After being forced into a marriage with a wealthy family, the virtuous wife caused a huge uproar.

"Mother, what's wrong?" Rong Yingluo was "frightened" and panicked.

"My...stomach hurts so much." Su Jingyi was sweating profusely from the pain.

"Oh? Is there something wrong with the medicine the doctor prescribed? Your Highness, quickly go and fetch the doctor so that Mother can take another look." Rong Yingluo anxiously ordered her newlywed husband around.

"I'll go and fetch the royal physician right away." Gu Ce also looked anxious, but the smile in his heart was about to overflow. How did she do that?

"You have to be quick." Rong Yingluo emphasized the word "quick," hoping he would understand.

Gu Ce immediately went out, almost running away. His eagerness was truly that of a filial son.

"Ouch, that hurts!" Su Jingyi had never experienced such pain in her life, and she groaned.

She felt a surge of anger churning inside her, a desire she desperately wanted to release, but she just couldn't.

"Mother, what's wrong? It's so late at night, I could hear you calling from so far away." At this moment, a girl with disheveled clothes rushed in, showing that she had hurriedly put on her clothes.

Rong Yingluo knew who it was as soon as she heard her call her "Mother." It was Gu Qingya, the eldest daughter of the Gu family and Su Jingyi's biological daughter.

Yinghong said that this young lady was a spoiled brat.

"Qingya, my stomach... hurts so much." Su Jingyi was in so much pain that she could barely speak.

"What? I was perfectly fine when I left!" Gu Qingya exclaimed in surprise. Didn't her mother say she was going to call her older brother by pretending to have a stomachache? How did it turn into a real stomachache?

Did Mother act so convincingly just to deceive my elder brother and sister-in-law?

Gu Qingya came to the bedside, pushed Rong Yingluo away, and sat down on the bed herself, holding Su Jingyi's hand.

Su Jingyi grabbed her daughter's hand and squeezed it tightly with all her might despite the pain.

"Mom, you're hurting me!" Gu Qingya was startled by the sudden pain and jerked her hand away.

"Qingya, Mother...it hurts so much!" Su Jingyi's face turned pale, and she was in excruciating pain.

"Did you, you jinx, ruin my mother's life?" Gu Qingya snapped at Rong Yingluo without a second thought.

"Sister, I just entered the manor today, why would I want to harm Mother? I'm too busy being filial to her." Rong Yingluo's eyes reddened with grievance.

"Hmph, I bet you wouldn't dare. A merchant's daughter, what bad luck! Get out here and stand outside!" Gu Qingya, considering herself of high status, looked down on Rong Yingluo.

I don't know what my mother was thinking, why she wanted my eldest brother to marry a lowly merchant's daughter.

Even if she marries a concubine's daughter from a noble family, she will still be from a high-ranking family. Marrying a merchant's daughter would be a disgrace to the Duke's mansion. She would never be able to go out and socialize with friends again.

Rong Yingluo did not listen to her and went out, but took a few steps back to keep a certain distance from Gu Qingya.

"Qingya, don't be rude. She's married to your elder brother, so she's your sister-in-law," Su Jingyi scolded lightly, but without much force.

"Mother, I don't want her to be my sister-in-law," Gu Qingya said coquettishly, gently shaking her mother's body.

"Ouch, don't touch me." As she shook her, Su Jingyi's stomach churned again.

"Mother, I... I didn't mean to." Gu Qingya immediately stopped. "Who went to fetch the doctor? Why hasn't he arrived yet?"

"Mother, how about I give you another massage?" Rong Yingluo asked with concern, but her expression was somewhat strange.

She tried hard to suppress the urge to laugh, but it was very difficult.

This is just a small appetizer for our first meeting; it's only polite to reciprocate. Mother-in-law, enjoy!

"Mind your own business! Can't you see that Mother is in so much pain that she can barely speak?" Gu Qingya roared again.

Just then, a young man of about seventeen or eighteen years old ran in: "Mother, I heard you're really sick. What happened?"

It was Gu Xi, the second young master of the Gu family. He really knows how to talk.

Hearing this, Rong Yingluo had no choice but to turn around, raise her hand to cover her face, and only then could she control herself from laughing out loud.

