In truth, the old madam had secretly worn it quite a few times and was even caught by Chen Wanyue.
Furious, Chen Wanyue had a massive argument with her grandmother over it.
She'd told her grandmother that if she loved gold so much, she should get married again before she was buried up to her neck. Perhaps her new husband would give her a gold hairpin as a betrothal gift, which would save her the trouble of always hogging Chen Wanyue's and never giving it back.
The vicious words nearly made the old madam faint with rage.
But since the old madam was in the wrong to begin with, and Chen Wanyue didn't want to earn a bad name for herself, the two of them tacitly agreed to pretend it had never happened.
Now, seeing the gold hairpin she had dreamed of day and night, only to know it would soon no longer be hers, Chen Wanyue's dejection and resentment were palpable.
