Chapter 1 Chapter 1 "Brother, save me."...
In the 19th year of Jiande, March of spring.
The rain was continuous, like endless lotus roots, and everything was wet.
A small hut off to the west side of the mansion was locked, letting in a cold and damp smell.
On the wooden bed, Shuyun wrapped herself tightly in a thin blanket, her slender body curled up into a ball, wrapping herself tightly in the thin blanket, trying to warm her hands and feet. Her throat was itchy and she coughed from time to time.
Hearing the sound of unlocking, Shuyun concentrated her mind and forced herself to stand up. Her three thousand black hair hung down to her waist, and her body was thin and delicate, looking particularly frail due to her illness.
After all, she was raised in a pampered manner in the Marquis's Mansion, and even though she was wearing coarse clothes, it was difficult to hide her delicate aura.
Nanny Wu, armed with pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, had already come to the bedside and said in a cold voice, "Madam has instructed that the young lady write a letter of severance as soon as possible and have no further connection with the Marquis's Mansion."
Shuyun looked at it, tugging at the corner of the quilt with her fingers, and showed no intention of taking it for a long time.
But she didn't want to leave the Marquis' Mansion.
"Mammy, could you please ask a doctor to prescribe some medicine? I'm feeling a little unwell." Shuyun had a splitting headache, and her voice was hoarse and soft after coughing for a long time.
Nanny Wu reached out and felt the temperature of her forehead, not caring at all. "It's just a minor illness. Just take care of it. There's no need to call a doctor. I'll bring you a pot of hot water later. Drink it and sweat."
"Hurry up and start writing. I still have to report to the Madam." Nanny Wu urged her, pulling her up to sit at the table and stuffing the brush into her hand.
Nanny Wu spread out the white paper. Shuyun's eyes gradually turned red. She lowered her head, put down the brush, and put her hands behind her back.
Shu Yun's eyes were filled with tears as she stammered, "I...I don't want to break off the relationship. Mother, can you please not drive me away?"
A month ago, she was still the third daughter of the Marquis' Mansion. Wherever she went, she was surrounded by maids and old women, looking very impressive.
But she is no longer the daughter of a marquis.
The current mistress of the Anlu Marquis's mansion, Wang Huilan, was not his original wife, but the younger sister of his first wife. When her sister was still alive, Wang Huilan fell in love with her brother-in-law, Xiao Song, at first sight, and tried every possible means to please him. Over time, the two of them secretly became conceived.
Wang Huilan was pregnant with Xiao's child, and she was willing to be a concubine to her brother-in-law.
When her younger sister got pregnant by her brother-in-law, Wang Huilan hadn't learned a single bit of the Wang family's scholarly virtues. The Wang family couldn't hold their heads up, and the Marquisate couldn't afford to lose her either. With both parents' resistance, Xiao Song had no choice but to raise Wang Huilan away from home.
Wang Huilan placed her hopes on the child in her belly. When she was about to give birth, she went to the temple to pray for a child. On the way back, she was frightened by a wild cat in the mountains. She had unbearable abdominal pain and showed signs of giving birth. The place was in the middle of nowhere and it started to rain lightly. Fortunately, she met a midwife on the way who helped her give birth.
Wang Huilan gave birth to a baby girl on a rainy night. She was disappointed and unwilling to give birth to a daughter. Fortunately, as her daughter grew up, she was loved by Xiao Song, and her status gradually became stable.
Two years later, Xiao Song's first wife died of illness.
Two years later, Xiao Song, who had inherited the title of Marquis, officially married his second wife Wang Huilan and included his daughter Shuyun in the Xiao family tree. The child born to the second wife was also a legitimate child.
Among his many children, Marquis Anlu loved Shuyun the most, treating her like the apple of his eye. But this daughter of the Marquis, who grew up with a silver spoon in her mouth, turned out to be a fake! She wasn't of the Xiao family's bloodline!
That day, Wang Huilan held a flower-viewing banquet and overheard a lady attending the banquet privately saying that she and Shuyun did not look alike.
Wang Huilan frowned but didn't take it to heart, thinking that she would not have any dealings with this family in the future. But a few days later, when she was strolling in the garden, she heard two lazy maids chatting behind the rockery. They actually said that Shuyun didn't look like her and that the third lady of the Marquis' Mansion didn't look like a member of the Xiao family.
Wang Huilan was furious and ordered people to pull out the tongues of the two women and send them to the farm in the countryside.
Shuyun was born after she carried her daughter for ten months, so it could not be fake. However, the speaker did not mean it, but the listener took it seriously. Wang Huilan looked at Shuyun's appearance and found that her daughter did not look like her or her husband, but looked like someone else.
