Quick Transmigration: The Supporting Character Just Wants to Die a Natural Death

When Yao Feiran woke up, she saw a large family gathered around her. At the front were two men and two women, along with a woman, and several servants behind them.

"Mother, don't be angry. Your son will definitely marry Ye Ying, and then the family won't be so poor."

The original owner of the body was the wife of a down-on-his-luck marquis. Her father-in-law was a duke with outstanding military achievements, and the duke's mansion was at its zenith. However, when the new emperor took the throne, her father-in-law suddenly died, and the duke's mansion also suffered a series of misfortunes. In less than a few years, the mansion fell into ruin.

The husband wanted to go to the battlefield to earn military merits, but he died on the battlefield without achieving anything. His family was demoted to a first-class noble title. Because the original owner of the body was still alive, the family could barely be called a marquis's mansion. However, once the original owner died, the disintegration of the marquis's mansion was not far off.

The Marquis's mansion has two legitimate sons, one legitimate daughter, and one illegitimate daughter.

Apart from the eldest son, Yan Wenmo, who is over seventeen, the other children are still young. The eldest son has accomplished nothing; apart from the honorary title of Earl, he has never passed the imperial examinations. After discussing it, the family decided to arrange a marriage between the eldest son and Ye Ying, the daughter of the richest man. The eldest son will go to propose marriage this year.

As a result, when Yan Wenmo went to propose marriage, Ye Ying publicly exposed that Yan Wenmo had a mistress, and then canceled the engagement.

The Yan family's reputation was ruined, and Yan Wenmo returned home in disgrace.

The original owner of this body died of anger.

In fact, the original owner's luck was not cut off, but a mistake occurred, leading to the original owner's accidental death. The subsequent plot is that Ye Ying married a seventh-rank official, who rose through the ranks and eventually became the youngest Grand Secretary in the cabinet.

Yan Wenmo had no one willing to marry into the family, so he blamed his mistress. At that time, the mistress had been promoted to concubine and was locked in the woodshed. She happened to be pregnant. Later, in order to marry the second daughter of a third-rank official, Yan Wenmo made the concubine miscarry. After the new bride married into the family, she was very clever and did not use her dowry to subsidize the Marquis's mansion.

Driven by hatred, the concubine cut off Yan Wenmo's genitals and exposed the act. Unable to have children, Yan Wenmo decisively divorced his new wife, taking her dowry with him. Later, during the chaos of the succession struggle in the capital, Yan Wenmo still tried to entangle himself with Ye Ying, but was imprisoned by her husband. In the end, the once-grand marquis's mansion completely disappeared, and everyone became beggars, dying in a fight for food.

The current problem to be solved is the impoverished state of the Marquis's household.

However, Yao Feiran discovered that because the original owner of this body held an imperial title, she couldn't act freely in many matters. She was hesitant to do business, as so many eyes were watching her in the capital. Her family background was ordinary, and they weren't located in the capital. She lacked connections in the capital, so the path of business was blocked; she might end up working for someone else's benefit. She also couldn't engage in other industries.

It would be better to just leave the capital.

However, she had a question.

In this world, merchants still have a very low social status. The four classes of scholars, farmers, artisans, and merchants do not intermarry. So why is there this marriage agreement? Even if Yan Wenmo is not the best, he is still an earl, belonging to the nobility. How could he openly marry a merchant's daughter as his principal wife?

That's fine, anyway, Yan Wenmo doesn't have much of a career path, but the future Grand Secretary is pursuing a career in government and has married the female lead as his legal wife.

It must be the female lead's halo.

But she doesn't have any of the typical female lead aura.

The Marquis's mansion is now in debt, and in order to maintain appearances, it has a considerable number of servants.

Yao Feiran looked at her scumbag son and said, "You should give up on marrying Ye Ying now. That mistress is Lingzhi, right? Get rid of her and study hard to pass the imperial examinations."

