Before Madam Su drew up the list of the unmarried young masters of the right age in the families of the capital, Duanmu Xinmiao visited first.

Facing the arrival of the miraculous doctor's student, everyone in the Grand Preceptor Mansion was very surprised. Mrs. Duanmu, the second young madam, was originally checking her daughters' schoolwork. After hearing the news, she hurriedly cleaned up and changed her clothes, and rushed to Madam Su. Unexpectedly, before she stepped onto the corridor, she heard Madam Su said surprisingly, "Eighth Miss come to find Changying?"

When Mrs. Duanmu heard it outside the door, she immediately slowed down and looked suspicious. She motioned to the maidservants at the door not to report her arrival and held her breath to listen attentively...

She heard the brittle voice of Duanmu Xinmiao from the room. Duanmu Xinmiao replied, "Yes, my lady. Last time my lady's son accompanied the daughter-in-law to go to the master of Xinmiao for a medical appointment, and Xinmiao happened to serve the master at that moment. My lady's daughter-in-law and I became friends with each other immediately, and we talked very happily. So we agreed to see each other again later. Today, I was free, and I think of the previous agreement so that I come here uninvited. I hope my lady will forgive me."

Madam Su, of course, had to forgive. Not to mention that Duanmu Xinmiao's identity as the only heir of Ji Qubing, merely her origin as the lineal daughter as the Jinxiu Duanmu Family and the sister of Madam Su's second daughter-in-law would make Duanmu Xinmiao a young lady with an equal family statue with Madam Su. Under this notion, Madam Su would certainly not lose her courtesy. At the moment, she hid her surprise, smiled, and said, "What are you talking about? Not mention Changying's promise with you, the fact that your sister is our family's second daughter-in-law made us relatives. You can come here as if you are in your own house. Why should you be polite?"

Duanmu Xinmiao said lovably: "Thank you, my lady!"

"No need to thank me. When my mother was ill last time, it's all thanks to you." Old Madam Deng was cured by Duanmu Xinmiao. Although Madam Su had already thanked her many times at that time, she was not very familiar with Duanmu Xinmiao so that she would have to be polite again. Madam Su also praised Duanmu Xinmiao's conduct and medical skills again.

Mrs. Duanmu listened to this polite talk, bit her lips, tidied up her clothes, restored normal, and then nod to the maidservant. The maidservant understood her meaning and reported it inside. Madam Su stopped talking and let Mrs. Duanmu into the room.

Mrs. Duanmu came in smilingly. She saw Duanmu Xinmiao wear a red crossed collar skirt with embroidered flowers and a dress with folder valerian flowers. She also combed a bun on the side with a phoenix bird hair clasp. She sat on the right of Madam Su with a dignified gesture and smile, which showed her demeanor of the daughter of an eminent family.

She smiled and greeted Madam Su, and she then greeted her family sister very affectionately: "Miao'er came here at a proper time. There is a rose cake in the small kitchen, and I remember you love to eat that the most. I was thinking about having someone to send some to you later."

Duanmu Xinmiao got up and greeted her family sister, and she said smilingly: "What a coincidence! But no need to trouble family sister so much because I am here for Sister Wei. Family sister can just send it to the place of Sister Wei."

Mrs. Duanmu showed a bit surprised and said: "You are here for the third sister-in-law?" And then she became curious, "Why the sudden you come to find the third sister-in-law?"

"Last time, we met at my master's place and became friends immediately. We agreed to see each other again after I am free." Duanmu Xinmiao smiled calmly, "Thus, today I come to find Sister Wei to play." She looked around, "Is Sister Wei very busy at this moment?"

Madam Su then asked Granny Tao: "Where is Changying? No one went to call her out?"

Granny Tao said a bit embarrassingly: "I've already sent people to her. It must because the Jintong Courtyard is too far away so that she hasn't come over yet."

After she said this, besides Duanmu Xinmiao who was not familiar with the Grand Preceptor Mansion, Madam Su and Mrs. Duanmu understood her meaning. It's the first time that Duanmu Xinmiao came to visit the Shen Family, and there was no one sick in the family. Therefore, with her sudden visit, anyone would think that she came to find her family sister Mrs. Duanmu.

So when Madam Su welcomed her here, and the servants ran automatically to the Wuhua Courtyard asked Mrs. Duanmu to come over.

Until Mrs. Duanmu came over, Duanmu Xinmiao told her reason to visit. Yet she was here for Wei Changying... It would be possible that someone who went to the courtyard of the town of Jintong was still not there yet!

Mrs. Duanmu's facial expression was somewhat unpleasant, but she only thought a bit and decided to hide it. She smiled and said: "Third sister-in-law may be actually a bit busy. Something happened two days ago about the shopping and now the third sister-in-law is dealing with it. It's possible that she came here late because of this."

