"Sutai, be good! Mother's here."
Madam Jin was momentarily stunned. She had not expected Wang Sutai to voice such a girlish complaint, but she reacted quickly, instantly putting on the gentle smile of a mother. She patted Wang Sutai's slender shoulder and comforted her.
Knowing that the crux lay in Lüqiu Qingfeng's ascension to Spirit Transformation, after consoling her for a while, she paused and began explaining what Wang Sutai could and could not say in front of Wei Tu.
"With Venerable Wei here, no matter how dissatisfied Lüqiu Qingfeng is with you, she will not show it openly. But if you reveal some flaw yourself... like just now, saying you regretted it and did not wish to marry Venerable Wei through an alliance... If Venerable Wei heard that, he would certainly feel uncomfortable..."
"Even if old feelings remain, in time, you will not be able to avoid being neglected."
Madam Jin stroked Wang Sutai's beautiful hair and spoke softly.
Her wealth and splendor were now tied entirely to Wang Sutai alone. If Wang Sutai offended Wei Tu and Lüqiu Qingfeng, nothing much would happen to Wang Sutai—but the same might not be true for her.
With Wei Tu's shrewdness, how could he fail to know that Wang Sutai was merely the "puppet" she had pushed before the public?
If only I were you. To have the status of a Spirit Transformation Dao companion... Madam Jin sighed mournfully to herself, regretting that she had become another man's wife too early and married too soon.
She was confident that if she had taken the stage herself, she would not have been inferior to Lüqiu Qingfeng. The one who became a Venerable today might very well have been her, rather than Lüqiu Qingfeng, this female cultivator from a foreign land.
"Mother, your