Chu Prince's residence has attracted the attention of many people, including maids, servants, and gossipy young ladies and gentlemen.

Cui Rong had given up and had no intention of having Feng Keqing as his wife anymore. She was indeed one of the most beautiful women, but he didn't need her.

He is now the esteemed head of the Cui family, and countless beauties await his favor. Cui Rong only wants to ruin this slut's reputation!

May she never be able to hold her head up in front of so many people again!

Let everyone know about her and Choi Gap-jin's shameful affair, despise them, and from now on respect only Chief Choi Yong!

“I didn’t care about my father-in-law. I had no choice. Now you’re blaming me for everything, aren’t you? When my father-in-law asked me to go to Tianxiang Tower to play the zither, you didn’t dare to say a word. I wanted you to help me, but you just ran away—ah!”

Feng Keqing screamed in agony, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth, and a bright red handprint appeared on her fair and delicate face.

Cui Rong shouted, "Today I'm going to drag you, you shameless woman, to be drowned in a pig cage! And you're still trying to deny it! Just because he calls you doesn't mean you have to go. It's obvious you took the initiative!"

He dragged Feng Keqing by the arm toward the gate of the Prince's mansion: "Go, drown her in a pig cage! Let others see just how ugly you really are, a beautiful face covered in maggots!"

An arrow fell from the sky and pierced through Cui Rong's thigh.

"Ahhhh!! My leg!!"

Cui Rong screamed and fell to the ground, clutching his leg and rolling around on the ground.

All the noise was drowned out by his loud wails.

Chu Mingkong rode someone else's horse, leaping over the crowd and rushing into the gate of the Prince's mansion.

The horse, which he had just mounted, seemed to know Chu Mingkong's intentions. He patted the horse's rump, and the horse knew how to change its position.

After landing, the horse turned and kicked backward, its long, graceful legs sending Cui Rong flying.

Chu Mingkong dismounted, helped Feng Keqing up, and looked indifferently at Cui Rong:

"Your scream just now was more powerful than when you cursed women. Perhaps you're just good at screaming. Did you learn it from screaming when Cui Jiazhen threw you into the latrine on your wedding night?"

A chorus of boos erupted outside the Prince's Mansion, as some of those who had attended the Cui family's wedding banquet remembered.

"That's right. When Cui Rong from the East Mansion of the Cui family got married, it seems he disappeared and couldn't be found."