Rebirth and Marriage: I am the Mistress of the Palace

Xiao Qingyuan couldn't bear to hear the words "Gu Qianhan" at this moment. He was furious: "Gu Qianhan, Gu Qianhan, you only know Gu Qianhan! He spent a fortune on you today, and you are tempted, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! How could I possibly be attracted to Gu Qianhan?"

"Chu Yanluo, you still dare to say that you are not tempted? Don't you despise those vulgar things of gold and silver? Aren't you the most noble? Why are you having dinner with Gu Qianhan just for one thousand taels of gold?"

All the anger Xiao Qingyuan had accumulated in Qingyun Building burst out: "You said yourself that he drugged you and humiliated you, but now you act as if nothing happened! Gu Qianhan didn't humiliate you at all, right? You lied to me! The person who slept with you that night was not Gu Qianhan, but Yuan Zheng!"

He grabbed Chu Yanluo's collar and used force in his hands to strangle Chu Yanluo's neck in an instant: "Why did you lie to me?! Why did you cover up for Yuan Zheng? Why did you frame Gu Qianhan? Why!"

Chu Yanluo was strangled to the point of being unable to speak, but the pride and disdain on her face did not diminish at all, as if she was too disdainful to argue with Xiao Qingyuan.

Xiao Qingyuan saw her face turn purple, and finally let go of her hand. He asked with red eyes: "Who do you like? Yuan Zheng? Or Gu Qianhan? Have you never liked me at all?"

Chu Yanluo slowly fell down. She slumped on the ground, gasping for breath, tears streaming down her cheeks like beads from a broken string. "How could the prince doubt me to this extent? I have known the prince for such a long time, and the prince actually thinks that I am the kind of woman who changes my mind at any time? Apart from the prince, how could there be anyone else in my heart? Doesn't the prince understand my heart? I regard the prince as a confidant, but what does he regard me as? A toy that can be beaten and scolded at any time?"

Seeing her face covered with tears, Xiao Qingyuan felt a pain in his heart: "I have never treated you as a plaything!"

"What was the prince doing just now? Wasn't he trying to strangle me to death?"

"I didn't mean to strangle you. You lied to me first. Shouldn't I be angry?"

"Okay, then I will tell you today, Prince, why I lied to you."

Xiao Qingyuan was stunned: "Are you really willing to tell me the reason?"

"It has come to this point. If I don't tell the prince the reason, there will always be a thorn in his heart, but I don't want to have any grudges against the prince. The prince is already the closest person to me in this world, and I can't lose you."

Chu Yanluo said with a miserable face, and then revealed a fearful expression: "I dare not say that it was Master Yuan who bullied me, because Master Yuan has something on me. If I tell him, he will ruin my reputation. I dare not gamble, so I can only follow his request and frame Master Gu."

Xiao Qingyuan frowned: "You mean, you framed Gu Qianhan, and it was Yuan Zheng who asked you to do so?"

Chu Yanluo nodded: "It was Master Yuan who ordered me to do this. He said that he had hated Master Gu for a long time and felt that all his limelight was taken away by Master Gu, so he wanted to make Master Gu infamous."

Xiao Qingyuan's face turned ugly. Yuan Zheng and Gu Qianhan had indeed always been at odds with each other. He had always been the one mediating between them before. Recently, he had no time to take care of these two people, so it was normal for the conflict between them to intensify.

However, the conflict between the two of them intensified, and Yuan Zheng even tormented Chu Yanluo. He deserved to die!

Chu Yanluo looked at his expression and knew that she had made the right bet again.

She spoke half-truths more and more fluently: "Prince, I was really forced into this, otherwise I wouldn't want to ruin the reputation of Second Young Master Gu. However, I know Second Young Master Gu won't bother with such a small matter. He came to my aid today, proving that my judgment was correct. But First Young Master Yuan is different. He is ruthless and will kill me if I don't do as he says."

Xiao Qingyuan felt uncomfortable when he heard her praise Gu Qianhan again. He snorted coldly to express his dissatisfaction: "You know Gu Qianhan better than I do!"

Chu Yanluo is not a fool. She certainly knows that her praise of Gu Qianhan will make Xiao Qingyuan uncomfortable, but she did it on purpose.

Because of this, Xiao Qingyuan felt a sense of crisis that she was going to be snatched away by someone.

Just like when they were at Qingyun Building, Gu Qianhan forced him to express his opinion. He clearly didn't want to divorce Shen Wantang, but he still blurted out that he wanted to divorce her because he was afraid of losing her.

She had to make Xiao Qingyuan and Gu Qianhan compete with each other. Food tastes better when people fight over it, and women are cherished when people fight over them.

Before, she only revolved around Xiao Qingyuan every day. He thought she was his and started to not take her seriously. He treated her better than before she moved into the palace.

This is not okay!

Xiao Qingyuan barely suppressed the discomfort in his heart and said in a cold voice: "I don't know whether Gu Qianhan will care about your false accusation, but Yuan Zheng doesn't have the courage to kill you. You are now a member of my Ning Wang Mansion!"

Chu Yanluo began to cry again: "The prince thinks I am from the Ning Palace, but apart from you, no matter if it is other people in this palace or those who gossip outside, who would think I am from the Ning Palace?"

"I live here without any status and everyone treats me as a joke. Why does Mr. Yuan dare to bully me under the nose of the prince? Isn't it because he thinks the prince doesn't care about me?"

"Why doesn't he bully and occupy Shen Wantang? It's because Shen Wantang is the Crown Prince's Consort of Prince Ning's Mansion, so he doesn't dare to think about it."

Xiao Qingyuan's face darkened slightly. "If you are talking about Yuan Zheng, just talk about Yuan Zheng. Why are you bringing up Shen Wantang? Don't say such things in the future. You are tarnishing Shen Wantang's reputation for nothing."

Chu Yanluo choked and almost vomited blood! Xiao Qingyuan actually defended Shen Wantang so much? It's only been a few days? He went from hating Shen Wantang to defending her? Wasn't she just an unloved, stupid concubine's daughter in the Shen family? Why did she have such great abilities!

In the previous life, Xiao Qingyuan never defended Shen Mingxuan!

Chu Yanluo had never felt so much crisis. She quickly reassessed Shen Wantang's strength and finally realized that she had underestimated Shen Wantang!

Even if she was reborn, even if she had the innate ability to win Xiao Qingyuan's heart, she had no chance of winning against Shen Wantang!

Shen Wantang didn't even need Xiao Qingyuan's love to beat her without any chance of fighting back!

At this moment, Chu Yanluo suddenly thought of Shen Wantang from her previous life.

In her previous life, everyone said that Shen Wantang had a good life. She was the most envied woman in countless women in the capital. She was Madam Liao, whom even the princess had to avoid.

She has a husband who loves and dotes on her wholeheartedly. Her husband is so young and promising, so elegant and handsome. However, such an outstanding man never looks at other women even if that woman is a princess. He even refuses the emperor's marriage proposal in the hall for Shen Wantang!