The concubine's favorite? Break off the engagement and marry another prince, please respect you

Chapter 141

Xie Wan Ning was shocked by these words, her pupils gradually dilated, full of disbelief.

What on earth does he regard women as?
Lu Ziyan couldn't stand her looking at him like that, and frowned, "If I had known that you were so soft-hearted towards this woman, I shouldn't have let you see her."

He waved his hand, and Ming Jian, who had witnessed the argument between the two men, felt as if he had been pardoned, and quickly carried the man out.

The door was about to be closed again when a clear and urgent female voice was heard from outside.

The voice brought Xie Wan Ning back to her senses. When she looked up, she saw a woman running in, avoiding Ming Jian's obstruction.

At first sight, Xie Wan Ning guessed the other party's identity.

This was probably what Pei Yuqing had mentioned, the beauty in Lu Ziyan's beauty trap for him, the cousin who looked very similar to her.

They really look alike.

Xie Wan Ning was somewhat shocked when she suddenly saw someone who looked 60% like herself.

The same thing happened to Chen Xier. Her knees, which were about to collapse, straightened up and she stared at Xie Wan Ning in a daze.

After she realized what was happening, she looked puzzled and called out tentatively, "Cousin?"

Xie Wan Ning was stunned.

"You must be Xie's cousin," Chen Xier said eagerly after confirming her identity. "Please save me!"

The first thing they did was to ask for help, and the location was a military camp.

Xie Wan Ning's head seemed to be hit by a heavy object, and she felt dazed.

Has Lu Ziyan changed his career to become a brothel owner?

Specifically throwing women into the military camp?

She slowly turned her head and looked at the person beside her.

There was no need to speak, just a glance made Lu Ziyan understand her thoughts.

His face suddenly darkened, "It's not what you think."

Even though Chen Xier had learned to read people's faces since she was young, she had no way of guessing what Xie Wan Ning was thinking at this moment. She thought that she had misunderstood the relationship between her and Lu Ziyan, and hurriedly wanted to explain.

Lu Ziyan glanced at her coldly, and the chattering Chen Xier suddenly shut up with fear on her face.

Seeing this, Xie Wan Ning was startled.

I remembered what Pei Yuqing said, when Lu Ziyan was taking Chinese medicine, two girls came into the room.

Seeing how he doesn't take women seriously, it seems he is indeed capable of having sex with two women at night.

Lu Ziyan had no idea what she thought of him at the moment, so he tilted his head and explained seriously: "She is here because I plan to send someone to send her back to Qingzhou, not to entertain the troops."

He accepted the person that day with the intention of giving him a job to the old man. Now that his plan has failed, of course he will send the person back to where he came from.

Every failure makes one wiser. Lu Ziyan had long ago made up his mind that he would never keep any woman around him in this life, so as not to let her misunderstand him in the slightest and affect his plan to pursue his wife.

Because of Liu Manrou's matter, Xie Wan Ning was really skeptical about what he said. She looked at her distant cousin.

Seeing her looking at her, Chen Xier's knees softened and she knelt down softly, tears falling before she spoke. She moved her lips as if she wanted to say something, but then she looked at Lu Ziyan timidly, filled with fear.

Such an attitude made Lu Ziyan's face darken.

Xie Wan Ning frowned slightly as she watched, "He said he would take you home, is that true?"

"Lord Lu is right, but Xi'er doesn't want to go back," Chen Xi'er cried softly, "Xi'er's biological mother is no longer in this world, and the Chen Mansion is no longer my home. Once I go back..."

She didn't know what happened in the court today and that the Chen family would soon be destroyed. She was horrified when she thought about the situation she would face when she returned home.

"A girl like me who is rejected by a nobleman will not have a good ending."

Chen Xier was trembling all over, tears streaming down her face. She no longer cared about her delicate posture and cried without any image.

"The best outcome would be for my father to still recognize me as the daughter of the Chen family and give me away as a maid or concubine as a daughter of the Chen family."

But the place you are sent this time may not be a dangerous place.

"It's more likely that my father thought I was useless and couldn't win over the nobles, so he threw me into the Chen family's backyard, just like those skinny horses kept in the mansion, waiting for guests to come to the mansion and calling me to serve on the bed."

As she spoke, she sobbed a little, "My third sister was sent back and became a maid used to entertain guests in the mansion."

After these words were spoken, the room fell silent.

Except for Chen Xier's sobbing, no one spoke for a while.

Carrying Liu Manrou's Ming Sword outside the door, Xie Wan Ning and Lu Ziyan stayed in Qingzhou for several months. She knew what kind of person Chen Wen was, but she seemed to be listening to a foreign language.

