Reborn Concubine, Be Respectful First

After a dizzy spell, Su Xinqing arrived at this strange place, surrounding a little girl who had never left her side for the rest of her life.

Su Xinqing, the third daughter of the Marquis's concubine, was not favored by her concubine and died unexpectedly when she was five or six years old.

She was a lonely little girl who grew up in the marquis's mansion and became a pawn in the hands of others. She was then taken to be raised by her stepmother, Li.

Li would just teach her a few words every day and then send her away. A concubine's daughter could gain a reputation as a virtuous woman, which was very pleasing. Besides, her own daughter still needed an obedient concubine's daughter to set off the chastity and generosity of the legitimate daughter and her friendship with her younger brothers and sisters.

When Su Xinqing was young, she was quite obedient. But as time went by, Li found this concubine's daughter more and more annoying. Although she had the maid deliberately comb her hair into an old-fashioned style, the color of her clothes was also tacky.

However, the beauty of the concubine's daughter could still be seen, so they started with the makeup on her face and the food she ate, which caused Su Xinqing's skin to become in poor condition, with acne and dark yellow skin.

When she was a little older, Su Xinqing's talent and chess skills were revealed in one banquet after another. For a long time, whenever Su Xinqing wanted to go out with her elder sister, accidents always happened and she had to stay in the mansion.

When she came of age, her stepmother, Mrs. Li, found a husband who was out of her league for Su Xinqing. He Yuanming, the second son of the Earl of Yongchang, had passed the imperial examination in his early years and later, with some connections, he got a fifth-rank official position as a librarian. He was not to be underestimated and had an extraordinary appearance and bearing. Many families in Kyoto had their eyes on such a good husband, but who would have thought that he would be picked away by a concubine's daughter of the Su family.

After the marriage, there were no rumors about concubines and side rooms, which made the women in the boudoir even more angry. This was also one of the reasons why Su Xinqing was excluded at every banquet or party.

It is not logical for the younger sisters to get married before the eldest sister. However, not long after the eldest sister came of age, she stayed indoors, saying that she was in poor health and wanted to recuperate, not wanting to delay the life-long events of her younger siblings.

So it happened that Su Xinqing had been married for five years and had adopted a son before the news of her eldest sister Su Xinya's recovery came out.

Then, news that shocked Kyoto came out one after another that the eldest sister and the prince were engaged and married.

The eldest daughter of the Earl of Yong'an was praised throughout the city as "virtuous and kind", "quiet and beautiful", "gentle as jade", "face as red" and so on.

Su Xinqing's reputation also fell to the bottom, with people calling her "unfilial if she doesn't shave her hair", "unfaithful and unvirtuous", "a spent flower and a fallen willow", "vulgar", "ugly and faceless", etc. Even her husband, who used to show up on time every month, has been missing for several months and is trapped in the inner house, unable to go out.

The adopted son who was raised with great care, in the tenth year of his upbringing, the handsome twelve-year-old boy accused himself of having an affair with a guard one night, and was drowned in a pond by the old lady of the Earl of Yongchang's Mansion and a group of housekeepers.

He was buried in a remote goldfish pond in the backyard, a fish pond he had never visited in his free time. Who would have thought that it would be the place where he died.

He Yuanming didn't even come to look at her in the end. Everyone's indifference and cold eyes made Su Xinqing completely desperate.

Not long after, a person Su Xinqing had never seen before came to the courtyard where she lived. She saw with her own eyes the interaction between Su Xinqing's former half-sister Su Xintao and this lady.

During the subsequent conversation among the few people, they found out that this person was the biological mother of the adopted son, and had been raised as a concubine by He Yuanming. Moreover, his half-sister Su Xintao and his stepmother had already known about it, and he was the only one who was kept in the dark.

During the time that the soul stayed in the He Mansion, he also learned the reason why He Yuanming married him. One reason was the secret communication between his stepmother Li and Madam Yuan of the He Mansion. The other reason was that he loved his stepmother Su Xinya, but could not get her. He could only meet her by chance by visiting the Su Mansion from time to time.

When Su Xinqing heard this from the hungover He Yuanming, she could no longer control her hatred and wanted to strangle the person in front of her. Before she could meet He Yuanming, she was back to the time when she was five years old. Her aunt had just passed away and she fell seriously ill.

After sorting out all the things, Su Xinqing felt the little girl's experience again. The matter was inexplicably familiar and she was almost racking her brains.

Just then I remembered that it was an ancient romance novel that my college roommate shared in the group.

My roommate Lin Cancan said at the time that there was a cannon fodder with the same name as her, so she must watch it.

Because she had lost contact with her parents and didn't want to go out and spend money, Su Xinqing quickly finished watching the series during the May Day holiday. She was moved by the fairy-like love between the male and female protagonists, but also lamented the unfair fate of the cannon fodder with the same name as herself.

In the plot, Su Xinya is the eldest daughter of a marquisate. She is born with indescribable nobleness. Her face is like a silver plate, her eyes are like water apricots, her lips are red without any makeup, her eyebrows are green without any drawing, her temperament is as beautiful as orchid, her talent is as fragrant as a fairy, and she is the object of admiration of many young men from aristocratic families.

However, she was neither arrogant nor impatient. Once at a palace banquet, she was praised and rewarded by the Queen, and was granted marriage to the Prince.

After marriage, the two lived in harmony, loved each other deeply, had children, and she firmly sat on the throne of the Crown Princess. Although she had concubines and concubines, no one was better than Su Xinya, after all, there was the Yong'an Earl's Mansion behind her.

In the end, everyone was talking about how the two were a perfect couple, and some unspeakable things often happened in between, which made Su Xinqing blush. Although she was an old girl and didn't understand anything, she seemed to understand something. She was embarrassed and speechless, and didn't understand how Lin Cancan, the gossipy woman, dared to post it in the group. After all, married women have no taboos.

Su Xinqing knew that it was not so easy to sit firmly on the position of Crown Princess, but there was not much description of how Su Xinya dealt with troubles. Instead, it wrote about a Madam Zhang who was very favored by Su Xinya. She gave treatment that the four maids who came with the dowry, namely, Sishu, Sihua, Siqi and Siqin, did not have.

However, there is currently no such person as Nanny Zhang in the Earl's Mansion of Yong'an, and I don't know her either. It seems that this person came to the Earl's Mansion before her eldest sister got married. Her origins remain a mystery and cannot be verified now. I can only pay more attention to her in the future.

Thinking of this, Su Xinqing quickly got out of bed, lit the oil lamp, and began to look around.

He placed a few sheets of bamboo paper on the desk, added water, and began to grind it clumsily, writing down several important times, events, and nodes in a mixture of simplified Chinese characters and English, so that even if someone got it, they might not be able to understand it.

After drying it a little, I folded it together, found a safe place under the mattress, and hid it.

As the saying goes: "A good memory is worse than a bad pen."

Su Xinqing had just finished everything when she heard a knock on the door. Su Xinqing did not answer, but saw the nanny pushing the door open, followed by Lu He who was sitting at the door.

Looking at the side dishes and a bowl of porridge on the plate, Su Xinqing felt empty at this moment. She ate a few bites and said she was sleepy.

Waiting to wake up from the dream again, the sky had already begun to daybreak. Some maids who were cleaning the house had already started to get up and do their work. Su Xinqing was still a child and was seriously ill, so she naturally had no worries about getting up. She just curled up and thought about what she would do in the future, and soon fell asleep again.