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

"Do you know why I didn't live past eight years old? It's because my grandmother and Madam Ji didn't want me to live." Lu Zhiyuan gestured for Liu Ying to hand the item to Lu Huai: "This is a tonic that my grandmother gave my mother when she was pregnant with Yuan'er. This tonic has a simple and easy-to-understand name: Rebirth Pill."

"Judging from Father's expression, he must know the effect of this gender-changing pill? That's right, it can reverse the sex of the fetus, but this kind of medicine is mostly used by charlatans to deceive people. If it were really that miraculous, the palace would have adopted it long ago."

Lu Zhiyuan held the prescription in her hand: "Father, do you still remember that when Mother was five months pregnant, she suffered from severe abdominal pain? It was Grandmother who invited Physician Wu from the palace to treat her. Physician Wu examined Mother's tonics and noticed something amiss. He persuaded Grandmother to change the prescription. Afterwards, Physician Wu retired and returned to his hometown, where he was killed by bandits on his way back."

“You mean—” Lu Huai shook his head: “No, Mother is not that kind of person.”

"Whether the robbers were sent by Grandmother is still unknown. Perhaps it was just a coincidence. But in Grandmother's eyes, with Physician Wu dead, the fact that she gave Mother the Reversal Pill became a secret that no one knew. But man proposes, God disposes. Physician Wu had a young apprentice who escaped the massacre and left behind all the prescriptions related to Physician Wu, especially the prescriptions Physician Wu had before his death, including the ones he took from the Marquis's mansion."

Lu Zhiyuan spread out the prescriptions one by one, pointing to one of them, which had the crooked handwriting of Old Madam Lu on it.

"Doctor Wu's medicine saved Mother and Yuan'er's lives. However, Mother has been taking the Rebirth Pill for more than two months, and its domineering effects have caused irreversible damage to Mother and Yuan'er. Yuan'er's heart disease is not due to Mother's excessive killing, but to Grandmother's evil intentions. As for her lung disease, it was caused by the wet nurse's improper care and has nothing to do with Mother."

Pick out a diagnosis certificate from those prescriptions.

“My mother gave her life to save Yuan’er’s life. It is a blessing that she is alive. Naturally, she could not continue the family line of the Marquis’s family. My grandmother knew the truth but deliberately concealed it and made things difficult for her again and again, making her live in the Marquis’s family with guilt for ten years. It was not my mother’s incompetence that caused the Marquis’s family to die out, but my grandmother’s lack of virtue that caused the Marquis’s family to have no successor.”

Lu Huai felt guilty and dared not look into Lu Zhiyuan's eyes.

"Whether it's true or false, Father can verify it himself. There's a reason for the grievance, and a debtor for the debt. I hope Father will not wrong Mother again in the future." Lu Zhiyuan put the prescription on the table: "Whether Yuan'er can live past eight years old or not, it is an indisputable fact that Father made Lu Jinyao take Yuan'er's place. Yuan'er doesn't care about the status of the Marquis's legitimate daughter. Compared to the surname Lu, Yuan'er would prefer to be surnamed Xie."

"Lu Zhiyuan, you—"

He wanted to say something, but when he met Lu Zhiyuan's judgmental gaze, he swallowed his rebuttals and rebukes.

Lu Huai left, looking like a rooster battered by a storm, slinking away dejectedly. Liu Ying watched his retreating figure and muttered softly, "Just let him go like that? Are the grievances suffered by the Madam and Miss just going to be forgotten?"

It certainly can't be left unresolved, but it's not time to settle accounts yet.

Looking at the sky, her mother and uncles should be coming out of the palace soon. Regardless of whether this plan succeeds or not, her mother's divorce from her father and the falling out between the Xie and Lu families are a foregone conclusion. As a child from a single-parent family, she is bound to follow her mother, and a falling out with the Marquis's mansion is only a matter of time.

There are some things that Grandmother doesn't mention, Mother doesn't know, but Father, as the head of the family, should know—so that when it comes to settling accounts later, the culprit can be found.

The weather at the end of August was unpredictable, with alternating sunshine and cloudy skies.

