The Fourth Lady

Seeing Su Qingyuan like that, Ning Siyao felt as if she was getting struck by lighting.

It was as if she'd already predicted what had happened that night, and that it wasn't as simple as it appeared on the surface.

In the end, the bitter fruit planted by oneself, still needed to be repaid.

Just as the line: 'Heaven sins, yet can live; self sins, cannot live.'*

Perhaps, is referring to people like Ning Siyao.

(*T/N: Originally comes from the Classic of History, Shangshu, by Confucius; however, the author seemed to have written one of the character wrongs, unsure if intentional or not. The intended meaning I'm fairly sure is the same though. Instead of 'live', in the original, it's the word 'avoid' in the first part. It means along the lines of, you can avoid natural disasters brought by heaven, but you can't escape from disasters brought about by yourself.)

Su Qingyuan's scream spread to every corner of the courtyard. When Chai Yiyun arrived at Su Qingwen's room, she found Su Qingwen lying on the bed, that appearance looked very pitiful.

"Wenwen, what's wrong?" Chai Yiyun walked up next to Su Qingwen and worryingly asked, even pulling her into her arms. That appearance certainly looked like a good mother.

"Mother, just what do you think is wrong with big sister?" Su Qingwen carefully asked as she hugged Chai Yiyun. "Big sister seemed to have changed into another person."

Chai Yiyun didn't know just what was wrong with Su Qingyuan either, or rather what Ning Siyao had done, but this matter seemed to have exceeded their expectations. Perhaps, none of them were able to bear the consequences.

"Wenwen, don't worry. You have mother here, I won't let you be harmed." Chai Yiyun patted Su Qingwen's back as she spoke in a soft voice.

Now that Su Yun's returned, she needed to think of other ways to deal with Su Qingyan. But just what ways can she deal with Su Qingyan?

and that was Su Ming's concubine. That concubine, called Ye Jiqing, has a son. But this son was ignorant and incompetent; eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling*, not one

this idiom would be 'to live a

it wouldn't be a bad idea. She had heard that Ye Jiqing was skilled with incenses. If she wanted to use this kind of method to

if that doesn't work, then she'll just

scary." Su Qingwen mumbled while hugging Chai

are you worried about? Mother will protect you." Chai Yiyun said as she

was eased by Chai Yiyun. When she looked to Chai

her hand, "Silly child, what nonsense are you saying. These

appearance, Chai Yiyun's heart ached the more she thought about it. But she didn't know what to do right now either. Furthermore, the situation's development seems to be increasingly exceeding her

servant Meixue told her an interesting piece of

thousand men. Some say this was of this noble family's miss's own

husband, rather derogatory in modern use. There's actually another older interpretation of this idiom that involves a really long backstory, but it doesn't fit the

end, this kind woman

the topmost level girls only sell their

For some reason, she figured Su Qingyuan was that noble family's miss in the stories. However, she didn't have a

pondering Chai Yiyun, naturally unclear as to what Chai Yiyun was thinking about in her mind. She only thought it

less considered Sun Bimeng's close confidante. Under Qingyan's naive and innocent guise, Sun Bimeng actually told Qingyan all about her

her, but in her mind was another

Su manor, but rather headed to Julong Zhai, in accordance to her earlier

was only Murong Jingxuan alone. He was standing by the window, looking out into the scenery in the distance.

should've arrived by now." Murong Jingxuan