Chapter 540 She's Back
"Miss, Miss, wake up! Miss, if you don't get up now, it will be too late!"
A voice kept echoing in her ears, accompanied by a series of shaking, which startled Shen Wantang, who was suffering from a splitting headache.
She opened her eyes, the pain from the poison still lingering, but she ignored the nausea and vomiting rising in her chest. She asked incredulously, "Du Juan? You're alright?"
"What do you want?"
Du Juan looked at her strangely and couldn't help but urge, "Miss, it's almost dawn, you need to get up and get ready!"
Miss?
Since she married into the Ning Prince's mansion, Dujuan no longer calls her that.
Shen Wantang then noticed that Du Juan's clothes were very different from those at the Prince's Mansion; they were old, faded, and ill-fitting.
She glanced around the room again. This was no Ning Prince's mansion; it was clearly the small courtyard where she lived in the Shen family before she got married!
She reached out and grasped Dujuan's hand, feeling the warmth of her palm. She couldn't help but hold Dujuan tightly and close her eyes.
She's back!
What does this mean? Is she neither alive nor dead? Or is she trapped in some time and space forever?
When she discovered she had been reborn last time, she was overjoyed, feeling incredibly lucky to have another chance to start over.
Now, she felt neither joy nor displeasure.
At least he's alive again, isn't he?
Moreover, her previous life wasn't in vain; she finally learned that she hadn't died from a cold, but from poisoning.
Shen Wantang opened her eyes, a murderous look on her face. She had killed her twice, and now it was her turn to kill the Seventh Princess!
If she dies at the hands of the Seventh Princess this time, she will not be surnamed Shen!
Seeing her like this, Dujuan couldn't help but feel a little scared: "Miss, what's wrong? I feel like something's wrong with you. Are you having a nightmare?"
Shen Wantang took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in her heart, and said gently, "I had a nightmare, but it's nothing now. You just said I should get up and prepare? Prepare what?"
Du Juan looked at her strangely: "Miss, have you forgotten? Madam took you and the eldest young lady to visit Prince Ning's mansion today. You told me yesterday to wake you up earlier this morning."
Visiting the Prince Ning's residence?
Shen Wantang understood. At this moment, Princess Ning had not yet decided on a daughter-in-law, but she had taken a liking to the two sisters, Shen Wantang and Shen Mingxuan, and wanted to choose one of them to be Xiao Qingyuan's heir apparent.
I just don't know if Shen Mingxuan came back with her this time.
She shook her head at Du Juan: "It's just a visit, no rush. There's no need to dress up too much today. It's not even dawn yet, go back to sleep for a while!"
Du Juan looked puzzled: "But Miss, yesterday you said that you must be impeccably dressed today, why have you changed your mind? Don't you want to marry into the Ning Prince's mansion and become his wife?"
"I don't want to think about it anymore."
"Huh?! Why?"
"Because I'm really annoyed by Xiao Qingyuan."
Du Juan tilted her head and thought for a while before tentatively asking, "Miss, do you dislike that Young Master Xiao has become a monk? Or do you dislike that he's so desperate for that Miss Chu? Didn't you say before that none of these things mattered?"
Just as Shen Wantang was about to speak, a sound of a flowerpot shattering suddenly came from outside.
Du Juan immediately became alert: "Miss, the mechanism you set has been triggered! Someone has climbed over the wall and come in! Don't move inside, I'll go out and check!"
Before she could finish speaking, Shen Wantang had already gotten out of bed and walked out quickly without even putting on her shoes.
It was still dark and the light was dim.
Even in the dim light, Shen Wantang recognized the person who had climbed over the wall at a glance.
He walked towards her step by step, his sharply defined face gradually becoming clear in the dim light.
The next moment, he pulled her into his arms.
Dujuan, who had chased after her, was taken aback. Just as she was about to shout for help, she saw her young mistress also reach out and hug the man.
Du Juan had no choice but to swallow her screams back down, and she retreated back into the house.
At this moment, Shen Wantang didn't care about the maid. She held Gu Qianhan in her arms, feeling his heartbeat and breathing, and her eyes reddened.
"Gu Qianhan".
"Yes, I'm here."
Why are we back again?
Gu Qianhan tightened his arms around her waist and whispered, "I don't know, but I think it's most likely because you came back that I was able to come back. I always thought that when the abbot of Fazhen Temple said that my chance of survival was with you, it meant that you could help me succeed in starting the uprising. But now it seems that he didn't mean that. The chance of survival he was talking about was that I could be reborn with you."
Shen Wantang didn't think of herself as a living being, nor did she think that he had returned because of her.
Actually, none of that matters. What matters is that he is still alive.
She raised her hand and touched his face. Remembering how he looked before he died, she still felt a pang of pain in her heart.
Gu Qianhan covered her hand with his, just as her hand had covered his when he stroked her face before he died.
He asked in a low voice, "Did I scare you this time? I'm sorry, it's my fault."
Shen Wantang didn't know what was wrong with her. He hadn't said anything, but her tears were falling uncontrollably.
Gu Qianhan panicked immediately: "A-Tang, don't cry, it won't happen again, I won't leave you alone again."
He hurriedly wiped away Shen Wantang's tears, but the more he wiped, the more tears she shed, as if she wanted to cry out all the grievances from her past life.
His heart ached terribly, yet amidst the pain, he also felt a sliver of joy.
He pestered her relentlessly for so long, shamelessly squeezing into her world, and finally it had some effect—he probably really did manage to get into her heart.
As dawn broke, the first rays of sunlight shone on her face, making her tears glisten. Her clear, beautiful eyes held a mixture of sorrow and resentment, as if blaming him for dying before her once again.
He had never known that she had this side to her.
His usually cold and hard heart was incredibly soft. He hugged the girl tightly and whispered, "This time, marry me, and you're not allowed to marry anyone else."
Shen Wantang raised her head and glared at him: "Who wants to marry you? If I marry you, I'll be a widow!"
Gu Qianhan's voice sounded somewhat solemn: "Third time's the charm. If I still fail this time, I won't have the face to say I want to marry you."
"Then let's talk about it after you succeed."
"Then you have to promise me you won't marry someone else."
"How can I make my own decision about marriage? It's all arranged by my parents and the matchmaker, so naturally I will listen to my father and mother."
"Are you trying to fool me? Others may not know your abilities, but I know them all. Who can make decisions for you?"
"Then tell me first, who betrayed you and caused your crushing defeat and death?"
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