As a result of Wei Zhengyin's discouragement, Wei Changying spent the next few days with the blues, making Mrs. Huang and Mrs. He very worried.

After Wei Zhengyin had left, Wei Shengxian, Queen Run, and even Wei Changwan, who was sent by Wei Shengyi, came to congratulate her. So did the relatives from the Shen Family. Wei Changying put on a smiling face when seeing all the people who had come to congratulate her. As soon as they left, she felt depressed again. No matter how hard Mrs. Huang tried to amuse her and how hard Mrs. He tried to cheer her up, Wei Changying was listless.

As it had been a private conversation between Wei Zhengyin and her niece, Mrs. Huang and the others didn't know why Wei Changying was upset, so they had discussed secretly and then thought of a person.

It was raining in the afternoon. Wei Changying was lying on the bed in the room, listening to the palm trees rustling in the rain through the window. Unknowingly, she fell asleep. When she woke up, not knowing how long she had been sleeping, she vaguely saw several people outside through the curtain. She casually glanced at them, realizing that her servants were worried, so they were keeping an eye on her by staying out there. She didn't think much of it, ordering someone to come to serve her.

When the curtain was lifted, surprisingly, she saw that the first person with a fancy hairstyle and beautiful makeup, but it was just a pity that there was a scar on her forehead that had ruined her beauty. She was being all smiles. That was Song Zaishui!

Wei Changying was surprised as well as delighted. She got up, asking, "What brings you here, cousin?"

"You should take it easy. Get up slowly!" Seeing her cousin sitting up so quickly, Song Zaishui, who had been relaxed, stepped forward in a panic to hold her and spoke unhappily, "Hasn't everyone been saying that you are trying hard to stay healthy? Why are you still so careless?"

Wei Changying then sat up carefully, asking, "Why did you come here, cousin?"

Although her lineal cousin should come to visit her when she was pregnant, everyone in the capital knew Song Zaishui's face was ruined. Since then, Miss Song had never left home on the pretext that she was not well and needed to recuperate. All the families understood what had happened to her and had a tacit understanding, never mentioning her.

With Song Zaishui suddenly coming to see her, Wei Changying was happy and totally surprised, keeping on asking her why she was here. Song Zaishui tapped her forehead with her finger, saying with a faint smile, "I came all the way to see you, but you don't appreciate it. You keep questioning me like this. Are you annoyed with me coming here?"

"I'm annoyed that you didn't come here earlier, cousin." Wei Changying smiled, saying, "But seriously, why did you come here in person, cousin? I was thinking that I should go to see you when I am well."

Song Zaishui said, "You've been so unhappy these days. You are making your servants so worried! So, Granny He came to see me personally and asked me to come to keep you company and to cheer you up!"

Wei Changying was surprised, saying, "I didn't know anything about this."

"What else do you know nowadays but the baby in your belly?" Song Zaishui teased her, but then answered seriously, "If Granny He hadn't asked me, I would have come to see you presently. As my first sister-in-law is unwell and my second brother has divorced his wife, I have had to take care of everything at home, so I was unable to get away."

Seeing that the others had excused themselves when Song Zaishui came in, so as to let the girls talk freely, Wei Changying lowered her voice, saying, "Cousin, you should be careful with Mrs. Huo. I saw clearly in the hall that day that Duanmu Wuse did not mean to push her over. I think Mrs. Huo is calculating. Now she wants to prove that Duanmu Wuse has done it, so she is still pretending to be sick. Who knows what's on her mind? Cousin, you are in charge of the household, but you should be careful and you shouldn't give her a chance to get you into trouble, too."

On hearing this, Song Zaishui wore a faint smile, saying, "Oh, my dear cousin, you do care about me. But you really underestimate me. You know my first sister-in-law has been bullied by Duanmu Wuse for so many years because her old family is not as excellent as Duanmu Wuse's. She had never been able to do anything to her sister-in-law, but why did she drive Duanmu Wuse out of the door without any hesitation when I had only just come home?"

"You did it?" Wei Changying was stunned, saying in amazement!

Song Zaishui didn't try to hide it, saying leisurely, "If it wasn't me, was it you?"

