Chapter 2 "Madam, step on me."...

Song Xiangguo was the most suitable person to be the first cuckold.

Xie Yushu remembered that in the script, after Pei Shilin threw her into the water, she fainted. When she woke up, Pei Shilin personally brought her a cooling herbal soup and fed it to her. He said to her in an unusually gentle tone, "Prime Minister Song's chronic illness has relapsed. He wants you to go to his residence to take care of him for one night. My brother's case can be settled privately with just one word from him."

The real [Xie Yushu] could not accept that her newlywed husband had given her to another man, and she cried her heart out.

But Pei Shilin just sneered and said, "What do you have to cry about? Do you think Prime Minister Song would be interested in you? What does he want to do to you? He only has his eye on your face, which looks like Xie Jianing's. He wants you to be his substitute and take care of him when he is seriously ill. Don't flatter yourself."

He had no patience to continue pretending and said directly, "If you are not even willing to do this little thing for the Pei family, then I will have no choice but to listen to my mother and divorce you."

When Xie Yushu read this part of the script, she was so angry that her head ached. But now it's different. She can't wait to try out the cuckold system... no, the system that makes everyone swoon.

So after Pei Shilin finished speaking, she took the initiative to say, "How about I use this face to plead with Prime Minister Song on your behalf?"

Unexpectedly, Pei Shilin was stunned. After a few seconds, he suddenly became angry and said, "Xie Yushu, do you know anything about propriety, righteousness, and shame? You used this face to gain your current wealth and status and marry me, and now you want to use this face to seduce Prime Minister Song? Do you think Prime Minister Song would even look at you..."

"Don't you know whether you'd even be interested in my face?" Xie Yushu sneered, slapping his hand away and weakly supporting Hongzhu, saying, "How is it using this face to seek wealth and status? I don't think my mother raped the Marquis of Yong'an to force me to be born, did she? I am the daughter of the Marquis of Yong'an, born with this face, wealth and status are what I deserve, and this marriage is something you begged for."

Pei Shilin's face turned pale with anger at her insolent words. "Shameless!"

"My husband still knows shame?" Xie Yushu's sharp tongue made Pei Shilin so angry he felt dizzy.

The maidservant hurriedly helped him up, and someone nearby called out anxiously, "My son!"

Xie Yushu turned around and saw an old woman helping another noble lady rush over in the corridor. She rushed to Pei Shilin's side and supported him, calling him "Shilin" and "Brother Lin" repeatedly.

It should be Li Huixian, Pei Shilin's mother.

In the script, Li Huixian looks down on her daughter-in-law Xie Yushu. After the marriage, she finds a pretext to seize Xie Yushu's dowry for herself, and the money spent to save her youngest son comes entirely from Xie Yushu's dowry.

Xie Yushu, whose life points were down to 1, was feeling really uncomfortable and didn't want to look at the mother and son. He went straight into the house, took off his wet clothes, drank a couple of sips of tea from the table, and heard his mother, Li Huixian, whispering to Pei Shilin outside the door, "Why bother arguing with her at this critical moment? Saving your brother is the priority. Since she's willing to go, it saves us a lot of arguing. We'll just divorce her sooner or later..."

Such a loud conspiracy?

Xie Yushu sipped her tea and looked outside. The old woman realized she could hear her and immediately closed the door.

The noise outside quickly subsided, and Pei Shilin and his mother moved to another location to plot their scheme.

Only one lamp was lit in the room, making it exceptionally dark in the night rain, and there were no maids present.

The female supporting character, Xie Yushu, is truly pitiful. The Marquis's mansion doesn't care about her much, and the dowry she receives is meager. She only has two newly bought maids and a lame old woman to accompany her. The reason is that the senior maids in the Marquis's mansion who have any standing look down on her and are unwilling to accompany her with her dowry. Therefore, the Lady of Yong'an Marquis can only buy two new fourteen or fifteen-year-old maids for her.

Only the lame old woman volunteered to serve her and accompany her as part of her dowry.

However, on her very first day in the family, the female supporting character's mother-in-law, Li Huixian, found an excuse to transfer all of her maids and servants to the kitchen to do menial work, so that when she was bullied by Pei Shilin and thrown into the water, no one spoke up for her.

This is like marrying into a cannibalistic hell.

Xie Yushu sat in the room and ate some fruit from the table, but still felt tightness in his chest and shortness of breath.

The system warned her that 1 point of health would only allow her to live for ten days, and she needed to complete tasks as soon as possible to survive.

She desperately needed to cuckold Pei Shilin.

Xie Yushu simply got up and tidied herself up a bit. She looked in the mirror and found that her appearance hadn't changed at all; even the small mole on her nose was still there.

She was wearing?

The system responded to her: "Yes, host."

That's good, it relieves her of the guilt of possessing the female supporting character Xie Yushu's body.

She sat in front of the dressing table and combed her hair herself. She had released makeup and hair-combing tutorials when she was an online influencer, and she knew Xie Jianing's makeup and hair in the original drama very well, so she combed it with ease.

