“Chu Fengge, you idiot! How dare you feed Xiao Lou whatever you please without my permission? If anything happens to him, I’ll have you and your daughter buried with him!”
An overwhelming sensation of suffocation dragged Chu Fengge, who had already died, back out of the darkness.
When Chu Fengge opened her eyes, she found herself not in the medical research institute where she had once worked, but in a room with elegant antique furnishings.
Before her, a handsome man gripped her throat, fury blazing in his eyes.
Bang!
“Ugh.”
Before Chu Fengge could recover her senses, the man shoved her hard onto the bed. Her head struck the headboard, and a flood of memories that did not belong to her surged into her mind.
She had transmigrated!
The man before her was Mo Qianhan, the immensely powerful Prince Regent of the Chen Kingdom—and the husband of this body’s original owner!
Xiao Lou, the boy he had mentioned, was a five-year-old child he had brought back from the battlefield. Rumor had it that Mo Qianhan had fathered the boy during a brief affair with a woman while on campaign. The boy’s birth mother was unknown.
Coincidentally, Chu Fengge, the original owner of this body, also had a five-year-old daughter. She had gone missing during a lantern festival five years earlier and conceived the child while she was away. When the people from the Prime Minister’s Mansion found her, she was holding a baby girl, out of her mind and unable to remember anything.
Her engagement to the Prince Regent had been arranged by the late emperor. Mo Qianhan had always opposed the match, but the late emperor had issued an edict, leaving him no choice but to marry her.
Tonight was their wedding night. Chu Fengge had given Mo Zilou a piece of sugar cake. After eating it, Mo Zilou collapsed to the ground, unconscious.
Everyone in the Prince Regent’s Mansion believed that Chu Fengge could not tolerate the Prince Regent’s child and had tried to poison Mo Zilou to death. Even the Prince Regent believed it, which was how things had come to this!
…
Mo Qianhan’s hand was clamped tightly around Chu Fengge’s neck, his entire body radiating hostility.
Chu Fengge sensed his killing intent and was just about to fight back!
Just then, a soft, childish voice suddenly rang out nearby. “Stop, you bad man! Let go of my mother!”
Mo Qianhan whipped his head around.
It was Chu Fengge’s child. The people of the Prime Minister’s Mansion had arranged for Chu Fengge to bring her daughter along when she married into the Prince Regent’s Mansion, an open insult to him.
It had made him the laughingstock of Lian’an City.
“Let go of my mother! I took the sugar cake! Mother had nothing to do with it! If you want to hit or scold someone, take it out on me! Don’t bully my mother!” Xiao Hua’an pounded Mo Qianhan with both her tiny fists.
Mo Qianhan immediately stood up and raised his hand…
Seeing this, Chu Fengge instinctively scrambled up from the bed and shouted, “Mo Qianhan, don’t you dare…”
She threw herself in front of Xiao Hua’an and pulled the child into her arms.
At the same moment, Mo Qianhan brought his raised hand down sharply, sending a jade pendant flying from his grasp.
It was the gift Chu Fengge had given Mo Zilou when they first met, upon her arrival at the Prince Regent’s Mansion.
He sneered. “I’m not like you. I wouldn’t hide behind idiocy and madness to harm a child. Take this jade pendant and wear it yourself. Xiao Lou doesn’t want it.”
An inexplicable sense of hurt welled up in Chu Fengge’s heart. It was an emotion left behind by the original owner of this body.
“I didn’t do it.”
“You’re still making excuses!” Mo Qianhan’s anger flared again, but just then, someone began pounding on the door.
An older female attendant called out anxiously from outside, “Your Highness, something’s wrong! The Young Heir has suddenly started convulsing and foaming at the mouth. He’s not doing well at all. Please come and see him at once!”
Mo Qianhan cast an icy glance at Chu Fengge. As he left the room, he said coldly, “Keep an eye on that fool and her child. From now on, she’s not to take a single step outside Guibao Tower. I never want to see that woman again for as long as I live!”