Three days later.

Today is the day when Shi Xiaoxiao returns home.

Ji Chen got up quietly early in the morning and asked his servants to prepare generous gifts.

When Shi Xiaoxiao woke up, Ji Chen had already arranged everything and lay back in Shi Xiaoxiao's bed.

When she opened her eyes and saw her beloved right in front of her, she felt extremely happy.

"Awake." Ji Chen gently stroked her cheek.

"Why didn't you go to court again?"

Ji Chen has been spending the past few days with her, not attending court, and pestering her every day, and she is a little overwhelmed.

Ji Chen lowered his head and kissed her cheek, "Let's go tomorrow. I'm afraid you won't be able to adapt to the new environment, so I want to be with you until you wake up."

Shi Xiaoxiao reached out and pushed him.

"Don't make trouble, I have to go back home today."

Every morning he would pester her once or twice, and if he continued to pester her, there would always be some traces left, and it would be so embarrassing if he was seen when he got home.

"I thought you forgot."

"I haven't forgotten. I miss my mother too. I don't know what to prepare."

"Don't worry, I'm ready. I'll wait for you to get up. After dinner, we'll go back together."

Shi Xiaoxiao looked up in surprise, "Ah, you are already prepared, how come you are so good?"

In her joy, Shi Xiaoxiao kissed him on the cheek.

Ji Chen's face was filled with smiles. "How could it not be good? I have to thank your parents for leaving you to me."

"I love you so much!" Shi Xiaoxiao was once again touched by Ji Chen's words and kissed him on the face several times.

Ji Chen frowned, a look of forbearance flashed across his face, "Don't be like this, you'll know later."

Shi Xiaoxiao chuckled and got out of bed.

Ji Chen supported his head and watched Shi Xiaoxiao's agile movements, his eyes dimming slightly.

I can still get out of bed. It seems I still need to work harder.

After dinner, Shi Xiaoxiao followed Ji Chen out. A carriage had already been prepared at the door, along with carts full of gifts.

Shi Xiaoxiao couldn't help but twitch the corners of her mouth because of so many gifts.

"Why are you moving like you're moving house?"

Ji Chen helped Shi Xiaoxiao into the carriage and whispered in her ear, "Of course I have to make you proud. I want you to be the most envied person in Chang'an City."

She smiled sweetly, "Thank you, husband~"

"Between you and me, there's no need to say thank you. What's mine is yours, and what's yours is still yours, but you are mine."

Shi Xiaoxiao looked at Ji Chen with sparkling eyes. His every move and every word made her heart beat fast.

Meeting him was the luckiest thing in her life.

The entrance to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Shi Yuan, Song Dai and others had been waiting early.

Song Dai stretched her head hoping to see her daughter for the first time.

Shi Yuan held her hand and said, "Be careful, you're still pregnant. I'll wait for them."

Song Dai waved her hand, "How can that be? I want to see Xiaoxiao first."

Shi Yuan couldn't persuade her, so he could only follow her wish, but he would occasionally check on her health.

Soon.

The sound of carriage wheels came from far away, and passers-by on the roadside stopped to watch.

"This is Princess Xiao's return, the ceremony is really grand."

"Yes, it's as grand as the wedding day. Look at all the gifts, cart after cart. I'm afraid they'll empty Prince Xiao's mansion."

"What are you going to empty out? Prince Xiao's Mansion is a big family with a lot of wealth. This is nothing."

"Princess Xiao is so lucky. We can never earn these things in our lifetime."

"That's not."

The world seems to have forgotten that Shi Xiaoxiao was once a silly concubine's daughter who was laughed at and looked down upon by everyone.

I don’t know when it started, but the reputation of the idiot concubine’s daughter has gradually been forgotten by the world.

Song Dai clapped her hands happily, "Finally, you're here."

The carriage stopped at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and Ji Chen helped Shi Xiaoxiao get off the carriage.

As soon as he got off the carriage, the first thing he saw was Song Dai's expected and longed-for face, and Shi Xiaoxiao grinned.

"Mom, I'm back."

"Oh, my dear daughter, mother has been waiting for you for a long time. Come in quickly, it's cold outside."

Shi Xiaoxiao was led by Song Dai. Ji Chen exchanged a few words with Shi Yuan, and then they went into the house together.

Behind him are the envious eyes of outsiders.

The banquet had been prepared in the mansion long ago. Everyone entered the house and sat down, and there was laughter and pleasant chatting.

It was rare for even Yuanshi to come out to today's banquet, along with her two daughters.

Shi Yin and Shi Yu, who had been jealous and targeting her at the beginning, now looked timid when they saw her.

I'm afraid that she knew she was not Shi Yuan's daughter, so she felt inferior and was afraid that if she accidentally offended Shi Xiaoxiao, her life would be worse than that of a maid.

Ever since the old lady found out that they were not Shi Yuan's daughters, they became even less welcome.

Their lives are no different from those of maids.

Seeing Shi Xiaoxiao's gaze fall on them, Shi Yin and Shi Yu smiled at Shi Xiaoxiao cautiously.

Shi Xiaoxiao curled her lips slightly and looked away. She had no hatred towards these two people, and they had never hurt her much.

It was Yuanshi who stopped it quickly.

In another direction, Shi Wanwan sat there silently, her eyes flickering, and it was unclear what she was thinking.

After drinking more than thirty glasses of wine and eating and drinking their fill, the maid cleared the mess on the table and added tea for everyone.

Shi Yuan and Ji Chen chatted with each other intermittently, while Shi Xiaoxiao was pulled by Song Dai to her yard.

