If I were born again, I would marry a strong but short-lived husband.

Old Madam Lu was in a very good mood and quickly told Duke Lu that Princess Yongning wanted to recruit Lu Yuan as her consort.

Duke Lu, who was bedridden, was so angry that he almost died.

He raised his hand and was about to slap her, but he was too angry and lost his aim, and his slap hit the old lady on the shoulder.

The old lady felt a tingling pain in her shoulder and was completely dumbfounded.

After being married for so many years, this was the first time that the Duke had hit her.

"You hit me, you actually hit me!" Old Madam Lu burst into tears.

"By letting Lu Yuan be the consort, you...you are going to destroy the Lu family!" Duke Lu shouted angrily.

Madam Lu didn't understand, "Why is it a dead end?"

Stupid! Stupid!

Duke Lu took a deep breath and said after a long pause, "If Lu Heng hadn't made a mistake in the first place, do you think I would want him to be my son-in-law? He has studied hard since he was young and passed the imperial examinations, but now he can only work in the Ministry of Rites as an idler. Is this a life with a predictable end in sight what Lu Heng wants?"

"The title of Prince Consort is just a nice word. Your future is ruined and you are still so complacent. You are so stupid that you don't even know your own mistakes."

"One of our nobles has already lost his future, are we going to lose another?"

"If the emperor really lets Lu Yuan demote his wife to a concubine and marry the princess, then he will really be treating our Lu family as a thorn in his side. What are you so happy about, you stupid woman!"

Duke Lu almost roared.

The old lady trembled.

She had no idea that things were so complicated. She only knew that Princess Yongning wanted to demote Shen Suian to a concubine, and this alone was enough to make her feel relieved.

"Marry a virtuous wife. The biggest mistake I have made in my life is marrying a fool like you." Duke Lu gritted his teeth.

These words were too heartbreaking. The old lady's face turned pale and blue, and her whole body was shaking with anger.

"Get out!" Duke Lu didn't want to see her even once more.

"No matter how promising Lu Yuan is, he... he is just a concubine's son." Old Madam Lu still tried to find an excuse.

"Isn't he a descendant of the Lu family? Your two sons are legitimate. What's their situation now?" asked Duke Lu.

The eldest son is now disliked by the emperor, and the second son is idle and lazy.

On the contrary, the third son of a concubine has now become the commander of the Shenjiying, and is the emperor's close minister.

And there is Lu Yuan. So what if he is a concubine's son? He is the commander of the Pacification Division and is also deeply trusted by the emperor.

Lu Heng could be considered a close minister to the emperor before, but now that he has become the emperor's son-in-law, he is destined to never be able to enter the cabinet in the future.

Duke Lu was disheartened.

"I knew you disliked the son I gave birth to. You wish you could divorce me so that you can make your beloved woman your principal wife." The old lady cried.

"Heh." Duke Lu laughed angrily. He was talking about the future of the Duke's Mansion, but this stupid woman only thought about jealousy.

"If you don't get out, you're going to piss me off to death," said Duke Lu.

Old Madam Lu thought that if he could really be angry to death, it would be better for her to die. She wouldn't have to live her life under his control.

Although she thought so in her heart, the old lady did not dare to really make the person angry.

She left the inner room and called Second Madam Lu over, venting all the anger she had suffered from Duke Lu on her.

"How stupid! How can a Duke's Mansion have two consorts? If Lu Yuan is the consort, the Emperor will hate the Duke's Mansion. You don't understand at all."

Mrs. Lu: "..."

Didn't you just join her in asking Shen Suian to agree to Princess Yongning's request?

……

……

Lu Heng hasn't seen Guangning for two days.

He thought she had returned to the princess's mansion, so he didn't go out of his way to look for her. He didn't want to see her much now.

Just to bring his mother back, he had to pretend to be in love with Guangning.

"The princess hasn't come back?" Lu Heng came to the princess's mansion and found out that Guangning was not there.

"My dear Prince Consort, the princess went to the palace two days ago and has not come back since. We servants thought she was in the Duke's Mansion." The maids looked at each other in bewilderment. Could it be that the princess was punished by Concubine Yao to copy the sermon in the palace again?

Lu Heng frowned. He was really reluctant to enter the palace.

But in order to maintain his and Guangning's superficial image, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and ask for an audience with Concubine Yao.

I happened to meet the second prince outside the gate of Zhaoxi Palace.

"Why did the prince consort enter the palace? Where is Guangning?" asked the second prince.

Lu Heng was stunned. "Isn't the princess in the palace?"

The second prince frowned, "Impossible, she is not here with mother."

Guangning is not in the princess's mansion, nor in the palace, so where else could he go?

Lu Heng and the Second Prince both recalled the incident in which Guangning kept a lover in a manor outside the city, and their faces turned unhappy.

The two looked up at each other.

The second prince's eyes flashed with embarrassment, "Guangning has always been unrestrained, maybe he went out to play somewhere, I'll go and look for him with you."

"Thank you very much, Second Prince." Lu Heng forced a smile.

The controversy over his cuckolding had just ended. If Guangning brought up the issue of him having a lover again at this time, he would really be too ashamed to face anyone in the capital.

"Second Prince, please wait for a moment. I will go and pay my respects to the Imperial Concubine first." Lu Heng said.

"Okay." The second prince nodded and returned to Zhaoxi Palace with Lu Heng.

When Concubine Yao heard that Guangning had not been seen for two days, her face instantly darkened. She and Lu Heng and the others thought the same thing, thinking that Guangning might have gone somewhere to have fun after being scolded by her.

"Don't go looking for him in a high-profile manner. Look for him slowly and secretly first." Concubine Yao warned while suppressing her anger.

Lu Heng knew the seriousness of the matter. If he made too much of a fuss, he would be the one who would be embarrassed.

The second prince originally had a mediocre impression of Lu Heng, but now he couldn't help but feel sympathy for him.

Although Guangning is his biological sister, whoever marries her would be bringing shame to his ancestors.

However, this is also Lu Heng's own fault. If he had not caused the scandal of keeping a barmaid, the Shen family's eldest daughter would not have wanted to cancel the engagement, and his father would naturally not have granted him the marriage.

Lu Yuan was very open and honest. When Yongning wanted to recruit him as a son-in-law, he immediately and flatly refused. It was not in his father's interest to separate the young couple.

The second prince complained in his heart, but still followed Lu Heng out to find someone.

At first they thought that if they looked in Wa Si or other places, they might find the person.

But after searching all the restaurants and drinking houses in the capital and visiting all the farms where Guangning lived outside the city, they still couldn't find Guangning.

It was not until the third day that the second prince finally noticed something unusual.

"Although Guangning loves to play, she would never be so reckless. Something has happened to her." The second prince said with a sullen face.

Lu Heng frowned, "I heard that Guangning left the city directly after he came out of the palace, and he never came back."

The second prince said, "You take your men out of the city to continue searching, and I will return to the palace to report to my father."

The princess was missing, so they could no longer keep a low profile.