Chapter 115
Luo Shenyuan was silent for a moment. "What do you want to know?" He turned around and continued, "Whatever you want to know, ask me now and I'll tell you."
Sun Congwan raised her head. She was always gentle, but in front of this man, she was forced into a corner. Her eyes seemed to be washed by water, revealing a resolute brilliance.
"I know you're heartless... You're like that to everyone. My father really wants me to marry you, but my mother keeps trying to dissuade me, saying you're so young and you don't have any hobbies at all. You have to be very mature and calculating to be like that. But I still like you so much." Sun Congwan continued, "How can a girl be so shameless..."
She knew she had to respect herself. But in front of him, she felt incredibly humbled. Her mood changed with his every move, completely out of her control.
"I once told Yi Ning that if possible, I would follow you even if I had to be your concubine..."
Luo Shenyuan sighed after hearing this: "You shouldn't have told her this."
"I just want to ask you something." Sun Congwan didn't care what he said at all, and looked straight into his eyes, as if trying to read some emotion from his expressionless gaze.
"I left home without telling my mother, and I wanted to ask you something. You've never liked me, have you? You've never liked me. The last time Yining and I went out, Cheng Lang stopped us. You knew about this a long time ago, and you let me out as bait, right?" She held back her tears and raised her voice, "Why didn't you say anything?"
She knew it clearly, but she still held a little hope in her heart, hoping that he would interrupt her and tell her that she was not so heartless.
But he listened to her accusations without saying another word from beginning to end.
Sun Congwan finally couldn't bear it anymore. She was about to collapse because of Luo Shenyuan's silence that allowed her to vent.
Luo Shenyuan finally said, "...I'm sorry. They would only believe the news if it came from you."
He wanted to completely put an end to Sun Congwan's thoughts, which would be good for her as well.
Hearing his indifferent tone, Sun Congwan was furious. She walked up to him, grabbed his clothes and hit his chest, crying as she hit him: "You bastard! You used me to lure Cheng Lang into being a fool. You have never cared about me and never thought of marrying me! You don't even care about my reputation. Why do you treat me like this!" She cried so hard that she almost collapsed in front of him, "I've waited for you for three years..."
Luo Shenyuan let her hit him non-stop, his figure standing still. He said, "So now you know I'm a bastard. Just don't like me."
Sun Congwan finally couldn't help herself after hearing this. She raised her hand and suddenly slapped him. In the quiet night, the sound was particularly loud.
This was the second slap he received!
Sun Congwan was a weak woman, but she wouldn't feel a slap in the face without feeling any pain. Luo Shenyuan just wiped the corner of his mouth, but seemed to feel nothing at all: "Now that you've vented your anger, go back."
"Luo Shenyuan, people like you only make people feel terrified!" She couldn't help but shout, "People with such a vicious heart like you will definitely get their comeuppance in the future. Sooner or later... you will definitely get your comeuppance! When the person you like treats you like this, when she doesn't like you anymore, you'll know it."
He called someone in and resolutely sent Sun Congwan out.
Luo Shenyuan returned to the study, but he couldn't rest yet. The letters sent back from Pingyuan Fort, the files of the Dali Temple, and even some documents from the Ministry of Revenue were still on his desk. There was a sudden flood in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and he knew a lot about water conservancy, so Xu Wei asked him to help look after it. If he didn't do these things, no one would help him, and he often had to stay up late at night. In the past, he did these things without complaint. But now, looking at the things on the desk, he felt full of anger, and suddenly he stretched out his hand and swept those documents and files off the desk with a bang!
Lin Yong, who had just entered, was startled and hurried over to ask, "Sir, what's wrong with you?"
He hurried over to help clean up, and the servant boy also helped to pick up the things.
Luo Shenyuan leaned on the desk, breathing heavily to calm his anger. He closed his eyes for a long time before recovering. "... Find me the letter from Pingyuan Fort."
No one knew why he got angry for no reason.
At the end of August, the weather wasn't as hot as it had been a few days ago. But it wasn't cool at all either. Yi Ning was copying in her study, cicadas chirping outside. It was so hot, so Zhenzhu had ice cubes placed in the study and made her some chilled mung bean soup, which cooled the room considerably. Yi Ning drank two large bowls of mung bean soup and returned to copying.
Songzhi lifted the bamboo curtain and came in and said that Fangsong came to convey what Old Lady Wei had said, asking her to bring Ting'er over for lunch at noon.
Wei Yi returned from the Zhongcheng Bingmasi.
Yi Ning finally let out a breath and put down her pen. Her mind had been at peace for a long time. She sent for Ting'er to come over and go to Old Madam Wei together.
Outside Old Lady Wei's Jing'an Residence was an alleyway, and in front of it stood a yellow orchid tree, now in full bloom. Before Yi Ning even approached, she saw Wei Yi standing by the orchid tree, talking to Zhao Mingzhu. Zhao Mingzhu pointed to a yellow orchid on the tree, and Wei Yi stepped forward, grabbed a branch, and plucked it for her.
He handed the yellow orchid to Zhao Mingzhu with a nonchalant look on his face, which gave him the air of a romantic nobleman. Wei Yi heard the noise, turned around and saw Luo Yining, and pursed his lips slightly.
Zhao Mingzhu's smile was a little stiff.
Later, Yi Ning heard from the maid that Wei Yi and Shen Yu were good friends in Beijing, and they had practiced horseback riding together since they were ten years old. It was said that after she rejected Shen Yu's marriage proposal, Wei Yi had never been very fond of her. Wei Yi even told Xu privately, "I don't think she's anything special. What's there for Brother Shen Yu to be obsessed with? A daughter brought back from outside, and we don't know what she's like. If it weren't for Wei Ling, she would be nothing in the Duke of Ying's mansion."
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