Chapter 1: Sisters fight again after rebirth
Jiang Shiyuan stared at the triangular rice dumpling that had just been delivered to the table in a daze.

In a trance, I realized that I was reborn.

Due to her poor health, she basically didn't eat glutinous food. She finally managed to go out, but because the sun was too strong, she couldn't stand it, so she hid in this private room by the river, and was isolated from the hustle and bustle outside.

"Thank you for keeping me company, sister-in-law. You should have gone out to take a look at this good opportunity."

As soon as she opened her mouth, her voice was clear and melodious.

The jade-bone ice-silk round fan in her hand was waving intermittently. She was wearing a soft smoke-silk skirt with water sleeves, which added a bit of coolness to her. Half of her wrist was exposed, and on that wrist was a jade bracelet with extremely fine water content, which was transparent and round, and rich yet soft.

The whole person is as lazy as a cat.

It's very relaxing.

"Your Majesty has been so kind as to allow all officials and their families to gather at Quyang Lake to watch this year's dragon boat race. He wanted to have a good time and celebrate the occasion. But you, on the other hand, don't even go out to meet people. It seems that what people say about you not wanting to see anyone because of the broken engagement has come true."

The person who answered was a dignified woman sitting next to Jiang Shiyuan.

Her hair was done up meticulously, embellished with a few unobtrusive pearl and jade hairpins. Her slender back was straight, and one could tell at a glance that she was well-educated.

She is none other than Jiang Shiyuan's elder cousin Xiang, the first wife of the eldest son of Marquis Wenyuan's mansion. The two of them had been close friends in their early years, and now that they were a family, they were naturally closer than others!
Holding a red lychee that had been urgently sent from Lingnan, which was eight hundred miles away, Xiang carefully peeled off the shell, revealing the smooth and translucent flesh inside, and handed it to Jiang Shiyuan. Her doting expression was beyond words. Jiang Shiyuan took the red lychee and tasted it carefully. It was fat but not juicey, sweet and juicy, and just right to eat at this time of year.

"I don't care what people say outside. Who can be as free as I am when I live behind closed doors? Don't you think so, sister-in-law?"

When she said this, her cheeks were flushed red due to the heat, as beautiful as the clouds in the sky, and she was really charming and lovely.

Xiang smiled, looked at the bustling Quyang Pond from afar, and then started a conversation.

"Your second aunt thought she was so proud of snatching this marriage from Prince Chun's mansion. Now the second daughter of the Jiang family has been married for less than a month, and I heard that Princess Chun has already started to choose a concubine for the prince. She has to deal with these things during the wedding. I wonder if she will regret it!"

Do you regret it? I'm afraid not.

The second girl of the Jiang family mentioned by my cousin Xiang is Jiang Shijin.

She is the daughter of Jiang Shiyuan's second uncle. Because her second uncle passed away early, they were left with a family of orphans and widows, and her second aunt only had her. Her father felt sorry for them because they had no one to rely on, so he had been doing his best to take care of them over the years.

If you have money, you will be able to do your best.

However, they never expected that this would whet the appetites of both mother and daughter, which led to the incident during the Lantern Festival where Jiang Shijin used her own fame to have an affair with the Prince of Chun under the moonlight.

Once the incident happened, my second aunt and grandmother came to me and begged me for help. No matter how they tried, they just wanted my second sister Jiang Shijin to marry in her place.

In fact, Jiang Shiyuan didn't want this marriage from the very beginning.

In her previous life, she stayed in Prince Chun's Mansion for three years, and initially thought it was a good marriage.

My father-in-law is cheerful and kind, my mother-in-law is strict in rules, and although my husband, the prince, is a member of the royal family, he does not have the virtues of a playboy at all. Instead, he likes to make friends with literati and poets. Therefore, he has a very good reputation in Kyoto and even in the Dasui Dynasty.

Everyone who sees it will praise it, saying that it is as bright as the moon in the world and is humble and polite.

But people are like this. You can only tell whether they are jackals, wolves or tigers after getting to know them. After only a few months in the mansion, the family didn't want to put on an act anymore. Because she was weak and couldn't have children, even the concubines in the mansion would turn their faces away from her and torture her in some petty ways.

