Chapter 171 - Wheeling and Dealing (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

It was autumn, and the weather was getting colder. Yun Xi was planning to go out on Sat.u.r.day morning to buy some clothes.

The silk skirts couldn’t be worn anymore, and she had to find some season-appropriate clothes that were in her style.

As soon as she got up, she heard her second uncle’s cough from the courtyard downstairs.

She vaguely remembered that in her last life, her second uncle had started to have an itchy throat as soon as it was autumn and kept coughing constantly.

No kind of cough medicine had been effective, and because he wasn’t healthy, taking medicine frequently had increased his tolerance over time.

Yun Xi suddenly remembered that she still had the medicine she’d prepared in Jiangnan, so she took it out of the drawer and went downstairs.

On Sat.u.r.days and Sundays, her second aunt would bring her second uncle to their mansion for dinner because Grandpa naturally favored the children and grandchildren he saw frequently.

Her third uncle was always busy, and she rarely saw him in person. Her third aunt played cards and went to the spa with other wealthy wives every day. Unless it was the holidays, she rarely came to their house.

When Yun Xi came downstairs, she saw Liang Xiuqin and Yun Ziling were all dressed up, but she didn’t know whether they were meeting someone or going to a party.

Upon seeing her, her mother and her sister both had the same smug, contemptuous expressions on their faces.

Yun Xi grasped what was going on.

After she’d put so much effort into baiting Jiang Henglin, if they hadn’t made a move, they would’ve lost their precious trump card.

In order to cling to Jiang Henglin, who else, besides Yun Ziling, would be her mother’s trump card?

Her mother’s plan was easy to guess, but perhaps she’d never thought about the consequences of using Yun Ziling to bait Jiang Henglin.

Even if Jiang Henglin were willing to marry Yun Ziling, would Father Jiang agree?

All right, even if he did agree, what effect would it have on their reputation if word got out that the younger sister had stolen her older sister’s fiance?

Moreover, if Jiang Henglin nullified the marriage contract with her in the future, he would have to compensate her. Wouldn’t she be able to stipulate anything she desired?