Transmigrating into a female supporting role in a book

Not long after the invitation from the Shen family was delivered, my aunt came to my house in person. She informed me in advance that Father Shen was planning to make Aunt Qiu his principal wife.

The first time I heard about this was from Situ Jue. When I heard it again from my aunt, I didn’t feel anything special. After all, he is not my biological father. He can do whatever he wants. It’s none of my business.

Seeing that I didn't take it seriously, my aunt explained the problem to me earnestly.

Aunt Qiu's son is currently just a bastard. If Aunt Qiu is promoted to the main wife, then this child will become the legitimate son of the second wife and will definitely inherit everything from my father in the future.

But Aunt Qiu's background as a singing girl is always a hidden danger. To put it nicely, she is a singing girl, to put it bluntly, she is a domestic prostitute. Only someone as obsessed as Father Shen would not only give her the status of a concubine, but also want to whitewash her background and make her his legal wife. If the child is ambitious and enters the official career in the future, if he encounters political enemies who want to dig up some handles, they will definitely use this as a handle and give people a reason to criticize him.

In fact, if Father Shen only cared about the issue of his own heir, he could have registered his son under my biological mother's name, which would have been equivalent to having a legitimate son, and the child and I would be siblings from the same father and mother. Having a legitimate sister as a princess would also be of great benefit to the child's future, but Father Shen did not consider this at all. He only wanted to please Aunt Qiu and followed her wishes, looking down on the big picture. This would cause problems sooner or later.

When my aunt came to say this to me, she was trying to use Situ Jue's power to put pressure on Mr. Shen.

Obviously, my grandfather and my uncle did not agree to promote Aunt Qiu, but they both could not control Father Shen's temper, so they asked my aunt to come forward and try my way.

It seems that the decline of the Shen family is not without reason.

No matter how glorious my grandfather was in the officialdom, he was old and retired after all. He also favored his youngest son to the point that he lost his mind and acted crazy.

To be honest, I don't really want to get involved in this kind of thing, but after all, it concerns the development of the Shen family in the next 20 to 30 years. The officialdom is most concerned with family background, and those powerful people are most concerned about face. Father Shen wants to please his concubine, and he can't risk the career of the male in the family.

After struggling for a while, I had no choice but to find Situ Jue and relay what my aunt said to him.

He listened calmly and asked, "So, you are asking me to help persuade your father to give up the idea of ​​taking a concubine as his wife?"

I nodded, and he tapped the table with his fingertips. I didn't understand what this meant. Was he agreeing or not?

"Is this your attitude when asking for help? You have nothing, and you ask me for help?" His gaze returned to the scroll in his other hand, and the expression on his face could not tell whether he was happy or angry.

I walked around the table, came up to him, and whispered in his ear the terms of the exchange I was offering.

With a bang, the book in his hand fell to the ground. He then bent down to pick it up while coughing dryly.

"You said it yourself, so I'll give it a try." His face didn't show any emotion, but his ears were very red.

I laughed inwardly, hmm, he had been pretending to be so high and mighty in front of me, but his true face was exposed after just a few dirty words.

Situ Jue made a special trip to the Shen Mansion, and after a long talk with my adoptive father in the study, he actually gave up the idea of ​​getting a legal wife.

On the day of the full moon banquet held at the Shen Mansion, Situ Jue and I went back together. I didn't see Aunt Qiu at the whole banquet. It was only until I heard from my cousin Shen Ru that she had a long quarrel with my father and in a fit of anger, she moved to a farm outside.

In the past, this trick was able to effectively control Father Shen, but it didn't work this time. Situ Jue arranged for two young and beautiful girls to be sent to Father Shen's yard, saying that they were to help take care of my younger brother, but in fact they went to Father Shen's bedroom every night to take care of him.

Aunt Qiu knew that she had no chance, so she spent most of the month outside. When her money ran out and no one in the Shen Mansion sent her anything, she came back on her own. But when she came back, she found out that Father Shen had two more sisters.

I didn't see the scene at that time, but I heard it recounted from someone I don't know how many hands, saying that Aunt Qiu was so angry that she smashed everything in the house, and even broke Father Shen's favorite set of inkstones. Then Father Shen didn't even give her face and directly ordered her to be sent back to the farm.

How could she think that an old man who was attracted by her beauty would truly and unswervingly love her? Aunt Qiu was also a fool.

After the full moon wine, Shen's father often invited Situ Jue to go out with him. I knew he was trying to use Situ Jue's favor to help him stay in Beijing. So I specifically told Situ Jue, "Our deal is limited to preventing him from making Aunt Qiu his legal wife. Don't contribute to other things."

"Don't worry. How can I possibly make happy someone who makes you suffer?" Situ Jue answered very straightforwardly.

He said it so bluntly that I seemed petty, so I quickly defended myself, "I'm worried that people outside will say that Your Highness is nepotism and abusing your power to engage in nepotism."

"I understand." He winked at me.

Please don't understand too much.

If Mr. Shen knew that I had ruined his chance to stay in office, he would probably come to the palace to make trouble every day. So Situ Jue still kept the appointment on the surface and did not show any negative attitude towards Mr. Shen's various requests.

The flower viewing banquet originally scheduled for Princess Pingyang's residence was cancelled for various reasons. It can't be said that it was cancelled, but it was replaced by a larger flower viewing banquet in the palace. All the invited guests were notified that the venue was changed to the palace.

Originally, Situ Jue and I had not planned to go, but when we heard that it was organized by the Queen, we had no choice but to go.

In front of others, Situ Jue and I pretended to be a harmonious couple.

When we arrived at the Imperial Garden, he took my hand and went to see the Queen together, not caring about the looks from the guests around us. I thought to myself, you are overacting, who are you acting for?

After paying respects to the Queen, male and female guests had to sit separately. However, because of Situ Jue's show, the Queen half-jokingly told the palace servants to move my seat next to Situ Jue, so as to prevent us as a couple from being separated and distracting her nephew.

This display of affection was so socially explicit that in the end I ended up sitting on the men's side.

Apart from Situ Jue, there were two princes next to him and high-ranking officials behind him. He couldn't help but straighten his back and felt inexplicably stressed.

To put it simply, a flower-viewing banquet is about eating and drinking, a group of people having an open-air party, but the location was changed from the princess's residence to the palace, and the host was changed from Princess Pingyang to the queen. There must be a reason for this.

It didn't take long for me to find out the reason.

The Queen opened her mouth and wanted to find a matchmaker for Princess Yanyun. The matchmaker turned out to be General He, the Jade-faced Demon King, with whom I had a little interaction not long ago.

What surprised me even more was that he was sitting in the seat behind me. After being called by the Queen, he stood up and staggered because he was drunk and almost bumped into me.