Quick Transmigration: Drama Queen's Daily Life Chapter 1471 - 1460: The Lady Who Doesn’t Want to Rise in Status

Upon hearing Li Family’s advice, Duan Family was still a bit hesitant. Firstly, she was reluctant to give so many good things to Ye Qiu in vain, and secondly, given her past antagonism, would Ye Qiu hope for her well?

Li Family gave her a look: "No matter what, Ye Qiu will marry out from our Marquis Mansion in the future, and we are family, sharing honor and disgrace together, doesn’t sister-in-law understand? Even if she doesn’t like sister-in-law, after all, the children in the family take good care of her, besides, there’s the Old Lady!"

Duan Family then let go of her concerns. Looking at the items in the storeroom, she thought about giving many of them to Ye Qiu in the future, and it felt like cutting her heart with a knife, but because of her own past foolishness, she had no choice but to give.

Why didn’t anyone tell her earlier? Had she known, would she have acted as she did? When the grand gift is sent out, people may not even appreciate it.

Ye Qiu is truly capable, just meeting Mr. Lv Zhu a few times was enough to captivate him to the point of disregarding his reputation to marry her. What kind of family is the Jiang Family? To say something unpleasant, even becoming a concubine is considered an honor, yet Old Madam Jiang personally came to propose marriage!

Should she be grateful that Ye Qiu didn’t fancy her son, or should she sigh for having offended her?

On one side, Ye Qiu and Jian Yunchi’s relationship was steadily progressing, while on the other, Duan Yinyin was nearly furious upon learning that Ye Qiu had such a fine marriage while she was betrothed to another province.

"What virtue or ability does she have? What virtue or ability?" Duan Yinyin was so angry she was incoherent, and the porcelain and jade in the room were smashed to pieces.

"Master." Duan Shijie stood at the doorway, his face dark, and the maidservant was trembling as she packed luggage.

"The servant will go in to stop the lady."

"No need." Duan Shijie’s eyes were full of anger, "She’ll only be this carefree for a few more days. Once she marries into her new family, she’ll naturally learn to restrain herself. Hmph, she simply doesn’t know what’s good for herself!"

The maidservant looked at the master who left in anger, then at the Eldest Lady still smashing things in the room, and became entirely panicked. Hearing the master’s intention not to care much for the lady in the future, what are they, the maids going as part of the dowry, supposed to do?

They initially thought the lady would marry into the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion, but unexpectedly, the opportunity flew away like a duck. The little maid was also very unwilling, and she thought since the lady was so unreliable, she should consider her own future plans.

Duan Yinyin at this time didn’t yet know that her maid had already lost her mind, and Ye Qiu was also planning to give her a grand gift on her wedding day.

Given that the other party had worked so hard repeatedly to harm her reputation and life, she couldn’t not retaliate. So on the night of Duan Yinyin’s wedding, she sent a letter to the groom, containing nothing but the foolish things she had done for Zhang Yanwei over the years.

Duan Yinyin’s husband initially didn’t believe it, thinking it was some power deliberately trying to sabotage the marriage alliance between the two families. Until he saw that Duan Yinyin had no shyness on the day her veil was lifted, but instead looked resentful, his heart began to suspect.

Later as they got along, he found that Duan Yinyin showed no shyness typical of a newlywed wife, and even when he didn’t refuse his mother’s behavior of giving him concubines, it didn’t evoke Duan Yinyin’s anger or jealousy, he became all the more convinced.

Until he finally confirmed it because news came from the capital that the fifth son of the Zhongyong Marquis Mansion was getting married, his wife threw a tantrum, and he listened coldly outside the door, then left expressionlessly. From then on, he visited the main courtyard less and less. What use was being strong as the Duan Family, he served Duan Yinyin with good food and drinks, wasn’t that enough?

So, when the maids around him were all promoted to concubines and became pregnant, Duan Yinyin finally noticed something was wrong, she hadn’t even left a legitimate eldest son, how could concubines give birth? But when she wanted to take action, she realized she had no one to use now.

Even her two most close maids had betrayed her, and because she didn’t like managing household affairs when she first married, no one in her husband’s family truly listened to her, all were superficial.

She even set rules that caused one concubine to miscarry, and she was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall by her mother-in-law on the grounds of jealousy. She is the dignified Eldest Lady of the Duan Family, now to suffer such grievances?

Unfortunately, her father was at the border, her elder brother didn’t heed her requests, and Duan Yinyin found herself in a situation where the sky seemed unyielding, and the earth unresponsive. It was only now she realized why she didn’t learn household management properly before?

She had thought that with the status of a Miss Duan, she could live wantonly all her life, but only after getting married did she know how helpless she really was. Now, she was already part of her husband’s family, her big brother and sister-in-law from her maiden family would no longer pour out their hearts for her, and her husband’s family felt she wasn’t loyal, guarding against her as if she were a threat.

With her husband not coming to her courtyard, she didn’t want to lower herself to invite him, but without a child, how would her future days be?

All are heartless, her elder brother, aunt, cousin all are so, if only her brother could have extended a hand, if only her aunt could have ignored the criticism to propose marriage, if only her cousin could have shown a bit of compassion for her, would she have fallen to such a state?

In truth, it was because Duan Yinyin was too proud. Why didn’t she think that after all she is still part of the Duan Family, would Duan Shijie remain heartless forever? Why couldn’t she write a letter of apology, admit her mistakes? Moreover, no matter how harsh her husband’s family was, could they dare to divorce her with her Duan Family status? She, as a dignified Lady, there were so many things she could do, could those few concubines turn the sky upside down? Just suggesting to raise the children born of concubines could scare those concubines into obedience.

Her husband was displeased with her because there was a knot in his heart. If she could let go and say she had moved on, with her looks, how could her husband be unwilling to even step into her courtyard?

It ultimately came down to her being too proud. In this era, even Royal Princesses sometimes have no control over their lives, let alone ordinary women? If one wants to live well, sometimes, cunning and means are indispensable.

Nobody knows when Duan Yinyin will come to terms with things, but she felt that although her measures against Duan Yinyin were relatively mild, they were severe enough for the other party to suffer a little, and she didn’t plan to take further action.

After getting married, she spent more time focusing on writing, the saying goes that when both husband and wife work as one, Jian Yunchi moved out to live, saying it was for better self-cultivation, he had always been like this, Old Madam Jiang couldn’t say much, especially since she also became one of Ye Qiu’s book fans and couldn’t reprimand this daughter-in-law.

Ye Qiu wrote many books, mostly from a female first-person perspective. In her books, the female protagonists are mostly independent and very confident, with many readers, more people in the capital also began to pursue such women, unconsciously raising the status of women, winning great admiration from Jian Yunchi for his wife.

Since knowing his wife’s intention, he spared no effort in assisting, even helping to establish a girls’ academy, with Ye Qiu as the dean, and he took up a role as a teacher. With two prominent figures here, it became everyone’s pride to be able to enter this academy.