Yueyao's face showed a mocking smile as she said, "Reputation? If I were worried about my reputation, the Lady family would swallow me whole, bones and all." In her previous life, she had been compliant, but ended up so miserable it was barely worth living.
Initially, Yueyao was hesitant, but seeing the Lady family constantly using underhanded tactics against her and considering her deep-thinking grand-uncle, she knew that worrying about reputation would only restrain her and prevent her from accomplishing anything—she would surely meet the same fate as in her previous life. Reputation is important, but surviving well is paramount. When you're dead, what use is a reputation? With someone to protect her, she was willing to be a good, obedient child; just like when her grandmother was alive, she was a well-behaved and filial child. Now that there was no one to protect her, she had to protect herself.