Wei Changying asked curiously, "Is it because she caused trouble for you that time or anything else?"

"What's done is done. Am I the kind of person who has nothing better to do than to think about the arguments I had with others?" Song Zaishui asked rhetorically. Her beautiful face wore an angry look, saying, "It was Duanmu Wuse herself who brought it on herself!"

"What did she do?" Wei Changying asked in surprise. Looking at Song Zaishui's face, she knew that Duanmu Wuse must have done something that had totally infuriated Song Zaishui. Otherwise, Song Zaishui would not have been so decisive to drive her out of the door. As for the humiliation of becoming divorced, it was not something that Duanmu Wuse could take on her own. She put shame on the entire Duanmu Family in Jinxiu County. Her family had even sought mercy from the Song Family but they had failed!

The two families had now started a feud!

Song Zaishui was sensible. Unless it was something outrageous, she would never make an enemy of a similar rank to her family. Apparently, what Duanmu Wuse had done must have gone too far so that even Song Zaishui, who had been brought up to be an empress, could not tolerate it.

Unsurprisingly, Song Zaishui said with a straight face, "She thought I was very in her way at home and she wanted to marry me to one of her cousins from a collateral branch of her family."

Wei Changying was surprised, saying, "How dare she! Let alone my uncle, the first elder cousin and the first cousin-in-law are there, and the second cousin is also here, so it should never be her turn to consider your marriage! Besides, since she doesn't like you, the person she chose must have been bad as well!"

Song Zaishui sneered, "You think this is what she did? Then you underestimate her! Let me tell you, if it had only been that, I wouldn't have done this to her! She knew she shouldn't make the decision for my marriage since my father, my two brothers, and my sister-in-law are around. However, she came up with a great idea!"

"What a good idea did she have?" Wei Changying asked, shocked.

"She wanted to have things done so that father and the others couldn't do anything." Song Zaishui said without much enthusiasm, "So, she secretly let her cousin into the mansion of the Minister of the Public through the back door and told him the path to my place. She was planning to have someone catch her cousin when he was near my place and to say that I was fornicating with that guy. Thankfully, my sister-in-law can't get along with her and put spies around her. Otherwise, I would either have born the humiliation to marry the man she wanted me to marry, or have hung myself with white silk, hating being humiliated. Do you think I should still keep her in the Song Family? Am I dead to her?"

Wei Changying was dumbfounded for a long time. She then kept sneering, saying, "Why didn't you send someone here to tell me beforehand about such a serious thing? If I had known that this b*tch was so cruel, on the day she came to the Shen Family, I would have made sure that she died after she returned!" She finally understood why the Song Family flatly rejected the begging of the Duanmu Family. They didn't even allow the Duanmu Family in Jinxiu County to gain a better reputation by saying Duanmu Wuse died in her husband's family because of illness or committing suicide. Since Duanmu Wuse was this shameless and ruthless, if Song Yuwang was still willing to do this favor for his in-laws, he would be someone who had no emotion!

"Why do I want her to die?" Song Zaishui peacefully said, "Cousin, you are still too kind. Hmmm, I should say you are still too impulsive. When you are angry, you just want the person dead. But then when you think that is not enough, can you dig up the grave and beat the body?" She smiled slightly, saying, "Since she became divorced and has returned to her old family alive, people from her family will criticize her for misbehaving and blame her for tarnishing the reputation of the Duanmu family in Jinxiu County. Those who had loved her will stop being nice to her. Which way do you think is crueler? Being driven to kill herself by her family or just being killed by us?"

"Ah, my poor cousin." On hearing this, Wei Changying was relieved, sighing, "Mrs. Huo told you about it, and you made this plan with her? What about Pei Meiniang?"

Song Zaishui laughed, scolding her, "Do not call me 'poor cousin'. It sounds like I am useless and sad. Shouldn't it be Duanmu Wuse who is sad?" She then said, "My first sister-in-law mentioned Pei Meiniang. This fourth sister-in-law of yours..."

She pondered for a moment, looking like she didn't know how to put it. Only after a pause did she say, "Pei Meiniang was trying to please you!"

