The slanting sun sets, when will we return to Shengjing?

  "Alright, let's prepare today and head back to Shengjing tomorrow," Chu Lian said with a tap on the table. After the servant left, she had someone inform Lady Chu about this matter.

  This is the last day, Chu Lian didn't expect that Han Jing, who looks ordinary, actually knows the art of mesmerizing. For the past few days, she has been hypnotized by Han Jing, reliving the most painful memories of her past life for just one hour each time, and every time she thinks about it, her heart aches and can't be expressed in words. She asked Mei Zhuang to help her massage her acupoints, and after finishing lunch, she changed into a maid's clothes and left the mansion with Si Wei, arriving at the courtyard where they had been coming for seven days.

  In the simple room, the wooden door was tightly closed. The woman on the bed was drenched in cold sweat, muttering to herself, and suffering endlessly. After an unknown amount of time, the woman on the bed suddenly opened her eyes, with a desperate look that couldn't be expressed, she struggled to sit up and burst into tears of pain.

  She caught sight of the dagger on the table, and a hint of an arc appeared at the corner of her mouth. "Father, mother, sister, and my poor child, I'll be with you soon!"

  She finished speaking and got out of bed, staggering to sit on the stool, took the dagger and opened it. She looked at the cold light on the dagger, finally grasping the handle tightly against her fragile neck. The dagger was sharp, just a little force, and there would be bloodstains.

  She suddenly loosened her grip on the dagger, stretched out her hand to touch the blood all over her hand, and stared blankly. Right, she couldn't die now, she hadn't made those people pay their debt in blood yet, how could she die!

  When Chu Lian opened the door, she saw a woman sitting on a stone bench smiling warmly at her. "I, You Meng, have never accepted an apprentice in my life, but now I can finally fulfill my wish."

  Chu Lian smiled genuinely for the first time since her rebirth. She walked over, knelt down and called out without hesitation: "Master."

  The setting sun was arranged to protect the imperial concubine, but the governor's mansion was heavily guarded and didn't need him to do anything. The group of guards spent their days drinking flower wine together. Xie Yang himself was indifferent to these things, he took a pot of wine and leaned against the pillar of the corridor, sipping it mouthful by mouthful, thinking that it was still more enjoyable to follow the prince, thinking of this, he straightened up his body and sent someone to ask the imperial concubine when she would return to Shengjing.

  The little servant went and came back in a moment, "The concubine said that we can set off early tomorrow." The setting sun waved his hand to let him retreat, turned around and ordered the group of lazy guards who had been too leisurely for these few days to prepare carriages and luggage. This group of guards heard that their good days were over, and they all looked gloomy, while Xi Yang rarely curled up his lips.

  The next morning, Xi Yang set out early with his guards, and the luggage was being loaded onto the carriage by the servants.

  Chu Lian was surrounded by the family members of the Governor's Mansion as she arrived at the gate. Mrs. Chu grasped her hand and patted it, sighing, "I don't know when we can meet again after you return to Shengjing this time. I wanted to keep you for a few more days, but thinking that the road to Shengjing is long and far away, staying too long might invite gossip. As the concubine's body is not good, the bumpy ride may be unbearable. I've had someone prepare some Luqi pills from Jisheng Hall for you, which should have some effect on the way."

  Chu Lian had a scarf and veil wrapped tightly around her neck due to the wound, but on this spring morning with heavy dew, coupled with her weak physique, no one found it unusual. She smiled and said, "Mother is so considerate of me, I'm truly touched. I will take good care of myself and not let Mother worry."