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Yuan Cixian was probably so angry that she lost her mind. After she said this, her left and right feet suddenly got tangled and she tripped and almost fell flat on her face.
Lu Shiqing's face changed at the back, and he was about to stretch out his hand to help her, but unexpectedly she managed to steady herself by holding onto the wall. He had no choice but to withdraw his hand in disappointment and continue to follow her, but he did not dare to chase her any further. He took two steps and then stopped carefully for half a step.
When they reached the Lu Mansion at the other end of the secret passage, Yuan Cixian went up and broke the mechanism, and he rushed forward at the risk of being cut in half. In the end, he was still a step too late, and saw that the corner of his robe was caught in the crack of the door. He couldn't pull it off, and opened his mouth to call her for help, but he saw that she went to find someone to prepare water for bathing without looking back, so he had to take off his outer robe and escape.
When he finished his trouble and caught up with her again, she had already slammed the bathroom door shut.
He stopped outside and listened to the sound of water splashing from inside, but he didn't go in in the end.
Yuan Cihan undressed, waved away a few maids, stepped into the bathtub, buried her face in the water, closed her eyes, and kept recalling the past year with Xu Shan.
If all the Xu Shan in my memory were turned into Lu Shiqing...
When she quarreled with him, he changed his identity and pretended to mediate.
Oh, good job!
When she saw that he was slow to propose marriage and became anxious, he changed his identity and taught her how to tease him and how to "please him".
Wow, that’s awesome!
When she arranged for him to meet Xu Sanniang...
etc.
Yuan Cihan suddenly raised her head from the bathtub and stared at the ripples on the water. Suddenly, her mind emerged of the scene she saw when she arranged for Lu Shiqing and Xu Sanniang to meet while sitting by the Lushui River - the black-sailed boat in the middle of the river was shaking violently, creating circles of charming ripples that made people blush.
What was he doing with the others in the boat while she was sitting on the shore freezing
She was so angry that she laughed. With the blood boiling, she stepped out of the bathtub, wrapped herself in a robe and rushed out: "Lu Shiqing...!"
Lu Shiqing was sitting at the table thinking about life. Hearing her voice, he stood up without pause and stood straight facing her: "Here."
After he answered, he saw that her clothes were disheveled and her untied collar revealed a large area of snow-white skin. A drop of water fell down her chin, flowed all the way and slowly flowed into a very deep ditch.
He suddenly felt a heat in his nose, as if he had become that drop of water.
Yuan Cixian didn't pay attention to these, and asked with his chest heaving, "What is your relationship with Xu Sanniang? You had a brief affair with her before, and then you flirted with her in front of me? Lu Shiqing, you really have a thicker face than a city wall! You betrayed Xu Ruqing yesterday, are you going to betray me tomorrow?"
She cursed with full energy, but her eyes turned red after she finished.
There is only one Lu Shiqing, that's all lies. She saw that he could transform into two of them, one swimming in the water and the other running on the ground. One was affectionate with Xu Ruqing and the other was gentle with her.
Although Lu Shiqing was scolded, he was relieved. He was afraid that she would hide the truth and not ask about it, and would keep it to herself. Only if she scolded him would he have a chance to explain.
He quickly replied: "The person who had a brief affair with her was my teacher Xu Congxian, not me."
Yuan Cixian was slightly stunned when she heard this, and her brain, which had been sluggish due to his anger, started to work again.
The moment she saw Lu Shiqing at Xu's house, she did think that he and Xu Shan were the same person from beginning to end. After all, some stories cannot be made up and smooth. If he had only experienced role-playing occasionally, it would not make sense for him to be so flawless. Now that she heard him talk, she realized that something was wrong.
In the brief romance that Xu Ruqing had told her, Xu Shanchang was six years older than her. And according to rumors, this man did become famous thirteen years ago. But Lu Shiqing was only ten years old at that time, so the age didn't match.
In that case, he is not really Xu Shan.
Seeing her frowning and thinking calmly, Lu Shiqing seemed to think that the crisis was about to be resolved, so he hurried forward, but halfway through he heard her yell again: "Lu Shiqing...!"
He suddenly stopped, stood up straight, and continued, "Yes."
Yuan Cixian opened her mouth wide and said, "Xu Congxian is your teacher, how could you do such a thing with your teacher's wife? At that time, you and I had not yet made an engagement, but where did you put your teacher?"
Lu Shiqing held his head with his hand because of a headache. He had said at the beginning that Xu Ruqing's move was to push him into the fire pit.
He quickly raised his head and said, "Yuan Cixian, I haven't done anything to let you and the teacher down, I really haven't."
Even he himself felt that this explanation was very weak and pale, so Yuan Cixian naturally didn't believe it: "You didn't? Then you and your master's wife were fighting in the boat?"
"I… "
Seeing that he couldn't explain, Yuan Cixian gritted her teeth, turned around and climbed onto the bed, pulled the quilt over her head and face, obviously not wanting to talk to him anymore.
