After returning to the capital, the eldest daughter saved her entire clan with her medical skills.

"Rou'er is right. It is wrong of you to wrongly accuse Miss Xue without distinguishing right from wrong. You should apologize to her right now."

Lord Dong looked at his wife with a serious expression.

"Miss Xue, I'm sorry, I misunderstood you. Please forgive my rudeness."

Madam Dong bowed stiffly to Xue Ruanruan, feeling somewhat embarrassed.

Since marrying into the Marquis's household, everyone around her has been extremely respectful to her, and their words are mostly flattering.

I never expected that at my age I would be so impolite in front of a younger generation; I'm a little embarrassed.

“Madam Dong, there’s no need to apologize. I understand a mother’s concern for her children. However, medical skills are not like other things. If treatment is delayed due to external forces, it could be fatal.”

Xue Ruanruan had never taken Madam Dong seriously, and her indifferent expression made the Dong family look at her with new respect.

In her previous life, she had encountered even more outrageous patients' families. It was a pity that the patients could not be saved because the other party caused trouble and prevented her from administering acupuncture.

"Miss Xue is very kind. I will repay your life-saving grace to Wan'er today with all my heart."

Madam Dong was a woman who could take things in stride. She would sincerely apologize for her own mistakes and do her best to repay those who had been kind to her.

"Mother, what are you talking about? Why did you bring me back...?"

Dong Wan looked into her boudoir and saw a strange woman. She didn't know what kind of conflict her mother had with her, but it wasn't hard to guess from their conversation that this beautiful girl had saved her.

A sense of loss welled up inside me.

"Wan'er, what are you saying? Abandoning your parents for the sake of those rumors is the greatest act of filial impiety. If you still consider yourself a daughter of the Dong family, then don't do such foolish things again!"

Mrs. Dong was so angry that her chest heaved. She thought that her daughter would cherish her life even more after being saved.

“Your mother is right. Now that you’ve been saved, you should rest and recuperate for a while. If there’s a next time, I will definitely not ask anyone to save you again.”

When Lord Dong saw that his youngest daughter had been rescued, he not only failed to recognize his mistake, but also blamed them, as her parents, for rescuing her. This was truly absurd.

"Third sister, you have no idea how worried your parents were after they found you hanging yourself. They consulted several doctors, but they all said there was no hope. It was only because your eldest sister brought Miss Xue that your life was saved. If you try to take your own life again, you will be letting down all those who care about you."

Dong Xiangzeng was the only legitimate son of the Yongchang Marquis's family. He was straightforward and honest in his actions, and this was the first time he had spoken so seriously to his third sister.

"Third sister, why are you so upset? You've had scabies for a long time."

Madam Dong watched as her third sister lowered her head in shame, opened her mouth, but said nothing more.

Although today's events were not pleasant, the outcome was good; my third sister's life was saved.

But why her timid third sister chose to hang herself was something she couldn't understand at all.

"What else could it be? It's just that two-faced Zhang Zhonghe. He used to practically cling to the Marquis's mansion, watching over your third sister every day, but as soon as Wan'er got scabies on her face, he immediately turned his back on her and broke off the engagement."

Thinking of the person who had caused her youngest daughter to hang herself, Madam Dong wished she could eat him alive.

"Didn't this happen three years ago? How come now..."

Intuition told Ms. Dong that things were not so simple. The annulment of the engagement had already happened after her third sister first developed scabies and sought out famous doctors but could not be cured. It was inconceivable that she would only think of hanging herself three years later.

"It's all because Zhang Zhonghe has climbed up to a higher social class again. Your third sister happened to see him taking his fiancée to worship Buddha when she went to the temple to burn incense, and said a few unpleasant things to him."

“That bastard tore off your third sister’s veil in front of so many people, causing a huge uproar. Your third sister cried all afternoon after returning home. Who knew that in the morning, the maid ran to the main courtyard crying and said that the third young lady had hanged herself.”

Madam Dong was so angry that she burst into tears when she thought about it. Zhang's father was just a minor official, and the Marquis's family did not look down on Zhang Zhonghe because of his low birth. Instead, they were humiliated by him.

"Has Zhang Zhonghe climbed the social ladder again?"

Madam Dong stared in surprise. She had always thought that her third sister was simple-minded and easily deceived, which was why she was interested in Zhang Zhonghe. She never expected that there was another girl just like her third sister.

"That's right. This time, she's even more powerful than the Marquis's family. She's the illegitimate daughter of the Right Prime Minister's family. Otherwise, where do you think he got the guts to ridicule Wan'er in the street?"

Thinking about this incident made Madam Dong furious. She couldn't let her daughter suffer such injustice for nothing, and she was determined to find an opportunity to settle all the old and new scores.

"The illegitimate daughter of the Right Prime Minister's family? That's not exactly marrying above her station; she's not as good as the legitimate daughter of our Marquis's family."

“Who says otherwise? But they think too highly of themselves and look down on your sister. It’s also because Wan’er is too useless. She cries and threatens to hang herself after being ridiculed by others. It’s really infuriating for her mother.”

"Alright, everyone, let's not talk about the past anymore. If Wan'er's scabies doesn't get better, she should go down to a kind family and marry into their home."

Lord Dong did not dislike his children, but he valued the reputation of the Yongchang Marquis's Mansion even more.