Traveling through time and space to become a lady of a noble family, but she only wants to escape

"Funeral rites do not comfort the dead, but only the living." Gu Yan lowered his eyelashes and looked at her, "It is true that when a person dies, it is like a light going out. No matter how much the later generations do, the ancestors cannot see it. I just want peace of mind."

Bai Zhi turned to look at him, her eyes as sharp as a torch, as if she wanted to see through the fake skin to see his true face: "Are you relieved?"

Gu Yan's throat moved, and he said hoarsely, "Not yet."

Outside the house, there was a sudden rustling sound of the trees in the wind, and a few gusts of cool wind came in through the window and door cracks, shaking the candlelight back and forth, and making the shadows of the two people projected on the wall tremble wildly, like lonely souls crawling out of the underworld.

Bai Zhi unconsciously stroked the wooden box, her face gloomy and unclear: "I don't have it either."

Gu Yan was waiting for her next words.

"When everything is over and you feel at ease," Bai Zhi said in a deep voice, "you won't need Ge Zhen anymore."

"Yes."

"So let's work together and try to leave the mansion as soon as possible." Bai Zhi's tone became lighter, and she closed the lid of the box tightly, and said with a smile, "You didn't come back empty-handed, did you bring Ge Zhen's mask?"

Gu Yan took out a palm-sized box from his arms, and picked up a thin piece of soft leather from the box with two fingers.

"Is this all?" Bai Zhi leaned forward to take a closer look. The color of this thing was quite similar to human skin, but it was soft and shapeless, completely different from what she had imagined. "Is this okay?"

Gu Yan led Bai Zhi to sit at the table: "I'll put it on for you, and then you can take a look."

The cold mask seemed to come alive as soon as it was on her face, tightly adhering to Bai Zhi's skin. Gu Yan pinched the mask with his hands and adjusted it in a short while, then handed Bai Zhi a mirror: "Okay, now you can see it."

Bai Zhi looked in the mirror, and at one glance she was so shocked that she almost jumped up.

That was Ge Zhen!

Looking in the mirror and seeing the face of her enemy was too horrifying. It took Bai Zhi a while to get used to it, and then she looked closely at the gap between the masks. At first glance, the mask looked very realistic, but it still looked a little unnatural.

She looked in the mirror, then looked at Gu Yan's face beside her, and asked, "Isn't this the same as the mask on your face?"

Gu Yan's face is very natural, and there is no trace of a mask at all.

"It's different." Gu Yan didn't say much, but simply explained, "The mask on my face is more secure. You only wear it for a moment, so this one is enough."

After Bai Zhi slowly got used to this face, she imitated Ge Zhen and shouted in a shrill voice: "Mother, Zhen'er greets you~"

Gu Yan laughed: "The tone is similar, but the voice is not quite the same."

Bai Zhi lowered her voice a little: "Mother, Zhen'er greets you."

"A little thinner."

After trying seven or eight times, he was barely 50% similar to Ge Zhen. Bai Zhi cleared her throat and sighed, "It's too difficult. I think I should try not to make any sound." She glanced at Gu Yan and suddenly asked, "How did you learn to be so similar? No one in the Marquis' Mansion can hear the difference."

"I used medicine, so you don't have to do this."

Is it necessary to go to this extent to avenge this unjustified revenge?

Bai Zhi finally withdrew her gaze and didn't ask any more questions.

After this trip, Gu Yansong had some free time. He would leave home late and come back early every day. He would drink tea and read books in Bai Zhi's sunbathing place. He would also go to Bai Zhi's class when he had nothing to do. However, every time Gu Yan came, Qiaoqiao and Lin Chuqi would sit upright and dare not speak. Bai Zhi would only let him listen to a few words before sending him away.

Gu Yan began to carefully teach Bai Zhi to practice the boxing manual. He asked Bai Zhi to learn a move after he performed it. Unexpectedly, Bai Zhi learned it very well and had a high level of comprehension. In just a few days, she made rapid progress. When the two were practicing against each other, Bai Zhi was already able to attack him with some pretty beautiful moves.

This was somewhat unexpected for Bai Zhi. Her hands were now strong and powerful, and when she swung her fists with all her strength, there was a sound of breaking through the air.

Gu Yan remembered that Bai Zhi's right hand was injured, and she only dodged but didn't block when she countered her moves. Bai Zhi tried her best to punch but always missed, which made him a little angry. After two days, he went to practice on his own. So the next day, Gu Yan took out a tattered book that was as old as the boxing manual and started teaching her leg techniques again.

Bai Zhi asked him, "How many martial arts books do you have?"

Gu Yan replied: "Twenty-four books, enough for you to study for a long time."

"...That's not necessary. I don't want to be a martial arts master for the time being."

During this period, Bai Zhi also made sufficient preparations to deprive Ge Zhen of his power as the head of the family.

In the blink of an eye, it was Madam Gu’s birthday.

Just as the sky was getting light, Chang Feng knocked on the window and reported: "Miss Bai, the eldest lady has moved."

Bai Zhi had been waiting by the table all night. At this moment, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, stood up and stretched her muscles: "Okay, I understand."

That's why she put Ge Zhen in solitary confinement. She was afraid that Ge Zhen would be more cautious and take action in the middle of the night, so she didn't dare sleep the whole night and now she has two dark nights.

But fortunately I didn't sleep. Ge Zhen set out three hours earlier than last year. It seemed that he was indeed alert.

Bai Zhi packed her things, put on her clothes, and went straight to the second room.

The landscape garden of the Marquis' Mansion was built by a famous person at great expense. The whole garden looks like a maze, and it is said to have some Zen meaning of sudden enlightenment. It takes a lot of twists and turns to walk from the entrance of the garden to the treasury deep in the mansion.

A row of servants carried the sedan chair and walked around to the entrance of the Buddhist Hall. Ge Zhen got off the sedan chair, said something to Shu Linzi, and went in alone.

Behind the rockery in the distance, Bai Zhi and Qiao Wanwan took it all in.

"Is the person you're talking about reliable?" Qiao Wanwan whispered, "Sister-in-law looks healthy and healthy now, and has no problems at all. How could she have diarrhea after taking the clothes? What? Did she put the laxative on the clothes?"

"It's too late for you to ask this now." Bai Zhi glanced at her and took out the clothes and hairpins that Qiao Wanwan had prepared for her from her bag and put them on. "If sister-in-law doesn't go to the toilet, you can pretend to be crazy and drag her away. At least I can go over and touch her clothes."

Qiao Wanwan was so annoyed that she simply shut up.

After waiting for a quarter of an hour, Ge Zhen slowly came out holding a large brocade box and sat back in the sedan chair.

The servants lifted the sedan chair and began to walk back steadily. They showed no sign of stopping until they were almost at the rockery where Bai Zhi and the others were hiding.

Qiao Wanwan was a little anxious: "Seriously, you only bet on this one treasure? Do you have any other tricks?"

Bai Zhi ignored her, secretly counting the servants' steps, reaching into her bosom, and grasping something that had been prepared long ago - the second-choice trick that Qiao Wanwan mentioned.

Suddenly, Ge Zhen shouted from inside: "Stop the sedan!"

Qiao Wanwan breathed a sigh of relief.

Bai Zhi immediately reached into her other arm, took out a mask and carefully put it on her face.