The concubine was reborn, and the cold prince was made red in the face

Chapter 2 Back to Three Years Ago

She slowly sank to the bottom and swam upstream against the current.

She remembered that upstream was the small door leading to the inner house. As long as she could find someone to change her clothes, or have someone notify her eldest sister, she could escape this disaster.

She carefully swam out for 40 to [-] meters, found a deserted place to land, crawled into a rockery not far away, found a hidden corner, and listened to what was going on outside.

Suddenly she heard the sound of subtle footsteps. She clung to the stone, not daring to move.

"I'm going to see what's going on up front. You can come over later." A deep male voice sounded.

Zuo Xiangning was startled. Is this familiar voice the second prince, King Chu?
She tiptoed and held her head against the stone. When she saw that there was no one outside, she hurriedly called in a low voice: "Eldest brother-in-law? Eldest brother-in-law?"

"Who?"

Before Zuo Xiangning could see clearly outside, a tall black figure appeared in front of her like lightning, blocking her tightly in a small corner.

Zuo Xiangning clasped her hands on her chest, raised her bright apricot eyes, looked at the completely unfamiliar man in front of her, and shouted inwardly: "I have something to ask King Chu!"

"How long have you been here?" The man asked aggressively with a cold look in his eyes, "What did you hear?"

"I...I just arrived," Zuo Xiangning knew that the second prince was secretly in contact with many ministers in the court. She guessed that the cold man in front of her had an unusual relationship with the King of Chu secretly, so she looked pleading and pitiful. He said: "Young master, please find a maid to help me quietly tell Princess Chu that the fourth girl of the Zuo family has slipped and fallen into the water, and is waiting for her here."

Princess Chu is the second daughter of the Zuo family, and everyone knows it.

The man looked at the delicately dressed but wet little girl in front of him carefully, turned around and went out, calling out "Changfeng".

Zuo Xiangning stretched her neck and couldn't hear what he said on the other side of the rockery. After a while, the man came back to her.

Zuo Xiangning hurriedly retreated to the corner.

The man looked at the woman shivering with cold, took off his black brocade cloak and handed it to her.

Zuo Xiangning, who was shivering, took it without hesitation and wrapped it around herself.

She used her hands to tuck the loose hair on her face behind her ears, and then bowed gracefully to the man, "Thank you, Master, for saving your life."

The man looked at the little woman who was as delicate as a hibiscus and turned around without saying a word and went outside the rockery.

Zuo Xiangning breathed a sigh of relief and leaned limply on the rockery. She still didn't understand what was going on.

"Your Majesty, why are you standing here?"

Suddenly a gentle voice sounded outside. Zuo Xiangning's legs softened and she almost fell.

Gu Zhiqing?It turned out to be Gu Zhiqing!

She grabbed the rockery next to her with her fingers and listened nervously to the movement outside.

"Master Gu." The man in black said calmly.

Gu Zhiqing looked around and saw that there was no figure of the second prince, so he asked tentatively: "Is the prince alone?"

The man in black was obviously unhappy with Gu Zhiqing's talkativeness, and his voice was a bit colder: "Master Gu, don't you want to go to Huxin Pavilion?"

"There are too many people over there, it's too noisy." Gu Zhiqing stood next to the man in black, looking at the colorful garden on the other side, and said in a hurry: "The rose garden in Prince Qi's Mansion is really well-deserved."

The man in black didn't intend to talk to Gu Zhiqing, but when he thought of the woman hiding behind the rockery, he still pretended to be curious and looked at the Huxin Pavilion in the distance, "What happened in front? Why is it so noisy?"

"Really? What happened?" Gu Zhiqing knew full well that he was standing here just to avoid suspicion. But when he saw several people jumping into the water one after another, he couldn't help but worry that his second brother would not drown. Die?The man in black glanced at Princess Chu who was hurriedly walking from the woods on the left. He turned to Gu Zhiqing and said, "Let's go and take a look too."

