Save my man, why does he always turn out to be the savior?

Chapter 330 The Prince's Mystery: The Cannon Fodder Bride Forced into a Substitute Marquis'

Therefore, the Marquis's mansion had many concubines in the backyard, and the beautiful women fought endlessly for the emperor's favor, but Su Jinyue only stayed in her own courtyard and never went out.

Although she was alive, Su Jinyue felt almost as good as a dead person.

Su Jinyue's father would occasionally send people to visit the Su family, implying that he wanted to pay a visit to the Marquis. Su Jinyue would simply pass the buck to the steward and ignore them.

Su Jinyue has completely lost faith in the Su family and never wants to see them again.

After Su Jinyue died, she learned that Su Jinlan had been reborn. Her wish was simple: to make Su Jinlan experience all the suffering she had endured!

The original owner did not want to be forced into a marriage of convenience, nor did she want to be exiled to the northern border with Ye Jiazhou; she had had enough.

Even if marrying Shen Huaizhi would mean becoming a widow in the end, she would accept it.

The original owner was content as long as he could live a peaceful and stable life.

Su Jinyue opened her eyes. She had basically fulfilled all of the original owner's wishes.

The two did not agree to a marriage exchange. Su Jinlan was exiled as she wished, and her "golden finger" was also sealed. Although Madam Feng sent people to take care of Su Jinlan, she was now a criminal, so even if she was taken care of, it would be limited.

Besides, Su Fanglin still needs to serve as an official in the imperial court, and Feng's overly flamboyant behavior will also affect his career. Su Fanglin will stop her.

Su Jinlan has always been proud and arrogant, and she never lifts a finger in her daily life. The hardships of exile are beyond her imagination. Su Jinlan's life in the future must be very exciting.

Thinking of these things, Su Jinyue felt refreshed. She opened her eyes and instructed her maid Chuncao, "Chuncao, let's not go back to the Marquis's mansion yet. It's almost noon, let's go to Zuixianlou for lunch."

"Yes, I'll go to Baoyuezhai later to buy some delicious pastries for my husband to take back."

Chuncao readily agreed and immediately instructed the driver to change course and go to Zuixianlou.

She came out today under the pretext of returning to her parents' home, but she returned to the Marquis's residence without even having lunch. Regardless of whether the main kitchen of the Marquis's residence prepared food for her, just the fact that this matter spread throughout the Marquis's residence would lead to various versions of gossip among the servants.

The Xuanping Marquis's residence is full of people and eyes, and Su Jinyue is not good at managing the household and cannot control so many people, so she simply decided not to go back for the time being, so as not to give the servants more to talk about.

After Su Jinyue finished her meal alone, Chuncao brought back the snacks. Seeing that it was almost time, the two of them prepared to return to the Marquis's residence.

Upon returning to the Marquis's residence, Su Jinyue could not immediately go back to rest. She had to report to the Marquis's wife and obtain permission before returning.

Su Jinyue's carriage entered the Marquis's residence directly through the side gate. She got off at the second gate and walked to the courtyard where the Marquis's wife was.

The current head of the Xuanping Marquis's mansion is Marquis Shen Mingze, whose wife, Wen Shuqin, is also the daughter of a scholarly family. Although the Marquis's wife's family is not well-known in official circles, the Wen family has produced several great Confucian scholars of the time, and their academy has produced many outstanding students, making them very famous in literary circles.

There was also an old lady in the Marquis's mansion, who was the Marquis's mother. However, since the old Marquis passed away, the old lady had been away from the mansion to worship Buddha for many years.

Lord Shen has four sons and three daughters. His eldest son by a concubine, Shen Huaizhi, is 18 years old; his legitimate son, Shen Yichen, is 17 years old; his second legitimate son, Shen Yixuan, is 13 years old; and his fourth son by a concubine, Shen Yian, is 10 years old.

