After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Outside the Moon Cave Gate, under an oil-paper umbrella, a woman stood there with her back straight. She had a face that looked exactly like Xu Chengjin's, but her temperament was completely different. She was more charming, more seductive, and also... more resentful.

She raised her chin slightly, but her eyebrows drooped slightly. Her eyes fell on the wine jar in Xu Chengjin's hand. She smiled meaningfully, "I thought you would never come back." She spoke with the gracefulness of a Jiangnan woman. She was wearing a red dress and had exquisite makeup, but there was a bit of suppressed madness for no reason.

Mrs. Xu likes to wear red clothes, and it must be bright red. She has an almost pathological obsession with the color red, as if she wants to use it to prove her unshakable status as the first wife in this colorful back garden.

Xu Chengjin glanced at her with complicated eyes, "Take this last jar of wine and never come again. Take care of yourself, Madam Xu."

He was holding a wine jar in one hand and an oil-paper umbrella in the other. When they passed each other, the other party suddenly raised his hand and knocked the oil-paper umbrella to the ground. The rain poured down on his head. Xu Chengjin closed his eyes subconsciously.

Madam Xu pursed her lips tightly, staring at Xu Chengjin, whose expression didn't change at all, and said coldly, "Okay, very good... You've grown wings, and I, as your mother, can't order you around anymore. I can't even ask you to have a meal with me. That's right... I heard that Master Xu is now a popular figure in front of the Imperial Hospital, and is also on good terms with Lord Song of the Northern Pacification Office. Naturally, he looks down on the Xu family that gave birth to him and raised him."

The rain on an autumn night pours down on my head, freezing me to the bone.

Xu Chengjin stood still inside the door, and did not pick up the umbrella. He lowered his head and smiled softly, with a sarcastic and cold smile, "Eat? Madam Xu's food is not that delicious... Why did you ask me to eat recently? Is it to send your son to the bed of a girl of marriageable age in Shengjing?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" The other party glared at her, with suppressed madness on her delicately made-up face. She questioned the other party almost at the top of her lungs, "Look at how old you are now? Shouldn't you get married and have children? Apart from me as a mother, who else will worry about your marriage? Your father who wishes he could die in the land of comfort?!"

She has always been like this. Under her gentle appearance, it seems like there is a crazy, paranoid and resentful woman hiding, as if everyone has treated her unfairly.

Xu Chengjin had seen it too many times, and he had long been accustomed to it and numb. He spat out the rain that had flowed into his mouth, hugged his arms and pulled the corners of his mouth into a sly smile, "Why? After the master of shaman dance broke the feng shui situation, your stomach was still not moving, so you turned your mind to me, wanting an obedient and well-behaved grandson to consolidate your position and win over your man?"

As soon as he finished speaking, there was a slap, and the palm that had been clenched and unclenched, and loosened and clenched again finally landed on the other person's face.

There was a burning pain on my cheek.

The tip of his tongue touched that cheek, and Xu Chengjin smiled instead of getting angry. He slightly raised his head and looked at the woman opposite him who had just slapped him but whose eyes were still flickering and flustered... his mother. Over the years, he always thought that compared to those children who were abandoned at birth, he was still lucky. After all, he was still born in "expectation". This crazy and naive woman once expected to tie a man's heart with this child.

But it was obvious that she was wrong. This child was not smart enough, not well-behaved enough, not lovable enough... So, what followed was the anger and resentment that intensified after the disappointment. An unsatisfactory homework, an unpleasant expression, could lead to a beating... He was used to such slaps.

Mrs. Xu was terrified. "Why are you looking at me like that?! Am I wrong? Shouldn't you marry, have children, and inherit the family business?"

"Mother." Xu Chengjin took a step forward, leaned over slightly, and whispered softly into her ears, "Do you think that your son, who grew up in such an environment, will be able to marry and have children in this life? Today, I, your son, will officially inform you that I am destined to be alone in this life!"

He didn't seem to be sad at all when he said this, and even smiled cheerfully, "As for the family business, I think you should try your best to have another legitimate son... Otherwise, not to mention the Xu family business, even your position as the principal wife will be shaky. I heard that he recently got a new love, who seems to be a foreign dancer. He loves her very much and has a good time every night. Who knows, if she persuades you, your position as the principal wife will be lost..."

After saying that, he slightly turned his body, passed by her, and shook the peach blossom wine in his hand, "Take care, Madam Xu."

He did not even glance behind him. He just tilted his head back in the rain, dangling the wine jar in his hand as he walked lazily to the front door of the Xu family. He happened to see Xu's father holding the exotic dancer's waist and walking up the stairs as if no one was around. Seeing his own son, he recognized him and casually greeted him, "Why are you here?"

Look, Mrs. Xu said "come back", while his biological father said "come here".

Xu Chengjin didn't care. He shook the jar of wine in his hand and said bluntly, "I buried the peach blossom wine in the yard that year. Now I remember it and come to dig it up."

"Have you had dinner?" Without waiting for his answer, Xu's father said, "If you have time recently, come and have dinner with your mother. Her temper has become worse and worse, so you should coax her." After saying that, he frowned, looking quite tired.

The exotic dancer next to him was wearing thin clothes, and the autumn wind had given her goose bumps on her waist. She complained softly that she was cold and urged him to go back, without even glancing at Xu Chengjin, the legitimate son.

Father Xu immediately threw his first wife and legitimate son aside, and went back home to embrace his new love. Xu Chengjin couldn't help but ask coldly, "Why is she like this? Don't you really know? Don't you know who she wants to coax? Over the years, even though she has made many mistakes, she has been pregnant for ten months, given birth to your children, and managed the inner court. Even if she has no merits, she has worked hard. Can't you... go see her once in a while?"

"No." Father Xu stopped but did not turn around. His voice lacked the former elegance and was filled with hatred. "The day she planned to marry me, she should have thought that this would be the outcome." After saying this, as if his interest was disturbed, he pushed the dancer in his arms away and walked into the mansion by himself.

Xu Chengjin stood at the door with his eyes closed. The doorman carefully handed him an oil-paper umbrella, but he didn't take it. He walked into the heavy rain with a cold expression... He was born in such a hell. Everyone here was either crazy or sick. How could he drag his beloved girl in here and waste her time growing old?