However, as long as these two get the chance to meet, they will be able to rekindle the deep feelings of the past, and it will be unstoppable.
It burned two lives and also burned Baili Xia's true heart.
He probably suffered from a disease. First, he wanted something but couldn't get it. Then he became sick with longing for it. Then he regretted it so much that he wanted to die.
One wrong step leads to all wrong.
He did not learn how to fulfill and let go, which doomed him to be depressed and die young.
There is another person involved in the love triangle, and that person is Xu Haoze from the Xu family, Changsheng's elder brother in this life.
That year, he successfully took the imperial examination, was on the list, and returned to his hometown to serve as a county magistrate.
Coinciding with the critical moment of Xu Haoze's promotion, Zhang Shuhe and Meng Junran met again after a few years, and their old love was rekindled.
Meng Junran wanted to cancel her marriage with the Baili family, but Baili Xia naturally wouldn't agree. So Meng Junran went to court without her parents' knowledge, wanting to take charge of her own marriage.
She wanted to sue the Baili family for robbery and her parents for selling their daughter for fame and fortune.
Even though there is little hope, lose everything.
Xu Haoze admired the girl's courage, but the marriage was based on the parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. The two families were getting married to form a good relationship, and the marriage had been set a long time ago. The wedding day was approaching, and the parents of both sides had no intention of canceling it. It was really an unwise move.
Therefore, Xu Haoze had to mediate at that time. For the sake of the girl's reputation, the trial was not open to the public, but gossipers could always find out something.
It was also during this period that Meng's parents came and forcibly took Meng Junran back.
The engagement remained as it was, knowing that Meng Junran's behavior had once made them feel ashamed.
Later, this marriage that was opposed by the woman actually took away three lives. Xu Haoze was heartbroken when he heard about it.
In particular, the poems left behind by Meng Junran and Zhang Shuhe before they bid farewell to the world are widely circulated.
The common people widely publicized the touching love story of Meng Junran and Zhang Shuhe. Meng's parents, Xu Haoze, and the Baili family were all evil forces that destroyed their beautiful love and should be punished by heaven.
Even the Empress Dowager was shocked, thinking that they were all executioners who had forced a pair of lovers to death. As a parent official, Xu Haoze gave them a judgment that they were not worthy of being reused.
Xu Haoze was confused.
As an official here, he was naturally impressed by the talent of Miss Meng. Zhang Shuhe was also a rising star in the court and a talented man from Xiangshan Academy. However, these two people ruined their lives because of a few words from him.
Although officials should not be indecisive, he still couldn't help but blame himself.
Especially the Queen Mother's words that he was not worthy of being reused cut short his career.
Is he wrong?
He was so trapped in this doubt that he couldn't save himself, and eventually he became a monk and abandoned his wife and children.
Xu's parents were also deeply shocked.
After Changsheng took over the original body, while studying, he did something else to destroy the engagement between Meng Junran and Baili Xia, and it would be best if he could lock Meng Junran and Zhang Shuhe together.
So far, it seems to be quite successful.
While Changsheng was leisurely entertaining his little nephew, the Baili family came to propose marriage.
Xu's father: ...was the drinking that year really premeditated? A beautiful young lady was lost.
Xu's mother: ...I was very optimistic about Baili Xia as a son-in-law back then, but unfortunately the old man kept a close eye on his daughter.
It is definitely not enough to just visit once to show your sincerity, you have to come one or two more times afterwards.
But the engagement between Xu Changsheng and Baili Xia can definitely be finalized.
The parents' orders and the matchmaker's words are all legitimate.
Of course, the two children didn't seem to object.
When Father Meng learned that the entire Baili family had gone to visit Dean Xu of Xiangshan Academy and had brought a famous matchmaker in the city, he suddenly felt something was wrong.
In the past, they could still lie to themselves that the boy from the Baili family had not yet married, and they were afraid that he still couldn't let go of his daughter. Their Meng family could always find an opportunity to rekindle their old relationship.
But now, it is obvious that the Baili family has fallen in love with someone else.
Although disappointed, a beautiful lady is always a good match for a gentleman.
His family, Jun Ran, was well-known for his talent in the city, so he didn't have to worry about not finding a good husband. If there was no one in the city, there was still the capital and the great families in Jiangnan.
When Baili Xia and Xu Changsheng were engaged, Meng Junran received a letter from Zhang Shuhe.
The letter stated that he needed to gain fame and honor before he was eligible to propose marriage to the Meng family. If the two of them were destined to be together, they would eventually meet and be together.
Zhang Shuhe really wanted to ask Meng Junran to wait for him, but he knew that things in the world are ever-changing, so how could he ask a girl to make such a promise?
If Meng Junran had been able to decide her own marriage, how could the two of them still be stuck gazing at each other in the moonlight, expressing their longing for each other from afar? One can only hope that Heaven will be merciful and have mercy on this star-crossed couple, allowing them to finally tie the knot and live happily ever after.
Meng Junran was smart. She judged the attitudes of the two heads of the family towards this matter from Zhang Shuhe's few words.
So, Zhang's mother doesn't think highly of the two of them either?
Not only did she have to find a way to delay her father's plan for her marriage, she also had to find a way to dispel Zhang's mother's doubts so that she could accept her as her future daughter-in-law.
The Meng family married into the Zhang family, and the Zhang family was clearly marrying up.
So what was the reason that made Zhang's mother prejudiced against the Meng family?
Meng Junran asked the old nanny at home to find out what happened when the Zhang family came to the Meng Mansion to propose marriage a few years ago.
It was a pity that she was not at home at that time, otherwise she would have found a way to arrange the marriage.
To sum up, Zhang's mother's self-esteem was probably hurt by the attitude of the people in the Meng family.
Meng Junran still used the old trick. He found a fake Taoist priest and went to the town where the Zhang family lived. He pretended to meet Zhang's mother by chance through the fake Taoist priest and began to cheat. His main purpose was to make Zhang's mother believe that only by marrying the young lady of the Meng family could her son rise to prominence and live a peaceful life.
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