Shen Tangning looked up and smiled, her eyes crinkling: "We'll eat and live together, sharing joys and sorrows with my husband."
Chi Yan pointed to the fruits and snacks being served in front of her, his hand trembling, and said incredulously, "You call this sharing joys and sorrows?"
Shen Tangning thought for a moment, then hesitated before correcting herself: "I am happy, but you are suffering."
This is outrageous!
Chi Yan flung his sleeves and stormed out, dragging out his words in a pitiful tone: "Mother~"
Shen Tangning slowly picked up a piece of pastry and put it in her mouth.
A short while later, Chi Yan returned looking dejected, clearly having been turned away by Madam Chi.
He sat down in front of Shen Tangning, his face solemn: "Madam, to be honest, the fortune teller said that I am not destined for officialdom, and even if I take the exam a hundred times, I will not pass!"
Shen Tangning nodded thoughtfully: "Then let's try it out one hundred times first."
Chi Yan: "..."
Does this mean he has to take the exam in his next life?
He changed his strategy and lay down peacefully on the ground: "Madam, you don't know this, but I once had a dream that I could not study or enter officialdom, otherwise my family would be in turmoil, and I would die young!"
Shen Tangning glanced at him lightly: "Then die. I'll take care of burying you."
They can come up with any kind of nonsense.
"..."
Indeed, the most poisonous heart is that of a woman!
Chi Yan got up from the ground, but after stammering for a long time, he couldn't utter a single word.
He stormed back to his desk, picked up a book, and started reading, secretly thinking, "In a couple of days, I'll show her what it means to be hopelessly rotten!"
"My husband, you'd better put in the effort and don't try to fool me with your pretense," Shen Tangning gently reminded him, a smile playing on her lips. "I'll be checking on you later."
Chi Yan: "..."
Seeing that he had gradually calmed down, Shen Tangning immersed herself in her own world.
She sorted through the posts she had recently received, glancing at them one by one with her eyes downcast.
When she was still a young woman, she painstakingly cultivated her reputation, but her sharpness made her too sharp and she made many enemies.
Now that her marriage has become a laughing stock, many people are waiting to see her make a fool of herself.
She picked out a few unimportant posts and tossed them aside, only glancing at the two she kept.
One was a visiting card from her close friend Wen Yao. She also had close friends in her youth, but after getting married, she devoted herself to managing the Marquis's mansion, and their relationship gradually faded.
It felt like a lifetime ago; she hadn't seen them for a long time.
Another post was about Princess Yun'an. Princess Yun'an was the daughter of Consort Li, who was favored by the empress. Princess Yun'an was bound to be unable to refuse Consort Li's advances.
Shen Tangning asked Xueqing to accept the two invitations and began to think them over carefully.
Because of the struggle for the crown prince, Consort Li and the Empress were at odds, and Princess Yun'an naturally disliked her as well as the Empress's niece.
Princess Yun'an's invitation to the flower-viewing banquet was certainly not out of kindness; it was more likely an attempt to mock and ridicule her.
She was certain that Shen Xiwei had also received the same invitation, and she knew without a doubt how boring the banquet would be.
Having been reborn, Shen Tangning had absolutely no interest in the petty squabbles and intrigues typical of young women.
However, another incident she overheard at the flower-viewing banquet in her previous life stirred her interest.
She thought about it for a moment, her eyes flashed, and she smiled.
Chi Yan was getting impatient with memorizing his lessons and was biting his pen to kill time when he looked up and saw Shen Tangning's appearance, which made him shiver.
Who is she plotting against now?
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