After transmigrating into the book, I helped my mother reconcile with her divorced husband.

"We've been husband and wife for ten years, why does Yunniang ask such a question?"

"Does Lord Marquis have Chaoyun in his heart?"

"You are my lawfully wedded wife, tell me, do I have you in my heart?"

"Please answer, Your Excellency, does Your Excellency have Chaoyun in your heart?"

"Yunniang!" Lu Huai shouted, "Why are you so fixated on this? Whether I have feelings for you or not, you are my lawfully wedded wife and the mistress of my Pingnan Marquis's mansion. What you should be thinking about is the future of my mansion and my career, not these romantic feelings."

Avoiding Xie Chaoyun's gaze, he returned to the bed, leaving her with his back in a huff: "Yunniang, we're not young anymore, go to sleep."

Her eyes stung painfully, and Xie Chaoyun wanted to laugh, but didn't know what to laugh about.

She watched Lu Huai's retreating figure and asked, "Does Your Excellency have someone else in your heart?"

She was met with silence, followed by hurried footsteps approaching from outside the door.

"Master, Madam, the old lady's maid has come to invite you. She says the old lady has a headache and wants you to come and take a look."

Xie Chaoyun took a deep breath and said through the door, "The Marquis has already gone to bed. Go and summon the physician, and come with me."

“Yunniang is not feeling well, she should rest early.” Lu Huai said, putting on his shoes hastily. “Mother’s headache is fluctuating, I will stay with her at Fulin Courtyard for the next few days. You need to carefully consider the chrysanthemum appreciation banquet, so as not to upset Mother again.”

Xie Chaoyun took a deep breath and said with suppressed emotion, "In that case, I'll have to trouble you, Marquis."

"As a son, one should be filial to one's mother," Lu Huai said dismissively.

"My husband is right." Xie Chaoyun opened the door and said to the maid who had delivered the message, "Take my invitation and invite Physician Jiang. Headaches can be serious or minor, so we must not be negligent."

Lu Huai, who had already reached the door, stopped in his tracks: "It's late, we shouldn't disturb Physician Jiang."

Madam Lu's illness was a pretense; Ji Wanwan's scheming was the truth. Xie Chaoyun knew this perfectly well, but she didn't confront her directly. She had thought the incident at Zuichunlou had already disappointed her to the extreme, and that the forged letter had already chilled her to the bone, but unexpectedly, her heart was still aching faintly at this moment.

"Madam, are you alright?" the maid asked hesitantly. "Should I go and fetch Physician Jiang?"

"Go!" He pressed his hand to his chest, then glanced back at the spittoon on the ground. "My stomach ailment has flared up, and I need Physician Jiang to treat me."

At the courtyard gate, Liuying peeked inside. "Miss, shall we go in?"

Lu Zhiyuan, wrapped in a cloak, shook her head: "Let's go somewhere else."

The capital of Beiliang had no curfew, but it also lacked bustling night markets. After nightfall, the only people around were the night watchmen and the soldiers patrolling the streets. The carriage entered the main street through the back gate of the Marquis's residence, then turned onto a quiet alley, finally stopping in front of an inconspicuous courtyard.

After Liu Ying knocked seven or eight times, the door finally opened from the inside.

After seeing the face behind the door, Firefly rushed over, knocking Amber, who was carrying a lantern, off balance.

"Little Firefly, what brings you here? Has something happened to Madam?"

"Something did happen. You have no idea how much the madam suffered, and the young lady... Oh, right, I came with the young lady."

As Liu Ying stepped aside, Lu Zhiyuan, draped in a pale yellow hooded cloak, appeared before Amber. She smiled, called out "Sister Amber," and then stood quietly. Her pale face was devoid of color, and her frail body seemed as if a gust of wind could topple her over.

Amber felt her eyes stinging, and a thin layer of mist gradually covered them. She cautiously approached Lu Zhiyuan, but when she reached her, she suddenly stepped back and knelt heavily on the ground.

"This servant, Amber, greets Miss."