Madam Su gave her an implicit glance: Mrs. Duanmu's words obviously meant that Wei Changying was deliberately snubbing Duanmu Xinmiao. Duanmu Xinmiao was the younger sister of Mrs. Duanmu, which was much closer than with Wei Changying, who just married to the capital at the beginning of the year. However, for the first time that Duanmu Xinmian came to Grand Preceptor Mansion, she was to find Wei Changying but not to find her own family sister, Mrs. Duanmu. This already made Mrs. Duanmu a bit awkward. And listened to Duanmu Xinmiao's appellation that she only called Mrs. Duanmu "family sister" and not even bothered to mention her ranking the family, but she called affectionately Wei Changying as the "Sister Wei".

Madam Su would also not be happy about such a thing, but Mrs. Duanmu had already so crazily dismantled her sister-in-law in front of her mother-in-law. Thus, Madam Su still had to warn her. Mrs. Duanmu also felt that she was too impatient so she tried to make up for it with a smile: "But since the third sister-in-law had an agreement with Miao'er, she will certainly come as soon as she gets a notice."

Duanmu Xinmiao held the veil, smile dignified and reserved, and said: "Madam and family sister please rest assured, Xinmiao is not in a hurry. I didn't arrange an exact date with Sister Wei last time so that I'm afraid that my sudden visit will disturb Sister Wei." She then said, "If Sister Wei is busy with something now, I can come again tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Duanmu Xinmiao was noble, generous, and considerate. In the eyes of Madam Su, who was not familiar with her, this was what a daughter of an eminent family should look like. Although Duanmu Xinmiao was unruly by obeying a doctor as her master, her origin made her a qualified daughter of an eminent family. Madam Su was not surprised, and she chatted with her with a smile: "How can this be ok? Although you two didn't arrange the date, there was still an agreement. Changying should be very looking forward for you to come. Maybe it's a long way, and servants are too lazy and stall the time. Eighth Miss, please sit down. When Changying come here later, I'll ask her to make apologies to you!"

"Don't have to be like this." Duanmu Xinmiao said politely, "Originally, Sister Wei is older than Xinmiao, so-called "respect for seniority". Besides, Madam also said that Sister Wei is late because Jintong Courtyard is far away from here..."

"Eighth Miss is very modest…" Madam Su was very familiar with perfunctory the gentlefolks girls with similar origin with her so that she showed a kind face and praised.

Mrs. Duanmu smiled on the side. She looked calm, but she held the veil more and more tightly. Madam Su did not know Duanmu Xinmiao well, as the family sister, how could Mrs. Duanmu not know her own family younger sister?

The experience of Duanmu Xinmiao was very similar to her teacher, Ji Qubing. When her lineal elder sister, Duanmu Weimiao was still the Crown Princess, and the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family was still alive, relying on the love from Duanmu Weimiao, the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family always treated this little granddaughter differently even though Duanmu Xinmiao was not her most favored one.

However, Empress Qian was later abandoned, the Crown Prince was also rejected, and the Crown Princess became a commoner. Later, because her husband was depressed and died and was entitled as Duke Cai so that she was given the title of Princess Consort Cai. Fortunately, she had a royal heir that could support her to stay alive. Otherwise, Princess Consort Cai would probably be like the family sister of Liu Ruoyu, the first Crown Princess of this dynasty, to die along with her husband.

After Duanmu Weimiao's accident, this hit the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family a lot. Her widowhood was another blow to the Old Madam. All in all, before the posthumous title of Duke Cai arrived, the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family died. Basically, the Old Madam of the Duanmu Family died because she worried too much about her elder granddaughter.

Duanmu Weimiao and Duanmu Xinmiao didn't have lineal brothers, and their mother, Mrs. Qian, had a strong temperament that she didn't get along with her husband.

When the owner of the Weiyang Palace was still surnamed, Qian, and although Mrs. Qian was not liked by her husband, her situation was ok. After her eldest daughter became the Crown Princess, the husband was much nicer to her. And then... Mrs. Qian died two years ago. It was only at the end of last year that Duanmu Xinmiao was out of filial piety. After the Old Madam of the Duanmu family died, Duanmu Xinmiao guarded his mother. The mother and daughter lived in a different courtyard and did not even set foot in Duanmu family's ancestral house.

After Mrs. Qian died, Duanmu Xinmiao still lived in that house. Apart from going to Duke Cai Mansion to visit the eldest sister and nephew every month, she seemed to be a stranger with the Duanmu Family. This is also the reason that even Mrs. Duanmu had the same great-grandfather as this sister but the relationship between them was not very close. Therefore last time, when Duanmu Xinmiao was asked to diagnose Old Madam Deng, Mrs. Duanmu's mother had to visit Duanmu Xinmiao personally as an elder.

It was not until last year that Duanmu Xinmiao's newly married Mrs. Zhou, who was the daughter of the aristocratic family, Xizhou Zhou Family, the daughter of Xilin Mrs. Zhou in the family. Her family was not as noble as the Duanmu Family, and she was not willing to be suppressed by a group of concubines who relied on their own meritorious service to give birth to sons. Thus, she made a desperate effort to take Duanmu Xinmiao back to the family. In the name of distressing the stepdaughter, she severely punished the people in the rear courtyard, sold several concubines whose sons were about to turn 15 years old, and sent away a large number of old servants. After she did this, she rectified the whole rear courtyard and was in power. But she also got the name that she attaches importance to husband's first wife's daughter, and she was praised as a model of loving mother.

