Marrying a concubine and swallowing her dowry? The mistress turns around and marries a high-ranking

Chapter 33

Liu Manman was still angry with Qin Shaoze. She turned her head away with a stern face and ignored him.

Qin Shaoze was too exhausted to even get angry; all that remained was a feeling of frustration and helplessness.

Shen Lingjun didn't expect Liu Manman to settle her children, so she took the twins and went to live in Liu Manman's Yufei Courtyard.

The twins were still wearing the clothes they wore on the estate. To avoid arousing suspicion, Shen Lingjun had not prepared their clothes and supplies in advance, and only now did she send her servants out to make them.

She said softly to her two children, "I am your biological mother. From now on, you will live with me in the Marquis's mansion, okay?"

Both children nodded obediently.

Logically speaking, a three-year-old child who has grown up in the village should be nervous, anxious, and at a loss when suddenly faced with such a drastic change.

But throughout the entire process, they didn't behave like ordinary children.

Shen Lingjun had that strange feeling again, but these were her own children, and she only felt maternal love for them and didn't think too much about it.

She showed the boy his heart condition.

It's not serious; she can be cured.

The girl was fairly healthy, but she wasn't a pampered young lady raised in a traditional family. She was mostly left to her own devices on the estate, so she was quite tanned and had many bumps and bruises on her body.

Shen Lingjun hugged the two children tightly and took a deep breath.

She finally reunited with her biological children.

She will make up for all the times she has wronged them over the past three years.

Shen Lingjun settled the two children down to sleep and then let them sleep in her room.

At that moment, she felt uneasy if she were away from them for even a second.

The next day, Qin Shaoze had the Qin family elders open the ancestral hall and register the two children in the family genealogy.

This attracted a large crowd of onlookers.

The news that Marquis Yongning and the Divine Physician Danxin had switched their illegitimate son with the legitimate son of their principal wife had already spread throughout the capital. The matter was the talk of the town.

Qin Shaoze and Liu Manman's reputations were already tarnished, and now they're completely ruined.

There are many families that favor concubines over wives, but very few would secretly switch the legitimate wife's son with the legitimate wife, keeping the legitimate wife in the dark and raising an illegitimate child for three years.

Despite the Shen family's previous assistance to the Yongning Marquis's mansion, they have raised a morally corrupt, heartless, and ungrateful wretch.

The Shen family's daughter is so virtuous and filial; it's truly the worst luck of her life to marry into the Yongning Marquis's mansion.

Because Qin Shaoze is currently the highest-ranking member of the Qin family, the elders dared not say anything to him to his face, but they all looked at him with disdain and secretly shook their heads and sighed.

Qin Shaoze's reputation is so bad that it brings shame to all members of the Qin family.

Qin Shaoze's face burned with embarrassment and awkwardness. He could only grit his teeth and pretend he hadn't seen anything, and went through the process.

Shen Lingjun's twins did not have formal names before. They were originally planned to be officially named when they returned to the Qin family to acknowledge their ancestors. Therefore, they were given two nicknames for convenience when they were on the estate.

Without consulting Qin Shaoze, Shen Lingjun named the twins herself: the boy Qin Chuyao and the girl Qin Jianxi.

Qin Shaoze didn't dare to object and directly put the two names into the family genealogy.

Throughout the entire process, Old Mrs. Qin had a gloomy expression, her face contorted in a grimace.

At this moment, he spoke sternly to Shen Lingjun: "Although your two children have returned to the Qin family, Rui'er is also a legitimate son. The title of heir of the Yongning Marquis's mansion has already been bestowed upon him. He is more suitable to inherit the title than Qin Chuyao. Let me tell you this first: don't even think about having the Marquis's mansion petition to change the title of heir!"