As a second wife, Zhen Ruolan fears most is the husband's deep affection for his original wife and the children left by his original wife.

But Gu Wenjing showed nostalgia for his original wife Zhang, and attached great importance to Gu Sheng, the eldest son, and invited him to establish a prince early.

Zhen Ruolan touched her stomach and felt a slump in her heart. It would be fine if this child was a daughter, but if she could have a son, she would never let Gu Sheng block her son's way!

Gu Wenjing respected Zhen Ruolan as he was accustomed to the original owner. When Zhen Ruolan was not causing trouble, she showed that she was indeed a commendable wife and mother. She was gentle and considerate to him, caring for Gu Sheng, the stepson, and taking care of the Duke's House in an orderly manner.

Although Gu Wenjing has a bottom line, before Zhen Ruolan did something bad, he would not do something like "I know you will definitely do bad things in the future, so I have to kill you in advance now." No matter how vicious and scheming she is in the plot outline description, he would not be able to convict her because of what she hasn't done yet.

The plot is not static, and people in the same situation may take different paths because of the butterfly effect. Sometimes good and evil are only in one thought, and no one is born vicious.

However, Gu Wenjing would not convict Zhen Ruolan because she was a vicious second wife in the plot, but he could not wait for her to take action to harm others before dealing with her. If the tragedy has been caused, it would be irreversible.

So Gu Wenjing used the power in the hands of the original owner and ordered people to secretly stare at Zhen Ruolan's every move. If she had any abnormal movements, he would collect evidence. He also sent someone to protect Gu Sheng, and refused to give Zhen Ruolan any chance to plot against Gu Sheng.

Zhen Ruolan was very calm during her pregnancy and did not act abnormally. Gu Wenjing did not relax her vigilance because of her good performance.

It was soon the day when Zhen Ruolan gave birth. Gu Wenjing did not act indifferent because this child was Zhen Ruolan's accomplice in the plot, nor did he not care about it because the original owner's two children were the original owner's children before he traveled through time.

Gu Wenjing stayed outside the delivery room when Zhen Ruolan gave birth and waited for several hours. When the sky turned slightly white, the sound of the baby crying loudly came from the delivery room.

The Wenpo came out with the child in his arms and congratulated Gu Wenjing: "Congratulations to the Duke of the State! Congratulations to the Duke of the State! Madam, she gave birth to a young master!"

Gu Wenjing smiled on his face and walked over to look at the baby in his cradle. He did not reach out to hug him because the original owner was a strict father who never showed favor to the child. Even Gu Sheng, the eldest son who was highly valued and expected by the original owner, had never hugged him once. Of course, he could not break up the original owner's character as a strict father.

Gu Wenjing smiled and said, "My wife gave birth to a young master, which is a great joy in the mansion. If the order is passed on, the monthly money of the mansion will double this month."

The servants around thanked each other.

Gu Wenjing did not name the child Gu Xu according to the plot, but Gu Yan.

In the Gu family genealogy, the names of the children of Gu Sheng and Gu Yan's generation are radicals. Because the character "Sheng" in Gu Sheng's name is the first word "Sheng", he did not make any special decisions and also gave the young son a character "Yan" with the first word "Sheng".

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After Gu Yan was born, Gu Wenjing noticed that Zhen Ruolan's attitude had changed. She no longer cared about Gu Sheng in person like before. Her concern for Gu Sheng began to be superficial, and she focused all her attention on her biological son Gu Yan.

Gu Wenjing can understand this situation, after all, the stepson and parent-child are certainly impossible to treat them equally in her heart.

But he found that Zhen Ruolan gradually lacked so much patience with Gu Sheng, and even the apparent disguise made her feel impatient. She wanted Gu Sheng to give way to her son as soon as possible.

When Gu Yan was in full moon, he was preparing for a full moon banquet. When Gu Wenjing found that Zhen Ruolan was trying to hold Gu Yan's full moon banquet with great fanfare, he reminded her: "The full moon banquet for children should not be too grand."

