Rebirth of the Great Favor

Chapter 4: Dream-like

AT last, Shen Zhonghua assigned two obedient servant girls to Shen Qi. One called Ling Jiao, the other called Lian Xiang.

How did this happen? Shen Qi wasn’t clear. Before she thought it was a dream. It wasn’t until everything that happened later overlapped with her so-called dream and followed the development step by step extremely clear. Only then was she clear and realized that it wasn’t a dream, but she was born again and came back.


But why was it different? Was it because she discarded that small box of rouge ahead of time? Was the choice she made different from the previous life? But even if she threw that small box of rouge away the result remained the same. Su Lianxue found the small box of rouge she had "stolen" in her room and had her kneel on the cobblestone in her yard.

Why did Shen Zhonghua suddenly return? Why did Shen Zhonghua not punish her? Why would Shen Zhonghua take her to the Fanghua Garden?

One must know the joy of the previous life, he only vented his desire in her body. Apart from humiliation and pain, Shen Qi didn’t feel a trace of joy or affection. Moreover, no matter how Shen Zhonghua ravaged her body and mind, he never hugged or kissed her. Even when he pushed into her body and at the most intense moment, Shen Zhonghua's hands were either squeezing her breasts tightly, holding her legs or pinching her waist......

The servant girls helped Shen Qi change her clothes and forced her to go to bed to rest, saying that it was His Highness’s order. How valuable the carving mahogany bed was, not to mention the pillows on the bed were made of excellent brocade. Shen Qi thought she must be overthinking things so she started to have unrealistic beautiful dreams.

Afterward, a physician came to help her diagnose the pulse and prescribed some medicines to expel the cold, medicines to improve blood circulation to remove blood clots and nourished the muscles and bones. She didn’t have to get out of bed, Lian Xiang had already gone with the prescriptions for the medicines from the housekeeper.

Shen Qi had some impressions of Ling Jiao and Lian Xiang. They did things properly and meticulously. In the previous life, they were given to Su Lianxue by Shen Zhonghua. On several occasions, Su Lianxue deliberately made things difficult for her and it was still these two maidservants that cleverly explained things on her behalf. Including...... including later when she bled incessantly, it was also Lian Xiang who knew some medicinal herbs and grabbed some medicine for her.

Shen Qi knelt in the rain for a long time, her physical strength was already exhausted. She closed her eyes and thought of a rare, beautiful dream. Composed and sat for a while, after waking up, it should be how it should......

However, when Shen Qi woke up, she was still in the soft bedding of the Fanghua Garden. Ling Jiao saw her woke up and told her with a smile: "Is the girl feeling better? Do you need Ling Jiao to help you clean and comb? His Highness said he will come in the evening."

"It turns out...... I still haven't woken up yet......" Shen Qi broke into laughter. She only felt that toward Shen Zhonghua, in the end, it was difficult to level.

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Later, Shen Qi sat beside Shen Zhonghua with fear and trepidation. She used the evening meal under the service of his subordinates and drank the top-quality Biluochun with him. She even thought back of herself inside the dream, thinking to herself: "Originally haven’t eaten over things, yet can dream that they were so delicious. Must have always smelled the fragrance and gluttonous......"

(T/N: Biluochun is a type of green tea.)

There was no word at the table. The two ate silently. Only when Shen Zhonghua gave her a piece of braised beef, Shen Qi's hand trembled uncontrollably. Because for her, this dream, which she regarded was really, terribly strange, but in the end, something even more strange happened......

Shen Zhonghua pulled out a small brocade box from his arm. That small brocade box, Shen Qi was very familiar. There were many such as large and small brocade boxes in Su Lianxue's room, which was hailed as the world’s first rouge building——the box containing rouge gouache in Yunbin Huayan Building.


In her angry and surprised gaze, Shen Zhonghua opened the small brocade box. Only saw that there were rouge, luó dài, osmanthus fragrance oil, pearl powder, and magnolia powder placed in the small brocade box.