Lu Qingshan was a little surprised, and his subconscious reaction was to look at Cui Yuanqing. The latter looked not good, but not unhappy. He looked injured and definitely did not go to see the sunrise.

"Brother Lu Shi?" Cheng Songan was already standing in front of his horse, but he was still in a daze.

Lu Qingshan came to his senses, dismounted as well, and followed Cheng Songan into the villa. He stopped at the gatehouse on the second gate and did not go further into the villa.

"Sit down." Cheng Songan pointed to a meeting chair and motioned him, while she leaned against the table beside her, tapping her fingers unconsciously.

Lu Qingshan sat down slowly, watching her movements, knowing that she was thinking and struggling. These were some of her little movements, just like when she was happy, her hands hanging at both sides of her body would unconsciously grab the air.

She was acting strangely today. She no longer called him Lu Qingshan, nor did she call him Minister Lu, let alone Lu Xiaojiu. Instead, she called him Brother Lu in a distant tone. The two words "Brother Lu" originally implied a close relationship, but combined with her cold attitude, it was very strange.

"You finally returned to Cui Yuanqing." Lu Qingshan smiled self-deprecatingly.

Cheng Songan stopped tapping the table, her slender fingers briefly retaining the previous movement. She did not look back, but looked at the hazy green outside the window and asked, "At the Lantern Festival, I asked you if you had anything to hide from me. You said no at the time. Is that true?"

Lu Qingshan's body stiffened, and a chill ran down his body from head to toe. He was silent for a while, then asked, "What do you want to ask?"

Cheng Songan tapped the table lightly with her fingers again, just once, and then stopped. It was really difficult for her to ask.

No matter how spoiled and domineering she had been, or how virtuous she pretended to be later, there was one thing that never changed: if she trusted someone, she would trust him to the end and would not doubt him easily.

"What is the basis for your alliance with Xue Tingrong?" After thinking for a long time, he finally found a way to enter.

Worried that he didn't understand, Cheng Songan added, "She didn't tell you her real name, did she? She's not my second sister, she's a member of the Xue family."

Lu Qingshan was a smart man. He didn't understand some of Cheng Wanxin's actions at first, but after hearing Cheng Songan's explanation, he understood it all at once. It turned out that she was not really Wanxin, but Xue Tingrong. He didn't know who Xue Tingrong was, but she must be related to Xue Tingyun.

This is not important. What is more difficult to explain now is his "cooperation" with Xue Tingrong.

Cheng Songan looked out the window and said slowly: "I believe you definitely don't know that she is not Wan Xin, otherwise I wouldn't cooperate with her."

"What is the basis for your cooperation with her? She wants Cui Yuanqing, and you want me, is that right?"

She still knew herself very well. Lu Qingshan's stiff body slowly relaxed. What he had been worried about was discovered by her. Actually, there was nothing wrong with it. She would know it one day. She always said that only heaven knew, the earth knew, and even the moon knew.

"I guess so." Lu Qingshan raised the corners of his lips, but he couldn't laugh. He knew that there was no possibility between them from now on.

Cheng Songan took his hand off the table, placed it on his belly and gently stroked it, then smiled bitterly: "Since you dislike me for having his child, why do you still want to get me? Don't you dislike me?"

"No!" Lu Qingshan suddenly stood up from his chair and kept shaking his head, "No, Cheng Songan, I didn't think of harming that child."

When he heard Cui Yuanqing say in person that she was pregnant, there was only one thought in his mind: he couldn't stop Cui Yuanqing's love, but he could still stop Cheng Songan's thoughts.

As long as Cui Yuanqing married her sister, she would never be able to turn back. They would have to divorce anyway. He could help her leave Beijing, he could treat the child as his own, and he could take good care of them. As long as Cheng Songan could forget Cui Yuanqing, she had said that she would not turn back.

Lu Qingshan had lost his mind at that time. If he had never seen hope, he would not be so desperate.

He was like a desperate drowning man who grabbed a piece of driftwood at random. Cheng Songan had always wanted to match him with Xue Tingrong, whom they all thought was Cheng Wanxin at the time. So why couldn't he match Xue Tingrong with Cui Yuanqing?

So he found Xue Tingrong and told her that he would help her marry Cui Yuanqing, and she just needed to find ways to make Cui Yuanqing side with her.

But Xue Tingrong was too smart. She knew there must be a reason why Lu Qingshan was so anxious. She should have been the beneficiary, but she used this to find out that Cheng Songan was pregnant.

Lu Qingshan didn't take it seriously. It wouldn't matter even if she knew. They were sisters, and Xue Tingrong was already in Guishan Villa. She couldn't reach Cui Mansion, let alone Cheng Songan. Until Cheng Songan had a miscarriage, he never suspected that it was Xue Tingrong who did it.

This is probably like trying to get the skin of a tiger, but Xue Tingrong is not a tiger, she is more cunning and treacherous than a tiger. It was obviously her who committed the murder, but Lu Qingshan had to bear the guilt and regret.

Lu Qingshan wanted to get Cheng Songan even more frantically, not for anything else, but just to make up for the mistakes he had made. He wanted to spend his whole life to protect her and compensate her.

And Xue Tingrong always gave him opportunities at the right time, such as when Cheng Songan arrived at Cui's house and found Xue Tingrong living in Yunxiang Pavilion and ran away in anger, or when Cheng Songan thought Cheng Jining was in danger and chased her out of the city; for example, he came to Yuqiao Villa today to verify that Cui Yuanqing left without permission...

How could there be so many coincidences? Xue Tingrong had deliberately revealed all the information, and in return, Lu Qingshan gave King Jin advice and asked for Xue Tingrong's hand in marriage, forcing Cui Yuanqing to take her into his palace.

"You didn't kill Boren, but Boren died because of you."

Cheng Songan laughed towards the sky, tears streaming down her cheeks. At this moment, she incredibly empathized with Cui Yuanqing.

Lu Qingshan had no intention of harming her child, but her child died because he leaked the information;

She never knew where Xue Tingyun was hiding, but Xue Tingyun's life and death were unknown because of an address she revealed.

Lu Qingshan's heart ached, and he wanted to wipe her tears, but Cheng Songan dodged him.

"Lu Qingshan, you didn't do this, but I can't help but blame you." After a long while, Cheng Songan calmed down and said slowly, "Let's return to dust and live our own lives."

She almost blurted out that just like in her previous life, they should have never met again on the day she returned to Beijing.

She now understood that Lu Qingshan had always been walking in extremes, either to win Cui Yuanqing for her, or to get her by any means. In his previous life, he asked to marry Xue Tingrong for the former reason, and he wanted to protect her and win Cui Yuanqing's heart for her in this way.

In this life, they are even.

Lu Qingshan's lower lip trembled uncontrollably: "If this hadn't happened, would you have come with me?"

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