Reborn Princess

After listening to Zhou Cechen's words, Shen Yanlan said, "Yanci is your most capable bodyguard. Now, whenever you go on a long journey, you always leave him by my side."

Zhou Cechen rubbed Shen Lilan's cheek with his thumb and said, "I can only feel at ease if I keep him by your side."

Shen Lilan looked at him: "Then Your Majesty has never thought that if you keep him by my side, I will worry about you."

Zhou Cechen didn't expect Shen Lilan to say such a thing. He asked in a low voice: "Don't you believe me?"

Shen Lilan: "If anything happens to you, I will be a widow."

Zhou Cechen tapped Shen Lilan's forehead with his bent finger: "Curse me?"

Shen Lilan shook his head: "No."

Zhou Cechen smiled and nodded: "Then you just wait for me at home, okay?"

"These days will definitely not be peaceful. Yang Qian has already led his troops westward."

Shen Yanlan sighed: "Okay, I'll wait for you to come back."

It was raining the day Zhou Cechen left. He sat on his horse and looked towards the city gate. A woman in red was also looking at him.

Zhou Cechen did not hesitate. He turned around, grabbed the reins and rode away.

Shen Xilan, dressed in red, stood on the city wall holding an umbrella. Her eyes turned red as she watched Zhou Cechen's figure getting smaller and smaller until it disappeared.

"May you return safely."

She whispered.

"Empress, the weather is a bit cold, let's go back." Chao Yun, who was standing aside, couldn't bear to see Shen Xilan's sad expression, so she had to speak.

Shen Yanlan sat in the carriage on the way back. She said, "Let's go back to the Shen Mansion."

"Yes."

At the Shen Mansion, Shen Xilan did not go to the East Mansion as usual, but went directly to the West Mansion.

She took Liuchun, Chaoyun, Chunhua, Qiushi and Yanci to Shou'an Hall.

Shen Lilan glanced at Liu Chun behind her. She was a pretty good dresser. She wondered if her second uncle could control himself.

In Shou'an Hall, Yu Panchun and the old lady were crying about Shen Jing's rage after Shen Luoning was locked up in the palace. The two had not spoken to each other for several days.

Wang Ciyuan twisted the Buddhist beads in her hand and said: "If you can't keep your husband, you are useless."

"If I hadn't kept General Shen's heart, would you be in your current position?"

"Although I was a concubine, I gave birth to two sons. In the end, I outlasted his wife and became the old lady of the Shen family."

"It's a pity that Shen Jibei was not eliminated back then, leaving this family of scoundrels behind."

Yu Panchun didn't listen to her nagging. She cried and said, "Now my master is staying in some little bitch's room every day. What should I do..."

Wang Ciyuan's eyes flashed with annoyance: "You lost a daughter but still have two sons. I won't do anything to you."

Only one of the two sons was her biological son, and the other was the child of a maid. Yu Panchun couldn't bear to see Shen Jing being so close to the maid every day and even thinking of making her a concubine, so she drugged the maid and made her die quietly. Now she is carrying the child with her.

But she really didn't like his background, a bastard born of a maid, she looked down on such an identity.

"Okay, go down." Wang Ciyuan said.

Yu Panchun could not find comfort here, so he had to get up and leave.

After Yu Panchun left, a servant came to report: "Madam, Princess Ding'an is here."

Wang Ciyuan frowned. What was she doing here?

After Shen Xilan came in, she sat directly in the reception room, and the servants brought her tea.

Seeing that Wang Ciyuan was still slow to come out, Shen Yanlan glanced at Liu Chun and said, "Go and get the handkerchief that fell on my carriage."

Liuchun understood and answered, "Yes."

Shen Xilan waited leisurely for the person to come out, really giving herself ample time, old lady.

Liu Chun did not leave the house under the pretext of getting a handkerchief. She walked along the stone path to the back garden. According to the usual time, Shen Jing would come out of the study and pass by the back garden at this moment.

As expected, Liuchun was seen by Shen Jing when she was bending over and pretending to look for something in an apricot pink skirt and a crabapple flower hairpin.

He narrowed his eyes and walked towards Liuchun.

Liuchun lowered her head and bent over, looking around, while Shen Jing watched her from the side.

Until a pair of boots appeared in Liuchun's eyes, she looked up in surprise and saw the visitor. She hurriedly greeted him but was grabbed by Shen Jing's arm.

"Whose maid are you?" Shen Jing asked in a serious tone.

Liu Chun whispered like a startled rabbit: "The maidservant beside Princess Ding'an."

Shen Jing smiled and said, "It turns out to be someone close to my niece."

"Yes."

Although Shen Jing helped Liuchun to stand up, his hand was still stroking her arm.

Liuchun didn't pull his hand away and let him touch her.

Seeing how obedient she was, Shen Jing smiled and said, "I didn't know she had a maid as pretty as you."

Liuchun blushed and said nothing.

Shen Jing became interested when he saw this.

"Are you afraid of me?" He took two steps towards Liuchun and forced Liuchun against the rockery.

Liuchun raised her eyes to look at him, her eyes as charming as silk.

This glance saw into Shen Jing's heart.

He said patiently, "She is such a beautiful lady, it is unfair for you to be her maid."

Liuchun bit her lip and looked at Shen Jing and finally spoke: "Master." She called him in a tender voice.

This voice almost made Shen Jing react. He hadn't seen a beauty who was dressed so fresh and charming, but whose behavior was also seductive, for a long time.

He swallowed and looked at Liuchun from head to toe. Liuchun felt shy under his stare.

"What were you looking for?"

Liu Chun said: "I lost my handkerchief."

Shen Jing saw a corner of the handkerchief beside the rockery. He walked over, picked it up, and asked, "This?"

"Yes." Liuchun went to take it but Shen Jing wouldn't let him. He raised the handkerchief very high and wrapped it around his fingers.

Liuchun blushed when he saw it.

"Uncle." She called him again.

But Shen Jing would never give her the handkerchief so easily, so Liuchun stood on tiptoe to reach it. This tipping gave Shen Jing an opportunity, and he put his arms around Liuchun, and Liuchun fell directly into his arms.

Liuchun was startled and screamed.

Shen Jing held her waist tightly and said, "What are you shouting about? Huh?"

Liuchun said: "Master, please give me the handkerchief quickly. I have to go back."

Shen Jing raised his eyebrows. "What if I don't want to pay it back?"

……

Shen Lilan waited until Wang Ciyuan came out and then greeted her.

Wang Ciyuan came out slowly with a cane and glanced at the sitting Shen Lilan.

"Grandma." Shen Lilan called her.

Wang Ciyuan said: "Sister Lan has become the princess now, and seems to have forgotten her family."

Shen Lilan raised her eyebrows, "Grandma, I don't understand what you mean."

Wang Ciyuan snorted coldly, "Did you have any hand in Luo Ning's matter?"

Shen Lilan: "Grandma has wronged me. I don't know why I feel that I would do something that would betray the family's honor."

"Although I am a member of the Shen family like Shen Luoning, I still attach great importance to the family's honor. This is the only reason why I am not like Luoning."