Zhen Ruolan frowned slightly and asked, "What does this mean by husband?"

Gu Wenjing said straight to the point: "Yan'er is the second son of the legitimate son. How could his full moon banquet exceed Sheng'er's specifications? When Zhang was still there, the full moon banquet held for Sheng'er was not as luxurious as you."

Zhen Ruolan wanted to refute how could Gu Sheng compare with her son? However, the fact is that the second son born by her step-wife is indeed lower in etiquette and law than the eldest son born by Gu Sheng, the original wife. She did not want to leave a bad impression in Gu Wenjing's heart that she was more extravagant than Zhang's. She could only feel resentful and showed a look of shame on her face: "Husband, I am not thinking well. I don't know what the Sheng'er's full moon banquet was in the past. I just gave birth to Yan'er. I was excited and just wanted to hold a grand full moon banquet for Yan'er. I didn't think about it carefully. Please forgive me!"

Gu Wenjing nodded and said, "It doesn't matter, you are not thinking well, so I will remind you."

Zhen Ruolan: “…”

Then Zhen Ruolan could only reduce the specifications of the full moon banquet. In order to show her good attitude of admitting mistakes, she also deliberately lowered the specifications of the full moon banquet a lot, which was a clear gap compared with Gu Sheng's full moon banquet.

How she prepared the full moon banquet with great fanfare before, she took down those preparations that exceeded the specifications.

The servants are the best at seeing the wind. They know in their hearts that even if the eldest young master does not have a biological mother, they have the support of the Duke. They dare not neglect at all. As for Zhen Ruolan and Gu Yan, the servants of course do not dare to neglect. After all, Zhen Ruolan is the legitimate hostess of the Duke's Mansion, but after Gu Wenjing, the male host of the Duke's Mansion, showed his attitude, it would be difficult for Zhen Ruolan to bribe the servant to deal with Gu Sheng.

Gu Yan's full moon banquet was very grand, but it still did not reach the level of grandeur that Zhen Ruolan imagined. When she thought of the full moon banquet that her son only had once in his life, it was two lower than Gu Sheng's previous full moon banquet, she felt extremely dissatisfied.

In addition, the mansion usually has clear regulations on the cost of the two young masters. As the prince and the eldest son, Gu Sheng pays much more monthly than the second son Gu Yan. As the hostess of the Duke's Mansion, Zhen Ruolan has to check the monthly fee. Seeing the sharp contrast between Gu Sheng and his son in the account book, she felt even more unwilling.

Zhen Ruolan looked at Gu Sheng and felt more and more that he was thorny in his eyes.

Before giving birth to Gu Yan, what she hated the most was that her cousin Zhen Ruoshu divorced her husband's family in her previous life, and her resentment towards Gu Sheng was ranked behind. After all, she had never even met Gu Sheng in her previous life, and Zhen Ruoshu had the value of hatred in front of him. Of course, this hatred towards him was not unforgettable enough.

So after she married into the Duke's Mansion and became Gu Sheng's stepmother, she felt more happy. Now Gu Sheng's existence seriously hindered the interests of their mother and son, which was even deeper than the hatred in her previous life.

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After Gu Yan was born, Gu Wenjing did not forget Gu Sheng, the eldest son because of his youngest son.

When his mother passed away, his father gave birth to a second child with his stepmother. Gu Wenjing was worried that Gu Sheng would have a knot that he couldn't understand, so he did psychological work with Gu Sheng.

In the carefully arranged study room, Gu Wenjing faced Gu Sheng, who was sitting upright, and said to him gently: "For your father, you may feel complicated about your younger brother's birth. Someone will say something messy and provocative in your ears. Those words are not necessarily false. As the eldest son of your original wife, you are indeed a natural position of different from your stepmother's child. If your younger brother is ambitious about the title, you are the biggest obstacle."

Gu Sheng pursed his lips and said nothing.

