Lin Wuchen saw who was coming, stood up to welcome him in, and moved a chair over.
"Master Chen, I'm sorry for not welcoming you in person." Lin Wuchen joked.
Shen Zhixiu shook his robe lightly, sat down on the chair, and gave him a displeased look.
Su Qingyu was still staring at Shen Zhixiu in a daze. She wasn't really looking at him, but was thinking about how to say this.
Logically, since she wasn't married yet, he didn't need to be informed of everything going on with her family. But judging by her mother's intentions, she wanted to wait until she got married before discussing the divorce.
It would definitely cause an uproar in the capital. Although the law does not prohibit divorce, it is rare for a family like theirs to have such a thing.
Shen Zhixiu, as the second-in-command of the cabinet and the son-in-law of the Su family, will definitely be affected.
After much thought, Su Qingyu decided to inform him in advance.
If it had a big impact on the Shen family, she would have to think about it again. She would have to figure out how to arrange a divorce that would be reasonable and, ideally, in line with public opinion.
Shen Zhixiu was stared at by Su Qingyu for a long time, and subconsciously touched his nose, feeling a little uncomfortable.
Lin Wuchen stretched out his hand and waved it in front of Su Qingyu's eyes. "Cousin, even if he is good-looking, you don't have to stare at him for so long, right?"
Su Qingyu suddenly came back to her senses, and her face turned red.
She lowered her head, picked up the teacup, took a sip disguisedly, and brought her messy thoughts back to mind.
At this time, a shop assistant came up, bent over and asked Lin Wuchen with a smile, "Third Young Master, your fish shop has never cooked it before, do you want to fry it first?"
Lin Wuchen was worried that the chef in the restaurant would spoil the fish he had worked so hard to get, so he quickly stood up and said, "I'll go take a look."
Only Su Qingyu and Shen Zhixiu were left in the room. Su Qingyu knew that Shen Zhixiu was still waiting for her to answer what he had just said.
"Third Master, my third cousin and I were discussing my mother's divorce. It's only natural that I should tell you about this."
After Su Qingyu finished speaking, she looked up at Shen Zhixiu's expression. For some reason, her heart was beating like a drum.
He pondered and said, "If Third Master minds..."
Before Su Qingyu could finish her sentence, Shen Zhixiu asked, "What did the Marquis of Pingning do again? Is my aunt okay?"
Su Qingyu shook her head subconsciously, "Everything has been going well lately. Mother is fine, but she has given up on him."
"I don't want my mother to waste any more time in a mansion like the Marquis' Mansion."
Shen Zhixiu's mind flashed through the words that Su Qingyu had not finished saying, and he stared at her with burning eyes.
A faint voice asked, "If I mind, what do you want?"
The extremely oppressive atmosphere made Su Qingyu blurt out subconsciously: "If you mind, I need to think about it again."
Thinking of her mother's situation in the Marquis' Mansion, she murmured softly, "There's no need to maintain this marriage anymore."
As soon as he finished speaking, Shen Zhixiu stood up, walked to Su Qingyu and bent down slightly.
With his hands supporting the back of the chair behind Su Qingyu, a handsome face came closer.
"Who was it in the study who said that he had been in love with me for a long time. Even if we couldn't sleep together in life, we must be buried together in death?"
Shen Zhixiu spoke in a low voice, his brows slightly furrowed.
Su Qingyu shrank her neck, her mind a little confused. The Shen Zhixiu in front of her felt unfamiliar to her.
Her initial impression of Shen Zhixiu was that he was gentle and dignified, but it was not until she was in the Ministry of Justice's prison that she realized he could be so cruel.
But today was the first time. She seemed to have never truly understood him.
"Hmm?" Shen Zhixiu moved closer, trying to see the emotions in her eyes.
Su Qingyu took a deep breath, raised her head to meet his burning gaze, and said, "I did say that, but Third Master, what does my mother's divorce have to do with whether we are buried together after death?"
Shen Zhixiu lowered his voice and asked, "I also want to know why your mother's divorce affected our marriage?"
Su Qingyu was stunned. "Our marriage? What is Third Master talking about? I don't understand."
Shen Zhixiu chuckled, but that chuckle was chilling no matter how you looked at it.
"Didn't you say that there's no need to maintain this marriage?"
Su Qingyu finally understood what he meant, and a smile appeared in her sparkling eyes.
"I'm talking about the marriage between my mother and my father. What do you think, Third Master?"
Shen Zhixiu was also shocked when he heard this, "So when you say think about it, aren't you thinking about breaking off the engagement?"
Su Qingyu couldn't help laughing. "I mean, I need to think about how to reduce the impact of this incident on the Shen family."
Shen Zhixiu coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment. "I don't mind my aunt's divorce. If the Su family refuses, I can speak up for her."
The voice returned to its gentle tone, and the expression between his brows also relaxed a lot.
Hearing the footsteps coming from outside the private room, Shen Zhixiu stood up, raised his feet and sat back down.
Lin Wuchen pushed the door open and walked in, seeing Shen Zhizheng pouring tea himself. Su Qingyu sat there with a blush on her face and lowered eyebrows.
"Where were you talking about?" Lin Wuchen asked suspiciously.
Shen Zhixiu drank a cup of tea and suddenly realized that he had just lost his mind. He rarely acted like this, and he didn't know what had happened today.
Su Qingyu came back to her senses and said, "Third Master said that if the Su family doesn't agree to the divorce, he can help."
Having said that, she looked at Shen Zhixiu with gratitude.
Lin Wuchen glanced between Shen Zhixiu and Su Qingyu, and suddenly said, "I was just going to catch some fish, why are you two suddenly flirting with each other?"
Su Qingyu had no expression on her face. "You're dazzled."
In fact, she was flustered by Lin Wuchen's words, and tried her best not to look at Shen Zhixiu.
Noticing Su Qingyu's strangeness, Shen Zhixiu turned around and glared at Lin Wuchen.
Just as Lin Wuchen was about to reply, the waiter came in carrying the fish.
Su Qingyu was as if she had been pardoned, and she picked up her chopsticks and started eating. But after only two or three mouthfuls of fish, she couldn't taste anything.
Seeing that Su Qingyu was very fond of the fish, Shen Zhixiu asked Lin Wuchen, "What kind of fish is this? Where did you get it?"
Lin Wuchen thought he liked it, so he said, "This is a cold-water fish from the Black Wilderness. The Lin family's steward brought it back. If you like it, I'll send you some next time."
He added, "Is there any more? This stuff is not easy to transport. We have a large family, so I can only give you eight or ten."
Shen Zhixiu took note of it secretly, picked up the boneless fish meat from the belly, and handed it to Su Qingyu's bowl.
He himself didn't eat much. Before meeting Su Qingyu and Lin Wuchen, he had just had lunch with his colleagues.
At the dinner table, Su Qingyu and the other two talked about Su Yihui wanting half of her dowry. Lin Wuchen scolded Su Yihui for being shameless and said that when Su Qingyu got married, he would give her a ten-mile red dowry.
After dinner, the three of them went downstairs and prepared to return home.
"Zhi Xiu? Miss Su?"
Zhao Ji, the prince of Weiguo, got off the carriage and called out to them.
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