Chapter 100 Lu Zhinian is imprisoned
Lu Zhinian stared at everything in the yard, his face paler than the moonlight.
This was a place he had never been to, and no one from the Song family had ever mentioned to him that there was such an abandoned courtyard here. He had never been here, but he saw things he had never seen before.
If what he saw in his dream was fake and was just his imagination, then what was this yard?
But if it's true...
Lu Zhinian pinched himself tightly, and his whole body was shaking and he couldn't stand steadily.
Song Mo quickly stepped forward to support him: "My dear, my dear, what's wrong with you... Don't scare me..."
“So this is the truth…”
"It turns out that I betrayed her..."
Lu Zhinian seemed to be unable to hear the sounds from the outside world. He just looked at the half-dead tree with a sad face, and the pain in his mind became more and more severe.
He suddenly seemed to understand why Song Tangning seemed to have changed into a different person overnight. She was no longer as gentle as before, no longer obsessed with love, and there was no longer any affection for him in her eyes.
She was cruel to the Song family and heartless to him. She did not hesitate to send the Song family to prison to break up with him and the Lu family. She was never angry or seeking revenge. It was they who let her down.
Those days when one was struggling to survive like a carbuncle, the pain of being covered in sores but not having the one one loves, those miserable cries and pleas, those gray and lightless eyes, all of these were given by them.
They were the ones who harmed her, made her lose hope, and her future, and made her never hold any expectations again. It turned out that what she said was always true.
She actually died once...
Lu Zhinian's face turned pale and tears suddenly welled up in his eyes, and a shrill laugh came from his throat. His crying and laughing look with tears streaming down his face scared Song Mo so much that he was at a loss.
"My dear..."
Song Mo was about to step forward and say something when a bright light suddenly appeared in the dark distance. As the swaying lantern approached, someone shouted loudly.
"Who dares to trespass into the sealed area?!"
"My dear, go!"
Song Mowan didn't expect that there would be someone else in the Song family. When he heard the sound of footsteps approaching, he was frightened and pulled Lu Zhinian and turned around to run away.
However, he had only taken a few steps when the lantern thrown at him hit his ankle with a "bang". Song Mo staggered and fell to the ground, and Lu Zhinian beside him was also pulled down.
Before the master and servant could even stand up, they were pinned to the ground by the people who surrounded them and their hands were twisted behind their backs.
"How dare you run away!"
The Black Armor Guard spat and stepped on Lu Zhinian's leg. He picked up the lantern and cursed, "Let me see which brat dares to trespass into the territory sealed off by the Black Armor Guard..."
The candlelight flickered and fell on Lu Zhinian's face, highlighting his pale face.
The man was stunned and suddenly asked in surprise: "Isn't this the Third Brother of the Lu Family?"
The others were all surprised when they heard this. After coming over to take a closer look at the person on the ground, someone immediately laughed out loud: "Wow, Sanlang Lu is not sleeping in the middle of the night to appreciate the moon?"
Lu Zhinian felt cold all over: It's over.
Song Mo said anxiously, "My husband fell ill last night with a high fever and was a little confused. He thought Miss Song was still at the Song family. We are here to look for Miss Song..."
Bang!
“Bullshit!”
The man hit Song Mo's mouth with the scabbard of his sword.
This guy surnamed Lu is not a good person. He actually dares to talk about the girl from their governor's family.
The man who was smiling brightly before suddenly turned cold and kicked Song Mo, whose mouth was covered in blood, and he fell backwards. "You are talking nonsense. Regardless of whether you are confused or not, you have entered the restricted area without permission and have evil intentions. Take them back and send them to accompany the Song family."
"you……"
Song Mo's mouth was full of blood and he was whimpering and unable to speak clearly.
When Lu Zhinian wanted to speak, he was gagged and dragged away.
The leader of the black-armored guards wiped his scabbard with disdain: "We didn't find the Song family's stuff, but we got an unexpected gain. This Lu family thing is interesting."
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The Lu family was very quiet after nightfall. Lu Chongyuan had no idea that Lu Zhinian had left the house and fallen into Xiao Yan's hands. He was still discussing Song Tangning's matter with Lu Zhao.
He didn't expect that the little girl would be so difficult to deal with, nor did he expect that Xiao Yan would actually escape. Now that the two sides have made such a fuss, those things are likely not going to be resolved peacefully.
"Father, what should we do now?" Lu Zhao asked in a low voice.
Lu Chongyuan's face looked extremely ugly. Even though he was as cunning as a fox and good at scheming, he didn't know how to deal with the current situation. It was as if he was trapped in a game with all his ways blocked.
"For some reason, Song Tangning is so disgusted with the Lu family that she won't give us any wiggle room. We originally wanted to use the engagement to force her to give in, but now she'd rather break up than reconcile..."
Making Lu Zhinian kneel down and apologize to her, and even telling the world in person that it was the Lu family who treated her harshly, what's the difference between this and stepping on the Lu family's face?
It seemed that she was just taking revenge on Lu Zhinian and humiliating him, but the Lu family would also lose face completely. Moreover, if Lu Zhinian really knelt, his future would be completely ruined.
How would others view him if a young man from a noble family knelt before a girl?
How could Lu Chongyuan agree? !
Lu Chongyuan frowned tightly. "When the Song family was around, they could still control them. Even if Prince Cheng was safe, they could still use their seniority to suppress Song Tangning. But now..."
The only elder Song Tangning had left was the extremely protective Princess Cheng. The Song family and Prince Cheng were imprisoned and confined to their palaces respectively, and no one could control Song Tangning.
She is like a slippery loach, and no one can do anything to her.
Lu Qin couldn't help but show a cruel look on his face: "Since we can't control her, and Song Tangning refuses to give up, why don't we take the initiative? She is just an orphan girl. As long as we destroy her reputation, I don't believe she will have the nerve to make trouble with our Lu family..."
Lu Zhao raised his eyes immediately after hearing this: "Second brother, isn't it too despicable for you to do this?"
"What do you mean by despicable?"
Lu Qin's face was filled with frosty anger. "She's just a little girl who doesn't know how to be docile. She completely disregards the Lu family's years of friendship. She's almost tearing our Lu family's face apart and stomping on it. She really wants to destroy Sanlang."
"Brother, if you think this is despicable, then why don't you come up with a less despicable solution? Do you really want to wait for the three-day deadline so that she can sue the entire Lu family to Jingzhao Prefecture? What will the Empress and the Fourth Prince do then?"
"Or is it that Big Brother is willing to ask Sanlang to kneel down before her, kowtow and admit his fault to a little girl, and let her ride on the head of our Lu family from now on?!"
Lu Zhao's face turned ugly when he was asked this question, and he fell silent.
Lu Qin turned to Lu Chongyuan and said, "Father, Song Tangning is stubborn and we can't let a little girl like her destroy our Lu family. People who accomplish great things don't care about trivial matters. Let's get through this first."
"As long as Song Tangning's reputation is ruined, even if the engagement is broken off, it won't be the Lu family's fault. Even if Xiao Yan protects her, the Lu family will have ways to stop the rumors from spreading. No one will side with her. If you think this method is too cruel, at worst, you can let Sanlang take her in as a concubine. That would be considered a kindness from the Lu family."
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