Changfu said that after helping Aunt Xing redeem herself, he would marry her and Xingcui. Aunt Xing was full of hopes for happy days ahead. Unfortunately, when she tentatively mentioned to Shen Yun, who was now Lady Xiao, about redeeming herself and leaving the Mansion, Shen Yun flatly refused and warned her not to entertain the thought of leaving the Xiao Mansion. Aunt Xing dared not mention it again for a while, as there were many affairs at the Xiao Mansion, and Shen Yun kept her confined, not allowing her to leave. Aunt Xing was worried; she was already four months pregnant at the time, and her belly was becoming hard to conceal. She tried several times to test Young Lady Shen Yun’s intentions, to see if she was to serve her for a lifetime, otherwise, she couldn’t bear the consequences. Changfu missed Aunt Xing dearly and managed to sneak into the Xiao Mansion as a temporary senior worker, helping to craft various wooden furniture for the Xiao Mansion. It was during this time that Changfu was wrongfully accused by Shen Yun of stealing one thousand taels of silver from the Xiao Mansion and was ordered to be beaten to death. Overcome with grief and pain, Aunt Xing miscarried the baby in her womb. She dared not let outsiders know about her affair with Changfu, so she earnestly begged the doctor for confidentiality. The doctor agreed and also mentioned that the lost child was a male infant. After Changfu’s death, Aunt Xing’s older sister Xingcui discovered she was pregnant with Changfu’s child. It was Changfu’s posthumous child, and out of gratitude for Changfu’s care, Aunt Xing begged her sister to keep a descendant for Changfu. So, Xingcui promised to definitely deliver Changfu’s posthumous child. During that period, Shen Yun happened to be pregnant. With many maids attending to her, they didn’t notice Aunt Xing’s miscarriage. Aunt Xing, on the other hand, wore makeup daily, covering her pale complexion. However, not having rested well after the miscarriage, Aunt Xing developed a chronic illness and lost her ability to conceive. Later, Changfu’s posthumous child was born from Xingcui’s belly, and that child was Xiao Yuchuan. Due to the struggle for the position of Xiao Family head, Xiao Chonghuan feared that the then head of the Xiao Family, Xiao Chongpei, would harm Shen Yun’s unborn child, leading him to hide Shen Yun far away to nurture the pregnancy. Shen Yun went to Longwan Town, which was especially far from the capital city. Being pursued in the town by people sent by Xiao Chongpei, Shen Yun, along with her family, hid in the house of Xiao Hai in Wushan Village for childbirth because Xiao Hai, the hunter’s wife Yang Yuliu, had once served as a maid in the Xiao Family. Yang Yuliu was called Yang Xuelian when she served as a maid in the Xiao Mansion and changed her name after she got married. When Shen Yun was giving birth at Xiao Hai’s house, Aunt Xing, as a confidant, was the maid attending at her side. Yang Xuelian and Shen Yun gave birth at the same time. For her own son’s advancement, Yang Xuelian swapped Shen Yun’s son with her own. Xiao Chonghuan saw this happening but did not expose it. Neither Yang Xuelian nor Xiao Chonghuan knew that Aunt Xing also witnessed this event. Aunt Xing quietly swapped the two children back again. When Xiao Chonghuan and Shen Yun, as husband and wife, left Xiao Hai’s house, they believed they were taking away Xiao Hai’s son, but it was actually their biological son. And Yang Xuelian thought she had left Shen Yun’s son behind, but it was actually her own child. This matter initially seemed concluded. Aunt Xing, while resting in an inn on the way back to the capital with Shen Yun, unexpectedly saw her older sister Xingcui holding a swaddled baby in another inn not far away. Xingcui had a beggar deliver a message to Aunt Xing, agreeing to meet at a wasteland outside the west of the city at a specified hour. Aunt Xing found a chance to secretly meet her older sister Xingcui. At this point, Aunt Xing realized that her sister had always been worried about her, so despite being pregnant, her sister had followed from a distance. Sister Xingcui’s child was born in Longwan Town. Xingcui did not know about Yang Xuelian’s swapping of the children or that Aunt Xing had swapped them back, making it as though there was no exchange. Xingcui only heard that Yang Xuelian had given birth to another son, so after Xiao Chonghuan and Shen Yun left with their child, she quietly sneaked into Xiao Hai’s house in Wushan Village and, while no one in the Xiao Family was around, strangled Xiao Hai’s son, who was only a few days old.