Yi Ning turned her face away, feeling extremely uncomfortable with his imminent approach. She took a deep breath and said, "It's just a letter to Lord Sun. Anyone could do it, but why did you have to do it, Sun Congwan? The last time you interrogated that person, you clearly couldn't get anything out of him. But your letter clearly states that you did. I'm afraid you're trying to trick Cheng Lang into believing it, right?"
"If they believe it, they will take action and you can use it to hold them responsible. At first, I didn't dare to think about it. Why did it have to be Sun Congwan? Can't you let someone else tell Cheng Lang?"
Yi Ning continued, "Then I remembered that you wanted Cheng Lang to know. How could Cheng Lang believe it if someone else gave it to him? Only if he had snatched it from Sun Congwan himself would it be believable. But he didn't expect that you would even take Sun Congwan into account. If something unexpected happened, Sun Congwan's reputation might be damaged. You don't care about her life or death at all... So I want to ask you, what are you thinking?"
She felt sorry for Sun Congwan, who loved Luo Shenyuan so much. She even said that she was willing to be his concubine. This was really too humble.
She had been schemed against too much, so she was particularly afraid of these cold and heavy schemes.
Maybe there were too many things happening recently, and she had more and more emotions suppressed in her heart, so she wanted to vent just now.
Luo Shenyuan listened in silence, and he felt that he was about to laugh at Luo Yining's anger. She could guess these things, so she must have said something to her when she was in the room with Cheng Lang. Others may not understand Cheng Lang, but he knows him well. This person would not tell others what he knows casually. He was also irritated by her, and reached out to hold her wrist and said: "It's my business to plot against her, and I really don't pity her. You can say that I am cold-blooded or ruthless, but in my opinion, as long as I can achieve what I want to do, it's fine. Do you pity her?"
Did she pity Sun Congwan? Not really, perhaps she saw herself through Sun Congwan.
Luo Shenyuan admitted it just like that, and she couldn't say anything.
Thinking about what would happen in the future, she was actually worried that Luo Shenyuan's methods would affect him in the future. He had been scolded by the Qingliu Sect for decades. Although no one dared to provoke him, no one was friendly with him.
But who could she tell these things to? Yi Ning smiled bitterly in her heart and said, "I really can't say anything if you use her. I don't understand, since you don't like her, why don't you just reject her..."
"Refuse?" Luo Shenyuan said, "She has been waiting for me to pass the imperial examination. Now that I am a fourth-rank official, if I refuse her marriage proposal, the Luo family's reputation will surely be ruined."
It was just as he said, he couldn't reject the marriage openly.
Yi Ning slowly calmed down now. She asked, "So... what are your plans?"
Luo Shenyuan shook his head and said, "Don't worry about what I plan to do." He gradually approached her. Yi Ning saw her reflection in his deep pupils very clearly, and even felt the heat of his breath, which was actually an aggressive breath.
Yi Ning suddenly felt something was wrong, and she couldn't even put it into words. But her heart was beating wildly. Perhaps because he was too close, she sensitively wanted to move away, but she couldn't move because he was holding her hands. She struggled to get him to let go, but Luo Shenyuan continued to hold her down, trapping her under him, and then asked, "What were you doing in the room with Cheng Lang?"
Yining felt that this was totally unlike his usual self!
And how could she tell him about this matter with Cheng Lang? She pursed her lips and said, "I just happened to meet him... Third brother, don't ask."
She twisted her wrist, which hurt a little from his grip. But she couldn't move it at all! She was a little angry and looked at him and said, "Since I don't care about your affairs with Sun Congwan, you should also stay out of my business!"
Luo Shenyuan smiled and said, "If I don't take care of you, who do you want to take care of you?"
Yi Ning was so angry that she twisted her wrist and tried to push him away. His arm muscles were surprisingly stiff. If she hadn't seen that she was really angry and Luo Shenyuan hadn't deliberately let her go, she still wouldn't have been able to push him away. After pushing him away, she sat at the table to calm down for a while. Luo Shenyuan sat down soon after and saw that her wrists had even more sharp red marks because of him.
He closed his eyes, he was a little out of control just now.
I shouldn't be so out of control, at least not now.
He reached out to take her hand and said, "...You were too rough just now. Ask your girl to bring some ointment."
Yi Ning pulled her hand back. "I'm not that delicate. The red mark will fade away soon." But seeing him like this, she was no longer angry about what he said. Instead, she said, "I tore up your letter...it didn't reach Cheng Lang. I think you should reconsider. It's getting late today, Third Brother. Go back and rest first. I won't see you off."
Luo Shenyuan sat there for a while without saying anything, looked at her hand, and then stood up and walked out after a moment.
Zhenzhu stood behind the screen and listened to the quarrel between the two. She was terrified. The way the Third Young Master Luo questioned and blackmailed the young lady was really too weird... The Duke was gone, but she felt that the Luo family was not peaceful either. She might as well persuade the young lady to return to the Duke's Mansion.
She saw Luo Shenyuan leaving with his men before she walked into the house and saw Yining looking for ointment by herself.
Pearl took the cream from her hand, rubbed it in her palm until it was warm, and then applied it to her. Yining frowned, she felt a little disgusted with herself for being so delicate. In her previous life, she had never been so delicate. She would not even get a bruise even if she fell or bumped into something. Seeing that Pearl was slow to apply the cream, she took it and applied it herself, and told Songzhi who came in, "Ask the maid to heat up some water."
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