The eldest legitimate daughter, Shen Yuxi, is 15 years old; the illegitimate daughters, Shen Yuyao, and Shen Yuzhen, are 14 and 13 years old respectively.

The situation of her children reveals that the eldest son and daughter born to the Lady of the Marquis were all first, demonstrating her extraordinary control over the Marquis's mansion.

Although Lord Shen had concubines and maids, none of them could surpass the position of the head mistress.

But the only exception is Shen Huaizhi.

Shen Huaizhi was a son born out of wedlock, but his biological mother was not in the Marquis's mansion because he was only a son of a concubine!

Eighteen years ago, Lord Shen was still the heir apparent. He had been married for less than a year when one night a woman carrying a child knocked on his door late at night.

The woman made a huge fuss, attracting not only the servants of the Marquis's mansion but also people from the surrounding neighborhoods to watch the spectacle.

The woman claimed that she was the mistress of Shen Mingze, the heir apparent, and that she was now persecuted and could not survive, so she had no choice but to take her child with Shen Mingze to seek refuge in the Marquis's mansion. She also claimed that she had a jade pendant given to her by Shen Mingze as proof.

The matter was too big for the servants to decide, so they quickly went to the mansion to find someone in charge. But when Shen Mingze came out, the woman was gone. Only the son, who was said to be the biological son of the young master Shen, and the jade pendant remained at the door.

Shen Mingze held the jade pendant, staring at it with a dark expression for a long time, before finally carrying the child inside.

It is said that Prince Shen was later flogged by the old Marquis and couldn't get out of bed for half a month.

After that, the child became the eldest son of the Marquis of Xuanping, and was named Shen Huaizhi.

Shen Huaizhi is a special presence in the Xuanping Marquis's mansion, not only because of his background, but also because he is not favored by the Marquis's wife.

When Shen Huaizhi was first recognized by the Marquis's mansion, the Marquis's wife, who was then the Crown Prince's wife, was only six months pregnant. When this happened, she made a scene at the Marquis's mansion, almost causing a divorce.

In the end, it was the old Marquis who took charge, punished Shen Mingze with a rod, made him kneel in the ancestral hall, and forced him to apologize to Wen Shuqin before the matter was considered closed.

However, Wen Shuqin still suffered a loss in this matter. But at that time, Wen Shuqin was already pregnant, and the divorce was just talk. For the sake of the interests of both families, they could not easily break up.

Fortunately, there was only one more child, and the mistress did not enter the mansion to get in her way.

For more than a decade, Lady Hou had consistently ignored Shen Huaizhi, her nominal son.

In addition, Shen Huaizhi was in poor health and needed to see a doctor and take medicine from time to time, so he rarely left the hospital.

The two sides were able to coexist peacefully.

If there's one thing about Lady Hou that she finds agreeable about Shen Huaizhi, it's his marriage to Su Jinyue.

The Su family and the Marquis's family were from the same hometown. Su Fanglin's father saved the old Marquis once when the old Marquis returned to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors. The two hit it off immediately and even made a promise that their children would become in-laws.

Su Fanglin's father came from a poor family, but he was a promising young man. The year he met the old Marquis, he had already become the prefect of a prefecture.

Although there is a significant gap between them and the Marquis's mansion, the old Marquis has high hopes for Su Fanglin's father's character and future, believing that he will soon rise to a high position, and arranging a marriage between their children would be a natural thing.

Unfortunately, none of Su Fanglin's generation were boys, and the marriage did not take place. Later, Su Fanglin's father passed away at a young age due to illness, and Su Fanglin, who was only a few years old at the time, had to return to his hometown to live.

When Su Fanglin grew up, passed the imperial examination, entered officialdom, married, and had children, he recalled this past event when Madam Feng was worrying about her daughter Su Jinlan's marriage.

When Madam Feng heard about this, she took it very seriously and thought about the eligible young men in the Marquis of Xuanping's mansion. It seemed that the eldest son of the Marquis's mansion was a good match for Lan'er.