It was just that Duanmu Xinmiao still had hatred in her heart. Although she went back home, she was not very close to her family, let alone her clan. Mrs. Duanmu used to hear her mother commenting on this sister: "Her experience is similar to Ji Qubing. The master and apprentice feel sorry for each other. In the past, she was also a lively and naive child, but now she was cold-hearted because of the world around her. She seems to be extremely polite to people and things. In fact, everything does not haunt her hearts. Except for Weimiao and Weimiao's son, including her father, their life or death may not be taken care of by her. It's not easy to really get acquainted with her, but if you offend her, she will remember you for the rest of her life... So, like her Royal Highness Princess Anji, don't offend her even if you don't want to beg her, lest she will hate you all of a sudden."

Mrs. Duanmu put this word in mind so that she was always polite to this family sister. Because she has her mother comments that Duanmu Xinmiao was polite in front of people and was distanced, and she was bitter and changed mood quickly, Mrs. Duanmu didn't care about this too much. Because she knew that this sister was such kind of person.

But the scariest things was comparing. Looking at Duanmu Xinmiao's attitude to Wei Changying, Mrs. Duanmu could not be happy!

She kept thinking about things quietly, and after a long period of time, Wei Changying finally came. After the greeting, Duanmu Xinmiao called her "Sister Wei" in a sweet voice and said: "I miss sister a lot! So I come here without telling you at first, sister won't blame me, right?"

All right! When she saw that Wei Changying, she even removed the word "Wei"! She was only so intimate with Duanmu Weimiao, wasn’t she? Mrs. Duanmu secretly clenched her teeth, smiled, and said, "What Miao'er said is very true. The third younger sister, it's not that I speak for my sister: you have made an appointment with Miao'er before, how come you still come here so late now? Mother said she would have to apologize to Miao'er! Look at you!"

Mrs. Duanmu felt sour and uncomfortable, and she disregarded her mother-in-law's earlier warning. Anyway, Madam Su wouldn't cast her off and send her home! According to her understanding of her mother-in-law, if she didn't listen to her today, at most she would be rebuked when people are gone. She could then admit her fault at that time. But if she let go of Wei Changying like this, she could not reconciled to her heart!

Madam Su frowned, glanced at her second daughter-in-law. Yet hindering the present of Duanmu Xinmiao, she didn't say anything.

Originally, when Wei Changying saw Duanmu Xinmiao coming over, she thought that she was going to hand over her valuable embedded treasure ring, and she really felt reluctant to give it up. Most importantly, she gave it away in a very confused and unhappy way. Now, hearing Mrs. Duanmu's strange manner, she said faintly: "Eighth Miss of the Duanmu Family said that she was coming to see me before, and I thought that Eighth Miss was only polite. In addition, when I met Eighth Miss that day, I went with my husband to ask for the diagnosis from Miracle Doctor Ji Doctor. I was thinking about my husband, and when I came back, I forgot to talk about it with my mother and sisters-in-law. I didn't think Eighth Miss would really come today. I didn't give a warm welcome to her today, and I hope Eighth Miss will forgive me!"

When she said this, she was actually about to salute Duanmu Xinmiao. Duanmu Xinmiao was now having a demand from her so that she very willing to act low and modest. How dare she really make Wei Changying apologize? Duanmu Xinmiao busily coming up to pull Wei Changying, and she shouted, "What is Sister Wei doing? Obviously, I came uninvited. It's best that Sister Wei don't blame me. How can I still blame Sister Wei? When it comes to making amends, it should be me to apologize to her you!"

When two of them were struggling to apologize to each other, there was a flash of doubt in Madam Su's eyes: Duanmu Xinmiao said that she and her third sister-in-law became friends immediately that they seem to be extremely intimate and even more intimate than with her family sister… Why it doesn't it seem like this now?

Especially that Wei Changying was not close to Duanmu Xinmiao!

She knew her own daughter-in-law very well. Madam Su knew that even though Wei Changying was loved by her elders when the Miss in her family, she wasn't capricious and unreasonable. If Duanmu Xinmiao has always been very good to her, why would Wei Changying be so cold and indifferent?

What happened here?

Madam Su was meditating and observing here. Duanmu Xinmiao and Wei Changying pushed back and forth. After all, Duanmu Xinmiao was forced to take the greeting by Wei Changying, who had practiced martial arts since childhood. Duanmu Xinmiao saw the dissatisfaction towards Mrs. Duanmu that flashed through Wei Changying's eyes. But she was afraid to be instigated by her family sister that Wei Changying got mad so that she could not get the emerald. She felt unhappy. Anyway, it's not that Duanmu Xinmiao did not dare to offend Mrs. Duanmu. She looked back angrily and shouted to her family sister, "I came to see Sister Wei. Madam Su is your mother-in-law, and she hasn't said anything yet. Yet family sister is already busy forcing Sister Wei to make amends for me, for fear that the two of us will not have bad feelings between each other! Family sister, what's on your mind?!"