The reborn girl always wants to escape, but the abstinent marquis hugs her and coaxes her!

Chapter 2: Rebirth of the Past

When Xu Rongrong opened her eyes, she heard the indignant voices of two young girls outside the window:

"The Qixi Festival banquet will be in five days. This year, the Emperor has granted officials of the sixth rank and above the right to bring their families and one unmarried child to the banquet. If the young lady is still unable to get out of bed, then wouldn't that be a bargain for those over there?

"Maybe the young lady got sick this time because of the people over there. Didn't you see that Zou Ji Cloth Shop has already come to take their measurements?"

"The eldest lady is the legitimate daughter of the first wife, how can we allow them to abuse her!"

"..."

The girl outside was filled with resentment.

And Xu Rongrong in the room was lying on the bed and shivering uncontrollably——

She...is she reborn?

During the five years she was trapped in the Marquis' Mansion, she read a lot of strange stories, some of which recorded people coming back to life and returning to the past.

Now, this kind of fate actually happened to her?

She struggled to get up, pulling the bed curtain and looking around the slightly quaint and simple room... This was indeed her boudoir.

If she heard correctly, the two girls outside the door were Wen Yao and Luo Shu, her childhood maids.

That year, after she married into the Weiyuan Marquis' Mansion, the two of them were sold to the south by the mistress of the Xu Mansion, Xu Liu, the concubine. Wen Yao ended up in a brothel, and Luo Shu was married to a farmer as a concubine. The young girls died tragically in a foreign land.

From what they said, is it now the seventeenth year of Jingyuan, the eve of her marriage to Weiyuan Hou Mu Rong?

She remembered the grand Qixi Festival banquet in the seventeenth year of the Jingyuan reign. Her fate was sealed that day. A few days before the banquet, she had eaten a pancake sent by her stepmother, Xu Liushi. She had vomited and had diarrhea for three or four days, barely having the energy to get out of bed.

Seeing this, her father Xu Chaoqian was ready to give up on her and instead bring Xu Yaoyao, the daughter born to Xu Liu, to the banquet, but she was unwilling.

Because she knew that Weiyuan Hou would definitely attend the Qixi Festival banquet. He was the man who had been in her heart since she was eight years old.

So, for the first time in her life, she stood up to her father and finally mustered up all her energy to go to the palace for the banquet.

That night, Mu Rong's eyes never left Lin Jiaoyue.

Feeling extremely disappointed, she left the table dejectedly, but met the prince who came out to distribute wine.

At that time, the battle for the throne had just begun. The Crown Prince was accidentally found guilty by the Second Prince Wu Tianchi and was scolded by the Emperor. He was depressed and had nowhere to vent, so he teased her under the influence of alcohol, and was happened to be seen by the Crown Princess.

So, after returning to the banquet, the Crown Princess joked in public that she wanted to present this stunning beauty to the Emperor.

The Crown Princess was smiling, but there was a cold light in her eyes.

The light pierced her and she had no power to fight back.

Fortunately, the emperor summoned her closer and took a closer look. He then said with a smile, "I am already an old man, and I absolutely cannot harm this beautiful girl. However, the backyard of Arong's mansion has always been empty. I think this daughter of the Xu family is a good match for you."

Mu Rong's mother was the emperor's youngest sister. Seven years ago, both she and her husband died in battle, so it was normal for the emperor to worry about his nephew.

Xu Rongrong remembered that she almost fainted after experiencing such great surprise and joy, and she did not notice the resistance on the face of the man she had been thinking about, who reluctantly gave her the position of concubine.

Everyone knew that Weiyuan Marquis Mu Rong was the perfect husband. He was the emperor's only nephew, the most distinguished of all, aside from the princes and princesses. The Great Zhou was a martial nation, and he had been a frequent military hero since the age of sixteen. His parents had died young, so he wouldn't have to endure the harassment of his mother-in-law after marrying into the family. He was also a self-disciplined man, with no concubines and no frequenters of prostitutes.

And she was the first woman around him to be known to the world.

