The legitimate daughter was reborn, and the emperor’s little Jiaojiao went crazy.

After Shi Chengxuan finished yelling, he cried heartbrokenly. While crying, he drank and raised his scarlet eyes and asked, "Madam Gu, do you still want to marry me?"

Madam Gu hesitated for a moment and asked, "Continue to use fake marriage to anger your ex-wife? I told you this method won't work. Besides, the princess already knows the whole story."

Shi Chengxuan sighed deeply and drank another glass of wine. "I told you! I told you! No matter who it is, as long as they come in front of my daughter, they will be skinned and torn apart. Even if you hide your thoughts deep in your bones, she can find them out."

Madam Gu responded softly, "The princess is a thoughtful person, Master Shi should be happy."

"Why should I be happy? Happy that she calls me a loser all day long?" Shi Chengxuan felt terribly upset when he thought about it, and pointed at his chest, "She waved a dagger and stabbed me here. She stabbed as cruelly as she could. She said I was unworthy of being a father, and that belated affection was cheaper than grass!"

Mrs. Gu did not respond to this. Every family has its own problems.

Although she was on good terms with Shi Chengxuan, she did not think she had the right to interfere in other people's family affairs.

And she is not a gossipy woman who loves to gossip about the Zhang family and the Li family. In terms of business feng shui, gossiping will ruin the feng shui of the house and ruin your fortune.

Madam Gu has always been a very restrained person.

She just listened quietly, listening to Chengxuan complaining and accusing his children of not being close to him. In fact, she had heard these words so many times that she could recite them by heart.

Finally, that night, Madam Gu asked a question she had never asked before, "As a father, have you done anything for your children, Master Shi?"

Shi Chengxuan was stunned for a moment, did not answer, and raised his head to drink. But the wine flowed out from the corner of his mouth and wet his clothes.

He choked up and yelled at Madam Gu, "Why are you questioning me too! You are the only person I trust! Why have you changed after just meeting them? You have changed! You were not like this before!"

Madam Gu: “…”

All right. I stand on your side, because you are the benefactor of my Gu family.

"As a father, what else do I need to do for my children? Allowing them to come into this world is my greatest contribution to them. What else do I need to do?" After Shi Chengxuan roared, he became dejected again. He put down the wine glass heavily and cried on the table like a helpless child.

After a long while, he was tired of crying and his expression regained some clarity. "Ah, actually you are right to ask, what have I done for my children as a father? My daughter once asked me the same question. I thought and thought for several years, but I couldn't think of anything good for them."

Madam Gu silently filled a glass of wine for herself, drank it all in one gulp, and looked at the handsome man with complicated eyes.

How could she, the Gu family, be so worthy of such a good-for-nothing man to lend a helping hand and save the Gu family from danger?

This is probably the only good and great thing he has ever accomplished in his life?

Then he heard Shi Chengxuan continue to mutter, "I didn't do any good, but I did a lot of bad things. I almost ruined the entire mansion because of my short-sightedness..."

This was the first time that he was able to face his own problems. He told the story of how the Empress Dowager had used his other daughter to place the Guanyin statue and evidence of treason in the mansion.

Madam Gu was horrified when she heard this. If she was not careful, the whole family would be executed.

Although she was a businessman, she paid special attention to current affairs. She knew that the court was in turmoil at that time, and the Empress Dowager's party was playing a game with Emperor Mingde, but she didn't know that the Jian'an Marquis Mansion was also implicated.

Shi Chengxuan is still terrified when he mentions it. "If it weren't for my Xia'er's cleverness, I'm afraid I would have really fallen into the trap of the Queen Mother." He thought for a moment and continued, "I also worked with my father to break up my son's marriage. At that time, a princess fell in love with my son, and I was so happy..."

Shi Chengxuan kept on talking, and under the influence of alcohol, he blurted out all the most unbearable things in his heart that he refused to admit were wrong.

In fact, he knew he was wrong. He had known it was wrong a long time ago.

But he didn't know how to redeem all of this. He wanted a loving couple, a loving father and filial son, a peaceful home, and he wanted to... start over.

Starting over again... Tang Chujun could never be his wife, Shi Chengxuan. This was his last thought as he slumped down on the table with a gulp after finishing his drink.

Madam Gu was obviously used to it and called the servant to help him wash and change his clothes.

In this room, there are all kinds of clothes, shoes and socks that belong to Shishi Chengxuan.

Among the people who served him, there was sometimes Cheng Xuan's own servant Chang Wu, and sometimes the other three servants specially assigned by the Gu family to serve him.

The servants were familiar with the process and cooperated well, and they managed to get him onto the bed.

Seeing that he had rested, Madam Gu gave him a few more instructions and then returned to her own yard.

The eldest daughter, Gu Ruzhu, had been waiting there for a long time. When she saw her mother coming, she quickly stood up and greeted her.

Madam Gu asked in surprise, "Zhu'er, is there something wrong? Why don't you go to bed in the middle of the night?"

Gu Ruzhu bit her lip and mustered up the courage to ask, "Mother, are you really going to marry Master Shi? I went out to inquire today, and Master Shi has a terrible reputation in the capital, and it's unbearable to hear about him."

Madam Gu's expression remained unchanged. She motioned for her daughter to sit down and said slowly, "Master Shi is our family's benefactor."

"Mother, there are many ways to repay your kindness. Please don't act on impulse..."

Madam Gu pondered for a moment, then looked up at her daughter and asked solemnly, "Why didn't you tell me this before the court awarded me the title?" She didn't wait for her daughter to answer, and answered herself, "Because at that time we were born as merchants, and we married Lord Shi, so you kept silent. Now that my Gu family has a title, your thoughts have changed again. Am I right?"

Gu Ruzhu's face turned red in an instant, "Mother..."

"I usually teach you to judge the situation, but I also teach you not to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak." Madam Gu felt a surge of anger in her heart. "It's true that Lord Shi has a bad reputation, but it's also true that he has done a favor to my Gu family."

Gu Ruzhu gritted her teeth and said, "There are many ways to repay a favor. Why should I pay the price of marriage? And if I pretend to be married to Lord Shi, wouldn't it affect my mother's reputation? I am not flattering the powerful and looking down on the weak, but I feel, I feel..." Her voice gradually became smaller, "There is no need to make the relationship between the two families so complicated."

After she finished speaking, her eyes flickered. Madam Gu suddenly realized something, her pupils trembled, "You! Who do you like? Lord Jian'an? Or Lord Gong Ma?"

Gu Ruzhu obviously didn't expect that her mother could see through her thoughts at once, and her face turned as pale as a steamed shrimp.

Madam Gu was so angry that she wanted to hit someone, but she waved her hands, her eyes were deep and sharp, and she changed the subject, "Zhu'er, you have been divorced and returned home for half a year, and I have never detained you in the backyard. Do you know why?"

The daughter couldn't answer, so she continued to ask and answer herself, "I want you to walk out of this small courtyard in the backyard and see how big and wide the world outside is. Instead of letting you feel sorry for yourself and think that you should be a concubine after the divorce."