After His Majesty was reborn, the poor little girl in his previous life was spoiled to death

The chime clock in Song Shoutang was going around in a circle, making a clanging sound.

Sitting at the top was a formally dressed woman in her fifties. Her skin was smooth, showing that she had always lived a life of luxury, but her hair was mostly white and was only held up by a gold emerald crown. She was Shen Chongyan's biological mother, the wife of the old Marquis of Xinyuan, Zhu.

The person who came in to answer was her personal maid Xiu Yu, but the old lady beckoned Ning'er to come forward, and the maid standing beside her hurriedly handed her a crystal lens.

The old lady took Ning'er's hand, looked at him carefully, turned to her son and asked, "Whose child is this?"

Shen Chongyan glanced outside the door, revealing a subtle displeasure. He turned to his mother, but his eyes were fixed on Ning'er, and asked with a smile, "Is she okay, mother?"

The old lady smiled and said, "He's a good child, but he's a little too weak."

Shen Chongyan said: "It is precisely because of your weak body that you need to take good care of yourself."

Before he finished speaking, a sweet laugh was heard, and two maids opened the curtains, revealing a lady no more than thirty years old, wearing a pomegranate red jacket with long sleeves and phoenix flowers, walking towards him slowly.

Luo Miaoyun glanced around, greeted her mother-in-law, and sat down on her husband's right hand side: "Since the Marquis returned home, he has not seen Miss Liu from the palace."

She emphasized the word "palace" and asked Bai Juan to lead people forward.

Liu Ying looked charming, but her behavior was very decent. She stood facing south, bowed solemnly in the direction of the imperial city, and said, "I am following the emperor's order to ask if Lord Xinyuan is doing well."

Shen Chongyan hurriedly stood up, bowed from a distance, and said respectfully: "Thanks to your majesty's grace, I have recovered from my illness. I kowtow to thank you for your great grace."

After the ceremony, Liu Ying performed the blessing ceremony in a proper manner: "Hello, old lady. Hello, Lord." Then she turned to Ning'er and said, "Hello, Miss."

The word "young lady" shocked everyone and made them look at each other in surprise. However, the old lady and the marquis did not say anything. The maids standing on the ground did not refute Liu Ying's reason.

Liu Ying ignored the others and left after she finished speaking.

Luo Miaoyun's face suddenly darkened, but she couldn't say it out loud. She just glanced at Ning'er standing beside the old lady and asked with a smile, "Whose family is this young lady next to mother? I've never seen her before?"

The old lady patted Ning'er's hand and said, "Go and greet your wife."

Ning'er stepped forward and bowed, thinking to herself, this is the Marquis's wife, the mistress of the Xinyuan Marquis's Mansion, and she is someone I should respect very much.

But she was not an eloquent person, so after paying her respects, she just stood aside quietly.

It was Shen Chongyan who called her, "Ning'er, sit down and talk." Then a maid immediately brought a brocade stool and placed it at the bottom.

Shen Chongyan said calmly, "I originally wanted to pay my respects to my mother first, and then tell my wife about it. Now that I'm here, I can talk about it all at once."

He looked at his mother seriously and told her the excuse he had planned:

"I have a close friend who lost his daughter a long time ago and never found her. Before he died, he asked me to look for her. Unexpectedly, while on duty for His Majesty this year, I accidentally found a family that had adopted a girl ten years ago. When I saw her face, I found that she was exactly like my close friend, and her birth month and date matched, so I knew she must be his daughter."

He smiled faintly, "That commoner had many children and it was difficult to raise them, so I gave them a reward and brought the child back. But the child was stranded among the common people when she was young, and her biological mother had passed away. My son was entrusted by someone, so I thought of taking her back home and raising her under her mother's lap."

Ning'er was stunned when she saw that the Marquis had made up a story about her life in just a few words without changing his expression. It sounded plausible.

She really didn't expect that the Marquis, who looked so serious and upright, could actually talk nonsense in such a serious manner. Ning'er was a little unbelievable, but also inexplicably found it funny.

