The wedding feast at the Changxing Princess's mansion lasted until the third watch of the night before dispersing. On the way back to the Yan State Duke's mansion, Song Yi smiled and lifted a corner of the carriage curtain, gazing out at the snowflakes swirling in the streets. She thought about the flattery she had heard during the banquet, "Heavenly bestowed good match, white-haired till old age", and couldn't help but smile coldly to herself. With a "pa" sound, she let the curtain fall back into place.

  Jian Yu Bai, who had drunk a few more cups on the seat, was originally leaning against the car axle with his eyes closed to rest. Hearing the sound, he opened his eyes and asked: "What's wrong?"

  "The wind is too strong." Song Yi smiled and raised her sleeve, without looking at him, saying lightly, "The curtains were blown down."

  Jian Yu Bai heard what was said, reached out and took down the cloak hanging on the carriage wall, covered her with it, and asked warmly: "Are you cold?"

  Song Yi Xiao just nodded coldly: "It's fine."

  Jian Xuwu looked at her again, let out a soft sigh, closed his eyes, and leaned back.

  Since the assassination, there has been a rift between them.

  Although Jian Yu tried every means to reconcile with Song Yi, she refused to cooperate.

  She didn't cry or make a fuss, nor did she say any words of grievance. She just maintained a polite but distant attitude towards Jian Yu Bai, unmoved no matter how hard he tried to please her.

  In this case, others didn't dare to persuade him, but Zhao's mother was anxious and worried, but unfortunately, even her usual tactics were useless this time.

  After Song Yi Xiao roughly told her the truth, she said lightly: "My father didn't want me long ago; my mother heard that I was close to her and immediately hated me, wanting me to be ten million eight thousand miles away from her! My parents are unreliable, but I wanted to live a good life with my husband. However, he used my life as a stake to deal with a few servants! What's the point of living like this?"

  When she heard that even the words of attempting suicide had been spoken, Zhao's mother was so frightened that she immediately fell silent, fearing that one misstep would push the child she had raised with one hand to a desperate end.

  After knowing this, Jian Yu Bai was even more humble and courteous to her - in fact, Song Yi Xiao had only been angry for a while when she first realized it, but afterwards she didn't get very angry.

  After all, such a thing as having a pie fall from the sky does happen, but it's not something that someone with shallow blessings can encounter. And since she ended up with Song Yuan and Wei Mengying as parents, it's clear that she's an unlucky one - how could she dare to think of rising through the ranks without paying any price? Besides, this time she was also quite lucky, not too much at a loss.

  However, since Jian Yu Bai can deceive and take advantage of her, she can naturally do the same: During this time, Jian Yu Bai felt guilty, the colder he was to her, the more he spoiled and pampered her. Why should Song Yi Xiao give him a good face?

  The horse-drawn carriage returned to the Yanguo Gongfu against the wind and snow, and the servants had already prepared hot water, hangover soup, tea and snacks. Seeing their master return, they hurried up to serve him.

  Due to Song Yixiao's coldness, Jian Xubai didn't say anything either. The couple silently finished washing up and silently entered the inner room to rest - not long after lying down, Jian Xubai deliberately pressed his hand on his wife's elbow.

  Song Yi Xiao felt it afterwards, slightly furrowed her brow, pulled twice and found she couldn't pull out, had to speak out: "Let go!"

  "What?" Jian Yu Bai turned his head sideways, looking at her innocently, apparently intending to play dumb.

  "Take your hands off!" Song Yi said with a displeased smile, "It's killing me, it hurts!"

  Jian Yu Bai heard this and slightly relaxed, but when Song Yi wanted to take her arm away, he took advantage of the situation and grasped it, holding onto her jade wrist. He sighed: "It's been half a month already, at the Hong Xuan Pavilion, Wei's cousin's illness has almost fully recovered, yet you still won't speak properly with me?"

  With his personality, he would never say such soft words before.

  Song Yi smiled and muttered to herself: "Forced to this point now, isn't it almost enough?"

  It would be foolish to have a falling out with Jian Yu Bai, and not to mention that she has no place to go after leaving the Yan Guo Gong Fu. Even if she got married, she was calculated and had been through life and death struggles - paying such a huge price, only to end up with nothing in the end, huh? How stupid is that?!

  "What did I tell you?" Song Yi smiled and weighed it for a moment, deciding to see the good and collect, after all, Jian Yu Bai's identity and appearance were not worried about not having anyone actively throwing themselves into her arms. She didn't want to get a big heartache because of a momentary temper!

  Even if it's not a major illness, having a few concubines in the backyard who are good at doing business is enough to be annoying!

  So she secretly thought for a moment, and choked back tears, saying, "As the saying goes, 'a daughter marries a chicken follows the chicken, marries a dog follows the dog.' Especially someone like me who is not loved by my parents, once I leave the house, there's no turning back. Now, besides following fate, what else can I do? It's just living one day at a time!"

  As they spoke, her long eyelashes trembled lightly, a line of clear tears silently fell.

  Jian Yu Bai saw the situation and her originally slightly raised lips froze instantly.

  He remained silent for a while before saying with some difficulty: "It's not what you think..."

  "What's that like?" Song Yi Xiao immediately retorted.

  Jian Yu Bai remained silent for a moment before finally saying, "I won't let you take risks again in the future."

  "Who knows what will happen in the future?" Song Yi sneered at such a promise, saying quietly, "The heavens have unpredictable winds and clouds, people have fortunes that change overnight - Cui Kong's sister is a living example, who knows if I'll still be in this world tomorrow? Talking about such distant things, does it make sense?"

  "Don't say such things!" Jian Yu Bai grasped her wrist tightly and said in a low voice, "The young lady of the Siku family is definitely hiding some illness, why are you comparing yourself to her?"

