The fake daughter of a fallen ghost is reborn

"Okay, everyone stand up. You are being so cautious. It seems like I am disturbing your interest." Gu Shichong said to everyone without any formalities.

"Thank you, Your Highness Prince Gong!"

Everyone knelt down to thank him, then stood up and dared to take their seats only after Prince Gong sat down at the top.

Xue Zhentong, who had been following him all the time, was extremely flattering in his words and actions. He sat in the first seat below Prince Gong and chatted with him with a smile on his face.

Although Xue Zhiyi and Gu Shichong are engaged, they are not actually familiar with each other.

The main purpose of this marriage was to tie the Xue family and Prince Gong together closely. In her previous life, Xue Zhiyi had always stayed quietly in her boudoir and had met Prince Gong only a few times, and all of them were at banquets like this one.

Compared to her and Prince Gong...

Xue Zhiyi glanced at Fu Rongxin who had her head lowered.

There seemed to be a red thread between this real girl from the Xue family and her fiancé that was destined to be unbreakable.

In her previous life, Fu Rongxin was a concubine of the Fu family. Faced with Hu Shuixian's forced marriage, she ran away from home alone, but by chance she ran into Prince Gong.

Xue Zhiyi still clearly remembers that time when Fu Rongxin cried and begged her, saying that she and Prince Gong were truly in love, and hoped that when Xue Zhiyi became Prince Gong's wife one day, he would be able to give her a place to stay, even as the lowest concubine, as long as she could stay with Gu Shichong.

Xue Zhiyi had no romantic feelings for Prince Gong, and he and Fu Rong were like sisters, so he agreed to her request.

However, although she and Prince Gong were not very familiar with each other, it did not mean that Gu Shichong did not owe her anything.

At that time, the Xue family had just run into trouble, and Xue Zhiyi was fined and demoted to a slave and sent to Chunfeng Tower as an official prostitute.

At that time, she was worried about the safety of other members of the Xue family, and was unwilling to reveal their whereabouts even under torture.

Until one day, she escaped from Chunfeng Tower at night and knocked on the door of Prince Gong's Mansion, asking him to help find other members of the Xue family because Xue Zhentong had followed him in the past.

But Prince Gong was preoccupied with his own affairs at that time and did not agree to her request. Instead, he ordered his men to send her back to Chunfeng Tower.

That time, Xue Zhiyi was almost beaten to death.

After that, she calmed down and agreed to the madam's request to receive customers.

Because only in this way can she have the opportunity to move among the powerful people in Joaquin and secretly collect evidence that can clear the Xue family's grievances.

At that time, although she had seen that Prince Gong was ruthless and ungrateful, the evidence in her hands all pointed to his political enemy, Prince Sheng, which Gu Shichong would need.

As long as the evidence is handed over to Gu Shichong, the Xue family will have hope of clearing their grievances.

Later, this evidence became the key for Prince Gong to turn the situation around and overthrow Prince Sheng.

But even so, Xue Zhiyi, who was in Chunfeng Tower, did not wait for any improvement.

Both the Prince Gong party and the Xue family abandoned her.

It was then that she found out that when she first asked Prince Gong for help, Prince Gong had actually already secretly hidden the Xue family and properly settled them.

And at that time, Gu Shichong actually already knew the identity of Fu Rongxin's true phoenix.

It turns out that the only one who was kept in the dark and used from the beginning to the end was this poor scapegoat...

Perhaps the hatred in Xue Zhiyi's eyes was too glaring, causing Prince Gong to follow her gaze and face her head on.

Xue Zhiyi lowered her head quickly. But her eyes became colder: she was reborn in this life, and she must destroy Gu Shichong's dream of becoming an emperor with her own hands.

With her around, Gu Shichong can't be the emperor, and Fu Rongxin can't be the queen!

"Brother Prince Gong, what are you daydreaming about?" Princess Anle's words drew Gu Shichong's attention back.

Prince Gong sighed softly: "Can't you just eat some snacks and drink some tea quietly? Why do you always pester me to talk?"

"Who is bothering you?" The master of Anle County had clever eyes and said, "I'm asking you, where is my second brother?"

"Your second brother?" Prince Gong looked around and didn't see the person he was looking for, so he said, "You know Huo Wuyou very well. He doesn't like to join in the fun. Who knows where he is lazing around at the moment?"

"It's so boring. I haven't seen him all day." Princess Anle held her cheek and muttered. After that, she stood up and said, "Chai Yue, I want to go find him."

