Min Nan said, "I stayed at the Prince of Ping's Mansion for half a month. The old Princess Ping was dignified and kind, and the Prince of Ping was young and wise, quite popular with the emperor. The Prince of Ping's Mansion was truly extremely wealthy, with a lake as big as a county government office..."

Xu Lanyin's eyes widened as she asked, "You stayed at the Prince's Mansion for half a month?"

Isn’t this the treatment that Miss Su enjoys?

She felt that she had lost her composure, and quickly adjusted her facial expression, saying with a smile, "The princess and the prince are both high-ranking figures, and you actually spent so much time with them."

Min Nan's eyes curved with laughter as she said, "Yes, before, let alone living in the Prince's Mansion, even talking to the old princess was impossible." She added, "At the beginning of the winter month, the old princess got a burn on her face and was bored staying at home. She said I was innocent and had a likable personality, so she let me stay with her for half a month."

"If your face gets burned, won't it leave scars? Those ladies are the most particular about it." Xu Lanyin said.

Min Nan's face flushed slightly as she smiled awkwardly, "It won't leave a scar. I don't know what she used, but the burn was almost healed within a month. When we left the capital, the color of that area was a little different from the rest of her skin, a bit reddish. The imperial physician said it would heal over time."

Xu Lanyin's heart was in turmoil. Min Nan hadn't mentioned Su Qing's offer of the ointment. She, the daughter of a small county magistrate, had actually stayed with the old princess for so long, and Madam Min just happened to have the Jade-like Skin Regenerating Ointment.

So, it is very likely that Madam Min, in order to curry favor with the Prince's Mansion, rushed to offer the medicine before Su Qing. The book also wrote that in order to escape the control of Madam Su, Su Qing secretly went to the Prince's Mansion to offer the ointment, which took a lot of trouble.

Xu Lanyin really wanted to laugh out loud. She really didn't send the Min family ointment to ruin Miss Su's good deeds, but she didn't expect that the butterfly's little wings would flap so far... All the heartache she had felt when sending the ointment was gone.

Miss Su's ointment failed to succeed, leaving her without the chance to gain the favor of the almighty Princess Ping and Prince Ping. Her chances of becoming Princess Ping are slim. Does this mean Gu Wangchen, the backup, has a chance... Oh, no, there's Wen Zhuofeng between them. Hopefully, Su Qing can pull off this marriage, just like in the novel. However, without the Princess Ping's support, it's incredibly difficult for Su Qing to defeat Madam Su.

Xu Lanyin suppressed her thoughts and listened to Xu Nan talk about how fun the capital was. She not only spent half a month accompanying the old princess at the Prince Ping's mansion, but also visited some famous families, made many close friends, and talked about some gossip in the capital...

One piece of news shocked the capital: the fourth grandson of Duke Qing, betrothed to his brother, had committed suicide by jumping off a cliff in the West Mountain outside the capital. A search of the mountain revealed only half an arm and an ebony hairpin he often wore...

Xu Lanyin was startled again and blurted out, "There is such a thing!" Then she quickly lowered her voice, "It's too tragic."

Seeing Xu Lanyin's interest, Min Nan spoke even more excitedly, "Yes, I heard that young man is only fifteen years old. What a pity..."

Min Nan said that the man who jumped off a cliff to commit suicide for love was named Wen Zhuo'an, the fourth child in the Wen family. In order to copy Buddhist scriptures and eat vegetarian food for his deceased father, his elders asked him to live in Daxiang Temple for a month. However, the young man was extremely naughty since childhood. Not only did he not copy the scriptures properly, he also often ran to Nanping County to play. The people around him could not control him, and once he even rode his horse in the street and injured someone. He accidentally saw the second daughter of the eldest Hou family, Su, and was immediately struck by her beauty. He often disguised himself and wandered around Sujiazhuang, where Su lived. When the elders of the Wen family heard about it, they sent people to pick him up several times, but he just didn't come back... After the eldest son Wen and Su got engaged, the fourth son Wen returned. Unable to bear the shock, he ran to Xishan and jumped off a cliff...

Xu Lanyin was completely certain that Wen Zhuoan was Zhao Wu, the unknown male supporting character in the book who committed suicide by jumping off a cliff.