He is no longer young, and he has heard a lot of news about other noble families in order to compete for titles. It is not only a fight between the original legitimate son and the second legitimate son, but also a legitimate son from the same mother who fights to the death, just for that title.

He knew in his heart that if the stepmother wanted to compete for the title for his younger brother, his prince would be the biggest obstacle. If he killed him, his younger brother would be able to become the heir to the title with justification. So he was very worried that his stepmother would want to assassinate him.

Now that his father told him this kind of thing, Gu Sheng was very surprised.

Gu Wenjing continued: "But Sheng'er, you are twelve or 3 years older than Yan'er. Will you still be afraid of a little baby? You have already made you the prince for your father. As long as you sit upright and calm in the face of things, your younger brother is powerless to fight with you. Instead, you cultivate your brother's relationship with him and will be your right-hand man when he grows up."

Gu Sheng was stunned when he heard this, yes, his younger brother is more than teenager than him. Could it be that he is afraid of a newborn baby? I’m afraid that his son will still behave like a spoiled person in the wet nurse’s arms when he is born!

Gu Wenjing reached out and patted Gu Sheng on the shoulder, smiled slightly, and said, "Sheng'er, you have grown up. Don't worry, your father will not let your mother affect your brother's relationship, but for the father, I hope you don't be hostile to your brother because of villains."

Gu Sheng nodded seriously and replied: "Yes, my son understands."

Gu Wenjing smiled. After doing the psychological work of Tong Gu Sheng, he openly arranged a guard beside him: "This is Qi Niu, a guard who came down from the battlefield for his father, and he is loyal to his father. Now I will entrust you to him to protect him, so I can rest assured."

Gu Sheng naturally understood that Qi Niu was the one who Gu Wenjing arranged to protect him, and was different from other ordinary guards, so he shouted respectfully: "Uncle Qi."

Qi Niu is stupid and stubborn, but has excellent martial arts skills. If Gu Wenjing asks him to protect Gu Sheng, he will never let Gu Sheng leave his sight easily.

Not only did he arrange people around Gu Sheng, but even Gu Wenjing personally chose the wet nurse and maid to take care of him.

The two children were surrounded by people he sent, so naturally nothing happened around them could be hidden from him.

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Gu Wenjing's move to arrange people around the child is open and honest, after all, he is the children's father.

At first, Zhen Ruolan thought that Gu Wenjing personally arranged the people to take care of Gu Yan as a priority for the children, but later she gradually discovered the inconvenience.

Gu Yan has a wet nurse and maid around him, and he takes care of Gu Yan in every way. Zhen Ruolan has basically no place to interfere. All she can do to Gu Yan is to hug him and get close to him.

But for a child, the wet nurse who feeds him to sleep every day is the closest thing, so Zhen Ruolan lined up behind him.

When the child grew up a little and could understand people's words, Gu Wenjing asked Gu Sheng, the older brother, to teach his younger brother to speak and read, but there was nothing wrong with Zhen Ruolan, the mother.

He was intentionally or unintentionally separating Zhen Ruolan and Gu Yan's separate relationship so as not to affect Gu Yan, which made Gu Yan hostile to Gu Sheng.

What position and interests can an ignorant child understand? Whoever gets close to him will like.

Zhen Ruolan watched his son gradually beckoned by the little boy Gu Sheng, and she yelled to ask for her brother every day. She felt so angry that she felt that the people she served by her son were sent by Gu Wenjing, and she didn't even have the chance to provoke the relationship between the two brothers in private.

She endured it for two years, and finally couldn't stand it after seeing her son getting closer to her brother Gu Sheng.

Zhen Ruolan sent someone back to her parents' home, and she asked her mother, Mrs. Yongding, to help, and be sure to bring Zhen Ruolus to Zhennan Gong Mansion.

Although Gu Sheng is only sixteen years old and Zhen Ruoshui is only fifteen years old, it is still one year away from the time when the two fell in love at first sight in their previous life, Zhen Ruolan really couldn't stand waiting for another year.

