Xu Zhiyi renasceu três dias antes de seu noivado com o Marquês Ding'an. Na vida anterior, ela acreditou ter encontrado um bom partido, e de bom grado administrou os assuntos internos da família e serv
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Xu Zhiyi slowly opened her eyes, greeted by the familiar sight of the sheer silk canopy and a pearwood dressing table by the window.
She frowned, her hand instinctively reaching toward her flat abdomen.
The burning pain from her final moments seemed to linger in her body, yet the child she once carried was nowhere to be found.
Suddenly sitting up, a splitting headache overwhelmed her, and she let out a muffled groan.
Barefoot, she wrapped herself in her robe and sat up on the bed.
The room was modest and simply furnished; an embroidered silk screen depicting plum blossoms divided the inner and outer quarters, while a crane-headed copper incense burner emitted curling wisps of fragrant smoke.
This was the boudoir where she had lived for fifteen years!
Hearing the movement, a round-faced maid pushed aside the beaded curtain and entered.
Seeing Xu Zhiyi standing barefoot, the maid pouted.
“Miss, why are you barefoot again? Though the weather is hot now, you must be careful. Your engagement day is just around the corner.”
Muttering as she spoke, she took an embroidered shoe and carefully helped Xu Zhiyi put it on.
“Xiao Yu’er! You must be Xiao Yu’er, right?”
The maid tilted her head in confusion.
“Miss, are you still foggy-headed? I am Xiao Yu’er!”
Xu Zhiyi’s pale fingers gently brushed Xiao Yu’er’s cheek, and a thin veil of mist rapidly filled her eyes.
She remembered—in her previous life, Xiao Yu’er had died protecting her, pierced through the chest by th