The female official named Chai Yue was wearing an official robe and looked to be about twenty-five or twenty-six years old. She had a pretty face with a cold air and her thin lips were pursed in a serious manner.

She said yes, and then shouted to the palace maids and court ladies behind her: "Princess, please get up!"

Princess Anle's face puffed up even more: "I'm just strolling around, there's no need to make such a big fuss."

She put her hands on her hips and pointed at a few people at random: "You guys just follow me from a distance. As for the rest, I will be merciful and let you go and have fun! Otherwise, it will be so boring if you all follow me."

Upon hearing this, Chai Yue lowered her head and said, "Yes."

So, Princess Anle left the table in such a grand manner and started strolling in the Xue family's yard.

After seeing the princess off, in the garden, even though all the guests had gathered there, everyone still gathered in groups of three or four with people they knew to play chess, drink tea, or play mahjong.

However, the seat in the octagonal pavilion was given to Prince Gong and several high-ranking officials from the court who visited today, so these girls had no choice but to move their seats outside the octagonal pavilion.

They were neither too far nor too close, just able to see what was going on in the octagonal pavilion, but couldn't hear clearly what they were talking about.

At this time, Miss Lin from the Imperial Censor's family suddenly suggested, "We have nothing to do anyway. Look at the different flower lots on the table. Why don't we draw lots based on them and play a piece of music based on the theme of the lot we draw?"

After that, he asked Xue Zhiyi: "Excuse me, Miss Xue, can you lend us a piano?"

Xue Zhiyi smiled gently: "Of course."

Having said that, he asked Su Yue to go to Jiangxuexuan to get the zither.

Compared to other musical instruments, the zither is one of the six arts of a gentleman, and young ladies from official families naturally know something about it. Such a game can allow as many people as possible to participate.

After a piano was presented, Miss Lin also made an invitation to Xue Zhiyi: "I heard that Miss Xue is very good at playing the piano. Why don't you play with us?"

Not knowing what he was thinking, Xue Zhiyi nodded in agreement.

Several ladies took turns drawing lots. The one who drew "Spring is not yet old, the wind is gentle and the willows are slanting" played a poem "Zhangtai Willow".

If you draw the poem "The elegant Jiang plum blossoms, with two or three branches lying sparsely among the bamboos", you will play the song "Picking Plum Blossoms".

When it was Xue Zhiyi's turn, she drew a lot at random.

Miss Lin asked hurriedly: "What is it?"

Seeing her curiosity, Xue Zhiyi handed her the flower stick. Miss Lin took it and chanted, "Fragrance fills the clothes, clouds fill the road, phoenixes fly around me... What a good poem. I wonder what song Miss Xue is going to play? We are all ears."

Hearing that poem, Xue Zhiyi's eyebrows slightly raised without any expression. Then he smiled and said, "Then I will show you my ugliness."

After that, she placed her hands on the strings. As her fingers hooked and plucked, the sound of the piano flowed out from her like running water. The sound was like the collision of rings, and like a breeze, it smoothly melted between her fingers...

As the music of the piano became more passionate, the voices inside and outside the octagonal pavilion fell silent for a moment.

More and more people's attention was attracted by her piano playing.

The ladies who were drawing lots with her were stunned where they stood, their faces filled with astonishment.

"Ming Luan...it's Ming Luan!" Miss Lin exclaimed in a low voice.

The piece of music "Ming Luan" is extremely difficult to play. It requires the performer to have profound skills and be able to handle every transition smoothly, and it also requires strong fingers, like the cry of a phoenix and soaring into the sky.

However, Xue Zhiyi ignored everything around him.

She had also learned to play the qin since she was young, but her skills were not outstanding. That was because in her previous life, she was just an ordinary lady in the boudoir, and playing the qin only required the ability to play, not mastery.

But later, she fell into Chunfeng Tower. If she did not study hard and practice diligently to achieve superb piano skills, the madam's whip would fall on her again and again.

Such piano music also attracted Fu Ling.

The ladies around her were still whispering to her about praising Xue Zhiyi, but her polite smile did not reach her eyes.

As far as she knew, her daughter was mediocre in talent and could not match her in grace and kindness. How could she play such an obscure piece of music as "Ming Luan" so vividly?

It wasn't just her who had doubts, Fu Rongxin did as well.

At this moment, Fu Rongxin watched all this in a gloomy manner. Perhaps, now she could be sure of one thing: Xue Zhiyi was really back...