Part 1: A Dream Within A Dream / Rebirth of Ill Fated Concubine

Chapter 047 Father and Brother

Jiang Quan usually smiles outside, but he never frowns in front of Jiang Susu. He smiles and touches her head: "I brought you some small things. I'll ask someone to carry them to your room later."

The second aunt's eyes flashed with jealousy again. Among the four daughters in the Jiang family, only Jiang Susu has received this honour.

Jiang Chao, who was talking to Madam Jiang, suddenly remembered something and said, "Sister Ruan is back, why I didn’t see her?"

Jiang Susu's smile froze, and Jiang Quan also seemed to have just remembered something. His smile faded and his brows frowned. Xia Yan smiled at this, and just as she was about to speak, she heard a soft female voice coming from the hall: "Jiang Ruan greets father."

Jiang Quan and Jiang Chao both looked up and saw a girl in a crimson coat coming forward, with large round flowers embroidered on her chest, and her long black hair tied up with a pearl hairpin. Her clothes were simple but very gorgeous, but even more gorgeous was her appearance, her skin was as white as snow, her lips were as red as cherry, and her beautiful eyes were full of countless affection, but there was a hint of coldness from the upturned corners of her eyes, like fire and ice. 

If Jiang Susu was a beauty that only existed in the world, then the girl in front of them, who was like a spirit, was a beauty that did not exist in the world, and her every move made people unable to look away.

She walked forward step by step steadily, walking gracefully, stopped in front of Jiang Quan, and said softly: "Father."

Jiang Quan and Jiang Chao both came back to their senses, and both looked at the eldest girl of the Jiang family who had just returned from the farm with some disbelief. Compared with the past six years, Jiang Ruan was like a different person, and there was no trace of the past inside and outside. 

Especially the look when she walked towards him step by step just now, it was hazy and unclear, and she felt like a person from the outside world, which made people feel a little cold. However, she smiled in front of him, as if the cold look just now was only an illusion.

Jiang Quan's inquiring eyes fell on Jiang Ruan, and he hesitated to speak. Jiang Ruan paused, then slowly raised her head and looked directly into Jiang Quan's eyes.

The moment she saw him, Jiang Ruan had a moment of trance, and a trace of emotion that she didn't know whether it was sadness or joy rose in her heart. Jiang Quan is still in his prime now, and he still looks like a pure scholar. 

Jiang Ruan's eyes flashed with the scene of the last time she saw Jiang Quan in her previous life. At that time, her biological father dragged her from the bedroom to the palace without mercy, and accused her of being a scourge to the country in front of the civil and military officials. 

She crawled on the ground with her eyes wide open in disbelief, and in return, he gave her a cold and heartless look. That kind of disdain, as if looking at a stain in his life, made her heart as cold as an ice cellar.

Then she was imprisoned in the prison, tortured by Jiang Susu, and implicated the entire Zhao family. In prison, she heard that her father was promoted step by step, and was promoted to the first rank, and finally became the father-in-law of the country. When he was wearing an official robe, did he ever think that there was her blood on the official seal?

Jiang Quan is such a person. For Jiang Susu, for Jiang Chao, for Xia Yan, and for himself, he regarded her, Zhao Mei, and the entire Zhao family as paving stones. In the past and present lives, did he treat them as real family members?

If she was only desperate and confused when she was imprisoned in the previous life, now that she met her old friend again, she only hated him.

Hate, how could she not hate him? Being turned into a human pig by Jiang Susu and unable to move, watching her young son being molested by the powerful officials, who could understand this heart-wrenching pain?