Chapter 53 Don’t be afraid, I will protect you in the future

Be his concubine?

Or is it just a stroke of luck? !

Jiang Yueyao's cheeks turned red with anger.

"Pei Yu, who are you disgusted with? A concubine? You have the nerve to let me, a good girl from a decent family, be your concubine."

"Yaoyao, it's good to be ambitious, but you also have to consider the reality. Now that my status is different and yours is low, it's impossible for you to be my first wife."

Jiang Yueyao deliberately disgusted him.

"What should I do then? Apart from the principal wife, I don't care about anything else."

As she spoke, she suddenly moved closer to Lu Hengqing and asked, "How about this?"

Lu Hengqing looked at her little face that suddenly came close to him, and his originally calm heart suddenly skipped a beat...

"Yaoyao-----" he murmured.

Lu Hengqing felt very strange.

Before in Sucheng, when Jiang Yueyao's heart and eyes were full of him, he thought she was too noisy and clingy, and that she lacked the reserve and elegance that a woman should have.

But ever since they met in the capital, everyone around her seemed to be attracted to her.

Last time it was Feng Zheng, and this time it was Young Master Yuan from the Governor's Mansion... When Lu Hengqing thought that even her third uncle was on her side, she felt indescribable.

Jiang Yueyao originally belonged to him.

Why should others covet you?

Jiang Yueyao was only concerned with her own thoughts: "I did some calculations before. You have spent nearly four thousand taels of silver on me in the past seven years, including the two thousand taels I gave you when you went to the capital."

"If you return these four thousand taels to me, our debt will be written off."

Heng Qing, who was originally immersed in his own emotions, heard these words, and the beautiful thoughts in his mind disappeared completely in an instant.

He looked at Jiang Yueyao as if he didn't know her.

"How can you say such a thing?"

“…”

"You and I have lived together for seven years. Is the love we have shared over these seven years not worth four thousand taels of silver?" He looked at Jiang Yueyao with disappointment in his eyes. "Yaoyao, you make me so sad."

Jiang Yueyao was so angry that she laughed.

"Pei Yu, I've seen too many shameless people, but I've never seen someone as shameless as you!"

"Why are you sad?" she demanded with a sneer. "Let's not talk about our engagement for now. Let's just talk about when I saved your life. Do you still remember what kind of person you were back then?"

"Half naked, in rags, filthy, beaten and kicked by several old beggars, blood spitting out of his mouth..."

"Enough!" Lu Hengqing suddenly shouted, staring at Jiang Yueyao with eyes that looked like he wanted to eat her. "Shut up right there! I don't want to hear about the past anymore. I want to erase everything from the past..."

"So," Jiang Yueyao met his terrifying gaze directly, lowered her voice, and spoke word by word, "I am also a part of your past, and the most important part!"

"So Master Lu wanted to wipe me out with a single blow. From now on, there will be no more Jiang Yueyao in this world, and there will be no more Pei Yu."

"You are starting a brand new life for Lu Hengqing, without any worries or stains..."

Lu Hengqing panicked.

"I didn't... How could I bear to kill you... Yaoyao, you have always been in my heart..."

Jiang Yueyao pushed him away.

The hatred that had been suppressed before surged up.

Her eyes were red with hatred.

"God is watching what we do, Pei Yu, I'm waiting for your retribution!"

After she said that, she turned and left.

Lu Hengqing chased after her, put his hand on her arm, and was about to grab her, but Chenyu flashed over and stood in front of him.

She said coldly: "Try touching her again."

Lu Hengqing, who had already failed to please Jiang Yueyao, was surprised to see that this servant dared to stop him.

He reached out to push Chenyu, but before his hand even touched her, he was grabbed by her and thrown over his shoulder...

With a thud, Lu Hengqing was thrown to the ground in public by her.

Changshun, who was guarding the entrance of the alley, ran over immediately. Seeing Lu Hengqing lying on the ground motionless, he was scared half to death.

"Sir, how are you?"