Just as she finished combing her hair, the door was pushed open.

Pei Shilin personally brought in a bowl of medicine. When he saw Xie Yushu sitting in front of her dressing table, combing her hair, wearing only her undergarments, his suppressed anger was about to flare up again. She didn't even lift her eyelids when she heard him come in. She carefully inserted the hairpin and meticulously drew her eyebrows, her face showing no emotion whatsoever.

It was as if he was the only one who was so angry he felt dizzy.

"It seems that Madam's summer heat has subsided." Pei Shilin placed the medicine on the table, lifted his robe, and sat down to wait for her to come over: "I have something to say to you."

Xie Yushu did not respond to him and continued to draw her eyebrows.

Pei Shilin suppressed his anger and said, "I suppose you know very well that Prime Minister Song is using you as a substitute for Xie Jianing." His words became sarcastic: "Song Jie's chronic illness has relapsed, and he wants you to disguise yourself as Xie Jianing and take care of him at the Prime Minister's residence for one night. You're quite willing, aren't you?"

Xie Yushu glanced at him in the bronze mirror and sneered, "You want me to beg Prime Minister Song to save your brother, don't you? You're saying you sold your wife for personal gain and you still won't admit it."

Enraged, Pei Shilin slammed his hand on the table, spilling the medicine.

Before he could speak, Xie Yushu said, "Why are you banging on the table? Did I say I wasn't going?"

Pei Shilin was stunned. She...she agreed so easily?

In the dimly lit room, Xie Yushu turned around to show him her face, which had been made up and styled, and asked, "Does it look like me?"

A light breeze and drizzle blew in through the window, and the candlelight flickered slightly on her face. She didn't know how she had used it to adjust the shape of her eyes so that they drooped slightly, making her look more like Xie Jianing.

Pei Shilin felt a sudden pang of fear. Even though he knew the person in front of him wasn't her, she still felt dazed by her smiling gaze and forgot to speak.

"You look very much like it." Xie Yushu turned around with satisfaction to pick out an earring, and said to him in a businesslike manner, "Since you're asking me for a favor, you should act like you're asking for a favor."

Pei Shilin stared at her retreating figure, still somewhat dazed, and even his tone had softened considerably: "How do you want me to beg you?"

He didn't want to take this step either. No matter how much he disliked Xie Yushu, she was still his wife. What man would want to send his wife to serve tea and medicine to other men unless he was desperate? But he couldn't watch his own brother die and his career be ruined.

His mother was right. He should at least try to get Xie Yushu through this difficult time by saying some kind words and coaxing her. She has loved him for so many years, she will eventually…

"Beg with money," Xie Yushu's reply interrupted Pei Shilin's thoughts.

He seemed not to have heard clearly and asked in surprise, "What?"

"1. Have your mother bring back my dowry intact right now, not a single penny less." Xie Yushu decisively ordered him. "2. Immediately send back the maids and servants who came with me as part of my dowry. 3. I won't ask for much money. Just give me a thousand taels of silver for doing this for your family."

"One thousand taels of silver?" Pei Shilin was so shocked that he stood up abruptly and stormed over: "My mother is only keeping your dowry in trust. Our Pei family would never embezzle a wife's dowry. As for maids and servants, I can give you as many as you want, but does Xie Yushu think you are worth one thousand taels?"

Looking at his exasperated expression, Xie Yushu thought: Did he ask for too much? How much is a thousand taels of silver in RMB?

The system immediately responded to her: "Host, according to the currency settings of this world, one thousand taels of silver is approximately equal to 500,000 RMB."

so much!

“I’m not worth a thousand taels, but your brother is.” Xie Yushu couldn’t get angry at all when she thought of money: “Your career is worth it, my husband, think it over carefully.”

Xie Yushu got up indifferently and went to the wardrobe to look at her clothes.

Pei Shilin, panting heavily behind her, soon shouted an order to bring her dowry back! "Bring me one thousand taels of silver!"

Even if Pei's mother, Li Huixian, didn't want to return the dowry, she didn't dare to disregard her youngest son's life at this critical juncture. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and do as Xie Yushu said. After all, Xie Yushu had already married into the family, and her dowry should be used to supplement the Pei family in the future!

Before long, servants from the Pei family carried large and small boxes into Xie Yushu's newlywed courtyard.

Two young maids helped the lame old woman into the house. When they saw Xie Yushu kneeling down, they burst into tears. The lame old woman asked her with tears streaming down her face if she had been bullied.

Xie Yushu was also saddened by their crying. In the script, this nanny was named Xizhi, a favored nanny of the old lady of the Marquis's mansion. She broke her leg because of the slippery snow in winter. The supporting actress Xie Yushu brought her medicine and applied hot compresses. Although she said it was to get Xizhi to speak well of her in front of the old lady, she did take care of Xizhi for quite a while.

