In her previous life, Jiang Minshan constantly used her status as her biological mother to control her, suppress her, and made her weak and incompetent. Mu Ge'er was killed by Jiang Minshan after falling from a rockery, Shen Zhi also died, and she herself was disgraced and kicked out of the house.
Until the moment before her rebirth, she didn't know her own life experience and only thought that she was Jiang Minshan's daughter.
Jiang Minshan's schemes were too deep! She had already thought about it, and she could attack or defend. Once her life experience was discovered, she would mislead Shen Zhi like she was doing now, making everyone think that the two baby girls were swapped, and then drag Chu Qianhuang into the quagmire! Shen Zhi would never know that she had lost her own daughter! Did Jiang Minshan want to watch Shen Zhi die of despair? !
Old Lady Liu was still kowtowing and begging for mercy, and her forehead was swollen and purple from the kowtowing.
Shen Qianchen seemed to have heard nothing, his eyes were calm, without a trace of softness in his heart.
There must be something hateful about a pitiful person.
Jiang Minshan was fine, after all, she did all this out of jealousy towards Shen Zhi. She had no blood relationship with herself or Chu Qianhuang. To her, she and Chu Qianhuang were just the daughters of her enemy!
But Chu Lingxiao is different! The person Shen Qianchen hates the most is her biological father Chu Lingxiao.
Chu Lingxiao is her and Chu Qianhuang's biological father, but he was so cruel to give her to Jiang Minshan fourteen years ago. He watched Jiang Minshan abuse her for so many years, and later let Jiang Minshan recognize Chu Qianhuang as her own daughter without saying a word.
Once upon a time, Shen Qianchen thought that he still had some father-daughter feelings for Chu Qianhuang, but facts proved that she was wrong, she was absolutely wrong!
He was not worthy of being a father. In his eyes, his two biological daughters were not even as good as cats and dogs. Ordinary people would have feelings for cats and dogs, but Chu Lingxiao was worse than an animal! Chu Lingxiao was too despicable, too cold-blooded, and too ruthless.
He was even scarier than Jiang Minshan, so scary that it made Shen Qianchen feel cold in his heart.
At this moment, a terrifying pressure emanated from Shen Qianchen's body, so powerful that it was suffocating, and that delicate and beautiful face seemed to be covered with a thin layer of ice.
"..." Amber was shocked, with a complicated look in her eyes.
She had never seen Shen Qianchen like this before.
Shen Qianchen's expression changed for only a brief moment, and then he regained his composure.
She ordered Jiang Yuan: "Take the person away."
Upon hearing this, Granny Liu stopped kowtowing, her face turned pale as paper, she looked up at Shen Qianchen, her body shaking like a sieve.
Shen Qianchen simply gave this instruction and stopped talking, but Jiang Yuan understood what she meant.
No matter what role the abbot of Daping Temple played in this matter, Shen Qianchen would not pursue any further since death is like the extinguishing of a light. However, this Liu Wenpo was an accomplice who helped Chu Lingxiao steal her away. She must be punished according to the law!
"Princess, spare my life!"
Liu Wenpo still wanted to beg for mercy, but she only had time to utter these four words. Jiang Yuan called in two soldiers from the Black Armor Army and rudely dragged Liu Wenpo out.
Soon, only Shen Qianchen and Amber, the master and servant, were left in the side hall.
Amber poured another cup of flower tea for Shen Qianchen and said softly, "Princess, have some tea. This flower tea is not too hot and is just right for drinking."
Amber prepared lily tea which can soothe the mind, calm the nerves, and replenish the qi.
Shen Qianchen brought the teacup to his lips, put it down a little, and whispered: "This matter must not be known to mother..."
Before she finished speaking, she felt something was wrong and immediately said, "No."
Chu Qianhuang is Shen Zhi's biological daughter and the daughter she raised. If she hides the truth from Shen Zhi, then how is she different from people like Chu Lingxiao and Jiang Minshan?
She couldn't make that decision for her mother.
Shen Qianchen drank his tea slowly, his eyes flickering.
To be honest, after experiencing two lifetimes, Shen Qianchen could hardly remember the former Chu Qianhuang.
Lady Mu and Shen Zhi were afraid that she had a grudge against Chu Qianhuang and that she would be sad, so they would not take the initiative to mention Chu Qianhuang in front of her.
Amber was still in a state of disbelief at the truth she had just heard. She could not help but mutter, "Princess, Aunt Jiang is so vicious! She is deliberately trying to alienate the eldest daughter from the eldest lady!"
