After rebirth, she became the favorite of the powerful minister.

Yuan Ge squatted for a long time holding herself, then slowly stood up with the help of the table. She poured herself a cup of tea expressionlessly and drank it slowly, one sip at a time. Her movements seemed particularly gentle because of their slowness.

After the numbness in the soles of her feet passed, she changed her clothes and walked to the door. She pursed her lips, adjusted her expression, and stood quietly for a while before opening the door.

The sun was pouring down. In the small courtyard under the warm winter sun, Lin Mu was practicing martial arts with Jianshu. A little maid who was trimming flowers and plants nearby was dodging in fear, while she did not forget to remind the other party which ones were the young lady's favorite things and must not be damaged in the slightest.

Song Wenyuan was sitting in the corridor reading a book, occasionally looking up at the courtyard. His eyes were made gentle and soft by the sunlight, with a not-so-obvious smile in them.

Murong Yuxuan was holding Wen Xiaobai and watching with great interest at the side, occasionally making a few remarks. It was obvious that this man who seldom showed off his skills must have some pretty good martial arts skills.

Such a lively atmosphere of fireworks makes life seem particularly real.

Maybe there really are gods sitting high in the clouds in this world who can decide life and death and change people's destinies with a wave of their hands, but at this moment, these small but concrete joys are real, warm, bright, and joyful. Those joys are not obvious, like water that is about to boil but has not yet boiled, or the moon that is about to be full but has not yet become full, which makes people feel a little bit of expectation.

Yuan Ge walked down the stairs to Murong Yuxuan's side, took Wen Xiaobai from his arms, and looked at him before suggesting, "Brother Murong, if you feel like itching to do something, why don't you try a few moves?"

Murong Yuxuan smiled innocently, "No, Guard Lin and Miss Jianshu are similar in style, both are nimble and light, but my martial arts are different from theirs. My skills are bold and I wield a heavy sword. If we fight in this yard, it is inevitable to hurt innocent flowers, plants and trees. Let's just watch." To say that they would hurt flowers, plants and trees is an understatement. If they really get carried away in the fight, even the wall of this yard will be burned down, and the Qichi Pavilion next door, which was just hastily repaired and half-repaired, will also be affected.

Murong Yuxuan laughed, "Let's fight again next time we have a chance."

Yuan Ge nodded and said, "I'm sorry, it's been so long, but I still haven't found any useful information for you..."

"Young Madam, please don't say such polite words. You have taken me in and given me a job that pays little but requires a lot of money. This is already a great help. As for Shao Rou..." Murong Yuxuan looked at the two people in front of him who were responding to each other's moves at a dizzying speed, and said softly, "I have actually prepared myself mentally for the possibility of never finding her in this lifetime. It has been almost twenty years. Maybe her appearance has changed and we wouldn't recognize her even if we met. Maybe she has married and had children. Everyone only knows her as Madam So-and-so, and her maiden name is so insignificant that only I remember it."

"In that case, why are you still looking for it?"

Murong Yuxuan tilted his head to look at Yuan Ge. Their somewhat similar faces always made him feel close, as if he was a younger generation that he loved and spoiled from the bottom of his heart. He shook his head, feeling helpless and confused. "If I don't look for her, what else can I do? I have been looking for her for more than ten years, from a young boy to this age. Everything I have done in the past ten years was to find her. If I suddenly stop looking for her, I don't even know what else I can do..."

In fact, Yuan Ge has been paying attention to Murong Yuxuan all this time. This man is recognized as a "good guy" by everyone in Luofengxuan. He said that he had received a job with little work but a lot of money, but in fact, he had a lot of work to do. Whenever the servants in the mansion asked him for something, he would just smile and say yes. The tasks could be as small as serving tea or lighting a fire, or as big as moving heavy objects or sweeping the yard. In short, these annoying and trivial matters happened every day, and there was even a trend of increasing day by day.

But he didn't care. He was cheerful all day long and called everyone he met "boy or girl". He had a good relationship with people and received many small gifts. Today, he received some smoked meat from the mother of a certain boy, and tomorrow, a certain girl would secretly put an embroidered handkerchief into his arms. He was good in that at least no one had taken advantage of him.

"Tell me about the Murong family." Yuan Ge lowered his head and stroked the puppy's soft and beautiful white fur. He lowered his eyebrows and didn't look at anyone. He just lowered his voice a little, "Tell me what you can say. I know that big families like you... big families that stay away from the world always have some weird and mysterious rules that can't be told to outsiders. Just pick out some things you can say and tell me. It seems that I have never heard of the surname Murong in Shengjing City."

"The Murong family is not the mysterious family that the young lady imagined, but there is nothing to hide." Murong Yuxuan looked a little relieved, with a smile on his face. "The Murong family also made their fortune through business. If you want to talk about it... it is somewhat similar to the Xu family, but the Murong family lives in a remote corner, without the power struggle of the court, so they have developed more and more, and the family head... is my father, with many wives and concubines, and many children."

“Although they live under the same roof, some children can be hugged and even spoiled by their fathers, while some don’t even have their names remembered… In order to get our father’s attention, many of us have learned to be nice and cunning in front of others and be scheming behind their backs at a very young age. Shao Rou and Shao Ai are different, they are the daughters of the eldest lady, the legitimate daughters, and the eldest lady protects them very well…” He once thought that these two lucky girls would eventually marry husbands of equal status, have one or two lovely children, and love each other all their lives.

Who would have thought…

"What about you?" Yuan Ge tilted his head to look at him, then lowered his gaze again, his long, dense eyelashes covering the complex emotions in his eyes, "Brother Murong, why did you give up all this just to find Murong Shaoai? And you've been looking for her for more than ten years?"

Murong Yuxuan looked normal, not hiding anything. "My biological mother died early, and it was the eldest lady who took pity on me and brought me up by her side. The eldest lady was very kind to me. When she was alive, she repeatedly told me to find Shao Rou. I promised her and didn't want to give up. What's more, I grew up with the two sisters and we were as close as siblings. Now my sister is missing. If even I don't look for her... I'm afraid no one in this world will remember her." After saying this, he sighed softly, "It is said that beautiful women have short lives. Who would have thought that these two sisters would have such an unhappy ending..."

"She..." Yuan Ge's voice suddenly became hoarse. He coughed a few times before he found his voice again, but it was obviously a little hoarse. "She... Murong Shaorou, in which year did she leave home?"