After rebirth, I cried and criticized the prince

Helan Xuenuo had washed and dressed early and was waiting at the door. She leaned against a corner, and the sunlight poured in through the gaps between the mulberry trees in the yard and hit her face. She felt extremely comfortable.

She smiled and said to Xiaozhu, "Xiaozhu, come ice skating with me."

This time she went to ice skating in order to find out some truths. In her new life, she would never again be muddleheaded and let others manipulate her.

She had long been suspicious about the fall into the water.

"Girl, have you forgotten your terrible experience? You still dare to go ice skating? I dare not go. I'm afraid the old general will peel off my skin and pull out my tendons." Xiao Zhu waved her hands repeatedly.

"Hurry up and follow me." Helan Xuenuo walked forward without looking back, leaving behind a sentence.

Xiao Zhu shook his head helplessly and followed. He had thought that his daughter would be more obedient after a serious illness, but he didn't expect her to still be so naughty.

When we arrived at the place where we were going to play on ice that day, it was in a maple forest on the outskirts of the capital. There was a large river in the forest, which would freeze over in winter.

It was also Helan Xuenuo's first time here, and it was her first time coming with Qi Didi. It was snowing that day, and Qi Didi told her interesting stories from her childhood, and she couldn't stop crying when she talked about the touching parts.

This was the place where Qi Didi often played ice skating with her family when she was a child. So out of pity for Qi Didi, she agreed to bring her here secretly and did not let Xiaozhu follow. Fortunately, Xiaozhu was careful and found them, otherwise she would have become a ghost underwater or been killed by Qi Didi. Fortunately, someone saved her and Xiaozhu arrived in time, so she was lucky.

Helan Xuenuo observed the hole where the water fell that day. The hole was neither big nor small, and was broken in a very regular pattern. She walked around it and felt very confused.

The ice was very thick elsewhere, but so thin here that she just slipped lightly and fell down.

Looking at it again, the hole was a perfectly regular circle. She and Qi Didi played around, and Qi Didi always managed to avoid this spot. This wasn't a coincidence, I suppose.

"What? Are you depressed again?" A deep male voice came from behind, with a hint of sarcasm in the words.

Helan Xuenuo looked back and saw that the person coming was Yuan Xu, this familiar yet unfamiliar person, the person who had been humiliated by her in the previous life.

Yuan Xu is the eldest son of General Yuan. He has been accompanying his father on military campaigns since he was young and has made great achievements.

He is Helan Xuenuo's fiancé who has been engaged to her since childhood.

In the capital, Helan Mansion was jokingly called the General's Mansion, and Yuan Mansion was called the Little General's Mansion.

Only with these two general mansions in place can the Kingdom of Donglai enjoy a hundred years of peace.

She remembered that in her previous life she particularly disliked Yuan Xu, although Yuan Xu was also one of the most prominent figures in the capital, and his appearance was different from Gu Shicheng's feminine appearance, being more resolute and angular.

But whenever Helan Xuenuo recalled the scene of chasing Yuanxu with a stick as a child, she couldn't bear to look at Yuanxu. Yuanxu used to follow her around with a runny nose, and she often had to wave the stick to drive him away. They were only a few years old at that time.

When he was ten years old, Yuan Xu followed his father to the battlefield and never came back. It was very difficult to pacify the border. In recent years, the world has been more peaceful, so he returned to the capital with his father Yuan Shu. Since then, their marriage has often been a topic of conversation among the people in the capital after dinner.

At that time, her heart and eyes were full of Gu Shicheng, and Yuan Xu appeared in front of her from time to time, making her feel that Yuan Xu was like a dog-skin plaster and she was very disgusted with him. In order to break off the engagement with Yuan Xu, she said many hurtful words to him and often cried and refused to eat for several days.

Their subsequent breakup was not a glorious one, and Yuan Xu became a laughing stock in the capital.

"What does this have to do with you?" Xiao Zhu on the side said first, glaring at Yuan Xu fiercely.

Yuan Xu smiled and said, "After so many years, Helan Rendong, your personality hasn't changed at all. Even your maidservants are as domineering as you."

Helan Xuenuo's name is Rendong. No one has ever called her that, only Yuan Xu likes to call her that.

Even though she had been reborn, Helan Xuenuo couldn't help but recall Yuan Xu's runny nose as a child. However, she no longer felt the inexplicable disgust. Perhaps it was because people who had lived a new life had become more open-minded. She jokingly asked, "Slug, when did you return to the capital? How did you know I fell into the water?"

Yuan Xu said angrily, "What a slug!"

"You! When you were little, your runny nose and drool stuck to me all the time, like a dog-skin plaster."

"Miss, could he be Master Yuanxu?"

Xiao Zhu stood there in a daze, staring at Yuan Xu with wide eyes. She took a few steps forward to take a look. She had always remembered Yuan Xu as a snotty little brat, but now he was so tall, two heads taller than her. It was nothing like him. Xiao Zhu looked at him and shook her head, sighing, "People often say that girls change a lot when they grow up. It seems that boys change a lot too."

"If you say I have a runny nose, I admit it. I was just a child at the time. I can't stand the smell of mulberries. There's a mulberry tree in your yard for years. I can't do anything about my runny nose, but if you say I drool, I can't admit it."

Yuan Xu paused and walked towards Helan Xuenuo. Helan Xuenuo raised an eyebrow and stepped back, asking, "What do you want to do?"

Yuan Xu smiled with the corner of his mouth tilted, "But you, Helan Rendong, are still so sharp-tongued. I wonder which man would dare to marry you."

When Yuan Xu approached her, Helan Xuenuo took a closer look at him and found that Yuan Xu was very different from his childhood. Now, he had sharp eyebrows and bright eyes, and a cheerful masculine air. He was indeed a handsome man.

If she hadn't chosen Gu Shicheng in her previous life, hadn't broken off the engagement, and had married him, it wouldn't have been bad. She thought about it, then immediately shook her head.

Helan Xuenuo laughed and said sarcastically, "Since you think I'm so unbearable, why not ask Uncle Yuan to cancel the engagement as soon as possible?"

Yuan Xu said nothing, his eyes never leaving Helan Xuenuo.

Helan Xuenuo felt frightened by being stared at, so she pushed Yuan Xu away.

"How did you know I fell into the water? And why did you happen to be here today? If you hadn't been following me?"

Yuan Xu panicked a bit, cleared his throat, and defended himself, "There are eyes and ears everywhere in the capital. The news of you falling into the river spread all over the capital in a few days. I just happened to come here to enjoy the snowy scenery. Who knew that you and I would be so destined to meet? As for following you? I don't have such bad taste."

"Oh," Helan Xuenuo nodded doubtfully, "Then you can enjoy it slowly, we are going back home." After saying that, he turned around and left in the direction of the capital, with Xiaozhu following behind him.

After she walked a few steps away, Yuan Xu called out from behind her, "Helan Rendong, seeing how foolish you are, I still want to remind you to be careful. Your sister in the mansion is smarter than you. Don't let her use you as a pawn."

Helan Xuenuo felt as if she had returned to her previous life when Yuan Xu reminded her. In her previous life, Yuan Xu had reminded her several times, but she was very annoyed with Yuan Xu at that time, so she just treated it as his gossip and never took it to heart.

In the previous life, the Yuan Mansion had always remained neutral and had played it safe. However, the Helan Mansion was plotted against and the entire family was wiped out. It seems the Yuan Mansion, which had managed to escape the bloody storm in the court unscathed, should not be underestimated.

She said "OK" and left with Xiao Zhu.

Yuan Xu stood behind her and watched her go away, murmuring softly, "My fiancée is really so interesting."