  Song Yi smiled faintly and said: "I don't have any hidden illness, but the big steward carries a dagger with him!"

  He remained silent for a long time before finally saying, "It's because I'm incompetent."

  Song Yi Xiao detected the awkwardness and difficulty in his tone, worried that he might be overthinking things, so she pursed her lips and intentionally let out a sigh: "Actually, you and I are married, my wealth and glory all depend on you. If you want those people dead, just tell me directly, how could I possibly not help you? Even if being bait is dangerous, am I the kind of cowardly person?"

  She raised her unheld hand to cover her eyes and sobbed, "But you didn't tell me anything - did you know how scared I was at the time? Not just afraid that they would hurt me, but also afraid that you would follow me like last time with cousin Xian, and fall into their trap!"

  She felt Jian Yu Bai loosen his grip, and then he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into a hug. Her eyes, hidden behind her hands, narrowed slightly as she continued in a trembling voice, "I thought I was going to die, thinking that as long as you were fine, I could rest easy! But who would have thought..."

  Who would have thought that you are the hidden canary behind the scenes?!!

  Jian Yu Bai leaned to the side, embracing her, his chin resting on her hair, his slightly lowered phoenix eyes filled with bitterness and guilt. Listening to his wife's sorrowful confession, his heart was like a knife being twisted but he couldn't defend himself, so he just kept lowering his head to gently kiss his wife's long hair.

  After a while, Song Yi Xiao finally vented out her emotions, turned over in his arms, grasped his arm and sobbed: "For the sake of our relationship since we were young, promise me! Next time if you don't want me, you must tell me! Don't let me foolishly worry about you and look forward to you again!"

  She covered her mouth with her hand and burst into tears, "I've waited for three people in my life: seven years ago, less than a month after my mother remarried, stepmother Liu came to the door, treating me like a thorn in her eye, I waited by the door every day for my mother to save me; six years ago, when the madam took me out and sold me to the brothel owner, I cried and shouted waiting for my father to save me - the third one I'm waiting for is you, that night I was afraid you'd fall into their trap, but also thinking that the only one who could possibly save me, the only one who could possibly rescue me, was you!"

  Jian Yu Bai exerted force to close his eyes, covering the reddened eye sockets. His voice was hoarse as he said word by word: "I don't not want you, I won't not want you!"

  Song Yi laughed and cried again for a while before lifting her tear-stained face, half-believing and half-doubting: "You swear?"

  "I swear!" Jian Yu Bai looked at her, raised his hand without hesitation and vowed that he would never again disappoint his wife. This resolute declaration finally made Song Yi Xiao laugh through tears and throw herself into his arms. With a voice still choked with sobs, there was an unmistakable hint of sweetness: "You'd better keep your word! Don't deceive me again! Otherwise, I'll never believe you again!"

  Almost bursting with joy in her heart, she tightly hugged him: "It won't happen, you must believe me!"

  "Uh-huh!" Song Yi smiled and nodded heavily, then seemed a bit shy, hiding her head in the quilt, sweetly saying, "Tomorrow Third Brother will bring Third Sister-in-law to pay respects to Father and Mother with tea, we also have to go and pay our respects, we need to sleep early, otherwise, considering Third Sister-in-law's relationship with me, if we look tired at that time, who knows what she'll say!"

  "She dares?" Jian Yu Bai's emotions were already stirred up, and without thinking, he said, "Don't worry! If she doesn't watch herself and comes to bother you tomorrow, I absolutely won't let her have it easy!"

  Song Yi smiled with a playful smile, but her tone was still sweet: "At that time, it will all depend on husband protecting me - you can't let her bully me!"

  Jian Xubo is always full of promises, but he doesn't know that his wife is thinking to herself: "Looking at his reaction just now, it doesn't seem like he's pretending. I didn't expect that after we got married, he still has some feelings for me. Hmm... with this heart-to-heart talk today, in the next year or two, he probably won't think about taking a concubine or visiting brothels again, right?"

  Qin Niang Wei Mengying repeatedly emphasized: doting is the royal way!

  Whatever you say about business, whatever is outside is just for fun, whoever can't surpass you... all are nonsense!

  "In Wei Mengying's own words: 'There can't be two suns in the sky, and there can't be two masters of a country!'"

  "Infighting is also like this!!"

  "A harem full of concubines in the backyard, no matter how noble and awe-inspiring the main wife is, or how much attention she receives from her husband, to a mother-in-law, what's the difference between this and the last emperor of Western Zhou?!"

  "In name, he is the common master of the world, but with all the vassals rising up and warlords competing for power, who would really put this 'common master' in their sights?!"

  "If you're not careful, not only will your own position be unstable, but you'll also implicate your children - after the last emperor of Western Yong, there was still Eastern Yong, and let's not mention its short lifespan. The founding emperor of Eastern Yong was just a collateral branch of the imperial family of Western Yong, not the descendant of the last emperor!"

  "To forever eliminate future troubles and bring blessings to our descendants, we should follow the example of our great ancestor Taizu: drive out the Tartars, eliminate the feudal lords, destroy the Yongzhong clan, punish bandits, pacify the rivers and seas, stabilize the country, then establish the capital, build a dynasty!"

  Drive out the beautiful maids, eliminate the concubines, exterminate the serving girls, execute the outside wives, block the prostitutes and be on guard against the young servants!

  Only in this way can we sit firmly on our throne like Emperor Taizu of Song, and leave a bright future for our children!

  How can one sleep soundly with others snoring beside him on his bed!!!

  For this kind of family rule that only teaches daughters but not daughters-in-law, Song Yi Xiao naturally strictly follows it - let alone the backyard is not peaceful, it's also inconvenient for her to find a way out behind Jian Yu Bai!