I took a deep breath and repeated the nonsense I had told Situ Jue before, adding some interpretation to it.

"In fact, I don't remember who I am. When I woke up, I was already in the Zhenbei Palace. They all called me the princess. I vaguely knew the name Shen Xingye, but she should have passed away, so I was able to wake up in her body."

No normal person would believe the story of a wandering ghost possessing a dead body to return to life, but Shen Yunzhou would.

Because he is also an outlier, an outlier of this era.

From Shen Ru, I learned that Shen Yunzhou had been a rebellious person since childhood, taking an unconventional approach. In front of others, he pretended to be mature, but behind others, he was eccentric and mischievous, which often made the private school teacher so angry that he fumed and glared at him, but because his academic performance was so good, he was reluctant to give up this good seedling.

At the age of fourteen, he was forced by his father to take the imperial examination. He passed all the tests and successfully obtained the qualification for the palace examination. However, he got drunk on purpose before the test and missed the entrance time. Finally, the emperor heard about this young man and made an exception to summon him to the palace, gave him new questions, and asked him to discuss them on the spot.

Three years later, he took the exam again and finally got the title of top scholar. He should have entered the officialdom and risen to a high position, but he asked to be a seventh-rank official in a prefecture thousands of miles away from the capital. He traveled to many places and saw different scenery.

Compared with what he did, Shen Ru was only going to marry a captain with good character, which made her a good daughter of the Shen family.

It is said that when Shen Yunzhou was having the worst fight with his uncle, he once said that he wanted to become a monk and live directly in a temple to lead the life of an ascetic monk.

So I used charcoal to randomly draw some modern scenes of hustle and bustle and tall buildings on paper, and Shen Yunzhou completely believed that I was a lonely soul from another world and occupied the body of his cousin.

"Actually, when I saw you for the first time, I noticed something different." Shen Yunzhou did not hide it.

Although he was several years older than Shen Xingye, and Shen Xingye had not had much direct contact with him when she returned to the Shen Mansion, he liked to observe others. The cousins ​​in his memory were always gloomy and timid, not talkative, and never looked others in the eye when dealing with people.

Even if her personality would change after getting married, it would not change so drastically, so he was slightly stunned when they first met, and he became suspicious from that moment on.

When he was alone with me, he originally just wanted to trick me, and he was even prepared to be scolded by his original self. However, he didn't expect me to admit it so quickly, and the truth shocked him.

"So it's because the King of Zhenbei didn't like my cousin...you just accepted the marriage granted by the emperor due to the situation, and you treated my cousin coldly after the marriage, which led to her death?"

I nodded. This was the original ending of the story, but my arrival changed some details. It wouldn't be considered a lie if I told him this.

"Situ Jue and I have reached an agreement. He will use three years to make arrangements to divorce in a decent manner without damaging the relationship between the two families."

"Uncle will definitely not agree to it." Shen Yunzhou knew his father very well.

"Shen Zhongyan... he doesn't care about his daughter's life or death, he just wants a backer to pave the way for his eldest son." I saw that Shen Yunzhou didn't show any displeasure because of my disrespect to Shen's father, so I continued, "Now the head of the Shen family is my uncle, and in the future, only my uncle and my brother will inherit the title. As long as the head of the family nods and cooperates, my marriage with Situ Jue can be settled. Brother, are you willing to help?"

"If this is what Xingye meant, I naturally don't want to see my sister suffer."

"Then I would like to thank you, brother."

Just as I finished speaking, I was tormented by an extremely severe abdominal pain. I frowned, bent over, held my stomach and began to gasp.

"what happened?"

"Maybe I ate too much spicy food, now my stomach... Sorry, I have to leave..." I didn't care whether it was awkward or not, I turned around and ran out.

The two maids who served me suffered that whole night.

I miss modern flush toilets and hot showers so much. Even in a wealthy home like the Duke's Mansion, satisfying these trivial matters of physiological needs is troublesome, wasteful, and embarrassing.

Anyway, the next day I just wanted to lie in bed and didn't want to move at all. Unfortunately, the news of my illness still spread, and my aunt even brought a female doctor to take my pulse.

It's just diarrhea, there's no need to be so nervous, but the female doctor looked very solemn after checking my pulse, and she talked to my aunt alone for a long time. Later, Shen Yunzhou also came to visit me, but was stopped outside by my aunt, and they were discussing something in a whisper.

I didn't want to move at first, but I couldn't resist my curiosity, so I leaned over to the window and listened.

I vaguely heard that it meant that my health was not good, and I had suffered some injury before and had a chronic illness, making it difficult to conceive.

This was actually also my own doing. Ever since I helped Situ Jue to prevent the poison incident, I specifically asked Doctor Sun to make some changes in the prescription to keep me from getting pregnant, which resulted in my monthly menstruation also stopping.

In an era when there were no soft, comfortable and easy-to-use sanitary napkins, not having menstruation was a blessing, and not being able to have children was an even greater blessing.

But I can also understand my aunt's worried expression as if I had a terminal illness. In their eyes, the greatest value of a woman is to give birth to children, and a woman who cannot give birth to children is worthless.

Shen Yunzhou was persuaded to leave before he even entered the house.

Finally, my aunt came in and after hesitating for a long time, she hesitantly gave me a hint of the results of the female doctor's diagnosis.

I smiled easily, "Don't worry, auntie, I just can't have children. The rest of my body is fine. As long as I exercise well, I will live a long life."

The eldest aunt was about to cry, "Now you are the principal wife of the King of Zhenbei. If this gets out, or if the prince knows about it, what will you do in the future?"

She was really worried and sad for me, but if she knew that this was exactly what I wanted, would she be so angry that she would jump up and hit me?

I thought about it and decided not to say anything more to her. The planned divorce would sooner or later be known to everyone in the Shen family, but she might not be able to bear it now.

Later, Shen Yunzhou came to visit me in my yard alone.

By then I had recovered my energy and was able to eat without any problems.

"I heard from the servants that you were ill for a long time some time ago... It should be at that time..." His expression seemed like he was mourning for his cousin. He probably mixed my words with the information he had found out, and made up something in his mind.

I didn't explain, but asked, "Brother already knows everything, will you report me?"

"Where can I report it? Who would believe such an absurd thing?" He smiled helplessly, raised his eyes and looked into the distance, and began to recall, "When Xingye first came to the mansion, he was already eight years old, but he was short and thin, not like an eight-year-old child at all. His health was not very good at that time. It's a pity that I didn't pay much attention to it..."

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