Shangguan Wanning paused and handed the hairpin to Shangguan Xiaoxiao.
Shangguan Xiaoxiao took it happily and immediately went to the mirror, wanting to put the hairpin in her hair.
Suddenly, my wrist tightened.
She looked at Shangguan Wanning in surprise. "Sister?"
Shangguan Wanning raised the corners of her lips and smiled slightly. She took the hairpin back from Shangguan Xiaoxiao and said meaningfully, "Sister just said she wanted to take a look, why did you put it on your head?"
"I...I..." Shangguan Xiaoxiao felt that Shangguan Wanning seemed a little different today, but she couldn't put her finger on it. Her eyes seemed to have a bit more sharpness. "I'm sorry, sister, I just felt..."
"Sister, it's not that I'm stingy and won't give it to you. It's just that this hairpin is a gift from the wife of the Minister of Rites, and it's specifically for the daughter of the Prime Minister's family. So..."
Shangguan Xiaoxiao lowered her eyelids and pinched her palms secretly.
What did Shangguan Wan Ning mean by this? Was she saying that she was unworthy?
She tried her best to suppress the jealousy and anger in her heart, and when she looked up again, her eyes were filled with tears.
"It's my fault. I shouldn't touch your things casually. Don't be angry, sister."
"It's good that you know you're wrong. In the future, you must be careful to behave properly. Otherwise, if outsiders see us, they will think that everyone in the Prime Minister's Mansion is so unruly."
Shangguan Wanning's expression darkened, and a layer of frost covered her face.
"Yes." Shangguan Xiaoxiao stood up, saluted, and quietly walked out.
Watching her figure disappear into the distance, Shangguan Wan Ning revealed a hint of a sneer.
A few days later, the housekeeper brought Mu Jingrui to see Shangguan Wanning.
He followed behind the butler, his indifferent eyes were calm and undisturbed, like a pool of thousand-year-old ice water.
This reminded Shangguan Wanning of the three years she spent with him in her previous life.
It is hard to tell whether she enjoyed wealth and glory or suffered inhumane torture.
He...seemed to be her nightmare, but also seemed to be her guardian.
"From today on, you don't have to go back to the servants' room in the backyard anymore. Stay in my yard and be a guard."
Shangguan Wanning didn't know what kind of bullying he had suffered when he was a slave in the Shangguan family in his previous life, which made him hate their entire family to the core.
Mu Jingrui lowered his eyes and looked at the ground, expressionless.
"good."
In the evening, Shangguan Xiaoxiao came with cakes to please her, and like a docile kitten, she took Shangguan Wanning's arm and acted coquettishly.
"Sister, I heard there's a temple fair in the west of the city tonight. It's going to be very lively. Let's go out for a walk together."
Shangguan Wanning was somewhat disgusted with Shangguan Xiaoxiao's intimacy, but she also wanted to go to the temple fair to pray for her parents, so she immediately ordered the housekeeper to prepare a carriage.
Shangguan Xiaoxiao was very excited along the way and would occasionally lift the curtain to look out.
The carriage bumped a few times as it passed through a narrow alley, and Shangguan Wanning had a bad feeling in her heart.
"ah!"
A few shrill screams were heard, and Shangguan Xiaoxiao was so scared that she hid behind Shangguan Wanning.
Shangguan Wanning pushed her away and was about to jump off the carriage when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her neck.
Her vision became blurred, her legs became weak, and her consciousness became hazy.
Why did this happen? In the previous life, it clearly didn't happen.
"Look, the eldest daughter of the prime minister's family is different. She is so delicate and tender... She is much better than the women in the brothel."
Shangguan Wanning felt fingers gently brushing across her face.
The remaining consciousness made her want to resist, but she had no strength at all. Her body began to heat up, and it was burning hot all over.
She couldn't help but hum softly a few times.
"Hey, take your claws away." Another voice warned, "Don't you know who you are? She is a swan, and you are not even qualified to be a toad. Let's go, the master will be here soon."
master?
Who are they?
Shangguan Wanning's brain could think, but she couldn't speak.
Why did she experience something that didn't happen in her previous life? Could it be that the trajectory of this life has changed because of her rebirth?
Shangguan Wanning felt more and more uncomfortable, and she began to tear her clothes involuntarily.
"Wake up... wake up..."
Shangguan Wanning felt someone patting her cheek, and the voice was very familiar.
"Jing Rui..."
Mu Jingrui was stunned.
Ever since he took the token to the Shangguan family to propose marriage, Shangguan Wan Ning had never looked at him straight in the eye. Now, she actually called out his name so naturally.
"Jingrui, don't be like this... Jingrui..."
Shangguan Wanning felt Mu Jingrui's familiar breath, and the warmth of the past emerged in her mind one by one.
She couldn't help but grab Mu Jingrui's collar and snuggled into his arms.
Mu Jingrui noticed that Shangguan Wanning's physical condition was abnormal, so he hurriedly picked her up and left the inn.
"Jing Rui... please, stop torturing me..."
Shangguan Wanning climbed up Mu Jingrui's neck with her hands, and pressed her tender red lips against him, sucking and biting.
In an instant, Mu Jingrui took a breath of cold air.
Who is torturing whom between the two of them?
Shangguan Wanning still didn't give up and tore open Mu Jingrui's clothes on his chest.
Mu Jingrui looked down at the person in his arms, his cheeks flushed and beads of sweat oozing from his forehead.
"Shangguan Wanning, wake up a little."
Mu Jingrui brought Shangguan Wanning to the lake. Looking at the shimmering lake surface under the moonlight, he jumped in.
The lake water instantly submerged the two of them.
Shangguan Wanning couldn't swim, and the sudden coldness and suffocation made her at a loss. She could only flutter and grab everything she could around her.
Mu Jingrui estimated the time and pulled Shangguan Wanning out.
Shangguan Wanning was shivering from the cold, and when she woke up she glared at Mu Jingrui.
"What are you going to do?"
"What are you going to do?" Mu Jingrui grabbed Shangguan Wanning's hand and placed it on his neck.
Shangguan Wanning saw a red mark.
With the memories of her previous life, she knew what it was.
In the past, he always stayed with her, but now...
"I... I didn't mean it. I don't know why this happened." Shangguan Wanning felt so ashamed that she wished she could dive back into the water.
Of course Mu Jingrui knew.
The cold lake water not only sobered Shangguan Wanning up, but also gradually calmed him down.
He looked around and frowned slightly.
"Can we go up now?"
Shangguan Wanning nodded.
He swam back to shore with her.
At this time, a dark cloud passed by and blocked the moonlight.
"Thank you." Shangguan Wanning said in a low voice.
"Since you asked me to be your bodyguard, I will naturally protect your safety. But what happened tonight...I'm afraid it's not that simple."
Shangguan Wan calmed herself down and calmed her thoughts.
She recalled every detail of the incident.
The person guarding her said that the master would be here soon.
Who will be their master?
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