Only after being reborn did I realize that I was the white moonlight of a powerful minister.

"I...I just have no intention of getting married." Ye Wanyu felt a little guilty in front of her eldest sister.

"So what do you want to do?" Ye Wanning asked. "Wanyu, I won't force you to marry, but you need to think carefully about what you want to do. And the most important question is, will you regret it?"

Once you've made a choice, there's no going back.

Ye Wanyu fell silent. In truth, she hadn't thought it through clearly herself; she was just feeling averse to it. "Big sister, what about you? Do you still want to get married?"

"As for me..." Ye Wanning sighed, "I didn't want to, so I'm looking for a way out for myself and planning for the future. Wanyu, your older brothers won't look down on you or me, but they will get old, and you need to find your own way. Think about it carefully. You can become a female teacher, or you can go into seclusion to study Taoism, or you can run your own business."

Upon hearing the words "female tutor," Ye Wanyu shook her head repeatedly. She wasn't the type to settle down and study, much less willing to become a female tutor. Cultivating oneself in seclusion was even less suited to her; her restless personality prevented her from sitting still. As for running a business, she had never done that before. With her older siblings around, she only needed to learn how to be a matriarch.

Ye Wanyu couldn't choose from the options Ye Wanning presented. Seeing her sister's troubled frown, she knew that the girl's thoughts were just a passing fancy and she hadn't made up her mind yet.

Ye Wanhua, who had been silent all along, asked in a low voice, "Elder sister, can girls from families like ours really become female tutors?"

“Of course, as long as you are talented, countless noble families would be vying to hire you. Which of the female tutors in our capital doesn't come from a prestigious family? It's true that some have fallen on hard times, but look at those who do well—their reputations are excellent.” After saying this, Ye Wanning finally thought to ask, “Wanhua, you're not tempted, are you?”

Of the three daughters of the Ye family, Ye Wanning is composed, Ye Wanyu is lively, and Ye Wanhua is somewhat timid.

When Jiang Si talked about Ye Wanhua's marriage, she was actually more worried than Ye Wanyu. Ye Wanyu had a fiery personality and would retaliate if she was wronged, but Ye Wanhua wouldn't. Given Wanhua's personality, her husband's family background wasn't important; what mattered was that her husband had a good character and that his whole family were good people. Otherwise, if she married Ye Wanhua off, she would only shed tears if she suffered losses.

But there's no such thing as a free lunch. It's already difficult enough to find a man who is both good-natured and good-looking, let alone one whose whole family is good.

"I was just asking," Ye Wanhua said.

"If you're thinking about it, that's fine too. You're more composed than Wanyu. If you were to get married, I'd have a lot more to worry about." Ye Wanning sighed and entered her sister-in-law's courtyard. Lin Shi, who looked more plump, was walking around in the courtyard.

“I wanted to go, but your brother told me I couldn’t. I’m vomiting everything I eat this pregnancy, and my body isn’t in good shape.” Madam Lin pulled Ye Wanning to sit down. A tea table was set up in the courtyard, and the autumn breeze was gentle, making it quite comfortable. “Let me see you. Not bad, not bad, you look great.”

After finishing her sentence, Lin took a sour plum and ate it, saying, "My mouth feels tasteless, so I always want to try something."

When Ye Wanning saw the sour plum, she suddenly wanted to eat it too. She didn't usually eat sour things, but for some reason, she grabbed one as if by magic.

"Big sister, doesn't it taste sour to you?" Ye Wanyu's mouth watered just thinking about it. "The sour plums here, sister-in-law, make me feel like my teeth are going to fall out after eating just one. You didn't eat sour things before?"

"I don't know why, but when I saw these sour plums today, I really wanted to try them." Ye Wanning thought they were alright, and even took another one.

If Ye Wanning hadn't been unmarried, Madam Lin would have suspected that Ye Wanning was also pregnant, as she was eating one fruit after another just like her.

“I like you to take some back.” Lin said she had a lot. “I heard I wanted to eat sour things, so my mother found a lot of sour things, as well as hawthorn and jujube cake. I don’t like the kind that isn’t sour; it has to be really sour.”

It is said that sour foods indicate a boy and spicy foods indicate a girl. When Madam Lin learned that her daughter loved sour foods, she was overjoyed and sent everything that was available in the mansion and sold outside to the Ye family.

Ye Wanning hadn't expected to suddenly crave food. "No need, sister-in-law. I probably just wanted to eat because I saw you eating. I heard from my second sister-in-law that you couldn't eat anything, and I was worried about you."

"It's not easy being a woman. Giving birth is like entering the gates of hell. Ten months of pregnancy are difficult in every way. You'll understand when you become mothers." Lin had a lot to say to Ye Wanning.

They chatted for a while, until it was almost time for dinner, before the three sisters went together to visit Madam Ye.

When Ye Mingyue returned from the shop that night, he had just seen Ye Wanning when he grabbed a handful of silver notes. “I was in such a hurry to get back that I didn’t have time to sort them out. Here are 20,000 taels of silver notes. You need money everywhere in the Princess’s residence. This is all money earned from the shop. I kept some as capital, but this is all for you.”

When Yunzhi saw the 20,000 taels of silver notes, she was so shocked that she couldn't close her mouth. "Second Master, you've earned so much money in such a short time?"

“Not much left. I could have earned more, but you don’t know, the academy takes time to manage. I’ve already thought it through. After the New Year, I’ll come clean with my older brother. As for the books, let whoever wants to read them read them. I’m not reading them anymore.”

He looked at the money on the table with a smile. Being able to demonstrate his value and be a useful member of the family gave Ye Mingyue a great sense of accomplishment.

But before he could catch up with his sister, a furious roar suddenly rang out from the courtyard, "Ye Mingyue, you brat, get out here right now!"

"It's my elder brother!" Ye Mingyue's first reaction was to hide the silver notes, but then he wondered, "Why is he so angry?"

Ye Wanning had a bad feeling and quickly stuffed the money under the cushion. "Don't go out yet, I'll go talk to my brother."

Ye Mingyue's eyebrows twitched. "This shouldn't be. I've been being extra careful every day. Surely my older brother couldn't have found out?"

As soon as this idea came to mind, Ye Mingyue couldn't sit still anymore, feeling like he was about to be carried away at any moment.

Ye Wanning opened the door and saw her elder brother holding the family law in his hand. She felt a little guilty and said, "Brother, you..."

"Don't say anything, I also want to settle accounts with you. Let Ye Mingyue come out first!" Ye Mingde was a typical feudal patriarch. He considered it a matter of propriety not to enter his sister's bedroom at night.

Ye Wanning knew things were going badly. If her second brother came out now, she would definitely be beaten half to death. She might as well run away first.

She turned and went inside, intending for her second brother to run away, but he had already run away.

"Second Master said he's sorry to you and will leave first. He said First Master definitely won't lay a hand on you and he's asking you to help him fend off the threat." Yunzhi had never seen First Master so angry before, and she was a little scared.

Ye Wanning: ...He really is her good brother.

However, they underestimated their elder brother's understanding of them. Before Ye Wanning could even leave, they heard a cry of "Ouch!" Ye Mingde had already sent people to wait outside the courtyard. Today, Ye Mingyue had no chance of escaping!