After the violent wolf lord was reborn, he became sickly!

When Chang Hui saw that she was happy, he was also moved.

His eyes and eyebrows became more gentle.

Now that Xiao Linglang had a storybook to pass the time, not only did her appetite improve, but even her morning sickness disappeared without her noticing.

"Madam, the young master has brought some more cakes and pastries." Runiang put a few bags of cakes and dried fruits on the long table, turned around and said to Xiao Linglang.

Xiao Linglang raised her head from her book, glanced at the pile of cakes on the table, pondered for a moment, and asked, "Is he gone?"

"After putting these things down, I left." Runiang answered truthfully.

"If he comes again next time, Runiang, please invite him in. He has been bothering us like this all the time, it's time for him to have some tea." Xiao Linglang lowered her head and continued reading her book.

Ru Niang thought about it and nodded in agreement.

The master and servant were in the yard, each doing their own thing, very quietly.

Xing Qiu stood in the shadows, looking at the man with a ruddy face and full of energy, and gave a mocking smile.

A young lady who is young and inexperienced in the world, a canary kept in a cage.

She lowered her head, her eyes darkening, and the smile on her lips became more obvious as she thought of the things she had found out.

At night, Xiao Linglang went to bed a little later because she read an extra storybook.

After extinguishing the candle, she protected her stomach with one hand and groped her way to the bed with the other. Suddenly, the hair by her ears was blown up by the wind, and she felt a chill on her neck.

"You...what do you want to do?"

Xiao Linglang pretended to be calm, her body stiffened, and her voice still trembled slightly.

"Sigh~"

She felt a piercing pain in her neck, tears welled up in her eyes, and she couldn't help but let out a small hiss.

Xing Qiu's hand holding the sword was shaking a little. Hearing the other party's low cry, the sword deviated an inch, but it was still pressed against her neck.

The two were in a stalemate for a long time.

Xiao Linglang's palms were full of sweat. She didn't dare to move, for fear that if she moved a little bit, she would lose her life.

"You are... from Mobei? Sent by the Wolf Lord?"

The person behind her didn't answer her, but sneered with ridicule.

Xiao Linglang clenched her fists.

Then, another sigh was heard from behind.

Her ears moved.

She was somewhat familiar with this voice.

It’s...Xing Qiu.

"Ms. Xiao, you are so naive and silly, and quite pitiful."

Xing Qiu took back the sword and put it back into the scabbard.

"You gave up being his favorite concubine and came back to be his mistress, and possibly the mistress of his enemy who had exterminated his clan."

Concubine? Extermination of the clan?

Xiao Linglang was confused. "My marriage to Brother Chang Bei was fake. I was not his mistress. What you mean by exterminating the family is..."

Xing Qiu didn't respond to her. His eyes were locked on her coldly, and he interrupted her directly, "I thought he cared about you so much, but he was just trying to save face. Do you know that your brother Chang Pei married Princess Guangning three months ago? No, even earlier, he was involved with Guangning before the Xiao family was wiped out. Do you know why he didn't come back? Because he is sleeping on Princess Guangning's couch now."

In this long string of words, Xiao Linglang only heard "the Xiao family was wiped out".

There was a buzzing sound in my head and I couldn't even stand steadily.

"The Xiao family was wiped out?"

She didn't even know how she uttered those five bloody words.

Xing Qiu frowned, held Xiao Linglang's falling body, pinched her jaw, gave her a pill to preserve the pregnancy, pressed the acupuncture points on her back, and forced her to swallow it.

His words were still cold and sarcastic, "The Xiao Mansion in Lin'an was slaughtered by thieves. Overnight, only the mistress of the Xiao family was left."

Xiao Linglang's world went dark, and her hands tightly grasped Xing Qiu's arm.

Tuoba Jin lied to her and said that his mother and sisters were fine.

Xing Qiu's cold fingertips gently slid across her face, and when he heard her murmur, he sneered.

"Do you think it was Tuoba Jin who did it?"

"Ah!"

She pinched Xiao Linglang's face and looked into her eyes. "Are you listening to me, Miss Xiao?"

"Brother Chang Hui can't do that. He can't do that. The Xiao family treats him well. Even if he wants to be with the princess you mentioned, he can just cancel the engagement. The Xiao family can't force him to marry me, and it's even more impossible for me!" Xiao Linglang retorted with bloodshot eyes and sobs.

She seemed to remember something, and glared at Xing Qiu with gritted teeth, "You are lying to me, right? Xing Qiu, you are lying to me, just like you hid your pregnancy from me, you are playing tricks on me!"

Xing Qiu was furious. "I am kidding you. Haha, everyone in the whole Lin'an City knows that the once-popular mistress of the Xiao family almost stabbed the new champion to death and almost hurt the princess. If the champion hadn't remembered their old friendship and pleaded for her, asking the princess to let her go, she would have died. But your mother refused to appreciate it and called the new champion a scourge."

She looked at Xiao Linglang, and taking advantage of the moonlight to see her wary eyes, she opened her collar and pointed at the new scars on her body.

"I was going to kill you because he went back on his word and killed us to silence us. He also reported to Luosha Village to suppress the bandits. I, Xing Qiu, have always been vindictive. The above may be wrong, but Chang Hui is definitely not a good person to me."

Xiao Linglang's tearful eyes fell on Xing Qiu's body. The flesh-pink scars seemed to confirm her words.

"Oh, there's one more thing I forgot to mention." Xing Qiu closed his collar and said sarcastically, "If he doesn't come here, there's another place he can stay, the Prince Consort's Mansion. His mother is there too."

Xing Qiu leaned over and whispered Chang Hui's address word by word, then looked at the distraught Xiao Linglang with pity in the night.

With a knife move, he gently put the person back on the bed and turned to leave.

The next morning, Xiao Linglang sat up, touching her sore neck. She threw back the quilt, walked to the open window, and stood there in a daze for a long time.

Xing Qiu really came last night.

Looking at the footprints on the windowsill, Xiao Linglang retracted her gaze, lowered her head and gently stroked her bulging belly. Xing Qiu's words from yesterday played over and over in her mind.

She thought again of the letter her mother had sent her when she was in Mobei, which was full of determination.

I thought of Tuoba Jin again.

She paused. No... their words, Xiao Linglang covered her head. How could it be possible...

What about her mother? How is her mother?

……

"When will Brother Chang Hui come back?"

"Madam, I don't know either. When the young master finishes his official duties, he will definitely be eager to see you." Runiang replied with a smile.

"What does he... do every day?"

Xiao Linglang lay on the chair in front of the door without turning a page of the book in her hand.

The willow tree has sprouted new leaves. He said that he had inquired about his mother's fake marriage, but there has been no news of her whereabouts so far.

Concubine, destroy the whole family...

Xiao Linglang felt a lump of anger in her chest.

"Madam." Runiang scratched her head and smiled shyly, "I am a country woman and don't really understand what you do. I only know that you are an official."

"Oh." Xiao Linglang responded indifferently.

Runiang pursed her lips and stopped what she was doing. She felt that the lady didn't look very happy.

Miss you, sir?

She turned around and was about to say something to comfort him, but the other person's lips curled up slightly and his eyes were smiling.

Runiang silently withdrew her gaze.