Dressed as a wealthy and rebellious son, his stepmother

The first thing you see is a mahogany bed frame with carved cloud patterns, and a coral door cabinet stands at the end of the bed. The sunlight shines in from the window and falls on the brass mirror, reflecting the long light.

The curls of cigarette smoke slowly emitted from the golden chi beast incense burner, effectively reminding Shu Wan that this was not a dream.

She sat up and looked at the person speaking to the side. She was a little maid in her teens wearing an apple bun and a green skirt.

Shu Wan was very sure that she had never seen this maid before.

Shu Wan, who had already been reborn once, was not too panicked by the current scene.

She spoke, her voice a little hoarse, "Bring me a mirror."

The maid hurriedly went to get a mirror for Shu Wan, "Miss, luckily I didn't hurt my face, otherwise I wouldn't be able to see the female official today."

Shu Wan took the mirror and touched the face in the mirror, her eyes suddenly darkened.

The face in the mirror, with rhinoceros-like teeth and slender eyebrows, is a standard beauty, and it is seventy percent similar to Shu Wan's own face, but it is only similar.

She knew very well that this was not her.

Shu Wan subconsciously squeezed the mirror tightly. Could it be that she fell into another time and space like a wandering soul?

"Miss, what's wrong with you?"

Seeing that Shu Wan was still silent, the little maid's eyes were a little red, "Miss, no matter how much you like Mr. Lin, you have to consider the Shu family. Don't be stubborn anymore."

Shu Wan had no time to pay attention to Mr. Lin or Mr. Lin at this time. She looked at the little maid, "What year is it now?"

The little maid was stunned and subconsciously widened her eyes, "Miss, don't scare me. This year is the fifth year of Beiling. Don't you remember?"

Finally hearing the familiar name, Shu Wan calmed down a little, her eyes moved slightly, "Is the current emperor Qi Yuan?"

"Miss!!" The maid was really frightened now. She knelt down quickly and said, "How can you call His Majesty by his first name? It would be terrible if someone with a heart hears it."

Sure enough, after making sure that she had not fallen into an unfamiliar time and space, Shu Wan felt relieved.

However, Shu Wan calculated that it had been five years since Beiling, which meant that it had been six years since she left.

"Get up."

Shu Wan's thoughts are messy now and need to be sorted out.

"Miss, the female officer will be here soon. I will help you freshen up first."

"Ah."

No matter how shocked she was, Shu Wan didn't show it. She forced herself to calm down and let the maid help her put on her clothes.

Not long after, the maid helped her put on her clothes. She wore a water-red embroidered silk satin pomegranate skirt, which made her charming appearance even more delicate.

The clothes were specially made by the embroiderer from Jiangnan Xiufang, and Shu Wan's face was famously beautiful in Suzhou, but for some reason, the maid always felt that something was not right.

After a while, the maid suddenly realized that yes, her temperament did not match her.

I don't know why, but the maid always feels that the current temperament of her eldest lady is condescending and oppressive.

When the eldest lady glanced over, she felt even more oppressive than the master.

But the eldest lady is obviously young, how can she have such an overwhelming aura.

Under such momentum, the flowery and red clothes suitable for a little girl seemed a bit too noisy.

The maid felt confused, and Shu Wan also had a lot of thoughts in her mind.

She tried her best to recall it, but found that she could not obtain the memory of the original owner like before.

As of now, she doesn't even know her name. She only knows that it is Beiling's fifth year and she is about to participate in the draft.

Birds were chirping outside the window. Shu Wan looked across the flowered window and saw pink willows and green spring. It was completely different from the snow-covered imperial capital. It was as if the year spent in that world was just a dream that Shu Wan had.

However, thinking of Fu Siyu's warm embrace and Fu Yang's arrogant and cute appearance, the dull pain in her heart clearly told Shu Wan that this was not a dream.

If Shu Wan had never been to the world a thousand years later, Shu Wan would be able to live very well here.

But after seeing such a vast and free world, everything in the feudal dynasty is like a gradually tightening shackles, making it impossible to breathe.

Shu Wan wants to go back.

The first condition is that she must figure out the reason for these two rebirths.

Thinking of Qi Yuan's excavated tomb and the dreams Shu Wan had frequently had before returning here, she intuitively felt that the answer to all of this must be found from Qi Yuan.

So, Shu Wan looked at the maid and said, "Tell me about your Majesty today."

