This kid...

You've got some skills; you managed to make the young lady lose her composure.

"I'm going to the military camp for training in a couple of days. You stay home and take good care of yourself. If anything happens, have someone contact me anytime." Shen Jingchuan rubbed his temples; he had drunk too much yesterday and was still feeling unwell.

“Okay.” Shen Zhiyi nodded obediently.

"By the way, how much contact did you have with the Regent in the capital?" Shen Jingchuan suddenly asked.

Shen Zhiyi's heart skipped a beat, but she shook her head. "You should know about the Marquis's affairs."

Shen Jingchuan nodded and said nothing more.

After a while, Shen Zhiyi asked, "Brother, why did you bring that up out of the blue?"

“I saved him before. When we met then, he wasn’t like he was yesterday. I always felt that he had ulterior motives and I felt uneasy.”

Xiao Zhongxuan stood to one side, pursing his lips.

This young master of the Shen family is indeed astute.

**

The military camp was some distance from the capital, and since it was inconvenient for Shen Jingchuan to travel back and forth when he was preparing the army, he stayed at the military camp and never went home.

Even without her elder brother, Shen Zhiyi lives comfortably at home.

That day, she had just returned home from the Wen family and asked Hongrui to prepare some flower petals to make rouge, intending to send some to Wen Qing. Just as she was grinding the flower petals, she heard a servant announce, "Miss, someone from the Marquis's mansion has arrived."

"Who's here?" Hongrui asked. "Didn't we say that we wouldn't see anyone from the Marquis's residence?"

"It's the old lady of the Marquis's mansion, and Miss Song is with her."

Chen Zhiyi paused slightly in his hand movements.

Xiao Zhongxuan stood to one side, his face expressionless.

The servant continued, "I brought many gifts. Right now, a group of people are blocking the entrance to the Marquis's mansion. I told them that you do not receive guests, but the old lady said that she only wants to see you once and say a few words."

The old lady was getting on in years, and with a large group of people blocking the entrance, it was bound to cause gossip. Just as she was about to tell the servant to let them in, another servant rushed into the courtyard: "Miss, something bad has happened."

"Um?"

"The old lady of the Marquis's mansion fainted at the gate."

Chen Zhiyi raised an eyebrow, a slight upturn at the corner of her mouth:

Did they still come?

Old lady, you schemed against me, and now you've come to my door in person. Don't blame me for slapping you in the face.