Chapter 244 Frankness
A voice that was so familiar that it frightened Su Qingwan suddenly came from outside the box. In an instant, Su Qingwan felt her body suddenly stiffen, and for a moment, she even suspected that she was hallucinating.
But when she subconsciously tilted her head slightly, that extremely familiar face suddenly came into her sight.
Lu Jing was wearing a sky-blue robe with wide sleeves and a jade belt around his waist, looking like a refined scholar.
However, the murderous aura that he had acquired from years of working in the Jinyiwei was like a sharp blade hidden in the dark, which would reveal its edge inadvertently. The name "Jade-faced Yama" was truly well-deserved.
His gaze was like that of an eagle, falling straight on Su Qingwan. There was an invisible sense of oppression in that gaze, which made Su Qingwan instantly recall the thrilling knife attack in Nanfeng Tower when they met again in Kyoto. It seemed that a dull pain appeared in her chest again.
Oh no! Su Qingwan secretly cried out in her heart, she had no time to hide her face, and she couldn't deny the fact that she was his eldest sister-in-law. Because Lu Zhu was standing at the door of the box, the whole person seemed to have lost his soul, and his face was full of panic.
"Why is the prince coming to Huainan?" Xilin Yongxuan was also very surprised. He quickly stood up and bowed respectfully.
Since the young emperor ascended the throne, the peace talks have been promoted by Lu Jing and the Minister of Honglu Temple. Xilin Yongxuan and Lu Jing often argued for the interests of their respective countries at the negotiation table, and after several confrontations, they became familiar with each other.
"I came to Huainan for important business!" Lu Jing responded to Xilin Yongxuan, but his sharp eyes seemed to be glued to Su Qingwan's face and never moved away for a moment.
Su Qingwan pretended to remain calm, picked up the teacup as if nothing had happened, and took a sip of tea, but her heart was beating like a war drum.
She really didn't expect Lu Jing to appear in Huainan. When Chen Feng said that Lu Jing had left Beijing, she had thought about whether Lu Jing would come to Huainan.
But the journey to Huainan was long, and even if one rode at full speed, it would take more than 20 days to go back and forth. Moreover, as the regent, although Lu Jing had risen to power with the favor of the previous emperor, his foundation was not yet solid, so how could he dare to leave the capital easily?
Xilin Yongxuan looked at the extremely weird atmosphere between Lu Jing and Su Qingwan, and knew in his heart that their conversation just now might have been overheard by Lu Jing.
He secretly wondered how to say goodbye tactfully to avoid this tense situation.
Lu Jing suddenly asked, "Second Prince, are you full?"
As soon as these words came out, it was clearly an unceremonious order to leave.
Xilin Yongxuan subconsciously glanced at Su Qingwan. To be honest, he really wanted to watch the fun and wanted to stay and see how the two would fight.
Looking at Lu Jing's posture, it seems that he can't wait to fight with the princess. This scene is really interesting. Unfortunately, after the regent gained power, he naturally developed a sense of authority. Xilin Yongxuan didn't want to provoke him easily and make things difficult for himself.
"Princess, thank you for your hospitality. Let's talk again another day!" Xilin Yongxuan was quite tactful. With a proper smile on his face, he took his leave calmly.
Luzhu, Qingyun and others were outside the box, anxious like ants on a hot pot, running around in circles. Just at this moment, Li An suddenly said, "Sister Luzhu, you are so ungrateful. You ate so many of my snacks and yet you lied to me!"
"Shut up!" Lu Zhu was anxious and angry, and scolded harshly.
The next second, Lu Jing raised his hand and slammed the door of the box shut, blocking out the curious gazes of the people outside.
Seeing this, Luzhu was extremely anxious and wanted to rush in immediately, but was pulled back by Li An. Qingyun seemed much calmer. She thought to herself, this is the territory of Huainan. Even if Lu Jing is the regent, what can he do? Could he really cause trouble here?
Lu Jing stared at Su Qingwan, who looked calm and composed, and the anger in his chest was almost uncontrollable. He had only guessed that Su Qingwan might be the eldest sister-in-law, but now that he saw it with his own eyes and heard it with his own ears, the shock was still hard for him to accept.
