After giving up being the wife of a powerful official, Ling Yunlu became a concubine

Shen Yunjin knew she was about to die as the chronic poison eroded her body.

She opened her mouth, but no sound came out.

She tried to open her eyes wide, trying to see everything around her clearly.

At the last moment, she deeply regretted: If everything could be done again...

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"The eldest lady has been on a hunger strike for three days, and the mistress is making noises every day. I heard that the maids who served her were beaten. Chunxiang and the others are too innocent."

"That's right. The life of the young lady is a life, but the lives of us maids are not lives? Is the master taking it out on us maids?"

"You should be more careful. How can you say such a thing? Be careful or Nanny Li will hear you and punish you."

"Hey, did you hear? The Madam just went to the eldest lady's room and fainted from anger."

"What's going on? Tell me! Quick!"

Shen Yunjin was awakened by a burst of whispering sounds. Since when did the maidservant around her become so unruly and even talked about her master behind her back?

Just as she was about to open her mouth to scold, she heard Li Ma Ma mentioned. Li Ma Ma? Wasn't she already dead?

Nanny Li was Shen Yunjin's wet nurse, and she went to the Zhao Mansion with her as a dowry nanny.

The Zhao family lived in a difficult situation. Nanny Li and the maids worked day and night to embroider to earn money to supplement the family income.

Later, she caught a cold and kept coughing, but the Zhao family not only refused to give her money for treatment, they also said that Nanny Li had tuberculosis and sent her away.

Later, when Shen Yunjin finally gathered enough money and asked her personal maid Jinzhi to send it out, she found out that Nanny Li had already left.

Could it be someone else with the same name? Shen Yunjin thought as he looked around.

The large carved bed was hung with lilac-colored curtains. There was a desk by the window, with some unfinished large characters on the table.

On the other side of the window there was a toffee couch, and next to it stood an embroidery frame with an unfinished picture of spring on it.

The furnishings here are similar to the ones she had in her boudoir before she got married. No, they are exactly the same.

Shen Yunjin thought, could this be a dream? But this dream was too real.

"The wife originally thought that the young lady would compromise after being hungry for a few days. However, when she entered the room today, she saw that the young lady was about to hang herself! The wife fainted from anger at that moment."

"What do you think? Is the young lady possessed by some dirty thing?" The person who spoke couldn't help but lower his voice.

"Think about it, everyone knows that marrying into the Qi Palace is definitely better than marrying into the Zhao Palace, but the eldest lady actually went on a hunger strike to protest, and now she is committing suicide? This doesn't make sense."

"Stop talking, it's creepy. Let's go, I'm going to go see the Second Miss."

As soon as he finished speaking, the curtain at the door was rolled up, and a maid in light pink clothes came in.

"Second Miss, you are finally awake! If you don't wake up, I will have to risk my life to beg you to come to the Madam."

When the other party saw that Shen Yunjin had woken up, he shouted excitedly.

Shen Yunjin frowned slightly because of the noise. Why did this person look like Jinzhi, the head maid when she was young?

"My lady, you scared me to death this time. You had a fever for three days and you were unconscious. Because of the young lady's matter, no one dared to go to the Madam these days. Madam Li had to secretly give you medicine according to the previous prescription. God bless you, you finally woke up."

High fever for three days? Shen Yunjin recalled that in the spring of her coming-of-age year, she caught a cold and had a high fever for three days, and she almost died.

Did she go back to the year when she was 15? Shen Yunjin couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

"Help me up." she ordered Jinzhi.

She held Jinzhi's hand and walked to the dressing mirror. She saw the young face in the mirror, which looked very haggard because of illness.

She subconsciously touched her face with her hand. Her skin was elastic and warm.

Shen Yunjin walked to the window, felt the touch of solid ground, looked at the spring scenery outside the window, and there was a slight fluctuation in his eyes.

Although her body was still very weak, she was by no means seriously ill and had to stay in bed all day.

It seemed that she was reborn and returned to the spring of her coming-of-age year.

Shen Yunjin recalled what he had just heard. If nothing unexpected happened, Shen Yunchu had also been reborn.

Shen Yunjin's biological mother was Shen's mother's maid. It was said that she climbed into Shen's father's bed when Shen's mother was pregnant with Shen Yunchu.

The following year, Shen Yunchu and Shen Yunjin were born one month apart.

Mr. Shen was a well-known henpecked husband in Beijing, but he did two things that went against Mr. Shen's mother.

The first thing was to take Shen Yunjin's mother, Li, as his concubine.

The other thing was to forcibly register Shen Yunjin under Shen's mother's name and make her the legitimate daughter.

In the previous life, during the spring hunt in early March, the emperor took the princes to hunt.

For some unknown reason, a tiger was startled and rushed into the hunting circle, heading straight for the emperor.

Some of the princes drew their bows and shot arrows, some turned around and ran back, and some burst into tears.

