Chapter 120 Lu Zhinian: Tang Ning will definitely marry me!
She was so pretentious, so frivolous and ambitious, and her eyes were always full of calculations when she looked at people, but he actually believed that such a jealous and unyielding woman would be bullied by a girl from the Duke's Mansion who had been raised in a pampered manner and was naive and ignorant of the world.
He actually felt sorry for Song Shulan because her biological mother had passed away, but he forgot that Tang Ning's parents had died early and she had no one to rely on.
In the past, Song Jinxiu always felt sorry for Song Shulan's life experience and felt that she was in a difficult situation after losing her mother. However, he never thought about it carefully. As a court official, his third uncle Song Qin was on business trips outside, which was a secret. How could Song Shulan find him so coincidentally?
He also didn't think about how a weak little girl who had never seen her father's family and was raised by her widowed mother could dare to go alone to find the Third Master of the Song Family, who had no idea how he would deal with her. Knowing that she was a concubine's daughter and a stain on the Song Family, wasn't she afraid of being killed by the Song Family?
It was not until that day when he learned of her identity, that she was Song Hong's illegitimate daughter, and that her mother was a traitor, that he suddenly realized that with Song Hong caring so much about the future of the Song family, and with Old Madam Song caring so much about the future of the Song family, even if they valued the so-called "affection" of the past, how could they dare to keep her in the mansion openly.
His father might be confused for a moment because of love, but how could his grandmother, who had driven Xu Zhen out of the capital and even wanted to kill him completely, agree to keep such a disaster in the house?
unless……
Song Shulan had some leverage over the Song family that forced her grandmother to back down.
Unless she had brought out something that made Uncle San dare not ignore when she went to find Song Qin that day, he would have been forced to take the risk and bring her back to the capital.
Song Jinxiu looked at the tears on Song Shulan's face that were trying to arouse his pity, and his mind was clearer than ever.
In the past, whenever she cried, he would feel that she was wronged and would unconditionally side with her. He scolded Tang Ning for him, and repeatedly yelled at his sister whom he had loved since childhood for her. He forgot the years of brotherly friendship and seemed to have lost his mind, thinking only of not letting her be bullied.
But now when I look back at those tearful eyes, I only feel that they were full of calculation.
This woman used her tears as a weapon, and he believed it, which was so stupid that it was laughable.
"Brother..."
Song Shulan felt cold all over and her face turned pale when he looked at her. She raised her eyes cautiously and looked at him. The profile of her face that was exposed was beautiful and fragile. Her eyelashes trembled slightly on the side of her pale face. She knew that she looked the best like this and that it could make people's hearts melt.
"Brother, don't look at me like that, I'm afraid..."
Song Jinxiu looked at her quietly for a long time before speaking, "Since you call me brother, what are you afraid of?"
He reached out his hand in a gentle tone and placed it on her slender and fragile neck. The extremely cold touch frightened Song Shulan so much that she trembled as if her throat was being strangled. Her lips trembled and she dared not speak.
"Lan'er, I'm your brother, aren't I?"
After hearing this, Song Shulan not only did not relax, but her body trembled even more violently.
Song Jinxiu tilted his head slightly: "Are you afraid of me?"
Song Shulan said in a trembling voice: "No... no... Lan'er is not afraid of my brother..."
If she hadn't been trembling all the time and her face was frighteningly pale, her words would have sounded somewhat pitiful and intimate.
Lu Zhinian, who was standing opposite, couldn't see Song Jinxiu's expression clearly in the dim light of the cell. He just saw that Song Jinxiu still recognized Song Shulan as his sister at this time, and spoke gently as if to comfort her. He couldn't help but sneer while leaning against the cell door.
"Song Jinxiu, are you stupid? You haven't seen this woman's true face yet?"
"She is not as weak and innocent as you see her. She has never been bullied by Tang Ning. Ever since she appeared in front of the Song family, she has been playing the victim and trying to alienate you and Tang Ning. It is she who destroyed your Song Guogong Mansion and harmed Tang Ning. How dare you not realize it?"
Lu Zhinian seemed to want to vent his own stupidity in the dream on others, and his words were full of resentment:
"From the moment she approached your Song family, she's been scheming to replace Tang Ning. All she wants is the Song family's wealth and glory. She wants to climb up the social ladder by stepping on you. To her, you, her brother, are nothing more than a stepping stone to achieve her wish..."
"So what?"
Song Jinxiu raised his eyes and looked at Lu Zhinian: "I may be stupid, but she and I have the same blood flowing in our body. I can't change it. But Lu Sanlangjun is not stupid, so why did he end up in this situation?"
"You!!" Lu Zhinian was immediately furious.
Song Jinxiu sat in the cell doorway, staring across at his former friend. He taunted with a hoarse voice, "Lord Lu Sanlang has a keen eye for people and is incredibly intelligent, yet he was still played around by others. You abandoned your old friends and chose to play it safe, but in the end, you ended up like me, thrown into the imperial prison in disgrace."
"I saw that the beating you received the other day was no less severe than mine. I heard that His Majesty personally ordered the caning, accusing you of being shameless and despicable. What's the difference between Mr. Lu Sanlang and me now?"
Song Jinxiu's words were harsh: "Tang Ning has always looked down on you. Now she is the Princess of Yiyang County, and you are a prisoner that the Emperor hates. You are so different from her that you are nothing in her eyes. I'm afraid I will never be able to drink this cup of brother-in-law tea from Mr. Lu Sanlang."
"Song Jinxiu!"
Lu Zhinian had never seen Song Jinxiu be so cold-tongued and vicious. He felt as if his heart was stabbed. He grabbed the prison door tightly and glared at him.
"How good do you think you can get? The Duke of Song's mansion is long gone, and your reputation as Master Yutai is also long gone. Song Hong is colluding with the traitor and it will be difficult for him to survive. You, Song Jinxiu, can never return to the court. You will be like a rat in the dark for the rest of your life, never to see the light of day!"
He seemed to have caught Song Jinxiu's handle, his expression was ferocious:
"I don't know how to judge people, and I'm hated by His Majesty, but at least I still have the Lu family. I still have a chance to start over, and I still have a chance to escape this cage and seek Tang Ning's forgiveness."
"She loved me so much in the past. She risked everything for me. As long as I apologized to her, she wouldn't be ruthless to me. But what about you? The Song family is gone, the Duke's Mansion will also perish. Song Jinxiu, you are nothing."
"Tang Ning would rather be expelled from the clan by Song Jiaduan himself than acknowledge you as his brother. He doesn't want to have anything to do with you. How dare you still call yourself his brother?"
"Brother-in-law? Ha!"
Lu Zhinian sneered sarcastically, "If you can survive this time and not be exiled, I can reward you with a glass of wine when Tang Ning and I get married, so that you can witness our happiness with your own eyes."
Song Jinxiu tilted his head slightly and looked at Lu Zhinian, who was looking ferocious. He saw that although he had fallen into such a situation, he was still as conceited as before.
The clothes on his back were still stained with blood, and he had to hold on to the prison door tightly even to sit up. Although he had been thrown into the imperial prison for several days, no one from the Lu family had come to see him.
But he seemed to still think that as long as he could get out, the Lu family would still be his, he would still be the bright and handsome, popular third son of the Lu family, and Tang Ning would turn back for him...
Song Jinxiu seemed to see his former self in him, the fool who had clearly broken up with others but still always taught Tang Ning a lesson as a brother.
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