Transmigrating into a book to save her best friend, her sickly husband vies for her affections every

After changing her clothes, she followed Ding Xiayu to the kitchen. The mess was cleared away, revealing a tunnel that led nowhere.

As Yu Jian Ding Xiayu bent down to go inside, a maid beside her nudged her, and she had no choice but to follow.

The tunnel was pitch black. Ding Xiayu walked at the front, holding a candle in her hand that swayed slightly.

By the dim light and a strange breeze, Wei Yu felt that the underground passages were interconnected, seemingly leading to many different places.

Her steps faltered only slightly, and her maid would immediately hum in acknowledgment, urging her to hurry on.

"Bicao," Ding Xiayu called out to the maid.

Bi Cao snorted coldly, but ultimately didn't speak harshly to Wei Yu anymore.

But when the words "green grass" appeared, it was Yu's turn to be stunned.

Bicao was also one of the maids who was taken away fifteen years ago as a substitute for Ning's youngest daughter.

Her memories were hazy and indistinct, but a soft, gentle figure would suddenly appear in her eyes, sparkling as she asked if she wanted some freshly baked pastries.

In the blink of an eye, the innocent and carefree demeanor of the past six months was gone, and he had transformed into a cold-blooded killer wielding a long knife.

"Who else is still alive?" Wei Yu asked.

Ding Xiayu turned a corner, and Bi Cao raised her long knife, signaling Wei Yu to go in the right direction, so that she wouldn't be unsure of who to follow.

“Only my wife, me, and you,” Bicao said. “The others are all dead.”

She pursed her lips for Yu.

Bi Cao was quite indignant, "My wife gave you the best home, but you occupy the position of my wife and do things that show no respect for your former master."

“If she truly had no feelings for me, she would have given me to Xie Yugui long ago,” Ding Xiayu said.

Bi Cao's voice grew even colder, "Traitor! Lackey! Deserves to die!" Her eyes were filled with undisguised contempt.

Yu remained silent.

Heaven was kind to her, sparing her from the ordeals that Ding Xiayu and Bicao went through to survive.

"We still have a little while to go," Ding Xiayu said. "I'll fill in the gaps in your knowledge."

She was afraid that Yu was too young when she left, and that the Xie family had raised her too well, causing her to have faint memories of her childhood. So she kept telling her about the North, hoping to revive her memories little by little.

“I fled with my father’s personal guards. People were dying all along the way. In the end, I was hidden among people who were being sold to the borderlands as slaves, and I escaped and went to the borderlands.”

"Fortunately, I was not destined to die. No one recognized me. The person who bought me saw that I could read and treated me like a human being. I lived in the border region for two years before paying off my debt to the Northern Rong people."

“The Northern Rong people look down on the Han people…” Ding Xiayu paused for a moment, “When I was thirteen, I knew that the Northern Rong people were going to wage war in the north, so I tried my best to follow them. I disguised myself as a man, but the truth was revealed and I became a military prostitute.”

Yu Mei's heart skipped a beat.

“But I can’t go back to the North alone. I can’t cross the grassland between the Western Rong and the North. I endured humiliation and finally saw my homeland after many years of separation.”

"I'm good-looking, so the military leader wanted to recruit merchants from the north as his inside agents. He drugged the head of the Ding family business at a banquet and told me to do my job well. Do you know what I look like when I open my eyes?"

"Girls change a lot as they grow up, so it's normal that my uncle didn't recognize me at first glance, but I knew it was him at a glance."

As she spoke, Ding Xiayu said indifferently, "However, innocence, reputation, and human relations are all meaningless to me. I just want to live, and I will use every means to live."

Her jade-like shoulders began to tremble slightly.

“My uncle had been preparing for me for a long time. After marrying into the Ding family and taking power, he found a girl about my age to live with him and raise her with his sickly daughter. She was always watched over by his trusted men even when she didn’t leave the house. So, it was very easy for me to switch places with him.”

"Where is her daughter?" Wei Yu asked.

“I haven’t finished yet,” Ding Xiayu said. “That little girl, no, my cousin, is too stubborn. She won’t let me kill anyone and even wants to go out and cause trouble. I think my uncle has been too lenient with her, which is why she has no respect for elders and no sense of hierarchy. Killing someone? It’s so easy. How could she not know how after seeing it so many times?”

Yu blurted out, "She's your cousin, your blood relative!"

"So what?" The first person she killed with her own hands was her cousin. "The Ding family deserved to die for what they did to my uncle. I was just helping my uncle get some interest back."

"Thus, I naturally became the cousin of the young lady of the Ding family, and the fake cousin of the young lady of the Ding family naturally became the fake young lady of the Ding family."

No wonder all of Xie Yugui's intelligence reports said that Ding Ruguo's daughter was living in seclusion.

She's dead, she's completely unimportant. Before, her existence was probably necessary to prove that Ding Ruguo could help the Ding family and was raising a daughter. Now, this daughter is no longer important.

“My uncle gave me a new name, Xia Yu. The flaws don't overshadow the beauty. He wants me to continue to be a shining pearl and wants to sweep away all the dust from my body.”

“Bicao, tell us about your experience,” Ding Xiayu said.

Bi Cao: "He led the escaped people to hide me in a village deep in the mountains. I recognized him as my father, and he taught me martial arts. We made a living by hunting. Later, a man from the village passed the imperial examination and went to town to broaden his horizons. When he came back, he talked about the Ning family and suddenly mentioned that we had settled in the village. That night, my father and I killed everyone in the village and ran away."

“The younger brother of that scholar escaped death and spread the word along the way that the Ning family girl was still alive. I went to kill him, but I hesitated and my heart softened. My father took the fatal blow for me. I chopped him up piece by piece and fed him to the dogs. Then I thought that I had no one left in the world to care about and wanted to go back to the Ning family to see her one last time. That's when I met my wife.”

"You're the only one living a life of luxury and decadence in the capital," Bicao said. "You didn't even ask the Xie family to help you find any surviving members of the Ning family?"

"Xie Fuguang is in the north. As long as you ask, according to what my wife said, the Xie family cares about you, so how could they not help you! You heartless and ungrateful bastard!"

“My wife and I have been looking for you. We both believe that you must be alive. My husband went to the Xie family’s old residence several times. In the end, my wife said that you might be hiding in the Duke’s Mansion in the capital. My husband took the initiative to befriend Xie Fuguang and extended his influence to the capital.”

Wei Yu understood perfectly well how well the Duke's Mansion had hidden her.

Only a dozen or so people knew that she was a cousin of the Xie family. Most people thought she was Xie Tinglan's head maid, and only a handful believed that she was the last descendant of the Ning family.

Only the two people in front of them and Ding Ruguo, who was probably already on his way out of the city, knew who she was.

"My lady went to the Marquis's residence alone because she managed to get your name out of Zhang Zhengming."

“Whether I am at the Marquis’s residence or not, the woman you speak of will go to the Marquis’s residence.”