When Cheng Songan was carried to the carriage by Lu Qingshan, he finally remembered to ask: "How did you tell your grandmother and mother-in-law? The whole mansion is watching."

Lu Qingshan gently placed her in the car, and while telling the driver to drive, he said to her nonchalantly, "Stop talking nonsense. We are about to get divorced, why bother with them?"

Cheng Song'an was not afraid of what they thought of her. The worst that could happen was that she would stay in Yuqiao Villa for the rest of her life. However, Lu Qingshan had just started his official career, and if he brought her out of Cui's mansion so openly, someone with ulterior motives might use this as a pretext, then the prominent girls in the capital would probably not consider him in the future.

Cheng Wanxin is pregnant again like in her previous life, so she can't bring them together. Although she knows about his feelings in his previous life, she still hopes that he can have a good ending in this life. But Cheng Songan can't bear to hurt him because of this.

Her eyes darkened: "Did you hear everything?"

Lu Qingshan pursed his lips tightly, nodded gently, and tidied her cloak before asking, "I asked you before whether he treated you well or not, why didn't you tell me the truth?"

Cheng Songan bit her lip and said nothing. According to the secular concept, Cui Yuanqing treated her quite well. He was of good character and appearance, had a clean family background, had no concubines, and was not a playboy. Although her mother-in-law was cold-hearted, she had never caused any trouble for her. He was a good man picked out of thousands in this world.

What's more, she had only been married for two months. If she said that Cui Yuanqing was not good to her, even her father would probably think she was being pretentious. How should she tell Lu Qingshan?

Did she say that in her previous life, she was neglected by him all her life, and before she died, she saw with her own eyes that he took a concubine's sister in, and finally died of depression?

Seeing that she remained silent, Lu Qingshan continued to ask, "Don't you believe me? Cheng Songan, you have been back to Beijing for so many years, have you never thought about every blade of grass, every mountain, every river, and... people in Yizhou?"

He spoke in a somewhat impatient tone, with some inappropriate anger. Apparently, he also realized this, and quickly suppressed these emotions, saying bitterly, "We have been eating at the same table and sleeping in the same bed since we were five years old. We have grown up together for two years. I thought that in your heart, I was different, at least..."

Cheng Songan's heart skipped a beat. Although Lu Qingshan said these words frankly, if others heard them, it would lead to misunderstanding.

When she was a child, she did often go to the Lu Mansion. Old Madam Cheng was good friends with the old lady of the Lu family, and they often played cards and had meals at the mansion. Over time, she would stay at the Lu Mansion from time to time, and she and Lu Qingshan would share Old Madam Lu's room, one sleeping in the suite and the other in the second room. She was young at that time and did not have any taboos. They did eat at the same table and sleep in the same bed.

However, in her eyes, Lu Qingshan was just one of her naughty friends in Yizhou, so he was a little special and not very profound. Later, when she left that environment, her memory of him naturally became blurred.

In her previous life, she had been living in seclusion for a long time, and she only heard about Lu Qingshan by chance. In this life, she just treated him as an old friend after a long separation. To be honest, she didn't expect that Lu Qingshan had always treated her as his own sister for so many years, and even didn't blame her for Xue Tingyun's affairs.

Cheng Songan didn't want him to be misunderstood as having something to do with a woman like herself who was about to be divorced, so he said seriously: "Brother Lu Shi, although you and I are now brother and sister, we are not biological after all. Don't say such things a second time, it will damage your reputation..."

Hearing her call him Brother Lu, Lu Qingshan gave a bitter smile, as if he also felt that what he said was inappropriate. He changed his mind and said with a smile: "I was just joking with you. You have no conscience since you were a child, and you are still the same now. Do you still think I have feelings for you?"

Cheng Songan felt relieved. She had returned to the capital when she was ten years old and had rarely thought about Yizhou. It was not that she didn't want to, but that she didn't want to. If she often thought about those free days, the rigid life in the capital would seem very difficult. She could only keep telling herself to forget those days, forget those happy times, so that she could live peacefully in a calm life.

"I won't misunderstand," Cheng Songan pouted, "When we were young, I always beat you up. Today you finally found a chance to laugh at me, so how can you not make a few sarcastic remarks?"

Lu Qingshan rarely smiled, staring into her eyes and asking seriously, "Do you really want to divorce?"

Cheng Songan nodded: "Yeah."

The corners of Lu Qingshan's mouth began to bend down uncontrollably, revealing a little smile. He then immediately cleared his throat and said seriously, "You haven't just started being willful today. Do as you please."

Cheng Songan was a little touched by him just now, but when she saw that he couldn't help laughing, she knew that he still didn't miss the opportunity to laugh at her, and she couldn't help but roll her eyes at him: "Even if I divorced, I was still married once. What about you? You are still young and haven't even decided on a marriage. How dare you laugh at me? Just wait and see, I may marry someone good again in the future, but you will be single for the rest of your life."

After saying that, he immediately covered his mouth, accidentally revealing Lu Qingshan's fate.

Lu Qingshan didn't care about this, but asked with interest: "Do you still want to marry again?"

Cheng Songan raised his eyebrows nonchalantly, "Why? Who do you look down on? Bo Ji to Emperor Gaozu of Han, Wang Zhi to Emperor Jing of Han, Liu E to Emperor Zhenzong of Song, all of them remarried and became empresses or queen mothers. As for commoner women who remarried, there are many who lived well. I think I am not inferior in talent and appearance, so why can't I remarry?"

Lu Qingshan listened to her with his arms folded, but he was not angry. Instead, his eyebrows and eyes were relaxed with a smile, which made him look more vigorous and young.

He continued to ask casually, "Is Cui Yuanqing willing to divorce you? He will never let you marry someone else easily."

When Cheng Songan heard the word Cui Yuanqing, she thought of what he had said before: he would kill whoever she married. She immediately frowned and said coldly: "I am determined to divorce you. If it doesn't work, I will live in Yuqiao Villa forever and never come back. If it doesn't work in three years, then five years. Maybe after a year, he will feel embarrassed and ask me for a divorce. After the divorce, I will have nothing to do with him. Who can he control? If you dare to stop me, I will file a complaint with the emperor!"

After all this talk, Cheng Songan just felt suffocated. In this world, if a man wants to divorce his wife, it is often a matter of a word. If that doesn't work, they can also take concubines, maids, and mistresses and just ignore their original wives. But for a woman to file for divorce, it is extremely difficult and she may even go to jail if she is not careful.

The corner of Lu Qingshan's mouth could no longer be suppressed and he clapped his hands and said, "Yes, this is the Cheng Songan I know."

Cheng Songan punched the wall of the carriage, causing it to shake, and said angrily, "This is not fair!"

Lu Qingshan stopped smiling, looked at her red fist, and said calmly: "Cheng Songan, go ahead and do what you want to do, I'm here for you."

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