The daughter of the first wife is a black lotus, reborn and remarried to kill

After a long delay, the two finally arrived at the palace after noon.

However, Emperor Hexi was busy with government affairs recently, and only the Empress and the Crown Prince and his wife received them.

The queen didn't seem to blame them for coming late. Instead, she was relieved when she saw Li Qingqian coming.

Smiling, he walked forward and took her hand, looking her up and down carefully, "Not bad, not bad, Qian looks really pretty and charming. It's really a good thing for this brat who has been a worry since childhood."

After saying that, he glanced at Shen Changyun with a reproachful look.

Li Qingqian bowed respectfully and said, "I am honored that the Queen has personally sent me to marry you. I have come to the palace to express my gratitude."

The Queen took her hand and asked her to sit down. "Why bother thanking me? Actually, from the first moment I saw you, I felt that you were worthy of my attention. Besides, you and Huairong get along well. In my heart, you are no different from my own daughter."

Li Qingqian just had a polite smile on her face and thanked him repeatedly.

She knew in her heart that the Queen was being approachable by saying this, but it would be disrespectful if she really admitted it as a matter of course.

Some things need to be done slowly and cannot be rushed.

"By the way, speaking of the Fifth Princess, why don't I see her today? I heard before the marriage that she and my wife have a very good relationship."

Shen Changyun said this, with a barely perceptible glimmer of pride in his eyes.

Jiang Huaijing and Crown Princess Lu Yunhan looked at each other, then smiled and said, "It's because she was happy about Aqian's wedding yesterday, so she drank a few more cups and hasn't woken up yet."

But in fact, it was because Jiang Huairong sent Zanyu, who was beside her, to inform the queen this morning that she was not feeling well and could not go out.

No one knows a daughter better than her mother. The Queen was well aware of Jiang Huairong’s thoughts.

She finally fell in love with a girl, who was a daughter of an important official in the dynasty.

The queen sighed in her heart. She had spoiled her daughter since she was a child, and she had always been in poor health. After learning about her daughter's thoughts, she didn't know how to persuade her. She could only turn a blind eye and let her pretend to be the seventh prince to get close to Li Qingqian.

Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun got married yesterday, and Huairong must have felt uncomfortable, so the Queen did not allow anyone to disturb her and even found an excuse for her.

Seeing the queen lowering her eyes slightly, Li Qingqian understood.

This morning, Jiang Huairong had someone send the dowry back to her. No matter how she tried to persuade them, they failed to take it back. She felt guilty and didn't know how to face the Fifth Princess.

During the time she was waiting to be married in the palace, Li Qingqian was not idle. While dealing with Jiang Huairong, she was also secretly searching for clues.

Finally, on the night before leaving the palace to see Shen Changyun, Jiang Huairong insisted on going to her room to sleep with her. It was while Jiang Huairong was taking a bath that he found evidence of her pretending to be the Seventh Prince in her room.

So everything made sense. It turned out that the reason why the Fifth Princess targeted Shen Changyun was because... she liked herself.

So at the New Year's Eve palace banquet, she invited me over to talk because she missed me.

And the painting she was talking about was not painted by the Seventh Prince, but by her.

The Seventh Prince died when he was five years old, so it was impossible for him to have seen himself who was four years younger than him. So the "Seventh Prince" she saw on the day Shen Changyun was conferred the title of Crown Prince was so thin because it was the Fifth Princess who was ill for many years in disguise.

Li Qingqian turned her head slightly and looked at Shen Changyun beside her.

He must have known about it, which is why he later fell out with the "Seventh Prince" and why he reacted so strongly when the Fifth Princess mentioned the phrase "Golden Sisterhood" at the New Year's Eve palace banquet.

But he didn't seem to intend to tell her the truth. If she hadn't discovered it herself, she would probably have been kept in the dark by him for the rest of her life.

But Shen Changyun is already her husband, and the most important thing between husband and wife is to be honest with each other.

He clearly knew that I was troubled by the matter between the Fifth Princess and the Seventh Prince, but he never told me the truth.

Li Qingqian felt helpless. She also couldn't confess to him about her rebirth. Could it be that they still couldn't completely trust each other?

The Queen kept the two men and had dinner with her, the Crown Prince and his wife in the palace.

It was already night when Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun got on the carriage back to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion.

Shen Changyun noticed that she was in a bad mood, so he asked with concern: "What's wrong, Qianqian?"

Li Qingqian raised her little face and smiled at him, "Husband, I love you."

Shen Changyun was slightly stunned, not understanding why she suddenly said this, but he was still very happy, "I know, I love you too, my wife."

Li Qingqian's eyes dimmed, and she threw herself into his arms, wrapping her arms around his thin waist, "But I feel like I haven't said enough. I love you, I love you..."

She kept repeating that she loved him, and Shen Changyun felt happy but also a little confused.

