Chapter 245 Divorce Agreement
The group stepped over the old lady as if crossing a threshold and headed towards the front hall. Peony rode her horse and hurriedly led Bailan towards the Jiang family's old residence.
"Jun Jun, what brings you here?"
When Guo Bingwen saw Jiang Wanjun, his eyes flickered for a moment, and he quickly went to greet her. Unexpectedly, Jiang Wanjun gently pushed his hand away and walked straight into the house with Jiang Wanning by her side.
Despite being weak, he still managed to bow to Pei Yanchuan, saying, "Greetings, Your Highness."
"Please forgive the poor hospitality, Your Highness... cough... cough cough..."
Guo Bingwen quickly stepped forward to catch up, echoing, "It's all my fault, Junjun, please don't be angry. I've already sent someone to invite the chef from Xiangyunlou to prepare the best feast."
"When Your Highness and Princess arrive, I will certainly treat them well."
Jiang Wanjun did not respond to Guo Bingwen, but instead sat down in the chair opposite him.
Pei Yanchuan spoke calmly to Jiang Wanjun, “Your older sister is worried about you and is concerned about how you are doing. We just happened to be passing by and decided to come and see you.”
"Don't worry, your sister and I will stand up for you in any matter what happens."
Jiang Wanjun was surprised that Pei Yanchuan would say such a thing. Rumors in the capital that the Princess Consort and the Prince of Langya were having another divorce dispute seemed to be false.
"Thank you, Your Highness."
Upon hearing this, Guo Bingwen felt even more uneasy and said with a forced smile, "Your Highness is right. It's all my fault for not taking good care of Junjun."
"It was my carelessness. I only knew that Junjun liked to eat Ruyi cake, but I forgot that the Ruyi cake from the shop in the east of the city contains hawthorn."
"Now that the child is gone, I am also very sad. But thankfully Junjun is alright. I will definitely find the best doctor to treat Junjun."
“How could we trouble Uncle and Aunt to come all this way for just this one thing?” Jiang Wan Ning coldly interrupted Guo Bing Wen’s acting.
Guo Bingwen felt a pang of panic. It seemed that his mother had failed to stop the man. In the past, as long as his mother stepped forward and acted like a shrew, Jiang Wanjun would surrender without resistance.
Why today?
It seems that it's all because Jiang Wan Ning is here.
Guo Bingwen knelt down with a thud, "I really shouldn't have let Junjun keep this from my parents-in-law. I was just afraid they would worry."
"Let's wait until Junjun recovers before discussing this further..."
"Guo Bingwen, how long are you going to keep up this act?" Jiang Wanning said calmly. "I'm here today for one thing: you write a letter of divorce, and from now on you and Junjun will live your own lives and have nothing to do with each other anymore."
"As for the rest, we'll settle that later."
Guo Bingwen looked incredulous. "What did the Princess say? A divorce agreement? Even if I made a mistake due to carelessness, it shouldn't be like this."
"Does Your Highness know that if a woman divorces and returns home, she will inevitably be pointed at and gossiped about in the future, and will have to live her whole life under the judgment of others? You are harming Junjun again."
"Hmph." Jiang Wan Ning scoffed coldly, "You really won't give up until you see the Yellow River."
"In that case, Haitang, go and bring everyone up."
When Guo Bingwen saw the people Haitang brought up again, his mind was in complete turmoil, and he was in a daze.
Even Jiang Wanjun was surprised to see the newcomer. "Ruyue, didn't you go back to your hometown?"
Jiang Wanjun asked out of the blue. Originally, they didn't have any evidence. She thought her older sister would have someone bring her mother-in-law up to guide her to tell the truth, but she didn't expect it to be Ruyue.
"I didn't have time to explain in detail to you earlier, but I had Haitang investigate Guo Bingwen early this morning."
Jiang Wan Ning only said a few words, but in reality, it was the prince who came to deliver a message. He asked Mo Qing to use the intelligence network to investigate, and then passed the message on to Hai Tang.
This led Guo Bingwen to believe that Pei Yanchuan was indeed sitting in the front hall waiting for Jiang Wanning and her sister to finish their conversation.
If Pei Yanchuan hadn't intervened, and Jiang Wanning had only sent Haitang, they wouldn't have found out about these things so quickly. Haitang had whispered these things to her while giving instructions.
"What's going on?" Jiang Wanjun asked, puzzled.
"Let her say it herself," Jiang Wanning said, looking at Ruyue.
Ruyue kowtowed repeatedly, "Madam, it is I who have wronged you, it is I who have wronged you."
“Tell me slowly. If it’s not your fault, I won’t blame you. I will protect your life,” Jiang Wan Ning said.
Ruyue already knew the general outline of the matter on her way here, and naturally guessed Jiang Wanning's identity. Hearing this, she felt reassured, wiped away her tears, and slowly said, "This servant went to serve the young master as usual that day."
"Shortly after you miscarried, the eldest young master, knowing that you were unable to leave the room,... he forced himself on me."
As Ruyue spoke, her voice trembled, “The eldest young master promised that once the madam recovered, he would make me his concubine. At first, I was waiting, but a month ago, the eldest young master suddenly asked me to go out and stay for a while, saying that I was going back to my hometown.”
“I went out to live after hearing what he said, but later I found out that he had climbed up to someone else, and that woman told him to get rid of everyone around him.”
"He said he would send me back to my hometown, but in reality he had me live next door to that woman, so that every time he finished wooing her, he would come to me and have me serve him..."
"You're talking nonsense!" Guo Bingwen rushed to Ruyue to stop her, but was stopped by Haitang after taking only two steps.
Seeing that Haitang was holding the knife hilt in one hand, Guo Bingwen took two steps back and pointed at Ruyue, saying, "Junjun, she is lying."
"What do you mean by 'having her serve you' and 'other women'? I think you just want to climb the social ladder and deliberately framed me after I rejected you."
“Jun Jun, you have to believe me. You are the only one in my heart. She had ulterior motives and tried to seduce me while you were sick. I didn’t want you to worry, so I lied and said she went back to her hometown and just kicked her out.”
"I never expected that you would frame me like this. It seems I should have handed you over to the madam to deal with back then! It's all my fault for being too soft-hearted."
"I lied?" Ruyue's hope, which had been lingering, vanished completely upon hearing this. "When Madam stood up for the rules, the old lady was difficult but also kind-hearted."
"The old lady herself can't get up early, so how could she make the madam get up early every day to stand in the rules? It was clearly you who told the old lady that her status was different now and that she still had to follow the rules. That way, the Jiang family wouldn't say that you have no manners and are just country bumpkins."
"That's why the old lady made the lady stand in the rules before dawn every day."
"The old lady was overjoyed that the lady was pregnant and wanted her to rest well. It was you who told the old lady that even if a woman is pregnant, she still has to pay her respects in a wealthy family."
"The Guo family is destined to become a noble family in the future, so we must pay attention to these rules and etiquette now."
"That's why the old lady allowed you to become pregnant. Please stand at attention and observe proper etiquette."
"To say that the old lady is wicked is an understatement; it's more accurate to say that she's ignorant and foolish. The one who's truly wicked is you!" Ruyue shouted.
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