Quick Transmigration: Reversing the Life of a Cannon Fodder Female Supporting Character

Although the old lady was advanced in years, she came from a military family and married into one, so she was still very resilient. She cried, but she didn't faint as Cui Yao had feared.

After the imperial physician left, the old lady's emotions had mostly stabilized, and she even had the energy to discuss with them what to do next.

Xiao Cen had her own plans: "Grandmother, Aunt, I know you care about me, but not divorcing is more worthwhile than divorcing."

"What nonsense are you spouting, child? This is a life-long matter. If that beast had another chance to do it, would you still be alive?"

"Then we won't give him a chance to do it." Xiao Cen said calmly, "These past few days I've been lying there, unable to do anything, and I've come to understand a lot of things. In my condition, even if I get a divorce and go home, it will be difficult for me to find a good home, and it will also affect my sisters' marriages."

"We're at a life-or-death situation now, so let's not think about anything else. As long as the Xiao family doesn't fall, our daughters won't have trouble finding husbands," Cui Yao advised.

"Aunt, I am very grateful to you. Even though Lan's marriage is still undecided, you are still willing to make plans for me. But I, Xiao Cen, am a person who will hold a grudge. I will not be satisfied until those beasts in the Zhang family suffer the same pain as me."

"Cen'er, leave them to me. The Zhang family has many descendants and won't care about sacrificing Zhang Juncheng. As for his mother and concubine, they are not worth worrying about."

"Aunt, wait a moment. Once I can move around, I'd like to ask for your help to take me to talk to the Zhang family patriarch."

"What do you want to do?"

"As long as the Zhang family abandons them, I have plenty of ways to make them cry out in vain. Before, I was just not on guard against my husband, otherwise I would never have let them succeed."

After Cui Yao and the old lady offered a few more words of persuasion, Xiao Cen finally relented and said he would consider it.

Cui Yao did not rush to take over the management of the Marquis's mansion. Instead, she went to her parents' home on the second day after returning to the capital.

The eldest princess hugged her only daughter and cried. She felt that her daughter had a hard life, her husband had died young, and her eldest son was unfilial.

"Mother, please don't cry." The old Cui Yao could cry, but the current Cui Yao has deep tear ducts. She managed to squeeze out a few tears, and when she wiped them with her handkerchief, she used a bit of force, making her eyes red, before she opened her mouth to comfort her.

"Mother, my sister's eyes are all red from crying. If you keep crying, it will harm your health and make her even more upset," Madam Qin, Cui Yao's elder sister-in-law, also chimed in to persuade her.

"Yao'er, don't cry. It's all my fault for making you cry." The princess wiped the tears from her face, and the servants around her immediately brought up the prepared water to help her wash her face.

Cui Yao: "Mother, my life isn't bitter. I have such a wonderful mother and family. If my life is bitter, how many people in this world have such good lives?"

The princess dried her face and applied a lightly scented balm: "What are you saying? There are so many fortunate people in the world with both parents alive and a house full of children and grandchildren."

"Yes, yes, just like you, Mother."

"You've always had a sweet tongue since you were little, I don't know how many sweets you've given your second brother." The eldest princess has two sons and one daughter, and her second son is two years older than Cui Yao.

"That's because my second brother let me win."

"You even know that?"

"I know, I've always known, that's why I gave my second brother the candy."

After exchanging a few jokes, the eldest princess asked seriously, "What exactly happened with Qingzhi? Your letter was vague. What did he do that made you so upset?"

"...That day, I fainted outside the ancestral hall, and he," Cui Yao sighed, "went straight out to buy snacks for his mistress."

"What? This little brat!" The princess cursed angrily. No one in the entire Xiao family dared to treat her daughter like that.

"Mother, I really have no other choice. I can't just watch him ruin my younger siblings' reputation, can I?" Cui Yao covered her eyes with a handkerchief. She really couldn't cry, but acting indifferent wouldn't fit her persona.

"Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, your mother is here." The princess quickly reassured her daughter, then changed the subject: "I heard you went to the Zhang family on your way."

Speaking of this, Cui Yao sighed. She had only wanted to go and see what was going on with the Zhang family and remind Xiao Cen to be on guard, but she never expected that she would have already been poisoned.

Cui Yao dismissed all the servants, leaving only her mother and elder sister-in-law. Only then did she recount Xiao Cen's ordeal.

"What? The Zhang family, so shameless? They can't even see the Zhang family in the capital. My family was even considering a marriage alliance with them." Madam Qin, Cui Yao's elder sister-in-law, looked displeased.

The eldest princess was much calmer. She had lived to be over sixty years old, had served two emperors, and had seen a lot of depravity. Some people were just scoundrels by nature.

"The Zhang family in the capital are all normal. It should be only Zhang Juncheng who is abnormal. However, if the Qin family feels uncomfortable, then so be it. Anyway, nothing has been decided yet."

"Forget it, who knows if there's something wrong with their Zhang family's bloodline?" Madam Qin made up her mind. She would send a message to her family in a while, asking them to let things drop with the Zhang family. The Qin family cherished their daughter and wouldn't gamble on that possibility.

"Eldest sister-in-law, Cen'er doesn't want a divorce, so don't make it too clear to her family."

"That's for sure. Whether or not we get a divorce, it concerns my niece's reputation, so I won't say anything. I'll just say that the Zhang family is acting inappropriately. Even if they suspect it's related to you, they won't reveal a single thing."

Cui Yao nodded. They were all from prominent families and related by marriage. The eldest sister-in-law only needed to tell the head of the Qin family that they would not marry into the Zhang family. As for the head of the Qin family, it was even simpler. He didn't even need to find a reason. He could just tell the branch that wanted to marry into the family to exclude the Zhang family.

Even if someone in the Qin family guesses it, it doesn't matter; they won't say anything.

"Xiao Cen doesn't want a divorce?" That was the Princess's focus.

"Yes, she was afraid of implicating her sisters in the family. After all, her experience couldn't be discussed openly. Just the fact that a favored concubine had ruined the wife and they were getting a divorce would be detrimental to the Xiao family."

"That's true." The eldest princess nodded. "Lan'er should be engaged by now."

After the princess began to cry as they entered, Madam Qin instructed her children to take Xiao Huaizhi and Xiao Lan out.

"Mother, Lan'er is my daughter, the legitimate daughter of the Xiao family. There's no rush for her marriage."

"Don't worry, I'm not asking you to stand up for her. Any reasonable family should understand that Xiao Cen's matter will not implicate Xiao Lan." The princess was just speaking from the heart, as if her daughter, who was just yesterday snuggling in her arms, was now being asked for a marriage proposal.

Madam Qin asked curiously, "My niece doesn't want a divorce? She doesn't want to leave that den of wolves, afraid of implicating her sisters?"

That shouldn't be the case. How could a daughter raised in a family of military generals be so pedantic?

"She wanted to take revenge herself more than anything."

"Oh?" The eldest princess became interested.