Transmigration into a Book: My Lord, Your Wife Has Taken Another Concubine for You

After returning to his residence, Chu Yunxuan did not go to pay his respects to Marquis Wenxuan, but went straight to Lin Yanran's main courtyard.

The last time Chu Yunxuan left was on the second day of the Lantern Festival. His vacation was about to end, so he had no choice but to reluctantly go to the palace to become a companion scholar.

He had no idea whether his mother would survive the sudden exposure of his father's mistress.

Chu Yunxuan was worried about his mother's condition, so he didn't bother to go and pay his respects to his father first.

After all, in her previous life, her mother found out about her father's affair and died after being depressed for more than half a year.

In this life, he deliberately exposed this matter ahead of time. Chu Yunxuan wondered if his mother would make the same choice as in his previous life.

Chu Yunxuan rushed to Lin Yanran's main courtyard with a nervous yet eager heart, but when he stood at the gate, he hesitated to go in and kept pacing outside the gate.

In his past life, he had always wondered if his father's unwavering love was so important that it couldn't compare to the combined love of him and his brother.

To avoid witnessing the horrific events in the household, his mother abandoned him and his younger brother, and deliberately sought death.

In Chu Yunxuan's eyes, dying from depression is tantamount to actively seeking death.

When Chu Yunxuan mustered up the courage to go in, he saw his mother sitting on the veranda, drinking tea and eating, chatting and laughing with Wenmei and the others.

Chu Yunxuan had imagined many scenes of his mother shedding tears, but the scene before him was so beautiful, just like the one he had seen in his dreams.

For a moment, Chu Yunxuan couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality.

As soon as Wenmei and the others saw Chu Yunxuan, they immediately stood up with smiles and bowed, "These servants greet Your Highness!"

Lin Yanran also waved to her eldest son, who was standing to the side, signaling him to come over, "Why don't you come and pay your respects? It's been almost ten days, and you've already become distant from your mother?"

Chu Yunxuan walked over in a daze and bowed. "Son greets Mother. How have you been these days, Mother?"

"It's alright, don't worry about the manor. Mother is here! Just take care of yourself in the palace."

As Lin Yanran spoke, she tugged at Chu Yunxuan's sleeve, gesturing for him to sit down.

Wenmei and the others quickly went to get some chestnuts and other roasting ingredients.

As soon as Chu Yunxuan sat down, his mother handed him a warm orange. Chu Yunxuan felt that the orange in his hand was just as warm as his heart at that moment.

Chu Yunxuan liked this feeling; he liked that as soon as he returned to the manor, he could see that his mother was alive and well.

Holding the warm oranges, Chu Yunxuan exclaimed, "It feels so good to be home!"

"Then you should study hard by the side of the First Prince, and after a few years, you can take the imperial examination, become an official, and live in the mansion."

Lin Yanran wouldn't say anything like, "Now that he's the heir, he doesn't need to learn anymore." Having strategies and tactics is one thing, but using them is another.

Chu Yunxuan did not reply to Lin Yanran, but instead said to Wenmei and the others, "Aunt Wenmei, you can go down first. I want to spend some time alone with my mother."

Wenmei and the others immediately bowed respectfully and withdrew.

After Chu Yunxuan saw that the servants around him had all left, he first focused on peeling the orange in his hand, then removed the pith from each segment of the orange, before placing the orange in front of Lin Yanran.

Lin Yanran accepted the gift from her adopted eldest son with a smile.

After finishing the orange, Chu Yunxuan finally asked, "What happened after what happened on the Lantern Festival?"

After asking his question, Chu Yunxuan glanced at the teacup in front of him, but out of the corner of his eye, he subtly observed Lin Yanran's reaction.

Lin Yanran's face was still smiling. "Your mother cried all night and had someone investigate your father. Then we made a deal, and I agreed to let your father's mistress enter the mansion."

"Don't worry, I didn't suffer any losses. I've plundered your father's private treasury, and I've also established your heir."

"Mother, you..." Chu Yunxuan's eyes held disbelief, shock, emotion, and doubt.

Chu Yunxuan felt that the mother in front of him was quite different from the mother in his memory.

In fact, Chu Yunxuan hadn't been back for long. The first thing he did after being reborn from his previous life was to persuade his mother to go to the Lantern Festival with him and lead her to witness his father accompanying his mistress and her son and daughter at the festival.

Therefore, he had little contact with his mother in this life, and could not be said to understand her.

Chu Yunxuan's memories of his mother all came from his distant past life, but he was already sixty-eight when he died in that life.

More than fifty years have passed since his mother's death, and his memory is somewhat distorted. Chu Yunxuan felt this was normal, but he couldn't help but want to doubt and test her.

While Chu Yunxuan was scrutinizing and suspecting Lin Yanran, Lin Yanran was also suspecting Chu Yunxuan. After all, in the book, the original owner of the body would not discover that Chu Mochen was keeping a mistress for another six years.

The fact that it was discovered so early in this life was also because Chu Yunxuan had insisted on going that day; the original owner hadn't originally intended to go.

This inevitably made Lin Yanran overthink things! After all, she had already transmigrated into a book, so it was normal for her to encounter another one.

Lin Yanran leaned casually back in her chair, her demeanor lacking in poise but appearing completely relaxed: "I haven't had a chance to ask you yet, but when you insisted on persuading me to go to the lantern festival with you, did you already know something?"

Chu Yunxuan heard his mother cry all night, and he felt quite regretful. If he had known that his mother would still be so heartbroken even so many years in advance, he should have just found a way to deal with those three people outside.

But Chu Yunxuan still didn't admit to his mother that he already knew about it.

After all, he was still just a boy of about ten years old, and he spent most of his time as a companion in the palace. If he were to say that he knew all along, he would need countless lies to cover it up.

"If my son had known earlier, he wouldn't have taken you to that street; it's really bad luck. You rarely accompany your son to the lantern festival."

Lin Yanran didn't say whether she believed it or not, but she didn't ask again. However, based on the nostalgic look in Chu Yunxuan's eyes from time to time, Lin Yanran felt that she had confirmed the identity of this eldest son. He must have been reborn. She just didn't know when he died in his previous life or how he was doing.

However, after confirming her eldest son's identity, Lin Yanran felt a vague sense of relief. After all, having a smart teammate who knew the future was a huge guarantee for her future life in her later years.

Lin Yanran smiled and promised, "Next year during the Lantern Festival, your mother will accompany you shopping again, and we'll bring Heng'er along too."

Chu Yunxuan was genuinely happy to hear this, but he couldn't help but ask, "In your heart, is Father more important, or me... or my brother and I?"

Lin Yanran, who had also experienced a lack of love, instantly understood why her eldest son was so insistent.

Lin Yanran looked earnestly into Chu Yunxuan's eyes, "In my heart, no one is more important than my son."

As for the original owner's heart, perhaps no one is more important than her own feelings.

But now she is Lin Yanran, and these two sons are her sons. She will not tell anyone that she is not the original owner of this body.