She couldn't help but complain in her heart, is this considered "making friends out of nothing"?

The old lady on the other side believed it completely, and looked at her with a look of pity: "Poor little girl, no wonder you are so thin, I wonder how much you have suffered."

She added, "Your Majesty is right. Since it is a last-ditch entrustment from an old friend, we should not neglect it. Even if there are ten girls, we can afford to raise them. Just follow me from now on. I will never let them suffer any injustice."

Xinyuan Hou expressed his gratitude: "Thank you very much, mother."

He paused, and then said, "However, my friend has committed some crimes that cannot be publicized. I would like to ask my mother to choose an identity for her so that she can be announced in public."

In fact, there are many omissions in this rhetoric if you look closely. Old Madam Zhu is not a credulous person. It's just that the solemn and dignified image of Xinyuan Hou is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, so his words that were originally 50% credible became 100% credible.

Madam Zhu pondered for a while, then said, "What's the difficulty? Since it's inconvenient to talk about her origins, just raise her in our family and give her the surname Shen. Just tell others that she is your daughter who was raised outside and now she has returned to her ancestral home."

Shen Chongyan's heart skipped a beat when he heard this, but before he could open his mouth, he heard Luo Miaoyun hurriedly say:

"No!"

She explained hurriedly under the old lady's scrutinizing gaze, "Mother, our family is a well-known family in Shangjing City. Everyone in our good family knows that the Marquis is a very self-disciplined person. He would never keep a mistress, let alone let his own daughter wander around for more than ten years! If this is known by the nosy villains, they might report that the Marquis is an unkind father and has no moral integrity. Wouldn't this give the Marquis a bad reputation for nothing?"

As she spoke, she glanced at Ning'er with a smile, and then said, "What's more, Miss Ning'er has her own parents and relatives, and there may be a day when she will return to her ancestral home. The title of illegitimate daughter is not pleasant, but when the time comes for Miss Ning'er to discuss marriage, it will be a big deal if she misses the marriage."

Then she said in a tender voice: "Besides, how can mother bear to let outsiders think that her daughter-in-law is a jealous person, forcing the Marquis to raise his daughter away from home!"

The old lady also laughed at these words. She said to Shen Chongyan, "Miao Yun will be a grandmother in a few years, but she still has the temperament of a girl and is used to acting like a spoiled child."

"Forget it. What you said makes some sense. I'll argue with you."

Shen Chongyan watched coldly, but Luo Miaoyun's words made him think deeply. Because he had the opportunity to be reborn a second time, he was able to break free and understand the relationship between himself and Ning'er.

Ning'er did not look very similar to him, and she had been weak for many years, so even if there was some resemblance between them, it was concealed by her timidity.

But in his previous life, he was kept in the valley until the very end. Apart from being blind and deaf, he had never thought that he would have any bloodline lost outside.

He was not a womanizer, and he had never done anything like riding horses in Zhangtai or sleeping with willows or flowers. Apart from his wife, he only had two concubines before marriage, and a group of concubines that Luo Shi arranged for him after marriage—to give a decent appearance to the maidservants from Luo Shi's family who came with him as a dowry.

Shen Chongyan has always been very careful about his reputation and rarely gets drunk in public, so no matter what happened in his previous life, he never thought about it in this direction.

When he suddenly realized that he was reborn, he was so excited that he left home for more than ten days on impulse. Later, when he met Ning'er again, he felt even more worried, which he could not tell others.

But when he calmed down and thought about his past life again, he felt that the mystery was confusing and it seemed that there was an invisible hand manipulating everything behind the scenes, pushing them step by step into that tragic situation.

So when he pretended to be a friend, he was not making it up, but he was secretly worried that exposing Ning'er's life experience too early might bring her greater disaster.

Shen Chongyan smiled gently as he watched his mother order Xiu Yu to bring a box to give to Ning'er as a gift.

This is his good girl.

She should live a carefree and happy life.