“Cough cough cough——”

"Auntie, are you finally awake?"

Aunt Zhao woke up in the middle of the night. She opened her eyes blankly and felt a dizzy pain in her head: "What's wrong with me... Miss Shen? Why are you here?"

The maid choked and said, "Auntie, you cut your wrists and committed suicide during the day. Miss Shen sent someone to the outside of the mansion to ask for a doctor to save you, and then she stayed in the room waiting for you to wake up."

"Auntie, please don't do stupid things again. You scared me to death."

suicide........

Aunt Zhao remembered.

She was really in so much pain during this period. She was tortured by the fact that the baby in her belly was stillborn, by Xie Yuchuan's ruthless words to protect the baby, and by the fact that she had no hope or expectations for the future.

She didn't want to open her eyes and face her terrible life.

So, she couldn't bear it anymore.

He chose to commit suicide to escape.

"You saved me again?"

Aunt Zhao propped up her weak and broken body and sat up. She coughed heavily several times, and a string of tears slid down her cheeks: "Twice, twice..."

In this marquis's mansion, the person she despised the most was Chen Wei.

But unexpectedly, in the end, Chen Wei saved himself twice.

Aunt Zhao laughed bitterly at herself, and for a moment, she didn't know how to face Chen Wei, who had always been at odds with her.

"Drink the medicine first." Chen Wei stood up, holding the prepared tonic, sat beside the bed and personally fed Aunt Zhao: "Qin Shuyu is a very good mistress, she is indeed different from other ladies."

"She is dignified, generous, polite, and kind. She carries the pride of a noble family in her bones. She is unwilling to argue with concubines, and will not use any means to harass them."

"Even if you have no children and can no longer carry on Xie Yuchuan's family line, she won't say anything. At least she can make sure you have enough food and clothing."

"So, did you commit suicide because of Xie Yuchuan's ruthlessness, or because you indirectly killed the fetus?"

Words that touch the heart.

A tonic at just the right temperature for your lips.

This mysterious and impenetrable veil before my eyes.

Aunt Zhao suddenly felt bitter in her heart. She looked at the curtain with tears in her eyes. There were many grievances piling up in her heart but she couldn't say a word.

Aunt Zhao wiped away her tears in self-mockery, opened her mouth and swallowed the medicine, and then asked the question that had been suppressed in her heart for several days: "You, why did you save me?"

Chen Wei smiled and said, "Do you think I'm saving you?"

“Isn’t it…?”

"I guess so." Chen Wei thought for a moment, then scooped another spoonful of medicine and handed it to Aunt Zhao's mouth: "Saving you is like saving myself from the swamp. After all, I've been caught in the rain."

"I just can't stand seeing other women getting wet in the rain."

"If I meet someone, I always want to help."

When was it possible for two people to stay in the same room peacefully, and even have a good relationship to the point of feeding each other medicine?

When did the relationship between the two begin to change?

Was it the time when Aunt Zhao stood at the door and eavesdropped on the conversation between Madam and Chen Wei?

Or was it the time when Aunt Zhao saw Chen Wei fly backwards, hit his stomach on the corner of the chair, and framed Xie Yuchuan?

Or maybe...

Was it Aunt Zhao who was filled with guilt and insecurity, and who stood at the intersection of the garden several times, and who wanted to stop Shen Wei and say sorry several times, but she couldn't bring herself to talk about that time several times?

Maybe both, but none of them matter anymore.

"I know that Madam is sensible. Unlike the mistresses of other mansions, she is tolerant of concubines and doesn't have those twists and turns. She is very good. Madam is really very good..."

“But Miss Shen, my heart hurts so much.”

Aunt Zhao lowered her eyes and said, half crying and half laughing, "I don't even know what the pain is. I just feel extremely uncomfortable."

"You once said we were both caged birds, so why bother fighting? Winning three points of land would ruin half of your life if you lost... It wasn't until I lay in the delivery room that I realized I was truly a pet, begging for its owner's affection."

"I spent a lot of effort to get someone to find that fertility medicine. It's me, it's me who has always dreamed of having a son, because my mother and grandmother's first three children were daughters. I'm afraid, I'm afraid..."

"You know, only if I give birth to a son can I have a place in this marquis's mansion."

"But in the end, I was pregnant with a boy, but it was stillborn. Can you tell me, was it a boy from the beginning... or did I become a boy because I drank fertility medicine?"

Chen Wei felt powerless and pathetic after listening to these last words.

At this point, the question of whether the child is a boy or a girl is still Aunt Zhao's inner demon and a hurdle she cannot overcome.

Chen Wei didn't want to hide it from Aunt Zhao, nor did he want to tell a white lie, because Chen Wei felt that some things could no longer be kept unclear: "It's a boy, it's not a problem of the fertility medicine."

"Whether you give birth to a boy or a girl is not something you can decide, nor is it something your grandmother or mother can decide."

"It's the man's decision. If you want to blame someone, blame their own genes. Don't blame yourself. No amount of medicine can change the fact that it's a boy or a girl."

is that so?

Aunt Zhao stared at the curtain intently.

I saw sincerity, affirmation and determination in the other person's eyes.

She will never forget that when her mother gave birth to three daughters in a row, everyone in the family scolded her, saying that her mother's womb was not cooperative and could not give birth to a son, and only gave birth to money-losing babies.

Even my father, who was one with my mother, despised her for being useless and even considered remarrying...

But now.

Chen Wei told her that this was not the case. It was not the woman's fault, but the man's own genes that were to blame.

"Heh." Aunt Zhao closed her eyes and laughed desperately.

"Now I finally understand why the Marquis likes you so much."

"I, I have no reason to hate you anymore... Chen Wei, the Marquis is right. You are different from all the other women in this harem. You are brave, outspoken, bright and unique."

"And I and the others are all old-fashioned women, cut from the same mold, soulless, with only a timid exterior. No wonder I can't attract him."

"I was not convinced at first, but now I am."

The atmosphere in the room was very depressing, as if even the air was bitter.

Shen Wei looked at the lifeless Aunt Zhao.

suddenly,

She put down the medicine bowl and looked at the lifeless Aunt Zhao with burning eyes.

In the room, one person was lying and one was sitting.

The two pairs of eyes stared at each other in the air, one face radiated a dazzling light, while the other face was dull and lifeless, forming a sharp contrast.

At this moment, Aunt Zhao was suddenly stunned.

She saw something in Chen Wei's eyes about to burst out, and she saw Chen Wei say, "Aunt Zhao, do you want to become the kind of woman Xie Yuchuan likes?"