"My gift!" Su Youran exclaimed.

Wen Yuanbai looked puzzled. "I remember... your birthday is in July?"

Su Youran stomped her foot angrily, "Then why hasn't my senior brother sent me any birthday gifts all these years!"

Wen Yuanbai touched his nose and said gently, "Then... I will personally present your birthday gift next year!"

Seeing that they had arrived at the main hall, Su Youran finally let him go, pointing with her chin to the door of the main hall, "Fine, I'll let you go! Go now!"

Yun Tianbai saw the two approaching from afar and gestured "please" to the Crown Prince of Xuan.

As Wen Yuanbai approached, Yun Tianbai exchanged a few polite words with him before bringing up what he most wanted to know. He said, seemingly out of curiosity but also unintentionally, "Your Highness, I am truly sorry that my sixth sister spoke so rudely and dared to call me that."

Wen Yuanbai didn't understand what he was talking about. "Hmm? What makes you say that?"

"Sixth Sister, how could you address the Prince as 'Big White... Senior Brother'? It's really quite impolite."

Wen Yuanbai smiled and said, "It's alright. My junior sister has called me that since we were little. Young Master Yun, you don't need to mind."

Undeterred, Yun Tianbai asked again, "May I ask, young man, why is the Crown Prince of Xuan called Da Bai?"

Wen Yuanbai raised his eyes, his gaze drifting into the distance. He recalled that year when this little girl's laughter and antics swept away all the bad luck that had been plaguing him.

Master was right after all; this little girl is his lucky star.

Perhaps because the memories were so warm, and since he was facing the little girl's older brother, he answered casually, smiling indulgently, "She loves to give nicknames to those close to her, oh no, she also loves to name tigers. My courtesy name has the character 'Bai' in it, so she calls me Da Bai (Big White), and her favorite little tiger is called Xiao Bai (Little White)."

Although a few months later, Little White grew to be several times bigger than Big White, those two names were thus fixed.

Yun Tianbai's mind was buzzing.

Was the person who gave her the nickname someone close to her?

In her previous life, she and her personal maid Su Yue unintentionally called him "Xiao Bai" in private. It wasn't out of disrespect, but simply because in her heart, he was the closest person to her.

He led Wen Yuanbai into the room in a daze, unable to hear Yun Yue calling him or see the surprised look Wen Yuanbai was giving him.

That year, he and Jiang Youran had been married for a year and a half. Although she had used her dowry to completely renovate the entire Duke's mansion, upholding its prestige and managing it impeccably, he had never actually touched her. Jiang Youran had entered the Duke's mansion shortly after her coming-of-age ceremony, and without a mother to guide her, she knew little about matters of love and relationships. Therefore, he could tell that she didn't actually desire a marital relationship with him.

However, one day, under his grandmother's scolding, he made up his mind to consummate his marriage with Jiang Youran and give her an heir as soon as possible, as his grandmother and father had requested. But when he reached the gate of the main courtyard, he heard Jiang Youran laughing and talking with Su Yue, "Little Bai, it's good that I can use my money to get some future prospects. It's not in vain that I've worked hard day and night to run these dozen or so shops."

He knew immediately that "Little White" was referring to him. How could a grown man like him ever be called "Little White"? Besides, he had indeed taken her silver notes to reward the palace servants, which had given him advance notice and saved him from danger. These two light words didn't hurt him much, but they were extremely insulting.

Su Yue was very nervous. "Miss, how can you address the young master like that? Aren't you afraid someone will overhear?"

"What's there to be afraid of! There's no one else here..."

He stormed off in a rage!

Looking back now, he realized that he had indeed misunderstood Jiang Youran.

But thinking about it more carefully, even if there was a misunderstanding in the way she addressed me, there couldn't be any misunderstanding in her condescending tone, right?

Xia was right; she looked down on the impoverished sons of the Duke's mansion simply because she was rich.

During holidays, he only knows how to spend money to win people's hearts, and never thinks about the expenses of his younger siblings' weddings.

...

Su Youran over there also remembered the events of her previous life. Just now, she deliberately called out "Da Bai" in front of her senior brother and saw Yun Tianbai's body stiffen for a moment.

In her previous life, she always knew that she was not favored by the prince, but she always thought that there was no stone that could not be warmed. She spent all the money in her dowry just to gain the approval of the Duke's mansion.

That day, she saw the hem of Yun Tianbai's clothes as he turned to leave.

Unaware of what she had said wrong, she assumed it was indeed disrespectful, as Su Yue had suggested, and added, "I considered him my husband, which is why I gave him such an affectionate nickname..."

However, in the days that followed, his indifference towards her worsened, and she knew that this additional explanation had not reached his ears.

So in this life, she deliberately gave the nickname "Little White" to the tiger. At that time, she thought that she had misjudged people in the previous life, so in this life, she would only treat him as an insignificant animal!

Looking at Shi Wenxia again, she was a little confused. Both of them had been reborn and had successfully become husband and wife in this life. It was normal for Shi Wenxia to be smug and sarcastic in front of her, but why didn't Yun Tianbai treat her coldly?

Not only did he treat her, his younger sister, with great courtesy, but sometimes the way he looked at her was even filled with regret.

Why is that?

In this life, Shi Wenxia didn't speak ill of her in front of him.

impossible!

Did Yun Tianbai have a change of heart and feel sorry for himself in his previous life? Is that why he is filled with guilt and regret?

That's impossible!

After her death, she witnessed the loving and harmonious relationship between the two couples, who showed no grief whatsoever because of her passing.

Yun Tianbai wanted to make Shi Wenxia his official wife, but the old lady of the Yun family and the Duke never agreed. A few years after her death, the Duke also died in battle. On his deathbed in the army, he left a will that Yun Tianbai should never make Shi Wenxia his official wife, and if Yun Tianbai wanted to make a Duchess after inheriting the Duke's title, he could only do so by remarrying.

However, Yun Tianbai truly loved Shi Wenxia deeply and was determined not to remarry, even if it meant leaving the position of Duchess vacant.

No wonder, in this life, Shi Wenxia became the daughter of a traitor, and Yun Tianbai was willing to marry her.

They really are lovers!

Thinking of this, Su Youran sighed.

She had become the third party between them. In her previous life, Shi Wenxia often gossiped about her, and Yun Tianbai always ignored her. She had been sincere in her kindness to the Duke's mansion, which earned her the love of her grandmother and father-in-law.

There's really nothing to resent.

Forget it, this time Shi Wenxia herself came to hold a birthday banquet. Let her lose face this time, and that will settle the grudges from the previous life.

But... who exactly was the person who killed me?!

Thinking this, she looked around but didn't find any suspicious faces.