Chapter 1 Cuckold
Xu Qingyan actually traveled into a book.
She just stayed up all night reading a novel, so how could she die suddenly in her bed?
However, what is even more tragic is that she was not wearing the clothes of the heroine, but the heroine's cannon fodder sister who died early.
When Xu Qingyan heard the crackling sounds of firecrackers coming from outside, she covered her head with a red veil and was supported by several maids and old women as she walked out of the gate of the Xu Mansion.
"At this auspicious time, the newlyweds are welcomed to the sedan chair!"
Following a loud shout, Xu Qingyan saw a pair of slender legs stepping onto the stairs and slowly walking towards her.
[Is he the cannon fodder young master who will die early like me? Wow! His long legs are so beautiful, his figure must be amazing! ]
Who is speaking?
Pei Jingchuan couldn't help but be stunned and looked around in surprise.
It was true that he only had two years to live, but no one had ever dared to tell him in front of him that he would die early? And what about this cannon fodder and this wow?
He didn't find anyone suspicious in the crowd, so he withdrew his gaze and continued walking towards his bride.
However, when he extended his slender jade-like hand towards the bride, the strange voice came out again.
[Oh my! How come this young master's hands are so beautiful? That man must be very handsome too! Just for this, this marriage is worth it! If I follow the plot, I will have to make a big fuss like the original owner to get back the original marriage, but that would be a miserable death! ]
Xu Qingyan gently shook her head, [No... no change, I'll just go with the flow and marry him! ]
Pei Jingchuan widened his eyes when he heard this. This time he heard it clearly. The voice came from the bride in front of him.
"Could it be that she is talking to me under this veil? But from what she just said, it seems that her marriage has been changed, which means that she is not the one I want to marry. If this is the case, it is not too late now, so I have to quickly change her back."
So Pei Jingchuan reached out his hand to the veil, intending to change the bride back.
[Ah! Ah! Ah! Is he trying to take off my veil? No! If you change this marriage, not only will I die miserably, but you will also be cuckolded and have to raise a bastard for someone else!]
Pei Jingchuan was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself: "He will be cuckolded and have to raise a bastard! This won't do!"
You have to know that he was going against his conscience this time. He was forced by his elders to marry even though he knew that his future wife would become a widow. He did it because he wanted to leave a family line and give his parents some remembrance! If he gave birth to a bastard, then why did he get married?
After making sure that no one else could hear and he was the only one who could hear the bride's true thoughts, he unexpectedly put his hand down and instead held the bride's hand.
At this moment, Xu Qingyan felt that the stone in her heart had finally fallen.
Now think about it, she is wearing this heroine novel, telling the story of the heroine Xu Qingyue and the hero Pei Jingyuan, who fell in love at first sight and experienced hardships, supporting each other and helping the hero achieve great things. But later, when the hero became an emperor, the two of them got tired of each other, and more and more confidantes appeared around the hero, and finally the relationship between the hero and heroine broke down.
The heroine gradually grew up after experiencing many disappointments and frame-ups. She gave up love, worked hard for her career, and finally got rid of the hero, ascended the throne with her young son, and became the queen mother with great power. This is an inspirational story.
She was the half-sister of the heroine in the book. She was supposed to be the legitimate daughter of the Xu family, but when her father passed the imperial examination and was selected as a son-in-law by a wealthy family. The wealthy family did not want to wrong their daughter to be a concubine, so they forced her father to demote his wife to a concubine. When her mother gave birth to her, she was driven to the countryside. So she grew up in the countryside with her mother.
Until the heroine and the hero fell in love at first sight, but Xu's father was only a sixth-rank official, and the two of them were of different social status. So the hero instigated the Duke's Mansion to marry a wife for the dying prince to continue the family line.
The status of the young master of the Duke's Mansion was so noble that only a family of an official of the fourth rank or above could be a match for him. However, because the young master was ill, all the civil and military officials in the court knew that he would not live for more than two years, so those officials of the fourth rank or above naturally were unwilling to marry their daughters to him.