He knew that Qianqian was very good at loving people.

But she seemed to have always been reserved in her previous life, so how could she be so straightforward as she is now?

He also knew that Qianqian was reborn, so how could her personality change so drastically overnight?

Shen Changyun's hand, which was about to fall on Li Qingqian's waist, paused. Did she express her love to Jiang Lin so passionately before?

Then the hand fell on her lower back, stroking it gently.

So what? Qianqian loves herself now, and only herself.

*

When we returned to the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion, the Duke's wife had finally woken up and was feeding the fish in Qingyun Lake, where the ice and snow had just begun to melt.

The maid Caiwei beside her sighed helplessly and stepped forward to persuade her: "Madam, the Duke just told me to keep an eye on you before he left. The ice on the lake just melted not long ago. Don't stay there all the time. Be careful not to get cold air into your body."

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo rolled her eyes at her in annoyance, "Why do you listen to him so much? Besides, haven't Changyun and Aqian already gone to the palace to pay their respects to His Majesty and His Majesty? Who else in this mansion can control me?"

Caiwei muttered, "You are like this every time. You are obviously not feeling well, but you don't listen to me..."

"What are you mumbling about?"

"nothing."

Li Qingqian glanced at Shen Changyun, who had a dark face, and said with some amusement and helplessness, "Mother-in-law."

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo paused, then slowly turned around and smiled awkwardly at the two of them, "You two are back?"

When she saw Shen Changyun looking at her unhappily again, she quickly stuffed the thing in her hand into Caiwei's hand, looking like someone who had been caught doing something bad.

"Hey, Changyun, why do you look so unhappy? Did your uncle scold you?" The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo patted her chest and said, "Don't be afraid. Mother will go to the palace to support you right away."

Shen Changyun sighed helplessly, walked forward and helped her walk to the shore, "The palace gate has been locked, what are you going to do now? You'd better not cause trouble to your uncle."

When the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo heard this, she quickly pulled her hand away and said, "How dare you talk to your mother like that, you little brat?"

After saying that, he took Li Qingqian's hand and walked towards the main hall, "Aren't you two going to serve me tea? Hurry up and do this, I'm going back to sleep."

"Sleeping again? Didn't you say you just woke up?" Li Qingqian was a little worried.

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo shrugged. "If it's any later, your father will be back, and I don't want to face him."

Li Qingqian turned around and looked at Shen Changyun in confusion, but he just shook his head gently at her.

It seems that the relationship between the Duke of Zhenguo and his wife is not very good.

"Daughter-in-law Li Qingqian, serve tea to mother-in-law."

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo took the tea offered to her with both hands and asked her to sit down with a smile.

"I don't have a daughter. Your mother and I used to have a good relationship. If you don't mind, you can just call me mother."

Dawei respects women's wishes. If a woman gets married, she can call her husband's mother "mother-in-law" and only call her own mother "mother".

But Li Qingqian's biological mother died young, and she didn't want to call Liu that, so she didn't act pretentiously and openly called the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo: "Mother."

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo liked her, and she kept Li Qingqian and Shen Changyun in the room to talk for a long time.

It was not until Caiwei came to report that the Duke of Zhenguo had returned that the smile on the Duke of Zhenguo's wife's face suddenly faded. She then stood up and walked towards the inner room, "I'm a little tired, so I'll go take a rest first. Changyun, you and Aqian go back."

The two of them bowed to the wife of the Duke of Zhenguo, and Shen Changyun took Li Qingqian's hand and quickened their pace towards their Mozhu Courtyard.

Only after returning to the room and closing the door did Li Qingqian curiously ask Shen Changyun: "Why does mother seem to hate the Duke so much?"

Shen Changyun sighed, pulled her to sit next to him, and then told her everything.

The Duke of Zhenguo and his wife, like the Crown Prince and his wife, were a young couple.

The wife of the Duke of Zhenguo was originally the youngest lady in the palace, only a few years older than the crown prince.

Your Majesty today is the son of the Empress Dowager of the late Emperor. When the Empress Dowager of the late Emperor committed a mistake, Emperor Hexi, who was the Crown Prince, was also disliked by the late Emperor.

At that time, only Concubine Yun's daughter, now known as ***, would often come to the East Palace to make him happy. She was the only warmth that Emperor Hexi enjoyed before he ascended the throne.

The favorite concubine who was beaten to death by Empress Yuan was originally sent from Beiyuan to seduce the late emperor. Concubine Yun had a good relationship with Empress Yuan, so she went to plead for her.

But the bewitched late emperor would not listen to other concubines criticizing the favorite concubine, and in a fit of rage he even rejected Concubine Yun, who used to be in love with him. He even betrothed his daughter, who was to become a marriage mate, to a down-and-out nobleman at the time, who is now the Duke of Zhenguo.