Chapter 56 Why would she believe him?
"Where did you find this medicine?"
Yang Jingling picked up the black pill, sniffed it at the tip of her nose, and frowned.
Cui Yiluo looked at the pill in Yang Jingling's fingertips, which she found in Jiang Yunjin's study.
She can now enter and leave Jiang Yunjin's study freely. She entered under the pretext of leaving the hairpin in the study. The guards would not inform Jiang Yunjin about such a small matter, but if she closed the door, the guards outside would definitely notice something unusual.
She had no choice but to open the door and quietly search the cabinet. The last time she took out the rice paper, she took out a wooden box hidden deep in the cabinet. She thought the pills must be hidden deep there as well.
Sure enough, she found in a mezzanine the same white porcelain bottle she had seen in the morning.
Jiang Yunjin was extremely perceptive, and if a pill was missing, he might find out. Cui Yiluo took out the pills wrapped in the embroidered handkerchief. She specially found a pill that was similar in color and size to Jiang Yunjin's pill, replaced the pill in the white porcelain bottle, and wrapped it with an embroidered handkerchief. Then she brought it to Yang's house for Yang Jingling to examine carefully.
She asked, "But what's wrong?"
Yang Jingling shook her head and said, "This medicine is very well prepared. The ingredients suppress the toxicity quite well. Although it has some effect on the efficacy, long-term use won't cause much harm to the body."
"What's the effect?"
Yang Jingling looked at her with a look of pity in her eyes. Cui Yiluo knew that she was smart and intelligent, and had obviously guessed who the medicine belonged to. In fact, she also vaguely guessed it from Yang Jingling's reaction.
Cui Yiluo curled her lips, not knowing whether to laugh or mock: "It's a contraceptive pill for men, right?"
The contraceptive pills used by men are not the same as those used by women, so they can be easily identified.
Yang Jingling nodded, then said, "But I'm not sure either. I still need to grind it and then make a careful judgment."
Yang Jingling was a doctor under the order of the imperial physician and had superb medical skills, so the results would be roughly correct. However, for the sake of accuracy, she still split the pill in half and ground it.
Obviously, her judgment was not wrong.
Yang Jingling observed Cui Yiluo's expression and tried to console her, "Perhaps Young Master Jiang has something to hide. After all, you're still young. Why don't you talk to him?"
Cui Yiluo was indeed still young, but what about Jiang Yunjin? He was already twenty-two years old. At his age, other sons of noble families would have their children entering school sooner, and even those who were later would already have children.
He is old-fashioned and cares so much about the glory and prosperity of the Jiang family. He is the only one left in the first house, so how could he not want to have children?
I just don't want her to give birth to a child.
She heard it clearly behind the window and heard that he had been taking this medicine for more than two months.
It has been more than two months since they got married, and he has been taking contraceptive pills since they got married.
From the very beginning, he didn't want her to give birth to a child.
Even last night, on the pleasure boat, she asked him how he would raise his children as a father. She thought it was normal not to conceive after more than two months, and she was not anxious, but she did not expect that he had done it on purpose.
Then why did he implicitly imply last night that they would have children? And why did he take contraceptive pills the morning after discussing children?
Cui Yiluo suddenly remembered something in her trance. Because she was still useful, wasn't she? Hadn't he protected her in the first place because of Xiao Jing's orders? Otherwise, he wouldn't have wanted any contact with her at all. He was doing this for Xiao Jing, for the future of the court, and with such a great cause at hand, how could deceiving her be considered unethical?
Everything suddenly became clear.
So his intention was to divorce her once everything was over? After all, the Jiang family did not allow concubines, and he would not do something like demoting his wife to a concubine.
Instantly, Cui Yiluo felt a surge of regret. Why had she trusted him? Why had he told her to, and had she actually believed him? She knew perfectly well that she shouldn't trust anyone, let alone expect anything from them. In reality, everyone lived for themselves.
Cui Yiluo's thoughts were a tangled mess. If he didn't want children with her, why did he make love with her every night? It was because he made love with her every night that she assumed he wanted children.
It turns out that he also has some desires, so he would rather take medicine every day and make love with her at night.
