Many girls in the capital dreamed of being the princess. However, only a few could realize their dream.

Prime Minister Gu walked around the coffin in the front of the mourning hall and came over with a sullen face. He wondered whether the Third Prince and Ninth Duke had made a deal to give him trouble today. He was already in a bad mood, but his family affairs got trickier and he was bullied by these young people.

Even if he knew he was not a great person, he still couldn’t bear the insult those duke or prince gave to him.

It was understandable for Shen Qianshan to go off on Prime Minister Gu because of Gu Qiang. After all, on the day of Gu Zhihua’s wedding, everyone saw Gu Qiang’s intimate interaction with Shen Qianshan and the love in their eyes was hard to hide.

However, the case was completely different on Shen Zhongbai. He had brought that woman here when such a big event happened in the Gu family. Prime Minister Gu wasn’t afraid of Shen Zhongbai. Even if Gu Zhihua was just his concubine, he should still call Prime Minister Gu father.

“Shen Zhongbai, why did you bring this woman here?” Prime Minister Gu asked with a cold face and stood in front of Ye and Gu Zhihua. The aggrieved look on their face made Prime Minister Gu’s heart broken.

Prime Minister Gu believed that the first duty of a man was to provide a good life for his woman. As a Prime Minister, he would be despised by everyone in the capital if he couldn’t protect his wife and daughter.

However, when Prime Minister Gu looked right into Shen Zhongbai’s eyes, he realized that even if he could rule the imperial court, there was still an essential difference between him and the royal members. He, eyes averted in panic, said to Gu Qiang, “Qiang, I heard you didn’t feel well. Is that true?”

Gu Qiang had been watching the fun and didn’t care which side would win. It surprised her that Prime Minister Gu asked about her condition. She didn’t know the man in front of her but his smell seemed familiar, so familiar that she knew his identity right away.

“I’m fine. Thanks for your consideration, dad.” Gu Qiang tidied her clothes and gave out a slight smile. No matter who this man was, at least he seemed concerned about her, which meant that she wasn’t repelled in this family.

Shen Zhongbai felt quite annoyed being glared by Prime Minister Gu. After all, never had he been assaulted like that.

To be honest, he hadn’t wanted to bring Shen Qiangwei over. As a prince, he knew what he should and shouldn’t do. Old Lady Gu hadn’t been buried, and he just came here with a prostitute and swaggered around. What he did could piss anyone off.

Everyone in the Gu family had this kind of pride which they shouldn’t have. Shen Zhongbai just couldn’t put up them acting so proud in front of royal members, because that gesture reminded him of Gu Qiang.

That was what Gu Qiang was like. Shen Zhongbai believed that even if she was not a legal daughter, she wouldn’t be of any difference from what she was like now.

“Prime Minister Gu, are you scolding me now? You should feel honored that I came to attend Old Lady Gu’s funeral. It’s none of your business whom I brought here.” Shen Zhongbai pulled Shen Qiangwei to his behind. It seemed that he was afraid that the prostitute would get injured if there was a fight.

Gu Qiang frowned, not knowing what to do under such condition.

However, she wasn’t curious about what would happen. Then she bowed to Ye and Prime Minister Gu respectfully and said, “I’ll leave you all to chat, I still have something to do. Please excuse me.”

Prime Minister Gu didn’t have time to mind about Gu Qiang. He knew things would get ugly today and was already determined to do everything he could. He would let Shen Zhongbai know that he was not easy to bully.

After Gu Qiang took a turn at the long corridor, she was pulled aside and fell into the arms of someone who smelled like plum blossom.

A pair of white hands was put on her head. Someone took a deep breath and said breezily in a low voice, “Qiang, you got me so worried. Luckily you didn’t make any mistake.”

Gu Qiang raised her head and saw the gorgeous man who had sat with her when she had woken up. She felt that they were very close and wondered if she was that man’s lover before she lost her memory.

She felt she had a good taste. This man was both gentle and bossy, which made her so hard to resist.

“What kind of mistake would I make?” Gu Qiang raised her head and looked at Shen Qianshan with her bright eyes.

It was too dark now. The night was so long. Gu Qiang’s eyes twinkled like the stars on the sky.

A lot of things had changed, and the only thing that remained unchanged was her beautiful eyes. Every inch of her looked so beautiful like the brightest color in his life.