Her aunt was a concubine's daughter of the Marquis of Qucheng. Even though her biological mother was born in a lowly family, which led to doubts about her bloodline and she was not included in the Zheng family tree, she must have been married off as a concubine at that time.

Even if Chen Xier was born out of wedlock, she was still a legitimate girl from the Chen family. How could she be afraid of becoming a maid to entertain guests?

Is there really a father who not only sends his own daughter to be a concubine, but also arranges for her to become a prostitute to serve in bed?
The Xie family's ancestral home is in Xiangzhou. It is a prominent family with a history of more than a thousand years. The family tradition is upright and the whole family is full of elegant people. Xie Wanning's father and brother are all gentlemen with a clear mind and a bright moon in their arms.

As for the noble families in the capital, no matter how filthy they are inside, they have to maintain a clean appearance on the outside. Such despicable activities are always despicable.

So, this was the first time Xie Wan Ning heard about the absurd thing that a father who was a high-ranking official let his own daughter be a prostitute to entertain guests.

Even if the world is about to fall into chaos, the constraints of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame will no longer be so effective, and the status of women will become lower and lower, but this is too outrageous.

"Such scumbags are a minority after all, don't take it to heart,"

Lu Ziyan approached and wanted to pat her on the shoulder, but he stopped just before he raised his hand. He only said, "Chen Wen is corrupt and commits heinous crimes. The entire Chen family cannot escape. By the beginning of next spring at the latest, there will be no more Chens in Qingzhou."

Chen Xier, who was kneeling on the ground, looked up suddenly after hearing this, her eyes brightened surprisingly, and she asked hopefully, "Are you serious, Lord Lu?"

When she heard that something was going to happen to the Chen family, she was not worried at all, but was just excited.

Lu Ziyan ignored her words and just lowered his eyes to look at Xie Wan Ning, "Wan Wan, do you want to save her?"

He thought that given the girl's soft-hearted nature, she would probably feel sympathy for this cheap cousin.

Xie Wan Ning didn't say anything. She thought of the concubine sister that Zheng had mentioned who married far away in Qingzhou.

During her time in the boudoir, Zheng, as the eldest legitimate daughter in the family, was naturally treated differently from her illegitimate sisters, and they basically never saw each other on a daily basis.

But she still had an impression of that concubine sister.

Because this concubine sister looks more like her than her biological sister.

It was also because of this that the old lady of Qucheng Marquis particularly disliked this concubine's daughter whose biological mother was of low status. She was afraid that she would affect her daughter's reputation in the capital, so she hastily married her off after she came of age.

As a result, he was sent into a tiger's den and tortured to death, and his daughter also had to undergo a new round of torture.

And her daughter looks very similar to herself...

She remained silent for a long time, and Lu Ziyan continued, "The Chen family's case is very complicated. You can't keep a daughter of a criminal by your side, and you can't keep the Xie family either."

"Xi'er doesn't dare to ask for protection, just let me go," Chen Xi'er couldn't help but interrupt, and kowtowed hurriedly, "I will stay away from the capital, away from Qingzhou, and hide my identity. I will just treat everything that happened yesterday as a dream. From now on, I will start over."

Xie Wan Ning walked over, helped her up, looked at her charming face, and said, "The world is in chaos. Where can you, a weak woman, go?"

"I can do it!" Chen Xier gave her a panicked smile, "I would rather be a nameless refugee than go back to the Chen family."

Returning to the Chen family, all that awaits her is death, or a life worse than death. Instead of that, she might as well live for herself.

She never wanted to go through the days of being sent around as a gift again.

There was a gleam of hope in her eyes, sparkling. Being looked at in such a way, Xie Wan Ning felt a little dazed and turned around to look at Lu Ziyan.

Lu Ziyan said: "As long as she doesn't stay with you, I don't have to send her back to Qingzhou."

This means that you are willing to let someone go.

Chen Xier was overjoyed and wanted to kneel down again, but Xie Wan Ning supported her and stopped her.

She reached into her purse, which contained a handful of melon seeds. After thinking for a moment, she simply put the purse and the seeds into Chen Xier's hand.

"I only have these silver coins on me, so I can't help you much."

Although it was the first time they met, they were indeed cousins ​​related by blood and looked so similar. Xie Wan Ning only hoped that this unfortunate cousin could get along well in the future.

Chen Xier looked down at the purse in her hand and remained silent for a long time.

When she looked up again, her eyes were red. She did not pretend to kneel, but looked deeply at Xie Wan Ning and slowly smiled.

Chen Xier was taken out by Ming Jian.

The door closed again, and Xie Wan Ning realized belatedly that they were the only ones left in the room again. She shuddered in shock, and thought of Liu Manrou who had been tortured to the point of being unrecognizable. She took several steps back, her eyes full of panic.

She was indeed a little afraid of being alone with this man.

