Before the Shen family's patriarch passed away, he might have felt his end was near. Fearing that his sons would face issues over the family estate, he directly gathered family members as witnesses and divided the estate.
Later, when the Shen family's third couple encountered trouble, fearing the house would fall into He Jinxuan's hands, they forcefully drove people away. After Shen Ninghui got married, they occupied the house under the pretext of looking after it, claiming it would prevent decay from being unoccupied for too long.
Shen Ninghui thought it made sense, as she couldn't return often after marriage, so she agreed to their proposal.
As a result, the first and second branches of the Shen family privately divided the third branch's house. They believed that with Shen Ninghui being the only girl in the third branch, this house, being Shen family ancestral property, should not be given to outsiders.
However, they kept the matter under wraps.
