Lord Zhou quickly replied, "It's such a trivial matter. You ladies can discuss it yourselves. We won't keep you any longer."
After saying that, he pulled Yun Yue and the Crown Prince away, and also took Su Youchen with him.
Su Youchen also saw his sister's hostility towards her older brother. Her words clearly indicated that she wanted Wu Xinxin to enter the manor, directly negating Yun Tianbai's previous statement.
Since returning, he felt that his sister had a very good relationship with the Yun family's brothers and sisters, but his eldest brother was very distant.
He originally thought it was because his elder brother had been in the military for many years, but today's incident clearly showed that she was going against his elder brother.
So what happened between my sister and Yun Tianbai during the years he was away?
After the others left, Yun Tianbai was also helped into the guest room by a servant to tidy up. Madam Xiao led Madam Ningyuan and Madam Su back to the backyard.
With Shi Wenxia's help, Yun Tianbai changed his clothes, wiped his face and mouth, and then got into the carriage to return to the mansion first.
The carriage moved slowly forward.
Shi asked Xia, "Your Highness, what exactly happened before?"
Yun Tianbai's memory returned to half an hour ago.
He had indeed been splashed with wine at the banquet and had been guided by a servant to his room to change. However, upon entering the room, he was greeted by a strong scent of daffodils.
It's the dead of winter now, and besides plum blossoms, there are only daffodils. Daffodils are best grown indoors, so the Zhou family mansion is filled with them, and their fragrance permeates the air.
He didn't pay much attention, but after waiting and waiting for the servant to bring him clothes, he felt thirsty and picked up the water pot on the table to pour himself a cup of tea.
Then, as I waited, I felt a heat rising up inside me, and my head became increasingly dizzy.
Then someone hugged him from behind. He turned around and saw Jiang Youran's stunningly beautiful face.
He thought he was dreaming.
In his previous life, he never touched her. In this life, she has become his stepsister, so it is even more impossible for him to cling to her.
She must be dreaming to be so proactive.
Since it's a dream, why not make up for the regrets of the previous life?
So he took the opportunity to put his arm around the woman in front of him.
But when he came to his senses, he realized that this was not a dream, nor was it Jiang Youran, but rather the infamous Wu Xinxin!
Why don't you just make him vomit on the spot?
Although Wu Xinxin's scandals have not yet been exposed.
However, in his previous life, he knew clearly that a few years later, she failed to seduce the Crown Prince of Xuan at a banquet, but instead ended up having an affair with her brother-in-law, the Crown Prince of Yingguo.
It's unclear whether it was a coincidence or intentional.
Her older sister, Wu Yilian, immediately confronted her half-sister, revealing many of her shameful secrets.
Including the fact that she had an affair with a guard and lost her virginity when she was fifteen and came of age, and then she seduced the sons of powerful and wealthy men everywhere, and now she's even sleeping with her brother-in-law...
Thinking back to how he had been drugged today and had mistaken Wu Xinxin, that slut, for Jiang Youran, he felt so disgusted he wanted to vomit.
Seeing that he remained silent, Shi Wenxia did not dare to ask any more questions. She simply leaned on his shoulder and said with a slightly aggrieved tone, "What happened today is not the young master's fault. I just wonder if the remaining poison in your body has been cured? Should we ask the family physician to take another look when we return to the manor?"
Yun Tianbai sighed inwardly, pulling himself back to reality, and explained, "I spilled wine at the banquet today, so I went to the guest room to change. I didn't expect..."
Unexpectedly, the room had already been decorated by someone with ulterior motives.
I have no idea who did it!
Shi Wenxia, however, had a plan in mind.
She recalled Zhou Qingqian's reaction earlier and was furious. It must have been a trap set by that bitch Zhou Qingqian, but she never expected that Wu Xinxin would steal it!
Zhou Qingqian was only fourteen years old, but she already had a strong desire to marry Yun Tianbai.
Presumably, it was because the Xiao family did not agree that she took such a risk and set up this scheme, even if it meant having some physical intimacy with Yun Tianbai first!
This also happened in my previous life, but it occurred after I entered the manor. This time, however, it happened three years earlier!
In this life, many things are different.
...
In the ancestral hall in the backyard of the Zhou family, Zhou Qingqian knelt on the ground.
Madam Xiao scolded angrily, "You troublesome child! There are so many fine young men in the world, why do you insist on fixating on Yun Tianbai? What is it about him that makes you so devoted to him at such a young age?"
Zhou Qingqian cried, "Mother, I will be of marriageable age next year. I don't want to marry anyone else, I only want to marry my cousin, the Crown Prince!"
"So you orchestrated this whole thing today, willing to ruin your reputation just to become his concubine?!"
“Mother, that slut Shi Wenxia is not worthy of being the Crown Prince’s wife at all. Look, even the Emperor hasn’t approved his request for the title! I am a member of the Zhou family and his cousin. With you and Grandfather here, I can marry him as a secondary wife! The position of Crown Prince’s wife is mine!”
Madam Xiao sneered, "Cousin? Isn't Shi Wenxia his cousin too? How can you be so sure he has feelings for you? Didn't you hear what he just said? Even if he took Wu Xinxin's body, he wouldn't allow her to enter the manor?"
Zhou Qingqian said hatefully, "It's all that bitch Wu Xinxin's fault for stealing what I had..."
Madam Xiao couldn't help but step forward and slap her daughter across the face. "You stubborn brat! You'd better keep what happened today to yourself! If word gets out, you'll ruin the reputation of the entire Zhou family's daughters!"
Zhou Qingqian covered her face, looking at her mother in disbelief.
Today's events were indeed orchestrated by her. Moreover, she was on good terms with Wu Xinxin. Before the banquet began, she saw Wu Xinxin standing with her, mocking Shi Wenxia. Feeling pleased, she secretly told Wu Xinxin about her plan.
Unexpectedly, just as things were about to go, Wu Xinxin lied to her, saying that her mother was looking for her and that she should hurry up.
When she realized she had been tricked and returned to her room, she found that Wu Xinxin herself had become the main character in that room.
I'm absolutely furious.
Madam Xiao left him with the words, "You can kneel before the ancestral tablets and reflect on your actions! Don't come out until tomorrow!"
After saying that, he left in a hurry.
She needs to extricate her daughter from this situation before she can talk to the Wu and Yun families.
While sitting down to wait, Su had already come up with an idea.
With Su Youran's divine assistance and Yun Yue's assurance that she would make all the decisions, she felt more confident.
After something like this happened, what else can we do besides bringing Wu Xinxin into the manor?
The difficulty lies in deciding what official title to give her.
If Lady Ningyuan is easy to get along with, she can just give her the title of a concubine.
If Lady Ningyuan insists on entering the manor as a secondary wife, then things will get complicated.
It's obvious the stepson doesn't like Wu Xinxin. If she were just a concubine, ignoring her in the backyard wouldn't matter. But since she's a secondary wife, he can't ignore her. The stepson must be extremely dissatisfied with his decision.
As expected, after the Lady of Ningyuan Marquis finished cleaning up her daughter, she made a request to enter the Duke's mansion as a secondary wife.
Her explanation was that although Wu Xinxin was a concubine's daughter, she had been raised under her care since childhood and was no different from a legitimate daughter.
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