Wei Chang was pushed into the door, her hair was half scattered, her eyes were red and swollen, and her clothes were not very tidy - Jian Xu Bai personally waited for her, how dare Ji Su give her too much time to dress up?

  After seeing the pale and wan face of Jian Yu, the thirteen-year-old girl was filled with uncontrollable fear and panic, her pale complexion as fragile as a flower in a storm. Although she wasn't particularly beautiful, at this moment, she looked pitifully lovely.

  Jian Yu didn't buy it at all, and gave her a cold glance. Without even inviting her to sit down, he directly asked: "What did you say to your cousin? She went back to her room and cried nonstop!"

  "Your brother-in-law dotes on your sister, it's not a secret." Wei Chang heard this and was stunned for a moment, with suspicion and despair flickering across her face before finally settling into a thick sarcasm. "With your identity, if you want to fulfill your filial duty to your sister, you can just take action directly, why bother finding more excuses?"

  "Filial piety?" What's so sharp about Jian Yu Bai? As soon as he heard this, he sensed that this matter was likely related to his mother-in-law. He sank into thought, but his face remained as cold as ever: "Your cousin just returned to her room and cried until she almost fainted. I questioned her for a long time, but couldn't get a clear answer. What's going on?!"

  "Didn't your sister-in-law tell you?" Wei Cui fell silent for a moment, then suddenly burst out laughing, "Ah, that's right! Not to mention her own responsibility, but as people often say, 'like mother like daughter', even if you liked her very much, you've only been married for a few days, how would she dare take this risk and let you know?"

  Jian Yu Bai also smiled, his original appearance was elegant and beautiful, with long eyebrows and thin lips that were slightly hooked, making him look even more majestic and spirited. However, in the depths of his phoenix-like eyes, there was no emotion, only a dark and seemingly bottomless cold pool, with a cold glow circulating at the bottom, sharp and piercing, like a blade ready to burst out at any moment.

  "You've come to me, your elder sister's husband, obviously not wanting to take the narrow path." He spoke in a relaxed tone, with a hint of teasing, but his words made Wei Chang shiver unconsciously. "People who are afraid of death are usually easy to deal with. If you still want to play clever tricks, I don't mind having someone take you down and teach you some discipline before we talk again!"

  Wei Chang originally wanted to probe a few more sentences, but stealing a glance at him, his eyebrows were full of gloom, apparently his patience was about to run out. In the end, she didn't dare hesitate and asked timidly: "...... You... aren't you here to silence me?"

  "Nonsense!" Ji Su heard this and couldn't help but rebuke, also reminding him, "What is your status? If the Duke wants your life, he only needs to give a slight hint, and you would have been buried already! At this late hour of the night, the Duke still has to attend court tomorrow, why would he personally come over to question you if not to give you an opportunity?"

  Actually, Wei Cui also understands this principle, but when it involves her own life, how can she be at ease without a guarantee?

  After hearing Ji Su's words, she smiled self-deprecatingly and said: "Now that I've lost my reputation and only have this life left, although everyone thinks I should die, I myself don't have the guts to give up!"

  Since she wanted to live, it was only natural that there was no reason for her not to listen. She simply started from the beginning, "Ever since Yun Shu's birth, my aunt has been thinking of making him the heir. Unfortunately, the person the Empress Dowager had in mind as the heir was actually Third Master Lu!"

  The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were originally not on good terms, and because of this, they fought to the death. Unfortunately, King Hengshan was indecisive, so even if one of them gained the upper hand for a while, they could not ultimately win the argument.

  In this case, Wei Mengying worried that her own biological son Lu Guanyu was still young and had no future prospects, while Lu Guanglun had reached the age of marriage. "Once the Empress Dowager marries off the Third Master Lu to a noble lady from a high-ranking family, she will use her in-laws' influence to overpower my aunt - and since my aunt has been focusing on currying favor with the Prince and protecting Yun, her nephew, she hasn't been paying much attention to her niece. As a result, a rift gradually formed between mother and daughter."