Amber was both Xie Chaoyun's dowry maid and Lu Zhiyuan's savior. In the original story, Lu Zhiyuan's mouth was covered shortly after birth, and if it weren't for Amber's quick thinking, she would have died on the day of her birth.

Regarding that incident, the midwife refused to admit that she was instructed by someone, insisting that she had made a mistake and mistook the weak-breathing Lu Zhiyuan for a stillborn baby.

Amber secretly investigated and discovered that the matter was related to Old Madam Lu. However, Xie Chaoyun was deceived by the Lu family and did not believe her words at all. She also did not believe that her mother-in-law and husband would harm their newborn daughter. In a fit of rage, she expelled Amber from the Lu family.

“Mother was wrong about what happened back then. Yuan’er apologizes to Sister Amber on behalf of Mother.”

“How can you apologize to me, Miss?” Amber stood up and helped Lu Zhiyuan up. “I grew up with Madam and know her temperament best. It was my carelessness that led me astray, and I failed to produce the necessary evidence. In Madam’s eyes, I falsely accused the Old Madam and the Marquis. It was only natural that Madam was angry and expelled me from the manor. I have never resented Madam for this. When I left the manor, Madam not only gave me money but also a contract of indenture. Madam has been very kind to me.”

Amber's eyes reddened, and she wiped her eyes with her sleeve: "Is Madam alright? I miss her, but I dare not go to see her."

Liu Ying, being an impatient person, blurted out everything that had happened in the past few days. Upon hearing that Lu Zhiyuan had been assassinated at the villa, Amber slammed her fist on the table. Hearing the conversation between Lu Huai and Ji Wanwan at Zui Chun Lou, she abruptly stood up and pulled out the long sword that had been lying on the wall for a long time.

"The Lu family is going too far!"

“It is indeed going too far.” Lu Zhiyuan agreed, “Therefore, could you please help me, Sister Amber? I want the Lu family and those who have bullied my mother and me to pay the price.”

"What does Miss want me to do?" Amber gripped her long sword tightly. "Whatever it is, as long as it can bring justice to Miss and Madam, I am willing to do it. Miss, rest assured, I am neither a member of the Xie family nor the Lu family. I have no relatives or friends, and I have no one to rely on. I will never implicate anyone."

Lu Zhiyuan tiptoed and leaned close to Amber's ear. After saying only a few words, Amber threw down the sword in her hand and said with delight in her eyes, "Miss is indeed Miss."

It was nearly dawn when I left the courtyard. The trees lining the street rustled in the wind. The clouds were heavy; it looked like it was going to rain in the city again.

After daybreak, Xie Chaoyun took Lu Zhiyuan to pay their respects to Old Madam Lu.

The five family members were eating porridge, making them seem somewhat superfluous. Fortunately, Xie Chaoyun didn't mind, and Lu Zhiyuan didn't mind at all.

Ji Wanwan seized the opportunity and spoke softly, "I didn't know you and Yuan'er were coming, so I didn't prepare any extra bowls and chopsticks. I hope you don't mind?"

Xie Chaoyun ignored her and walked up to Old Madam Lu, giving her a slight curtsy: "Is Mother's headache any better?"

"Thanks to Huai'er and Wanwan for serving me day and night, I am so fortunate to have them." Old Madam Lu held one in each hand: "On the contrary, you, the daughter-in-law, are so late. Anyone who didn't know better would think that you don't care about your mother-in-law."

“Aunt has misunderstood my sister. It’s not that my sister doesn’t want to take care of you, but that she’s not feeling well.” Ji Wanwan hesitated for a moment, then added, “I heard from Brother Huai that my sister vomited several times last night, and she looks like she’s pregnant.”

"What did you say?!" Old Madam Lu stared at Xie Chaoyun's belly: "You...you actually cheated on Huai'er...I knew you were a restless person. As the mistress of the Marquis's mansion, you wander around outside all day, saying you're doing business with people, but who knows what you've been doing with people behind Huai'er's back."