After rebirth, the Prime Minister's wife always wanted to leave her father behind and keep her

"Okay, I'll take you to Yuqiao Villa tomorrow morning." Cui Yuanqing was silent for a long time, and finally spoke, "Don't kill her before she gives birth to the child."

Cheng Songan sneered: "Can you kill her just because she gave birth to a child?"

Cui Yuanqing's eyes were gloomy, but he rarely refuted. After a long while, he suddenly asked, "Do you think she looks like Xue Tingyun?"

Didn't he know better than her whether Cheng Wanxin was similar to Xue Tingyun? When the Xue family was raided, she was only about ten years old. She only had a vague impression of Xue Tingyun. She only remembered that she was a real lady from a noble family, dignified and quiet, gentle and polite to others. Wasn't she learning to be like her in her previous life?

When she saw the picture, she felt that Cheng Wanxin looked like Xue Tingyun, but after all these things, Cheng Songan discovered that Cheng Wanxin was much more scheming and resourceful than Miss Xue Wu. If she had not seen her before her death in her previous life, she would probably not have discovered her true face in this life.

Cheng Wanxin must have also discovered that she was similar to Xue Tingyun, and she was very good at using this advantage to make Cui Yuanqing feel protective of her.

Cheng Songan laughed sarcastically: "Isn't it because she looks like Miss Xue that you protect her in every way? Why do you ask me? Is it to make me understand your difficulties?"

Cui Yuanqing frowned and said, "You have always wanted to know why I had to wait until the Jiangnan case was over before I could tell you clearly?"

Cheng Songan was stunned. She really wanted to know why Cui Yuanqing had to choose the right time and wait until he came back from Jiangnan to explain clearly. But later, the Jin family was involved in a fraud case and the eldest son drowned. She knew that Cui Yuanqing wanted Cheng Wanxin not to marry into the Jin family, so as to help Si Tui and his family.

Is there any other reason?

Cui Yuanqing's eyes were somewhat sad, as if he was recalling something far away, and then he slowly said: "It is the Tingyun painted by Si Tui."

Without explanation, Cheng Songan knew that the painting he was talking about was the one her grandmother had shown her. This meant that Si Tui and Xue Tingyun were a couple who loved each other.

Cui Yuanqing seemed to see through her thoughts and nodded, saying, "The sun and the moon gaze at each other for a long time, and they are inseparable from each other. Those were also written by Si Tui."

He sat down and began to speak slowly.

Si Tui had no background. He was an orphan without a father or a mother. He was sold to the Cui Mansion when he was young and served Cui Yuanqing. Later, he went to school with him. If someone hadn't mentioned by chance when he was almost ten years old that he looked more and more like the young master, he would probably have been a decent servant at best.

Cui Yuanqing was precocious and realized that this might be of great use, so from the age of eight or nine, he no longer allowed Situi to show his true face to others, and secretly taught him lessons and martial arts. As long as he could do it, Situi could also do it, and even their handwriting was exactly the same.

Later, when Cui Yuanqing wanted to do something alone, he would let Si Tui pretend to be him and stay in the mansion. As expected, no one discovered him except Xue Tingyun. She tricked Si Tui out with a few words, and from then on, she had a handle on him and forced him to teach her.

The Xue family followed the ancestral precept that women are virtuous even if they are not talented. They only required their daughters to recognize a few words and be able to read account books. They were not allowed to learn poetry, songs, essays, or history books. Xue Tingyun did not dare to disobey the family precept. Only when she came to Cui's house could she find a few books in Cui Yuanqing's study to read.

Therefore, when she found Si Tui, she was so excited. Cui Yuanqing didn't have the patience to teach her things, but Si Tui didn't dare not teach her. When Cui Yuanqing came back, Xue Tingyun directly controlled the two of them and acted as his teacher.

Later, Cui Yuanqing often took Si Tui in disguise to Xue's house, or invited Xue Tingyun to Cui's house to teach her to read and write, play the piano and paint. Xue Tingyun was very talented and was even better than Si Tui. Cui Yuanqing later really regarded her as a friend.

The three of them had been together for several years, being each other's mentors, friends, and confidants. No one knew when it started, and no one knew who was the first to fall in love, but Si Tui and Xue Tingyun had tacitly fallen in love with each other, but because of their huge differences in status, they had never made it clear.

Cui Yuanqing was full of passion and vowed that sooner or later he would find a suitable identity for Si Tui and help them to be together, so as to ensure that the friendship between the three of them would last forever. Even when the Xue family was transferred from the capital to Yizhou, Cui Yuanqing never gave up this idea.

But no one expected that the Xue family would be destroyed overnight. After Cui Yuanqing got the news in Beijing, he immediately asked Si Tui to rush to Yizhou overnight, hoping to rescue Xue Tingyun and her younger brother. However, when Si Tui arrived, he only found her younger brother. He asked someone to send the child to the capital, and he stayed behind. He searched almost the entire Sichuan and Shu area, but still couldn't find Xue Tingyun.

However, the child died within two days of arriving in the capital due to the severe shock he suffered and the long journey.

Situi never recovered from the blow and thought of committing suicide for love. It was Cui Yuanqing who watched him day and night and even tied him up for half a month before he managed to stop him from committing suicide.

Cheng Songan couldn't calm down for a long time after hearing this. So, when Si Tui went to Yizhou, he was ostensibly visiting the Lu family, but in fact he was using this opportunity to visit Xue Tingyun. Lu Qingshan naturally knew this, so he would often compare her with Miss Xue Wu.

The boy she loved deeply back then was also deeply in love with someone else.

Cheng Songan stared at the roof in a daze. She thought she would be jealous, but in fact, she was not. She just felt sorry. If Situi and Xue Tingyun could finally become a couple, she would bless them.

No wonder Cui Yuanqing hated her so much in his previous life. Although his feelings for Xue Tingyun were not romantic, they were close friends. He hated her for Xue Tingyun and for Si Tui.

But I don’t know what went wrong in this life, Cui Yuanqing actually let go of his resentment and fell in love with her.

Cheng Songan took a deep breath and asked, "So Si Tui treated Cheng Wanxin as Miss Xue Wu's substitute?"

Cui Yuanqing closed his eyes to dispel the memories, then opened them and said, "That painting was brought to me by Cheng Wanxin."

Cheng Songan stood up suddenly, his face full of surprise.

Cui Yuanqing nodded: "Five years ago, she fell seriously ill, you know that, right?"

Of course Cheng Songan knew that Cheng Wanxin had contracted a strange disease that year. At first, she had a high fever that wouldn't go away. Later, when the fever subsided, she started to have headaches. Even the imperial physicians in the palace were invited, but they couldn't cure her.

In desperation, Shen took her to Baohua Temple to ask monks to chant sutras to drive away the disease. Later, she simply lived outside the temple for half a year. Strangely enough, Cheng Wanxin really recovered after she came back.

"That year, she gave me the painting, saying that someone asked her to take it, and that person didn't want to see me anymore."

Cui Yuanqing's eyes were filled with sorrow: "It's just a temporary relationship. After a hundred years, we will each follow the six paths and have no connection with each other. Tingyun is still alive, but he won't see us."