When she was running out of energy, there was no one around her except her maids Liuhua and Luluo who came with her as a dowry! She thought she was finally free, but when she opened her eyes, she was back to the 13th year of Shengkang, before she got married.

She still vividly remembered the grievances she had suffered in her previous life, so she had never been interested in this marriage and had been thinking of finding a chance to back out. However, she had not expected that the Prince of Chun would actually catch the eye of her grandmother and second aunt.

Jiang Shiyuan never cared about marriage or not, but he was disgusted by the fact that they ignored the future of their father and brothers and only thought about ways to climb up the social ladder.

However, it had been several months since the incident, and now that the two families had gotten married "as they wished", she was too lazy to say anything more.

"Whether it's a blessing or a curse, since she's married, she has to bear the good and the bad. I won't bother with her. I'd rather use this little time to urge my sister-in-law with my aunt, when I can hold my nephew in my arms."

Xiang was so teased by her that she became shy and could not respond for a while. Her face was flushed, and compared with Jiang Shiyuan, she looked more feminine.

Hearing the loud gongs and drums and shouting outside, Jiang Shiyuan, who had been lying in the rocking chair and didn't want to move, became curious. He stood up and walked to the window, blocked the sun with a round fan, and looked at the lively scene in Quyang Pool. Jiang Shiyuan couldn't help but smile.

"Sister-in-law, come and see, my second and third cousins ​​are both on the same team. It looks like they are going to win today!"

Xiang stood up and walked over. When he looked closely and saw the dozens of people squatting on the red and black dragon boats painted in gold and colorful, all looking at the finish line with fighting spirit on their faces, he showed a joking expression.

"Pei's cousin is here too, Ah Nian, why didn't you see him?"

"Cousin Pei? He's here too?"

Xiang pointed her finger at a point in the distance. Jiang Shiyuan looked in the direction and indeed saw the man.

Among the thirty-six incense officials, he is the most high-spirited.

A young man of about eighteen or nineteen was standing at the front of the dragon boat, clapping the gong. He was dressed in bright clothes and had a tall and strong build. He looked energetic under the sun. The club in his hand was tied with a red brocade ribbon, which fluttered in the wind along with the flag.

"He arrived in Xijing three days ago and is now living at home. Grandmother said that we would hold a family dinner to welcome him some other day. You and your uncle can also come over to join in the fun."

Before Jiang Shiyuan finished speaking and opened his mouth to respond, his train of thought was interrupted by the words of the person behind him. When the two of them turned around to see who was coming, Xiang's face was filled with suspicion.

The person was wearing a moon-white long skirt embroidered with a crabapple flower pattern. The stamens were made of golden silk thread as the base, and were decorated with some pearls. Each pearl was round and smooth, with a little luster. Her hair was combed very neatly, and also tied up with a crabapple white jade hairpin.

She has a slender waist and a pretty face.

She was the one who stole Jiang Shiyuan's marriage. She was Jiang Shijin, the eldest daughter of the second branch of the Jiang family and now the Crown Prince's Consort of Prince Chun's Mansion.

"It's really a coincidence that I met my elder sister and my cousin Wang here. It's so lively outside, why don't you go and see? I'm afraid you can't see clearly standing here, or is it that my elder sister's illness has worsened and she can't stand the sun?"

Since Jiang Shijin got married, she has not met her elder sister Jiang Shiyuan.

Having finally seized such an opportunity, she naturally wanted to come forward and show off. Xiang had been unhappy with her for many days, and when she heard her say such sour words, she immediately retorted.

"We are standing high up and can see farther, but why did the Crown Prince's wife come here uninvited?"

The pride in Jiang Shijin's eyes had not yet disappeared when Xiang's words stopped him. After a flash of surprise, he became a little angry and embarrassed.

She is now the Crown Prince's Consort, no longer the unknown second lady in the Jiang Mansion. Therefore, she was naturally dissatisfied when she heard Xiang speak like this. She put on airs, sneered and said.