After my rebirth, I was the most favored person in Beijing

Hearing Chen Xun's voice, Chen Chu stood there motionless like a frost-bitten eggplant.

Chen Xun had a cold expression on his face, and walked towards Lin Xi from the stairwell with his sleeves fluttering. He only paused for a moment when he passed by Chen Chu.

"What? Could it be that you haven't understood what she meant?" Chen Xun's eyes were cold and his body was filled with chill.

"Uncle...uncle." Chen Chu shrank in place, not daring to look up at him. He must have known what the eldest wife had done that day.

Chen Xun did not hide the sarcasm in his words. He had a gentle smile on his face, but it made people shudder. "I thought you were a little different from the people in the first house. It seems that you know everything about what happened that day."

"From today on, if you set your eyes on Lin Xi again, I will have plenty of ways to make you live a life worse than death."

As soon as he finished speaking, he moved closer to Lin Xi. He was wearing a crimson purple robe with a lifelike painting of the Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea embroidered with golden silk thread. Under his black belt hung a sunflower jade pendant. He stood beside Lin Xi with an upright posture and an imposing manner.

Lin Xi caught a glimpse of his angular profile out of the corner of his eye and smelled a faint, cool fragrance coming from him, which was a woody scent different from musk.

Noticing Chen Xun's gaze, she turned her head again, avoiding the eye contact between the two, and looked at Chen Chu, pursing her lips.

"Ms. Lin, if you follow my uncle, you will definitely not end up well." Chen Chu didn't know what was wrong with him, and he said this with a stiff upper lip.

"What?" Lin Xi laughed out loud, a faint light imprinted on her fair cheeks, her eyebrows and eyes were like a painting, and her smile made Chen Chu dazed, "Aren't you proud of Master Chen all the time? Why are you slandering him today?"

Chen Chu's face turned pale and blue. How could she know about this?

He usually enjoyed some fame in the academy because of Chen Xun, but so what? If he had no ability, how could he be respected by others?

"You are hooking up with my uncle here, what right do you have to say that to me?" Chen Chu raised his head, looked straight at Lin Xi, and defended himself.

Lin Xi frowned and saw that many people had gathered outside the door to watch the fun. If this was a rumor, "Mr. Chen, you have to have evidence to prove what I said. When and where did I hook up with your uncle? If you say this, it will ruin my reputation. Do you want to force me to death?"

Chen Chu was stunned for a moment, and then he heard Lin Xi continue: "I know that Mr. Chen is from the Chen Mansion, so he is naturally your guard of honor. If you don't like it, how can you ruin my reputation?"

When Chen Chu came to his senses, he saw Lin Xi, who was drooling over his food, and a group of people surrounding him, pointing and talking.

How could he not be familiar with this group of people? The clothes they wore were all clothes from the academy.

Chen Chu's palms were sweating with nervousness, and he shouted loudly: "What evidence do you want? I saw it with my own eyes, you are just quibbling."

Chen Xun sneered, his eyes full of indifference, and asked calmly: "Have you forgotten what you did in the first room so quickly? Besides, when did Miss Lin seduce me? How come I didn't know?"

"Since you are so ungrateful, since you got into the academy with my help, but you don't study hard and only want to do some crooked things, then I won't go."

Chen Chu's face turned pale, "Uncle."

How could he know that his uncle favored outsiders and was unwilling to help himself? That academy was only possible because his mother deliberately used his uncle's name. Every year, half of the students in the academy would pass the exam. Others would try their best to get in, but he was the only one who got in through the back door because of Chen Xun.

Now Chen Xun spoke and asked himself to leave the academy.

"How can you help outsiders? You and I are blood relatives."

Chen Chu yelled.

He remembered his mother saying that a girl like Lin Xi had rarely seen other men, and he only needed to do a little bit of tricks to make her fall in love with him. But no matter what he did in front of her, she seemed to be able to see through his tricks.

Originally, he just wanted to play with her in the palm of his hand, but he was attracted to Lin Xi the first time he saw her and really wanted her to be his wife.

But she said that she was not as good as her uncle.

How could he not be angry? What he hated most was people saying that he was not as good as his uncle.

"Uncle, I was wrong." Chen Chu didn't care about other people's eyes and quickly knelt on the ground to beg Chen Xun for forgiveness. He knew that his uncle actually cared about his relatives the most in his heart. No matter what they did, he would forgive them because of blood ties.

Chen Xun was not like he used to be. He would ask Chen Chu to stand up when he saw him kneeling. Chen Chu was suddenly frightened and knelt on the ground, kowtowed again and again, and blood was rubbed on his forehead.

Lin Xi frowned, and seeing that the people around him were already pointing and nodding at Chen Xun, she motioned to Aunt Xu beside her to stop him, and said, "Mr. Chen, were you here just now?"

"I'm here." Chen Chu didn't know why she asked this question.

Lin Xi continued, "Then, why didn't you say anything when someone pointed the finger at your uncle for corruption? Is it because you think your uncle did something wrong? And now, you are using the self-torture trick to coerce Mr. Chen in front of everyone. If you are really capable, why don't you enter the academy yourself?"

Hearing Lin Xi's words, the people watching the fun in the teahouse also kept saying:

"Yes, he didn't say a word to defend Master Chen just now."

"Moreover, he also plotted against Lord Chen and Miss Lin... Tsk tsk, I guess he must have been jealous of Lord Chen for a long time."

Although some people dislike Chen Xun's harsh methods, his family members have never sided with him, which is too disheartening.

Chen Chu wanted to defend himself and said, "I just, just..." He didn't know what to say for a moment.

The self-torture tactic has failed.

Chen Chu, who was forcibly pulled up by Aunt Xu, was in a state of confusion. Seeing that others were already pointing fingers at him, he could only pretend to be tough and said, "I didn't."

Lin Xi did not listen to him, and continued: "You are clear-headed, right? I am just an outsider, and I can see all this. What's more, what will happen to you at home? I can only see the tip of the iceberg."

Chen Xun raised his eyelids, but the curve of his mouth changed, and he said lazily: "Are you not leaving yet?"

Chen Chu didn't dare to say anything more and crawled away. If he didn't leave, Chen Xun would really dig out his eyes in public.

But even after Chen Chu left, the crowd had not yet dispersed. After what had just happened, everyone looked at Chen Xun with a bit of pity. They did not expect that the feared Lord Chen could be so pitiful at home.

Chen Xun raised his eyes, and with just a glance, the onlookers immediately dispersed.

"Why don't you invite me in to sit down?" As soon as he finished speaking, he walked in and sat down.

Lin Xi paused, it seemed like she hadn't said anything yet?