Quick Wear: The Development of a Pure Cannon Fodder

Mother Liu didn't stop Father Liu from leaving, so she certainly wouldn't stop Liu Xian. She even said with a smile, "Remember to greet the Huo family when you go. Don't be disrespectful."

"Yes, son, I understand." Liu Xian strode away.

The two people's departure one after another made Liu Ziyu look very unhappy.

Ever since the Liu family brought her back from the prison, they have been indifferent to her. Liu Xian, who used to respect her very much, no longer talks to her much. Liu's father and mother even showed disgust and alienation towards her, which made Liu Ziyu feel very uncomfortable.

She had already served her sentence in prison and repented, so why did her parents and brother still hold on to this matter? Even if she had used the engagement and marriage with Cheng Ting as a condition to bargain with her parents, causing them to lose face and dignity and plead with Cheng Ting, it didn't matter to Liu Ziyu.

She was already in jail, and the Liu family was already disgraced. In that case, what was this one more thing to worry about?

This is what Liu Ziyu thought in her heart, but her father and mother thought exactly the opposite.

To them, Liu Ziyu was put in jail because he was bewitched and did something wrong, so the only one who was embarrassed was Liu Ziyu. But the fact that Liu's father and mother came to ask Cheng Ting to marry their eldest daughter was done by Liu's father and mother themselves, and they did not hide it in the end. Everyone in the capital city laughed at them behind their backs for being shameless. They had previously despised Cheng Ting's low status and broke off the engagement with him, but now they wanted him to marry a daughter who had been in prison. It was simply a slap in the face. And it was not the face of the entire Liu family that was slapped, but the face of Liu's father and mother themselves.

Therefore, in this matter, Liu's father and mother had completely lost face. For two people who valued face, this was the most painful thing. How could Liu's father and mother not hate Liu Ziyu to the core? How could they not stay away from Liu Ziyu?

As for Liu Xian, it goes without saying that after seeing Liu Ziyu's true face, he completely hated him and decided not to have any more contact with him. He didn't want to be a tool for him to frame someone else.

At that moment, Liu Ziyu bit her lip and looked at her mother aggrievedly, "Mother, have you not forgiven your daughter yet?"

Mother Liu replied calmly, "You're overthinking it. Why don't you stay in your room embroidering your wedding gown? What are you doing out here?"

When a woman got married, she was expected to embroider her own wedding dress. This signified that she was meticulous and capable, able to patiently and meticulously embroider an entire wedding dress. In an era where women's embroidery skills were highly valued, wasn't this considered a sign of competence? However, in the capital's wealthy families, the bride wasn't always responsible for sewing the wedding dress herself. Some ladies would leave the finishing touches to an embroiderer.

Liu Ziyu pursed her lips, looked at her mother eagerly, and followed her footsteps, saying, "Mom, you know I'm not very proficient in those things, but I have embroidered some patterns. Let the embroiderer do the rest. I just want to ask about my sister's situation."

"What's there to ask? If you have time to ask questions here, why not go and learn embroidery from an embroiderer? When your sister was the prince's concubine, she embroidered her wedding dress and shoes by herself, without the help of an embroiderer. Even the young ladies from other families would just leave the finishing touches to the embroiderer, but you did it the other way around. You just embroidered some patterns and then threw it all to the embroiderer. In the end, are you getting married or is the embroiderer getting married? Aren't you afraid of being laughed at if you tell others about it?"

"Even if you just follow the embroiderer's lead and embroider a pair of mandarin duck shoes, I would feel relieved. But now you are about to get married, and you are still as restless as a gossip, asking about all sorts of things. When you get married in the future, I am afraid that you will bring shame to my Liu family." Liu Ziyu's mother's words made her face pale.

Liu Ziyu's face became uglier and uglier. She clenched the handkerchief tightly in her hand, and tears fell down. "Mom, how can you say that to me? I'm just worried about my sister."

Mother Liu gave her a deep look and said, "Just take care of yourself."

She was truly fed up with her eldest daughter's prying into the younger one's affairs. That didn't show any remorse at all. Did she really think she could soften her heart and trust her by putting on a pitiful front? It was ridiculous. Her acting skills were completely exposed once Liu's mother lost the filter of her love for her daughter. Liu's mother saw clearly what was going on in her eyes. How could she even think of playing along? She was simply fed up.

In the end, Liu Ziyu didn't have the face to follow up and ask about Yu Zinyin's situation. She looked at the backs of Liu's mother and the servants leaving, her eyes filled with tears of humiliation. She could only secretly think that when she became rich in the future, she would make her family look good!

But before she got married, she discovered something that made her even more unhappy, that is, her dowry was much less than Yu Ziyin's. Liu's mother did not deduct the share that belonged to her, but Liu's father did not give anything. You know, even when Yu Ziyin entered the Prince's Mansion as a concubine, Liu's father gave Yu Ziyin a lot of land and real estate. What's more, when Yu Ziyin became the Crown Princess later, Liu's father added a lot of good things. How come she got nothing?

Liu Ziyu felt incredibly wronged. Even if she'd done something wrong before, she'd already repented. Why did he keep harping on the past? Why was he being so partial? They were both his children, so how could his father let her marry like that?

She felt that Father Liu was definitely being unreasonable on this point, so she immediately ran to him and started to make a scene, "Dad! You're so biased! She's your daughter too, why don't you prepare any dowry for her? Aren't you afraid that this will be known to outsiders and rumors will spread that are unfavorable to you?"

Father Liu hadn't expected his eldest daughter to actually threaten him, and his face darkened. "If you're not ashamed, you can spread the story! After you were in jail, how much money did I spend to redeem your reputation? Why do you think no one called you an ungrateful person after you came back? Wasn't it all because of the money I spent?! So far, the money I've spent on you is worth three times your dowry!"

Then he threw the account books of these years at her feet and said, "If you don't believe me, go and check it out for yourself!"

Liu Ziyu was speechless for a moment. Faced with his father's anger, he said dryly, "I didn't know before that you had done so much for me, Dad, so..."

Indeed, after she came back, no one scolded her for what she did to her sister and mother. People focused more on her stupidity and being bewitched, so no one spoke too harshly about her.

But she still couldn't help but look through the account book. It turned out that the amount and who each payment was given to were clearly written. It was indeed as Liu's father said, it was three times her dowry.

At that moment, Liu Ziyu's face also showed a bit of panic, "Dad, I was wrong. I was too anxious. I thought you were blaming me for your fault and that's why you were unwilling to give me your dowry. I was so wronged at the time that I came to you."