Yan Wenmo shamelessly said, "How could I give up marrying Ye Ying? Only her money can fill the deficit of the Marquis's mansion and support my studies. Once I become a high-ranking official, I will dump this merchant's daughter. Besides, I will not give up Lingzhi. She is gentle and kind, knows me and understands me. She has a pitiful background and has nowhere to go without me."

Yao Feiran jumped up and slapped him ten times: "Marry you my foot! Stay home and reflect on your actions. If you dare to go out, I'll break your legs."

After checking the household accounts, it was found that the daily expenses were around ten taels of silver, amounting to several thousand taels of silver per year, while the income was not much. No wonder there was a deficit; a lot of the original owner's dowry had been used up.

People in the capital are laughing at them now. There's no need to maintain any semblance of decorum. The main problem is that Yan Wenmo can't support the family, and he's ruthless and has little conscience. He only married Ye Ying for money. If she really marries him, Ye Ying will only end up being discarded after she's served her purpose.

Yao Feiran decisively sold off some of the extra servants, sold off the precious items from her dowry, and sold off the shops and fields in the capital.

As for the assets belonging to the Marquis's mansion, although she was the legal mother, Yan Wenmo was the heir, and only he had the right to use them, but the mansion was already insolvent.

Seeing Yao Feiran constantly busy, Erzi Yan Muyao realized something: "Mother, are you selling your dowry?"

How did you know?

"My sister said so."

The younger sister he mentioned is Yan Yueyi, the original owner's only daughter.

"Yes, why don't you leave the capital with your mother?"

"Okay, we'll go wherever Mother goes."

Yao Feiran raised an eyebrow. Apart from Yan Wenmo and the original owner of this body being somewhat confused, the others in this family were quite nice.

After all the accounts were settled, Yan Wenmo suddenly rushed over: "Mother, do you want to leave the capital? Don't you want the Marquis's mansion anymore?"

"The Marquis's Mansion? What Marquis's Mansion is left after your father's death? It's just maintaining a facade of prosperity by destroying the foundation. You can leave the capital with me now."

"I will not leave the capital. My son was only rejected by a merchant's daughter. Why should he be treated like a stray dog? Once my son passes the imperial examination, he will surely restore the glory of the Marquis's mansion."

"You can't even control your lower body, yet you want to regain your glory? Dream on!"

After being scolded by Yao Feiran, Yan Wenmo almost lost his temper. In the past, his mother had always been proud of him, so why was she hitting and scolding him like this?

The ten slaps he received last time kept him awake all night. He thought his mother would come to comfort him, but instead she simply grounded him at home.

"Mother, Ye Ying was just saying that in anger. Who would want a woman who has broken off an engagement? She's just putting on airs. Ignore her for a while and she'll come to ask for your hand in marriage."

She was neglected for a while and then remarried. Her new husband is most likely a reincarnated person. There aren't many officials in this world who can become the chief minister. He's probably the male lead, otherwise how could Ye Ying have seen him?

"Please marry me? You're a good-for-nothing, how can anyone ask you to marry me? And that Lingzhi, she was restless and tried to seduce your father, but I caught her and kicked her out. In the end, she secretly got together with you."

Lingzhi was the original owner's head maid. Behind the original owner's back, she seduced the original owner's husband. During the mourning period for the late emperor, she was kicked out by the original owner. However, she ended up seducing Yan Wenmo. After refusing to marry him, the original owner eventually agreed to let her come in as a concubine after being persuaded by Yan Wenmo.

"How could Mother call her son a good-for-nothing? It hurts my feelings too much." His face was gloomy as he continued, "Lingzhi said it was a misunderstanding. Father wanted to take her as a concubine, and she had no choice."

"You believed her when she said it was a misunderstanding, but you don't believe what your mother says. You've really lost your mind."

Moreover, they are now stubbornly refusing to give up the spirit branch, but once they realize that their interests have been truly harmed, they will immediately abandon it.