  "Especially since your cousin had already caught your eye at the Shangsi banquet, but after returning to the Hengshan Wangfu, she didn't mention a word to her aunt until the imperial edict was issued. In between, her aunt had some suspicions and naturally worried that even if your cousin received your favor, she might not be willing to help her nephew!"

  Wei Mengying was confident in coaxing her eldest daughter, but - this takes time!

  But the empress dowager may not necessarily give her this time!

  So Wei Mengying thought about it and decided that directly taking action against Lu Guanlun was the safest option.

  After all, the other sons of King Hengshan, the eldest son and the fifth son are all born out of wedlock, so naturally they are not as noble as Lu Guanyun, the legitimate son of the stepmother. The second son is indeed the legitimate child of the original wife, more noble than Lu Guanyun, but he is not favored by the Grand Empress Dowager or King Hengshan, and he married a jealous and shrewish wife who has no children, so there are countless reasons why he should not be established as the heir!

  Lu Guanlun, the original legitimate son, has a gentle disposition and is not bad at his studies. He deeply wins the favor of Tai Fei, and even King Hengshan is very satisfied with him - if Wei Mengying hadn't tied her husband down so well, Lu Guanyu wouldn't have had the qualifications to compete with this older brother!

  "It's just that Lu San Gongzi, although he seems innocent and easy to calculate, but how could the Empress Dowager, who is so astute, not protect him well?" Wei Chan smiled bitterly, "Auntie had the intention, but couldn't find an opportunity, later on, she set her sights on the Empress Dowager's birthday!"

  The day of the princess's birthday, guests filled the door.

  As the longevity star's imperial concubine, she is basically inseparable from dawn till dusk.

  On this day, make a move on Lu Guanlun. As long as the informant is watched closely, it will be enough to throw Lu Guanlun into the abyss before Taifei reacts!

  "Stepmother harming the legitimate child of the original wife is a heinous act, and my cousin's previous stepmother, Liu, is a perfect example! " Wei Mengying naturally had to take lessons from this, "Auntie didn't even dare to use the maids by her side, so she thought of me, her own niece."

  Unexpectedly, Wei Cui not only failed in her mission but was also outwitted by the imperial concubine, who took her to a secluded place and humiliated her severely. She then used this as leverage to coerce Wei Cui into plotting against Lu Guanyu!

  "My aunt has always kept a close eye on Yun, and people from the Empress's side have never had a chance to get close to him. But with me being his cousin, she was not as guarded, so I took advantage of that opportunity that day, pretending to accidentally spill soup on Yun and then escorting him back to his room to change."

  What could a four-year-old Lu Guanyun understand? After Wei Zhuang changed his clothes, he casually found an excuse to temporarily shoo him away and put the incense given by the Empress into his usual incense box.

  "It's just a pity that the person sent by Auntie to keep an eye on Yun was really sharp, and it's said that Xiangcai had only been there for a short while when he was discovered to be not quite right - he immediately went back to Auntie, who at once sent Yun to Huanxia Xiao Zhu, and began a thorough investigation!"

  Wei Chang was originally forced to do this, and seeing the situation naturally became a frightened bird, hurriedly finding an excuse to run back to the Wei family!

  "After I went home, I told my grandmother and mother about what had happened. Although the two elders were heartbroken for me, they were more afraid of offending my aunt, so they decided to keep it a secret - originally thinking that later on, after hearing that Yun was fine, the empress dowager's side didn't send anyone to threaten us again, this matter would just pass like that!" She shed big tears in her eyes. "But two days ago, my aunt sent Thin Mama to the Wei family, saying that because the empress dowager had spoken, the position of crown prince was 80 or 90% likely to fall on Master Lu San! My aunt wasn't willing to give up, so she pressured the empress dowager to promise to marry a daughter from the Wei family to Master Lu San. The Wei family only has one unmarried daughter now - me, so this marriage would naturally be mine!"

  She also wasn't without suspicion, was this sudden good marriage actually a trap?

  People always have a lucky psychology in the face of temptation, especially for her experience, except for her grandmother Cao Lao and her mother Mu Shi, other members of the Wei family, including her own father, did not know.