Urged on by the fireflies, Lu Zhiyuan dozed off and boarded a new carriage.

“Miss, aren’t you excited at all? Both the eldest and second young masters want to see you.” Liu Ying shook her arm. “Especially the second young master, he’s very hard to see. Even the eldest young master, you might not see him even once a year.”

Lu Zhiyuan tilted her head: "Is my second uncle really that difficult to get along with?"

Liu Ying explained, "It's not that he's difficult to get along with, it's that he's busy, extremely busy. The Second Young Master is not only the Vice Minister of Revenue, but also the Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince, responsible for teaching the Crown Prince and the other princes. The position of Vice Minister of Revenue is official, with proper official robes and seal. The position of Grand Tutor to the Crown Prince is only verbal, based on the Emperor's decree. I heard from the Eldest Young Master that this was something the Second Young Master requested himself. In addition, the Second Young Master is also in charge of compiling documents for the palace. I don't know what this compilation is, I only know that the Second Young Master is busy from the beginning to the end of the year. Fortunately, the Young Mistress is considerate, otherwise the Second Young Master's family would have fallen apart long ago."

The original storyline didn't describe the two uncles much. Like the original owner, they were cannon fodder who only appeared a few times before their families were raided and they were beheaded.

I peeked out from behind the curtain. It didn't seem like they were going to the Vice Minister's residence; I guessed they were going to the General's residence.

After traveling for about half an hour, just as Lu Zhiyuan was getting drowsy, a voice came from outside the carriage: "Where is Yuan'er?"

Lu Zhiyuan opened her eyes and saw a face as beautiful as a painting. Just as she was wondering if she was dreaming, that face moved closer.

"You're actually prettier than when you were little." In a daze, someone pinched my cheek. It didn't hurt, but it felt numb and tingly, with an awkward, electric-like sensation: "You're too thin. You need to eat more."

Liu Ying whispered, "It's the Second Young Master."

Lu Zhiyuan suddenly stood up, her forehead bumping into Xie Yubai's chin, and cried out in pain. Laughter came from beside her ears, and the fairy in the painting became a real person in the carriage.

I knew the Xie family members were good-looking, but I never imagined the men were even more handsome than the women, especially my second uncle, who was exceptionally good-looking. No wonder he was so busy, yet my aunt never complained. If I were my aunt, I would also be willing to stay with such a talented and handsome man.

Of course, my second aunt is no less impressive; after all, she's the kind of person who can capture my second uncle's heart.

"Second Uncle's chin is really hard." Lu Zhiyuan muttered as she got up. "Yuan'er greets Second Uncle and thanks Second Uncle for the big bump on my forehead."

Xie Yubai smiled, his smile so bright it was impossible to look away.

The eldest uncle waited in front of the carriage. In terms of appearance, he was about 80% similar to the second uncle, but their temperaments were completely different. Like his mother, the eldest uncle had practiced martial arts since childhood, and his facial features were more angular, with a natural air of heroism and fierceness in his eyes.

My eldest uncle, like my mother, had been to the battlefield and possessed exceptional military talent. However, the emperor was wary of the Xie family, forcing him to abandon his military career and become a merchant. Like my mother, he was not tainted by the stench of money, but unlike those rough military generals, he was more like a martial arts champion in a play.

Her second uncle was a typical civil official, exuding the integrity and pride of a scholar. His features were gentle, yet he possessed no trace of effeminacy. In her memory, her youngest uncle also looked similar, but he had an air of a wandering knight-errant.

In summary, her eldest maternal uncle resembled her maternal grandfather more than her mother, while her second and youngest maternal uncles resembled her maternal grandmother whom she had never met. Therefore, it can be inferred that her maternal grandmother was a rare beauty.

Lu Zhiyuan was carried off the car by her second uncle, and before she even touched the ground, she was in her eldest uncle's arms. Being held by two mature and handsome men in succession, her face turned as red as a ripe persimmon.

The original owner was young, but she wasn't, and she really couldn't resist the temptation of this stunning beauty.

She patted her cheeks, about to ask her uncle to put her down, when the Xie family gatekeeper shouted, "Miss is back! Young Miss is back too!"