After my luck was stolen, I led my whole family to defy fate and change our destiny.

Gu Xinyi watched her nephews and nieces vying for her attention with amusement.

Indeed, only children are the simplest and easiest to satisfy.

"Okay, okay, everyone gets a share, everyone gets a share."

She even playfully pinched Gu Linglong's nose: "When you're old enough to eat, Auntie will make it for you too."

Gu Linglong chuckled contentedly twice, closed her eyes, and fell asleep. After watching the commotion all morning, she was really sleepy, and you could even hear her soft snoring if you listened carefully.

Gu Xinyi was amazed. Are all babies like this?

One second he's chuckling, the next he's snoring away.

If only she could sleep like that, falling asleep whenever she wants.

When in doubt, just sleep it off and worry about whether tomorrow will be good or not.

Lotus also praised, "The little lady is so easy to take care of, she doesn't even need to be coaxed to sleep."

Su Xiuran smiled. Indeed, her daughter was the easiest to raise and the most sensible.

As long as you don't let her grab the meat from the bowl, everything is fine.

Gu Linglong was fast asleep, snoring loudly, unaware that her dear mother and aunt had been chirping at her from behind for quite some time.

No, I was cricketing in front of her, but she was asleep and didn't notice.

……

Cui Mansion.

Chuisheng no longer cared about his mistress and returned to his residence in a sorry state.

Madam Cui looked at the person opposite her with disheveled hair, red eyes, and a strange odor.

If it weren't for this face, she would have thought he was some kind of beggar.

She took a step back, choked by the stench, and covered her nose, asking, "Sheng'er? You... what happened to you?"

Old Mrs. Cui, who had felt dizzy that morning, was feeling dizzy again.

He was a noble young man when he left home this morning, but how come he came back as a beggar after just one trip?

"Mother, we'll talk about it later. I'm going to take a bath first."

Madam Cui realized what was happening: "Ah, right, go wash her quickly, and use soap pods several times."

After saying that, she covered her nose again: "I really can't say any more. If I do, the smell goes straight from my nose to my stomach."

I feel like throwing up!

Cui Sheng pursed his lips, silently adding another mark against the Gu family in his mind.

After bathing, Cui Sheng regained his usual handsome appearance, but now his expression was full of worry: "Doctor, has all the snake venom in my body been cleared?"

Chui Sheng was afraid that those people were treacherous and that there must still be toxins in their bodies, otherwise why would that big guy give him the whole bottle of antidote pills?

Luckily he's smart, otherwise he would have fallen for it.

"Yes, yes, check it carefully."

Madam Cui chimed in, having heard her son's brief description, she also believed that Su Xiuran would not let her son off so quickly.

There's definitely something fishy going on here!

The doctor frowned slightly: "No signs of poisoning have been found so far?"

"Is that big thug really that good?" Cui Sheng didn't believe it. He lifted his arm and said, "Doctor, please take another look."

The doctor examined the wound for a moment and said, "You can apply some wound medicine."

"Medicine for wounds?"

Cui Sheng gave the doctor a look that seemed to ask if he even knew how to treat a patient. "This is a snake bite, a snake bite."

You're saying that snake venom that would kill you in seven steps can be cured with wound medicine?

"Yes, doctor, this is snake venom. Please take a closer look."

The doctor nodded: "Yes, there are indeed no signs of poisoning in Lord Cui's body, except for some external injuries and teeth marks."

The doctor paused for a moment, then continued, "If I'm not mistaken, these teeth marks belong to a rat snake. This snake is non-venomous, and medicine can be used to treat it."

Chui Sheng frowned deeply: "Really?"

Cui Sheng then took out a porcelain bottle: "Doctor, take a look at this."

The doctor opened it, smelled it, and said decisively, "Candy."

Choi Seung looked on with disbelief: "Candy? This... how is this possible?"

The doctor packed his medicine chest: "If you don't believe me, Lord Cui, you can have another doctor take a look."

Chuisheng indeed consulted several more doctors, fearing that Su Xiuran would use the same methods he had used on Gu Xinyi on him.

But all the results are the same!

"bang bang bang"

Enraged, Cui Sheng smashed everything in sight, his expression twisted into a ferocious and terrifying grimace: "You, Su Xiuran, how dare you let someone trick me!"

Madam Cui was startled by his actions: "Son, don't smash it! That blue and white porcelain is very expensive!"

After saying that, she seemed to realize she hadn't said it correctly, so she added, "Mother will go and impeach Su Xiuran."

Cui Sheng smashed the "antidote pill" hard too. No wonder the bandit was so generous; it was like candy.

They even deliberately gave it to me, were they just waiting for this?

Cui Sheng added another layer of hatred to his hatred for the Gu family.

"Mother, tomorrow we'll go to the Empress Dowager and ask her to set an example for us."

"Okay, okay, I'll go write the report right away."

Su Xiuran dared to play tricks on his son and steal his daughter-in-law, so she shouldn't blame him.

Madam Cui exaggeratedly insulted Su Xiu in her memorial and then ordered her to be sent to the palace.

She awaited the Empress Dowager's summons to uphold justice for the Cui family and to properly punish that vile woman, Su Xiuran.

...

Early the next morning.

In Cining Palace, Madam Cui's memorial reached the Empress Dowager's hands, and the Empress Dowager read it with a frown.

She threw the folded document on the ground.

"This is absolutely outrageous!"

The old nanny trembled in fright: "Your Majesty, please calm down, don't hurt yourself."

The Empress Dowager leaned gently against her phoenix chair: "Is Old Madam Cui afraid I'm stupid? She mistreats her daughter-in-law. It's clearly her own son who can't have children, yet she insists that the girl from the Gu family can't have children either."

"It's one thing for her to care about her son's reputation, but she even made that Gu family girl use her dowry to subsidize him, and he had to take so many useless and harmful drugs."

"Her good deeds have all reached the palace; how could I not know? She's making a fool of me!"

The old woman gently pressed the Empress Dowager's temples. "Your Majesty, please calm down. That old Madam Cui is probably quite old."

The Empress Dowager slammed her hand on the phoenix chair. "I think she's just taking advantage of her age and trying to use me as a punching bag. What a scoundrel!"

The old nanny said, "Yes, it was wrong of her to sell her to the Empress Dowager."

It turns out that yesterday, Gu Yu'an did not go to the Cui residence immediately after receiving the divorce papers, but instead went to the Sixth Prince's villa.

He told Chu Jingyan the whole story, hoping that the Sixth Prince could spread the word to the palace, and preferably to the Empress Dowager.

The sixth prince immediately went to the palace to see Consort Ning. That same day, news of Madam Cui's many misdeeds, such as mistreating her daughter-in-law, spread throughout the palace.

The Sixth Prince did it very discreetly, having his guards disguise themselves and begin spreading the word in the flower room. The people in the flower room would go to the palaces of the various concubines every day to tend to the flowers and plants.

The message would spread the fastest, and if only the Empress Dowager heard it, it would seem somewhat deliberate.

After Chu Jingyan entered the palace, Gu Yu'an spread the same news outside again.

They announced to the public that the two had already divorced, to prevent Choi Seung from making any more trouble and pestering them.

The Empress Dowager rested her head on one hand, feeling a bit of a headache. She actually admired Su Xiuran quite a bit, but the Emperor had imprisoned her husband.

There's still no verdict, and the Empress Dowager can't figure out what the Emperor really means by his feelings for the Gu family.

The Empress Dowager said in a deep voice, "Guards, convey my imperial decree: Madam Cui is disrespectful to her elders and mistreated her daughter-in-law. She is hereby confined to her quarters for one month."