Chapter 12: Throwing water on Song Tingchen's face
"After all, although you didn't save my life, you saved Sui Sui's life."
Su Tan held the soft and cute little girl in his arms, his eyes slightly warm. Suisui had a round little face, and was soft and cute as a piece of jade. She was really lovable.
I once had a daughter named Changle.
If little Changle had grown up healthy, he would be this age today.
I don’t know if she will be like Sui Sui, who likes to cling to people, likes to hug her, and wants to look at flowers in winter.
Su Tan's eyes dimmed slightly, but he quickly forced himself to adjust himself and not think about it.
"Sister Fairy, kiss~"
As if sensing that Su Tan's mind was wavering, Sui Sui kissed Su Tan on the face again.
Her voice was so sweet and sticky that it made people feel like they were drinking a mouthful of sweet red bean dumpling soup in winter. "Bad uncle made the fairy sister unhappy."
Sui Sui didn’t know that Su Tan was thinking of the pain in his heart that he couldn’t tell others, he just thought that Su Tan was still sad about what Song Tingchen said.
"Then Fairy Sister, don't play with him. Fairy Sister, play with uncles and sisters who can make you happy, so you won't be unhappy~"
Su Tan was in a trance for a moment, then looked at Sui Sui and smiled.
Holding such a sweet and soft little girl in my arms, even this winter doesn't seem so hard to bear.
“It’s so nice to be old.”
Su Tan held Sui Sui in her arms, and the little girl picked a plum blossom and kissed her on the face.
"Give it to Fairy Sister!"
Su Tan held the flowers and couldn't help but squint his eyes.
"Thank you Sui Sui, the flowers are very beautiful."
She likes it too.
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When Su Tan was about to leave, Sui Sui was reluctant to let her go. She held her legs tightly and looked up at her with her little head tilted up. "Fairy sister, will you come again next time?"
Lu Zhiheng didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and he grabbed the little dumpling and said, "You'll be able to see it in two days, dear~"
Sui Sui's mouth was flat, obviously a little unconvinced, and he looked at Su Tan eagerly.
Su Tan touched Sui Sui's chubby little head and said, "Really? I'm not lying to you."
Prince Chen used his master's jade token to find her and her senior sister. In addition to Suisui's illness, it was also related to the Eastern Palace.
The Crown Princess will be giving birth soon, so she has to go to the Eastern Palace to prevent anyone from taking the opportunity to cause trouble and attract evil spirits to cause chaos.
Lu Zhiheng was also worried about leaving Sui Sui alone in Prince Chen's mansion, so he was sure to take her with him.
The Crown Prince is weak and cannot see the wind. He is almost soaked in medicine. Whether the Crown Princess can give birth to the child safely is related to the fate of the entire Eastern Palace.
Lu Zhiheng looked at Su Tan and said solemnly, "Giving birth to a woman is a very difficult hurdle. My brother and I will not be able to enter the delivery room. I'll trouble you and your sister to look after the emperor's wife for us."
Su Tan nodded, and after a moment's thought, he said to Prince Chen, "On that day, the Eastern Palace will undoubtedly be heavily guarded, and I'm afraid many things won't be able to be brought in. Please, Your Highness, have the Crown Prince write a letter to avoid any complications on the day the Crown Princess gives birth."
Lu Zhiheng hugged Sui Sui and nodded in agreement.
He sent Su Tan out of the house, waving his little hand, "Fairy sister, goodbye~"
Su Tan adjusted the plum blossoms on her temples that Sui Sui had pinned on her hair. "Well, goodbye Sui Sui."
Su Tan got on the carriage, but he never expected that he would be stopped by Song Tingchen on the way back to Duke Dingguo's Mansion.
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Teahouse private room.
The hot steam from the tea blocked Song Tingchen's sight. He couldn't see her face clearly, but he could clearly see the red plum blossoms in her hair.
The tea was a little hot, but in such cold weather, it cooled down after a while.
Su Tan held the teacup in his hand and asked, "General Song blocked my way. What on earth is going on?"
Song Tingchen's cheeks were thin, his jawline was tightly taut, and a cold aura enveloped him. His eyes swept across the red plum blossom pinned on Su Tan's temples, and his brows knitted slightly. "Su Tan, this mess in Prince Chen's Mansion is not something you can wade into."
"You can save Princess Zhaoyang, but your interaction with Prince Chen's Mansion should end here."
Su Tan put down the teacup, his eyes cold, "This is my business, it has nothing to do with you."
Her indifferent look made Song Tingchen's brows furrowed even tighter. It seemed that she was always like this, never appreciating other people's kindness. "Su Tan, you just returned to the capital. The situation in the court is no longer what you saw three years ago."
"You are the one who wants to get involved in this muddy water of the fight for the throne and seek death. I can't care less, but don't forget that you are still Xiaoxiao's mother. Don't implicate him."
Su Tan was both amused and confused, and her eyes swept across Song Tingchen's cold face.
"Then just treat Song Xiao's biological mother as dead."
If they hadn't divorced, she would have turned into a pile of earth by now.
As soon as these words came out, Song Tingchen's face suddenly tensed up, and a gloomy aura emanated from his body. He chuckled briefly, his eyes sneering, "Su Tan, I underestimated you and your cruelty to Xiaoxiao."
Su Tan just found it funny.
"Song Tingchen, Song Xiao has never considered me her biological mother, yet you want me to treat him like a treasure."
"Do you think I'm still like I was three years ago, willing to constantly compromise for a child who doesn't deserve it? I'm not that lowly yet."
The fate between people is predetermined.
She and Song Xiao have a weak mother-son relationship.
Song Tingchen's eyes suddenly darkened. In the past three years, people outside have said that Xiaoxiao is an ungrateful person and laughed at him as a wild child without a mother. He thought Su Tan would feel distressed when she knew it, but he never expected that she actually said that Xiaoxiao was not worth it.
"I know you were mad at me because I wanted to marry Qingyin, but the marriage didn't happen after all, did it?"
"No matter how much resentment you have, it should have subsided in three years. I won't marry her now, so there's no need for you to transfer your resentment towards her to Xiaoxiao!"
Su Tan looked at him quietly, and burst into laughter for a moment, "Song Tingchen, you really are good at flattering yourself."
He actually still thinks that she gave up on him and Song Xiao because of Liu Qingyin.
Her eyes were as cold as the white snow clinging to a branch. "Your Song family is nothing but a den of wolves. Now that I've escaped, I won't be foolish enough to go back in."
Changle's life stands between her and Song Tingchen.
That is a scar that will heal throughout your life.
It will not fade away with the passage of time, but will only stay in the heart, like arthritis. When it is rainy and humid, the fine pain will surge like a tide.
"As for Song Xiao——"
Su Tan's eyes paused, a ripple in them, and he finally said expressionlessly: "The Su Tan who valued him more than his own eyes had died long ago."
Song Tingchen's face was as gloomy as water, his eyes glaring at her, and suddenly he sneered, "You treat Xiaoxiao like a pearl?"
This was probably the funniest joke he had ever heard.
"Su Tan, my mother once said that you kept starving Xiaoxiao and not letting him eat enough, which made him weaker and weaker."
"Xiaoxiao is just a child, not a fool. If you really treat him with all your heart and soul as you said, how could he like Qingyin and not you?"
Song Tingchen stood up and glared at her coldly, "In the final analysis, you are not worthy of being his mother!"
As soon as he finished speaking, a bowl of cold tea was splashed on his face.
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