The Obsessive Crown Prince Can't Let Me Go-Chapter 160 - 158: How Dare You, a Feudal Woman, Hit Me, a Modern Woman

Chapter 160: Chapter 158: How Dare You, a Feudal Woman, Hit Me, a Modern Woman

Shen Yinning enunciated each word: "You have one quarter of an hour to get out of here immediately."

"Oh?" Gao Yun raised an eyebrow. "Whom do you think you’re ordering around?! Don’t forget your husband’s surname, and ours! In the Gao family, you, Shen Yinning, are the outsider, the one with the lowest status! You don’t even understand the rules of serving your mother-in-law and sister-in-law. What bad luck! I will never permit my elder brother to request an Imperial Decree for you as his wife!"

"Indeed!" Gao Mother chimed in. "Shen Yinning, since you’ve married into our Gao family, your house is of course our house. Why make such distinctions? As your mother-in-law, I’m ordering you to come over now and scrub my back, and Yun’er’s back too! Then bathe Hong’er and Hui’er. Only then will I forgive you!"

The mother and daughter were arrogant, wearing the expression of having Shen Yinning firmly in their grasp.

After all, Gao Zheng had a brilliant future, the Prime Minister’s protégé, destined for glory any day now, while Shen Yinning was just the daughter of a disgraced official — marrying into the Gao family was an act of climbing far above her station!

Shen Yinning retorted coldly, "Not leaving?"

Gao Yun protested indignantly: "Do you not understand human speech? You’re now a wife of the Gao family; your belongings belong to my brother, and what belongs to my brother belongs to the Gao family. Don’t you get it?!"

Gao Mother harshly scolded her: "Shouting at your mother-in-law and sister-in-law — what kind of propriety is this?! Shen Yinning, as your mother-in-law, I command you to kneel down and slap your own face twenty times! Then go to the ancestral hall and reflect on your actions properly!"

"Wei Yu." Shen Yinning called out. fгee𝑤ebɳoveɭ.cøm

Wei Yu promptly cupped her hands: "At your service!"

"Drag them all out."

"Understood!"

Wei Yu, who had trained in martial arts and ranked among Lu Ying’s most capable retainers, had both strength and skill to spare.

Rolling her knuckles, she effortlessly grabbed Gao Mother and Gao Yun by the nape and began dragging them out.

Gao Mother and Gao Yun were utterly stunned!

As they struggled, they hurriedly tried to gather up their clothing to cover themselves.

Gao Mother’s face turned crimson with embarrassment as she shrieked in fury: "Shen Yinning, do you have any sense of what a daughter-in-law should be?! How dare you treat me like this? I am your mother-in-law!"

"You wretched woman!" Gao Yun was even more enraged. "Tell this despicable servant to let us go immediately! Otherwise, when my brother returns from court, I’ll make sure he divorces you!"

Haitang shouted sternly, "How dare you show disrespect to Madam! Wei Yu, strike them!"

Wei Yu didn’t hold back — delivering several crisp slaps to each of their faces before continuing to drag them outside.

"Ahhhh—!!"

Gao Yun let out a series of piercing shrieks, only ceasing her tantrum after receiving several more slaps.

Gao Mother resorted to playing the victim, wailing and lamenting loudly: "Such bitter fate is mine! My daughter-in-law wants to kill me! She thinks I’m old and useless and wants to throw me out onto the streets to die in agony! Is there no law left in this world..."

Wei Yu rolled her eyes and gave her a few more slaps as well.

Their howls gradually faded into the distance.

Shen Yinning narrowed her cold eyes at the two dumbstruck children: "Still not leaving?"

Hong’er and Hui’er froze for a moment, then burst into tears, fleeing in haste as they sobbed.

Shen Yinning glanced disdainfully at the dirty, cluttered hot spring pool: "Tear down this entire villa and rebuild it. Redirect the spring water as well."

Haitang immediately bowed: "At once."

Gao Mother and Gao Yun were tossed outside. The steward and servants of the Gao family were gobsmacked and scrambled to try to rescue them from Wei Yu’s grasp.

