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

It was when Yuan Ge stepped into the gate of the Earl's Mansion that she remembered her cousin whom she had forgotten about. Although she felt annoyed, she was not overly worried. She just casually asked the doorman whether he had seen her cousin return home.

The doorman shook his head and said no, so Yuan Ge didn't care. He just thought that Wang Shanshan had gone somewhere to buy something. After all, he had just cut off her financial resources from Song Wenyuan, so Wang would have to take out some money to appease the bullied child... In the eyes of Yuan Ge, who was already eighteen years old at that time, the cousin who had not yet reached the age of marriage was indeed just a child.

Regardless of the means or the mentality.

Yuan Ge didn't know at this moment that some children were born devils.

The new Jiangnan chef at Sanpinju was really good at cooking. Yuan Ge ate a lot and was still full when he returned to Luofengxuan. He couldn't eat the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice. Just when he was feeling annoyed, he heard Yanhuo say that Song Wenyuan would not be back for dinner tonight. Yuan Ge changed his mind and ordered the rice dumplings with fermented glutinous rice to be used as dinner, so that Aunt Gui could have a rest.

He asked again where Song Wenyuan had gone. Yanhuo said that Lord Yao had invited someone over and said that some people reported that they saw a masked girl in Yongpingfang who looked like the woman on the wanted list. Now all the people in the yamen have been mobilized.

Yongpingfang is not far from Liu Mazi's home. Ever since Liu Mazi died, Yao Yunfeng felt that the man would come back to find Liu Mazi's lame father sooner or later, so he had always sent people to monitor him secretly.

Yuan Ge also knew about this matter.

So he asked with concern, "Is Old Man Liu okay?"

"Nothing, just stay here... He has been greedy all his life and unlucky for half his life. Now that he has one foot in the coffin, he is lucky enough to have someone to take care of his food and death..." Yan Huo shook his head and said, "The masked girl looks similar, so it's possible that I made a mistake. But this woman has done so many evil things, Lord Yao would rather catch her by mistake than let her go, so they came out in full force at the slightest sign of trouble... Alas."

After saying that, he sighed, "The master said that he didn't know when he would be back tonight. He said that your shoulder injury has not yet healed completely. He told you to have dinner and rest early."

Yuan Ge nodded and said yes. After thinking for a while, he ordered, "Bring Lin Mu and Brother Murong with you. I don't have anything else to do here. You take them with you."

Yanhuo would not refuse, so he took the two of them with him to work as laborers.

The sky gets dark early in late autumn and the sun sets quickly. However, it is just the You hour. The sky was full of colorful sunset glow, magnificent and brilliant just now, but now there is only a thin layer of warm orange light, shining through the sparse and scattered branches and leaves, as if a layer of gray gauze covered the entire Luofengxuan.

Shiyin went to get the rice dumplings. Yuan Ge held Wen Xiaobai in his arms and sat in the recliner, watching the last ray of sunset disappear from sight. Footsteps were heard behind him, and a thin blanket fell. "Your injury has not healed yet, don't catch a cold again."

The man stood beside her, with his back to the light and his expression unclear. Yuan Ge seemed to be stunned for a moment before he slowly smiled and said, "Book appraisal..."

"Yeah." Jianshu responded in a low voice, then stood up and stepped aside, quiet and not saying much - even though she had vaguely noticed that the young lady's momentary daze just now was like she had been pulled out of an extremely distant memory. When she looked at herself, it was as if she saw another person, an... old friend.

The sunset on Zhixuan Mountain is much more beautiful than here, especially in the mountains in autumn when the leaves have different colors. When the sunset is projected from afar into the yard, there is an exceptionally grand romance.

Yuan Ge liked to move a recliner and watch the sunset slowly set and disappear until the whole world was covered in gray... Jin Su had nagged about her many times, but Yuan Ge was always lazy and casual. Seeing that nagging about her was not effective, Jin Su calculated the time every day and took a blanket to find her. You see, Xuanshan is so big that sometimes she would find her in her own yard, sometimes at Yuan Qi's place, and sometimes in some corner, just because there was a rock there that looked good to lie on, or even... Sometimes Jin Su would go around in circles without any results, and when she came back with her hands on her waist, panting and scolding her, she would look up and see her sleeping leisurely between the tree branches.

Yuan Ge was not the type of person who could easily open his heart to others. If it weren't for Jin Su, who, even with gritted teeth and cursed, was still worried that she would catch a cold and would go all over the mountains to look for her, how could Yuan Ge have opened up to her so much in just a few years that he even taught her the mechanism lock of the secret room?

There was even a time when Yuan Ge felt that... if Yuan Qi was in good health, and if Yuan Qi didn't mind Jin Su's background, it would be a good thing to have such a sister-in-law.

But it was this Jin Su... who stabbed her so hard.

"Jianshu." Yuan Ge closed her eyes slightly, raised her hand and pulled the blanket up, covering half of her face. She huddled in the furry blanket, then lifted her eyelids and looked behind her, and asked, "Jianshu. You say... can a person's personality change drastically overnight?"

Jianshu lowered her eyes and looked at the young lady. She had rarely seen such an expression on her face, puzzled, bewildered, and somewhat lonely and desperate as if she had been abandoned by the whole world.

It's the kind of sadness that makes one's heart sink just by looking at it.

Jianshu pondered for a moment before saying, "I didn't believe it before, but everyone said that you, Madam, changed your personality overnight... I thought, maybe it's true."

Yes, everyone said that the eldest daughter of the Wen family seemed like a different person overnight, and that’s because she really was a different person.

Then what about Jinsu? Why did she change her face in such a short time? Or was it that Jinsu had always been that kind of person, who could search for you all over the mountains and plains, and could also leave you without mercy, who could not sleep at night because of fear of wild animals, and could kill people without a smile.

She can cherish you in her heart, but she can also trample you under her feet and treat you like a worn-out shoe.

"Forget it..." Yuan Ge sighed softly, lifted Wen Xiaobai in his arms, and chuckled helplessly, "After all, times have changed. I don't think it's a good idea to worry about these trivial things."

She looked like she had let it go, or like she just gently pushed it aside and didn't mention it, putting those heart-sinking past events in a corner where no one could touch them, with some self-deceptive whitewashing.

Jianshu opened her mouth but said nothing. She just sighed silently where the other party couldn't see... She suddenly didn't understand why this noble young lady looked like she had walked such a long night road alone.