Having transmigrated into a book, who would still want to be a secondary wife?

The moment Song Ruozhen's hand touched the woman in red, scenes from her life flashed before her eyes like a slideshow.

From the moment she happily married Bai Chenghong, wanting to bear him children, to the moment she later discovered that it was all a lie.

The handsome scholar she liked was a lie, the wedding ceremony was a lie, and everything was just a carefully crafted lie by Bai Chenghong.

Pregnant, she was taken to the Bai family, where she learned that Bai Chenghong was the eldest son of the Bai family and had already married, while she was just a mistress kept outside the family.

After being brought home, Yu Yueling was kept in this courtyard and kept as a pet. She had wanted to leave and had begged Bai Chenghong many times, but all she received was his repeated deception and reassurance.

Finally, the child was born.

She desperately wanted to leave with her child, and even considered begging Madam Bai for permission, only to discover that the child had become the eldest son of the Bai family, and that she was not the mother.

Only then did she realize... that Madam Bai, Lü Wenxiu, and Bai Chenghong had been married for three years without having children, which was why Bai Chenghong had sought her out outside.

Lu Wenxiu knew about this from the beginning and was determined to have her help have a child.

Therefore, from the moment she became pregnant, Lü Wenxiu publicly announced that she was pregnant and that the pregnancy was unstable, so she could not see guests.

Upon seeing all this, Song Ruozhen's heart skipped a beat. No wonder the evil aura here was so strong; Yu Yueling's story was truly heartbreaking.

"The Bai family's move was far too cruel. They ruined a perfectly good girl's life for nothing!"

Chu Junting had been watching Song Ruozhen's reaction closely. When he saw her eyes redden without her noticing, he realized something was wrong.

"Are you OK?"

He had personally witnessed Song Ruozhen break off her engagement and be slandered. He hadn't seen her cry in the face of these things, but her eyes reddened at this moment.

And at this moment, that fair face appeared even more ashen, as if it were stained with death.

The next instant, Chu Junting grasped Song Ruozhen's hand.

A warm touch came from her hand, and Song Ruozhen came back to her senses. She saw that the hand she had been touching Yu Yueling was now being held in Chu Junting's palm.

Yu Yueling, who was standing in front of her, was squeezed to the side at that moment...

Song Ruozhen: "..."

"Could it be that he's possessed by a ghost?"

Chu Junting reached out and touched Song Ruozhen's forehead with concern, but a sense of regret arose in his heart.

I should have known better than to bring her. Women are naturally more prone to yin energy, and they're more susceptible to it in a place like this. What if she gets hurt because of it...?

"I am fine."

Song Ruozhen removed Chu Junting's hand. "If I didn't even have this much ability, Your Highness wouldn't have needed to invite me here today."

"Then why was your face so pale just now?" Chu Junting asked, frowning.

"Because I'm channeling."

Bai Zimu, who was standing to the side, looked at the interaction between Chu Junting and Song Ruozhen with a rather strange expression.

The King of Chu was aloof and did not like being touched by others, a fact known to all who knew him.

But today, he first took Miss Song's hand and then touched her forehead. Such contact would never have happened under normal circumstances.

On the other hand, Miss Song is deliberately avoiding suspicion. This scene... is really interesting!

"Spiritual communication?" Chu Junting was slightly taken aback. "There's something here..."

Song Ruozhen nodded, then turned her gaze to Bai Zimu beside her. "Young Master Bai, do you have any guesses about the situation of this courtyard?"

Bai Zimu paused for a moment, then said, "Actually, I vaguely remember that a gentle and kind aunt once lived here. She accidentally wandered into this place when I was about five years old."

Her gaze towards me was gentle, a kind of elder's care I had never felt before. But my mother soon discovered this, not only severely punishing me but also forbidding me from ever coming again.

"It was the first time I had ever seen my mother so fierce. I was beaten and developed a high fever that night. After I recovered, I asked my nanny and the servant about it."

They all say there are no concubines in the mansion at all; I must be delirious from my high fever, mistaking a dream for reality.

Bai Zimu's expression was complicated. The events that had happened back then left a deep impression on him, and it didn't seem like a dream. But when he came back to this place after growing up, he found that it was just an abandoned courtyard with no one living there at all.

Over time, even he began to think that it might all have been a dream.

“I didn’t originally live here, but my second brother kept clamoring for my courtyard, so my father told me to find another courtyard.”

I don't know why I thought of this place, so I had it renovated and settled in. But during this time, strange things started happening frequently.

My mother and two younger brothers have all had accidents, and people insist that this place is haunted. Just two days ago, my second brother fell and broke his head in the yard, but living here, I only feel an unprecedented peace.

In Yu Yueling's memory, Song Ruozhen also saw the scene Bai Zimu described: her child was clearly hers, yet she didn't even have the chance to meet him.

Only that one chance opinion led to Bai Zimu being punished.

How painful it must be for a mother!

Upon hearing this, a hint of hesitation flashed in Song Ruozhen's eyes. So, Bai Zimu had never considered that he was not Lu Wenxiu's biological son?

Hearing this news suddenly must be quite a blow.

Seeing the hesitation in Song Ruozhen's gaze, Chu Junting guessed what she was thinking. "Speak freely. Zimu is a smart man, and he has some guesses about some things as well."

"Miss Song, you may not know this, but since I was a child, many people have suspected that I was not born to my mother..."

Bai Zimu chuckled, but everyone knew that his mother had carried him for ten months before giving birth to him; that was common knowledge...

“You are indeed not born to Madam Bai.”

Song Ruozhen breathed a sigh of relief. It was good that Bai Zimu had some doubts; he wouldn't be too upset.

Bai Zimu was dumbfounded, staring blankly at her. "Miss Song, what did you say? I wasn't born to my mother?"

Song Ruozhen: "??? Didn't you already know?"

Chu Junting looked at Bai Zimu in astonishment, "...Was the joke you made before true?"

Bai Zimu: "I don't know..."

“Miss Song, could there be some mistake here? Everyone knows that my mother was pregnant with me and gave birth to me. If I wasn’t born to my mother, could it be that… I’m not a member of the Bai family?”

Bai Zimu's expression changed drastically. He had often heard stories of the prince being replaced by a cat in a fairy tale, but he never expected that such a thing would happen to him.

"Could it be that I am just an ordinary person, or perhaps born to a maid, and secretly switched to the Bai family to enjoy a life of luxury?"

Seeing that her words had led Bai Zimu to imagine another story, Song Ruozhen couldn't help but say, "I didn't expect that Young Master Bai would enjoy listening to storybooks so much?"

"I've heard a bit about it when I'm bored," Bai Zimu said with an awkward smile.

“Young Master Bai, you are indeed a member of the Bai family, but you are not born to Madam Bai. Your birth mother is someone else.”

Song Ruozhen revealed the truth: "The aunt you met here back then was your biological mother!"