The seeds of doubt were planted in Wang Huilan's heart until ten days later, when Yan Fuju's newly bought maid entered the mansion.
The maid's real name was Tian Niu, the daughter of a farmer in the countryside. She had dark and rough skin, but her appearance was very similar to Wang Huilan when she was young, especially her thick eyebrows, which were exactly the same as Anlu Hou.
It’s easy to tell who the Xiao family’s bloodline is.
Wang Huilan held her forehead, her vision went dark, and she felt like the sky had fallen. She immediately ordered her confidant to secretly go to the Tian family, a farmer outside the city, to investigate. She learned that Tian Niu's mother had lost her memory sixteen years ago, and later was traumatized by the death of her husband. She became crazy, asking all sorts of questions and answering all sorts of questions. She didn't remember the delivery of the baby at all.
The Tian family thought that the crazy woman was not a midwife at all. They said she was an embroiderer in the town's embroidery workshop. Because she had an affair with the youngest son of the Tian family, she got pregnant before marriage without telling anyone, gave birth to a daughter secretly, and then married into the Tian family.
Wang Huilan traced back everything and already had the answer in her mind.
Probably because in the mountains, the woman saw that she was either rich or noble, so she had an idea and pretended to be a midwife to help her give birth. During the process, she sent away the maid beside her and performed a trick of replacing one daughter with another, secretly swapping their two daughters.
The Tian family relied on the one and a half mu of land passed down from their ancestors to make a living, and their life was extremely tight. When they saw that a long-term worker from a wealthy family in the village had asked for leave, the eldest and second sons of the Tian family decided to sell the daughter of the youngest son of the Tian family and divide the money equally.
After Tian Laoyao died, his crazy wife and young daughter relied on relatives like them for support. Now it is time for Laoyao's family to do their part.
Coincidentally, Yan Fuju was buying a maid.
Wang Huilan took a few days to calm down and gradually accepted the reality. She sent people to settle the accounts with the Tian family, but the crazy woman was dead!
The Tian family said: It rained heavily that night, and when they woke up the next day, the person was gone. They found the body by the river two days later.
Wang Huilan let it go and did not cause trouble for the Tian family again.
How could Wang Huilan not hate her own daughter for having suffered in the countryside for sixteen years? She was cold-hearted by nature, so she immediately severed her mother-daughter relationship with Shuyun and took back everything she had.
The true and the false are restored to their places, and the third lady of the Marquis' Mansion is no longer Shu Yun, but a peasant girl who has been found.
Two years ago, Northern Yan invaded the border, and the emperor ordered Marquis Anlu to lead the troops to fight. He has not returned yet. Wang Huilan has written a letter to inform her husband at the border of what happened, waiting for him to make a decision on whether Shuyun should go or stay.
However, a few days later, the real daughter and Shuyun both fell into the water. The maid saw from afar that it seemed that Shuyun pushed the real daughter into the water. Wang Huilan was already angry when she looked at Shuyun's familiar face, and because of this incident, the fire was completely ignited.
Taking advantage of the fact that the old lady was away and she was the one in charge in the mansion, Wang Huilan planned to send Shuyun back to the Tian family as soon as possible, out of sight, out of mind.
Only when Shuyun wrote the severance letter in person and "requested" to return to the Tian family, would Wang Huilan avoid being blamed by the old lady and Marquis Anlu.
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After three or four days of hesitation, Shuyun still didn't write the breakup letter.
The door was locked again, and the room was dim.
Shuyun sat on the bed with her chin resting on her knees, hugging her knees, curling herself up into a small ball, crying helplessly.
The cool breeze blew against the window. Shuyun rubbed her stiff arms, lowered her head to wipe away her tears, and lay back on the bed wrapped in a thin blanket.
Shuyun felt dizzy and fell asleep quickly.
In the dream, it was the lively Lantern Festival. When I was a child, my father carried me on his back to watch lanterns and fireworks on the street, and bought her many beautiful lanterns.
She was dressed up beautifully and tried to hold A Niang's hand with a smile, but failed to hold it.
In the blink of an eye, the place changed. In the damp and cold room, Wang Huilan looked down at her with a frown and said coldly, "My daughter has suffered for you in the Tian family for sixteen years. Isn't that enough? Now you are pushing her into trouble. How dare you stay in the Marquis' Mansion?!"
Wang Huilan looked at them coldly and gave an order, and several maids came in.
