Chapter 134: Unromantic
He didn't say a word until the carriage left.
Mo Ran walked quietly behind Shen Changhe and bowed, "Sir, it's getting late. We should go back to the mansion to entertain the guests."
After she said this several times, Shen Changhe came back to his senses slightly, nodded gently, and walked towards the gate of the mansion, but he was absent-minded for half a day.
Lin Yurou's words lingered in her ears like a magic sound.
There are not many upright gentlemen in the world, and even fewer good men. If it's not the Shen family, will she fall into the fire pit of another family? In the Shen family, at least he can protect her. If it's another family, like that bastard from the Chen family, what should she do?
Such a gentle and kind girl, he had never spoken loudly to her, but she allowed that man to bully her with curses?
Shen Changhe felt a lump in his stomach, neither going up nor down, and felt extremely uncomfortable.
——
This was Xiao Yuan's first time in Shen Anan's boudoir.
It was not quite what he had imagined.
He thought that women's boudoirs were mostly decorated in warm colors, bright red and purple, with a variety of clothes, jewelry, and hung with velvet flower bells, just like a Huasheng.
But in Shen Anan's makeup box, there were only a few simple pieces of jewelry that she often wore, almost no vases or other decorations, and even the bed curtains were cold colors.
It was somewhat similar to his bedroom.
"Fourth Prince." Shen Anan stood up and saluted politely, then immediately ordered Mo Xiang to serve tea.
Xiao Yuan didn't know if it was because of the change in status, because they hadn't seen each other for a few days, or because of her different attitude, but he actually felt a little uncomfortable.
"There's no need to be so polite between you and me."
Shen Anan pursed her lips and smiled. It was not close, but it was not happy either. Her attitude of neither being close nor distant made Xiao Yuan extremely unhappy.
He actually liked her more when she used to be aggressive and sarcastic towards him.
"Things are different now. Since I'm your wife, I should follow some rules."
Xiao Yuan didn't say anything. He lowered his head and drank a sip of tea, thinking that he wanted to see how long she could pretend.
All the servants in the house were dismissed by Mo Xiang, and in the huge house, only Shen Anan and Xiao Yuan were left.
There was silence for a moment.
Especially Xiao Yuan's undisguised eyes were fixed on her.
"Didn't you say we couldn't meet three days before the wedding? Why are you here?"
The two sat opposite each other. Xiao Yuan didn't know if he hadn't listened carefully or what, but he suddenly said, "The colors of our clothes today are quite similar."
It's totally irrelevant!
Shen Anan simply lowered his head and stopped talking.
Xiao Yuan ignored her attitude. Whether she wanted to pay attention to him or not, the betrothal gifts had already been given, and they would get married in three days. She would move into the Fourth Prince's Mansion in the future, so she had no choice but to pay attention to him.
He stroked the brocade box in his sleeve with his fingertips, hoping to ease the atmosphere before taking it out so that she would be more impressed.
As he thought about it, he said, "You were the one who spread the song that was circulated among the people, right?"
Shen Anan's eyelids jumped, and she raised her eyes slightly to look at him, but she didn't see any displeasure on his face.
Xiao Yuan hid the joy in his eyes and asked, "How did you know that the flood in Xuzhou will stop in the next few days?"
This was what puzzled him.
"I guessed." She did not deny it and answered calmly.
How could Xiao Yuan believe her? He raised his eyebrows slightly, leaned forward slightly, and stared at her, "Don't you want to know who is pushing this matter and indirectly helping you?"
In Shen Anan's memory, he had always been cold, with almost no temperature. Seeing him like this now, she felt quite uncomfortable.
"Answer my question and I'll tell you."
Shen Anan tilted her head and said, "I don't want to know."
She knew it was him, although she didn't understand why he went to so much trouble, she also didn't think that he had no feelings for Duan Mengmeng.
But there was one thing that she was very curious about, and that was the question Xiao Yuan asked.
"How do you know the rain will stop in the next few days?"
Could it be that he is the same as her... ?
"I was just guessing." Xiao Yuan said slowly.
“…”
Shen Anan glanced at him and didn't want to say anything more. The two of them played dumb, and there was no result until dark.
