Sophie covered her mouth, holding the two teeth she had lost in her hand. "I'm fine, just have a bit of a cold recently, my throat's hoarse. Come by when you have time, the old man's quite eager about his grandson these days." Her words had a hidden meaning.

Sure enough, she heard Eleanor Spencer say, "I'll have my assistant push back my schedule for the next couple of days. I'll come over to see you soon."

Sophie smiled as she hung up the phone, her bloody mouth curling coldly.

She knew better than anyone that no man was immune to lust. If Godwin Nightshade was, then his son surely was as well. Isabel Bennett was much easier to control than Aurelia Shaw. With Isabel in the door, it meant she had both the Nightshade Family and Mason Nightshade in the palm of her hand. She would always be the mistress of this house, and no one could replace her or take away all her splendor.

What Sophie didn't know was that all her ferocious expressions were captured by the camera behind the vase, a camera that had originally been installed by Kai Nightshade to secretly observe the progress of Mason and Aurelia. He had not expected to see this scene.

Sitting in front of the large screen, Kai Nightshade clutched his chest in anger. Butler Lee hurried to get his pills for him to take and helped him calm down.

"After raising her for so many years, turns out she was a thankless wretch!" Kai Nightshade slammed the table in anger, "I didn't expect to let you see such a joke."

"Alas," Butler Lee sighed, "Normally, the madam seemed to be quite a decent person, who would have known behind the scenes... If you hadn't secretly installed the camera, we still wouldn't know her true face."

"No wonder Aurelia doesn't like to come back to stay often after getting married, and seldom comes over to see me. It was all her behind it, acting so noble!" Remembering this, Kai Nightshade's face turned pale, nearly triggering his heart condition again.

Butler Lee quickly helped him calm down, "Sir, don't get angry. You'll harm your own health and let those small people rejoice."

Hearing this, Kai Nightshade took a few deep breaths to calm his emotions.

"Lucky that the Young Madam isn't easily bullied." Butler Lee sighed in relief.

Kai Nightshade proudly "hmphed," "Could my choice of a granddaughter-in-law be wrong?"

He cast another glance at Sophie's smug face on the large screen, angrily turning off the monitor.

"From now on, have her move to the building in the back and live there. I don't want her around my eyes, and don't let me see her at meals!"

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Aurelia Shaw was unaware of what had transpired downstairs.

That evening, Mason Nightshade was particularly attentive, climbing into bed after bathing, lips slightly curved, watching her walk back and forth in the room. The intensity in his eyes almost bore a hole into the back of her head.

She had never known this man's emotions could be so intense.

However, the fact that he desired her so much yet desperately tried to restrain himself pleased Aurelia, who deliberately ignored him, sitting in front of the computer to read a script.

"Wife, it's time to sleep." After waiting on the bed for three hours without any outcome, Mason's plaintive voice floated over.

Aurelia obliged by shutting down the computer and stepping towards the bed, Mason's eyes lit up, and anyone could see what he was hoping for. However, Aurelia tossed the pillow he had placed aside to the floor and nudged him with her jade-like foot.

"Go sleep on the floor."

"What?" Mason thought he hadn't heard her clearly; hadn't they been so passionate just that evening, and now she wanted separate beds?

Aurelia lifted her chin, "Don't think I don't know what you're thinking. Letting you sleep on the bed would be no different from sleeping with a dangerous wolf. Can you control yourself, hold back? Go sleep on the floor, or you can forget about even touching me."