After transmigrating, I became a stepmother.

After Lin Hao understood, she felt much more relaxed. She was determined to live a comfortable and carefree life in this lifetime so as not to let her parents down.

Just as she was feeling happy, she suddenly heard Liu Dan's anxious voice: "Madam, please come quickly! The young master has been beaten!" Lin Hao jumped up, almost falling over. She steadied herself by holding onto the bedpost before asking Liu Dan, who had already run into the room, "What happened?"

"I was just talking to someone in the courtyard when Hua'er, who's sweeping the garden, ran over and told me that the young master and the second young master, Yi, got into a fight." Liu Dan said quickly as she helped Lin Hao walk briskly outside.

When they arrived at the garden, they saw from afar that Wang, the second brother's wife, was holding Yi Ge'er, who was crying incessantly. She was blowing on Yi Ge'er's hand and occasionally scolding him. Meanwhile, the little boy stood alone and dumbfounded to the side, his eyes red and his clothes disheveled, with a small shoe print on his tummy. Their respective servants were also standing nearby.

Lin Hao's temper flared up immediately. She ran over to the little boy, squatted down, and gently pulled him into her arms.

"Baby, I'm here. Does anything hurt? Tell me, and I'll take a look." As she spoke, she carefully examined the little dumpling's body.

The little dumpling, who had been holding back her tears, couldn't stop crying as soon as she saw Lin Hao. She burst into sobs, and large teardrops fell onto Lin Hao's hand, as if they were falling into her heart.

"Don't cry, baby! Don't cry! Where does it hurt? I'll blow on it for you, and it won't hurt anymore!" Lin Hao was heartbroken and could only try her best to comfort the little boy while quickly checking his body for any injuries. Fortunately, Yi Ge'er was only a four-year-old child and didn't have much strength, so he seemed to be alright. However, Lin Hao still asked someone to fetch a doctor.

After a while, the little dumpling stopped crying, but because he had cried so hard, his little body was still twitching and hiccuping.

After all this commotion, the old lady naturally found out and called everyone over so she could find out what had happened.

When they arrived at Rongshoutang, the doctor also arrived. After a diagnosis, both children were fine. Little Baozi had been kicked in the stomach by Yige'er and had a slight bruise. Little Baozi had bitten Yige'er's hand and had a faint teeth mark.

After seeing the doctor off, the old lady asked with a livid face, "What exactly happened?"

Madam Wang spoke first: "Mother, this is not our Yi-ge'er's fault. It was Yu-ge'er who bit our Yi-ge'er's hand as soon as he came up and wouldn't let go, so our Yi-ge'er kicked him away. Look, he was bitten!" As she spoke, she raised her son's hand in her arms to prove that what she said was true.

"Really?" The old lady looked at her two grandsons, and seeing that they both nodded, she asked again, "Yu-ge'er, why did you bite someone?"

The little boy nestled in Lin Hao's arms, stubbornly refusing to speak.

"What could it be? It's just that the kid needs to be disciplined. He's so young and already like this. Who knows what he'll do when he grows up?" Wang added fuel to the fire from the side.

"Shut up!" Lin Hao shouted, startling everyone in the room. This was the first time she had spoken so harshly since entering the manor, completely unlike her usual self.

"What Yu-ge'er will become is none of your business. He has a mother above him, and me and Gu Liunian below him. It's not your place to interfere." Lin Hao was really impatient with her mouth. Just thinking about the scene she had just witnessed made her furious. Wang Shi was, after all, an aunt. It was understandable that she cared about her own son, but how could she ignore such a young nephew and even verbally abuse him? It was simply speechless.

Wang's face turned pale with anger, and she was about to retort when she heard the old lady say, "Your sister-in-law is right. You just need to mind your own business." She dared not speak her anger.

After Wang quieted down, Lin Hao took the opportunity to ask the little boy, "Baby, I know you're a good child and wouldn't bite someone for no reason, right?" Seeing the little boy nod, Lin Hao continued, "Then can you tell me why you bit your brother?"

The little boy hesitated for a moment, looking at Lin Hao's caring eyes, and slowly said, "He said I wasn't born to my mother, and that my mother would abandon me once she had her own child." "Mother, is what he said true?" When he asked this question, his eyes were filled with helplessness, like a little dog abandoned by the roadside.

From the very first sentence, Lin Hao wanted to curse, but not at Yi Ge'er, but at Wang Shi. She refused to believe that a four-year-old child like Yi Ge'er could say such things without someone whispering them in his ear. Wang Shi was truly vicious; saying such things to a two-year-old child, was she trying to traumatize him for life?

“Baby, what he said is wrong. We’ll go back in a bit and I’ll explain it to you, okay? Let’s go back and change our clothes first.” After receiving the little boy’s affirmative answer, Lin Hao bowed to the old lady, then carried the little boy back to her own courtyard. She figured that given the old lady’s love for the little boy, she wouldn’t hold it against him.

Sure enough, after Lin Hao left, the old lady looked at Wang Shi, who finally realized things were going badly and tried to slip away, and coldly said, "I think you've had enough of a good life and just want to make things difficult. Since that's the case, then there's no need to continue. When the second son comes back, we'll divide the family property!"

She had never really felt any affection for the second son, who was born out of wedlock, especially since his mother was a maid who had secretly slept with her back then, which only made her more disgusted with her. Taking this opportunity, she decided to drive the whole family away, so she wouldn't have to see them or be bothered by them anymore.

Wang was dumbfounded. Divide the family property? What kind of family property division? If that good-for-nothing in her family who couldn't lift a finger and knew nothing about farming were to divide the family property, would he leave her and her child to starve? Absolutely not! Thinking of this, she no longer cared about saving face or anything else.

“Mother, we can’t separate the family! You are still alive, how can we separate the family? Wouldn’t that make us unfilial?” she cried.

The old lady was too lazy to waste words with her, so she went straight into the inner room and left her there to cry on her own. She figured she'd cry herself out and then leave.