Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

Whether in her past or present life, Liu Si Niang had never been beaten before. Now that she had suddenly been beaten, how could she possibly bear it?

More importantly, she now realizes that she cannot leave the manor, or she will be beaten. In other words, she has to stay in the manor.

In that case, what's the difference between this and going to jail?

Well, the emperor showed leniency to the uncle and aunt's family, not imprisoning them despite the big trouble they had caused. As a result, they are now forced to hide in the manor, which is tantamount to being imprisoned in disguise. This is unbearable for Liu Si Niang, who has always lived a good life and never suffered.

But she couldn't stand it and there was nothing she could do. Her family wouldn't allow her to get a divorce and go back, which made her furious. She thought that coming to this damned ancient world was really bad luck. She hadn't even had a few years of good life before things turned out like this.

How come even after stealing the male lead, she can't have a good life? Why is her luck so bad?

She had thought that before she transmigrated, she was just an ordinary person, but now she had transmigrated into a book, become a noble lady, and even stole the male lead. She thought that everything would be much better than before she transmigrated, except that she wouldn't have a phone to play with. But she was naive. Life in ancient times was not easy at all.

She didn't want to travel through time anymore; she wanted to go home!
Unfortunately, no one paid any attention to her.

Leaving aside the fact that Linlang gave the Song family's eldest branch a good beating and felt satisfied, let's just talk about the Prince's Mansion. Linlang had already turned fifteen and reached the age of marriage. Chu Yue was a nice person, so she naturally got together with him.

Meanwhile, after the New Year, Chu Erlang indeed divorced Chu Er's wife.

Originally, the maids and nannies of Second Madam Chu were afraid of bad luck if they went home with Second Madam Chu, so they wanted to kill her. However, the Crown Prince's wife and First Madam Chu were quite strict in managing the household, which prevented them from succeeding.

It was fortunate that the two men didn't succeed in their plan; otherwise, if Second Madam Chu had died, her family might have claimed that the Prince's Mansion had killed her and demanded compensation from them.

There's a gambler in their family, and a gambler will do anything for money.

So in the end, Second Madam Chu's maids and nannies left with her.

After Second Madam Chu returned home, her family members were not angry at all. On the contrary, they were very happy. After all, Second Madam Chu had been divorced and they could sell her again. How could they not be happy?

They had long been dissatisfied with the Zhou Prince's Mansion. They were not allowed to go in to find their daughter and get money, and their daughter was even confined. Even if they were allowed to enter, they would not be able to see Second Madam Chu or get any money.

Since the Zhou Prince's Mansion could no longer make money, they naturally disliked it. Now that their daughter had been divorced and could remarry, allowing them to make money again, they were naturally willing to accept it. Therefore, unlike other families who cared about their reputation and were unhappy that their daughter had been divorced, their attitude was different.

After that, they married off Second Madam Chu to the family that offered the highest dowry. However, Second Madam Chu's maids and servants were not allowed to go with their daughter.

It wasn't out of kindness, but rather because they felt there was no need to provide such a fine dowry for Second Madam Chu. So they selected lower-ranking maids and servants from their own homes to accompany her, keeping these two women at home to serve them. That way, if they ran out of money in the future, they could sell these two women or let them redeem themselves, and they would get more money in return.

When the maids and servants of Second Madam Chu realized they didn't have to go with her to her new husband's house, they breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Second Madam Chu's family wasn't well-off, it was at least a place she was familiar with, so it was still better. And it was the right thing for them not to go with Second Madam Chu to her new husband's family.

The reason why Second Madam Chu's new husband's family could afford to give so much money was because they were a merchant family. They wanted to marry a duke's daughter to improve their status. Such families are very shrewd. How could Second Madam Chu possibly make any money by marrying into such a family?

At first, Second Madam Chu wanted to raise money for her family, just like she had done at the Prince Zhou's mansion.

Although her experience of marrying into the Zhou family taught her that giving money to her gambling brother would displease her husband's family, she shouldn't have made the same mistake again.

However, this was not because the family she married was just an ordinary merchant family. She felt that as the daughter of a duke, her status was very high, so she looked down on the other party at all. In addition, she thought that since the other party was a merchant family, they must be rich. So, just like when she first married into the Zhou Prince's Mansion, she prepared to get money for her family.

As it turned out, the merchants were well-off, and their businesses were beyond her reach. When they discovered that she wanted to send money to her family, her husband's family beat her up. They told her that they had already found out why she had been divorced by the Prince of Zhou. Since they knew, they still dared to marry her because they weren't afraid that she would try to send money to her family. They said they would beat her every time she tried.

Grandma Chu had never seen anything like this before, and she was naturally terrified. She dared not mention getting money for her gambling brother from her maternal family.

Clearly, this is a case of the wicked being punished by the wicked. For Second Madam Chu to support her brother like this, she needs to be dealt with by her new husband's family, who are known for their underhanded methods. Otherwise, if ordinary families speak to her kindly, she won't appreciate it and will only think that the other party is easy to talk to and can become arrogant.

Leaving aside the fact that Second Madam Chu became well-behaved in her new husband's home, let's just say that after Second Master Chu divorced Second Madam Chu, he was going to continue arranging marriages.

Because he was impatient with dealing with Chu Erlang and Consort Han, a pair of fools, and also afraid that if he arranged a marriage for them, they would be dissatisfied and cause him trouble later, the Crown Prince of Zhou refused to take on the task no matter how much he asked his wife to do it. In the end, the Crown Prince of Zhou had no choice but to let Consort Han find someone herself, and he would oversee the process.

Consort Han was quite pleased that the Crown Prince of Zhou had asked her to find a marriage for her son.

In fact, she had long wanted to make decisions for her son herself. However, although she was a concubine of the heir apparent of a prince and her status was not low, she was still a concubine. According to the rules of this era, she was not Chu Erlang's proper mother. Chu Erlang's proper mother was the heir apparent of the Prince of Zhou.

Since she wasn't Chu Erlang's legitimate mother, she naturally couldn't interfere with Chu Erlang's marriage. So last time, although Chu Erlang didn't ask the Zhou Prince's wife to introduce him to a marriage, he also didn't ask Consort Han to find him a marriage. He found one himself—and then it was used to pay off Chu Erlang's family's debts through a wedding.

Having learned his lesson from the last time, he dared not look for help on his own this time. Since the Crown Prince's wife did not want to help either, and the Crown Prince had no other manpower, he asked Consort Han to find someone for him. Chu Erlang thought that his birth mother was much older than him and more experienced, so she would not be tricked like he had been. Therefore, he agreed.

Seeing that her son's first marriage had gone wrong, Consort Han naturally wanted to find him a good marriage this time as well.

Her background wasn't too bad—she came from a family of minor officials. These families were poor and had no connections in the capital, so they wanted to find a powerful backer and sent their daughter of marriageable age to the Prince of Zhou.

Although the royal family was only a member of the imperial clan and had little use in the court, they had the advantage of status and deep roots. Giving their daughter to the heir of the Prince of Zhou would give them a powerful backer with deep roots, which would be beneficial.

Because of her decent family background, Consort Han still had some connections, and now she planned to find a good daughter-in-law from among these connections. (End of this chapter)