The owner of the Four - Corner Tower did have the intention of selling it. After looking around, Cheng Xiran thought it was quite good, so she planned to tell Xue Lianyu to lease this place.
After the main business was done, Cheng Xiran returned to the prime minister's mansion contentedly. Unexpectedly, she accidentally overheard the conversation between two maids.
"Didn't His Highness the Regent really punish the eldest young lady?"
"Yes, it's absolutely true. Moreover, that day when the prime minister wanted to punish the eldest young lady, it was His Highness the Regent who came in time to save her."
"My goodness! Could it be that the eldest young lady and His Highness the Regent... Is our eldest young lady going to become the Regent's Consort?"
Hidden in the dark, Cheng Xiran felt extremely annoyed. There were such rumors in the mansion. No wonder she felt that the maids in the mansion had been looking at her strangely recently.
"Who told you to gossip! Are you all so idle?"
A sharp scolding voice rang out, scaring these maids into silence immediately.
Cheng Zhiyue had always been brooding over the matter between Cheng Xiran and Helian Duo. Now that she heard these maids talking, she couldn't hold back her anger at all. She came out directly and scolded,
"If you keep talking nonsense here, do you believe I'll have your tongues cut out!"
As soon as these words were spoken, the maids shrank back like quails.
Cheng Xiran frowned. It seemed that she wouldn't have a peaceful time these days.
Thinking this way, Cheng Xiran turned around and returned to her own courtyard.
On the other side, as Cheng Xiran had expected, as soon as the furious Cheng Zhiyue returned to her courtyard, she angrily smashed a lot of things to vent her anger.
"What are you doing! What if this gets out!" Liu Shi, who heard the noise, rushed over quickly. Seeing the mess on the ground, her face immediately turned cold.
"I'm just so angry!" Cheng Zhiyue snorted coldly. "All those low - class maids in the mansion are talking nonsense. Why does she, Cheng Xiran, deserve the favor of His Highness the Regent!"
Saying this, Cheng Zhiyue seemed to realize something and suddenly threw herself into Liu Shi's arms. "Mother, it can't be true what they said, that bitch Cheng Xiran is going to become the Regent's Consort, right?"
"Don't listen to their nonsense!" Liu Shi frowned. "What is Cheng Xiran? She still wants to be the Regent's Consort?"
"Then why didn't His Highness the Regent blame Cheng Xiran and let her write those things!" Cheng Zhiyue was naturally unwilling. Why should that good - for - nothing Cheng Xiran outshine her!
"Don't worry, mother will surely help you teach that little bitch a good lesson. I won't allow her to be so arrogant!" As she said this, a cold glint flashed in Liu Shi's eyes...
Cheng Xiran, who was being talked about, silently sneezed.
"Miss, are you catching a cold?" Seeing this, Zhuque immediately asked worriedly. "It's been raining for the past few days, and the weather has turned cold. It's not okay for you to dress so thinly, Miss."
"Maybe." Cheng Xiran rubbed her nose and was about to write the next plot on the paper.
"What are you going to write, Miss?" As a die - hard fan of Anecdotes in the Capital, Zhuque was naturally itching to ask.
"It's about the day I went to the racecourse and startled His Highness the Regent's horse, almost making him fall off."
Just thinking about that day, Cheng Xiran suddenly wanted to laugh. She couldn't figure out what the original owner was thinking. Dressed in colorful clothes, she rushed towards Helian Duo. She not only scared His Highness the Regent's horse but also gave Helian Duo quite a fright.
It was also on that day that the original owner became famous overnight and was laughed at by the people in the capital for several days.
However, it was probably only Cheng Xiran who could make the majestic Regent so embarrassed.
"Hahaha, Cheng Xiran, you really dare to write."
Before Cheng Xiran could put the pen to the paper, she heard a gloating laugh. She looked up and saw Xue Lianyu and Helian Duo appear together.