The room becomes stiffen with Xinyan at the edge and Yumo enjoying the show happening in the room right now. She had always known her sister in law for being strong and her cousin for being willful and annoying but all that matters was she finally has someone to take care of her annoying behavior
"Grandma. You should not accept this kind of behavior. The Leng family carry power and we do not accept this kind of behavior" Leng Meixuan said
"Behavior?" Lu Jingyan said "miss Meixuan. Did you just say behavior?" Lu Jingyan asked
"The Leng family carry power. True. The power you used to almost run over my younger brother. And you should remembered I haven't pursue the matter yet" Lu Jingyan said
"What did you mean pursue the matter yet? Since you want to pursue the matter then how about I also pursue the matter of your friend trying to run over me also" Leng Meixuan said.
Lu Jingyan knew the Leng family never let anyone hurt their own. And since she wants to pursue the matter that would automatically leads to her implicating Mei Xiaotong also and she didn't want that to happen to her best friend.
Leng Meixuan knowing what Lu Jingyan was thinking gave a smug smile and knew she had already win the war without even lifting a finger. She would make sure this girl here see hell and she would do everything in her power to gets it. She only got into the family not less than four days and she already went to hell.
*Flashback*
The steel door to the Frost Vault clanked shut with a cold finality.
Leng Meixuan's smirk didn't last long.
She turned slowly to see Leng Xuanmo standing in the dim, frozen chamber his presence darker than the walls around them. His black coat contrasted with the frost-laced floor, and his expression was unreadable, carved from ice.
"You really thought I wouldn't find out?" he asked, his voice low, deadly calm.
Meixuan clenched her jaw, still trying to put up her usual front. "It was just a joke—"
"Lu Jingyan is under my protection." He cut her off, voice sharp. "She is my wife. My family."
His boots echoed as he stepped forward.
"Mocking her, humiliating her in public, trying to assert dominance like a petty child—do you think that reflects the Leng name?"
"I didn't mean—"
"You did." His eyes bore into hers. "And now you'll learn what it means to cross me."
A switch was flipped. The lights dimmed further as the temperature dropped, biting into her skin. He tossed her a simple wool coat — barely enough to shield from the cold.
"You'll stay here," he said, voice devoid of emotion. "Four hours. No phone. No warmth. And you'll think long and hard about who you're trying to humiliate in this family."
"After that we continue like this everyday until three days are up"
She didn't protest. Not because she agreed but because the warning in his tone told her silence was safer.
As he turned and walked away, his final words echoed:
"You're a Leng. Act like it — or be treated like a stranger."
Then the heavy door slammed shut.
Meixuan, now alone, sank against the cold wall — for once, the ice outside matching the sting of shame burning inside. And the revenge she longed to have
*Lu Jingyan. The embarrassment you'd face would be much more than just this and I would make sure you suffer for it* Leng Meixuan thought as she already began to shiver from the cold as she drapped clothing around her although it barely did anything as she endured silently