Best friends dressed up in ancient times to become mistresses? You run, I run too!

It doesn't matter who that man is anymore.

With her current abilities, she couldn't take revenge, so why add to her troubles? All she hoped for now was to have nothing to do with that person again. She would just consider that day as being bitten by a dog; she accepted it.

The two packages were pawned for eight thousand taels of silver, which nearly made Shen Erzhuang and Shen Ningzhu's eyes pop out.

The most expensive piece of jade was the jade pendant, worth six thousand taels of silver.

Shen Ningzhu felt a little relieved, thinking that at least she hadn't let that bastard sleep with her for nothing.

After receiving the silver notes, Shen Ningzhu went to the pharmacy to get contraceptives before finally going to the brokerage.

East Palace

"Sanfu, has anyone visited your residence recently?"

The man had delicate, flawless skin, with almost no visible pores. He was lazily propping his head up with his hand, leaning back in his armchair, his slender fingers slowly and casually turning the jade thumb ring on his thumb as he asked this question.

The master, who was always busy, suddenly had some free time and stayed at home every day without going out. It turned out that he was waiting for someone to come to him.

The eunuch was greatly alarmed.

This is the first person in the world whose presence has made His Highness wait for him personally. I wonder who is so fortunate as to have made the Crown Prince wait for so many days.

The most terrifying thing is that His Highness has waited for so many days, but no one has come?

Sanfu instinctively shivered, and without daring to think further, stepped forward and respectfully said:

"Your Highness, no."

Upon hearing this, the aloof person opposite him frowned, slowly opened his eyes, and his eyes welled up with anger. "Nothing?"

His phoenix eyes were slightly raised, and his expression was sinister.

As soon as the words left his mouth, Sanfu felt the air suddenly turn cold. Having served the prince for so long, Sanfu knew clearly that the prince was angry. His scalp tightened, and he immediately knelt down with a thud, barely daring to breathe, trembling as he said:

"Back to Your Highness, no."

After a long while, no more sound came from above.

Sanfu was unsure and dared not get up or raise his head on his own, so he could only lie quietly on the ground.

"Haven't you been in love with me for a long time? Now that I've given in to her wishes and even given her the token, she hasn't come knocking on my door? Ha, playing hard to get."

Sanfu: "..."

"Your Highness, what are you saying?"

Realizing belatedly that he had revealed his true feelings to a mere servant, Jiang Xuan Yan instantly felt humiliated. His eyes turned cold, and he picked up a teacup from the table and smashed it over the servant's shoulder.

"Get out of here."

"Yes, yes, this servant will leave now."

"Wait, come back."

"Any other instructions, Your Highness?"

"Go and call Pei Yun Chu to come see me."

"Yes."

A moment later, a man dressed in a moon-white fitted robe entered. "Greetings, Your Highness. May I ask what Your Highness has summoned me for?"

Jiang Xuan Yan raised his eyelids slightly, his narrow eyes cold and indifferent, and when he met Pei Yun Chu's gaze, he smiled slowly.

"Achu, I want to send you to Sweetwater Village to bring someone back for me."

Pei Yun Chu was somewhat surprised. "Who is it that Your Highness would personally send someone to invite you? Isn't that a bit too ungrateful? Could it be a woman?"

"No way, Your Highness, it really is a woman?"

"Oh my goodness, something incredible! Has the iron tree blossomed? Tell me quickly, what kind of woman is it that has moved our aloof, abstinent, and unworldly Crown Prince to such a state of mind?"

Jiang Xuan Yan's face turned cold. "Do you want to die?"

Pei Yun Chu: "..."

He was just asking out of curiosity, why was he so venomous, even cursing him to die? "Fine, I'll take it as I said too much. I'll go and fetch the person right away."

……

Meanwhile, Shen Ningzhu had already bought a large estate of 1,000 mu (approximately 6.7 hectares) about 10 li (approximately 5 kilometers) outside Beijing, and hired 300 strong men to help with the farming.

Liu Zhiyi drew up plans to replan the entire estate, designed drainage ditches, and even designed a lotus pond of several hundred square meters in the very center of the plot as a water storage pool.

It can be used for harvesting lotus roots and seeds, as well as raising fish and shrimp. It also provides drainage and irrigation, achieving multiple benefits in one fell swoop.

Everything proceeded smoothly, and the two who had just arrived in this strange world had overcome their initial confusion and gradually settled down.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days have passed.

Spring has finally come to an end, and after the start of summer, the first rain of this time and space arrives.

Tonight, the sky is dark and the thunder is deafening.

Lightning flashed across the sky every now and then, and torrential rain pounded against the roof tiles, making a rapid, tinkling sound.

"Fortunately, we rushed to plant the crops these past few days, and this rain came just in time."

Liu Zhiyi lay on the bed and sighed.

Shen Ningzhu lay down beside her and nodded in agreement.

"Zhuzhu, what exactly happened between us and the original owner of this body? Did we swap souls, or are we already dead in the original world? Do you think anyone will notice that we're gone, or that we're not the same as before?"

Shen Ningzhu smiled faintly and snuggled deeper into the quilt.

“I don’t know. My parents are busy with their business all year round and don’t care about me at all. Over the years, I can count the number of times I’ve seen them on one hand.”

They had absolutely no idea what kind of person she was.

Even if it were someone else, they probably wouldn't have noticed.

Hearing her say that, Liu Zhiyi felt even more miserable. "Even if you have parents, they might not find out, so it's even less likely that I will."

She grew up in an orphanage and didn't even know who her biological parents were. Shen Ningzhu was her best friend and also her second parent.

When Shen Ningzhu was ten years old, she met her while doing volunteer work at an orphanage, and the two became best friends who could talk about anything.

The two did not want to be separated, so Shen Ningzhu took her out of the orphanage and back to the Shen family's luxurious villa.

They claimed to be a hired maid, but in reality, the two ate and slept together, sharing the same food, clothing, and daily necessities, and have depended on each other ever since.

She was her salvation, the most important person in her life.

Thank goodness, they've changed time and space, but they still have each other. This is the greatest blessing God can bestow upon Liu Zhiyi.

Liu Ruyi closed her eyes contentedly, hugged Shen Ningzhu's waist tightly, and was about to drift off to sleep when the deafening sound of horses' hooves came from outside, followed by the neighing of horses.

The two of them were startled at the same time and suddenly sat up.

"Clang-"

The door was kicked open, and a man in silver armor strode in, bringing with him a chilling aura. His voice was nonchalant as he said:

"Hey, is this glass? Tsk tsk tsk, these days girls are more adventurous than I am."

Shen Ningzhu: "..."

Liu Zhiyi: "..."

"Hey, which of you is Shen Ningzhu? Get up and come with me."

"Where...where to?" Liu Zhiyi asked hurriedly.

"Oh, it's you?" The man strode to the bedside, casually lit a tinderbox, and carefully examined Liu Zhiyi's appearance by the firelight, a hint of amazement flashing in his eyes.

"You're quite the beauty, no wonder A-Yan insisted I take you back. Get up, get dressed properly and come with me, and I'll let the others go, otherwise..."

Ah Yan?

Upon hearing those two words, Shen Ningzhu trembled involuntarily.