Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Qingyun Building.

As soon as Xiao Qingyuan stepped in, he felt that this place was different from the past.

In the past, Qingyunlou had a booming business. No matter what time of day, there were people coming to eat and drink, and many people came specifically to order dishes to be delivered to their homes.

Today, Qingyun Building was very deserted, with almost no one coming to eat.

Xiao Qingyuan frowned slightly: "What's going on? What happened in Qingyun Building?"

A guard stepped forward and whispered, "Your Highness, since Qingyunlou teamed up with Miss Chu to launch several expensive snacks, its reputation has plummeted. Now no one comes here to eat. Everyone goes to Zuixianlou, which is more honest and conscientious, to eat."

"What? Just because of Yanluo's snacks, Qingyunlou has become like this? How is this possible!"

The guard didn't dare to speak his true feelings. How could it be impossible? Chu Yanluo was so vicious. Whoever got involved with him would be in trouble!

On the second floor of Qingyun Building, the shopkeeper's eyelids jumped when he saw Xiao Qingyuan. He was still alive? Wasn't it rumored that he was beaten to death?

It's bad. Yuan Zheng, the young master behind their restaurant, has taken possession of Xiao Qingyuan's favorite Chu Yanluo, and beats her up at every turn. What will happen if Xiao Qingyuan finds out about this?

The shopkeeper whispered to the waiter to inform Yuan Zheng that Xiao Qingyuan was still alive, and then greeted him with a big smile on his face: "Master Xiao, you are finally here! When you didn't come a few days ago, there were bad rumors in the streets! Now that you are standing here, those rumors are instantly refuted! I said that Master Xiao is blessed with great fortune, and nothing will happen to him!"

Xiao Qingyuan ignored his flattery and asked directly: "Is Yan Luo living with you?"

"This one……"

"If you refuse to tell me, I will ask my guards to turn your place upside down!"

The shopkeeper glanced at the dozen guards following Xiao Qingyuan, and dared not say anything. He quickly said, "Yes, yes, Miss Chu is staying in our restaurant!"

"lead the way!"

The shopkeeper didn't dare to resist and could only lead the way obediently.

As he led the way, he muttered to himself that ever since Xiao Qingyuan met Chu Yanluo, he no longer acted like the young master of Ning Wang Mansion. He said that he was afraid of making Chu Yanluo feel uncomfortable. Not only did he drive away the servants around him, but he also only took one servant with him when he went out.

Why did you bring so many guards this time?

It seems that he was really beaten, so the Ning Wang Mansion sent so many guards to escort him out.

The shopkeeper stopped in front of a room at the end of the corridor and said with a flattering smile, "Sir, Miss Chu lives here. She is busy researching medicine now..."

Before he could finish his words, Xiao Qingyuan pushed him away.

Then, Xiao Qingyuan opened the door and walked in.

An unpleasant smell of medicine hit me in the face, and the room was cluttered with a lot of sundries. It was obvious at first glance that this was a storage room that was not suitable for living!

Chu Yanluo heard the voice, turned around and was immediately shocked: "Xiao...Xiao Qingyuan?"

Xiao Qingyuan looked at the wound on her face and felt a pain in his heart: "Yanluo, who hit you? Tell me, I will avenge you!"

Chu Yanluo cried and threw herself into his arms: "It's really you! I thought you were dead. People outside said you were beaten to death. I cried for a long time!"

There was a hint of sarcasm in the shopkeeper's eyes. She was crying because she was hurt by Yuan Zheng's beating, not for Xiao Qingyuan at all.

But Xiao Qingyuan obviously didn't know. He hugged Chu Yanluo tightly, and felt even more distressed when he felt her trembling: "I'm not dead, I'm alive and well. I promised to take care of you for the rest of my life. How could I die like this? Don't cry, I'll take you home now!"

Chu Yanluo said, "Can I really go back with the prince? I heard that you were beaten to death a few days ago, so I went to the palace to look for you, but the palace wouldn't let me in, saying that I wasn't from the palace and told me not to go there again."

Xiao Qingyuan frowned deeply: "Is there such a thing? But I asked Shen Wantang, and she said you have never returned to the palace."

"She lied! She lied to you on purpose. She was just jealous that I was liked by you, so she deliberately did something bad to alienate us!"

Xiao Qingyuan said subconsciously: "No, Shen Wantang won't be jealous at all, and she won't alienate us."

Chu Yanluo heard that he was on Shen Wantang's side again, and she was so angry that she even forgot to cry. She pushed Xiao Qingyuan away and regained her cold and arrogant look on her face: "Your Highness, go back by yourself. I won't go to Prince Ning's Mansion. I have no name or status, and it's easy to be ridiculed if I live there. Your Highness doesn't care about people gossiping about me, but I don't want to hear it anymore. Go away!"

Xiao Qingyuan took a step forward: "Yanluo, don't be willful, come back with me first, what does it look like for you to live in a restaurant? Is this a place for people to live?"

"What's wrong with living in a restaurant? What's wrong with it not being a place for people to live? I would rather live here than live in the palace without any status! I, Chu Yanluo, would rather be a proud lonely ghost than ever step into Prince Ning's palace again with a bad name!"

Xiao Qingyuan clenched his fists. It was indeed a big problem that Chu Yanluo lived in Prince Ning's Mansion without any name or status.

He thought for a while, and finally said: "Yanluo, I will take you as my concubine. This way, you will have a legitimate status."

Chu Yanluo's eyes widened in disbelief: "What did you say? Xiao Qingyuan, you want me to be your concubine?!"

"Don't worry, this is only temporary. When I inherit the title of the prince's mansion, I will let you be my concubine."

"Concubine?!"

"Yes, concubine."

"Isn't that still a concubine? Xiao Qingyuan, you keep saying you love me and that you'll take care of me for the rest of my life, but in the end, you want me to be your concubine?"

Xiao Qingyuan's face turned pale. His injuries had not healed in the first place, and he came to find Chu Yanluo while enduring tremendous pain. When he heard that Chu Yanluo was so uncooperative, he felt pain both physically and mentally.

"Yanluo, I already have a Crown Prince's Consort. She has made no contributions but has worked hard these days. Father and mother both like her very much. I can't divorce her, otherwise I will completely harm her."

"But don't worry, even if you become my concubine, you are still the best in my heart. As long as you are willing to follow me, my heart will always belong to you alone."

"I can promise you that I will never take another concubine. You are the first and the last. I swear, I will never like anyone else."

Chu Yanluo never thought that after fighting for status for so long, he only got himself a concubine!

In his previous life, Xiao Qingyuan had never said such a thing! He had always said that he wanted to divorce Shen Mingxuan and always wanted her to be his prince's consort!

Why did things change in this life when Shen Wantang came into being?

How long had he been married to Shen Wantang? Two months!

In just two months, he went from fighting against his family by becoming a monk in order to marry her as his legal wife, to taking her as a concubine in order to maintain Shen Wantang's position as legal wife!

Being a concubine meant that she had to kneel down and serve tea to Shen Wantang, the mistress of the house! It meant that she would be scolded and abused by the mistress for the rest of her life! Even the sale of a concubine was a matter of a word from the mistress!

Moreover, if she gives birth to children in the future, they will be illegitimate sons and daughters, and her children can only call her aunt, not mother!