Xu Lanyin didn't expect that although she always wanted to stay away from the male and female protagonists in the book, she still had an intersection with the male supporting role, and she couldn't get rid of that clingy kid.

She then asked, "When did the Fourth Master Wen jump off the cliff? How did the Wen family know that he went to Xishan to commit suicide for love?"

"It seemed to be mid-October. As soon as word got out about Master Wen's engagement to Miss Su, he ran back from Daxiang Temple, had a huge argument with Master Wen, and then ran to West Hill to jump off a cliff. His personal servant couldn't stop him and was dragged down with him. Another servant ran back to report that he yelled 'Miss Su' three times before jumping off the cliff."

Min Nan frowned and gossiped, sighing from time to time, looking very regretful.

Xu Lan thought to herself that the Wen family had not been able to bring Zhao Wu back home in advance, and they were afraid that he would cause other troubles, so it would be difficult to let him "commit suicide for love" within the specified time period. She had no choice but to kill him first, and then tell the news of his jumping off the cliff after Wen Zhuofeng got engaged in mid-October.

Those people in the Wen family are truly evil. Zhao Wulian hasn't even met Su Qing, and yet he's already slandering her. If Wen Zhuofeng really did marry Su Qing, how would he feel? Besides hating the second master and his wife, he'd only hate himself for being useless and for Su Qing "seducing" his brother. In the book, Su Qing's marriage to Wen Zhuofeng in her previous life was exactly like this...

After a few sighs, Xu Lanyin asked, "Will Miss Su Er still marry Master Wen? After what happened, even if she does, they won't be happy."

Min Nan curled her lips and said, "I heard that Madam Su and Madam Wen had initially discussed that they couldn't ruin my brother's marriage just because Fourth Master Wen jumped off a cliff, so the marriage had to go on. At that time, I was living in Prince Ping's mansion, and even the old Princess Ping said that Madam Su and Madam Wen were cold and indifferent, and that a couple like them wouldn't be a good match."

Miss Su won’t give up like this, right?

Xu Lanyin said softly, "I also think those two are very mean-spirited."

Min Nan laughed again, "There's always a way out. At the end of winter, something happened at the Changhu Marquis's mansion. One night, a fire broke out in the old lady's small Buddhist temple. The fire grew larger and larger, burning half the courtyard. It happened that the Second Miss Su was accompanying the old lady to copy scriptures that day and staying in her courtyard. While trying to save the old lady, the Second Miss Su suffered burns on her forehead and the back of her neck, losing half her hair. The back of the old lady's hand was also burned. Fortunately, the Second Miss Su had the miraculous medicine Ruyu Shengji Ointment, which healed the old lady's arm. Her injuries were much more serious, and when I returned home, I heard she wasn't fully healed yet. Her medicine was limited, so it's unclear whether it will be completely cured. The old lady and Marquis Su were grateful for the Second Miss Su's filial piety and the good fortune of having such a good medicine. They didn't want her to marry a bad-tempered cripple at such a young age, so they broke off the engagement. I heard the Wen family was extremely upset and went around accusing the Su family of breaking their promise and the Second Miss Su of being a fickle woman who had harmed the two Wen brothers..."

Judging from the little girl's tone, she felt very sympathetic towards Su Qing.

That fire must have had a cause. Su Qing broke up the marriage, and Xu Lanyin also breathed a sigh of relief for Zhao Wu.

PS: Thank you for your donations, including Midnight Cat Dance and Duckweed in the Water. The new book is a bit slow, so I'm afraid you've forgotten the previous chapters. Let me recap three of Su Qing's experiences: The first is Su Qing's past life in the book, where she was forced to marry the crippled Wen Zhuofeng. Because Wen's brother committed suicide by jumping off a cliff, Wen treated Su Qing with cold and violent treatment, resulting in her death five years later still a virgin. The second section, in the book, follows Su Qing's rebirth, where she finds a way to obtain the Jade Regenerating Ointment to heal the burns of the old Princess Ping. This not only ends her marriage to Wen Zhuofeng but also earns her the title of Princess Ping, embarking on a life of extraordinary adventures. The third section follows the heroine, who travels back in time and inadvertently prevents Su Qing from becoming Princess Ping... Attention, the first two sections are from the book Xu Lanyin read, while the third is real.