"Mother, I didn't push her into the water. She slipped on the shore and I tried to pull her out, but she dragged me into the water with her. I didn't push her."
Shuyun tried to explain, but she was still dragged into a small sedan chair, carried out of the west gate of the mansion, and sent back to the Tian family. From then on, she had no connection with the mansion. She cried all the way, and the maid who followed her out of the mansion was annoyed by her crying and scolded her harshly.
The road was muddy and her embroidered shoes were soiled. Shuyun was dragged into a shabby hut in the countryside. She struggled and suddenly woke up, feeling a chill on her back.
Shuyun realized it was all a nightmare, tears streaming down her face. She was still terrified and didn't dare go back to sleep. Her moist almond-shaped eyes stared at the dark room, hoping for daybreak.
When the day breaks, I won’t be afraid anymore.
In the morning, a maid came to deliver food. Shuyun drank the hot water and her body gradually warmed up. "Please help me get a doctor."
The maid looked embarrassed and stammered, "Please don't make it difficult for me. Madam only asked me to deliver food."
Although Shuyun was spoiled, she never criticized the servants in the mansion and even gave them extra money during the New Year. Now that she was in trouble, few people would take advantage of her. As a slave, she did not dare to disobey the orders of her master.
"Besides... please ask the doctor for some money, you..." The maidservant hesitated and took out white porridge from the food box.
Shuyun subconsciously raised her hand to pull out the hairpin, but found that her hair was empty. She lowered her head and slowly withdrew her hand.
She used to have a lot of beautiful jewelry, but now they have all been taken away and there is nothing left.
Shuyun had no appetite, but in order not to go hungry, she took the white porridge and drank half of it. Her stomach churned and she felt extremely uncomfortable.
Shuyun went back to bed and lay down. Remembering that Aunt Wu said that the illness would be cured after a sweat, she covered her head with the quilt.
While she was dazed, there was a loud commotion in the room. Shuyun's eyelids felt heavy and she had to struggle to open them. Two burly women pulled her out of bed and put on her shoes.
Nanny Wu held the silk and urged the maids to take Shuyun away quickly, while looking into the distance and leading the way.
Shuyun felt dizzy and her strength to resist was insignificant in front of the old women. She was hurriedly carried out of the hut by them, and no one knew where they were taking her.
Shuyun was extremely frightened and asked while crying, but Nanny Wu walked very fast and didn't answer her at all.
A sedan chair was parked on the path between the two walls. Nanny Wu walked over quickly, lifted the curtain, and said urgently, "Send the person in quickly."
Shuyun was stuffed into the sedan chair, the curtain dropped, and the sedan chair was lifted up.
The sedan was a bit bumpy, and Shuyun just stood up, but fell back down again, her head shaking so hard that it hurt.
Nanny Wu said, "Madam has decided to let you return to the Tian family. From now on, you will be separated from each other. Don't show up at the Marquis' Mansion anymore."
Shu Yun was stunned, as if struck by lightning. She sat stiffly in the sedan chair, her whole body shivering.
After turning another corner, they saw the west gate, and the sedan bearer couldn't help but quicken his pace.
"Where are you taking this sedan chair? You're in such a hurry."
A lazy male voice was heard, and the speeding sedan suddenly stopped.
Shuyun was surprised and happy, it was her brother's close bodyguard.
Brother is back?!
Steady footsteps came from behind, getting closer and closer. Shuyun lifted the curtain with trembling fingertips and looked back.
The man was dressed in black, with a sturdy figure and elegant demeanor, yet he was dignified.
"Brother, save me."
Shuyun clutched the curtain with her fingertips, tears welling up in her eyes, and begged while crying.
The author has something to say:
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1. Age difference is 5 years, the female lead is 16, the male lead is 21, sc.
2. The heroine is not a peasant girl, and the love-hate entanglement of the previous generation is both sharp and bloody;
3. The male protagonist is the son of the original wife and lives in Yanfuju. He left the house two months ago. He is cunning and ruthless and sticks to male virtues. He looks like a gentleman, but in fact, he has been keeping a close eye on his prey and calculates every step just right.
4. Involving the grievances between the parents' generation, [the male protagonist has no brotherly love for the real daughter, only hatred. Even if they were not switched, the male protagonist would not treat her well]; because he knew that the female protagonist was not Wang Huilan's daughter, the male protagonist began to befriend the female protagonist.
5. Wang Huilan is the mistress. She is essentially a bad person with blood on her hands and will not wash it clean. Her attitude towards the heroine changed drastically not only because of the switch, but also because of other things. Don't have any illusions about a mother's love for her daughter. It's over once it's over.
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