Lu Shiqing sighed, hesitated for a moment, untied his belt, took off his robe and climbed up with her. He thought it might be easier to talk on the bed, but he was stopped by her halfway through: "Get off, I don't want to sleep with you."
He stopped at the edge of the bed: "Then where should I sleep..."
"Your house is so big, do you need to ask me?"
The word "your home" draws a clear line between us and him.
Lu Shiqing said in embarrassment: "Mother would be worried if she knew that we slept in separate rooms on the night of our wedding."
Yuan Cixian paused slightly, and now felt a little soft-hearted. After a moment of silence, he poked his head out and said with a pout: "Then find a place to sleep in this room." After that, he got up, picked up the other quilt at the end of the bed and threw it at him.
He caught it with a trembling hand and looked around.
He was familiar with every corner of this bedroom, but he never thought that one day he would need to choose a place to settle down from those corners.
He looked left and right, and finally lowered his head and said, "Is it okay for me to sleep on the footstool below?" This small space was the closest to her.
Yuan Cixian said, "It's up to you," and covered herself with the quilt again.
Because the candles were not extinguished on the wedding night, Lu Shiqing made the mattress on the footstool and lay down without saying anything else.
It was so quiet that they could hear each other's breathing. He thought that even taking a breath would bother her, so he tried to be as gentle as possible. He endured this silently for more than half an hour, and he didn't know if she fell asleep. Because the footbed was too narrow and crowded, his whole body was shrunk uncomfortably, so he turned over with a very small amplitude to relax his stiff back.
After turning over like this, he heard Yuan Cixian's muffled voice suddenly coming from above: "Lu Shiqing, are you asleep?" This question was exactly the same as the one he asked when he first spent the night in the carriage on the way south.
But he didn't dare to joke this time, he just said, "No."
But I didn't hear anything from her for a long time.
He waited for a moment, and was about to ask her what she wanted to say, when he heard her speak again: "I already believe that there is nothing between you and Xu Sanniang."
She was too shocked by the sudden truth, and as she recalled it, she was overwhelmed with emotion and spoke without thinking.
Lu Shiqing was shocked when he heard this.
She continued to lie flat, looking at Chengchen above her head and said, "I just calmed down and thought about it, and I feel that I can tell what is real and what is fake."
Even though he told her countless lies, the knife in his chest was real. The person who lost his mind for her and fell into the hands of the enemy was indeed him. If that was the case, he would never do such a thing.
"As for Xu Sanniang, I don't know her well enough to claim that I understand her, but I think all girls are the same. Just like I used to like to get close to you in front of Shao He, she was the same. On the boat that day, she probably acted for me on purpose. She wanted me to give up and give up on your teacher."
Lu Shiqing sighed.
He didn't explain to her Xu Ruqing's real intention just now because he didn't want the last layer of window paper between them to be broken.
He didn't want her to remember her past struggles and hesitations. He lied to her for a whole year, causing her to fall in love with the seemingly authentic Xu Shan. This was his fault. She didn't need to blame herself.
But even if he didn't say it, she still figured it out and faced it frankly.
He had to admit that she was sometimes braver than him.
Yuan Cixian took a deep breath, as if she had made up her mind: "Lu Shiqing, you deceived and played tricks on me for a year, and I was also indecisive for a year; you didn't tell me your political stance, and I didn't tell you the direction of the Yuan family; although I still feel a little sad when I think back to those days when I was jumping up and down and you were watching like a joke, I really don't have the right to blame you too much, so... let's call it even."
Lu Shiqing swallowed hard and said silently: "Yuan Cixian, I don't want to be even with you."
Yuan Cixian blinked woodenly, and then heard him say: "You don't owe me anything, it's me who still owes you. If you want to settle scores with me now, how can I repay you?"
He was responsible for her indecision, and it was right for her to have reservations about him, a minister under the Ministry of Personnel whose political stance was unclear and unpredictable. Although he secretly hoped that she would be honest with him, he actually knew that she was not wrong to do so.
Yuan Cixian seemed to understand what he meant now. He probably thought that the so-called even-handedness meant that neither of them owed anyone anything, and that they would each be on their own from now on, so he tried his best to take the blame on himself and insisted that she give him a chance to pay it back.
She said with a smile: "Do you think I'm a heartless person? I can marry you today and ask you to divorce me tomorrow?"
Lu Shiqing choked. That was what he thought. After all, she had no intention of sleeping in the same bed with him. Maybe she really didn't want to give her virginity to him, so it was good to have a way out.
She sighed: "Come up."
Lu Shiqing finally came to his senses. He jumped up and looked at her with twinkling eyes.
Yuan Cixian rubbed her tired eyes and said, "Don't look at me like that. I'm too tired today. I'll hold you in my arms and let you sleep first. We'll talk about it tomorrow."
Lu Shiqing said "Oh" in a light tone, but in the blink of an eye he was in her quilt, and his head quickly began to think of a plan to take advantage of the situation.
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