Reborn Princess

A trace of loneliness flashed across Zhou Cechen's eyes.

"My heart is filled with love." I am worried that you don't know.

He looked at the person in front of him with increasingly deep eyes.

"Say"

"Say you love me." Shen Lilan held Zhou Cechen's face with both hands.

The room was very quiet, and the candlelight on the candlestick flickered.

When Shen Lilan's eyes were dazed and dark, a warm "I love you" fell into her ears.

Shen Lilan raised his head and his eyes lit up.

He said he loved her, a love that he had never expressed in his previous life.

For some reason, Shen Lilan started crying again. She sobbed and hugged Zhou Cechen's neck, burying her head in his neck.

Zhou Cechen's heart was beating strongly and quickly at this moment.

I love you, he had said it in his heart countless times, and now he actually said it out loud after Shen Lilan got drunk.

Zhou Cechen felt the wet heat on his neck, and he gently patted Shen Lilan's thin back.

She was so thin and small sitting in his arms. Zhou Cechen coaxed her to lift her face up, with her hair sticking to her cheeks. Zhou Cechen pinned it behind Shen Xilan's ear and reached out to wipe away her tears with his fingertips.

Zhou Cechen lowered his head and gently pecked the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Stop crying, okay?" he said.

Shen Lilan looked at him first, then turned her gaze to the window. "It's snowing," she said.

Zhou Cechen paused for a moment and followed her gaze to look out the window. The moonlight shone through the paper-pasted window lattice, illuminating the heavy snow falling outside the window.

"Let's go see the snow, okay?" Shen Xilan buried his face in Zhou Cechen's clothes and rubbed it.

Zhou Cechen's Adam's apple rolled, "Okay."

Zhou Cechen stood up holding Shen Lilan and walked to the window to open it. Shen Lilan struggled to get down.

After putting Shen Lilan down, she ran to the door and opened it.

In an instant, the cold wind and snow blew into the house, and the candlelight flickered as if cheering and jumping.

Shen Xilan's clothes were blown by the wind, and her hair was blown up. She looked back at Zhou Cechen.

Zhou Cechen was stunned.

She was like a fairy from the sky who had fallen to the earth, and her glance was enough to make people fall in love with her.

In the snow, Shen Xilan looked up at the falling snow. She reached out to catch it, but it melted in her palm as soon as she caught it. She frowned.

Zhou Cechen followed her, watching her cheering in the snow and being distressed because of the melting snow.

Shen Xilan looked up to look for Zhou Cechen. She turned around and saw Zhou Cechen behind her and ran towards him again.

"Achen, hug me." Her voice was soft.

Zhou Cechen hugged her, and the two of them were in the snow, with their hair turned white by the snow.

If they were exposed to the snow together, they would be together for the rest of their lives.

Shen Lilan was dreaming again. She dreamed that she was in an endless snowfield. She was shivering with cold but didn't know how to walk out.

It's fear, loneliness, confusion...

Until she saw a man in black in the snow. He walked towards her and tried to hold her hand. When she was about to see his face clearly, she woke up from the dream.

As soon as she opened her eyes, she went to look for Zhou Cechen, but the bedding beside her was cold.

Shen Xilan propped herself up on the bed and rubbed her temples. She was so drunk after just drinking a bowl of wine last night.

She sat on the bed in a daze. She had not forgotten anything from last night.

Zhou Cechen said to her, "I love you." She remembered it clearly.

But later she forgot how she got back to the bed from the snow. It was probably Zhou Cechen who carried her back.

Shen Lilan buried his face in the quilt.

When Zhou Cechen came in, he saw Shen Lilan just sat up and then lay down again.

"Are you feeling uncomfortable?" Zhou Cechen asked her while sitting beside the bed.

Shen Yanlan looked up after hearing the voice and said, "My head hurts a bit."

Seeing that her whole body was outside the quilt, Zhou Cechen reached out to pick her up, covered her with the quilt, and pressed her temples.

Shen Lilan closed his eyes and let him serve him.

Both of them looked very calm, as if nothing had happened yesterday.

"Yesterday..." Shen Lilan was struggling with how to start.

Zhou Cechen curled his lips slightly, "I didn't expect the princess to have such a low alcohol tolerance."

Shen Yanlan felt somewhat annoyed and somewhat relieved.

When I was drunk, I did everything I dared not to do.

Shen Lilan's words yesterday made Zhou Cechen's love for Shen Lilan even more obvious.

She is no longer afraid of herself and no longer runs away.

"We have to go back to the general's mansion today." Zhou Cechen said.

Shen Lilan remembered that today was the first day of the Lunar New Year.

"When I returned home a few days ago, my mother said that Yuan Zhengri would not return to the General's Mansion. My mother and father would go to the Duke's Mansion. You should go with me."

"Okay." Zhou Cechen answered her.

In the carriage, Shen Xilan sat there with a lack of interest, looking at the street scene outside in confusion.

She slept too late last night and went through a lot of things, so she was really tired.

Zhou Cechen saw Shen Lilan's head shaking, so he put his arms around Shen Lilan's waist, picked her up and put her on his lap.

Shen Xilan suddenly woke up, and she was so scared that she hugged Zhou Cechen's neck.

"Get some sleep," he said.

How could Shen Lilan fall asleep sitting like this?

She just felt it was extremely ambiguous.

It was never like this before. Even when sitting next to him, I would carefully hold his hand. I don’t know when the two of them started to get closer.

Zhou Cechen looked down and saw her staring at him. He hugged Shen Lilan tighter and said, "Sleep well."

She originally thought she would not be able to sleep, but for some reason, after smelling the refreshing scent of cypress and pine on Zhou Cechen's body, she actually fell asleep.

He held me all the way.

When she woke up again, it was Zhou Cechen calling her. Shen Xilan opened her eyes and saw that Zhou Cechen was still holding her. She turned away from Zhou Cechen's eyes that were looking at her.

It was Zhou Cechen who carried her down from the carriage. Standing at the gate of the Duke's Mansion and looking at the plaque, Shen Xilan sniffed. In her previous life, the Duke's Mansion was also implicated and eventually declined.

She would never let such a thing happen again in her life.

The butler was standing at the gate of the Duke's Mansion, waiting for someone to come. When he saw Shen Xilan, he hurried to greet him.

"This old servant pays respect to Prince Ding'an and Princess Ding'an."

Shen Yanlan exempted him from the gift.

"The general and the young lady are already chatting with the Duke and his wife in the reception room. Please come in, Your Majesty and Princess."

The two followed the butler all the way to the reception room of the Duke's Mansion. Duke Li came from a family of scholars, and the overall layout of the Duke's Mansion was simple and elegant, low-key and full of connotation.

On the way, Shen Yanlan took Zhou Cechen's hand and shook it, "Don't worry, grandpa and grandma are both fine."

She was comforting him.

Arriving at the reception room, Shen Lilan saw from afar his grandmother, mother, and aunts and uncles drinking tea and chatting.

"My grandmother Jin'an, my mother, my aunt Ci'an, and my sister Zhuang'an."

Shen Xilan greeted everyone one by one. His words and actions were extremely standard and there was no fault to be found.

"Okay, okay, come here." The old Duke's wife's voice was filled with age and aging.

When Shen Lilan came forward, the old lady of the Duke held her hand and said, "Let grandma take a look. You have lost weight in the past few months."

"The grandmother only knows how to make her granddaughter happy, but she hasn't lost weight."