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Chapter 1878 Cousin 49
The Duke of Anguo's mansion didn't have the last laugh. Although Linlang didn't do anything behind the scenes, she was happy to see this happen.

Even if Empress Liu's son becomes emperor, it doesn't necessarily mean that the Duke of Cheng'en's family will be restored to their former titles. But what if that happens? So it's better if someone else's son becomes emperor.

The current emperor has no connection with the Duke of Cheng'en's mansion. In fact, the new emperor and his mother did not have a good relationship with Empress Liu back then. After all, there is competition among princes and concubines, so it would be strange if the relationship was not good.

The new emperor and his mother did not have a good relationship with Empress Liu, so it was impossible for them to restore the title of Empress Liu's sister's family.

Since the new emperor would not restore Liu Si Niang's family to their former titles, it would naturally be more pleasing for Lin Lang that the new emperor ascended to the throne than Empress Liu's son.

Otherwise, if Empress Liu's son ascends the throne and intends to restore Liu Si Niang's family's titles, or if Liu Si Niang's family lives a better life because of him, then Lin Lang will have to personally take action to end the lives of Liu Si Niang and the others. After all, she can't let these people who harmed the original owner of this body live a good life.

Now that Empress Liu's son has become emperor, Linlang will not kill Liu Si Niang and the others; let them torment each other as they please.

Yes, we torture each other.

After Empress Liu's son died, Madam Song and others knew that their family's hopes of regaining their titles were dashed.

Not only is there no hope of restoring his title, but his daughter-in-law's family is also going to decline.

After all, the new emperor will not be Empress Liu's son, so how much prestige will the Duke of Anguo's mansion still have? The truly respectable family will be the new emperor's birth mother's family.

Just as they had predicted, after the new emperor ascended the throne, the Duke of Anguo's mansion indeed began to decline.

Actually, before Empress Liu's son died and the new emperor ascended the throne, people knew that the Duke of Anguo's family had no future, so fewer people came to curry favor with them; now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, he is no longer close to the Duke of Anguo's family, so naturally they have declined even more.

With the decline of the Duke of Anguo's mansion, the eldest branch of the Song family also suffered.

Previously, in order to ensure that Empress Liu's son could ascend to the throne, the Duke of Anguo's mansion had given money to keep Liu Si Niang in check, so as to prevent her from making a fuss about getting a divorce.

Now that Empress Liu's son is gone and can no longer ascend the throne, how could the Duke of Anguo's mansion possibly provide money for the Song family's main branch? After all, with the decline of the Duke of Anguo's mansion, their gray income has decreased, and they have followed the path of the Duke of Chengen's mansion, getting used to spending money extravagantly. Now that they have declined and their income has decreased, where would they find the extra money to support the Song family's main branch?

So Liu Si Niang couldn't get the money and threatened to divorce him. The Duke of Anguo's mansion didn't object anymore. Anyway, they didn't need to worry about Liu Si Niang's divorce affecting Empress Liu. So let her divorce him if she wanted. The family was declining and had no money anyway. If she divorced and remarried, she might be able to collect a dowry again. Liu Si Niang was completely numb when she realized that she couldn't get the money by threatening to divorce.

You see, ever since the Duke of Chengen's mansion was stripped of its title and its property confiscated, she lost her status and was forced to live in this dilapidated countryside (the manor is no different from the countryside). She couldn't make ends meet, but fortunately, her family still provided her with money, so she didn't have to worry about food and drink.

Then her husband's family ran out of money, and she relied entirely on the money she had given them before. Now her own family isn't giving her any money either. Is she going to starve? So how can she not feel anxious?
She couldn't stand this kind of life, especially since her family stopped giving her money, her mother-in-law even had the nerve to give her the cold shoulder, and her husband had become much more distant. How could she tolerate this?

Perhaps women in this era can endure it. After all, people in this era are expected to follow their husbands wherever they go, whether they marry a chicken or a dog. If their mother-in-law or husband treats them badly, they might run back to their parents' home to try and get some money back so that their mother-in-law and husband will be happy and treat them well.

She guessed that this was probably her mother-in-law and husband's little scheme, thinking that if they gave her a hard time, she would try to get money from her parents' family, since their whole family was now relying on her parents' family for money to make ends meet.

But she wasn't from this era. She saw that she had been supporting her mother-in-law and husband all these years, and now that she couldn't get any money from them, they still had the nerve to give her attitude. So she immediately started making a scene and demanded a divorce.

Previously, Liu Si Niang pretended to want a divorce, went to her parents' home to make a scene, and brought back money. They were happy that she came up with such an excuse. But when Liu Si Niang really intended to divorce them and abandon their poor family to go back to her parents' home to live a life of luxury, Madam Song and Song Da Lang panicked.

Just as Liu Siniang had guessed, their previous hostility towards her when she didn't bring any money home was indeed an attempt to make things difficult for her, hoping she would return to her parents' home and try to get more money in order to please them. They didn't really want to drive her away, because if she left, where would their family get the money to live?

They never imagined that Liu Si Niang, who had already had three children with Song Da Lang, would dare to bring up divorce. Shouldn't she be a member of the Song family from birth to death? How dare she ask for a divorce?

Little did they know that Liu Si Niang was a modern person, not someone from this era, and was not afraid of divorce at all. Of course, the main reason was that her family was doing quite well, which gave her the confidence to divorce.

Liu Si Niang thought that even if she was old, she could still remarry, no matter how badly she married, it couldn't be worse than Song Da Lang's family. Impossible. Over the years, the Song family had relied entirely on her taking money from her maternal family to support them. With her status as the daughter of a Duke, even if she was old, she could definitely marry into a wealthy family. After all, with the title of Duke's Mansion and the identity of the Empress Dowager's sister, even if she married poorly, she could still marry into a rich family, right? She would definitely have money to spend and wouldn't have to worry about food and drink. That would be fine.

In fact, after the new emperor ascended the throne, she had wanted to go to the palace to see her sister, Empress Dowager Liu. Unfortunately, her sister was in a bad mood at the time and did not want to see her. Or perhaps her family was not giving her money to spend, but her sister always had money to spend. After all, her sister was the Empress Dowager, and no Empress Dowager was ever short of money.

She probably didn't realize that her family had fallen on hard times, and her sister's money was being used to support her family, so there was no extra money for her.

Knowing that she could marry into a better family than the Song family if she divorced and returned to her parents' home, Liu Si Niang naturally proposed a divorce to the Song family.

She feared the Song family would be displeased or even enraged, and might do something to her in a fit of anger. Although killing the Empress Dowager's sister wouldn't end well for the Song family, it was still necessary to be cautious. Therefore, Liu Si Niang said, "My divorce is for the good of my family. Now my family isn't giving me any money, and we're all going to starve. If I remarry after the divorce, and find a good family, at least I'll have some money to support my son and daughter, and you'll all be better off. Otherwise, if I continue to stay in your house, we'll all go hungry."