From then on, Granny Xizhi was completely devoted to Xie Yushu. After the old lady died, she volunteered to serve Xie Yushu and even followed her into marriage. She was one of the few people in the drama who were genuinely good to her.

"Get up quickly, I'm fine." Xie Yushu helped Granny Xizhi up, then looked at the two maids, and the thought of the old, weak, sick and disabled popped into his mind.

The two maids, named Jinye and Yinya, were only fourteen years old. They looked like girls still growing, but they were very thin and had no flesh on them. Their hair was yellow and malnourished. They had been beaten in the kitchen these past few days, and their faces and the backs of their hands were covered with red marks.

Alas, if a person is too weak, even those around them will suffer.

Xie Yushu gave them all the snacks and fruits on the table and told them to eat them. She then gave Xizhi the silver note worth one thousand taels of silver that she had just received: "Granny, go and exchange the silver note tomorrow. Find someone to build a small kitchen in my courtyard. From now on, we can cook in the small kitchen and eat our own food."

Xizhi took the silver note and looked at her in surprise, wiping away her tears as she asked, "Does Master Pei allow you to repair the small kitchen?"

"I don't care if he allows it or not." Since Xie Yushu had transmigrated, she couldn't let herself suffer like in the original drama. In the original drama, the female supporting character not only suffered from the man's temper, but was also tormented by Pei's mother, Li Huixian, from the first day of her marriage. When eating, she had to stand and serve her mother-in-law first, and she could only eat what was left after her mother-in-law had finished eating.

Is this the kind of life a human being can live?

She patted Xizhi's hand: "Don't worry, Granny, I have plenty of ways to get him to agree."

Xizhi was still uneasy. She was afraid that if she was too weak, she would be bullied to death by the Pei family, and she was also afraid that if she was too tough, she would be divorced. The only person who had been kind to her, the old lady, had passed away. The Marquis and his wife would not support her and allow her to return to the Marquis's mansion...

"Are you satisfied now?" Pei Shilin walked in from outside the room, staring at her with a cold expression.

Xie Yushu gave him a smile and said to Jin Ye with great professionalism, "Help me find that begonia red dress. I was wearing that dress when Prime Minister Song mistook me for someone else the first time. I'll wear that dress to see him tonight too."

She was beaming with a radiant smile, more radiant than ever before.

Pei Shilin noticed that she had already styled her hair and chosen her earrings, which seemed to be the same styles she wore on the day Song Jie mistook her for someone else.

That day was early spring, a day for a spring outing. On Fragrant Hills, the usually aloof Prime Minister Song suddenly rushed into the crabapple grove as if lost in thought, grabbing Xie Yushu's arm without regard for etiquette.

He was standing next to Xie Yushu at the time and clearly saw Song Jie, who was usually as cold as an iceberg, lose his composure like this.

Her eagerness to meet Song Jie suggests she's been wanting to for a long time. Did she fall for him the moment they first met? After all, she's such a vain woman; how could he, a mere scholar with only the title of Earl, compare to the powerful Prime Minister Song?

He suppressed his displeasure and left the room.

Soon, Xie Yushu came out with Jinye and instructed Xizhi and Yinya to stay in the courtyard to organize her dowry and check it one by one.

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The Prime Minister's carriage was already waiting outside the back gate of the Pei residence, and the person who came to pick them up was Cang Shu, Song Jie's close attendant.

Pei Shilin escorted her to the back gate. Before he could say anything, she had already taken Jin Ye's hand and walked to the carriage. She gently said to the driver, Cang Shu, "Your name is Cang Shu, right? I remember Prime Minister Song called you that on the day of the spring outing."

She even remembers the names of Song Jie's attendants, which shows she pays close attention to Prime Minister Song.

Pei Shilin felt an inexplicable surge of anger and frustration, and then he heard her say in a coquettish voice to the servant, "Cangshu, can you help me up?"

There were no stools under the carriage, and the maid who was helping her looked thin and weak, so it was indeed difficult for her to get onto the carriage.

Pei Shilin suppressed his displeasure and wanted to step forward to help her up, but he saw the tall servant wearing a bamboo hat bend down, clasp his hands together and place them on the sides of Xie Yushu's begonia-red dress, and say stiffly, "Madam, step on me."

Xie Yushu revealed an expression that he couldn't help but smile, saying, "This isn't a good idea." He then reached out and placed his hand on Cangshu's sturdy shoulder, stepping on the hand that Cangshu was supporting.

What did that expression mean? She was very happy.

Xie Yushu sat down in the carriage, then reached out and lightly draped his sky-blue handkerchief over Cangshu's hand that had been stepped on, saying from inside the carriage, "Thank you, wipe it off."

The system voice suddenly sounded: "Congratulations, host, you have gained 1 point of cuckold value and 1 point of heartthrob value."

A note from the author:

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Xie Yushu: This isn't good. (Secretly admiring those solid shoulder muscles!)

I'm continuing to send out red envelopes today. I'll send one to the first 100 people; there aren't many people here now, so I think everyone will get one~ [shy]