Hearing what Shu Wan said, the maid was actually very surprised, "Oh, Miss, you have finally figured it out. His Majesty is the best in the world in martial arts and martial arts. How can he be compared to those rotten scholars? It's really unbelievable. Know"

Halfway through, the maid suddenly thought that the eldest lady of her family was absolutely devoted to Lin Xiucai, otherwise she wouldn't be able to go on a hunger strike to resist the draft. If she said that to Lin Xiucai, the eldest lady would definitely be angry.

However, to the maid's expectation, the eldest lady was extremely calm today. She even said that Lin Xiucai was rotten, but the eldest lady was not angry.

The maid looked at Shu Wan cautiously. Her eyebrows were slightly lowered, and she had a sense of tranquility that had accumulated over time, as if even the breeze that blew in was stopping in front of her.

The eldest lady is really so beautiful. The maid couldn't help but sigh in her heart, "Miss, you are so beautiful, His Majesty will definitely keep you in the palace."

"Continue talking about Your Majesty."

"okay."

The maid quickly continued talking about Qi Yuan. Just as Shu Wan had guessed before, after Qi Yuan successfully ascended the throne, he rectified the official administration, encouraged production, and expanded the territory.

Even though he was autocratic and domineering, and concentrated power in one body, it did not prevent him from becoming the "Eternal Emperor" in the hearts of ordinary people.

Seeing the maid's starry-eyed expression when she talked about Qi Yuan, Shu Wan's heart skipped a beat, "Who is the queen now?"

"There is no queen." The maid replied, "But after His Majesty ascended the throne, he posthumously named the Crown Princess Queen Huiyi. This is you."

Before the maid could tell you, don't you know, Shu Wan replied, "I know, Shu Wan."

"Yes, yes." The maid was still a little confused about why the eldest lady was acting strangely, but now she dispelled her doubts, "After that, Your Majesty did not re-establish a queen. Now there are only four concubines in the harem, including Guishu, Dexian, and There are nearly twenty people including Noble Jieyu."

Knowing that her eldest daughter was obsessed with the scholar and did not pay attention to these things, the little maid secretly helped her understand a lot. Now that Shu Wan rarely asked, the little maid spared no effort to explain.

Shu Wan was not surprised by what the little maid said.

In modern TV dramas, they all like to play palace battles, but those who are really around the emperor know that for the emperor, the harem is just another balance to balance the power of the previous dynasty. Not to mention twenty people, Shu Wan would not be surprised even if there were two hundred people.

"In this year's draft, besides me, who else in the family is there?" Shu Wan calmly asked.

"There are so many. Shu Qing, the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Palace, will also participate this year. There are also four or five from other branches. As for our lineage, you are the only one."

After finishing her words, as if she was afraid that Shu Wan would think too much, the maid added, "Don't worry, although the master is just the county magistrate, your surname is Shu anyway, and you are so beautiful, you will definitely be selected. of."

Shu Wan's eyelashes quivered when she heard another familiar name, Shu Qing, the second young lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, her concubine.

It seems that after she left, Shu Qing did not succeed in replacing her as the crown princess as she wished.

The Shu family is a very large family, with Prime Minister Shu as the main line, and its family branches are spread all over the country. According to the maid's words, she should be reborn into a branch of the Shu family now.

She was worried about finding an opportunity to contact Qi Yuan and seek the truth about time travel, and now the opportunity came to her door.

"Sister, I heard that you are not in good health. How are you doing now?"

The master and servant were talking when suddenly someone spoke outside the courtyard, it was a pretty female voice.

When the little maid heard this voice, she curled her lips in disgust and said, "Second Miss is so annoying. She just came to see the joke on purpose. Miss, please ignore her."

Before the maid could finish her words, the door was pushed open, and a woman wearing a colorful embroidered peony and gold brocade double-breasted skirt walked in.

Seeing Shu Wan sitting properly in front of the mirror, a trace of gloom flashed across the woman's eyes.

Soon, her expression returned to normal, "Caiyun, get down."

Shu Wan's eyes moved slightly, and it turned out that the little maid's name was Caiyun.

After Caiyun left, the woman walked up to Shu Wan and glanced at Shu Wan's face, unable to hide the jealousy in her eyes, "Sister, Lin Xiucai asked me to bring you a message. He will be waiting for you at Queqiao in the west of the city tonight."

Shu Wan raised her head and glanced at the woman. Although she didn't know the relationship between the original owner and the woman, seeing the obvious jealousy in the woman's eyes, she probably knew that this so-called message came from an evil person.

Shu Wan pursed her lips slightly and twitched her eyelashes, looking like a shy and emotional girl, "Thank you, I will definitely go tonight."

