Reborn Princess

Liu Chun stood there in a daze.

Shen Lilan said in a cold voice: "I have your indenture, but you are working for others."

"Liuchun, do you know how many times I can kill you for these crimes?"

Liuchun knelt and crawled towards Shen Yanlan but was stopped by the servants: "Madam, please spare me, please spare me."

"Let you go? Why should I let you go? You are such a traitor."

Liu Chun shook her head and begged for mercy: "My Lady, I will tell you everything I know. Please forgive me."

Shen Xuanlan did not speak. Liuchun felt the cold atmosphere around her. She said in a trembling voice, "The second branch of the Shen family has private contact with King Xuan."

Shen Yanlan glanced at her and said, "Now that you've said all this, how are you going to explain it to your other master?"

Liu Chun said: "If the old lady hadn't held on to my mother's indenture and threatened me with her life, I wouldn't have done this."

Shen Lilan sneered: "Really? Don't you still want to be the prince's woman?"

After these words were spoken, Birui, Lu Nong and Chao Yun frowned and looked at each other.

Lu Nong whispered, "You are such a shameless person. The queen didn't give you anything delicious to eat and drink, but you raised a maid like you."

Shen Xuanlan glanced around and asked all the servants to leave, leaving only four personal maids.

"I...I don't have it." Liu Chun hurriedly made amends.

Shen Yanlan said calmly: "You have your own thoughts and I can't control you, but you have set your sights on my people, so I have to control you."

"I can't tolerate any grain of sand in my eyes."

"Yes, the prince is tall and handsome, and he is a powerful and influential noble in the capital. I don't mind if you have a crush on him, but I am disgusted by the shameless means you use to achieve your goal."

"Liuchun doesn't dare anymore, my queen..." Liuchun kowtowed and begged for mercy.

Shen Lilan looked at her coldly: "Are you in love with the prince, or with the powerful? Tell me."

Liu Chun continued to kowtow and said, "I am a lowly servant. I dare not, I dare not..."

"If I let you be Shen Jing's person, what do you think?"

Liuchun didn't understand what Shen Lilan meant. Shen Lilan said, "Go to the Shen Mansion and give me all the information I want. I will guarantee your mother and your wealth. How about that?"

Liuchun didn't say anything, but Shen Lilan knew that she was thinking about it.

"You have only this one choice, or I will beat you to death and throw you into a mass grave, and your mother will die too."

"Oh my go!" Liu Chun said.

"Okay." Shen Yanlan said, "Do you know how to do it?"

Liuchun shook his head.

"You don't need to do anything else. Just go back to the old lady and report my actions to her as before. I will help you later. It depends on whether you can win Shen Jing's heart."

……

After Zhou Cechen finished arranging the Xinjiang border defense map in the study and rolled up the map, he asked Yanci beside him, "You have met the shopkeeper of Wansanglou twice. What is so special about her?"

Yanci didn't expect the prince to ask him this question. After thinking for a while, he said, "Her identity is unknown, there must be someone behind her."

Zhou Cechen nodded: "We always get the most important news from her, neither too early nor too late. Do you think the person behind her is an enemy or a friend?"

He was having trouble finding words, and after thinking of Fu Zhen's smiling face, he said, "I don't know."

Zhou Cechen didn't say anything. He glanced at the clepsydra and asked, "Is the princess awake?"

Yanci: "Just now Miss Birui came to report that the queen had gotten up, but went to the back door."

Zhou Cechen was silent for a moment and then asked, "She went out?"

Yanci shook his head: "No, he is at the back door, and he seems to be interrogating a maid."

Zhou Cechen nodded, "In the past two months, have you felt that the princess is different from before?"

Yanci was stunned again, and he didn't know how to answer any of today's questions.

“It seems a little.”

"Only a little?"

Yanci coughed lightly and said, "Your Highness and the Prince have become closer. I also feel that your Highness is becoming more and more like the Prince in terms of the tone of your voice and the way you do things."

Zhou Cechen seemed very satisfied with this answer. He stood up and said, "Let's go see the princess."

The words were exhaled behind him, and speaking really took a lot of brains.

Zhou Cechen bumped into Shen Lilan just as he reached the doorway at the end of the corridor.

As soon as Shen Lilan looked up, she saw Zhou Cechen. The scenes from last night reappeared in her mind, including his voice.

"Your Highness." Shen Yanlan called him.

"Is it done?"

Shen Lilan nodded.

Zhou Cechen looked at the person following her and then looked at Shen Lilan: "I happen to have nothing to do today, do you want to go for a walk?"

Shen Yanlan nodded: "Okay."

……

The weather in Yanjing City has not warmed up completely since the beginning of spring, so Zhou Cechen put a cloak on Shen Xilan before she left the house.

"We agreed to go check out your jewelry yesterday."

Shen Lilan frowned: "I didn't agree."

Zhou Cechen nodded: "You really didn't agree?"

Shen Lilan turned his head away from looking at him, and the next thing he saw was Wang Yunnan coming towards him.

Shen Lilan's face immediately turned dark, but he still had to keep smiling.

"Your servant greets King Ding'an." Wang Yunnan walked slowly over to pay his respects to Zhou Cechen.

Shen Xilan was about to pull her hand away from Zhou Cechen, but Zhou Cechen exerted force and held her hand tightly.

Shen Xilan thought Zhou Cechen would at least respond with a "stand up", but Zhou Cechen just held her hand and walked past her.

Upon seeing this, Wang Yunnan immediately pulled up her skirt on both sides and ran after Zhou Cechen: "Brother Jinzhi."

When Shen Xilan heard someone behind her calling Zhou Cechen in a sweet voice, she curled her lips and sneered.

"Brother Jinzhi, don't you remember Yunnan? We grew up together."

"Yunnan remembers exactly what Brother Jinzhi likes and dislikes."

Zhou Cechen frowned and said to Yanci in a cold voice, "Get rid of it."

After receiving the order from his master, Yanci stopped Wang Yunnan and said, "Miss, please stay. Our prince doesn't recognize you."

Wang Yunnan was not annoyed. She took out a jade ring from her sleeve and said, "This belongs to Brother Jinzhi. Please give it to Brother Jinzhi."

Yanci didn't want to respond, but Wang Yunnan simply put the jade ring in his hand and ran away.

"The prince is truly elegant and graceful. Everyone who sees him will fall in love with him." Shen Lilan said.

Zhou Cechen lowered his eyes to look at her: "Princess, too?"

Shen Lilan really didn't expect Zhou Cechen to ask her such a question.

"No."

After saying that, Shen Lilan was ready to run away, but his hand was held in Zhou Cechen's hand. How could Shen Lilan run away with such great strength?

"Really?"

Shen Lilan looked away without answering.

"But I only admire the princess."

When Zhou Cechen's gentle voice fell, Shen Xilan was stunned. She looked at Zhou Cechen.

"I didn't know that the prince would openly say he loves me."

Shen Lilan had never heard him say love in her previous life, and the same was true for her. It seemed that their love could never be expressed in words.

But this life is different.