"If you don't come out, I'm going to take action." Shen Yue didn't know who was inside. After hearing Shen Qiu's words, she immediately felt the breath behind the screen.
"Brother, it's Su Ru inside." Chen Qiu stopped Shen Yue who was walking behind the screen, "Mom and Dad, Grandpa and Grandma are very sorry, can you go out and wait for me? Su Ru must have something to say here." Shen Bolin looked at Ye Chen and then at his father, then nodded, "You handle it. Since she is a girl, it is not convenient for us to meet her. It is not good for the reputation of her family." Then everyone in the Shen family went out.
"Husband, you should also leave. She is not married yet, and you are giving her a bad reputation here."
Ye Chen shook Chen Qiu's hand, then tidied up the hair on his temples, "Okay, I'll listen to you. Some people don't know what's good for them, so don't spoil them. You are the general's daughter and the wife of the Duke of the Great Yin Dynasty. Even the emperor and the empress would have to be polite to you. There's no need to put yourself in a difficult position for irrelevant people. If you really can't, just throw him out." Ye Chen listened to Chen Qiu's words before entering the room, and he no longer had any good feelings towards this so-called friend of Shen Qiu. Now this sentence was said to both Chen Qiu and Chen Suru inside, just to tell her that she was not worthy of being arrogant in front of Shen Qiu.
"I understand. Go ahead." Ye Chen closed the door after he went out.
Chen Qiu watched Ye Chen leave. Before he could turn around, he heard a voice behind him, "The daughter of the general, the wife of the Duke of the Great Yin Dynasty, is really impressive. Should I also be polite to you?" Chen Qiu took a deep breath and then spoke, "If I were wearing the imperial robes, you would kneel down to see me."
"Haha, really? Can you bear to make me kneel down?" Chen Suru sat down at the dining table.
Chen Qiu turned around and straightened his back, "You are a commoner, and I am the wife of a duke with an imperial decree. Of course I can bear it. Tell me, what brings you here?" Chen Qiu saw that Chen Suru had put on makeup today, and it was obvious that she had dressed up deliberately. Usually, she was proud of her nobleness and thought that her beauty was natural and unpretentious, so she never disdained rouge and powder, thinking that it was self-deception of people without beauty. But today she put on rouge and powder.
"Oh, I didn't expect that you've become a lot tougher after not seeing you for over a year." Chen Suru patted her dress and never looked up at Chen Qiu.
Chen Qiu did not sit down, but went to open the window. "I have always been strong-willed. When I was young, I was ignorant and thought that as long as you are good to someone, that person will naturally be good to you. But over the years, have I received any goodness from you in return?" Chen Qiu looked at the familiar scenery outside the window.
Chen Suru did not respond, maintaining the same posture but pausing her hand. Chen Qiu did not turn around either. He raised his hand, blocking the sun with it, letting the sunlight shine through his fingers, and muttered to himself as if recalling the past.
"In the past, girls our age in this county all avoided me. I always thought I wasn't good enough, so they didn't want to be my friend. Since I was twelve years old and started traveling back and forth between Kyoto and the northwest, I realized it wasn't because I wasn't good enough, but because they were too self-conscious. They didn't have the courage to speak to me as an equal. That's when I realized you were just like them, except that your self-consciousness was expressed through your arrogance. You were pretty enough, and you had no shortage of admirers around you. You felt superior to me, the daughter of a great general, and I thought that the little sense of superiority you had in front of me was also given to you by me."
Having said that, Chen Qiu turned around, his voice more serious than ever before in front of Chen Suru, "So, you're not here for me today, but for my husband, right? I don't know how you noticed my husband, but let me remind you, my husband is not someone you can covet. Even if the princess of the current emperor covets my husband, I won't be polite either. Don't even think about it. It's best to get that idea out of your mind now. The consequences are not something you can bear. Even if I don't take action, as long as you have this idea, my husband will take action against you. I have no doubt about that."
Chen Suru then looked up at Chen Qiu. She had to admit that Chen Qiu had indeed seen through her thoughts. She had never expected that Chen Qiu actually understood everything. Chen Suru suddenly felt that she had been fooled by Chen Qiu. She tried hard to suppress the shame in her heart. "Humph, so what if she's the Duke's wife? It's just that you have a general father, so you can marry into a high-ranking family. You and him are just the bond of your own interests. It's normal for someone like him to have three wives and four concubines. Even if he doesn't have me, he will still have others."
Chen Qiu sneered, "My Shen family is a noble family in the Great Yin Dynasty. As long as my father is still serving as the General of the Northwest, my husband will not dare to take a concubine. This is my confidence. Now I have a son. Even if my husband takes a concubine one day, my son is the eldest son and the future Duke. I will be the Grand Lady of the Duke's Mansion, so I will still hold that position."
"Are you sure that your son can live to inherit the title of Duke? Are you sure that you can live to see the day when your son inherits the title?" Chen Suru was just an ordinary citizen. She didn't understand the affairs of big families at all. Occasionally she heard a few words from storytellers and thought that it was normal for concubines to take the throne in the storybooks. However, she didn't know that being well-matched is never an empty talk. She didn't expect that Ye Chen had been outside the door all along.
As soon as Chen Suru finished her words, Ye Chen pushed the door open and came in. "Someone come here." Ye Chen shouted as he entered the room. In an instant, two men in black came in from the window. "Throw this shameless and ignorant woman down from this building." As soon as the words fell, two men in black carried Chen Suru and walked to the window.
"I am a good citizen. It is illegal for you to kill me." Chen Suru felt scared only now. She saw only murderous intent in Ye Chen's eyes, without the slightest bit of the attentiveness that other men had when they saw her.
"Wait a minute," Chen Qiu said immediately. Then, turning around, she hugged Ye Chen's waist and rested her head on his chest. "My husband, her death is not a pity, but she was right in one thing: she was a good citizen, she had committed no crime. Killing her would be a violation of the laws of the Great Yin Kingdom. Although the Emperor dotes on you, you can't let anyone catch you. Let her go. Giving someone a handle to incriminate you for her isn't worth it."
"Okay, listen to Qiu'er. Today is your birthday, and I don't intend to commit murder. After all, if she dies today, your birthday will become her death anniversary, which is not good for you." Then he waved his hand to signal the two men in black to leave. After losing the strength of the two men, Chen Suru collapsed on the ground, gasping for breath.
Chen Qiu came out of Ye Chen's arms and stood there looking at Chen Suru who was sitting on the ground. "Today is the last time we will meet. We have been friends for more than ten years since childhood. Let's end it now. You can take care of yourself."
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