At this moment, Amber felt a little sympathetic towards Chu Qianhuang.
Shen Qianchen lowered his eyes, took two more sips of tea, and said nothing.
People are different, and different people make different choices when faced with the same situation.
Last year, Shen Zhi uncovered the "truth" that the two baby girls were swapped. Chu Qianhuang was reduced from a legitimate daughter to a concubine's daughter overnight, and her behavior became more extreme and absurd.
Shen Qianchen had no evidence, but she felt that long before Shen Zhi revealed the "truth", Chu Qianhuang seemed to have discovered that her life experience was suspicious and believed that Jiang Minshan was her biological mother. For this reason, Chu Qianhuang instigated Chu Qianling to attack her; for this reason, Chu Qianhuang protected Cui Ma who almost killed Mu Ge'er.
The current Chu Qianhuang is a person who will do anything to achieve his goal.
This Chu Qianhuang is completely different from the real Chu Qianhuang in her way of dealing with people. If it was the latter, the girl raised by Shen Zhi, she would not have made this series of mistakes, nor would she have let Shen Zhi be disappointed in her to this extent.
Shen Qianchen sat there in a trance and didn't even notice when Gu Jue entered the hall.
Amber was very sensible. She knelt silently to Gu Jue and then quietly retreated, leaving the place to Gu Jue and Shen Qianchen.
Suddenly, a shadow covered his eyes. Shen Qianchen came back to his senses and looked up to see a handsome and smiling face.
Shen Qianchen pursed his lips and without saying a word, rested his forehead on Gu Jue's abdomen. This intimate action revealed a feeling of grievance.
Gu Jue felt very distressed when he saw the little girl like this.
He didn't ask her what happened, but just raised his hand and rubbed her soft head. This action seemed to say, I'm here.
Shen Qianchen nuzzled him, put his left cheek against his, and said sullenly, "Prince, why are there such vicious people in this world? How has my mother wronged him, and how has the Duke's Mansion wronged him?"
"He actually wants to use this method to deal with his wife and daughter!"
Killing without shedding blood, that probably refers to Chu Lingxiao... No, what he did was even more vicious than killing Shen Zhi! In an instant, deep hatred burst out from Shen Qianchen's eyes. She didn't want Gu Jue to see her like this, so she buried her face.
In her previous life, Shen Qianchen was kicked out of her home at the age of fourteen. At that time, she was disappointed, sad, and heartbroken, but she did not hate Chu Lingxiao. After all, Chu Lingxiao had disliked her since she was a child. At that time, she felt inferior and pitied herself, and attributed Chu Lingxiao's dislike to herself;
And now, Shen Qianchen felt hatred towards his biological father.
Gu Jue hugged his little girl tenderly, and stroked her back rhythmically with one hand, again and again, as if he was stroking a kitten's fur. Every movement was so gentle, as if he was touching a priceless treasure.
The Chu family doesn't want her, but he does!
Chu Lingxiao doesn't like her, but he does! Smelling the reassuring scent on Gu Jue, Shen Qianchen relaxed and leaned on him, burying her face in his robe, wrapping her arms around his waist, and sullenly talked about what Liu Wenpo had just told her.
Her voice was a little hoarse and intermittent, with a hint of crying, as if she would cry at any time.
Gu Jue felt as if his heart was being grabbed.
Besides, no matter what she faced, she was always calm, rational, and decisive...
Gu Jue just felt distressed about this.
As the saying goes, the crying child gets candy. But this saying does not apply to Shen Qianchen, who was raised by Aunt Jiang since childhood. Shen Qianchen has become the Shen Qianchen she is now, not because she is strong and brave by nature, but because she knows that crying is useless.
Who doesn't want to live an innocent life? But reality forces people to grow up step by step, and tempers people into an unstoppable sword! Gu Jue sometimes couldn't help thinking that if only he had known her earlier, he would have treated her very well.
Gu Jue listened quietly as she finished her story in bits and pieces.
After that, the room fell into silence.
Gu Jue naturally understood Shen Qianchen's confusion after knowing the truth, and he also empathized with her resentment and anger.
He didn't rush to speak and continued to stroke her back.
After a while, she moved again, rubbing against him affectionately. Gu Jue then said, "Qian Chen, the current Chu Qianhuang is no longer the same as before."
"I think it's okay for you to tell your mother."
"Chu Qianhuang is your mother's daughter, but this one now is not."