"Ah?" Wei Changying was stunned, saying, "What do you mean?"

"From my first sister-in-law to you, all the people are daughters of gentlefolks, but only she is the daughter of an aristocratic family. Though Grand Preceptor and Count Xiangning are close, people from Count Xiangning's are inferior to those from Grand Preceptor's." Song Zaishui said unhurriedly, "Some people can cope with being inferior but some can't, like Pei Meiniang."

Wei Changying pondered, saying, "Are you saying that she did it since she was married into the family to help me?" As Duanmu Wuse had become divorced and had returned to her family, Wei Changying did get benefits. No one suspected it, only saying that she was lucky.

Thinking about it now, she wondered if Pei Meiniang, risking her reputation, helped Wei Changying to get Duanmu Yanyu's power when Song Zaishui had been getting rid of her evil-minded second sister-in-law.

Song Zaishui said, "I haven't seen her much. My sister-in-law did all the instigation. I guess Pei Meiniang thought this way. She was worried that because of her family background and the fact that people from Count Xiangning's are inferior to those from Grand Preceptor's, she had to be submissive to Madam Su and you three sisters-in-law. Because of the Pei Family's status, she knew if she had to, she could never say no. So, she decided to take a gamble. She wants to be on your side."

Speaking of this, Song Zaishui snorted with laughter, saying, "You shouldn't take it as she respects you. She chose you because of Shen Cangfeng."

Wei Changying glared at her, saying, "I know!"

"Shen Cangfeng's position in the family determines that you will be the Family Mother of the Shen Family in the future." Song Zaishui said, "Pei Meiniang is not willing to be at the bottom among all the sisters-in-law, so she thinks that even if she can't beat you, she can at least get a place just below you. In addition, my first sister-in-law privately told her that since you have been married into the family, you haven't really got along with these two sisters-in-law of yours, especially not well with the second sister-in-law Duanmu Yanyu. Of course, my first sister-in-law said so because she wanted to deal with Duanmu Wuse. Actually, she has no idea how you get along with your two sisters-in-law, and with whom you have a worse relationship."

"Mrs. Huo is really thoughtful!" Wei Changying said with a smile, "She made a huge plan, involving the Shen Family, the Song Family, and the Duanmu Family. But didn't she worry that she would have suffered the consequences if her plan had got out?"

Song Zaishui smiled, saying, "Wasn't I these to keep her safe?" She added, "Do you think what she has done to build a reputation of being virtuous is worth nothing after putting up with Duanmu Wuse all these years? There is no evidence of what she did secretly. There were merely verbal statements. Even if Pei Meiniang had told everything to others, with my sister-in-law's good reputation, what had she been afraid of?"

Wei Changying smiled, saying, "That's true. Especially, since Pei Meiniang made such a fuss, she won't be seen as a virtuous woman. The reason why she hasn't become divorced is that the fourth younger brother is protecting her. Under the circumstance, if she insisted on reporting Mrs. Huo, she would not only be unable to damage Mrs. Huo but also would leave her in a situation beyond redemption."

"So you know why I said I must come to see you now?" Song Zaishui smiled slightly, saying, "Pei Meiniang gave you a big gift since you are married by making Duanmu Yanyu suffer for you. She didn't do it for charity, so she won't keep it anonymous! So, she has been secretly urging me to come here to tell you."

Wei Changying smiled, saying, "I have really benefited because of her. If you hadn't said this to me personally, I wouldn't have thought of it or believed it. Cousin, to be honest, having seen how Pei Meiniang acted last time, my second aunt advised me to stay away from her." She then pondered, saying, "Now that I know what she means, what should I do? The second uncle has said that she shouldn't be allowed to take charge of things. What do you think I should say to her?"

Song Zaishui pursed her lips, saying, "I think if you help her, it won't be bad. Your two sisters-in-law were married into the family a long time ago, so they have grown their networks. If you accept Pei Meiniang, even if she isn't a close relative, it will be easier than fighting alone. Pei Meiniang is willing to risk herself, daring to think and do what she wants. Since she can only play a mean role now, she will be useful on many occasions in the future. Listen..."