Seeing that Shu Wan was still so stupid and only wanted to elope with Lin Xiucai, Shu Ying felt relieved.

When she came in just now and saw Shu Wan's side face sitting there Qingran, Shu Ying thought that Shu Wan had become smarter, but now it seems that she has not changed at all.

"Sister, Lin Xiucai already knows that you are going to participate in the draft. You have to give him an explanation. In a few days, you will go north to the capital. Wouldn't you be sorry for Lin Xiucai then?"

Shu Wan's eyes widened slightly, with a completely panicked attitude, "What should I do? I don't want to go to the draft."

"Sister, have you read the storybook I showed you a few days ago?"

"Yeah." Shu Wan nodded and followed Shu Ying's words, "What do you mean?"

"Why don't you imitate Cui Yingying, and I will imitate the matchmaker"

Shu Wan understood, "You mean, let me elope?"

"Yes, sister, don't you like Lin Xiucai very much? He is very talented and beautiful. He will definitely be able to go to high school in the future, and maybe he will be able to become a marquis and prime minister. When that time comes, your parents will definitely forgive you. It’s your fault now.”

Listening to Shu Ying's words, Shu Wan snorted coldly in her heart.

Shu Ying's words were beautiful, and they could definitely be used to coax an inexperienced teenage girl.

But to her ears, it was full of loopholes.

Even the world a thousand years from now will despise elopement, let alone today's era.

To put it bluntly, even if the so-called Lin Xiucai reaches high school in the future, when he jumps over the dragon gate, his first step will probably be to kick her, let alone repay today's kindness.

Thoughts were swirling in her heart, but Shu Wan didn't show any signs of it on her face. She looked at Shu Ying expectantly, "What should I do? Please teach me, sister."

"I have arranged it for you." Shu Wan has always been easy to deceive, and Shu Ying had no doubt at this time, "You will go with Lin Xiucai tonight, and I will find someone to help you change your household registration. From now on, you She is a fisherman girl from Southeast County, she is no longer the daughter of the Shangnan County Magistrate."

Shu Wan didn't even bother to remember whatever nonsense Shu Ying said, but at least some of the information Shu Ying said was still very useful.

Her current status is that she is the legitimate daughter of the Shangnan County Magistrate.

Shu Wan knew Shangnan County, which is a county under the jurisdiction of Suzhou Prefecture, not far from Bailu Mountain. Shu Wan went to the mountain for a study trip, and she and her classmates ate bean curd at a stall in Shangnan County.

At that time, how could she have imagined that she would come back here again in this capacity.

Seeing that Shu Wan remained silent, Shu Ying thought she had gone back on her word, "Sister, Lin Xiucai has disobeyed his mother because of you. You can't live up to his deep love for you."

"I know." Shu Wan nodded excitedly, "Then do as you say. I will prepare some gold and silver. Sister, can you lend me some money? When Lin Xiucai becomes rich in the future, we will definitely not Forget yours.”

Shu Wan's sudden big cake made Shu Ying a little confused. She forced a smile and said, "Sister, you also know that I am not the legitimate daughter. My father doesn't give me much money in a month."

Shu Wan glanced at Shu Ying's head full of pearls, "Then I'll discuss it with him. We can leave after I save more money. There's no rush now."

"Don't!" Shu Ying's anxious tone changed.

In a few days, the show girls participating in the election will leave for the capital. If Shu Wan doesn't leave, how will she have a chance.

"Sister, daddy will be back tomorrow. If you don't leave tonight, you won't be able to leave tomorrow when daddy comes back!"

"But," Shu Wan looked embarrassed, "I really don't have much money. You know, he is also shy. We"

"I'll lend it to you!"

Shu Ying gritted her teeth and said, money is nothing. If she can choose a beautiful girl, she can have as much gold and silver as she wants.

"Really? That's troublesome sister. Go back and pack it up. I'll ask Caiyun to get it for you later. I have to pack my things too."

With that said, Shu Wan stood up and started cleaning up.

Seeing that Shu Wan was really planning to elope with Lin Xiucai, Shu Ying left with peace of mind.

Shu Wan was indeed packing her things, but she was not leaving. She was trying her best to search for information about the original owner.

Two hours later, Shu Wan roughly sorted out her current situation.

Shu Wan, 16 years old, the legitimate daughter of the magistrate of Shangnan County, belongs to an unknown branch of the Shu family, and will go to the capital to participate in the draft in three days.

And last night, because she resisted the draft, she committed suicide in her bedroom after leaving a suicide note.