She Became A Downfall Noble Lady

Maternal Aunt Liu’s maid, Chun Xiu, came forward to clean up the porcelain shards on the floor and helped Maternal Aunt Liu up, urging, "Maternal Aunt, please get up, the ground is cold. It’s a good thing that Maternal Aunt Zhao moved out, you should look on the bright side."

Having calmed down from his initial rage, Ye Hongyang said, "Hurry and get up. Even if you were to cry to death here, no one would care. Why mistreat yourself and make your body suffer?"

Maternal Aunt Liu, with tears in her eyes, stood up with the help of Chun Xiu and sat on the kang bed.

Ye Hongyang took the handkerchief from Maternal Aunt Liu’s hand, held it in his own, and as he wiped her tears, he comforted her, "There, there, that scourge is a woman after all, and she will have to get married someday. When that happens, her husband’s family will restrain her, and we’ll be better off. Father and Mother are getting old and are inevitably confused. Don’t be sad because of that."

As Maternal Aunt Liu’s sobbing slowed, she thought resentfully that Duke An and Madam Yin were already in their sixties—they couldn’t live many more years, could they? She decided to do nothing now but wait for those two old fogeys to kick the bucket and then see how she’d deal with that little whelp, Ye Yuan.

So what if Duke An secured the Princely Heir title for that little whelp? If a person dies, can they take the Princely Heir title with them?

She was even less eager to rush into marrying off Ye Xinyan. Keeping her in Duke An’s Mansion, and letting her lead a lonely life wasn’t a bad idea—entering the Marquis Jingning’s Mansion would be her fortune. If it weren’t for the Marquis Zhongyong’s family covetously eyeing the situation, she would wait to find the most malicious family later on to turn Ye Xinyan into a slave, squeezing every drop of oil out of her bones.

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Ye Hongyang still intended to get Ye Xinyan out of Duke An’s Mansion first. After sending Chun Xiu away, he whispered to Maternal Aunt Liu, "Today, Qu Mao came to find me in a hurry, asking when to set the engagement date. Don’t be angry. As long as that thing is married off, that’s all that matters. The rest—Madam Yin and Brother Yuan—are not to be feared, what’s to fear from a toothless tiger?"