Only the fifth prince, Xiao Minshen, pounced on the emperor and stood in front of the tiger.

In the end, Menghu was killed by the secret guards. After the emperor was rescued, he remembered that he had a fifth prince.

The fifth prince was born to the emperor and a palace maid after he got drunk. Due to his mother's low status, the emperor had long forgotten that he had such a son, and the fifth prince was nearly twenty years old and had not yet married.

After the spring hunt, the emperor personally appointed the daughter of the Minister of the Imperial Household as his principal wife and the daughter of Mr. Shen as his concubine.

This marriage naturally fell on Shen Yunchu.

However, after Shen Yunchu married into the palace, she did not live the peaceful life she had imagined. Because of her jealousy and persecution of the royal heir, she was almost divorced and sent home.

Shen Yunjin married Zhao Jingyan, a scholar favored by Shen's father.

Zhao Jingyan is the second son in the family. He is smart and good at scheming.

After Shen Yunjin married into the family, Zhao Jingyan topped the imperial examinations one after another and finally won the palace examination. The emperor appointed him as a lecturer in the Hanlin Academy, a fourth-rank official.

Most of the top scorers in the imperial examinations were editors from the sixth rank in the Hanlin Academy, but he was directly promoted from the fourth rank as a lecturer, which shows that he was deeply favored by the emperor.

Later he worked his way up to become the Left Vice Minister, and before he was thirty he became the Prime Minister.

Zhao Jingyan not only perfectly interpreted the story of a noble son born from a poor family, but also earned an imperial decree for his wife.

All of a sudden, Shen Yunjin became the object of envy of everyone in Shengjing.

"Second Miss, Madam asks you to come over." Shen's mother's personal steward, Nanny Shen, interrupted Shen Yunjin's memories.

Shen Yunjin had not yet recovered from a serious illness, and it took him a cup of tea to walk to Shen's mother's yard.

"Youth greets father and mother." Shen Yunjin knelt down and saluted.

"Get up." Mother Shen waved her hand with a look of disgust.

Mother Shen has always doted on Shen Yunchu and almost always meets all her requests.

What's more, this time Shen Yunchu was on a hunger strike and even hanged himself, so no matter how optimistic she was about the palace, she had no choice but to give up.

But she was unwilling to let such a good marriage fall on a concubine's daughter, even though her eldest daughter told her that Zhao Jingyan had a bright future.

"I called you here to tell you that your sister has given up the marriage in the palace to you." Mother Shen said in a condescending tone.

"Your sister married the scholar for you, so most of the dowry went to her. Anyway, you will enjoy endless wealth and splendor when you marry into the palace, so you don't need that."

Shen Yunjin sneered inwardly.

"Mother, my sister should go for the marriage in the palace. Yunjin knows she is not worthy of him, and Yunjin cannot let my sister get married."

"If it weren't for Yunchu's incompatibility, would such a good thing have happened to you? You must remember the kindness of your sister and the Shen family. The Shen family is short of manpower recently, so your elder sister's wedding dress will also be made by you. The Shen family has raised you so much, and now it's your turn to repay them..."

"Okay, my daughter will follow your mother's arrangements."

Mother Shen, who was sitting at the top, had prepared a lot of mocking words, but she kept them to herself.

"But my daughter has a request."

Shen Yunjin raised her head and saw an "I knew it" expression on her mother's face.

"I want my daughter to marry into the Qi Palace in my sister's place. My daughter wants the restaurant on East Street and the manor on Xiaoqing Mountain as her dowry..."

"Impossible! That's the dowry left for Yun Chu! Kill your arrogant thoughts. You are worthy of being raised by me, you are really ambitious!"

Mother Shen was so angry that she threw the teacup in her hand at Shen Yunjin's feet.

Shen Yunjin lowered her head and did not move, letting the tea splash onto her slightly pale skirt.

Mr. Shen at the side coughed lightly.

"Why don't you give her the grain and oil shop on West Street?"

"Give? You wish for it. You eat and wear things from the Shen Mansion, and you still dare to make demands?"

"I really gave her face! How dare she bargain here? She doesn't even know what kind of person she is. She is really like a toad yawning - what a big mouth!"

As Shen's mother spoke, she slammed the table angrily.

Jiuweifang Restaurant on East Street is a time-honored restaurant in Beijing. It is always packed with guests and makes a fortune every day.

Although the grain and oil shop on West Street is not as good as Jiuweifang, its profits have always been stable.

Moreover, in the eyes of Shen's mother, everything in the Shen Mansion belonged to her daughter Shen Yunchu.

The concubine's daughter in front of him asked for a dowry right after opening her mouth. This is simply pulling teeth from a tiger's mouth and is wishful thinking.

"Then let my sister marry, and my daughter will still marry into the Zhao family."

Shen Yunjin acted as if saying, "I won't go unless you agree."