The reborn sweet girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent prince hugs her and coaxes her!

The afternoon sun penetrates the ice-cracked window frames, weaving a fine golden web on the blue brick floor.

In this study room that had been quiet for a long time, Xu Rongrong was the first to break the silence: "You... when did the Marquis come back?"

Although she did not say it explicitly, Mu Rong instantly understood the deep meaning of her words. He stared at her gently and attentively: "Two years ago, three months before the Qixi Festival."

He came back so early!

Xu Rongrong's heart was filled with ripples, but she pretended to be calm on the surface: "Let me go."

Her voice was very soft and her mood was much calmer than before.

Mu Rong glanced at her secretly. Although the girl in his arms still had a bit of displeasure on her face, she no longer looked as eager to escape as before.

He sighed slightly and loosened his arms around her slender waist.

After regaining her freedom, Xu Rongrong gently stood up and slowly sat down on the stool beside the couch.

After calming down for a few breaths, she asked, "When did the Marquis see that I was reborn?"

She knew very well that she had not deliberately concealed her feelings in the past two years. Although it was difficult for others to notice, Mu Rong, who had experienced two lifetimes, must have discovered her abnormality a long time ago.

"At the Qixi Festival banquet, when I asked your Majesty to marry me, you rejected me in public."

"Hmm?" Xu Rongrong frowned slightly and tried hard to recall the scene at that time, but did not seem to reveal any flaws.

Mu Rong saw her doubts and smiled faintly: "You loved me so much in your previous life, how could you refuse my proposal in public?"

Xu Rongrong's face flushed red all of a sudden, and her eyebrows raised: "Who... who likes you!"

"I was wrong!" He explained quickly, "At that time, you were bullied by your biological father and stepmother. You knew that you could stay away from the Xu Mansion if you married me as your legal wife, but you still refused the marriage in public. You must have hated me very much in your heart... and we met by chance that day. If I could make you hate me so much, it must be because I did too many things to hurt you in my previous life."

After saying that, he took Xu Rongrong's hand and held it tightly in his palm.

At this moment, his palms were no longer as cold as before, but had a hint of warmth.

Looking at Xu Rongrong's flushed face, he moved closer: "Are you satisfied with this answer, Rongrong?"

"Nonsense!" She snorted, "Then why didn't you recognize me and kept it a secret until today?"

A hint of sadness flashed across Mu Rong's eyes. He lowered his head slightly. "I didn't tell you then because I was afraid you wouldn't forgive me. I betrayed you so much in my previous life and even caused you to die tragically... How could I have the face to recognize you then! Later... I saw you taking Chu He and Shu Qing together, and... setting up businesses in Jiangnan. I was afraid you would just leave, and I didn't dare to tell you the truth."

"Before the Qixi Festival banquet, I was made sick by Xu Liu, and the royal doctor from Lu Shangshu's mansion came to treat me. Was it you who arranged it?"

"Yes." Mu Rong said, "I regret that I only came back three months earlier and could not save you from the sea of ​​suffering earlier... I remembered that you were sick in your previous life, so I asked Lord Lu to arrange for the palace doctor to treat you, and used his status as the Minister of Works to suppress your father so that he could no longer allow Xu Liu to torture you in the backyard."

"What about Mr. Xu?" Xu Xiangnan, who came from the Mu Mansion to take care of the flower garden for her, must also be Mu Rong's work.

"It was arranged by me," Mu Rong replied. "In fact...in your previous life, you didn't know how to plant herbs in the Marquis' Mansion. I...saw your frustrated look, so I asked Xu Xiangnan to help you."

"Previous life?" Xu Rongrong was a little surprised.

No wonder... Xu Xiangnan, who was described as cold and aloof by the servants of the Marquis' Mansion, came to help her take care of the medicine garden in his previous life. It was actually arranged by Mu Rong!

For a moment, she fell silent again.

"I'm sorry." Mu Rongmu Rong's rough fingers stroked the girl's delicate back of the hand, and he murmured:

"I was so wrong, but by the time I knew it, it was too late."

"When I returned to the capital after resolving the border crisis, I wanted to go back to the palace to express my feelings immediately, but I didn't expect to be summoned into the palace by Wu Tianqi at the palace gate... I didn't expect that I would step into the trap set by him and Lin Jiaoyue..."

Xu Rongrong tilted her head when she heard this: "Planning? Wasn't it because you were attracted to Lin Jiaoyue and lost your sense of proportion in the palace that Wu Tianqi caught you with it?"

"You believe it too?" Mu Rong asked.

"You are deeply in love with Lin Jiaoyue, how can I not believe it?" Xu Rongrong snorted coldly.

"That was their plan," Mu Rong said helplessly. "When I was helping Lin Yunce resist the enemy at the border, Lin Jiaoyue sent me three secret letters, but I never responded... Since then, she knew that I was out of control, so she conspired with Wu Tianqi to get rid of me. It's just that I was too stupid. Because of the friendship I grew up with, I never thought that they would use such a dirty trick to frame me..."

"During the year at the border, I thought about you every moment... I just hated myself for making such a big mistake towards you, and I didn't know how to face it. I just wanted to get out of this predicament as soon as possible and go back to see you."

Xu Rongrong turned her face away, with a hint of dissatisfaction in her tone: "Then he was summoned to the palace."

The girl's coquettish look warmed Mu Rong's heart. He explained, "When I entered the palace that day... I originally wanted to ask Wu Tianqi for permission to marry you as my legal wife. Before going to the war, Wu Tianqi gave me a secret decree that if the border crisis could be resolved, he would make me a duke... I wanted to exchange the title of duke for your legal wife."

The Zhou Dynasty had strict etiquette and laws, and there was no such thing as a concubine being promoted to the first wife...

If you want to change it, you have to make greater achievements in exchange, otherwise it will be difficult to stop the people from talking.

The air became quiet for a moment.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Mu Rong continued: "But I didn't expect that entering the palace that time would harm you."

After saying that, he met her gaze: "Rongrong, why did you save me then? Obviously I hurt you so badly, obviously you hated me so much..."

"Because..." Xu Rongrong looked at him, "I don't want a general to die unclearly. I don't know why you entered the palace, and I don't want to know whether you were with her... But when the imperial guards came to search your house for the roster of the Mu family army, I guessed that Wu Tianqi had killed you."

"I just... don't want you to die in vain..."

Before she finished her words, Mu Rong held her tightly in his arms the next moment.

The plain silk dress could not block the burning heat that was recovering from his body, and it made Xu Rongrong tremble slightly.

"Thank you, Rongrong." He murmured.

Thank you for your tenderness, your bravery, and...your kindness.

"If it weren't for you, the fate of the Great Zhou Dynasty would have been destroyed by the royal conspiracy."

Xu Rongrong reached out and pushed his chest.

Mu Rong gently let her go, and looking at the girl's blushing ears, he couldn't help but kiss them.

Murmured: "Thank God for giving me another chance to have you come back to me."

A gentle, warm kiss passed from her ear to her cheek and finally landed on her lips.

From a light touch to a long and arduous struggle.

It was as if he wanted to integrate every breath and every inch of her into his bones and blood.