Chapter 28 Pull the vest tight
Yuan Musheng carefully wrote a prescription, and Shang Wan asked Shitou to go to his house to get the medicine.
After the two of them left the courtyard, Shang Wan waved to Xiao Hui and took it into the west wing.
Lu Chengjing sat on the kang, his dark hair disheveled, his face looking exceptionally pale. He stared intently at his right hand, which had lost all feeling, his expression unremarkable.
"You can't see a single flower even if you look again." Shang Wan patted Xiao Hui. Xiao Hui walked towards Lu Chengjing and twitched his nose to sniff his scent.
Lu Chengjing glanced at the gray wolf at his feet, then looked up at Shang Wan, "I didn't know you could tame wolves."
"Doesn't that mean there's no chance to show it off?" Shang Wan squatted down, touched Xiao Hui's head, and let it go to the yard to play.
After Xiao Hui left, Shang Wan sat down next to Lu Chengjing, reached out and took a strand of his black hair that was draped over his shoulders and played with it between his fingertips.
Lu Chengjing caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and moved slightly uncomfortably.
Shang Wan raised his eyes to look at him, "Who hurt you?"
Lu Chengjing: "Yaman."
"You've already been convicted. There's no need for the guards to torture you." Shang Wan brushed the ends of her hair across her palm, speaking softly, "Let me guess. The person who bribed the guards to kill you is related to... the Lu family?"
Lu Chengjing's pupils shrank, and his left hand on the edge of the kang unconsciously clenched, and his fingertips gradually turned white.
"It seems I guessed right." Shang Wan let go of his hair and leaned back. "Lu Chengjing, you hid it from me. Do you still want to return to the Lu family and continue to be your third young master?"
Lu Chengjing vaguely sensed that Shang Wan was angry, and he turned his head to look over.
Shang Wan's lips curled slightly, "If you want to go back to the Lu family to suffer, I won't stop you. Let's get a divorce, and Yuanyuan will come with me."
"I don't plan to go back." Lu Chengjing whispered, "The Lu family is not a good place."
"Then why did you hide it from me?"
Lu Chengjing's eyes swept over Shang Wan, and he pursed his lips and said, "The Lu family gave me life and raised me, and this injury is my way of repaying them. From now on, I will have nothing to do with them. I know you're capable, but ants can easily kill an elephant. The Lu family is not as simple as it appears."
Shang Wan understood and smiled, "Are you worried about me?"
Lu Chengjing turned his head away and said "hmm" softly after a while.
Shang Wan's mood calmed down, and he reached out and grabbed a strand of Lu Chengjing's hair. "I can not settle accounts with the Lu family, but you have to compensate me."
Lu Chengjing:?!
What kind of bandit logic is this?
"Turn around and look at me." Shang Wan tugged at Lu Chengjing's hair and waited for him to turn around before saying, "I've been running around everywhere to save you. My legs are almost broken. Don't you have any appreciation?"
Lu Chengjing: "...Thank you."
Shang Wan sighed softly, "Your thanks make me feel like my efforts are cheap."
"How do you want to be?"
"Here." She pointed to her right cheek, "Give me a kiss."
I've been busy for several days and must take advantage of something.
Lu Chengjing: "..."
"You've already given birth to a baby, and you won't even give me a kiss?" Shang Wan looked at his red ears. Why is he pretending to be an innocent boy?
Lu Chengjing looked at her with complicated eyes and said quietly, "We never consummated our marriage."
Shang Wan:?
Shang Wan: !!
Damn! Exposed!
Why isn’t it in the original owner’s memory?
Shang Wan frantically rummaged through the original owner's memory. There were many blanks in the original owner's memory. Because the memory fragments were basically connected, she didn't pay much attention to it before. She didn't expect that there was a big bomb buried in it.
Her vest!
Shang Wan was stunned. "If the marriage wasn't consummated, where did Yuanyuan come from? Are you keeping a concubine?"
Lu Chengjing: "..."
This woman is so bold!
"I don't have any concubines." His face was as black as the bottom of a pot. "I picked Yuanyuan up from the refugee pile."
"But I remember I gave birth to a child." Shang Wan stubbornly tugged at her vest, "Where's the child?"
"He died of illness less than two months later. You were worried about your mother's punishment, so you asked me to bring back a child of your own age to raise."
Shang Wan was silent for a moment, then asked quietly, "How can I have a child if we haven't consummated our marriage?"
Lu Chengjing: "What do you think?"
Shang Wan looked above his head and felt as if he saw a green grassland.
"Well, you're quite generous."
Helping an adulterer raise a child, isn't that outrageous?
The corners of Lu Chengjing's eyes twitched wildly. He took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, "Stop pretending. You are not Shang Wan at all."
Shang Wan: “…”
She just wanted to take advantage of someone, so why did the vest fall off?
Oh, what a blood loss.
"I actually lost my memory." Shang Wan tried to explain. "Shi Tou told you, I hit my head when I was kicked out of the Lu family. After I woke up, I didn't remember a lot of things. This martial arts, it is..."
Lu Chengjing looked at Shang Wanbian quietly.
Shang Wan couldn't continue making up stories, so he fell back on the kang and lay there in a mess.
A smile flashed across Lu Chengjing's eyes, and he tilted his head to look at the woman who had given up. "Shang Wan didn't marry me willingly. On our wedding night, she told me that she had someone she loved, and that they were already married."
Shang Wan raised his eyebrows, "And then?"
"Then..." Lu Chengjing's eyes flashed with the panicked and weeping face, and he said slowly, "I made three rules with her. As long as she behaves as the Third Young Master's wife, respects her parents-in-law, and gets along well with her sisters-in-law, I will write her a divorce letter and let her go when her lover comes to pick her up."
Shang Wan pulled his arm, and Lu Chengjing lay back under her force, his long black hair loose. Shang Wan reached out and pushed it aside for him to avoid being crushed.
"And her child?"
"Of course it's the man she loves." Lu Chengjing tilted his head to look at Shang Wan, "Since they are husband and wife, it's not surprising that she's pregnant."
Shang Wan sighed, thinking that she finally understood why the original owner was so obsessed with having Zhong Chenghong come to take her out of her suffering.
Perhaps in order to avoid becoming a real couple with Lu Chengjing, the original owner chose to hand the handle to Lu Chengjing personally. On the surface, she won the bet and Lu Chengjing chose to help her, but Lu Chengjing's request was not so easy to fulfill.
The original owner's parents were both deceased, and she was sold to the Lu family by her greedy brother, who took the money and ran away with the family, never to be heard from again.
The original owner had no support from her natal family, and the third wife was not well-received in the mansion. Wouldn't the original owner only be bullied by the first and second wives? Not to mention she had a mother-in-law who set rules for her every day.
Fortunately, she had a partner like Lu Chengjing who was willing to protect her, otherwise her life would have been like eating bitter melon under a coptis tree, which would have been even more miserable.
Shang Wan suddenly thought of the first time he and Lu Chengjing met in prison, and felt something was wrong.
"Since you're not a real couple, and you knew there was such a person, why were you so angry after seeing the letter? And why did you even go to the inn to catch someone in adultery? Are you so bored?"
Lu Chengjing's eyes flickered, and he felt a little uncomfortable.
Shang Wan thought of a possibility and his face turned black instantly, "You donkey me!"
"I'm just following what you said." Lu Chengjing felt inexplicably guilty when Shang Wan stared at him.
Shang Wan raised her hands, pinched his cheeks and pulled them to the sides, her tone gritting her teeth, "You never believed I was Shang Wan from the beginning. Are you happy to see me acting in front of you?"
(End of this chapter)
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