I'm really sick!

In other words, the illness was faked before.

"Ah Xi, I don't know... what's going on, my stomach... is about to explode." After saying this, Su Jingyi gasped for breath, trying to suppress the churning in her stomach.

It hurts so much!

"Ah...it hurts...it hurts so much, Ah-Xi, quick...quickly go see if the doctor your older brother invited has arrived yet."

"Coming, coming!" Gu Ce responded and came in, carrying a middle-aged man whose eyes were still closed. He threw the man on the ground as soon as he came in.

"Brother, why is Doctor Yang unconscious? How can he treat Mother like this?" Gu Xi cried out.

"Today is my wedding day, a joyous occasion. Doctor Yang probably hasn't had a wedding feast in a long time, and he's completely drunk. Mother, didn't you say you had already consulted a doctor? But how did Doctor Yang examine you in this state?" Gu Ce asked curiously.

"When my maid went to fetch him, she found Doctor Yang so drunk that she went directly to Renyi Hall to fetch him."

"Husband, hurry and go to Renyi Hall to fetch a doctor!" Rong Yingluo shouted anxiously.

"I'll go right away." Gu Ce turned around immediately.

"No, A-Ce, let A-Xi go." Su Jingyi didn't trust Gu Ce. She felt that only her own son would truly care for her.

Doctor Yang lives on the back street of the Duke's mansion, yet Gu Ce took so long to bring him here, knowing full well that Doctor Yang was dead drunk. It must have been intentional.

Gu Xi took off running.

"Ouch, it hurts so much!" Su Jingyi couldn't take it anymore.

"Mother, does it feel like your belly is being churned by a storm?" Rong Yingluo knelt down and gently stroked her belly.

"Yes, yes, yes. I'm going to die, I can't take it anymore."

"Mother, how could you die? The doctor will be here soon." Only then did Gu Qingya realize the seriousness of the situation. Her mother had actually said she was going to die.

"Qingya, Mother doesn't want to die, but... Ah!" Su Jingyi wanted to faint, so she wouldn't know anything and wouldn't have to suffer like this. But even though it hurt so much, she didn't faint.

"Mother, your daughter-in-law has a way to try that might solve the problem." Rong Yingluo pretended to think, as if she had finally come up with a solution.

"You say it." Su Jingyi couldn't care less about anything else.

"Your daughter-in-law guesses it's because you ate too much tonight, and it's too heavy. When you have indigestion, you get angry easily. That gas is churning in your stomach, and it hurts so much that you feel like you want to die."

"My daughter-in-law experienced this once when she was a child. My mother would press hard on my stomach to release the gas, and that would make me feel better," Rong Yingluo said with great seriousness.

"Hurry up and give my mother a massage." Gu Qingya couldn't wait a moment longer.

"Sister, I'm a woman, I'm too weak, I might not be able to do it. Why don't you let your older brother do it?" Rong Yingluo wanted to see if Su Jingyi would let a stepson touch her body.

Even if it's your own son, once he's grown up, you still have to follow the strict rules of gender separation.

"Rong Liuli, you have such a vicious mind. Do you want to ruin my mother's reputation? Merchant girls just don't know the rules." Gu Qingya was like a cat with its fur standing on end.

Rong Yingluo was taken aback when she heard her call her eldest sister's name.

She almost forgot that she was marrying into the Duke of Zhenguo's mansion in place of her eldest sister, and that her eldest sister was gentle and compliant, but today she had acted too outrageously in front of Gu Ce.

Will he have doubts?

Forget it, it's better to be true to myself. If I pretend to be someone else, I'll have to come up with a lot of excuses. Anyway, my older sister has already left the capital.

"Ouch! Qingya, you and your sister-in-law help me press on these areas," Su Jingyi instructed.

With permission, Rong Yingluo took out a handkerchief and covered her face.

None of them understood what she meant.

"Sister, I'll count to three, and we'll all push at the same time." Rong Yingluo began to count.

When the count of three was finished, the two of them exerted their strength together.

A powerful gust of air made a loud "whoosh!" that echoed throughout the room, stunning everyone.

"Ugh! It stinks!" Gu Qingya, who was closest to the source, fainted from the stench.