Seeing Lu Hengqing remained silent, he raised his hand and pointed at Chenyu: "Just wait, our lady will not let you go."

Chenyu crossed her arms and said, "Who the hell is your wife?"

"Heroine, you are truly my heroine."

Jiang Yueyao pulled her into the yard, ignoring Lu Hengqing who was lying on the ground dying, and slammed the door shut.

She was trembling with fear as she pulled Chenyu in.

"Don't drop him to death."

"No, I used some clever strength, he can't die." Chenyu looked at her as she walked, hesitated for a moment, and asked her, "What's going on between you and him?"

Jiang Yueyao did not hide it either.

He pulled her into his room.

After making tea and bringing some melon seeds, the two of them sat together.

"He was kidnapped and sold to Suzhou when he was five years old. Two years later, his adoptive parents died one after another, leaving him an orphan. No one cared for him, and he had to beg for a living. When I met him, he was already thirteen years old. He had just received a piece of meat and bone from a family, but before he could eat it, other beggars took advantage of him and beat him up. When I met him, he was on his last legs."

"Because I felt sorry for him, I took him home."

"Mother didn't want to, saying he was too old and couldn't be raised well, so she wanted to kick him out."

"But I was like a devil, I was obsessed with keeping him."

"My mother didn't insist on me being so stubborn, and I finally kept him with all my might."

"When my mother was alive, he disguised himself very well, was gentle and kind, and treated me wholeheartedly. Later, he passed the provincial examination and then the imperial examination and became a juren.

"Three years ago, my mother passed away, and his true nature gradually revealed itself. He began to look down on me."

"But at that time, my heart and eyes were filled with him. When he treated me badly, I never dared to blame him. I always felt that I was not worthy of him."

"Until this spring's imperial examination, he had gone to Beijing last autumn, but had been gone for several months without a single letter from me."

“I felt something was wrong at that moment.”

"The spring examination was over, and as expected, he won first place, but he still hadn't returned.

"Until one day, news came from the capital that he had been found by the Lu family and had become the distinguished Third Young Master of the Lu family. He was also engaged to Princess Xiangning."

Chenyu was furious when she heard this.

She slammed the table and stood up: "I'm going to kill him!"

As she rolled up her sleeves and was about to go out, Jiang Yueyao grabbed her, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

"Why would you need to do anything to a scum like him?"

"I've always believed that good and evil will be rewarded in the end. Chenyu, just wait and see. He won't have a good ending."

Chenyu looked back at her.

The fair and delicate girl from Jiangnan spoke of her painful experience in a calm tone as if she was talking to someone else.

One can imagine how she survived the painful betrayal and abandonment during that period of time.

In fact, what Chenyu didn’t know was that the reason why Jiang Yueyao was so calm in telling everything now was not because she had survived, but because she had actually died once.

For someone who has died once, what else is there that he can't let go of or see through?

Seeing her looking at herself, she looked distressed.

Jiang Yueyao was about to speak when the other party hugged her in his arms.

Chenyu patted her back gently with loving care, like a sister.

Her voice was unusually gentle.

"Don't be afraid, I will protect you in the future."

Just a few simple words made Jiang Yueyao's eyes red in an instant.

She was about to say something sentimental in response, but Chenyu pushed her away again.

"The lower beam is so crooked, the upper beam won't be straight any more."

"That Lu Sui isn't a good person either. You should stay away from him from now on."

Jiang Yueyao: "Ah?"

"What are you talking about?" Chenyu pulled her to sit down and said seriously, "If you really want to get married, I will introduce you to a young general. He is a man of both literary and military skills. There is no man more handsome than him in the whole capital."

"More importantly, he is clean in mind and body, promising young life, rich and powerful, with loving parents and harmonious sibling relationships."

"As long as you marry him, you will be in charge of the family's money. You can buy whatever you want, go to the theater if you want to watch a play, and go to the teahouse if you want to drink tea. No one will say a word against you."

Jiang Yueyao stuttered with excitement.

"Is it really... is there really... such a good thing?"