Jiang Yaonian looked at Jingying behind her.

Tan Xueyuan explained, "Jingying's carriage had some problems, and the driver said it couldn't be fixed for a while. I thought she happened to be staying at Jiang's house, so could you trouble Mr. Jiang to give her a ride?"

Jingying glanced at Jiang Yaonian timidly, then quietly pulled Tan Xueyuan's sleeve and whispered, "I think we should just forget it. If Madam Jiang knew about this, she would be unhappy again..."

Jiang Yaonian glanced at her calmly and said, "It's okay, Qinghe is not that kind of person."

Tan Xueyuan was slightly surprised after hearing this, and quickly turned to Jingying and said, "Yes, since Mr. Jiang said so, then you can go up!"

Jingying raised her watery eyes and took a peek at Jiang Yaonian, then she obediently lifted her skirt and got into the car.

Jiang Yaonian then got on the carriage.

But he did not sit side by side with Jingying, but sat opposite her.

The guard whipped his whip, and the carriage drove slowly towards the east of the city...

The atmosphere in the car was a little awkward for a moment...

After a while, Jingying said softly, "Thank you, Mr. Jiang."

Jiang Yaonian looked at the night outside expressionlessly without saying a word.

Jingying felt a little guilty and thought to herself, "Could it be that he has figured out that I deliberately shared a carriage with him..."

At the end of the dinner, Jingying was chatting happily with Tan Xueyuan when the maid from the Duke's Mansion suddenly came in and said, "Princess, your coachman asked me to tell you that there is a problem with your carriage and it may not be repaired for a while. Can you think of other solutions?"

This was a plan Jingying had arranged with the coachman in advance. She immediately looked at Tan Xueyuan with a worried look on her face and said, "Xueyuan, do you have any idle carriages in your house?"

Tan Xueyuan also stood up immediately and said, "I'll go ask!"

After a while, he came back and said, "It's really unfortunate. There are too many guests today and we are worried that the stables won't be able to accommodate them, so we sent out most of the carriages in advance. Otherwise, after the banquet is over, let's see if we can take Mr. Jiang's carriage back?"

Jingying waved her hands and said, "How can this be possible? If Madam Jiang finds out, she will suspect that I am deliberately trying to get close to Mr. Jiang."

Tan Xueyuan patted her hands and comforted her, "Don't worry, I'll take care of everything. I'll help you later!"

Jingying said pitifully: "Then I'll have to trouble you..."

Everything was going very smoothly, but now looking at Jiang Yaonian's cold expression, Jingying suddenly worried that she might have been discovered by him.

Although she was always at ease and graceful in front of other men, she couldn't help feeling a little guilty when facing Jiang Yaonian at this moment.

Jiang Yaonian noticed her uneasiness and anxiety, but he was no longer in the mood to analyze whether she was approaching him intentionally, because Liu Dongzhi came to him crying this morning and asked if she could be his concubine.

Liu Dongzhi came to Qingxinzhai and begged bitterly: "Cousin, I beg you! My mother wants to marry me to Mr. Guo as a concubine, but I really don't want to marry an old man with gray hair. Instead of that, I would rather be your concubine!"

Jiang Yaonian frowned and looked at her and asked, "How much?"

"what?"

Liu Dongzhi thought: How much?

Jiang Yaonian looked at her and asked, "How much do you want to exchange for the betrothal gift?"

Liu Dongzhi choked and said, "Eight hundred taels..."

Jiang Yaonian said calmly: "I'll have someone send eight hundred taels of silver to your mother later, but you can't be my concubine!"

After saying that, he turned and left, leaving Liu Dongzhi standing there in a daze...

Jiang Yaonian did not tell Qinghe about this after he returned, fearing that she would start to have wild thoughts. But now Jingying wanted to ride in the same carriage with him again...

After the previous lesson, Jiang Yaonian stayed away from her this time, fearing that something unexpected would happen again.

He consoled himself by thinking that he was just giving her a ride and pretending she didn't exist, so nothing would happen.

Unexpectedly, Jingying saw through his thoughts at a glance and said quietly, "Mr. Jiang, are you afraid that Qinghe will be angry, so you sit so far away from me?"

Jiang Yaonian looked at her without comment and did not say anything.

The carriage was very quiet for a while, and the only sound was the clatter of horse hooves coming from outside...

Jingying suddenly smiled, and said with a somewhat sad look: "I didn't expect you to love her so much..."

Jiang Yaonian looked outside with a cold expression and still didn't say anything.

His attitude seriously angered Jingying. She said in her heart angrily: "This man originally belonged to me! But now he not only married another woman, but also treated me like this, as if I were some despised woman!"

In an impulse, she suddenly stepped forward, hugged Jiang Yaonian, and took the initiative to kiss him...

But the next moment he was pushed away with force!

Jiang Yaonian scolded in a deep voice: "Jingying, calm down! If you do this again, I will have someone kick you out of the car!"

Jingying yelled madly with tears in her eyes: "Why do you treat me like this! I was the first one to know you! I was the first one to like you, but you married that little country girl! How am I inferior to her..."

Jiang Yaonian looked at her coldly and said, "If I have to give a reason, I can only say that we are not suitable! Although I have known you for many years, liking someone is not measured by the length of time. You have to learn to accept and give up, and don't keep thinking about it!"

These words were like adding fuel to the fire for Jingying. She screamed hysterically, "I won't accept this!"

Jiang Yaonian looked outside with a cold expression and ignored her.

The carriage turned and entered the Jiang Mansion and arrived at the second gate.

Jingying stared at Jiang Yaonian in the opposite direction with great hatred, and suddenly an evil idea came to her mind...

She quietly took off the bracelet on her hand and threw it in the car, then got out of the car holding her skirt as if nothing had happened.

As a result, they saw Qing He holding a lantern and waiting by the roadside. Jiang Yaonian, who got off the car behind him, was stunned. He thought, could my wife tell fortunes? Why does everything I fear come true?

Jiang Yaonian walked over and took the lantern from Qinghe's hand, and asked softly, "It's cold at night, why are you waiting here in the dark?"

Qinghe stared at Jingying motionlessly...

Jingying couldn't help but feel proud in her heart, but pretended to be panicked and explained: "Qinghe, don't misunderstand! The carriage I was riding in broke down on the way, so I had to take Mr. Jiang's carriage back..."

Qing He looked her up and down and found that she was dressed particularly elegantly today. She had a crystal orchid hairpin in her hair, a snow-white gauze skirt on, light makeup on, and lightly drawn eyebrows. She could smell the faint scent of lily of the valley flowers from a long distance away.

Qing He looked at her quietly for a while, then suddenly smiled and said in a clear voice, "Don't worry, sister. I will never misunderstand! I know what kind of person Mr. Jiang is better than you do! But you need to be careful. After all, it would be bad for a man and a woman to ride in a car together in the middle of the night. If it gets out, people will think that your car broke down, but those who don't will think that you deliberately approached Mr. Jiang! It will be bad for your reputation if it gets out, so you better be more careful next time!"

After saying that, she smiled sweetly, took Jiang Yaonian's arm and said with a smile: "Let's go!"

Jiang Yaonian nodded, then turned back and said to the guards, "You guys take the princess back!" After that, he turned around and left with Qinghe.

Jingying was left alone, standing there with an ugly look on her face, gritting her teeth!

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