TRBDM -Chapter 127 Xie Wanyi Moves to the Separate Residence

“Shuxin.”

Dou Shuyao’s pulse raced with worry as she carefully cupped Dou Shuxin’s face. Seeing the large bump on her forehead, her eyes welled up with tears from the pain she felt.

Dou Shuxin leaned weakly against her, too exhausted even to speak.

Wei Zhaorong stepped forward and slapped Xie Wanyi across the face.

“Mother! You hit me again? You didn’t even ask a single question and immediately assumed it was my fault, but I clearly didn’t do anything wrong! Why are you so biased?”

Xie Wanyi collapsed onto the floor, wailing like a shrew.

She was utterly wronged.

Everyone in the Marquis’ residence seemed to be against her. She had once been the cherished jewel of the household, and now she had become a nuisance despised by all.

How had it come to this? She didn’t understand.

Why should this happen?

She was the legitimate daughter of the Marquis’ residence. Dou Shuxin was nothing—a fatherless, motherless orphan who did nothing but pretend to be weak. Why did everyone take her side?

She refused to accept it!

“Xie Wanyi, how dare you ask why? Look at everything you’ve done all this time—tell me, which of it is worthy of a legitimate daughter of the Marquis’ residence?”

“Disrespectful to your elders, selfish, scheming, shameless, unruly, and defiant!”

Wei Zhaorong had given Xie Wanyi chances before, but this time, her last shred of patience was gone.

Xie Wanyi was like a rotten mouse dropping into a pot of fragrant porridge—she spoiled everything and served no purpose.

Now, with the court in turmoil, the Marquis’ residence needed to secure its future during the transition of the throne. Every decision was fraught with risk, demanding Wei Zhaorong’s full attention.

She had no extra time or energy to clean up Xie Wanyi’s messes.

“From today onward, you will move out of the Marquis’ residence and live in the separate residence in the western outskirts. When you marry, your dowry will be fully provided. But once married, the severance of family ties will take effect—you will be cut off from the Marquis’ residence entirely, with no ties whatsoever.”

Xie Wanyi, who had been crying and shouting, suddenly froze.

She had just realized that matters were developing in a direction she had never anticipated.

“Mother, the severance agreement doesn’t count! I… I signed it on impulse, without thinking it through—it shouldn’t be valid!”

Wei Zhaorong snorted coldly.

“Black and white, signed and sealed, perfectly clear. If you had known it would come to this, why did you sign in the first place? Xie Wanyi, one must pay the price for one’s mistakes.”

Wei Zhaorong had once hoped that Xie Wanyi, under her guidance, could reform her character, stop being spoiled and headstrong, and work together with the Marquis’ residence.

But she was too self-centered; instead of changing, she had only gotten worse.

The severance agreement was not a game; once signed, it took effect.

Just like the branch-house separation agreement.

Within a year, the second branch must move out of the Marquis’ residence.

“I didn’t do anything wrong!”

Until the very end, Xie Wanyi refused to admit any fault.

Wei Zhaorong was too tired to argue. “Nanny Qi, take her to the separate residence—today.”

“Yes, Madam.”

Nanny Qi moved efficiently, dragging Xie Wanyi along.

“I won’t go! Mother, I won’t go to the separate residence, I won’t!”

Wei Zhaorong looked at her coldly, saying nothing.

“Big sister, help me! I don’t want to go to the separate residence! Big sister, big sister…”

Xie Wanyi’s last hope was Xie Wanrou.

Wanrou had a kind heart and a soft spot, and she hated seeing others beg her.

When Xie Wanyi had made mistakes as a child, Wanrou often covered for her, and she had always agreed.

So now, Xie Wanyi was trying the same trick again.

But unfortunately for her, it failed. The strategy that had never failed before now completely backfired.

Xie Wanrou shook her head with pity. “Wanyi, you should take care of yourself.”

“Xie Wanrou, how can you be so cruel? I’m your own younger sister! Why won’t you save me? Are you just waiting to see me humiliated?”

Xie Wanyi glared at her viciously. “I hate you. I will hate you forever!”

“Mm… mm—”

Nanny Qi quickly covered her mouth and signaled several servants with her eyes to pull Xie Wanyi away immediately.

Once Xie Wanyi had completely disappeared, the surroundings finally returned to calm.

“Mother, Shuyao, it’s my fault. If I hadn’t quarreled with Xie Wanyi just now, she wouldn’t have run out and wouldn’t have bumped into Shuxin. I was careless.”

Xie Chuan said with a dejected face.

Part of it was his genuine feeling, but also, seeing Xie Wanyi being chased away by Wei Zhaorong had genuinely shocked him.

He had to make his stance clear—he was absolutely on the same side as his mother and madam. He had no ill intentions whatsoever.

The sting of a big slap was something he never wanted to feel again in his life.

He would obediently stay in the Eastern Courtyard, never disobey his mother in the slightest.

So, if mother punished Xie Wanyi, she shouldn’t punish him as well.

Xie Chuan’s little scheme didn’t escape Wei Zhaorong’s eyes.

She was inwardly pleased by his progress, though she showed little expression on her face.

“Why were you arguing?”

Immediately, Xie Chuan spilled everything Xie Wanyi had said.

The more Wei Zhaorong listened, the darker her expression grew. She hadn’t expected Xie Wanyi, at such a young age, to be so malicious.

Being a girl herself, it would have been one thing if she didn’t sympathize with Xie Wanrou’s situation—but she went out of her way to belittle her.

Clearly, Xie Wanrou was the victim in this marriage, so why pour salt in her wounds?

Dou Shuyao kicked Xie Chuan lightly—he could never tell which things should be said and which shouldn’t.

In front of his elder sister, there was no need to mention “a daughter once married is like water spilled”—he could have told mother privately later.

But of course, he blurted it all out. Truly, his emotional intelligence was worrying.

Xie Chuan thought Dou Shuyao was scolding him on behalf of Dou Shuxin, so he kept smiling apologetically: “Madam, it’s all my fault, I was wrong. Please don’t be angry. From now on, I’ll listen to you and mother in everything, okay?”

Xie Chuan’s humble submission was rare indeed.

Even the dizzy Dou Shuxin couldn’t help but be surprised—had her sister and brother-in-law already grown this affectionate?

Dou Shuyao’s face turned slightly red. “Nonsense.”

Xie Chuan raised his index finger and swore: “Madam, I am sincere, with no lies at all. Mother heard me too.”

Finally, Wei Zhaorong revealed a faint smile. “Chuan’er has grown sensible, though his mind is still slow. Shuyao, you must teach him properly.”

“Yes, mother.”

The Dou sisters returned to the Ruixiang Courtyard, where the household physician treated Dou Shuxin.

Her body was not seriously ill; her overthinking had simply led to insufficient qi and blood.

Dou Shuyao knew what she was worried about, but matters of the royal family were not something a lady of the rear residence could intervene in.

She didn’t know how to comfort Dou Shuxin, and could only wait for time to pass, letting her gradually forget the Tenth Prince.

That evening.

A carrier pigeon arrived at Anhe Courtyard.

A servant caught the pigeon and delivered the letter it carried to Wei Zhaorong.

By candlelight, Wei Zhaorong opened it.

“Do not let Xie Yu enter the Imperial Academy. It is dangerous.”

Signed: Ten.

The Tenth Prince, Zhao Jingheng.

The letter was brief, yet laden with meaning.

Why would it be dangerous for Xie Yu to enter the Imperial Academy?

He had studied there before without the slightest risk.

Could it be that the Tenth Prince knows Xie Yu’s true identity?