She clearly wanted to break his rules and indulge him in lust, but now she felt it was extremely ironic.
"Yiluo?"
Seeing Cui Yiluo with her eyes downcast, her beautiful face obscured in the darkness, Yang Jingling called out to her again tentatively, feeling worried.
Cui Yiluo raised her lips and put on a pretty smile.
"It's okay, Jingling. I'll have to trouble you to keep today's events a secret for me. Don't let my second cousin know."
Yang Jingling was still a little worried, but she didn't know how to interfere in the affairs between husband and wife. Finally, she nodded and agreed: "I will, don't worry."
Cui Yiluo kept smiling and started talking about something else, but both of them were absent-minded and stopped talking tacitly after a few words.
After returning to Jixuezhai, Cui Yiluo took out the account book to look at it.
But I couldn't read more than a few pages. The accounts that I could check easily on normal days, I couldn't even read a few words at this moment.
She looked at the densely packed account book, but was thinking about the last glimmer of hope that was impossible to achieve - should she take the half-remaining pill and ask Jiang Yunjin?
But then he thought again: in his and Xiao Jing's eyes, she was just a pawn in their quest for the throne. And in her eyes, wasn't he also a pawn to escape the marriage? They were just using each other, so why should they harbor resentment towards each other?
She was confused for a moment, lost her mind, and forgot what she should do.
Cui Yiluo's heart kept sinking, but it couldn't reach the bottom.
Night falls and the cool moonlight gradually spreads.
Before Jiang Yunjin returned to his room, Cui Yiluo extinguished the lights and candles at the appointed time. She lay on the couch and closed her eyes.
She tossed and turned last night until dawn today before she could rest. Not long after falling asleep, she rushed back to Jiang Mansion. She also stayed at Yang Mansion for a while. She should have been very tired, so tired that she should have fallen asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.
But in the darkness, she couldn't fall asleep no matter what.
Suddenly, the door creaked softly. It was Jiang Yunjin's return. Cui Yiluo knew it clearly without even turning around. It turned out that they had understood each other without knowing when.
A hint of sarcasm flashed in Cui Yiluo's eyes.
As usual, there was a soft sound of water in the bathroom.
Afterwards, she felt a faint sense of warmth behind her, which was particularly obvious in the bedroom where the charcoal was burning brightly. It was so obvious that Cui Yiluo could clearly feel him lying down and moving a little closer.
"Not asleep?"
His cold voice sounded in the darkness, with some hesitation.
Cui Yiluo closed her eyes and did not answer, maintaining long and even breathing.
The person behind her only asked once, and when she didn't answer, he didn't ask again, nor did he move, and stayed very close to her on the couch.
There seemed to be a tacit understanding between him and her, a tacit understanding not to ask, a tacit understanding not to cross a certain line. He knew that she was not asleep, but if she didn't answer, he wouldn't ask any further questions, just thinking she had other reasons.
Cui Yiluo suddenly felt extremely disgusted with this behavior of maintaining boundaries.
"What happened in the mansion?"
After a long silence, just when Cui Yiluo thought they would not speak again and the night would pass by tacitly, the man's voice sounded again.
Cui Yiluo felt like a thorn was stuck in her heart and she felt uncomfortable all over.
She bit her lip, "No."
Her body was suddenly turned over, and she suddenly met the man's dark and gloomy eyes.
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Author's words: Notice: Congratulations to player [Jiang Yunjin], your capture target [Cui Yiluo]'s favorability value towards you has dropped to 0.
There is a reason for the contraceptive pills, which I will explain later.
Given her upbringing, it's normal for Ah Luo to distrust her cousin. It's impossible for her to completely trust him just because he helped her once or twice. She and her cousin hadn't fully opened up to each other, and there had always been a rift between them. What she considered deception had occurred. Furthermore, the people and events she encountered since childhood must have significantly reduced her trust in him. Furthermore, she's inherently avoidant in relationships, not willing to initiate conversations. I hope everyone will give Ah Luo a chance to grow; she's constantly evolving and changing.
Sorry, there was something unexpected today, which took up my time to write. I will make up for it tomorrow.
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