But she was very curious about another thing, "How did you convince the Duan family to cooperate with you?"
"Want to know?"
Shen Anan looked at Xiao Yuan's raised eyebrows and nodded slightly.
He didn't keep it a secret this time. He twitched his lips and said, "It's more embarrassing than being forced to break off the engagement. The Duan family will naturally agree to this method. It can at least protect the Duan family's glory for decades."
Shen Anan didn't expect that he had never planned to marry Duan Mengmeng from the beginning.
She lowered her head and looked at the table, an idea slowly forming in her mind until it was interrupted by a sudden question.
"What about you? Why did you agree to marry me?"
She raised her eyes and met Xiao Yuan's scrutinizing eyes, which were extremely penetrating, as if they could see through all her thoughts.
"It is difficult to disobey the emperor's order. After all, I have to consider the Shen family."
This is the truth, but it is only one of the things. Xiao Yuan restrained his expression and lowered his voice, "You can trust me. I will help you."
Shen An stared at him quietly for a long while, still shaking his head slowly.
"Nothing else."
After all, that man was his father. How could she tell him that she wanted to avenge her grandmother and seek justice?
In her previous life, she was too honest, which is why she made stupid mistakes again and again.
Xiao Yuan nodded and stopped asking questions.
The process is not important, as long as the result is right. In the long night, he had countless opportunities.
"Master Wenyin of Xiangjue Temple can predict the weather by observing the stars. It was he who told me that the rain in Xuzhou will stop in the near future."
Shen Anan was silent for a moment, then said, "I dreamed about it."
Xiao Yuan nodded.
That dream had separated them too many times. Even when they walked together today, he always felt that there was something between them and they couldn't get completely close.
One day, he would know what happened in her dream.
Shen Anan was silent when she saw Xiao Yuan take out a brocade box from his sleeve, open it, and walk towards her.
She subconsciously wanted to hide, but suddenly a burning touch covered her ear. "Don't move, this is the rule."
It took him a long time just to put on a hairpin, and Shen Anan thought he couldn't do it, so she stretched out her hand and said, "I'll do it myself."
"..." Xiao Yuan let out a long breath.
"How can you, woman, not understand romance at all?"
A hairpin. He is not disabled, so he doesn't even know how to do this. He was very careful, for fear of tearing her hair and hurting her.
Shen Anan silently withdrew his hand, his neck stiff from sitting, and he finally finished the hairpin.
She didn't go to look at the bronze mirror, but just reached out and touched it, and was slightly stunned.
"What's wrong? You don't like it?"
"No." She shook her head slightly, but felt that the touch of the hairpin was very familiar.
In her previous life, it was placed in his study. It was not until she accidentally dropped it from the secret compartment when she was smashing something that she realized that Xiao Yuan actually had this kind of thing hidden.
She had a big fight with him, insisting that it belonged to Duan Mengmeng, saying that Xiao Yuan was reminded of someone by the sight of the object. He got very angry and said that the hairpin was left to him by Concubine Shu.
At that time, he and Duan Mengmeng were very affectionate, so she naturally didn't believe it and kept brooding over it for quite a while.
During that period of time, Xiao Yuan wanted to take a detour whenever he saw her, and his brows were knotted into knots.
Recalling it now, she suddenly felt that Xiao Yuan had done his best by not divorcing her.
"This hairpin...was it left to you by your mother?"
"Yeah." Xiao Yuan's voice was low. Shen Anan knew without turning around that he was probably not in a very good mood at the moment. It was hard for him to tolerate her so much in his last life.
"How do you know?" The hairpin had always been kept in his study and had never been taken out.
Shen Anan said in a low voice, "I dreamed about it."
She looked unhappy, so he became even more curious about her dream.
"When you think you can trust me, can you tell me your dream?"
Shen Anan's heart was shaken, and his lips curled up, "You don't want to know, that dream... is too scary for you and me."
If it weren't for fate, she would not want to enter the Fourth Prince's Mansion again and recall the stupid past over and over again.
"It doesn't matter. One day, the beauty between us will replace those and become your new memory."
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