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

Grand Tutor Wei?

Lu Zhiyuan searched her memory and finally remembered such a person.

Born into a prominent family, he achieved early success and enjoyed a smooth career in middle age, serving as the emperor's tutor for three years. When the emperor was the crown prince, he had a formally married crown princess, but she was in poor health and died a month before the emperor ascended the throne, leaving no children for him.

Popular rumor holds that the Crown Princess was poisoned by the Emperor because she and her family were no longer of any use to him. The Wei family was chosen by the Emperor as his new allies, and Wei Yanran, the daughter of Grand Tutor Wei, was his chosen Empress.

Wei Yanran entered the palace as a concubine and was greatly favored. Soon after entering the palace, she became pregnant. Under the circumstances at the time, as long as she gave birth to a child successfully, regardless of whether it was a boy or a girl, she could ascend to the position of empress.

Man proposes, God disposes; Wei Yanran died in childbirth, along with her unborn child.

Wei Yanran's death dealt a heavy blow to Grand Tutor Wei, aging him several years overnight. A few years later, his son died unexpectedly, completely extinguishing his desire to manipulate events in the court.

According to the original text, he should have resigned from his official post and retired to the mountains. How did Lu Jinyao come to be involved with him?

Prince Yong'an!

How could she forget this person?

Although the original text does not mention his relationship with Grand Tutor Wei, they must have known each other, and Grand Tutor Wei's former residence was located within his fiefdom. Grand Tutor Wei must have harbored resentment over Wei Yanran's death, but due to the Wei family and his son's influence, he dared not question the emperor. His son's unexpected death left him without such considerations, and with the instigation of Prince Yong'an, it was inevitable that he would clash with Prince Yong'an.

After figuring out the details, Lu Zhiyuan smiled and looked directly into Lu Jinyao's eyes, saying, "What is your relationship with the Marquis's mansion, sister? Do you think you can just snatch the position of the legitimate daughter?"

No matter how cunning she was, she was still just a ten-year-old girl. Unable to withstand Lu Zhiyuan's provocation, she suppressed her anger and said, "Little sister, have you forgotten? My name, Lu Jinyao, is written on the Lu family genealogy."

"So what?" Lu Zhiyuan pushed her aside and went into the courtyard: "You're listed in the Lu family's genealogy, not the Marquis's!"

"You illiterate girl!" Lu Jinyao finally couldn't hold back anymore and said angrily, "My name is written below the Marquis's. I am the Marquis's daughter, and naturally the legitimate daughter of the Pingnan Marquis's mansion."

"If it's written below the Marquis's name, then it means the Marquis's daughter, the legitimate daughter of the Pingnan Marquis's mansion? Then, if I ask the old clan chief to write Awang's name on it, will Awang become the legitimate son?"

Lu Jinyao was taken aback: "Who is Awang?"

Liu Ying peeked out and watched the show, saying, "A Wang is the big yellow dog kept in the backyard. Unlike you, Miss, he is a purebred dog kept by the Marquis's family."

Lu Jinyao reached out her hand, but Lu Zhiyuan grasped it and pushed it back to its original position.

“Sister, it’s best not to act rashly. What if you hurt her and she cries?” Lu Zhiyuan sat in the rocking chair under the flower trellis. “Regardless of whether my name, Lu Zhiyuan, is on the family tree or not, I am a legitimate daughter of the Marquis’s family. Not only does the Marquis’s family recognize me, but the common people do too, and the imperial court does as well. On the contrary, sister, don’t you understand your own identity? Don’t you have any idea how your name got written on it?”

Lu Jinyao was speechless and said angrily, "So what? It wasn't my mother and I who forced the Marquis to write that name! The Marquis knew my mother was married when they were together. My mother never said I was the Marquis's biological daughter. It was the Marquis who promised my mother that I had to take his surname, Lu. It was also the Marquis who promised my mother that he would treat me as his own daughter, regardless of whether I was his daughter or not. Now you're using the fact that I'm not the Marquis's bloodline as an excuse. Your Marquis's mansion is going too far in bullying us."

“Those who have been educated know how to play mind games.” Lu Zhiyuan closed her eyes and shook her: “When the Marquis was with your mother, did he know that your mother was married? Did your mother not know that the Marquis was married? Knowing that someone else was married, she still went to be his mistress. This is knowingly being a mistress, it’s shameless! She has a husband herself, but she still clung to someone else’s husband. This is adultery, it’s having an affair while married, it’s punishable by being drowned in a pig cage.”

Lu Jinyao was so angry that her face turned red, but she couldn't get a word in edgewise.

“What Ji Wanwan said is not important. What is important is that she made the Marquis believe that you are his daughter. You two are both established and responsible, that’s what they mean.” Lu Zhiyuan opened her eyes: “I’m keeping you on the family tree not because I’m magnanimous, nor because I don’t have the ability to remove you. I’m giving you an opportunity to share the honor and disgrace of the Marquis’s mansion. Come on, ask Miss Lu and all the people she brought to leave.”

"Lu Zhiyuan, how dare you chase me away? Do you know that my mother is now in charge of Fangfei Courtyard?" Lu Jinyao pointed at Lu Zhiyuan: "If you know what's good for you, get out of here right now and give me the antidote. Linglan is a maid that my godfather gave me; she's from the Wei family."

"My sister is really filial. Even though our mother is locked in the dungeon, she's still acting like a tyrant here."

"Dungeon? What dungeon?" Lu Jinyao asked in surprise. "You locked my mother in a dungeon? Lu Zhiyuan, how dare you?"

“If your ears are useless, then donate them.” Lu Zhiyuan pinched her earlobe. “The one who locked your mother in the dungeon was Lord Lu, whom you called father for ten years. As for why she was locked in the dungeon, it should be related to her poisoning your grandmother. As for you, you caused him to be imprisoned by the Southern Chu people. Do you think he will come after you? Lu Jinyao, if I were you, I would leave now to avoid facing the furious Lord Lu.”

Lu Jinyao felt a chill in her heart and shook her head, saying, "No, the Marquis would not treat my mother like that."

Sure enough, the daughter born to a mistress was both foolish and naive.

Lu Jinyao went to the dungeon and saw Ji Wanwan locked up inside. She had never seen her mother so disheveled, nor had she ever seen her mother so humble and pleading with her. Through that door, she felt a strange sense of pleasure she had never experienced before.

From the time she could remember, her mother demanded that she please Lu Huai in everything she did, that she not have her own preferences or emotions, and that she play the role of a well-behaved and sensible daughter in front of Lu Huai. If she made the slightest mistake, she would be beaten or scolded.

She never made her move in places where it could be seen, after all, she had to play the role of a gentle and loving mother in front of Lu Huai.

Gradually, she learned to hide herself and become the kind of good daughter her mother wanted. But she was unhappy and miserable. The only thing that could keep her going was her mother's promise.

She said she would make her the most noble daughter of a marquis's family, the most dazzling noblewoman in the capital and even the whole world.

Now, she feels that her mother not only cannot help her succeed, but will instead become a stumbling block on her path to success.

She pulled out the hairpin, secretly held it in her hand, and said to Ji Wanwan, who was kneeling in front of the prison door, "Mother, I have a way to wipe out Xie Chaoyun and the Xie family in one fell swoop."

Ji Wanwan's eyes lit up: "What method? Is it that the Prince has arrived? The Prince knows you are her..."

“There are some things that Mother should not say. Too much talk leads to mistakes.” Lu Jinyao said expressionlessly as she poked the hairpin into her mother’s neck.