In some sense, there was wisdom in Wei Lan's words. It was just a shame that the woman's innate personality and life experiences made her worldview crooked. It also didn't help that she married and divorced a womanizer like Long Tengfei who ended up becoming someone akin to her mortal enemy.
Iris had no love for Wei Lan. Even the original Long Xiulan didn't have that much affection for her own mother. However, Iris found Wei Lan pitiful in a way. The woman wasn't inherently evil but she was incredibly shallow, narcissistic and self-centred.
Listening to Wei Lan's advice, Iris understood that the woman was rather pessimistic and didn't believe in absolute loyalty between lovers. True love might be real, but sexual monogamy was only a myth. This was what Iris extracted from Wei Lan's chatter.