Gu Jue's voice blew into Shen Qianchen's ears like a spring breeze blowing willow leaves.
"..." Shen Qianchen raised her little face from his arms. Because she had been rubbing against him for a long time, her hair was a little rough and she looked dazed, as if she had just woken up.
"What kind of person do you think your mother-in-law is?" Gu Jue rubbed her head again, knowing that she was confused because of what concerned her.
Shen Qianchen: "..."
Shen Qianchen blinked and looked up at Gu Jue in a daze.
What kind of person is a mother?
My mother is a person with great ambitions. When I was a concubine's daughter, my mother never treated me badly and treated me like her own daughter. Even though so many things happened later, she never took her anger out on Chu Yunyi and always treated Chu Yunyi very well.
Chu Qianhuang is her twin sister, with her mother's blood flowing in her body, but now Chu Qianhuang is just an unrelated stranger, so she can use Chu Yunyi unscrupulously and hurt her mother...
She is not the real Chu Qianhuang, she is just an "evil ghost" who has occupied Chu Qianhuang's body.
Shen Qianchen suddenly figured it out a little.
Gu Jue kissed her gently on the top of her head and said, "Just tell your mother about it. She is not a weak person."
"You can't be with your mother every day, so just let her be mentally prepared first."
There is no impenetrable wall in this world. No one can tell whether someone will take advantage of this to talk nonsense in front of Shen Zhi. She needs to be mentally prepared.
Shen Qianchen smiled slightly, and his eyes became clear again.
Chu Qianhuang was raised by her mother. Her mother always felt that her daughter made mistakes and that she, as a mother, was also responsible. She felt that she was an unqualified mother and did not even notice when her daughter went astray.
If it was really the original Chu Qianhuang who made those big mistakes, then her mother would definitely be very sad and heartbroken; however, everything was done by the current Chu Qianhuang, and her mother would only be relieved that she did not teach her daughter bad things and it was not her daughter who went astray.
"Yeah!" Shen Qianchen smiled brightly and nodded vigorously. His eyes curved into a pair of crescents. Suddenly, he felt enlightened, as if a ray of morning light had cleared away the layers of fog.
It was the same in her previous life. Occasionally when she had distracting thoughts, felt lost, or was perplexed, the prince always saw things more clearly than she did. The prince was so kind.
"Prince, you are so kind!" Shen Qianchen said with a bright smile.
The last word ended in a low cry. Without warning, Gu Jue put one hand through her armpit and the other hand under her knees, picking her up horizontally.
"..." Shen Qianchen was picked up by him, with his feet hanging in the air. He curled up in his arms and dared not move at all, like a frightened cub.
Gu Jue easily held Shen Qianchen and sat down, letting her sit on his lap, and said with a smile: "I'm really all right!"
He has been carefully taking care of the wound for three months, but the girl is still worried that he will use too much force and hurt the wound.
She felt sorry for him, cared about him, and always considered him in everything.
He knows his little girl is the best!
Shen Qianchen snuggled obediently in Gu Jue's arms, hugged him gently, and buried his face in his chest.
She slowed down her speech and said softly, "Well, you're all right, Jiuxia!"
This simple sentence made her speak so movingly.
Her eyes were like the rippling spring water, and her heart was soft.
Gu Jue liked hearing her call his name. It was as if she had fed him a cup of warm honey water. His heart felt warm and sweet, very comfortable and happy. His beautiful eyes and brows were gentle and soft.
He wrapped his long arms around her slender waist, tightly, inserted his long fingers into her warm hair, and bent down to kiss her hair.
The two of them embraced each other for a while, and Shen Qianchen moved his body on his thighs, rubbing against each other and said: "I'm going out of the palace today to find my mother..."
She wanted to get off his legs, but he didn't let go. He held her waist tightly and told her to tighten it, not letting her get off.
His palms were so hot that they seemed to be ironing her skin through the thin spring shirt.
"It looks like it's going to rain soon..." he whispered in her ear.
Shen Qianchen turned his head and glanced out the window. The sky outside was dark, as if stained with a light ink color.
She said "hmm", and then he said, "Tomorrow... don't go out today."
He kept looking at her, his narrow eyes were deep and profound.
Boom boom! Gu Jue's words were obviously very ordinary, but for some reason, Shen Qianchen's heart was beating faster and faster, and an inexplicable thought popped up in his mind -
behave in a spoiled manner.
Is the prince acting like a spoiled child to her? Yes, with so many things going on recently, the prince must be very tired.
(End of this chapter)