The boss is back and she doesn’t pretend to be a fake daughter anymore

Su Shang didn't dare sleep that night, holding tightly in her hand a Buddha amulet that she had bought from a palace maid at a high price.

I thought I would continue to feel the fear of being stared at by Chun Yan all night last night.

Unexpectedly, when everything was quiet, Chun Yan sat up straight from the bed.

Su Shang buried his head in the quilt, holding the Buddha amulet tightly in his hand, but he could still hear Chun Yan's footsteps walking towards her bed, step by step.

Su Shang was shaking violently, as if he was waiting for a judgment to come.

However, she waited for a long time, so long that her breathing became a little difficult, but she still couldn't hear any movement outside.

Just when Su Shang thought that the other party had quietly left, she tentatively lifted a corner of the quilt and stuck her head out, but unexpectedly, she met a pair of eyes outside the quilt, which had been waiting for her to come out, staring at her coldly.

In the dark night, Su Shang's screams once again resounded throughout the palace.

Everyone, including Qingge who lived in the same room, was a little dissatisfied at being woken up again.

However, this time, Su Shang no longer cared about anything else. The moment she met Chun Yan's eyes outside the quilt, she went completely crazy.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry, Chunyan, I'm sorry!

I shouldn't have hurt you! I, I really didn't mean to kill you, I just didn't want you to compete with me for the position of the queen's lady-in-waiting!

I know I was wrong, I really know I was wrong, please let me go! Wuu ...

Su Shang's desperate cry was heard by all the palace maids who were woken up by her. Now looking at Chun Yan who was standing in front of her bed with no expression on her face, everyone was confused.

As the saying goes, if you don't do anything wrong in your life, you won't be afraid of ghosts knocking on your door at night.

It is obvious that Su Shang has done something very wrong.

No wonder he was so scared when he saw Chun Yan coming back safe and sound.

Although Qingge had some guesses, he still found it hard to accept the truth when he knew it.

After all, among the three people in the room, although she is the elder sister who takes care of the two of them the most, the two people she is really good friends with and always plays with are Chun Yan and Su Shang.

In this imperial city, good friends who supported each other killed themselves for a chance to get promoted.

Chun Yan really died with her eyes open.

Standing by the bed at this moment, looking at the man who was curled up in the corner of the bed with a crazy look and kept confessing to her, Chun Yan's eyes finally slowly shed a line of blood and tears.

She finally finished what she wanted to do.

The three days promised were also completed.

She's free to go.

No one noticed when Chun Yan left, and no one noticed when she left.

Most of the palace people just thought that Chun Yan had escaped death and returned, and deliberately used this method to scare Su Shang to make her tell the truth.

But only Qingge and Nanny Li, who lived in the same room, knew that Chunyan had died long ago.

After all, Qingge has been taking care of Chunyan these days and has long been suspicious of her condition. Now it just confirms his guess.

As for Nanny Li.

She did not live in the palace, so she did not know what happened there that night.

But it was also that night that she heard the voice of her apprentice Chun Yan while she was half asleep and half awake.

She stood outside the door and said to her,

"Master, Chun Yan is gone. You must take good care of yourself."

Nanny Li didn't know what was going on at the time, but the moment she heard the voice, her tears suddenly flowed.

Chun Yan, her Chun Yan, is gone.

At that moment, she suddenly understood why she felt uneasy in her heart even though she heard the news that Chun Yan had returned a few days ago.

It turned out that she didn't really come back at all.

Something had happened to her the night she disappeared.

……

Snowflakes started falling in the palace at some point.

Amid the flying snowflakes, a stiff figure struggled forward in the snow.

She walked step by step, and unknowingly she walked out of the palace and into the green spring day.

And in the warm spring sunshine, she seemed to see the two little figures who once snuggled together within the palace wall.

"Chun Yan, Chun Yan, don't cry. The worst that can happen is that next time the nanny punishes you, I will take the beating for you."

The little Su Shang patted his chest with great loyalty.

Little Chunyan, with a tearful face, sniffed and looked at her friend.

"But, but if this happens, you will be the one who is in pain..."

"That's nothing. I'm not afraid of pain! Oh, stop crying. It's a deal. Next time, I'll take the beating for you!"

The scenes from my childhood seemed to be right in front of me, but in the blink of an eye, the little person in front of me had changed.

That night, she was pushed forcefully into the well, and the biting cold penetrated into her limbs.

She looked at the person above her head, wanting to tell her that she was in pain and so cold.

She thought that man would coax her like he did in the past and say that he would feel pain for her, but he just looked at her coldly and turned away without hesitation.

Chun Yan couldn't understand why her once good friend changed so much as time went by.

She couldn't figure it out, so she didn't want to think about it anymore.

Perhaps, Su Shang when she was a child and she when she grew up are two different people.

The cold scene in front of her eyes disappeared, and Chun Yan's lips finally slowly curled up into a smile. It was no longer a stiff and cold smile, but a genuine and relaxed smile.

She smiled and walked step by step towards the little Su Shang in the warm sun.

……

The snow fell all night long.

At daybreak, Su Shang was thrown into prison on the charge of murdering a female official. He was tried on a later date and exiled to a bitter and cold place.

When Jiang Xuxu heard the news, the person had already been sent out of the palace overnight.

Her fingertips paused slightly. She did not ask in detail what punishment Su Shang would receive, nor did she ask what happened to the girl named Chun Yan.

I just asked Madam Li, "How is she?"

"I don't know why she suddenly fell ill last night. The female doctor examined her and said she had caught a cold and needed to lie down for a while. So your majesty temporarily arranged for me to come and serve the young lady."

The nanny said this, took a look at Jiang Xuxu's face, and seeing that she was not dissatisfied, she continued,

"The female official who replaced Su Shang was re-selected this morning. I will let her in right away. Would you like to take a look first?"

Jiang Xuxu nodded without commenting.

Then, the nanny called out, and soon a figure walked in from outside, walked around the screen, and slowly walked towards her.

The visitor was wearing the uniform of a female official, but she walked in a manner that did not seem very proper.

The body was swaying, with familiar eyebrows and eyes, but revealing a sense of casualness and a faint smile.

That face was... the dead Chun Yan.

Jiang Xuxu looked at the person who came, but there was not much surprise on his face. Instead, there was a sense of understanding that it was as expected.

Chun Yan in front of me...

To be precise, it is the "person" behind who transformed into Chun Yan's appearance.

If she guessed correctly.

This "person"'s surname is Wenren and his given name is Jianjia.

Tsk.

Jiang Xuxu couldn't help but sigh in his heart——

This ancestor,

Sure enough it was her!