[Heh! Little Yunyue, what do you suppose your second sister-in-law meant by those words?]
[Yunjian: I couldn't care less who she meant it for!]
Yunjian's family in her past life had also been quite complicated. Her father was a live-in son-in-law, and shortly after her mother gave birth to her, her father and his mistress schemed to anger her mother to death, leaving her dumped at her grandmother's place in the countryside.
She lived in the countryside until middle school age. Because she tested into the local best middle school and entered with the top score, her father finally brought her back home.
Seeing Yun Fei being reprimanded by Ye Qianyi, she inexplicably thought of her own past life!
"Second sister-in-law is putting on quite the impressive display! Since second sister-in-law dislikes Fei'fei so much, from now on Fei'fei will live with me. Stop letting her get in your way."
Once she finished speaking, Yunjian paid no attention to Ye Qianyi's reaction and neatly instructed the servants to move Yun Fei's seat between her and Commandery Princess Luoshui.
"Fei'fei, your auntie is telling you this: some people are born with shallow ties to their parents, but you must believe that this has nothing to do with you. It's simply that they lack the fortune for it, so we'll just live our own lives well!"
Yunjian took a piece of fine-textured ink-jade from her person and hung it around the girl's neck.
"This is the birthday gift my mother gave me, and today Auntie gives it to you. Without your mother, you still have your auntie, grandmother, grandfather, eldest uncle, eldest aunt, third uncle, third aunt, and a whole bunch of older brothers, older sisters, and younger sisters right here!"
Yunjian's voice was clearly not heavy, yet the words she spoke delivered endless strength to Yun Fei.
The girl looked up at Yunjian with those distinct, black-and-white eyes and nodded solemnly toward her.
From this moment on, a little girl's destiny shifted.
"Little Sister, for the sake of such a little girl, do you have to go against me like this?"
Ye Qianyi did not understand. When she failed to teach that dead girl proper manners, they criticized her.
Now that she was teaching her manners, she still got rebuked!
Why must they treat her this way?
The more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. Tears dripped down drop by drop, and she felt entirely wretched.
"Lady Ye, do you truly not understand, or do you think that because little Fei is your own biological daughter, you can torment her however you please?"
Madam Yun could not bear to watch any longer. She was usually a very amiable person and never lightly reprimanded her daughters-in-law.
Throughout the entire Capital City, who didn't say the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law relationships in the Yun Residence were harmonious?
How did this second daughter-in-law change her temperament so much after going out and returning?
Challenged aloud by Madam Yun, Lady Ye felt even more aggrieved.
[What is she crying for? If you feel so wronged, why don't you go experience the life your biological daughter has lived all these years! Coming back only to be ignored by your father and brothers, and treated with hostility by your mother. She hasn't even cried yet! You have the nerve to cry?]
Commandery Princess Luoshui truly had no idea what was going on in Lady Ye's head. Wasn't this just mental illness?
It's understandable if you can't accept that the child you raised for ten years belongs to someone else and therefore dislike your own biological daughter, but why join forces with the adopted daughter to show hostility toward her?
No person with a normal brain could do such a thing!
"Enough. From now on, little Fei will stay by this old woman's side."
Madam Yun spoke her decision, and Lady Ye dared not openly refute it, leaving her to sit in her seat, feeling aggrieved and sniffling.
[System, why do I feel like the look Yun Shuang is giving me is full of killing intent?]
[Salty Fish System: Congratulations, host, you have once again discovered a hidden dungeon.]
[Yunjian: There's something wrong with this Yun Shuang?]
The Yun family members: ???
What could possibly be wrong with a little child?
Ye Qianyi: !!!!
After criticizing her, this Commandery Princess Luoshui was now starting to criticize her daughter!
Why wouldn't she just drop dead?!
No sooner had Ye Qianyi thought this than she suddenly felt a heavy tightness in her chest, so suffocating that she could barely breathe.
