A child without a mother is like a weed. If the Sixth Young Lady had even a concubine for a mother, she never would’ve ended up like this.
A girl without parents to protect her—if she doesn’t have some skill, the world will chew her up and spit her out. Serena was lucky; she had the means to protect herself and survive. Otherwise...
The Sixth Young Lady’s fate could have been hers.
Noticing Serena’s low spirits, Ninth Royal Uncle Nolan didn’t press the topic. The tragedy had already happened; there was nothing they could do. There were plenty of girls worse off than the Sixth Young Lady at Shunning Marquis Manor.
This world has never been fair to women. When disaster strikes, it’s women who starve first, women who are sold off first.
Nolan broke Serena’s train of thought and asked, “What’s your plan? Will you open the coffin and examine the body? The Shunning Marquis Manor has already cleaned up the evidence after all these years. Finding proof there is probably impossible.”
“If we can open the coffin and examine the body, that’s best. The Shunning Marquis Manor buried her in such a hurry—there must be something wrong with the corpse. The Sixth Young Lady chose Simon Sun, probably because she heard I’m protective of my people. For her to use her own death to expose this, she wouldn’t leave things to chance. I bet there’s something useful in her body.” Serena thought, a girl who could protect her younger sister’s reputation and design Simon Sun into her plan wasn’t stupid at all.
Even if she resented the Sixth Young Lady for using Simon Sun, Serena understood her situation. The Sixth Young Lady had it even worse than she did back then. If she’d had any other choice, she wouldn’t have gone to such extremes.
"If you’re going to act, do it fast. If you wait, it’ll be New Year’s. No one wants a scandal like this during the holiday, and if you drag it out, who knows how the Emperor will react."
The Emperor has already cleaned up the Bloodcloak Guard. It’s time to take down Shunning Marquis Manor. Besides, you just saved the imperial heir—if you ask to exhume the body now, the Hsieh Clan and the consorts’ families will help you." Nolan calmly analyzed everyone Serena could rely on.