soon!
In the court.
"Pah!"
With a heavy slam of the gavel, Du Youwei, who was sitting on the high hall, said solemnly: "Come here, bring the Qi couple!"
The bailiff called out in a loud voice, which echoed throughout the government office.
Soon, Qi Che changed into a new official uniform and walked into the court with steady steps.
He glanced at the people watching outside the hall, with a smile of confidence on his lips.
From today onwards, he will be able to completely draw a line with the past and marry the legitimate princess in a dignified manner.
On the other side——
Chu Qingniang was seen walking towards her in a plain skirt, with only a few orchids embroidered on the hem, swaying gently with her steps. Her black hair was loosely tied into a simple bun, fixed with only a jade hairpin. Her face was bare, with eyebrows like distant mountains, eyes like autumn water, and lips with a natural light red, just like a red plum blossom in the snow, cold and beautiful.
She looked calm, her eyes were cold, and every step she took was steady, as if nothing in the world could shake her.
When Qi Che saw this, his mind was shaken and the scene when they just got married appeared in front of him again.
At that time, she also walked step by step like this, carrying her wedding dress across the threshold of the Qi family, and whispered, "From now on, I will share the morning and evening with you."
Who would have thought that only three years later, we would have come to this point.
Seeing this, the noisy discussions gradually died down.
Someone sighed quietly: "Mrs. Chu is so charming, but Qi Che is willing to abandon her. He is really blind!"
As soon as Du Youwei saw Chu Qingniang appear, he felt the chair under his butt start to get hot and he felt like he was sitting on pins and needles.
If General Pei had not repeatedly instructed that today's scene could not be performed, he would never dare to sit in this position in front of the princess.
Du Youwei suppressed his uneasiness and slammed the gavel heavily: "Silence!"
"Since the Qi couple have arrived, please quickly present the documents that I have given you!"
Qi Che straightened his official robe, took a step forward, and put on a look of great grief, "My Lord! Considering the three years of marriage and harmonious relationship with Qingniang, I really cannot bear to divorce her."
He turned to face Chu Qingniang, with fake tears in his eyes, "Qingniang, it is not what I want for you and me to have come to this point. Now, I am willing to leave you one last bit of dignity."
"I have prepared the divorce agreement. As long as you put your fingerprint on it, we can go our separate ways from now on."
Chu Qingniang stared at the fake tears on Qi Che's face, suddenly chuckled, and asked word by word:
"Qi Che, what do you call respectability? Do you use the money I sold my dowry to buy you to get into high school and then marry the daughter of the prime minister? Or do you want me and Gu Yanran, your first wives, to make way for your shameful act of marrying up with a rich and powerful man?"
…
For a moment, the hall was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, but the next second, the crowd began to talk like boiling water.
Qi Che's face was instantly clouded with gloom.
He took a step closer and lowered his voice, "Qing Niang, what are you going to do? Didn't we agree last night..."
He took a deep breath and threatened, "Aren't you afraid that I will tell the princess about your father?"
Chu Qingniang met his sinister gaze and smiled even more fiercely, "That depends on whether the princess is willing to pursue the matter."
Qi Che paused, feeling that there was something wrong with what she said, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.
"What do you mean?"
"Literally."
"Qi Che, I'm going to ask you one last time, are you really determined to get a divorce today?"
She had asked this question once last night. At that time, Qi Che thought she was exaggerating. But when he heard her ask it again, for some reason, he suddenly felt a sense of panic in his heart, as if something important was about to slip away from his hands.
Qi Che shook his head, shaking off that ridiculous thought.
What a joke! After today, he will be able to marry the princess openly. Now, no one can stop him.
"Qing Niang, I still say the same thing. I am now in an important position and it is impossible for me to live with you alone. If you insist on pestering me, it will only hurt both of us."
Chu Qingniang suddenly curled her lips and chuckled, "Master Qi has misunderstood."
Turning her head, she looked up at Du Youwei, her eyes as calm as water: "Sir, I am not here to seek peace today."
She paused and said word by word:
"I'm here to divorce my husband!"
——
After he finished speaking, the whole room fell silent.
Everyone stared at Chu Qingniang with wide eyes, as if they were looking at a monster.
"Ridiculous!" Qi Che laughed in anger, pointed at her and said sternly: "Since ancient times, only husbands have divorced their wives, how can wives divorce their husbands?! Chu Qingniang, are you crazy?"
A feeling of powerlessness and loss of control rose from the bottom of Qi Che's heart.
It would have been fine if she had just said it in the mansion before, but unexpectedly, in court, she actually threatened to divorce her husband!
Qi Che felt that the good cultivation he had built up over the years was about to be destroyed!
Du Youwei secretly wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said with some lack of confidence: "Mrs. Chu, this woman regards her husband as her heaven. You are really too shocking..."
He tried his best to make his tone sound gentler, and was completely unaware of the strange looks from the people around him.
Some people even wondered in their hearts, is Chu Qingniang crazy?
Qi Che heard the people around him talking quietly, and he felt a little proud: "Chu Qingniang, you and I are husband and wife after all. I gave you some dignity today, and you are taking advantage of me?"
He took a step forward, trying to look down at her from a superior position: "You are just a merchant's daughter, are you worthy enough to divorce me, the top scholar?"
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