Shi Mingyue had to stop. If she didn't leave, could she stay here? There were two Shi Mingyues coexisting in this time and space. If she stayed, it would only cause trouble.
"Thank you, but I can't stay here. I'm sorry."
Fu Yueli didn't let her go, and said in a deep voice: "Tell me, where are you going?"
"I want to go home..." But she didn't know where home was or how to get back.
"Where is Qin Zheng? Where is he?" Fu Yueli's tone was not good, and his face was even gloomier.
Shi Mingyue turned her head away and said, "It has nothing to do with Qin Zheng."
Seeing her like this, Fu Yueli thought that Qin Zheng must have hurt her, which was why she came back from Xinzhou, but because of her awkward identity, she couldn't go anywhere.
"Now you only have two choices. One, follow me and I will take you to Qin Zheng. Two, follow me."
Before Shi Mingyue could react, Fu Yueli pulled her towards the main road.
"Make a choice quickly, one or two?" he asked from the front.
Shi Mingyue thought, that must be option two. Even if the Fu Yueli of this time and space is not her Fu Yueli, she is willing to follow him. "Two, I choose two."
She didn't notice that after she told him her choice, Fu Yueli in front of her rarely smiled.
There was a carriage parked on the road. The driver was leaning against the carriage with his eyes closed. He seemed to hear footsteps coming from the front. He slowly opened his eyes, but when he saw Fu Yueli and the girl holding hands with him, he was stunned. His mouth was so wide that an egg could fit in it.
Didn't he say he wanted to relax by the lake? How could he have brought back a girl? And he was holding her hand so intimately? Was this still his cousin who lived like a monk?
"She, she, she, who is she?!" Lu Lingyan spoke incoherently.
Shi Mingyue saw Lu Lingyan, and he was almost the same as the Lu Lingyan she knew.
Fu Yueli introduced her openly: "She is Shi Mingyue."
Lu Lingyan took a closer look. Oh my god, this girl is actually Shi Mingyue. Didn't she elope with that kid named Qin? Why is she here?
"But, she, she is not..."
"Okay, let's go." Fu Yueli interrupted him, stepped forward and pulled the other person down, then went up first and stretched out her hand to Shi Mingyue: "Come up."
Lu Lingyan watched this scene from the side, baffled. Why was this woman here? And why was Fu Yueli still unable to forget her? Could she have broken up with the Qin boy and was trying to reconnect with Fu Yueli? His eyes suddenly turned cold. What a shameless woman! Didn't she realize how much hurt Fu Yueli had suffered and how many people had ridiculed her because of her escape from the marriage?
"We'll be back in the city soon. Take off your eye lenses first and call me when you're ready." Lu Lingyan hid his emotions very well.
After Fu Yueli sat down, he carefully removed the black lenses from his eyeballs. He was out on business, and if his eyes were white, they would attract attention. He said to Lu Lingyan outside the car curtain, "You can go now."
The carriage began to move, and Shi Mingyue felt a little dazed. She was supposed to be following Fu Yueli out of the city to Pinghu, and then riding in the carriage back to the city together. But the Fu Yueli in the carriage wasn't her Fu Yueli. She wished she were dreaming. She clenched her hands tightly into fists, her nails digging into the flesh of her palms, causing pain. This wasn't a dream.
If this wasn't a dream, how could two identical people coexist in the same space and time? Today was the eighth day of the seventh lunar month, and she, in Xinzhou, had been pregnant for over a month. The day that would change her entire life and destiny was approaching.
"Take me to Qin Zheng!" she suddenly shouted. Since this wasn't a dream, since she had come to this point in time in her previous life, she couldn't let this happen to her again.
Fu Yueli's expression suddenly turned ugly, and she said, "You said to choose two, follow me."
"No, I'm sorry, please, take me to Qin Zheng!" Shi Mingyue's eyes were filled with pain and persistence.
Fu Yueli was silent for a long time, then said to Lu Lingyan outside the car curtain: "Turn around, we're going to Xinzhou."
Lu Lingyan heard their entire conversation and thought, "Great! This woman is finally going back to Qin." He turned the carriage around and headed towards Xinzhou.
Shi Mingyue felt at ease. She could finally prevent this tragedy. For so many days and nights, she often wondered, if that incident hadn't happened, Qin Zheng probably wouldn't have taken a concubine and ignored her. Her remaining life wouldn't have been so painful.
In fact, she no longer had any feelings for Qin Zheng. All she wanted was to save herself and not let herself fall into the long-term torture and pain of her previous life again.
Fu Yueli sat opposite her and thought that he and she were not destined to be together.
The carriage reached the border of Qingzhou. In the afternoon, both the driver and the passengers were feeling tired. They came across a roadside tea shop, so Lu Lingyan stopped the carriage and said to the two people behind the curtains, "Come down and have something to eat at the tea shop."
Fu Yueli put on her contact lenses before getting out of the car with Shi Mingyue.
The tea shop was a bit simple, and the three of them ordered a pot of hot tea and a few plates of snacks.
Shi Mingyue drank a cup of tea before she felt hungry again. She ate silently. When she raised her hand, her sleeve slipped down, revealing the sparkling star-moon bracelet and a fair wrist.
Fu Yueli couldn't help but be attracted by the bracelet. Strangely enough, when he saw the bracelet for the first time, he felt a sense of familiarity in his heart.
Seeing that Fu Yueli was still staring at Shi Mingyue's wrist, Lu Lingyan cursed his cousin inwardly for being so useless. Why could he still be obsessed with her?
Shi Mingyue certainly also felt the hostility in Lu Lingyan's eyes. She could probably understand what he was thinking, so she could only try her best not to care.
After eating two pieces of dessert, she lost her appetite.
After sitting for a while, Lu Lingyan stood up and said, "Let's go." They had to leave quickly and get to Xinzhou. It was better for this woman to be as far away from Fu Yueli as possible. Besides, they had other things to do, so how could they waste their time with her?
After driving for most of the day, it was completely dark and the road was unclear. Lu Lingyan stopped the car by the roadside, turned around and lifted the curtain and said, "Okay, there are some dry food and water in the car. Eat some first, and then leave when it's daybreak."
Shi Mingyue could roughly guess that they must have returned from other places on business, but they met her and could not return to the city. They had to continue traveling, and she felt sorry for them.
She still had no appetite, so she reluctantly ate some dry food and drank some water. Then she felt a little dizzy and soon fell asleep leaning against the carriage.
Fu Yueli lifted the curtain and saw that she was sleeping against the carriage. After hesitating for a moment, he tiptoed over, took out the blanket from under the seat and spread it on the ground, then gently carried her to the carpet.
Seeing this scene, Lu Lingyan's eyes darkened and he said with a smile: "You and I should just deal with it outside tonight. After all, she is Madam Qin. It's not good for a man and a woman to be alone in the same room."
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