She accidentally tumbled right out of her chair, leaving her eldest sister-in-law, who sat beside her, with no choice but to put down her chopsticks and help her up from the floor with the aid of a maidservant.
[Little Yunyue, has your second sister-in-law met her karmic retribution?]
[Yunjian: Whether it's retribution or not, she's already lost face anyway.]
Ye Qianyi: To think she could act like such a sister-in-law! Actually siding with outsiders to mock her, a sister-in-law!
Ye Qianyi glared viciously at Yunjian, but Yunjian was not afraid of her at all, disdainfully rolling her eyes in response.
[Salty Fish System: This Yun Shuang-her core is actually Wenren Shuang. She bound herself to a system from who knows where, and that system told her it could help her be reborn, with the catch that each rebirth costs her ten years of lifespan.]
[At first Wenren Shuang hesitated somewhat, but the system told her that as long as she conquered enough men, the remaining lifespans of the men she conquered would be sent to her. Even if those men divorced or murdered their legal wives for her, those lifespans could also be transferred to Wenren Shuang.]
[This system isn't an orthodox one, is it? Which proper system steals its host's life?]
[Salty Fish System: Exactly. The system on her is actually a bad system destined to be sent to the Destruction Center. It doesn't know how it managed to escape, and it ended up binding with Wenren Shuang.]
For some reason, the surrounding people capable of hearing Commandery Princess Luoshui's inner voice could still hear her, but the words she spoke came out as a series of bird chirps during this exchange.
Everyone exchanged glances. It looked like the system on Commandery Princess Luoshui was capable of encrypting their conversation.
[So her becoming Yun Zheng's daughter is actually a plot to take the Yun family's lives?]
[Salty Fish System: As soon as she finishes eating, she's going to go charm the other men of the Yun family! According to the script arranged for her by her system, Minister Yun will treat her like his precious biological daughter the moment he sees her. Whatever she wants, Minister Yun will give her, and if there's anything he can't manage, he'll even go into the palace to find Consort Yun.]
[Salty Fish System: The eldest and third uncles of the Yun family will take her to the military camp and have all the soldiers there obey her command. Later, the emperor will order them to dispatch troops to suppress bandits, but the two generals won't be able to produce the tiger tally because they gave it to Yun Shuang to play with just to win her favor, resulting in the entire Yun family being beheaded collectively by the emperor.]
[Yunjian: What kind of trashy script is this? How important is a tiger tally-can you just hand it over to someone to play with? Can the person who wrote this script have some common sense? Besides, my dad could never turn into the kind of person you're describing!]
The Yun family members did hear this latter portion of the conversation, prompting them to collectively turn their heads and stare at Yun Shuang.
Looking at her like this, she was supposed to wrap their husbands around her little finger?!
If their husbands lacked brains to that degree, how could they even serve as officials outside? What kind of joke was this?
Sensing everyone's gazes, Yun Shuang assumed they were being affected by her Captivating Gu Insect.
To ensure her current plan went off without a hitch, she had traded lifespan with the system for something called a Captivating Gu Insect.
It was said that once anyone ingested this Gu insect, she would transform into a universal heartthrob.
Every man would fall prostrate before her pomegranate skirt!
She had not expected the Gu insect's potency to be this formidable; not only did it attract men, but even women were drawn to her as well!
Having too much charm truly was a trouble of its own.
Following the others, Commandery Princess Luoshui looked toward Yun Shuang. Taking a careful look at the girl's physiognomy, she discovered that a Gu insect was actually present inside her body!
Quietly beneath the table, she used yellow paper to fold a large rooster.
Yun Shuang was still basking in the pride of her own charm when she suddenly felt a pain in her head, as if something was being yanked right out of her.
Once that large rooster forced the Gu insect out, it immediately bolted outside. The whole affair happened in a split second, and not until the large rooster vanished did everyone snap back to their senses.
[Yunjian: What was that just now?]
[Don't worry. The thing that was clouding people's minds on her is gone. You just need to sit back and watch the show.]
[Yunjian: Truly worthy of being my best friend!]