Song Dai took her hand and spoke earnestly, "Xiaoxiao, has that cousin in Prince Xiao's mansion caused any trouble? I heard someone drugged you on your wedding day. Was it that cousin who did it?"

Shi Xiaoxiao nodded, "It's her."

Hearing this, Song Dai snorted angrily, "That woman really has no good intentions. She actually drugged my daughter. You are the daughter of my Prime Minister's Mansion and the Princess of Xiao. She still dared to drug her. She is so audacious."

Shi Xiaoxiao patted her hand comfortingly and said, "Don't be angry, Mom. Xiaoxiao was not hurt, and she is already dead."

Song Dai was surprised when she heard this. "Dead? Killed by Prince Xiao?"

It seems that this son-in-law is pretty good. He knows how to protect Xiaoxiao and deal with those cousins.

"No, she brought this upon herself." She also contributed to it.

"What exactly is going on?"

Seeing that Song Dai was interested, Shi Xiaoxiao told her the story slowly and calmly.

Upon learning how the whole incident had unfolded, Song Dai snorted softly.

"That woman was very cunning. It's a good thing she died, otherwise she would have caused you so much trouble."

As the two were talking, there was a hurried call from outside the door.

"It's not good. It's not good."

Song Dai's expression changed, and she scolded unhappily, "What nonsense are you talking about? It's a good day, what are you talking about?"

A maid appeared in panic and looked at Shi Xiaoxiao hesitantly.

"This this……"

Shi Xiaoxiao felt something was wrong and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you hesitating? Tell me."

The maid gritted her teeth, lowered her head and blurted out everything.

"His Royal Highness Prince Xiao...His Royal Highness Prince Xiao defiled the eldest lady in Lanhua Courtyard."

"What?" Shi Xiaoxiao's heart skipped a beat, suspecting she had heard it wrong.

Did Ji Chen defile Shi Wanwan?

What a joke.

Song Dai also looked at the maid in disbelief.

The maid trembled and said, "It's absolutely true. The Prime Minister is already over there now."

Shi Xiaoxiao and Song Dai looked at each other, and they stood up and prepared to rush to Lanhuayuan to argue the truth.

Many people gathered in Lanhuayuan.

Shi Yuan, the old lady, Qian, Yuan and her two daughters.

When Shi Xiaoxiao and Song Dai arrived, they saw Ji Chen sitting at the table with a gloomy face.

Shi Wanwan knelt on the ground crying and denounced Ji Chen's evil deeds.

"Yes...it's the prince. I was resting here peacefully, but the prince came and defiled me. I won't live anymore, wuwuwu."

Shi Xiaoxiao stepped forward, looked at her, and asked coldly, "Shi Wanwan, you said the prince defiled you, do you have any evidence?"

Shi Wanwan looked at Shi Xiaoxiao, hatred flashed in her eyes, but she just spoke while crying.

"Second sister, my current appearance doesn't explain everything. Even if the prince defiled me, I am still the eldest daughter in the Prime Minister's Mansion in name. How can I live if this gets out? If the prince doesn't take responsibility for me, I will not live anymore, wuwuwu."

Shi Xiaoxiao glanced at her coldly and sneered at her words.

She absolutely didn't believe that Ji Chen would do such an outrageous thing.

When Ji Chen saw Shi Xiaoxiao coming, he immediately took her hand with grievance, "Xiaoxiao, believe me, she framed me, I will never betray you."

Shi Xiaoxiao nodded, her brows softening, "I believe you."

Ji Chen looked relieved.

He was deeply afraid that Xiaoxiao would believe this woman's lies and no longer trust him.

Gaining Shi Xiaoxiao's trust, he looked at Shi Wanwan coldly, "You said that I defiled you. Then I ask you, this is not your yard. Why did you appear here for no reason? And how do you explain the maid who deliberately wet my robe?"

"I just drank a little wine and felt very dizzy, so I just found a place to rest. As for the maid, I don't know what the prince is talking about."

Shi Xiaoxiao looked at Ji Chen and asked softly, "What's going on?"

Ji Chen glanced at Shi Wanwan and said to Shi Xiaoxiao, "In the front yard, a maid poured tea and soaked my robe. She used the excuse of bringing me here to change clothes. As soon as I entered, this woman pounced on me and started tearing her clothes, screaming and shouting. Then several maids appeared outside the door and insisted that I had defiled her. Xiaoxiao, I am innocent. I swear I did not let you down, and I did not touch her."

He raised three fingers.

Shi Xiaoxiao rolled her eyes at him and held his fingers in her hand.

"It's not that I don't believe you. If you like this kind of stuff, then I have nothing to say."

Who is the fool here? From Ji Chen's brief explanation, everyone can roughly understand that this is a trap.

"Don't you know who I am?"

"I didn't say I didn't believe you."

Ji Chen curled his lips, "Thank you for your trust, Madam. I will definitely not let you down."

He clapped his hands as he spoke.

There were footsteps outside the door, and Ji Chen's secret guard dragged a maid in.

It was the maid who spilled the tea on Ji Chen.

Ji Chen pulled Shi Xiaoxiao to sit next to him, then turned around with a cold look in his eyes.

"Tell me, who instructed you to deliberately lure the prince here? Was it this woman?"

The maid was trembling with fear and kept shaking her head, "No, no one ordered me to do this. This might just be a coincidence."

Shi Wanwan was already panicked when she saw the maid being captured, and now she hurriedly agreed with the maid's words.

"Yes, maybe it was just a coincidence that we happened to enter the same room, and His Royal Highness Prince Xiao looked at me and couldn't help but..."

"I couldn't help you? I have a princess, that's enough. You are far inferior to my princess, yet you still have the audacity to speak so shamelessly."

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