Lu Ziyan almost had a heart attack. He stopped two steps away from her and said helplessly, "My original intention was to let you vent your anger, not to make you afraid of me."

He really hated Liu Manrou, especially after he saw this woman in his dream many times in front of him, hinting at the suffering he had in bed at night, his hatred increased several times.

No one has ever dared to wrong him like this!

In her previous life, Liu Manrou was thrown into the military camp, and until his death, she was still hanging on to her life to entertain the troops, unable to live or die, and serving the soldiers to satisfy their sexual desires.

In this life, according to Lu Ziyan's arrangement, this should be the outcome.

But Xie Wan Ning's reaction gave him a headache.

He may not care about what the world thinks, but he cannot ignore her opinion.

He was worried that she would accuse him of another crime, and was even more worried that she would be afraid of him because of this. She already avoided him like the plague, and now she was afraid of him even more. What should he do then?

After thinking about it, Lu Ziyan chose to retreat with difficulty.

"If you don't like me doing this, then I won't let her entertain the troops," he said, "I'll listen to you and let her die quickly."

“…” Xie Wan Ning’s lips twitched slightly.

"Don't be soft-hearted anymore. She must die." Lu Ziyan explained patiently, "She hates us deeply. If we really let her live, she can't take revenge on me, but she will probably target you."

Once bitten by a snake, one will be afraid of ropes for ten years. He would never allow anyone who had bad intentions towards her to live in this world.

He will root out those evils one by one.

Xie Wan Ning was not a pushover and had no intention of begging for mercy from her former life enemy.

Just now I just couldn't bear to see him use such means on a woman.

She didn't respond to his words, but said, "Let me go back."

He brought her to the military camp just to show her what happened to Liu Manrou, so that she could temporarily vent her resentment from her previous life.

Now that the matter is over, he should have let the person go, but Lu Ziyan smiled.

"...Go back?" He repeated with a half-smile, and asked her, "You don't think I can tolerate you going back and letting that sickly person touch you anymore, do you?"

The smile didn't even reach his eyes, which made people feel uneasy.

Xie Wan Ning pursed her lips, "What do you want?"

"It's up to you what you want." Lu Ziyan sat down at the table, raised his hand to pick up the teapot and poured a cup of tea. He heated it with his inner strength, pushed it to the other side, and said, "Drink it."

Xie Wan Ning was still standing, motionless after hearing that. When she glanced at the cup of tea, her eyes showed vigilance.

"Are you afraid that I will drug you?" Lu Ziyan was so angry at her that he laughed.

"If I really want to touch you, I won't resort to such means. Besides, when have I ever done anything that disregards your health?"

Xie Wan Ning said nothing.

"Come here and drink the water." Lu Ziyan tapped the table with his fingers and explained patiently, "It was windy on the way. If you don't drink something hot, you'll catch a cold again."

Hearing this, Xie Wan Ning looked at the cup of steaming water again. Although she was annoyed that she had to be controlled by him even when drinking water, she had to know her place as she was under his roof.

Besides, after arguing with him for so long, she was indeed thirsty.

Looking at the girl drinking water from a teacup across from him, Lu Ziyan asked her with a slight twitch of his lips, "Do you really want to go back to the Duke of Pei's Mansion?"

Xie Wan Ning swallowed the water and hummed softly.

Lu Ziyan said solemnly, "Are you not annoyed at all that the old man deceived you and used you to attack me?"

"..." Xie Wan Ning was silent for a few breaths and said, "This is a matter between him and me."

The implication is that even if I am angry, it has nothing to do with you.

Lu Ziyan's eyes were filled with anger. He looked at her for a long while and said sinisterly, "Have you noticed that you are particularly harsh on me?"

Xie Wan Ning put down the teacup, somewhat confused.

"You are soft-hearted towards everyone. You couldn't bear to see Liu Manrou suffer. That old man was even more calculating. He always included you in his calculations, and you were very tolerant of him."

"And Qi Mingyu!"

Qi Mingyu is the name of the current eldest prince. When Lu Ziyan mentioned this name, his voice became cold.

"In your previous life, Qi Mingyu instructed Lu Xiyao to poison you. He was the culprit who killed you. That sick guy wanted to help him get promoted, and you actually accepted it."

There is also the Xie family, and the Xie family naturally stands on the nephew's side.

That's a murderous revenge!
In fact, the choices made by the Pei and Xie families did not have much impact on Lu Ziyan, but he was just not happy.

In his previous life, he did many wrong things and caused her to suffer a lot of injustice, but weren't those people even more of an enemy?
Qi Mingyu even directly killed her.

Lu Ziyan's eyes were dark and his voice was cold: "In order to fight against me, can you even let go of your revenge for your own death?"