Substitute

Shen Xun told her that Shen Heng had a sweetheart that he couldn't ask for. The so-called shameful things in that study were the portraits of women hanging on the wall, and the woman in the painting was a woman eight years older than Ye Qingwan. Nine points of similar beauties.

Ye Qingwan suddenly realized that it was not her that Shen Heng was obsessed with, but the beauty who looked very similar to her. She was just someone else's substitute from beginning to end.

It was this time that Ye Qingwan was completely heartbroken. The only unbearable feeling she had for Shen Heng was wiped out, and she began to use Shen Heng without reservation.

Thinking of this, Ye Qingwan lowered her eyelashes and her eyes gradually darkened.

Shen Heng saved her just because she looked similar to the beauty that he couldn't ask for, and she was the only substitute that Shen Heng could find to replace that beauty. Therefore, Shen Heng was afraid that he would not even have a substitute. He risked his life to save her.

Ye Qingwan pursed her lips, feeling a little bitter at the corners of her mouth.

Is Shen Heng, who has always deceived herself, ridiculous, or is she, who has never been truly loved, pitiful?

Zhiyi didn't notice the strangeness of the person next to her, and tilted her head to explain Bai Yanran's confusion: "This is not the first time. Last time the girl fell into the water, it was this His Highness who saved her." Although Shen Heng gave her a very good feeling It was a terrible feeling, but when she thought of him saving their girl twice in a row, it didn't seem so terrible anymore, and she couldn't help but want to tell Bai Yanran about it.

"Last time?" Bai Yanran was still confused: "Is it the time when Qingwan contracted the cold and passed out for three days and three nights?"

"Yes." Zhiyi said thoughtfully: "That time the girl fell into the pond, I and Zhile didn't know how to swim, so we had to work on it. But at that time, there was no one around who knew how to swim. It was strange. There were no guards, so just when we didn't know what to do, His Highness King Yi suddenly appeared and rescued the girl."

Hearing this, Bai Yanran nodded in approval. Like Zhiyi, she seemed not to be so afraid of Shen Heng.

Zhiyi scratched her head and looked a little puzzled. She continued: "But His Highness King Yi rescued the person and left without saying anything. Then His Highness King Chen rushed over and personally sent the girl back." Come to the mansion."

Ye Qingwan frowned.

Guards can be seen everywhere in the palace. How come they are not there by accident? I am afraid they were removed deliberately to avoid ruining someone's plan. As for who... has the power to mobilize guards. , or at that time, it was either Shen Heng or Shen Xun.

Shen Heng had no reason to do that, so Shen Xun was the only one.

After thinking about it this way, Ye Qingwan finally understood.

It turned out that even the incident of falling into the water was carefully planned. Even at that time, Shen Xun was already preparing to attack her.

General's Mansion, Nanyuan.

In the dead of night, Ye Sheng returned to Nanyuan before he could change out of his official uniform. He stood at the door of the west wing without moving for a long time, looking a little hesitant.

After a long while, Ye Sheng glanced at the lighted room indifferently, then turned around and walked towards Fanghua Residence next door.

The door of the room was pushed open gently by Ye Sheng, making so little noise that the woman in the room with her back to him didn't notice that someone had broken in, and was still concentrating on what she was doing.

Ye Sheng walked up to the woman softly, and took her into his arms from behind with one hand. The woman turned around with a look of fear, and immediately put on a smile when she found out it was Ye Sheng.

"Master~" Aunt Dai said coquettishly, "You are so mean. You didn't even say a word when you came, and even if you don't say anything, you still scare people. You know they are timid." After saying that, she put down her work to please Ye Sheng.

Change clothes.

Aunt Dai is a very charming woman. Her skin is extremely well maintained. She is already over thirty years old and there are still no traces of time on her brows or corners of her eyes. She still looks like a young girl in her prime. She behaves coquettishly without any violation.

This is why Ye Sheng insisted on taking Aunt Dai out of the flower house despite the risk of Ning Xiuya getting divorced from him.

Even though Ning Xiuya was knowledgeable, sensible, gentle and sweet, she was never Ye Sheng's favorite.

Ye Sheng often leaves early and comes back late, but this time it was much later than usual. Aunt Dai was confused, so she asked while changing his clothes: "Sir, why have you come back so late recently?"

Ye Sheng cleared his throat and said seriously: "The person above has been explaining a lot recently."

"It seems that the noble man values ​​you very much, sir." Aunt Dai smiled and said, "But isn't it the same as usual? Why did you come back so late today?"

The person above whom Ye Sheng was talking about seemed to be a high-ranking lord. Ye Sheng lost an arm while trying to save Ye Cheng in his early years. After being confused for a while, he decided to give up the military and follow the civil service path. At first, he had

Ye Cheng said good things for Ye Sheng in front of the emperor, and the emperor thought that Ye Sheng had also made many military exploits for Chu Yi in the past, so he became a not-so-much official.

Because he was a military general, Ye Sheng's career as a civil servant was extremely difficult, and his official career was not going well, so he often returned home early with a bad face. Until one day, Ye Sheng came back happily and told Dai that a nobleman was interested in his talents.

Support him.

But everyone in the general's mansion knew that Ye Sheng, who didn't know half a word, could possibly see someone taking advantage of his talent???

At this point, Ye Sheng just said mysteriously that you don't understand, saying that one day he would climb higher than Ye Cheng. From then on, he started to go out early and come back late, and his face was full of joy every time he came back.

As expected, in the third year when Ye Sheng worked for that noble man, he was suddenly promoted from a seventh-grade minor official to a fifth-grade civil servant, which made him work even harder for that noble man, looking forward to it and thinking about it in his heart.

That one can really allow him to sit in a higher position than Ye Cheng one day.

He took a long breath and then said: "Obviously there are other things besides those things. Feng'er has encountered some trouble recently and needs more help from me, so I have to come back later."

Hearing this, Aunt Dai paused while changing her clothes, and her eyes turned complicated.

The Feng'er that Ye Sheng spoke of was Ye Ningfeng, the eldest son of his second wife, Ning Xiuya's son.

Although Aunt Dai is favored by Ye Sheng, she is still inferior to others in the house because she failed to give birth to a boy. She has been married to Ye Sheng for sixteen years, but since she gave birth to Ye Ningxue, her belly has not moved for a long time.

, so she suspected that Ning Xiuya might have done something wrong, but she dared not speak out.

Seeing that she didn't move for a long time, Ye Sheng asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Aunt Dai waved her hands quickly, looking worried, and said, "When I think of Feng'er, he is alone and helpless, and I don't know if he is doing well. When I think of it, I can't help but feel a little sorry for my sister.

Worry.”
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