Just when the Duke and his wife were worried, the male protagonist, who was a bastard of the Duke's Mansion, came up with a bad idea. He asked them to marry the young master to the daughter of an official of the sixth or seventh rank. This way, the other party would not dare to despise her, and she would be a well-educated legitimate daughter, which would be better than finding a little maid to continue the family line.
But they were also worried that the officials of the sixth and seventh ranks might also love their daughters dearly and would rather offend the Duke's Mansion than let their daughters suffer any injustice. So the male protagonist said that in order to compensate, he would also marry the concubine's daughter of the sixth-rank official.
Although the hero himself is a bastard, it is considered marrying up for the bastard daughter of a sixth or seventh rank official to marry the bastard son of a duke as his legal wife. In this case, they will certainly be very happy to marry their legitimate daughter to the short-lived prince.
Father Xu was very happy about this, but his wife was too fierce over the years, which resulted in him having no other illegitimate children. So, he remembered the original owner who had been raised in the countryside since childhood.
Coincidentally, at this time, the original owner's mother died because she had no money for medical treatment, so he brought the original owner back to Beijing.
The original owner was very happy, but she didn't know that the heroine didn't want to marry the young master, felt it would be inconvenient to have an affair with the hero in the future, and didn't want to lose her noble status as a legitimate daughter, so she decided to change the bride on the wedding day.
Originally, everything went smoothly, but what the heroine didn't expect was that the original owner, whom she despised, would actually lift the veil when she heard the groom's cough when the sedan chair arrived at the Duke's Mansion, and found out that the marriage was wrong. After the original owner's quarrel, she had no choice but to switch them back, and the male and female protagonists were separated by her, so she was hated by the male and female protagonists.
The male protagonist has been unwilling to touch the original owner since they got married. As time went by, the original owner became resentful, and she also discovered the affair between the male and female protagonists. So, with the original owner's constant self-destruction and various frame-ups of the female protagonist, the relationship between the male and female protagonists successfully warmed up. She was also drowned alive by the male protagonist on the charge of cheating, ending her miserable life.
Sinking into the pond! Xu Qingyan couldn't help shivering just thinking about it. She didn't want to sink into the pond, so she decided to marry the short-lived prince obediently. After the young master died, she would take the money and run away.
"Ahem... Madam, we're here." After the sedan chair landed, Pei Jingchuan coughed a few times, then walked to the sedan chair and prepared to lead her into the Duke's Mansion.
【Here it comes, here it comes, the crucial moment has come! At this time, I absolutely cannot expose the truth, and I hope that there will be no abominable power of heaven to control me in the plot. I want to marry the young master and enter the bridal chamber with him. When I give birth to a child and my husband dies, I will be a rich woman with money! Hahaha, a wonderful life is about to begin! I feel excited just thinking about it! Of course, this young master is really a bit pitiful. After he dies, I will burn a lot of paper money for him, and let me and his son kowtow in front of his grave every year to show filial piety! 】
Pei Jingchuan was speechless after hearing this. Was his newly married wife so impatient to enter the bridal chamber with him? She even planned her life after his death. Other women would cry when they knew their husbands were going to die, but why did she not seem to be afraid at all? On the contrary, she looked a little happy?
Pei Jingchuan felt strange. When he walked to the gate of the Duke's Mansion holding Xu Qingyan's hand, he happened to meet his half-brother Zhou Jingyuan and his bride.
Pei Jingchuan couldn't help but think of the voice he had heard before. He subconsciously looked at the bride next to Pei Jingyuan, and his eyes fell on her belly. She was pregnant with a bastard now, so he didn't have to wear the green hat, but the green hat would fall on his half-brother. No, he had to stop this from happening.
Just as he was struggling over how to stop it, Pei Jingyuan suddenly said nervously: "Brother, don't miss the auspicious time for the wedding ceremony, and hurry in!"
Pei Jingyuan gently pulled the bride behind him, then hurriedly led her across the gate.
[Oh my...what is this young master still hesitating about? Pei Jingyuan already knows that he has to hurry up and marry Xu Qingyue. It's a good reunion for the family of three. Could it be that he found out that the bride was wrong? ]
At this moment, Xu Qingyan's voice appeared again.
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