“Come to me when you are free. You’ve told me a lot of things before you lost your memory. I hope I could tell you all of that.” Shen Qianshan’s smile seemed warm. However, Gu Qiang still looked at him with suspicion in her eyes, which surprised Shen Qianshan.

She didn’t believe him.

The girl obviously was trying to remember something, but nothing rang a bell. The sense of eagerness and powerlessness was real.

“You mean you knew I would lose my memory. Who are you? What’s the relationship between us? Why should I believe you?” Gu Qiang’s questions made Shen Qianshan laugh. Even though she had lost her memory, she was still so adorable and cute.

Shen Qianshan’s smile was like the light in spring, which was neither too hot or cold. She got carried away for a moment and then turned calm at once. There were so many good-looking guys in this world, but she had to admit that Shen Qianshan was the extraordinary one among them.

However, Gu Qiang never judged people with their appearance.

Shen Qianshan reached out his hand to hold her in his arms. As they walked ahead, he said in a relaxing tone, “How to put it? Everything needs to move on anyway and you have to trust someone, right?”

He was right. Under such a circumstance, the first thing she needed to do was fully trusting a person in order to know her past. Then she could ask others to confirm this person’s statement. That was what she was supposed to do.

‘But is this man in front of me worthy of my trust? Why should I believe him?’

At the thought of that, she threw away his hand which was on her shoulder and said coldly, “Fine, I believe you. First, tell me who you are.”

He was the Ninth Duke who had made so many efforts to be with Gu Qiang. However, now he just went back to the start, because Gu Qiang didn’t remember anything.

Still, Shen Qianshan had hope for their future, because of the connections they had with each other.

Those connections could eventually get Gu Qiang to fall in love with him again, or even over and over again.

“I am the Ninth Duke, the illegal son of the emperor and also… your man.”

Shen Qianshan didn’t know how barefaced he looked when he said that. Gu Qiang burst into laughter right away. Then she tried her best to put her hand on Shen Qianshan’s shoulders like Shen Qianshan had done to her. He seemed to know what she was thinking, so he bent down to make it easy for her to get him.

“You are my man? Why did such a dazzling man like you fall in love with me?” Gu Qiang asked.

Shen Qianshan chuckled and suddenly stopped. He looked at Gu Qiang and said seriously, “You still haven’t remembered how great you were. You are the legal daughter of Prime Minister Gu, Infanta Luoping. Isn’t that good enough? By the way…”

Speaking of that, Shen Qianshan took back his serious look and put on a smile, saying in a low voice, “Empress Dowager was shocked to hear what happened to you. She hoped that you could visit her in the royal palace. She’d like to know her granddaughter’s condition.”

‘Granddaughter? Hasn’t my grandma just passed away? Is my grandma the empress dowager?’

‘What the hell?’

Thinking of that, she felt pity for herself and wondered what kind of life she had led before.

“Before that, a group of people already came to the Prime Minister Mansion to find out the one who drugged you and made you lose your memory. Don’t worry, there has to be a way to restore your memory. If there’s something you don’t want to remember, just leave it behind.” Shen Qianshan put his hands on Gu Qiang’s shoulders again and said gently, “Let’s go. This place will be in chaos later. I don’t want you to get involved in the fight.”

The fight about the Third Prince, her sister and the popular prostitute?

Thinking of the weird situation just now, Gu Qiang felt her head numb. Then she followed Shen Qianshan to her own yard.

Prime Minister Gu and Shen Zhongbai were still stuck in a stalemate and neither of them was willing to admit their faults. Gu Zhihua hid behind Ye while staring at the pattern on her embroidered shoes quickly. Her tears kept dropping on the ground, and at last turned to a piece of clay.

She rubbed her fingers while hearing Prime Minister Gu quarreling with Shen Zhongbai. At last, she finally raised her head to look right into Shen Zhongbai’s murderous eyes. She had been so scared of his eyes and so eager to let those eyes fall on her.

When she had been ten, she had gone to the royal palace with her parents. The garden in the royal palace was very large and full of the flowers which she had never seen before. There were also some towering trees, the flowers on which were very fragrant. She felt everything there just breathtaking.

There were lots of gazebos of different styles in the garden, and there were beautiful women with heavy makeup sitting in some of them.