Listening to her daughter's heartfelt words, the pregnant Lady Hou went on a killing spree.

"Cousin, your husband is really amazing. He's about to be promoted to Vice Minister of Justice. We have to celebrate properly. He has to treat us to dinner today."

The woman's voice wasn't quiet. Ji Yueru, who was sitting by the window holding An'an, looked over when she heard the voice.

Just then, the woman whom the other woman called "cousin" smiled gently at the man sitting next to her.

"It's because your cousin-in-law is capable that he was able to rise to the position of Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice through his own abilities."

The woman was sitting there and didn't see that her cousin and her husband had their hands clasped together behind her back, but she was completely oblivious, like a block of wood.

"Madam, that couple is absolutely disgusting. We must go and warn that lady."

Upon seeing the two, Zhiyi seemed to see Ji Chunjiao and Marquis Anshun together. She had been with the lady the longest and knew best who Lin Tianci and Lin Wanwan were father and daughter.

"I understand, mind your own business."

Zhiyi was somewhat puzzled. Madam used to kindly remind people when she encountered such things, so why was she acting as if it was none of her business now?

"Not everyone will believe what others say. As far as I know, two loyal maids have already warned her about her cousin's affair with her husband."

The maids didn't know where the lady had heard the news from, but they believed what she said.

Knowing and curious.

"Then, Madam, what happened to the two maids afterward?"

"Madam Wang jokingly told her husband sitting next to her that the last one was sold to a low-class brothel, and the other was sent to the authorities for stealing from the mansion and ended up being exiled thousands of miles away."

Zhiyi gasped for breath.

"But didn't Lady Wang ever have any doubts about her husband?"

"Today I'm going to tell you that there's a kind of brain in this world called a love brain."

They can only see the men they like, and they are blind to everything else.

Mother is right, you can't save someone with a love-struck mind; whoever tries to save them is doomed.

"Remember this: if any of you ever become love-struck, I'll kick you out of the mansion."

The three of them shook their heads vigorously, like rattles.

"Don't worry, madam, we will never become love-struck for a man."

"Well, I figured you wouldn't know either, but I'm just giving you a heads-up."

This happened in her previous life. Madam Wang never believed that her cousin had an affair with her husband. In her eyes, her husband was the best man imaginable.

In the end, everyone in the entire household knew, but she was the only one kept in the dark like a complete idiot.

After witnessing the fate of the two maids before her, even the most loyal people stopped reminding her.

Later, when her cousin went out with her husband, strangers thought they were a married couple, and no one thought that Lady Wang and Minister Wang were a married couple.

It wasn't until one day, when Madam Wang caught her cousin and husband in bed, that she had no choice but to believe that what the maid had said earlier was true.

But at that time, her cousin had been living in the mansion as a widow for more than ten years and had long since taken control of everything in the mansion. Even if she wanted to change it, she couldn't, and in the end, she ended up drowning herself in the lake.

There's a saying that goes something like this: "Every pitiful person has something hateful about them."

She would stay far away from people like that and wouldn't get involved with them at all.

Zhiyi, who had been indignant on behalf of the other party, calmed down after hearing what the lady said.

Even her most loyal maidservant suffered such a fate after reminding her; if she were to remind her, she would surely be in an even worse situation than her maidservant.

Enough, enough. Madam is right; love-struck people are beyond saving.

"Here it comes, here it comes."

Shuyi, with her sharp eyes, spotted a group of yamen runners coming from the street. The one walking in the middle with his head down was none other than Marquis Anshun.

"Oh, no, let me see."

An'an was more anxious than anyone else, her little hands tugging at Ji Yueru's chest. Helpless, Ji Yueru picked An'an up a little so that she could see the excitement on the street.

Upon seeing that it was indeed Marquis Anshun, An'an jumped around even more energetically. Shuyi quickly protected her with her hands, afraid that if the lady let go, the little princess would fall from the second floor.

"Chunhua, come here."

Chunhua leaned closer, and Ji Yueru whispered something in her ear.

"Don't worry, Madam, I'll go right away."

Chunhua turned and went downstairs. Zhiyi and Shuyi were busy watching the commotion and didn't pay attention to Chunhua's departure. After all, she was just doing her job for the lady.

Anyway, Mo Wen and Mo Da were guarding outside the private room, so they weren't afraid of anything happening to the lady.

As Marquis Anshun passed by downstairs, a woman in the crowd suddenly threw vegetable leaves from her basket at him.

"Pah! You're a real piece of trash! You use your wife's dowry to support your family and still keep a mistress on the side! I'll beat you to death!"

The woman continued to throw the rotten vegetable leaves in her hand with even more enthusiasm. Seeing this, the people around her also picked up whatever they had on hand that was useless and threw it at Marquis Anshun. Anyway, there were so many people that he couldn't remember them all.

Marquis Anshun clutched his head, his eyes red, while Ji Yueru and An'an upstairs watched with increasing delight.

That's right, I felt like something was missing before, but now it looks much better.

Ji Yueru recalled her past life, where she took the blame for Lin Yuxue's adultery. When she went out, people recognized her as the Lady of Anshun Marquis, and some people even threw rotten vegetable leaves and eggs at her.

From then on, she rarely went out unless absolutely necessary, and the worse her reputation became, the better the Marquis of Anshun's reputation became.

The noble ladies of the capital felt increasingly sorry for him, thinking that he had married a woman with a tarnished reputation and was unwilling to divorce her, something that many men would not do.

The problem is that Marquis Anshun did it.

Only Ji Yueru herself knows what's really going on inside, just how disgusting the Marquis of Anshun's family truly is.

Only after Anshun Hou had completely turned the corner and disappeared from sight did the mother and daughter reluctantly turn their gaze away.

"An'an, where do you want to go to play?"

After being cooped up in the yard for a month, An'an kept asking to go out. Now that she's just come out, she's sure the little one won't agree to go back. She should ask her where she wants to go first and take her for a walk, as long as she's careful not to let her get chilled.

"Mommy, let's go see my aunt and let her see what I look like now. She must miss me."

Ji Yueru felt that An'an was being a bit presumptuous; her good relationship with Ji Qianqian was something from a past life.

Ji Qianqian's relationship with her in this life was only so-so. She's probably too busy taking revenge on that scumbag to think about her right now.

She didn't want to upset An'an's fragile heart.

"Alright, let's go see your aunt then. It's just a pity that the pleasure boat they had ordered hasn't been built yet."

The two left the restaurant, boarded a carriage, and headed towards Yingyue Lake.

When they arrived at the destination, the master and his servants were all dumbfounded. It was already February, and the ice on the lake should have melted by now.

But now the lake is covered with a thick layer of ice, and several children are playing on it.

What's most striking is the middle of the lake, where a painted boat can be seen frozen in the distance. Clearly, the lake froze over all at once, and the boat didn't have time to stop at the shore.