Chapter 167 The Price of Marriage
"Old Lady Leng was supposed to come to tonight's charity gala. Do you know why she suddenly didn't come?"
Lu Yunchen was sitting in the driver's seat when he suddenly said something like this without any context.
Shen Weiyang didn’t quite understand, and only vaguely guessed: “Brother, this old lady Leng you are talking about, could she be related to Leng Huaijin?”
Lu Yunchen: "She is Leng Huaijin's grandmother."
When Leng Huaijin was mentioned, Shen Weiyang's heart began to beat fast, and she had a very bad premonition.
Sure enough, Lu Yunchen continued, "The old lady of the Leng family and our grandmother have always been at odds. She's not coming over tonight because our grandmother is coming over, so Weiyang, don't make grandma sad."
Shen Weiyang looked at Lu Yunchen's serious expression, feeling mixed emotions. She didn't know if she was feeling bad or if she really didn't feel anything at all. She just looked at Lu Yunchen and asked, "Brother, do you mean that I shouldn't associate with Leng Huaijin?"
"Don't worry, I won't continue to entangle with him. I, I also have something to tell my brother, and I want to ask for your help."
Lu Yunchen was very pleased that she could be so frank: "I'm very happy that you can be so honest. If there is anything, you must tell me the truth, so that I can help you, understand?"
Although he had only recently recognized this sister, due to their blood relationship and his love for Mu Qinghuan, he felt very sorry for her and treated her no differently from the brothers and sisters who grew up together.
Shen Weiyang didn’t know what happened in the past, nor did she know how many interactions she had with Lu Yunchen in the past, but the blood relationship made her trust him very much.
"Brother, I actually planned to get a marriage certificate with Gu Changting a few days ago, but after arriving at the Civil Affairs Bureau, I found out that Leng Huaijin and I have never divorced."
Lu Yunchen's face showed a look of astonishment for just a moment, but soon he was no longer too surprised, as if he had guessed it a long time ago.
Shen Weiyang looked at Lu Yunchen puzzledly and asked, “Brother, did you know this a long time ago?”
Lu Yunchen lowered the car window, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then slowly said, "When you came to our house that day, I guessed a little about his attitude towards Gu Changting when he brought the children over."
Otherwise, given Leng Huaijin's temper, if Gu Changting really married her, he probably wouldn't be able to go back alive that night.
"I was wondering why I didn't know anything about it if he really wanted to divorce you back then."
Shen Weiyang’s heart tightened, and she felt that some things seemed more complicated than she thought: “Why do you say that?”
Lu Yunchen: "Did you know that Qinghuan and I were divorced once?"
Shen Weiyang nodded: "I heard Qinghuan mention it."
Lu Yunchen: "Then do you know why it is so difficult for you to divorce Leng Huaijin now, but it was so easy for Huanhuan and I to divorce?"
Shen Weiyang was puzzled: "Why? Isn't it because you are easy to talk to?"
Although Leng Huaijin's background is much more complicated than Lu Yunchen's, in terms of position, Lu Yunchen is not much lower than him.
So at first Shen Weiyang thought about whether to go and ask Mu Qinghuan how she divorced Lu Yunchen at that time.
But they are now a loving couple, and she hasn't figured out how to tell them about her and Leng Huaijin. It wouldn't be nice to ask about it rashly, so she didn't ask, thinking that it might be because Lu Yunchen has a better temper than Leng Huaijin.
But Lu Yunchen shook his head: "My temper was not as good as it is now. You don't know that I can divorce because we have never been officially married. I don't want to push Huanhuan to the limit and ask her to find out about this matter and be even more disappointed in me."
"What do you mean by not officially married?" Shen Weiyang asked Lu Yunchen with a trembling voice, "Do you mean you didn't have a wedding, or didn't get a marriage certificate?"
Lu Yunchen shook off the cigarette ash, and his slender fingers looked beautiful in the sunlight. The wheat-colored skin on his hands was caused by being tanned while training under the sun, and it exuded a masculine aura.
"We got the marriage certificate, but I didn't log into the Civil Affairs Bureau system. I did that on purpose because I wasn't old enough to get married at that time. Her family was a mess. If I wanted to marry her, someone from higher up would come and investigate. If the investigation turned out to be unsatisfactory, we wouldn't be able to get married, and it would even be difficult for us to see each other again in the future."
Thinking of his past self, Lu Yunchen felt a little complicated.
Shen Weiyang found it even more incredible when he heard it: "How could it be, how could there be such a rule?"
Lu Yunchen: "It's lonely at the top. Unless I'm willing to give up my future and stay away from the center of power, the old lady and my father at home won't sit idly by and watch without waiting for anyone from above to intervene."
At that time, he just found her interesting and had some feelings for her, but she was not worth risking his future on, so he was quite a scumbag and coaxed the girl into getting a fake certificate and signing a marriage agreement, but he never submitted the marriage documents.
At that time, she just thought he was an ordinary person, and she didn't expect that there was so much going on.
But later on, his feelings for her gradually deepened, and after they became truly in love, he could no longer bear to see her suffer any injustice. After helping her to sort out her family affairs, he began to submit marriage documents.
But he was intercepted by his father on the way. Later, his grandmother and mother found out about his "marriage" with Huanhuan, and they kept asking them to break up. In order to prevent Huanhuan from knowing his true identity and relying on him in the future, they did not even expose his fake marriage and shouted at Huanhuan to divorce him.
Now that I think about it, all the twists and turns they encountered later were due to their own indecision at the beginning.
If I had married her despite the pressure at the beginning, it would not have been easy for her to leave me later.
When Lu Yunchen thought about this, he felt a little uncomfortable.
Shen Weiyang didn’t feel good listening to it.
Lu Yunchen's behavior may indeed be disheartening, but it seems that if they wanted to get married at that time, there was no better way.
"Brother, if Leng Huaijin wants to get married, will it be so troublesome?"
Lu Yunchen: "The Leng family has a complicated background, like a sharp sword used by the country. Who controls this weapon and what kind of people are around this person? We must be extremely cautious. You said you found the marriage record at the Civil Affairs Bureau, which means he really married you."
"He was able to go against everyone's opinion and marry a woman who was destined to be disapproved of by the family, Weiyang. He probably paid a heavy price."
A big price, right?
Shen Weiyang clenched the bag in her hand, her heart beginning to feel uneasy.
"If it's true as you said, Leng Huaijin may have paid a great price to marry me, why would he cheat on me after marriage?"
Divorcing Leng Huaijin seemed to be more difficult than she had imagined.
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