However, in the next six years, Mu Rong told her with facts that the reason why he did not cling to anyone was because his whole heart was given to the woman named Lin Jiaoyue. Even though there were countless admiring eyes around him, he could not see them all.

Xu Rongrong remembered that in the 20th year of Jingyuan, when Mu Rong saw through the relationship between Lin Jiaoyue and the fourth prince Wu Tianqi, Lin Jiaoyue only used a tear to make Mu Rong believe her difficulties and helplessness.

Lin Jiaoyue said that the crown prince was unkind and the second prince was unjust, and the Lin family was in charge of the Ministry of War but was unwilling to take sides, and was almost forced into a desperate situation.

Lin Jiaoyue said that the Fourth Prince had done the Lin family a favor and the Lin family could not let him down. Lin Jiaoyue said that if the Fourth Prince could not accomplish his goal, the Lin family would be wiped out in the future.

Lin Jiaoyue said that there was no personal relationship between her and the Fourth Prince, and he was the only one in her heart.

Lin Jiaoyue said that after the Fourth Prince ascended the throne, she would retire and return to Weiyuan Marquis' Mansion to be a concubine in his backyard.

Lin Jiaoyue asked him to help...

Mu Rong actually believed it!

He was the Marquis of Weiyuan, who had been victorious on the battlefield, and he believed Lin Jiaoyue's tearful confession.

Finally, in the twenty-third year of Jingyuan, the fourth prince Wu Tianqi became the winner of the battle for the throne among the five dragons. On the day of his ascension to the throne, he announced to the world that he had named Lin Jiaoyue as the Imperial Noble Consort.

And he, Mu Rong, became a joke.

Of course, Xu Rongrong was also a joke. Fortunately, it was not too late now. She had not met him yet, and she could never meet him again.

Recalling this, Xu Rongrong felt a little cold, so she pulled the quilt up and wrapped it around herself.

The room was very small, and the slight noise in the inner room startled the people outside the door.

Wen Yao and Luo Shu opened the curtain and came in: "Miss, are you awake? Are you feeling better?"

Xu Rongrong looked steadily at the two girls in front of her. They were two girls who loved to laugh and were considerate. Wen Yao was polite and Luo Shu was smart. Although their lives in the Xu Mansion were hard, the three of them had been together for ten years and were very familiar with each other.

Thinking of their future fate, Xu Rongrong's heart couldn't help but ache.

"Miss, would you like to eat something? I've left some porridge for you. I'll heat it up for you in the teahouse in our courtyard later." Wen Yao asked. Xu Rongrong shook her head.

"I have pain in my stomach and no appetite."

"I won't be attending the Qixi Festival banquet in a few days. Luo Shu went to the front yard to help me refuse my father, saying that I was too weak to attend the banquet."

Luo Shu hesitated and said, "But I see that Miss is looking better. The Qixi Festival Banquet is still six days away. Maybe you will be well by then. Besides, if you don't go, won't it be an advantage for the people in the neighboring courtyard? I heard that Marquis Weiyuan will also attend this banquet."

Hearing the three words "Weiyuan Hou" again, Xu Rongrong felt no ripples in her heart. Now she just wanted to stay as far away from this person as possible:

"No need to say more, go and tell your father."

Luo Shu didn't dare to persuade him anymore and had to retreat.

Wen Yao stayed in the room, helping Xu Rongrong take her medicine. She looked a little aggrieved, "Miss, we've finished the candied fruit... and they... won't give us any more."

"It's okay." Xu Rongrong picked up the medicine bowl, shook it carefully, sniffed the bitter smell and drank it all in one gulp.

This... should be an ordinary antidote.

In her previous life, during the five years she spent at the Marquis's mansion, Xu Rongrong had read a great deal. The library at the Weiyuan Marquis's mansion was filled with military and medical texts, from which she learned a great deal. Since no one in the mansion paid any attention to her, she cultivated a garden in her own courtyard, tending to flowers, plants, and medicinal herbs.

Therefore, she could tell the quality of ordinary medicine just by smelling it.

It seems that the sudden diarrhea in my previous life was caused by Xu Liu's poisoning. She just didn't want me to attend the banquet.

Then in this life, let’s fulfill her wish.