On the night of the broken engagement, the paranoid prince came to me crying and asking for my statu

"An An, what happened? Tell me, did Shou Kang Tang give you trouble? I'll go..."

God knows how hard it was for her to say such a sentence. She had to cough every few words. In the end, Ji Lanshuang's sallow face turned red from coughing.

"Mom, just take a good rest and don't do anything."

A soft, slender hand with thin calluses covered her mouth to stop her from speaking. The person who had just been crying in her arms was now sobbing and hiccuping, with a pair of red and swollen eyes.

After looking around the room for a long time and not seeing the short and stocky little boy, Su Sui'an couldn't help but ask, "...Where's my little brother?"

"You remember my little brother now?"

Ji Lanshuang smiled slightly, and weakly instructed Aunt Deng and Suguo beside her to wash the towel for Su Sui'an to wipe her face and let her take care of it.

"He seems to have become much more well behaved these past few days. He has been fiddling with something in his own little world."

After washing his face, Su Sui'an looked at Ji Lanshuang without moving his eyes away.

It was as if he wanted to remember Ji Lan Shuang's appearance firmly in his mind.

Realizing that something was wrong with Su Sui'an, Ji Lanshuang immediately ordered Nanny Deng and Su Guo to retreat and stay outside.

"An An, what happened..."

Before he finished speaking, Ji Lanshuang turned his head away and coughed a few times in silence.

After crying for a while and truly feeling the reality of returning home, Su Sui'an regained his sanity.

Looking at his mother who was pale, so thin that she was almost skin and bones and had difficulty getting out of bed, Su Sui'an clenched his fists so hard that they made a clattering sound.

In the previous life, even her mother's corpse looked much more plump than she is now. Some sisters in the Jiaofang Division said that her mother's health had been getting better day by day since she was sent to Prince Yun's Mansion...

She didn't want to speculate maliciously about many things, but what the Marquis' Mansion did had already exceeded the bottom line of what humans could do. They were not humans at all, but a group of beasts.

After taking a few deep breaths, Su Sui'an finally calmed down the thick and heavy hatred. He sat down beside Ji Lanshuang's bed, leaned in front of Ji Lanshuang, and whispered in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "Mom, I'm going to tell you something next. Although it's unbelievable, but..."

When talking about his previous life, Su Sui'an's throat felt like it was stuffed with cotton. He choked for a long time before he squeezed out the words "absolutely true" from his voice.

That night, Su Sui'an did not go back to Tingyu Xiaozhu, and the light in Ji Lanshuang's room was on all night.

...

Different from the quiet and warmth of Ruoliyuan.

The night was filled with tension in the Fuyao Hall of the first house.

The cry of a young child broke the silence of the night.

"Hong, what do you want?"

Su Qishun's voice was not as gentle as usual. It was irritable and a bit impatient.

Su Jinhao, who was only three years old, was taken away by his wet nurse, leaving the couple looking at each other coldly in the room.

Holding a silk handkerchief, Hong wiped away the tears from her eyes gracefully. "Su Qishun, check your conscience. I have been good to you and your stepmother over the years, but what have you given me in return? There are no concubines in the mansion? You actually went to find a mistress!!"

"Misunderstanding, it's really a huge misunderstanding."

Su Qishun's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and he kept shouting for himself, "Tong'er, can't you feel how I treated you over the years? Back then, I registered Cheng'er under your name with your consent, and I let that concubine give birth to him. Have you forgotten? Over the years, which of the children in our eldest room was not born with your consent? It was later that the expert said that Wan'er was destined to have a brother, so we raised her under our name, and that's how we got the smart and clever Hao'er..."

Speaking of Su Jinhao, Hong's expression finally softened.

Su Qishun looked even more aggrieved. "This, this, this, originally we agreed to raise Wan'er under our names, how come it suddenly became that Wan'er was born to me and my mistress? I... really feel more wronged than Dou E."

After saying this, he reached out and wiped away a handful of nonexistent tears, put on his outer garment, turned around and was about to walk out.

Hong hated to see Su Qishun like this, so she quickly grabbed his sleeve and asked, "Where are you going?"

Su Qishun's eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and the aggrieved look on his face became more obvious. "My wife doesn't like me, so I will punish myself by sleeping in the study tonight. It won't bother my wife. Anyway, in this huge mansion, I can only go where Tong'er is."

Calling her "Madam" on the left and "Tong'er" on the right successfully calmed Hong's anger. Her face, which was originally covered with tears, had already turned red as if it was painted with rouge.

Su Qishun took advantage of the situation and grabbed their hands, causing the Hong family to be defeated on the spot.

Even his tone softened a lot, "That's not what I meant, but today..."

Su Qishun looked at Hong affectionately and helplessly, "My wife, you know the relationship between my second brother and I. How long have you been married? How long has my stepmother died? My second brother dared to attack me in the mansion without any regard for his dignity. If I hadn't married you, I don't know how he would have bullied me. Like roots, like seeds. An'er..."

Speaking of Su Sui'an, Su Qishun was like an elder who was always worried about his child, "He was still a little overbearing and rude..."

Hong buried her head in Su Qishun's arms, "The child is disobedient, just give him a lesson."

She was so focused on her words that she didn't notice the triumphant smile on Su Qishun's lips.

"Well, my wife is right. I am blessed to have you. This is the greatest blessing in my life."

As he said that, Su Qi leaned over and kissed Hong on the face, then pushed Hong down on the bed.

"You...just keep talking nonsense." Mrs. Hong reluctantly agreed.

The temperature in the room gradually rose, and the room became charming.

...

The night is as cold as water.

Compared to the Changping Marquis' Mansion which was still busy pretending to prepare for the wedding, the Guguogong Mansion was not even pretending. With still half a month to the wedding date, the entire Guguogong Mansion was still deserted without any excitement of a wedding.

Another person who is destined to be sleepless tonight is Gu Xiuyan from Duke Gu’s Mansion.

Gu Xiuyan is only twenty-three years old this year, but he has been promoted to the position of Minister of the Dali Temple out of the ordinary.

Just like the position he holds, he is so rational as to be almost ruthless. His pair of handsome, narrow eyes are always cold and clear, without any human emotion.

However, his otherworldly appearance finally began to crack when he saw his confidant holding up a half-broken jade pendant and two girls' pearl flowers.

The man who had been sitting calmly behind his desk reading files a moment ago, suddenly stood up after seeing those things clearly.

"This is..."