But even with a group of over ten men, none could handle Wei Yu’s combat prowess — they were all knocked to the ground and dragged outside along with the trunks and luggage they had moved into the villa.

Yin Shanshan was flustered.

She hurried to confront Shen Yinning: "For someone who’s supposedly a traditional woman, do you even understand what morality, decorum, and the duties of a wife are?! Not attending to your mother-in-law’s needs daily is bad enough, but how dare you disrespect her and your sister-in-law?! Don’t you realize you’ll be divorced if you behave this way?!"

Shen Yinning gave her a cold stare.

Yin Shanshan faltered under her gaze, instinctively taking half a step back: "Wh-what are you looking at? Am I wrong?"

"Sister, your words are indeed excellent." Shen Yinning tilted her head slightly. "Since you love following rules so much, you can spend your days attending to that old woman and setting examples yourself."

"I’m nothing like you backward women from traditional households!" Yin Shanshan said proudly, lifting her chin. "I am a modern woman; I value equality and freedom. That nonsense about staying in the household, serving your husband, and tending to in-laws doesn’t apply to me! I’m going to make big money — someday, I’ll be on equal footing with Zheng!"

Shen Yinning scrutinized her from head to toe.

The detached, cool gaze unsettled Yin Shanshan entirely.

She gritted her teeth: "Shen Yinning, what on earth are you trying to do?!"

Shen Yinning smirked contemptuously: "Below oneself, rank matters; above oneself, all are equals. Isn’t that the principle you champion? You pride yourself on being open-minded and modern, unlike traditional women of the inner quarters, yet I see someone arrogant, insolent, and self-absorbed! You claim to champion gender equality, that women should equal men in every way, yet in reality, you worship men, treat them as your compass, and measure success by their standards! Yin Shanshan, you are far from the ideal image you proclaim. You are more narrow-minded, more stagnant, and more absurd than any woman confined to the inner quarters!"

Her words sliced into Yin Shanshan, leaving her utterly humiliated.

Yin Shanshan’s jaw dropped, her expression one of utter shock.

Her anger gradually mounted as embarrassment mixed with disbelief: "You... you dare speak to me like this?!"

"Not just speak — I’ll strike you too!" Shen Yinning slapped her across the face. "From Shen Yan’s birthday banquet to the family gathering at Shen Guogong Mansion, you’ve repeatedly tried to slander and demean me. This slap is my way of repaying you!"

Yin Shanshan was stunned.

Covering her reddened cheek, tears welled in her eyes. Stomping her feet furiously, she cried out: "You hit me?! Someone as backward and stuck as you — a so-called traditional woman — dares to hit me, a modern progressive woman?! Just wait! I’ll tell Zheng!"

She fled in tears.

Shen Yinning was still simmering with anger.

She issued an icy command: "Have Cuicui tell Yin Yang to repay the twenty thousand silver notes immediately. Otherwise, I’ll take his life!"

Those twenty thousand patterned silver coins had been borrowed by Yin Yang for Gao Zheng and Yin Shanshan.

Regardless of what methods they used, she was determined to squeeze something out of that family!

Paying no heed to the fate of the Gao family members, she left with Haitang and Wei Yu to ask Yu Qingheng for lodging.

Bai Heming was still studying at Yu’s residence.

When he learned Shen Yinning had arrived, the young boy came running to offer his greetings, graciously presenting a bouquet of freshly picked plum blossoms.

Shen Yinning accepted his thoughtful gift with a smile and tested him on a few passages from the Analects. The little one responded fluently, hinting at his natural aptitude for scholarly pursuits.

When Lu Ying came to fetch him, he saw the scene: the twilight casting sparse shadows, the girl in scarlet with magnolia-white skin leaning against the corridor, earnestly quizzing Bai Heming on his studies. Her gentle elegance at that moment was worlds apart from the poised softness she showed him.

His gaze darkened slightly.

This young lady always smiled with varying degrees of insincerity when facing him.

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