Meanwhile, at the Chiang Kai-shek residence...

"Oh! It seems Li Renhuai is really willing to go to great lengths for his cousin," Jiang Chunxi said with a sneer as she stood in front of the birdcage under the eaves, feeding the birds inside. "You know how foolish I was before, not realizing at all that Li Renhuai's deep affection for me was all an act."

It's understandable that the original owner didn't see through Li Renhuai's insincerity. In ancient times, when men and women were strictly separated, even though the original owner and Li Renhuai were engaged, apart from when she was seven years old, they could only see each other a handful of times a year after that.

Therefore, the original owner's main communication with Li Renhuai was through letters. Li Renhuai was very skilled at writing love letters, and the original owner was bewitched by Li Renhuai's love letters.

“How can you blame Miss? You can only blame Li Renhuai for his despicable methods,” the head maid Chunwu said angrily. “If Li Renhuai really liked his cousin, he could have just taken her as a concubine after he and Miss got married. Miss isn’t the jealous type, so why wouldn’t she agree to it?”

"But Li Renhuai is really something else. He actually dared to scheme to make Miss his concubine. I really don't know where he got the audacity to think that Miss would lose her mind for him and be foolishly manipulated by him."

For women in ancient times, it was perfectly normal for their husbands to have concubines, let alone for them to take concubines on their own initiative.

Therefore, there was nothing wrong with Chunwu's words, after all, her young lady was indeed not the kind of person who was jealous.

“Miss, what are you going to do now?” It was the voice of another maid, Chunyu. “That damned Li Renhuai, how could he be so wicked? He has ruined your reputation. What are you going to do now?”

"Alright, why are you crying?" Jiang Chunxi rolled her eyes at Chunyu. "Your young lady is still very lucky. So what if my reputation is ruined? As long as the Jiang family doesn't fall, your young lady will still be the beloved Miss Jiang in the capital."

Although the Jiang family will indeed support her for life if she doesn't get married, there are so many girls in the Jiang family, they can't let her cause them to be unable to find a good marriage!

There was no way around it; that's just how messed up things were in ancient times. If a girl from the clan had a ruined reputation, it would tarnish the reputation of all the unmarried girls in the entire clan.

Since she had to get married anyway, she might as well go to the palace and become the emperor's concubine. Besides, Li Renhuai's younger sister and the original owner of this body had a blood feud over the killing of her son. If she didn't go to the palace, how could she take revenge on Li Renhuai's sister?

"Madam." Just then, the original owner's mother arrived, and the maids in the courtyard quickly and respectfully greeted her.

“Mother,” Jiang Chunxi greeted her mother with a smile, and then the mother and daughter walked into the house hand in hand. “Shouldn’t you be dealing with the affairs of the manor at this time? How come you have time to come to your daughter’s place?”

The management of the Jiang family was naturally controlled by Jiang's mother, the eldest daughter-in-law. The original owner's second and third aunts did not have any disagreements about this. It can be said that there were no infighting in the Jiang family. The whole family was very harmonious, and the Jiang family's daughters-in-law got along like sisters.

"Sigh!" After sitting down with her daughter, Jiang's mother sighed with red eyes, "You should already know that Li Renhuai brought his cousin back to the Ningxin Marquis's mansion in such a grand manner! I was afraid you would feel bad, so I came to see you."

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