These two people were once husband and wife! But she never told him and kept it a secret!
"You knew he was your ex-husband, but you still accepted him as your adoptive father. You've been in his hands for so many times..." Luo Shenyuan walked up to her, leaning down, his posture almost elegant. "Luo Yining, tell me. What were you thinking when you faced Lu Jiaxue?"
Luo Yining smiled bitterly and said, "What am I thinking...what can I think? I am not worthy of his love, and he can have anyone he wants. What I said today probably finally forced him to retreat. I don't deserve his kindness to me, and he can live well without me. I'm like a troublemaker...what's more, I married you, why are you asking these questions?" Her hands were on the table, clenched tightly.
Luo Shenyuan's hands tightly grasped the edge of the small table: "Finally, let me ask you one question: why were you so nice to me when you were little?"
——Because he will be the prime minister in the future, in charge of the world and have unparalleled power.
Luo Yining closed her eyes, suddenly choking and breathless. Tears streamed down her face. Initially, this had been her motivation, but that had long since faded. She had been moved by him ever since the scar on his right hand. Because no one else had treated him well, she felt pity for him. Because he was her third brother, from a very early age.
"Are you trying to use me?" Luo Shenyuan said, his hands behind his back, his tall figure like a mountain. "You never doubted that I would pass the imperial examination. You always had full confidence in me."
He didn't know about the hairpin incident, but he instinctively knew that something was wrong.
"Third brother..." She tried to grab his hand, but he avoided her hand.
She murmured as she explained, "That was the case at first. But then it wasn't like that anymore, then it wasn't like that anymore..."
This must be very important to him, right? If she's only treating him well because of this. His teachers, his father, everyone around him... they all have to treat him well for some reason. He'll definitely be disappointed. Furthermore, this woman was once the wife of his sworn enemy. What man wouldn't care about sharing a bed with his sworn enemy? Thinking of this, Luo Yining trembled with fear.
Yi Ning suddenly became depressed. She said with difficulty, "If you mind my past with Lu Jiaxue, if you really mind, you can divorce me. Out of sight, out of mind. If possible... I want to take Bao Ge'er away. He is still young and can't leave his mother."
Her eyes were completely blurred by tears when she said this. She was practically kneeling before Luo Shenyuan. Therefore, she couldn't see his expression and didn't know what he was thinking.
All I heard was him suddenly sweeping away all the strings and the collected glass beads on the table! Beads big and small fell on the jade plate, and the floor was covered with glass beads, colorful and sparkling.
He took a breath, then he said coldly: "Bao Ge'er is my eldest son, why do you take him away?"
He seemed to have become a stranger she didn't recognize, and all his tenderness and gentleness were gone in this battle.
"Third brother!" She tried to hold his hand, but he brushed her away again.
He really cared, hated, and was jealous! Her past with Lu Jiaxue, her concealment of his secrets, her exploitation of him. And the anger at what he had said to her! What did it mean to divorce her? Did she just want to leave? All these things came pouring out, making him jealous and angry.
"Luo Yining, I'm really not that rational," Luo Shenyuan said. "We need to separate for a while. You... go to sleep first."
He left the inner room.
The maids outside heard the noise but didn't dare come in. When Lord Luo came out, they all bowed and called out to him. Then, with her sharp eyes, Pearl noticed that Lord Luo's right hand seemed injured and bleeding. She immediately said, "Lord, your hand..."
I was just scratched...
Luo Shenyuan held the wound indifferently: "It's okay." This wound was left for her. He wrapped it with a dark sleeve and forced himself to leave.
He needed to avoid actually hurting her and face her past calmly. He also needed to let her think about it. At least, think about herself!
Zhenzhu and others were suspicious and immediately rushed into the inner room.
Luo Yining knelt on the ground and cried. They hurriedly helped her up. They heard Yining tremblingly grab her hand and say, "Zhenzhu, I think he doesn't want me anymore... He won't want me anymore..."
If a man were faced with someone who had shared a bed with someone else and was married to someone else, would he still want her? This was her karma, regardless of whether Lu Jiaxue had deliberately led her to leak the matter. This was her karma!
"Madam, what are you talking about?" Pearl took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears. "What do you mean by want or not? How could the master not want you?"
But Luo Yining cried so hard that when Zhenzhu helped her up, she found her body limp and powerless. She cried for a long time, the night growing colder, the clapping of the gong fading. Some children celebrated New Year's early, and there were still the occasional sounds of firecrackers. She finally came to her senses and leaned against the cold wall.
Her cowardice was vented with her crying, and she calmed down. She should go find him... She didn't know what to say, so she just confessed.
If Luo Shenyuan no longer loves her, he can divorce her. She can return to the Duke of Ying's mansion to live out her days.
Luo Yining was lost in thought, and did not fall asleep until midnight. Before going to bed, he told the maid, "Wake me up at noon tomorrow morning."
Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and all court officials will take a day off, so he doesn't have to go to court.
But Yi Ning never slept well. She dreamed of Lu Jiaxue's cold face. He didn't even look at her when he left, as if he was disgusted. She dreamed of Luo Shenyuan writing a divorce letter. The handwriting was familiar, but the content was unclear. She dreamed of her boxes being packed up and carried out of the Luo family's house, but Luo Shenyuan never appeared again. He was no longer in her dreams!
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