As the Imperial Household Department and the Marquis of Huaiyin's mansion were discussing the wedding, Princess Jiayi came to visit Lin Yan again.
There was no shyness or nervousness of a bride about her at all.
"In a while, I'll be moving into the Princess's mansion, and it will be more convenient to visit you then," Princess Jiayi said excitedly. It seemed visiting them was more important to her than her own family.
"Are you not busy lately, Your Highness?" Lin Yan asked curiously. After all, she had been married once in ancient times to a prince. She had been overwhelmingly busy before her wedding and only relaxed a little after her return visit on the third day.
"What's there to be busy about? Someone else is doing all those things for me. Besides, there are customs for a princess's wedding, and one cannot overstep. I can't do much myself!"
Moreover, her birth mother was extremely doting, as she was her only daughter. She handled everything personally, so her daughter had no role to play.
However, she couldn't tell this to Lin Yan, who had lost her parents. Hearing such a statement might make her feel very sad.
"That makes sense. What tea would you like today, Your Highness?" Lin Yan asked with a smile.
"Anything is fine, all the tea here is good," Jiayi didn't care about this. She was just bored in the palace and came out to find Lin Yan.
"I heard that Xing Shaoyun has been sending you letters?" Jiayi suddenly became gossipy.
"Uh? Who told you that, Your Highness?" Lin Yan didn't know how to respond, as this was a matter of a young woman's reputation.
"Never mind who told me, just tell me if it's true?"
Jiayi was really curious. Xing Shaoyun, who only cared about weapons and his soldiers, actually wrote letters to Lin Yan?
You know, even his memorials were written by his subordinates. His Imperial Father had reprimanded him countless times, but he never changed.
This time, however, he had uncharacteristically written a letter to his Imperial Father, enclosed with a memorial, asking his father to keep an eye on his beloved. He said that war had broken out again in the northwest, and he would not be able to return for a while, fearing that someone else might snatch his beloved away.
Only then did his father realize that this child he watched grow up had truly fallen in love. Knowing that she was good friends with Lin Yan, he specifically came to ask her about Lin Yan's situation.
So she was also very curious, had Xing Shaoyun really written to Lin Yan?
"Yes, there was such a thing. Why is he so careless that even you know about it? That means..."
"Don't worry, no one else knows. Xing Shaoyun kept you very well hidden. If it weren't for the renewed war in the northwest and his inability to return, he wouldn't have said anything."
"Is the war in the northwest very serious?" The plot only mentioned it briefly, and the original owner's memory didn't pay much attention to this matter. Now, there was finally someone who knew the situation.
"It's not very serious, just that the Rong Di have been raiding the borders. However, Xing Shaoyun is quite capable, so he should be back soon." Every year, the Rong Di would come during autumn and winter. It was colder this year, so they came earlier.
It seemed that Jiayi didn't know about the situation there either. But since the imperial court didn't take it seriously, there shouldn't be any major problems recently.
"But how did you two meet? You shouldn't have much interaction, right?" Jiayi was still very curious.
Lin Yan did not answer her but changed the topic.
The New Year arrived again. After Lin Yan sent New Year's gifts to the Marquis of Huaiyin's mansion, she didn't bother with anything else.
She planned to spend this New Year with the Lin clan members who were still in the capital.
She did not go to the Marquis's mansion to pay New Year's greetings this time, as the Marchioness looked unfavorably upon her, and she didn't want to provoke her.
However, even though Lin Yan didn't visit, the Marchioness was not happy. When the Imperial Astronomical Bureau calculated the wedding date, they had not yet made a selection when they heard Princess Jiayi complaining about the dates.
The wedding was initially planned for before the New Year, but because Jiayi disliked the coldness before the New Year and insisted on choosing a time when flowers bloomed, they had to select a new date.
Even if that were the case, the wedding, where she was marrying into their Marquis's mansion, was to be held in the Princess's mansion. They first paid respects to the Emperor and the Noble Consort, and she and the Marquis had to preside over their son's wedding in the Princess's mansion.
This was not marrying a daughter-in-law, but rather marrying into the bride's family. She wanted to raise some objections but was subsequently summoned to the palace. She listened to the Noble Consort talk at length about how willful and doted upon her only daughter was.
This forced her to swallow her anger. Yes, this was the Emperor's most beloved princess, what could she say?
This feeling of suffocation continued until the wedding day of Feng Feiyu.
On the wedding day, the Marchioness forced a smile to entertain the visiting ladies.
When the bride and groom entered the main hall and bowed to their elders, Princess Jiayi merely gave a simple bow.
This made the Marchioness's forced smile even more strained. On the other hand, Marquis Huaiyin's attitude was good. At least he did not show any dissatisfaction with the marriage.
Lin Yan did not attend the wedding. The day before, she had sent her prepared betrothal gifts to Princess Jiayi.
Today, as she watched Princess Jiayi move into the Princess's mansion with a dowry spanning ten miles, a smile of deep amusement played on Lin Yan's lips.
The princess and her consort lived in the Princess's mansion. The Marchioness would not be able to act like a mother-in-law anymore, right?
A County Princess was in opposition to a Princess, so the Marchioness's sense of superiority was gone! It was just a shame she couldn't see the Marchioness's expression.
Just as Lin Yan finished watching Jiayi's wedding procession and was preparing to leave, she saw the female protagonist of this book again.
Tang Leyi looked in the direction of the wedding procession with a look of desolation in her eyes.
It was strange. In this life, she had no interaction with the male protagonist Feng Feiyu. Why was she so stubbornly bent on marrying him?
With the advantage of rebirth, why didn't she do something else? Lin Yan had encountered reborn male protagonists before. Setting aside their character, they had indeed used their advantages to achieve something.
Even Yang Meng, who transmigrated, was doing quite well at the beginning.
Why was this reborn female protagonist only focused on the inner chambers and men? With such an advantage, even if she didn't want to take the lead herself, she could completely help her father and elder brother advance further.
This way, her maternal family's status would also be higher, and her position within her maternal family would be more stable.
But she seemed to be putting all her efforts into the transmigration female supporting character and the male protagonist Feng Feiyu.
In comparison, that transmigration female supporting character was smarter than her.
Even though she knew the male protagonist was her destined partner, she did not choose to hang herself on that tree.
However, what Lin Yan didn't know was that the female supporting character originally intended to get acquainted with the male protagonist, but because Lin Yan spread the news of the Marchioness's harsh treatment of her, she gave up this idea.
In her previous life, the original owner, out of consideration for the Marchioness being her aunt, did not tolerate it. After all, family scandals should not be aired. As a junior living under someone else's roof, how could she speak ill of an elder!
Therefore, the Marchioness's reputation had always been good. Coupled with the fact that the female supporting character and the male protagonist were truly in love, she was able to marry into the Marquis's mansion.
Of course, it was also due to the female supporting character's many contributions and the mention of her own status.