No wonder! No wonder he always felt that there were many similarities between his eldest sister-in-law and the princess.
No matter how hard Su Qingwan tried to act, it was difficult to completely conceal a person's habits, preferences, and temperament. Several times, he had vaguely sensed some clues, but each time he was cleverly fooled by Su Qingwan.
After all, the two people's identities are very different. The eldest sister-in-law married her brother several years ago. At that time, he met the princess in the southwest. Lu Jing could never have imagined that they were the same person.
During the time that Su Qingwan was in the Lu family, she caused a lot of trouble and made everyone in the Lu family uneasy.
She killed Li Xueying, abolished her brother, and plunged the Lu family into a quagmire of rumors. If it weren't for him turning the tide, and if Su Qingwan also asked him for help, the Lu family would have been exterminated long ago. In Su Qingwan's eyes, the hatred for Li Xueying was an endless one.
But that's not all, she even disguised herself as a princess and made an engagement with him! All these things, one by one, were like sharp blades, piercing Lu Jing's heart.
"What should I call you? Princess or sister-in-law?" Lu Jing asked coldly, looking down at Su Qingwan. It was June in Huainan City, the weather was hot and there was no wind, but in this small private room, it was as if it was late autumn, filled with a bone-chilling cold.
Su Qingwan was very clear about Lu Jing's anger at the moment. Anyone who was deceived like this would be furious, not to mention that she left without saying goodbye and was determined not to see him again in this life.
"Your brother and I have divorced, so let's not try to be related." Su Qingwan suppressed the waves in her heart and spoke in a cold tone like ice. No matter how turbulent her heart was, she tried her best to pretend to be calm. After all, she had been accustomed to pretending over the years.
"The young princess of Huainan is too good for our Lu family!" Lu Jing snorted coldly, lifted his robe, and slowly sat down opposite her. All kinds of past memories, like a tide, rushed through his mind one by one, and finally turned into a lot of resentment.
She had agreed to marry him as a temporary solution, and she only wanted to escape from Kyoto. In her heart, the imperial edict meant nothing to her. In her heart, Lu Jing was probably worse than an ant, and she would abandon him without hesitation.
"Your Highness, now that things have come to this, I won't hide it from you!" Su Qingwan took a deep breath and suppressed the throbbing in her heart. "I used to be your eldest sister-in-law. Everyone in the capital knows this. I have a deep blood feud and I want to redress Huainan. All the concealments I made were out of helplessness. I didn't intend to deceive you. It was really forced by the situation and I had no choice. I hope you don't hold a grudge against me."
"You are honest!" Lu Jing sneered, "But I don't understand why you have to come into the mansion and pretend to be my sister-in-law?"
"How come I'm the one who came into the mansion pretending to be your sister-in-law? Maybe it was me who married your brother four years ago, and I've been your sister-in-law from the beginning?" Su Qingwan's voice became colder and colder, deliberately provoking him. Her sister died tragically in the Lu family. This was a scar in her heart that would never heal, and a knot in her heart that she could never get over.
"Okay, let's just assume that you were really my sister-in-law and we're divorced now!" Lu Jing was straightforward and didn't seem to care about it. "Then let's have a good talk about you and me."
"Lu Jing, stop dreaming, you've guessed it in your heart!" Su Qingwan's face turned cold in an instant, and she no longer had any perfunctory words to him, "There is a pair of twins in the Huainan Palace, who luckily escaped the disaster of genocide. My sister is the one who married into the Lu family. She lived in the Lu family for three years, dignified and virtuous, but eventually died in the Lu family. I witnessed her death with my own eyes. She was brutally killed by Li Xueying, and her body was desecrated after her death. If it weren't for the Lin family's greed for wealth and honor, if it weren't for Lu Feng's desire to climb up the social ladder and use the power of the Li family to climb up, if it weren't for their tacit approval, how could Li Xueying dare to be so bold and presumptuous and kill my sister like this? I just want Li Xueying's life to pay for hers, and I didn't take Lu Feng's life, which is already my utmost kindness. From now on, there will be no possibility of me and your Lu family having any connection at all!"
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