In the previous life, she was fed to dogs by her elder sister, and she was reborn to seek revenge

Amid Lin Shan's repeated shouts of disappointment, Lin Shan and Lin Qingye finally arrived at the west wing of Nan Mingyu's courtyard.

As soon as Lin Qingye opened the gate of the courtyard, Lin Shan smelled a strong aroma of medicinal herbs. The air was filled with the smell of herbs, mixed with a hint of the bitter taste of boiled herbs.

Lin Shan couldn't help but frown. He walked to the yard and stopped, feeling a little uneasy and not daring to go forward.

At this moment, Lin Qing had also walked to the door of the room. She turned around and found that Lin Shan, who was full of energy and scolding her just now, was now standing in the yard at a loss, motionless, like a child who had done something wrong.

Seeing this, Lin Qing quickly walked up to Lin Shan and said, "Daddy, please go in and see my little girl!"

Lin Shan cleared his throat and asked cautiously, "Is your...your...mother...okay?"

Lin Qing, who was standing in the dark, said expressionlessly, "Dad is here now, why don't we go in and take a look and we'll know."

After hearing this, Lin Shan didn't know what to say anymore, so he had to bite the bullet and follow Lin Qingyao into Nan Mingyu's room.

As soon as he entered the inner room, the strong bitter smell of medicine became more obvious. Lin Shan couldn't help but cover his nose and walked to Nan Mingyu's bed.

Nan Mingyu was seen lying on the bed with his eyes closed. He looked emaciated and bloodless, and his cheeks and eye sockets were deeply sunken.

Lin Shan's heart skipped a beat when he saw this. He sat down quietly in front of Nan Mingyu's bed. Just as he was about to reach out to touch Nan Mingyu's hand, he suddenly seemed to remember something. He took his hands and blew into them, then touched his neck. Only then did he feel at ease and reached into the quilt to hold Nan Mingyu's hand.

When Lin Shan touched Nan Mingyu's bony palm, he felt mixed emotions. He wanted to say something, but was afraid of knowing something he didn't want to know.

He opened and closed his mouth for a long time before he managed to utter, "You all go down, let me be alone with her for a while."

After everyone in the room left, Lin Shan finally couldn't help crying. Looking at Nan Mingyu's now extremely thin face, he couldn't help but recall the first time he met Nan Mingyu.

At that time, he was not married yet and was still studying in Sifang Pavilion. One day, Sifang Pavilion organized an outing to study and paint, and they came to a suburban area, but in order to paint unique paintings, he deliberately left the team to look for better scenery.

Lin Shan finally found a place next to a stream. Next to the stream grew a peculiarly shaped crooked tree. The tree was covered with various plants with flowers of different colors, which gave the tree a strange beauty.

Lin Shan immediately found a secluded corner in the stream opposite the crooked tree as his home.

Just as he was concentrating on depicting the crooked tree, a young girl broke into the scene, carrying a large backpack filled with various unknown flowers and plants.

The girl was wearing clothes that were not suitable for the season. It was already spring, but she was still wearing a thick coarse cloth coat. The shoes on her feet were also worn out. However, she laughed so freely. When she saw the stream, she couldn't wait to take off her shoes and ran towards the stream with a smile.

The girl had silky black hair. She was playing happily by the stream. When she washed the dirt off her face with the stream water, a beautiful face was revealed, especially her deep eyes, which looked like the talking stars in the sky under the sunlight.

From then on, the girl's face was deeply imprinted in Lin Shan's mind and could not be erased for a long time. The girl was none other than Nan Mingyu who had come out with Doctor Bai to collect herbs at that time.

Lin Shan always regretted that he didn't have the courage to talk to the girl at that time. He went to the stream countless times and stayed under the crooked tree for a whole day, but he never met the girl again.

From then on, the girl became an obsession in Lin Shan's heart, until he got married and had children according to the routine. On the night of his first wedding, he got himself drunk. When he returned to the bridal chamber, he looked at the bride in her wedding dress and bright red veil, and the girl's gorgeous face still emerged in his mind. However, he didn't even know her name.

Soon after, Lin Shan inherited his father's title. His experience in officialdom made him a man who was good at getting along with everyone. He married a beautiful concubine and had his first son. However, he often thought of the bright and beautiful girl with the crooked neck by the stream that day.

Soon his family arranged to marry him another concubine. On the wedding day, he still numbly got himself drunk. He came to the bridal chamber drunkenly and lifted the veil step by step.

The face that appeared before Lin Shan's eyes was the one he had been thinking about day and night. The person in front of him was the bright and beautiful girl from that day, but she had grown up now. Although her facial features were no longer as lively as before, her beauty was even more aggressive.

Lin Shan looked at the face in front of him that he had been thinking about day and night, and couldn't help but think that it was an illusion caused by drinking too much. He stared at Nan Mingyu blankly, smiled embarrassedly, and couldn't help but ask the question that he had already rehearsed in his mind countless times.

"May I ask... your name, young lady?"

Nan Mingyu, who was a little nervous at the time, was immediately amused by Lin Shan's incoherent question of asking the girl's name.

Nan Mingyu looked at the shy man in front of her, who was not as majestic as her father at all. She finally let go of the worry that had been hanging in her heart.

Before getting married, she had always wondered what the man she was going to marry would look like. She heard that he was a marquis, and she had always worried that he might be as majestic and rigid as her father.

That night was the most beautiful night in Lin Shan's life. He had never thought that he would really meet that girl again one day, let alone marry her. For the first time, Lin Shan knew what it felt like to have a dream come true, but he had never told Nan Mingyu about it.

After Nan Mingyu entered the mansion, Lin Shan would run to Nan Mingyu's yard after court every day. Many times he even forgot to pay his respects to the old lady. He stayed with Nan Mingyu day and night, and even when Nan Mingyu was fiddling with herbs in the yard, he would move a small stool and sit beside her to watch.

Those days were the happiest days for Lin Shan. His feelings for Nan Mingyu grew deeper and deeper. Often when Nan Mingyu fell asleep, Lin Shan would secretly look at Nan Mingyu in the candlelight that had not yet burned out.

At that time, he often felt that he owed Nan Mingyu. It was too unfair for Nan Mingyu to be his concubine. He didn't want her to be his concubine. He wanted to marry her in a formal ceremony and bring her home in a sedan chair. He wanted her to be his wife, to sleep with her and grow old with her, and to be with her for the rest of his life.