"But once your son grows up, he ought to marry! His father and I can't stay by his side forever."
"Besides, once he has a wife, who should he dote on if not her? Someone else's wife?"
At that, she seemed to think of something dreadful and shook her head repeatedly.
"No, no, no. If Brother Yun dared take a concubine for no good reason, never mind Yunjian objecting—even his father wouldn't let him off."
The Anyi Marquis's Wife put herself in her son's shoes, but every word she spoke turned into a sharp blade plunging into Luo Chuyan's chest.
Although Luo Chuyan had only married a merchant, her husband was anything but well-behaved.
Aside from leaving her dowry untouched, he had committed every mistake a man could make.
He brought concubines into the household one after another. Just two days ago, he had taken in a young girl who had only just come of age.
Looking at those concubines, each so fresh and tender you could squeeze water out of them, then looking at her older cousin, the Anyi Marquis's Wife...
The enormous disparity made her pray every day for something to happen to Luo Chuyan.
Yet all the respect she had enjoyed in her household over the years depended entirely on the Anyi Marquis's Wife.
So she constantly visited the Anyi Marquis Residence, murmuring all sorts of nonsense into the Anyi Marquis's Wife's ear whenever she had nothing else to do.
Fortunately, the Anyi Marquis's Wife was innocent by nature. Otherwise, with all this instigation, the Anyi Marquis Residence would never have known a peaceful day.
The Anyi Marquis's Wife couldn't see through her vicious intentions.
But the Anyi Marquis and his son were no pushovers. Every time she visited the Anyi Marquis Residence, the father and son