The son she gave birth to with great effort was actually won over by Gu Sheng and became Gu Sheng's younger follower who only wanted to be brother. How could she be willing? Gu Yan is the biggest helper for her to compete for the Duke of Zhennan!

However, Zhen Ruolan didn't know that Gu Wenjing had always sent someone to stare at her every move. She had just sent someone back to her parents' home to notify Mrs. Yongding, and Gu Wenjing knew about it.

He made an appointment with the father-in-law Yongding Hou.

Although the Marquis of Yongding is the Marquis, this Marquis only has a title but no real power. He is far from the Concubine Gu Wenjing, the Zhennan Prefecture. Otherwise, he would not be very excited after the eldest daughter Zhen Ruolan married the original owner as her second wife, and thought that her daughter had married high.

Yongding Hou could not put on the airs of his father-in-law in front of Gu Wenjing, and even faced him with a little fear. After all, the reputation of the original owner fighting from the battlefield was not revealed.

Gu Wenjing said lightly: "Father-in-law, I heard that my wife wanted her mother-in-law to bring your daughter from the Dafang family of Yongding Hou to the mansion, and wanted to match your niece and Sheng'er. Are you saying this true?"

When Yongding Hou heard this, he was stunned. He matched the girl from the Dafang family and the Prince of Zhenguo?

After he was stunned, he remembered that the girl in the Dafang family was Zhen Ruoshu, the orphan left by his elder brother. Although she was about the same age as Gu Sheng, she was of different ages!

Zhen Ruoshu is the cousin of his daughter Zhen Ruolan, Gu Sheng is the stepson of his daughter Zhen Ruolan, and Zhen Ruoshu is the cousin of Gu Sheng in name!

And his daughter wants to match the two of them? How is that possible?

Yongding Hou subconsciously denied: "Mr., this must be fake! They are different in seniority, how could Lan'er match them?"

Gu Wenjing tapped his fingers on the table, which was quite rhythmic. Yongding Hou was silent as he spoke, and his face became paler as he blew the sound of Gu Wenjing's tapping.

Yongding Hou is not a fool. He has no ability, but he still has some cleverness. As soon as he finished saying that, he realized that the news Gu Wenjing said must be true. Zhen Ruolan really wants to make Zhen Ruoshu and Gu Sheng together.

But the facts were as he thought. Zhen Ruoshu and Gu Sheng were not able to be together by their generation, otherwise it would be incest and would not be tolerated by the world. Then Zhen Ruoshu's plan was to use Zhen Ruoshu to destroy Gu Sheng...

When Yongding Hou thought of his four-year-old grandson Gu Yan, he still didn't understand his daughter's intention.

But if he hadn't learned the news from Gu Wenjing, he would definitely think that his daughter's plan was a good opportunity, and he could help him, even if he sacrificed his elder brother's only bloodline, it would be worth it.

However, the person who told him about this now was Gu Wenjing...

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The Marquis of Yongding couldn't help but tremble and knelt down and begged for mercy: "Duke, there must be some misunderstandings in this! My daughter has never done anything out of the ordinary since she married into the Duke's Mansion. She treats the prince as her own, and she will never be able to plot against the prince!"

Gu Wenjing stopped tapping his fingers. He picked up the tea cup and slowly savored the tea, as if he had not seen the Yongding Hou kneeling in front of him.

It was not until he had almost tasted a cup of tea that he put down the tea cup and looked up at the uneasy Yongding Hou: "Father-in-law, if the matter had not been found out and the evidence was obtained, I would not have told you directly to my father-in-law."

Yongding Hou had cold sweat on his forehead.

Gu Wenjing said lightly: "I don't want to make a big deal about this, nor do I want your niece to step into the Duke's Mansion. So you'd better choose a good family to marry someone out, so as not to affect Sheng'er."

Yongding Hou nodded repeatedly: "Yes! Yes! I will definitely marry her as soon as possible! Find her a good family!"
To be continued...