Her second brother seemed to have grown increasingly dissolute and ignorant; in recent years, half of the jokes circulating in the Capital were of his own making.
Rumor had it that after Shu Yuanqing’s death, Shu Yuanqi had kept a low profile for a time, only to let himself go completely once that period passed. He often boasted that as the eldest son of the primary wife, the Shu family fortune would one day be his, and everyone in the household would have to obey his commands.
Since then, Shu Yuanqi had become a regular at the Capital’s gambling dens and brothels, mingling with all sorts of unsavory characters. More than that, he was obsessed with currying favor with the children of noble families, desperately trying to fit in, unaware that others looked at him only as a laughingstock. Some said it was because he had been suppressed by the Eldest Young Master for too long; now, with the doting of his stepmother and the backing of his father, he had thoroughly transformed into a spendthrift.
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