Lou Jingyang felt no sense of loss. He’d heard whispers about the third Miss Gong—that she took after the family patriarch, proud and cruel. Combine that with the Gong family’s absolute dominance in Haicheng—a power mirroring the Lous’ own in the capital—and she had been spoiled into utter lawlessness. Bringing a woman like that into the family would be asking for trouble. He said nonchalantly, "I