"Okay." Gu Zhiqing heard that something was wrong in the voice in front of him, and he was afraid that something would end badly, so he walked ahead with a little eagerness.

When the man in black saw Changfeng pointing out the rockery to Princess Chu, he followed Gu Zhiqing leisurely.

Zuo Xiangning's face behind the rockery was as white as snow. She almost rushed out just now!

She wished she could push that devil into the water right now and drown him!

But the only reason she had kept her where she was. She had fought with him many times, and she knew that she was no match for him.

What's more, God gave her a chance to live again, how could she be willing to waste it so easily!

"Xiang Ning?" Zuo Xiangrong's anxious voice came from outside the rockery.

"Eldest sister!" Zuo Xiangning turned out of the rockery and looked at the eldest sister she hadn't seen for two years. Tears filled her eyelashes instantly, "I'm here!"

Seeing her like this, Zuo Xiangrong was shocked and touched her face worriedly, "Are you injured anywhere?"

"No." Thinking of the "violent death" mentioned by Gu Zhiqing in her previous life, Zuo Xiangning's heart felt like a knife piercing her heart.

"Be obedient and don't cry!" Zuo Xiangrong reached out to untie her long and big black cloak and handed it to Caihong: "My sister is here, don't be afraid!"

The eldest girl Caixia hurriedly put her pink cloak on Zuo Xiangning's body.

Zuo Xiangrong helped her put on the cap of her cloak, took her hand and said, "Let's go!"

"Yeah." Zuo Xiangning sniffed and followed closely beside Zuo Xiangrong.

Maybe it was because there was too much commotion at the Huxinting Pavilion, but they didn't meet anyone along the way. They left the courtyard smoothly and got on the carriage of Prince Chu's Mansion.

Zuo Xiangrong said to Caixia: "Go and tell King Chu that I have a headache and ask the fourth girl to accompany me back home first."

Caixia responded "yes", jumped off the carriage, and returned to Prince Qi's Mansion.

Zuo Xiangrong wrapped her hands around Zuo Xiangning's cold fingers, and waited until the carriage left the gate of Prince Qi's Mansion before she asked worriedly: "What's going on? Xiangyu said you lost your footing and fell into the water at the Huxin Pavilion. How did you run to the rockery?" So where are you? Did Ling Xiao save you?"

Zuo Xiangning didn't listen to what Zuo Xiangrong was saying. She was thinking about her third sister Zuo Xiangyu, second sister Zuo Xiangyun, and Gu family's fake second young masters Gu Zhicheng and Gu Zhiqing. In the scene of them falling into the water, What roles do they play?
In her previous life, she fell into a lake and was rescued by Young Master Gu in full public view. Her reputation was damaged. From then on, no one was willing to come to propose marriage.

The aunt Jiang had no choice but to ask someone to test the Gu family's intention. It turned out that the Gu family had no intention of proposing marriage.

It wasn't until the following year that the King of Chu was crowned a great treasure and Zuo Xiangrong, the eldest daughter of the Zuo family, became the queen, did the Gu family come to propose marriage again.

Jiang was furious and drove those who proposed marriage out of Zuofu.

A month later, Zuo Zixi, the most promising eldest son of the Zuo family, died in battle on the border. The Zuo family was instantly in ruins.

Concubine Liu's father was named the General Protector of the Country at this time, and her sister Zuo Xiangrong's position in the palace became precarious.

Zuo Xiangning married into the Gu family at that time in her previous life. She wanted the Gu family to stand on the same team as her sister and the young prince, so that her sister and the prince would have someone to rely on in the court.

But who would have thought that while the queen and the young prince were still in their positions, Gu Zhiqing would dare to treat her so unscrupulously!
Who gave Gu Zhiqing the courage to be so arrogant?
And why did her eldest sister and the prince suddenly die suddenly?
Was it Liu Guifei’s fault or Gu Zhiqing’s fault?

Those things in the previous life seemed to have no connection, but the more Zuo Xiangning thought about it now, the more she felt that something was wrong.

(End of this chapter)