An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

A beauty came to Qingshan Temple, and the students of Zhi family who came there for lunch and a nap naturally noticed it.

Although Sang Ling was very low-key in her interactions with others, a girl like this, not to mention her face, even her beautiful back was really eye-catching.

At the beginning of the new year, there were many new students in the school. None of them knew that this beauty was the ugly daughter of the Sang family who had been famous before and had also studied in the Zhi family school last year.

Therefore, Sang Ling's appearance caused a small disturbance among the students. Whenever she was reading in the dormitory, many figures would rush out from outside, completely blocking the light from the window. Later, someone even pierced the cloth between the windows. The noise was so noisy that they could not concentrate on the class.

In the following days, she simply asked Zong Xiang and Wei Chu to guard outside, and with Cheng Ai patrolling back and forth to drive people away, she was able to have some peace and quiet.

The news spread among the new students, and within two or three days, the old classmates also knew about it. Dai Chengjun was the first acquaintance to come forward.

"I was thinking about it the first two days, it was so boring, and I happened to see you." The daughter of the Dai family took her arm, "When I saw you from a distance, I thought I was seeing things wrong. I thought that the new kids this year were not as tall as you."

Dai Chengjun now spoke in exactly the same way as Ban Le did back then. She nudged Sang Ling and said, "How come you, Marquis Mu Wu and the general's wife, came to Qingshan Temple by yourself?"

"I—" Sang Ling raised his head slightly and simply imitated the other two's tone, "I can't come?"

"Of course you can, but you've just married into the family, and you're a new bride, and Nie Ce isn't around. If you come here on your own, won't the Nie family say anything about you?"

In the imperial court, women who went out were generally accompanied by a bunch of servants and maids. It looked a bit strange for Sang Ling, a newly married daughter-in-law, to go out with three servants.

The Sang family's daughter smiled in relief, leaned back on the wooden couch, and looked at the old osmanthus tree above her head. "I came out to get some fresh air. The mansion is too stuffy."

After all, they have been friends for more than a year, and both of them are high-class ladies who have been raised in seclusion. Dai Chengjun immediately sensed something wrong in the words, and she spoke directly from her heart, "Have you been bullied?"

There was nothing to hide. "Yes." Sang Ling answered frankly. After he finished speaking, he felt his daughter approach him. She put her hands behind her back, propped up the wooden couch and looked up. "What's wrong?"

She couldn't help but let out a long sigh and told the whole story from beginning to end, including her own guesses and what Madam Zhaoyu said later, and also mentioned Ya Nu's death before.

After she had finished pouring out all the words, she seemed to finally breathe a sigh of relief. Her eyes and ears felt clear, and the wind in the forest became much more pleasant.

"How bad." Dai Chengjun was quite indignant. "How could the Nie family be so bad? There is not a single good person in them!"

Who can tell who is a good person and who is a bad person? Shen, who was hiding behind the scenes and Cai, who was used as a gun, are bad people. Then, are Nie Taigong, who was trying to smooth things over, and Madam Zhaoyu, who was thinking about the overall situation, good people?

Even though she had prepared herself mentally before the marriage, thinking that friction was inevitable when there were more people in a large family, whether it was the Xun family or the Nie family, she also tried her best to keep a low profile. However, she still thought things were too simple. These people had been fighting for years and had long been accustomed to this mode. How could she, a newcomer, compete with them?

Even if we want to fight back, we are too weak.

All of this actually stems from the fact that she does not have a strong and powerful family behind her.

If Sang Wu had asked a few questions or made a move to refuse to let her go on the wedding day, perhaps she would not be a lone boat in the Nie family today.

"What about Nie Ce?" Dai Chengjun asked, "When Nie Ce comes back, tell him about this. Will he help you pay it back?"

Sang Ling simply lay down on his back, clasped his hands together on his lower abdomen, and said calmly, "It's no use even if he comes back."

"Why?" The little daughter beside her also lay down.

The breeze in the forest gently blew over the two of them, and the afternoon sun shone through the swaying shadows of the trees, streaming onto the faces of the two girls. Sang Ling couldn't help but spread out his five fingers and peek at the tiny rays of light through his fingers. "He also said that we should keep a low profile."

Dai Chengjun sighed softly, and then turned his head back, "But you are not being low-key, you are being bullied."

Even if she was offended, there was nothing she could do. Firstly, her parents' family was too weak, so her husband's family naturally thought she was easy to manipulate. Secondly, Nie Ce went to Jiaozhou not long after his marriage, and even when he came back, he could not stay for more than two or three days. If you counted the time they had spent together, it was less than a week. As a new bride, she had neither her parents' support nor her husband's backing. Even Madam Zhaoyu's attitude was the same - there was no progress in Ya Nu's case, so she could only be passive in everything and could not make a fuss.

She had to suppress all her anger, and the only extraordinary thing she did was to escape to Qingshan Temple to get some fresh air.

At least the world in the books can allow her to forget for a while.

Seeing that Sang Ling didn't say anything, Dai Chengjun sighed again, "You all have a bad life. I don't want to get married anymore."

She knew without even thinking that the "you" in the sentence was Sang Ling and Ban Le, so she put her hand down and asked, "What's wrong with her?"

Speaking of this, the air feels heavy.

Dai Chengjun's tone dropped a degree, "I went to see her at the East Marquis's mansion a few days ago. She said that her brothers and sisters-in-law like to make things difficult for her. Xun Jin pretended not to know about it, and the East Marquis's wife didn't care about it."

"And not long after they got married, Xun Jin already had two concubines in his room."

It's true that every family has its own problems. Whenever there are several cousins ​​in the husband's family, they always make things difficult for the bride - is this some unwritten rule?

"Does Lord Nie have a concubine?" Dai Chengjun asked her again.

"I haven't seen any."

He doesn't even have a young maid. The only ones he had after marriage were a young lady he brought with him, and the two now are Zong Xiang and Wei Chu who follow him. With Shen constantly making small moves, how can Nie Ce have the time to keep a concubine?

"Let's not talk about this anymore, let's not talk about this anymore." Dai Chengjun simply sat up and said, "I'm annoyed when I mention these things of yours."

No straightforward person would like to hear these things, and they would all like to take revenge on the spot.

Sang Ling did not mention it. After a while, she said in a carefree manner, "Come on, I haven't even started to feel sorry for myself yet, why are you angry?" She continued to stare at the horizon and smiled, "Just walk step by step. You see, I'm doing fine now. If I don't want to stay there, I can come out and read and write, and no one will bother me."

"You are trying to find joy in misery." Dai Chengjun hit the nail on the head.

She could only laugh twice more and stopped refutation. She couldn't refute anything. The only thing she could do now was to find ways to relax herself as much as possible.

She was too passive in the Marquis' Mansion. She was still a guest of the Nie family and she had no choice.

She could only wait for the opportunity to come.