"Girl, have some pear soup."
The maid Liuli came in from outside through the curtain carrying a bowl of steaming soup and said to the girl by the window.
Chu Qianchen sat by the window in a daze, pretending not to hear anything.
She was wearing a lilac-colored jacket embroidered with hibiscus branches, a white midi-shirt embroidered with cloud patterns, and a green lotus-colored long skirt with a pair of embroidered shoes with tassels visible at the hem of the skirt.
A few rays of golden sunlight filtered through the lush branches and leaves outside the window and sprinkled on her fair cheeks, making her skin look as delicate as fat, like the finest jade, shining with a bright luster.
A white porcelain fish tank with blue patterns was placed on a small square table by the window. Several black and red goldfish were swimming back and forth among the green water plants, swaying their tails and creating ripples in the water.
Chu Qianchen lowered her eyes and looked at the fish tank. It seemed that she was admiring the fish, but in fact, she was using the water as a mirror and looking at her reflection in the water.
The girl reflected in the water had thick black hair tied into two buns, and she only wore a pair of bright red garnet beads.
On her palm-sized oval face, her big phoenix eyes had slightly upturned corners, and her black pupils were sparkling, as if the stars in the summer night sky were reflected in them, bright and moist.
Her nose is delicate and straight, and her lips are pink and rosy like petals. When she purses her lips, the slightly upturned corners of her lips reveal a hint of a smile.
This is her when she was thirteen years old, familiar yet strange!
Chu Qianchen subconsciously raised her right hand and gently touched her cheek with her slender fingers. The smooth and soft touch made her feel as if she was in a dream.
She hadn't seen this face for a long time.
It is bright and elegant, exquisite and agile.
Like the wisteria flowers blooming in spring, they are delicate but not aggressive.
She is just beginning to blossom now, unlike her previous life when she was riddled with wounds...
In her previous life, her appearance was completely ruined. Even though she later recovered, she still lived up to the saying -
A doctor cannot heal himself.
She can save everyone, but she can't restore her own face to its original state.
Thinking of her past life, her pupils gradually became darker and darker, so dark that she could not see the bottom.
She also didn't expect that she could be reborn.
Reborn in her best years.
Reborn before all the tragedies began...
She is back again! Back to the Chu family!
Chu Qianchen's fingers slowly slid down along the corner of his right eye, touching the place on his face where the scar had once been.
“Ahem…”
She suddenly felt an itch in her throat and began to cough softly.
Liuli quickly put down the soup bowl in her hand, gently stroked Chu Qianchen's back with her right hand, and asked, "Miss, are you okay?"
Chu Qianchen raised his hand and gestured, his voice slightly hoarse, "I'm fine."
Liuli looked at her daughter's thin face and said angrily, "Girl, the third girl is too much!"
"The Marquis clearly wanted to marry the girl to the Second Prince, but the Third Girl was shameless and insisted on getting close to the Second Prince. She even caused the girl to fall into the water and became ill for so long."
"The third girl must have pushed the girl into the water on purpose. She doesn't even take her sister seriously!"
Liuli became angrier and angrier as she spoke, her pretty face full of anger.
The marquis that Liuli mentioned is Chu Qianchen’s father, Yongding Marquis Chu Lingxiao.
The Chu family has four branches. Chu Lingxiao, the Marquis of Yongding, and Chu Lingyu from the second branch are the sons of the Marquis’s wife, Mrs. Jiang. Chu Lingting from the third branch and Chu Lingtao from the fourth branch are illegitimate sons.
The Chu family has been engaged in military affairs for generations. From the first generation, Chu Yao, who followed Emperor Gaozu into battle, several generations of descendants have stood firm in the Great Qi Dynasty with their military exploits. To date, the glory of the Yongding Marquisate has continued for a hundred years.
The Second Prince is now fifteen years old and is about to reach marriage age. Concubine Chu does not want the Second Prince to be estranged from his natal family in the future, so she came up with an idea to choose one of the several girls of the right age in the Chu family to be the Second Prince's concubine.
Chu Qianchen is the second daughter of Marquis Yongding. Given her status and age, she is the most suitable candidate.
However, the third daughter of the Chu family had been in love with the second prince since she was a child. After hearing about this, she had an argument with Chu Qianchen. During the scuffle, Chu Qianchen slipped and fell into the water. He then had a high fever and was in a coma for a whole day and night.
When Chu Qianchen opened his eyes again, he found that he was reborn.
From the age of 27, I returned to more than ten years ago, back to the most brilliant years of my youth.
Chu Qianchen turned his head and met Liuli's eyes. Her beautiful black phoenix eyes were as clear as water.
Chu Qianchen said calmly: "Liuli, your father will make the decision on these matters. Don't say these words again."
Liuli raised her hand and slapped her mouth, and said quickly: "Miss, you are right, I am the one who is not good at talking. I am just feeling sorry for you, it is obvious that the Second Prince likes you..."
Liuli fell silent and stopped talking.
To the reborn Chu Qianchen, the Second Prince was both familiar and unfamiliar, and her past flashed before her eyes quickly.
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More than ten years have passed!
Yes, it all started with the Second Prince. No, it should be said that it started with the "fight" for the position of the Second Prince's concubine.
Chu Qianchen's eyes turned cold.
She half-lowered her eyes to hide the coldness in them, and ate the pear soup gracefully.
Liuli rubbed the handkerchief in her hand, and always felt that her girl had undergone a subtle change since she woke up from falling into the water.
The girl never played the piano she used to like again. She often sat quietly by the window for a long time, as if she was in a daze or thinking about something. Occasionally, there was a moment when she felt that the girl had become a different person.
What am I thinking about! Liuli shook her head, hesitated for a moment, and said, "Miss, when I went to the kitchen just now, I heard that the Second Prince had come, and the Third Miss took him to the garden to play."
"Girl, do you want to go over and take a look too?"
It’s still these two sentences, word for word exactly the same as in the previous life.
The spoon in Chu Qianchen's hand stopped in mid-air, and he looked at Liuli again with a deep gaze.
She has a pair of big phoenix eyes with slightly upturned corners and thick, long and curled eyelashes.
Those dark eyeballs were like black jade, exceptionally bright and clear.
Even though Liuli looked at Chu Qianchen every day, she still had to sigh that her daughter's appearance was truly outstanding. Just this pair of eyes was enough to make people envious.
Liuli lowered her eyelids and a dark light flashed across her pupils.
Chu Qianchen put down the spoon, wiped the corners of his mouth elegantly with a handkerchief, stood up and said, "Liuli, let's go over and take a look."
The corners of her lips hidden behind the handkerchief formed a sarcastic and cold arc.
In her previous life, she also went there.
Then, her appearance was ruined!
Her misfortune in the second half of her life began when her face was disfigured, and she was pushed into the abyss step by step...
For many years afterwards, even after she left the Chu family, she could not let it go.
She kept wondering whether it was really an accident or a long-planned conspiracy.
She thought she would never get the answer, but she didn't expect that she would have the chance to be reborn and find the answer herself!
Of course she has to take this trip!
(End of this chapter)