The Valued Lady is Truly Dominant

Madam Wen was so angry that she felt a sharp pain in her heart. The old woman took the chance while she was away to bring monks and nuns into the courtyard to perform rituals and pray for Wen Zishan. If she hadn’t returned in time, Wen Zishan would have already drunk that messy Talisman Water.

Now, she found a storybook on the desk, not a proper classic, but an autobiography by an entertainer, describing how to please men, with some erotic words and bedroom techniques. Clearly, this was a forbidden book that only appeared in those unsavory places. How did it end up here?

Upon seeing the book, Wen Zishan’s face turned red immediately. Her lips moved, and she said, ”It was Grandmother who sent someone to deliver it. I haven’t had the chance to read it yet.”

”Nonsense!” Madam Wen’s face turned pale with anger, and without another word, she threw the book into the fire basin.

”Mother!” Wen Zishan exclaimed in surprise.

Madam Wen turned her head and gave her a fierce look, her eyes bloodshot, as if she wanted to devour her.

Wen Zishan, frightened, stepped back two steps.

Madam Wen said, ”What, you want to save that book? Do you even know what it’s about? You, the daughter of a Governor, reading such a book, do you aspire to learn how to seduce people with beauty like those vixens? Your grandmother is senile, are you going to follow her lead? If word gets out, not only will you lose face, but your father, your sister, and the rest of us will be humiliated.”

Wen Zishan’s face turned pale, and her eyes quickly reddened.

”I know Mother is displeased with me, but this arranged marriage is not my wish...”

”Not your wish? If you hadn’t wanted to climb high from the start, would things have escalated to this point? You seek such a fate instead of pursuing a proper match?” Madam Wen pointed to the set of wedding clothes, coldly saying, ”All the careful nurturing for you, I see it’s been a waste. At this point, just wait for Prince Zhou Mansion to come and fetch you. Yet you still listen to your grandmother’s orchestrations, doing reckless things, and now you’re even learning the ways of vixens? Quite capable of you indeed.”

Wen Zishan lowered her head, her shoulders trembling.

Madam Wen glared at her, taking a deep breath, and said, ”From today, you are to move to my place, and without my permission, you are not allowed to move around freely. Don’t visit your grandmother either, I’ll make an excuse of illness for you, exempting you from the morning and evening greetings.”

”Mother!”

Not bothering to look at her, Madam Wen instructed the newly assigned maid Lv Cui, ”Pack the young lady’s belongings and move her to the Snow Garden immediately.”

”Yes, Madam.”

Madam Wen refused to let Wen Zishan object, cutting her off, ”Do not challenge my limits time and again. If you anger me, I’ll directly report it, declaring you gravely ill.”

Wen Zishan, her face ghostly pale, staggered back a few steps, looking at her in disbelief.

Madam Wen flicked her sleeve and walked toward the main courtyard of the old lady, her face full of worry. She wondered when the nanny appointed by her husband would arrive; if Shan’er’s temper does not change, upon entering the Prince Mansion, she’d likely only bring disaster to the family.

Especially with the old woman constantly stirring up trouble, causing the girl to grow more crooked.

Thinking of how, in less than half a year since arriving in the capital, the meticulously raised eldest daughter had gone astray, Madam Wen was so angry she almost spit out blood. It truly fulfilled the saying that it takes three years to learn good and merely three days to learn bad.

If it weren’t for the old woman’s meddling, how could...

Engulfed in overwhelming fury, Madam Wen completely shed her usual gentleness and abandoned the style of her family, transforming into a fierce tigress. She did not care if her sisters-in-law were present, openly criticizing and mocking the elder Madam Wen, which reportedly led her to demand a divorce on her husband’s behalf on the spot, causing a complete break between mother and daughter-in-law.