Luo Luonu woke up from his nap and saw Cui Yuanqing. He jumped down excitedly and rubbed his head against his feet. The wounds on his body had healed, but the bones in his hind legs were injured, so he ran a little lame.

Cui Yuanqing picked it up, scratched the top of its head, then lifted it up and placed it on his forehead, touching it gently, then hardened his heart and put it back into Cheng Songan's arms.

Luo Luonu was a little anxious. He meowed a few times and looked up at Cheng Songan, like a child who wanted to play with his father but was rejected.

Cheng Songan suddenly thought, if the child was there, would she also face the situation of being separated from him? Would Cui Yuanqing let go of the child just like he let go of Luo Luonu? She carefully put the necklace and jade pendant in her hand into her sleeves little by little, turned her head slightly away from him, and asked softly, "When will the imperial decree be issued?"

"After the first month of the lunar year," Cui Yuanqing said in a low voice.

Today is the tenth day of the first lunar month, and there are still twenty days left until the end of the first lunar month. In other words, she and Cui Yuanqing will be married for twenty days. After twenty days, she will be free and will have nothing to do with Cui Yuanqing anymore.

"Very good." Cheng Songan smiled inappropriately, "Before, you always said that the past should not be mentioned again. I didn't expect that I would agree with you in the end. Cheng Wanxin did everything because she loved you. If the King of Xiang takes the throne in the future, he may not take her and the child into the palace. She may be the one to accompany you for the rest of your life."

A very light snort of laughter came from Cui Yuanqing's chest, and it was unclear whether he was feeling funny or making fun of himself. He ignored what Cheng Songan had said, and just said, "This matter broke up because I broke my promise, and it was me who asked for the imperial edict for you, so I should bear the punishment."

Cui Yuanqing also turned his head away and didn't look into her eyes.

Cheng Songan then smiled and said, "Cui Yuanqing, thank you for giving me my freedom. If Miss Xue Wu is willing to meet you in the future, please apologize for me. I really know nothing about what happened back then."

The two men's eyes met, then immediately turned away, their gazes falling on each other's shoulders as if they had nowhere to go, and no one took the initiative to speak.

After a long while, Cui Yuanqing said in silence: "Xiao Yundai, can you spend the Lantern Festival with me?"

The three words "Xiao Yundai" made Cheng Songan's long eyelashes tremble, and he quickly lowered his eyes and forced a smile, "No need."

Cui Yuanqing twitched the corner of his mouth and smiled very reluctantly. Without saying another word, he turned and left.

Cheng Songan looked out the window for a long time, feeling confused.

She remembered that those who think twice think about change, danger and retreat. When in trouble, think about change, when in peace, think about danger, when in power, think about retreat. Therefore, he is the Sansi brother who thinks twice before doing anything.

Why did he let her know at this time that he was that person, her brother Sansi? She would rather believe that the boy she could never have in her life was Situi. In this way, the boy she liked would remain in her memory forever, clean and pure, without the love and hate of past and present lives.

Why was it Cui Yuanqing? The person she loved and hated the most in her two lives was actually the same person!

And why did she have to think of it at this moment, when they were about to divorce and separate forever?

Cui Yuanqing, he must be very proud, he acted humble, begging her to come back. He said that she should put aside the past and start over with him, but in fact he already knew that the person he once loved was him, and he had seen her cautious love. If he was not sure that she had feelings for him, how could he bow to her?

The young man disappeared from then on.

Taxue pushed the door open and saw her sitting in the armchair in a daze with a dull expression. He hurried forward to look at her and said angrily: "Miss, if you are reluctant to leave, why don't you just bear with it? Your Excellency is not willing. When that person comes in, I have plenty of ways to deal with her. Why do you have to..."

Cheng Songan recovered and raised his head slightly, holding back the tears that were about to overflow: "I am not sad for him, but for the person who once moved my heart. He is dead."

Taxue was stunned, and was about to ask again. Duan Zhuyu had already run into the house, chattering, and when she saw Cheng Songan, she shouted, "Sister, I heard everything. That Cui Yuanqing is such a piece of shit, he was actually with the second young lady... Bah!"

Cheng Songan smiled faintly: "Family disgrace should not be made public. Miss Yu, please don't say anything for my sake."

Duan Zhuyu wanted to scold, but suddenly she remembered the purpose of her visit and said with a smile, "Now Sister can be my aunt-in-law!"

Cheng Songan knocked on her head and said sternly, "Don't talk nonsense. Your uncle has a bright future. If he gets involved with an abandoned woman like me, wouldn't it affect his reputation?"

Duan Zhuyu pouted and said, "Implicate? Sister, if you agree, he will probably take you to show off in front of the three armies. Don't you know that as soon as the news about Lord Cui and your sister got out today, he immediately dragged me to my aunt's house and asked my aunt to hold a lantern banquet. Who do you think he did it for?"

Cheng Songan was a little overwhelmed. She could feel Ming Zhan's affection for her, but she had always treated him as a junior similar to Duan Zhuyu and had never had any thoughts about it.

Seeing that she was not interested, Duan Zhuyu said mysteriously, "Sister, you don't know. The fact that Mr. Cui and the Second Miss can be together is thanks to Uncle Prince Jin."

At that moment, Duan Zhuyu told her again what she had heard from Princess Xiang.

The emperor originally wanted to marry the concubine of Prince Shou, but Cui Yuanqing said that his wife was jealous and would not allow him to take a concubine, let alone a second wife. The emperor took the initiative to act as a matchmaker, but was rejected. He was furious and then asked him to divorce his wife and remarry. Cui Yuanqing committed suicide to show his determination, so the emperor sent two eunuchs to go to the Fisherman and Woodcutter Villa with him to question him.

This matter was almost over, but yesterday, Prince Jin suddenly went to the palace to ask the Queen to marry the second daughter of the Cheng family as a concubine. Cui Yuanqing suddenly changed his attitude. In front of Prince Jin, he told the emperor that he and Cheng Wanxin had known each other for a long time and had a mutual understanding, but he did not expose it because of his marriage to Cheng Songan, so he refused the emperor's marriage. When Cheng Wanxin was engaged earlier, he was already heartbroken, and this time he begged the emperor to fulfill his wish.

The emperor was also puzzled. Instead of punishing him for deceiving the emperor, he readily granted the marriage. What was even stranger was that although Cui Yuanqing had requested for a marriage, he did not make Cheng Wanxin his principal wife, but only a concubine.

After hearing all these twists and turns, Cheng Songan realized that Cheng Wanxin had thanked the wrong person and thought it was really her who helped her.

Prince Jin was also scheming. He wanted to marry Cheng Wanxin in order to win over the Cheng family and to show his goodwill to Cui Yuanqing. However, he never expected that things would not go as he wished. He originally wanted to become a brother-in-law with Cui Yuanqing, but he became a love rival, which inadvertently led to their marriage.

Duan Zhuyu stroked her head and sighed, "Fool, fool, sister, your second sister could have been an imperial concubine, but she became a concubine instead."

Cheng Songan asked calmly, "Imperial Concubine?"

Could it be that Duan Zhuyu already knew about the affair between Prince Xiang and Cheng Wanxin? Then wouldn't the Princess Xiang also know about it?

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