When his heart is cold and hard, it hurts people like this.

She tried to get away with it in front of him, tried to win his sympathy and make him not care, which was almost impossible to accomplish.

Lu Yun and Luo Lingyu returned to Lu's home together. Sitting on the ox cart, Luo Lingyu still did not give up and still wanted to make up a story as complete as possible. But she secretly looked at the cold face of her husband who was sitting in the same cart with her, and her mind became more and more confused and heavy, unable to think calmly. Luo Lingyu bit her lip, she also held her breath and refused to admit her mistake at this time.

Until returning to "Xuesuyuan".

On the way, I also met Lu Erlang and Lu Xian.

When Luo Lingyu reluctantly led Lu Yun back to her courtyard, she was surprised to see Lu Erlang. If Lu Erlang was here, could he persuade Lu Sanlang to leave? Lu Xuechen would have to listen to his brother, right? But Luo Lingyu was about to say hello to Lu Xian from a distance, and when Lu Xian saw them, he was stunned. Lu Xian showed a kind smile on his face, saying "I didn't see anything", and he and his servants hurried away, avoiding Lu Yun and Luo Lingyu who were walking towards them.

Luo Lingyu despaired of him: "..."

After the two left, Lu Xian was still full of relief: As expected, without the King of Hengyang, the relationship between the third brother and his cousin progressed rapidly. It has only been a few months, and the sky is dim, and the third brother can be invited to his cousin's "Xuesuyuan" alone at night. The relationship is so close, and the "short paper and long love" in the dream will never happen again.

Lu Xian was full of fighting spirit and felt that his strategy was absolutely correct. He should have talked to the King of Hengyang more often, firstly to make the King of Hengyang have no energy to please his cousin, and secondly to make the King of Hengyang realize the strength of the family. Now was not a good time for the two sides to break up.

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The door was closed, and before the settlement, Luo Yunhuan was led by the maid to sleep. In the main room, Lu Yun sat down, followed by Luo Lingyu. Under a few copper lamps, all the things Luo Lingyu collected were turned out. Calligraphy and paintings, jade pendants, sachets, and silk were thrown all over the floor. Luo Lingyu pretended to be so pretentious that she naturally couldn't find the armlet.

Lu Yun just said nothing and looked at her coldly.

Lu Yun turned to look at the trembling maids. "My cousin came from Nanyang and is unfamiliar with the place. Grandmother felt sorry for her and sent you here to serve her. Your daughter said she lost something, but you didn't know anything. I suspect one of you maids stole the thing while keeping watch."

"It would be inappropriate to keep you as a maidservant who stole away to wait on my cousin when she returns. But if I let you go, I'm afraid that would be against your will. I'll just beat you to death."

He said "beat him to death" casually, and the maids standing in the room who were being questioned by him fell to their knees in fear, crying and shouting "Sanlang, spare my life." Luo Lingyu sat below him, twisting her hands, her face pale. Seeing that he was so iron-faced and impartial, she was extremely frightened.

Lu Yun looked at the maid Lingyu who was kneeling in the front: "As a personal maid, beating to death is not enough punishment. Bring your parents here tomorrow..."

"Lu Xuechen, that's enough!" Luo Lingyu couldn't bear it any longer and stood up suddenly. "This is my yard. They were sent by the old lady to serve me. I decide the rewards and punishments! Although you are the third son of the Lu family, you should give me some face in my territory."

Lu Yun smiled and said, "Then please ask my cousin to give the order to kill them."

He said, "My cousin is ruthless and merciless. I think she can issue such an order."

Luo Lingyu was so angry that she trembled: "What do you mean by 'I can do that'? How despicable am I in your heart? How much do I regard human life as worthless? Is it because of what I did to you that day? Just because of that one thing, no matter how much I do in the future, do you think I am a bad person?"

"I came to a foreign land with my sister to seek refuge with my relatives, who are not related to me by blood, but my aunt. I don't know whether she will value me or how the Lu family will treat me! The future is uncertain, do I have to help you? My own future is already bleak, why should I protect another person?"

"It's not me who hurt you!"

"Why do you stop trusting me because of that incident?"

Luo Lingyu was in tears as she spoke, tears welling up in her eyes, drops like Xiangzhu tears. The maids knelt on the ground, not understanding what the two were talking about, but at least they knew that Sanlang seemed to have known the cousin before the cousin came to the Lu family, and Sanlang and the cousin had some grudges, and because of that grudge, he had a prejudice against the cousin.

When the maids heard the girl's sobbing, they felt sad too.

Lu Yun kept his eyelids straight: "It's half true and half false. You have to keep playing this trick until now to make people sympathize with you, as if I'm a bad guy forcing you."

Luo Lingyu glared at him angrily, tears still on her cheeks, her face pale and bloodless: this was really the first time she met a man like Lu Yun, who would not be fooled by any tricks. All her self-help methods, other men would be softened when they saw her crying like this, but only Lu Yun... only Lu Yun!

Lu Yun said simply: "Armlet."

Luo Lingyu slumped her shoulders, biting her lips until they were bloody. She hated Lu Yun for not giving her face, but she felt that no matter how many tricks she used, it would be useless to him. Seeing the maids being dragged out and beaten to death, they all looked at her with tears in their eyes... Luo Lingyu closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, her attitude finally relaxed: "I sold it."

Lu Yun's drooping eyelids twitched slightly, and he looked up at her.

She hated and resented him so much that she vented her hatred for him behind the maid's back, taking advantage of the fact that no one else could see. He showed no mercy to her and forced her to tell the truth and reveal her true colors. Her true colors peeled off bit by bit under his eyes, and her mask was shattered by him. She was extremely annoyed and afraid of this man. She thought she was really blind before - how could she think that marrying Lu Yun was a good thing?

Luo Lingyu whispered, "All of you go out. I have something to say to my third cousin."

The maids were spared, closed the door and went out one after another. The maid Lingyu looked at her anxiously, and saw that the atmosphere between Luo Lingyu and Lu Yun was too tense. Lingyu exchanged glances with Luo Lingyu: Girl, do you need me to ask your aunt to come and help you?

Luo Lingyu shook her head slightly.

After closing the door, Luo Lingyu sat down, looking unhappy. She took out an account book and showed Lu Yun her daily expenses. Luo Lingyu said coldly: "I love vanity and despise poverty and love wealth. I really can't stand a life that is not as good as other ladies from famous families. I just want to save face. I want to have what others have."