  After receiving the news, everyone was overjoyed. The second house, third house, fourth house and fifth house all expressed their envy, jealousy and hatred towards the first house to varying degrees. The fifth house especially regretted marrying off her daughter, who is only two years younger than Wei Cui, too early, otherwise this opportunity might not have fallen to the first house!

  In this case, how could Wei Cai say even half a "no"?

  "Now that Third Master Lu wants to break off the engagement, my encounter on the day of the Grand Princess's birthday and the plot against Yun will also be exposed to the family. The elders are afraid that simply breaking off the engagement will not be enough to appease Auntie, and from now on, even if they don't continue to target the Wei family, they won't care about the future of the Wei family's children!" Wei Zhuang wiped away tears and said in a low voice, "Besides, I'm already tainted - it's better for me to die suddenly, which would both satisfy Third Master Lu's wishes and allow Auntie to vent her anger without implicating the rest of the family!"

  "My mother couldn't bear to, and secretly let me out of the house, originally planning for me to go to Fengzhou to seek refuge with my uncle... but I thought, even if I could safely arrive in Fengzhou, if my own home can't accommodate me, would my uncle's home necessarily have a place for me?"

  "It's better to gamble and ask for a table sister!"

  "After all, my cousin is my aunt's own daughter, maybe she can help me plead successfully?"

  She raised her eyes to look at Jian Xu Bai, "You asked me what I said to my cousin just now? Heaven and earth witness, I only answered my cousin's inquiry truthfully sentence by sentence! After all, my cousin's concern is now my last straw for survival. She wants to know the truth, how dare I deceive her?"

  She asked in a low voice, "Now that my brother-in-law has already known the whole story, but I don't know, how do you plan to deal with me?"

  "You said that on the day of Taifei's birthday, according to your aunt's intention, you chose a time when Lu Guanlun was passing by and deliberately bumped into Ji Biao. Jian Yu narrowed his eyes, "But after you bumped into Ji Biao, he didn't make things difficult for you as your aunt had hoped. He just said that you were not good-looking enough and left with a flourish. So, naturally, there wouldn't be any conflict with Lu Guanlun who came later?"

  Wei Chang didn't expect him to listen for so long and then ask about this matter. He was stunned for a moment before saying, "Yes."

  "Send her back to the apricot pavilion." Jian Yu Bai pondered for a moment, then raised his head and said, "Assign two more people to serve her, but don't let her disturb Grandma's peace of mind again for now, got it?"

  Ji Su bowed his head and replied.

  Wei Chang couldn't quite grasp his intentions, and hesitated to ask for clarification, but was secretly pushed by Ji Su, indicating that she should leave the door, and then whispered a warning: "Hurry up! The Duke is in a bad mood tonight, don't make any mistakes!"

  After Wei Chan was led away by the servant, Ji Su turned around and returned to the house. Seeing Jian Yu Bai still sitting at the top, he couldn't help but advise: "Master, it's already late at night, you have to get up early tomorrow for court, after finishing court, you also have to go on duty at the Ministry of War, how can you hold on if you don't sleep now?"

  He was also afraid that due to Wei Cui's words, he would have a bad impression of both his mother-in-law and Song Yi Xiang. He thought for a moment and then said, "Just because of Miss Wei's one-sided words, these things may not be entirely true! Moreover, even if the queen is not good, since Nai Nai cried so hard for Miss Wei, it's clear that she has a kind heart. The saying 'like mother, like daughter' is just a common phrase, how can it be taken as true in every case?"

  "Of course, what she said wasn't entirely true." Jian Yu Bai heard this and waved his hand, saying lightly, "However, it's not necessarily that she was lying, but rather this little girl herself doesn't even know who deceived her!"

  Ji Xi looked at him in surprise, but he didn't explain. He just stood up and said, "I was just thinking about some loopholes in her words. I've thought it through. Let's go - oh, by the way, tomorrow you should tell someone to ask Doctor Li to come to our house for a visit, so that when you talk to the Empress Dowager, your stories match!"