The Marquis's Wife nestled in Yunjian's arms, listening to Yunjian and Wenren Luoshui's thoughts.
Her tears fell one after another, like pearls from a broken string.
[Wenren Luoshui: She even took advantage of the Marquis's Wife's dislike of going out, often writing home to trade gossip with her close friends there. The subject of that gossip was usually the Marquis's Wife.]
[Whenever the Marquis's Wife received letters from her parents or siblings, she felt as though she were lost in the clouds. Thanks to Luo Chuyan, everyone back home thought the Marquis's Wife wasn't doing very well in the Capital City.]
[They said the Marquis's Wife was too jealous, insisting that she be the only woman in the marquis's household. Yet she was frail, and after all these years, she had only borne the Marquis's Residence one son.]
[They also said the Marquis's Wife cried at the drop of a hat, and that the marquis and the Young Marquis often used work as an excuse not to return to the Marquis's Residence because of it.]
[When these stories reached her hometown, even if her parents explained things for her, outsiders assumed they were merely trying to salvage her dignity. Some clan elders even went to her parents and urged them to talk sense into her. If she truly didn't want the marquis to take outsiders as concubines, why not select a few women from the clan who could bear plenty of children and send them to him?]
[Her parents were so furious that they nearly cut ties with those people.]
*[Yunjian: Hah! Give someone a bowl of rice and they thank you; give them a bushel and they resent you! If the Marquis's Wife hadn't backed Luo Chuyan up, that philandering husband of hers would probably have had all his